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Journal of The Royal Society of Health Index to Contents Volume 113 1994 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF HEALTH RSH HOUSE, 38A ST GEORGE'S DRIVE, LONDON SW1V 4BH ISBN 0264/0325 CONTENTS FOR 1993 PAPERS PAGE PAGE 6 Pediculosis Pubis: A Surrogate Mafror Skexuaellyr Tra ns- 40 Health of the Nation: Way Forward in Sexual Health mitted Diseases RN Thin, MD, FRCP, Department of Genitourinary Medicine (Sexu- A A Opaneye, MBBS, MRCOG, FRSH, D T Jayaweera, MBBS, ally Transmitted Diseases), St Thomas’ Hospital, London, SE1 7EH MRCOG, M Walzman, MD, MRCOG and A A H Wade, MB, BCh, FRCOG, Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Coventry & War- Smoking in Schools wickshire Hospital, Stoney Stanton Road, Coventry, CV1 4FH Jenny Jacobs, BA, PGCE, Project Coordinator, Smokebusters UK, 62 Beaumont Road, Halesowen, West Midlands, B62 9EX Awareness, Knowledge and Perceptions of Restaurateurs about Proposed Smoking Restrictions in Johannesburg A Pilot Study of Diet and Gallstone Formation in Young Restaurants Saudi Women M H Ross, FFCH(SA), MBChB, FRSH, Department of Community Dr Abdelmonim Fadlalla Anmed, MRCP(UK), Consultant Physician, Health, University of the Witwatersrand, 7 York Road, Parktown, King Fahad Hospital, Riyadh, Professor Ali Karar Osman, PhD, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa and M De Beer, BSc(Stats) and K Chairman, Community Health Sciences Dept, College of Applied Algu, MBChB, MBL, Health and Housing Directorate, Johannesburg Medical Sciences (CAMS), King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Mrs City Council, South Africa Arwa Bashir Bustami, BA(Eng), MA(Ed), Medical Social Worker, Ohud Hospital, Almadinah, Almounawarah, Salih Aldirwish, BSc, Tracking Change in the Patterns of Parental Smoking Dietitian, Ohud Hospital, Almadinah, Almounawarah and MrsS haista Warren R Stanton, Research Fellow, Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health Bashir, MA(biostatics), Lecturer, Community Health Sciences Dept, and Development Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics and College of Applied Medical Sciences (CAMS), King Saud University Child Health, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New (KSU), Riyadh Zealand and Phil AS ilva, PhD, Health Research Council Carer Fellow and Director, Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development High Perinatal and Neonatal Mortality in Rural India Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Univer- Neelam Bhardwaj, MD, Lecturer in Community Medicine, Bharati sity of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand Vidyapeeth Medical College, Katraj, Dnankawadi, Pune 411 043 (Maharashtra), India and S Badrul Hasan, MD, Associate Professor Training of Environmental Health Officers in Anglophone and Medical Superintendent, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College West Africa: How Adequate for Environmental Monitoring? Hospital, Aligarh Muslim University, India Dr Patrick O Emeharole, DipRSH, BSc, MPH, DrPH, PGDE, FRSH, Head, Department of Health Education, Alvan Ikoku College of Bowel Habit and Dietary Fibre Intake Before and During Education, PMB 1033, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria, and General Menstruation Secretary, Professional Association of Environmental Health officers G Jill Davies, BEd, MSc, PhD, FRSH, Research Director, School of of Nigeria (Paehon) Hospitality Food and Product Management, South Bank University, Borough Road, London, SE1 OAA, Amanda L P Collins, BSc, SRD, Writing: An Educational and Satisfying Process Regional Clinical Scientist, Astra Pharmaceuticals, Home Park, A Everette James, JR, SCM, JD, MD, Professor of Medical Adminis- Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, WD4 8DH and Jacqueline J Mead, tration, Director, Center for Medical Imaging Research, Vanderbilt BEd, Teacher, Southfields School, 333 Merton Road, Wandsworth, University School of Medicine, 21stand Garland Avenues, Nashville, London, SW18 3AS TN 37232, USA Socio-Cultural and Economic Factors Affecting Food Con- Managing Fire Safety in Residential Homes sumption Patterns in Arab Countries TJ Shields and K E Dunlop, Fire Research Centre, University of Ulster Abdulrahman 0 Musaiger, DrPHSc, MPHSc, FRSH, Nutrition Unit, at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT37 Public Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, PO Box 42, Bahrain, 0QB Saudi Arabia How do Potentially-Toxic Chemicals Get into Drinking Nutritional and Non-Nutritional Factors for ‘Healthy’ Water? Longevity BAHoman, BSc, MSc and P A West, BSc, PhD, FRSH, Public Health ARP Walker, DSc, South African Institute for Medical Research, PO Section, North West Water Ltd, Great Sankey, Warrington, WAS 3LW Box 1038, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa The Health Professions in 1992 - The European Challenge: The Research Challenge for the Professions Allied to The International Federation of Environmental Health Medicine Eric W Foskett OBE, BSc(Econ), DPA, FIEH, FRSH, President, Professor C S Williams, BSc, MPhil, PhD, MIBiol, CBiol, Glas- International Federation of Environmental Health, 26 Grebe Close, gow Caledonian University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Southbrae