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American Journal of PUBLIC HEALTH Contents: July 1 2005, Volume 95, Issue 7 LETTERS American Journal of PUBLIC HEALTH Contents: July 1 2005, Volume 95, Issue 7 LETTERS: G. David Batty and Ian J. Deary HEALTH COMMUNICATION, INTELLIGENCE, AND HEALTH DIFFERENTIALS Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1088,. Vicki S. Freimuth and Sandra Crouse Quinn FREIMUTH AND QUINN RESPOND Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1089, 10.2105/AJPH.2005.063396. Lois A. Fingerhut, James Harrison, Yvette Holder, Birthe Frimodt-Møller, Susan Mackenzie, Saakje Mulder, and Ian Scott ADDRESSING THE GROWING BURDEN OF TRAUMA AND INJURY IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1089-1090, Herbert K. Abrams LINKING HEALTH TO SOCIAL JUSTICE Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1090, Iman A. Nuwayhid NUWAYHID RESPONDS Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1090-1091, Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Klaudia Dmitrienko THE WORLD BANK: GLOBAL HEALTH OR GLOBAL HARM? Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1091-1092, Jennifer Prah Ruger RUGER RESPONDS Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1092, Erika Bácskai, Ágnes Tallár, and József Gerevich DRINKING AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN A CHANGING SOCIETY Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1092-1093, Xiao Xu and Jacquelyn Campbell XU AND CAMPBELL RESPOND Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1093, ERRATUM: ERRATUM Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1093 ERRATUM Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1093. EDITOR'S CHOICE: Bernard M. Dickens The Challenges and Opportunities of Ethics Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1094. EDITORIALS: Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Natalia Molina In the Name of Public Health Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1095-1097, Jake McKinstry Using the Past to Step Forward: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Western Cape Province of South Africa Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1097-1099, Jorge Rosenthal, Arnold Christianson, and Jose Cordero Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention in South Africa and Other Low- Resource Countries Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1099-1101, FIELD ACTION REPORT: gfedc Martha W. Moon, JoAnne K. Henry, Karen Connelly, and Phyllis Kirsch Public Health Nurses for Virginia’s Future: A Collaborative Project to Increase the Number of Nursing Students Choosing a Career in Public Health Nursing Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1102-1105, COMMENTARY: gfedc Gordon Marc le Roux "Whistle While You Work": A Historical Account of Some Associations Among Music, Work, and Health Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1106-1109, HEALTH POLICY AND ETHICS: gfedc Jane Galvão Brazil and Access to HIV/AIDS Drugs: A Question of Human Rights and Public Health Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1110-1116, gfedc Moïse Desvarieux, Roland Landman, Bernard Liautaud, Pierre-Marie Girard for the INTREPIDE Initiative In Global Health Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource-Poor Countries: Illusions and Realities Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1117-1122, gfedc Neal Dickert and Jeremy Sugarman Ethical Goals of Community Consultation in Research Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1123-1127, PUBLIC HEALTH THEN AND NOW: gfedc Alexandra Minna Stern STERILIZED in the Name of Public Health: Race, Immigration, and Reproductive Control in Modern California Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1128-1138, CRITICAL CONCEPTS FOR REACHING POPULATIONS AT RISK: gfedc Howard I. Kushner and Claire E. Sterk The Limits of Social Capital: Durkheim, Suicide, and Social Cohesion Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1139-1143, gfedc Rebecca M. Young and Ilan H. Meyer The Trouble With "MSM" and "WSW": Erasure of the Sexual-Minority Person in Public Health Discourse Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1144-1149, gfedc L. Gary Hart, Eric H. Larson, and Denise M. Lishner Rural Definitions for Health Policy and Research Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1149-1155, gfedc Alicia Ely Yamin The Right to Health Under International Law and Its Relevance to the United States Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1156-1161, PUBLIC HEALTH MATTERS: gfedc Alan Berkman, Jonathan Garcia, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, Vera Paiva, and Richard Parker A Critical Analysis of the Brazilian Response to HIV/AIDS: Lessons Learned for Controlling and Mitigating the Epidemic in Developing Countries Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1162-1172, gfedc Laura J. McGough, Steven J. Reynolds, Thomas C. Quinn, and Jonathan M. Zenilman Which Patients First? Setting Priorities for Antiretroviral Therapy Where Resources Are Limited Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1173-1180, RESEARCH AND PRACTICE: gfedc Kate E. Pickett, Jessica Mookherjee, and Richard G. Wilkinson Adolescent Birth Rates, Total Homicides, and Income Inequality In Rich Countries Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1181-1183, gfedc Christine Pace, Ambrose Talisuna, David Wendler, Faustin Maiso, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Nathan Bakyaita, Edith Okiria, Elizabeth S. Garrett-Mayer, Ezekiel Emanuel, and Christine Grady Quality of Parental Consent in a Ugandan Malaria Study Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1184-1189, gfedc