This week's This week in the BMJ

	Evidence on health effects of housing improvements is scarce [Full text] FREE

	The long term cost of antisocial behaviour in childhood is highand avoidable [Full text] FREE

	Parenting groups reduce antisocial behaviour in children [Full text] FREE

	Children in women's refuges have unmet health needs [Full text] FREE

	Angina patients in former mining communities delay seeking help [Full text] FREE

	Cheap, smuggled tobacco makes it harder to give up smoking [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Policies to tackle social exclusion
	Graham Watt
	BMJ  2001;323:175-176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.175 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reaching all children
	Margaret A Lynch, David Gough
	BMJ  2001;323:176-177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.176 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Social capital
	Tom Welsh, Mike Pringle
	BMJ  2001;323:177-178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.177 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Disability discrimination
	Joyce M Carter, Natalie Markham
	BMJ  2001;323:178-179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.178 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	One Bristol, but there could have been many
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2001;323:179-180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.179 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Plight of elderly people who are made homeless in hospital
	Tom Downes, K S Channer
	BMJ  2001;323:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.229 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health needs of asylum seekers and refugees
	Matthew Hodes, B K MacDonald, C J Mummery, D Heaney
	BMJ  2001;323:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.229/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Violence towards female prostitutes
	Sophie Day, Helen Ward, Petra M Boynton
	BMJ  2001;323:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.230 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Management of prisoners with HIV infection
	A J Ashworth, Simon Portsmouth
	BMJ  2001;323:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.230/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Physical health of people with severe mental illness
	Wally Barr, Pamela van de Hoef, Ian Colls, Roman Scheurer, John McGrath, Harvey Whiteford
	BMJ  2001;323:231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.231 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of suicide related to income level in mental illness
	Markku Timonen, Kaisa Viilo, Helinä Hakko, Erkki Väisänen, Pirkko Räsänen, Terttu Särkioja, Oliver Razum, Lakshmi Swamy, Walter H Curioso, Klaus E Monkemuller
	BMJ  2001;323:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.232 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Neomycin should not be used to treat hepatic encephalopathy
	Walter H Curioso, Klaus E Monkemuller
	BMJ  2001;323:233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.233 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Long term anticoagulation or antiplatelet treatment
	John G F Cleland, Gerry C Kaye, Jonathan Mant, David Fitzmaurice, Ellen Murray, Gregory Y H Lip, F D Richard Hobbs, Gregory Peterson, Shane Jackson, Eduardo Stragliotto, John Godtfredsen, Gudrun Boysen, Palle Petersen, Andrew Evans, Lalit Kalra, Christopher Cates, Fiona Taylor, Hannah Cohen, Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  2001;323:233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.233/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Distressed women take contact tracing seriously
	Jan Clarke
	BMJ  2001;323:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.236 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Communicable disease control must remain at local level
	Nigel Calvert
	BMJ  2001;323:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.236/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reviewing screening mammograms with newly diagnosed patients is another unnecessary burden
	Anne Stotter, Richard Windle, John Jameson
	BMJ  2001;323:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.236/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Bristol inquiry
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2001;323:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.181 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Individuals who should have behaved differently
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2001;323:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.182 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Kennedy refused to read the General Medical Council's reports
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2001;323:183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.183 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Kyoto protocol rescued in Bonn
	Kathryn Sheridan
	BMJ  2001;323:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.185/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;323:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.186 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Summit fails to agree new deal on world debt
	Mike Rowson
	BMJ  2001;323:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.186/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Oxfam accuses Pfizer of "moral bankruptcy"
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2001;323:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.186/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	EC moves towards "direct to consumer" advertising
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Scottish parliament urged to ban tobacco advertising
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	EC to pursue its smuggling lawsuit against tobacco companies
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Doubts raised over cancer vaccine study
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Moderate use of painkillers presents no harm to kidneys
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Glossy magazine launched for women drug users
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2001;323:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.184/e [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Radiation dose in scans could be halved
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;323:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.185 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Early bypass surgery increases risk of stroke
