Table Of Contents, Public Health Reports, Volume 113, Number 6, November/December 1998

• Tobacco and Public Health
  A Year of Living Dangerously
  Michele Bloch, Richard Daynard, Ruth Roemer
  The tobacco control community meets the global settlement.

• Food
  The Selling of Olestra
  Marion Nestle
  An example of the ways large corporations manipulate government agencies and health professionals.

• Violence
  When Violence Becomes a Public Health Problem
  Lianna Winnett
  How public health appropriated one of society's eternal problem.

SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS

• Immunization
  • Estimating Vaccination Coverage Using Parental Recall, Vaccination Cards, and Medical Records
    Paul Bolton, Elizabeth Holt, Alan Ross, et al.
  • Deficiencies in Current Childhood Immunization Indicators
    Paul Bolton, Anwar Hussain, et al.
  • Optimal Disease Prevention Using Vaccination Depends on a System
    Anthony Robbins, Phyllis Freeman
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  • Silicone Gel Breast Implant Adverse Event Reports to the Food and Drug Administration, 1984-1995
    S. Lori Brown, Christine M. Parmentier, et al.
  • Hygienic Practices and Acute Respiratory Illness in Family and Group Day Care Homes
    Jennifer St. Sauver, Michelle Khurana, Annie Kao, et al.
  • Tuberculosis among Foreign-Born Residents of Southern Florida, 1995
    Reuben M. Granich, Patrick L.F. Zuber, et al.

OVERSEAS OBSERVER

• Back injury in Sweden
  Kathy Sykes