Philip A. May, J. Phillip Gossage, Lesley E. Brooke, Cudore L. Snell, Anna- Susan Marais, Loretta S. Hendricks, Julie A. Croxford, and Denis L. Viljoen Maternal Risk Factors for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Western Cape Province of South Africa: A Population-Based Study Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1190-1199, gfedc Karen M. Emmons, Ann M. Stoddard, Robert Fletcher, Caitlin Gutheil, Elizabeth Gonzalez Suarez, Rebecca Lobb, Jane Weeks, and Judy Anne Bigby Cancer Prevention Among Working Class, Multiethnic Adults: Results of the Healthy Directions–Health Centers Study Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1200-1205, gfedc Maria Melchior, Nancy Krieger, Ichiro Kawachi, Lisa F. Berkman, Isabelle Niedhammer, and Marcel Goldberg Work Factors and Occupational Class Disparities in Sickness Absence: Findings From the GAZEL Cohort Study Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1206-1212, gfedc Gordon S. Smith, Helen M. Wellman, Gary S. Sorock, Margaret Warner, Theodore K. Courtney, Glenn S. Pransky, and Lois A. Fingerhut Injuries at Work in the US Adult Population: Contributions to the Total Injury Burden Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1213-1219, gfedc Alison M. Trinkoff, Meg Johantgen, Carles Muntaner, and Rong Le Staffing and Worker Injury in Nursing Homes Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1220-1225, gfedc Larkin L. Strong and Frederick J. Zimmerman Occupational Injury and Absence From Work Among African American, Hispanic, and Non-Hispanic White Workers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1226-1232, gfedc Donald C. Cole, Selahadin Ibrahim, and Harry S. Shannon Predictors of Work-Related Repetitive Strain Injuries in a Population Cohort Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1233-1237, gfedc Philip A. May, Patricia Serna, Lance Hurt, and Lemyra M. DeBruyn Outcome Evaluation of a Public Health Approach to Suicide Prevention in an American Indian Tribal Nation Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1238-1244, gfedc Debbie A Lawlor, G. David Batty, Susan M.B. Morton, Heather Clark, Sally Macintyre, and David A. Leon Childhood Socioeconomic Position, Educational Attainment, and Adult Cardiovascular Risk Factors: The Aberdeen Children of the 1950s Cohort Study Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1245-1251, gfedc George A. Kaplan, Kristine Siefert, Nalini Ranjit, Trivellore E. Raghunathan, Elizabeth A. Young, Diem Tran, Sandra Danziger, Susan Hudson, John W. Lynch, and Richard Tolman The Health of Poor Women Under Welfare Reform Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1252-1258, gfedc Jesse B. Milby, Joseph E. Schumacher, Dennis Wallace, Michelle J. Freedman, and Rudy E. Vuchinich To House or Not to House: The Effects of Providing Housing to Homeless Substance Abusers in Treatment Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1259-1265, gfedc Catherine Mathews, Sally J. Guttmacher, Alan J. Flisher, Yolisa Mtshizana, Andiswa Hani, and Merrick Zwarenstein Written Parental Consent in School-Based HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1266-1269, MARKETPLACE: MARKETPLACE Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1271-1274. JOB OPPORTUNITIES: JOB OPPORTUNITIES Am J Public Health 2005 95: 1275-1281. LETTERS HEALTH COMMUNICATION, IQ reflects an individual’s ability to learn, About the Authors INTELLIGENCE, AND HEALTH reason, and solve problems.7 Therefore, plausi- The authors are with the Department of Psychology, Uni- versity of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. G. David Batty DIFFERENTIALS ble mechanisms underlying these observations is also with the Medical Research Council Social and that have particular relevance to health com- Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glas- In a recent editorial, Freimuth and Quinn1 munications—defined by Freimuth and Quinn1 gow, Scotland. Requests for reprints should be sent to G. David Batty, discussed the contribution that health com- as the study of methods that influence deci- MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University munication might make to eliminating health sions that enhance health—concern the concep- of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, UK, G12 8RZ disparities. The mechanisms underlying the tualization of self-health care asaset of cogni- (e-mail: [email protected]). doi:10.2105/AJPH.2005.063370 recently suggested role of intelligence (de- tive tasks. These tasks include the optimal noted here by IQ) in the etiology of several interpretation of health prevention messages important health outcomes are pertinent to and, among persons with existing chronic Acknowledgments G. David Batty is the recipient of a Wellcome Advanced this debate. illness, improved disease management.6 Training Fellowship (071954/Z/03/Z); Ian Deary In long-term follow-up studies, persons In terms of the former, Scottish children holds a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award. with low scores on written IQ tests adminis- who scored high on tests of intelligence in tered in childhood and early adulthood have 1932 were more likely than others to stop References 8 been found to have elevated rates of all-cause smoking as adults in the 1960s and 1970s. 1. Freimuth VS, Quinn SC. The contributions of mortality,2 coronary heart disease,3 some This observation may be attributable to the health communication to eliminating health disparities. cancers,4 and psychiatric disorders5 than their differential interpretation of antismoking ad- Am J Public Health.
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