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;323:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.185/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Health effects of housing improvement: systematic review of intervention studies
	Hilary Thomson, Mark Petticrew, David Morrison
	BMJ  2001;323:187-190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.187 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Financial cost of social exclusion: follow up study of antisocial children into adulthood
	Stephen Scott, Martin Knapp, Juliet Henderson, Barbara Maughan
	BMJ  2001;323:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.191 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Multicentre controlled trial of parenting groups for childhood antisocial behaviour in clinical practice • Commentary: nipping conduct problems in the bud
	Stephen Scott, Quentin Spender, Moira Doolan, Brian Jacobs, Helen Aspland, Carolyn Webster-Stratton
	BMJ  2001;323:194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.194 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Changing patterns of teenage pregnancy: population based study of small areas
	Alice McLeod
	BMJ  2001;323:199-203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.199 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	"They're doing people a service"qualitative study of smoking, smuggling, and social deprivation
	Susan Wiltshire, Angus Bancroft, Amanda Amos, Odette Parry
	BMJ  2001;323:203-207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.203 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mortality in children registered in the Finnish child welfare registry: population based study
	Mirjam Kalland, Tiina H Pensola, Jouni Meriläinen, Jari Sinkkonen
	BMJ  2001;323:207-208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.207 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Social environments and health: cross sectional national survey
	Andrew McCulloch
	BMJ  2001;323:208-209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.208 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	The health of children in refuges for women victims of domestic violence: cross sectional descriptive survey
	Elspeth Webb, Judith Shankleman, Meirion R Evans, Rachel Brooks
	BMJ  2001;323:210-213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.210 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Barriers to uptake of services for coronary heart disease: qualitative study
	Angela M Tod, Cathy Read, Anne Lacey, Jo Abbott
	BMJ  2001;323:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.214 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Extracts from "Clinical Evidence": Trachoma
	Denise Mabey, Nicole Fraser-Hurt
	BMJ  2001;323:218-221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.218 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Looking down on Edinburgh
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2001;323:241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.241/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Inequality
	Elizabeth Moulder
	BMJ  2001;323:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.240 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Managing chronic disease
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2001;323:241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.241 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Equity in the new NHS: hard lessons from implementing a local healthcare policy on donepezil
	Yvonne Doyle
	BMJ  2001;323:222-224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.222 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Systematic reviews in health care: Systematic reviews of evaluations of prognostic variables
	Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  2001;323:224-228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.224 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Edmund Were Dorrell • Benjamin Flacks • Robert Hereward Glendinning • David Hutchison • John Charles Linley-Adams
	David Dorrell, Robert Flacks, David Memel, Roger Thomas, Ian Brown, John Surtees
	BMJ  2001;323:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.237 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;323:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.242 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: The patient might be right
	Peter Strangeways
	BMJ  2001;323:198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.198 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  2001;323:208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.208/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Un homme différent
	Jean-Yves Panici
	BMJ  2001;323:209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.209 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: The difference
	BMJ  2001;323:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.214/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: An unmerciful end
	R H Soper
	BMJ  2001;323:217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.217 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Another case of breathlessness
	Dr A Inwald
	BMJ  2001;323:221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.221 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
	Amir Attaran
	BMJ  2001;323:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.239 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Poverty, Inequality and Health: An International Perspective • Mind the Gap: Hierarchies, Health and Human Evolution
	Ronan Conroy
	BMJ  2001;323:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.239/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Bristol fails to ignite
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  2001;323:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.238 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Social exclusion: old problem, new name
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

NETLINES

This week's NETLINES

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2001;323:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.240/b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Social exclusion: old problem, new name
	BMJ  2001;323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: The health of the excluded
	Helen Barratt
	BMJ  2001;323:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7306.240/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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