Poynton, Stockport, Cheshire, SK12 1HU Campus, Southbrae Drive, Glasgow, G13 1PP CONTENTS FOR 1993 PAPERS PAGE PAGE 87 Nurses... Bridging the Gap: Australian Aboriginals and 138 Tyre Disposal — A Burning Environmental Issue? Primary Health Care Dr Jonathan M Horner, MSc, DIC, MRSH, MIBiol, Senior Environ- Barbara Newman, RN, DipTeach(Nursing), DTPH, DOH and S, MHP mental Studies Lecturer, Roehampton Institute, Southlands College, Ed, FRCNA, Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Administrator, Schoo! Wimbledon Parkside, London, SW19 5NN of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia A Perspective on Lead Pollution and Health 1972-1992 Roy M Harrison, Professor of Environmental Health, Institute of Cigarette Smoking and Health: A Radical View Public & Environmental Health & School of Biological Sciences, Barry Halliwell, DPhil, DSc, Pulmonary Medicine, University College University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT Davis Medical Center, 4301 X Street, Sacramento, CA 95817, California, USA Disasters and the Coping Mechanisms in Nigeria MKC Sridhar, A M Arinolaand 0 Oladepo, Department of Preventa- The NHS: Past, Present and Future tive and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Dr H H John, OBE, OStJ, MA, MB, BChir, FFPHM, DPH, DCH, Ibadan, Nigeria DObstRCOG, FRSH, FRIPHH, HonMAPHA, Department of Health, PO Box 270, Corporation of London, Guildhall, London, EC2P 2EJ Vice Chairman Visits Australia Brian R Saunders, MIEH, FRSH, 39 Rutland Drive, Hornchurch, Patients’ Satisfaction Survey: A Review of In-Patient Essex, RM11 3EW Attitudes Towards Care During a Twelve Month Period Simon Gay, MBBS, Katherine Bradshaw, RGN, Teresa O’Bourke, Quality Improvement and the Hospital Patient Representative RGN, York Chuah, MRCP, Christopher Probert, MRCP and John Mary Elizabeth Waters, MSHA, Provider Relaxations Representative, Mayberry, MD, FRCPI, Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Harris Methodist Health Plan, Ft Worth, Texas and AF Al-Assaf, MD, Leicester, LE5 4PW MPH, MS, CQA, FRSH, Department of Health Administration and Policy, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, P 0 Box Perinatal Mortality in a Northern Nigerian Rural Com- 26901, Oklahoma City, OK 73190, USA munity Dr C O Akpala, MBBS, MPH, FWACP, MFCM, Department of Fathers and Breast Feeding: A Pilot Observational Study Community Medicine, University of Sokoto, Sokoto, Nigeria Simon Voss, MRCGP, MFPHM, Consultant in Public Health Medi- cine, Southampton and South West Hampshire Commission, Oakley Perceptions and Reactions of the Public to Diarrhoea Road, Southampton, S09 4WQ, Louise Finnis, Senior Health Promo- Robin Philipp, FFPHM, FFOM, Consultant Senior Lecturer, De- tion Officer, Odstock Hospital, Salisbury, Wilts, SP2 8BJ and Jacquie partment of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Univer- Manners, RM, Clinical Director, Obstetrics, Odstock Hospital, Salis- sity of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol, BS8 2PR, bury, Wilts, SP2 8BJ Neil Wood, PhD, Consultant Researcher, Avon Micro Consul- tancy, Bristol, Kenneth W Heaton, MD, FRCP, Reader in Medi- Longer Term Functional Outcome and Societal Implica- cine, Department of Medicine, Bristol Royal Infiranmd Aantrhyon y tions of Upper Limb Fractures in the Elderly O Hughes, MPhil, MFPHM, Senior Lecturer, Department of Rajan Madhok, MFPHM, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, University of Bristol, District Offices, Poole Hospital, Middlesbrough, TS7 ONJand Sandra Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol, BS8 2PR Green, BSc, Statistician, South Tees Health Authority, Middlesbrough Smoking Habits of Students in Secondary Health Institutes Insecticides Against Headlice in Glasgow in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia Steven W Lindsay, PhD, BSc, Department of Zoology, Glasgow Abdalla Abdel Wahid Saeed, MB, BS, MCommH, MPH&TM, FRSH, University, Glasgow, G12 80Q and Susan Peock, BSc, Department College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, of Zoology, Glasgow University, Glasgow, G12 80Q Saudi Arabia, Eisa Al Al-Johali, BSc, Directorate of Health Institutes, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Ahmed Hussain Al- Factors Associated with Awareness & Knowledge of Cer- Stiahry , BSc, Directorate of Health Institutes, Ministry of Health, vical Cancer in a Community: Implication for Health Edu- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia cation Programmes in Developing Countries Sarita Dhamija, PhD, Senior Research Officer, Ashok Sehgal, MD, Sustaining Health Service Developments in the ‘Third Assistant Director, Usha K Luthra, MD, PhD, Director, Institute of World’ Cytology and Preventive Oncology (ICMR), Maulana Azad Medical Dr Malcolm MacLachlan, DBA, BSc, PhD, CPsychol, or Lecturer in College Campus, New Delhi - 110002, India, and Kusum Sehgal, Psychology, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, P 0 Box 280, MD, Head of Department, Department of Preventive and Social Zomba, Malawi Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi-110002, India CONTENTS FOR 1993 PAPERS PAGE PAGE 187 Hull Healthline: A Description of a Telephone Health 215 Accident Prevention and the Health of the Nation Targets Information and Promotion Service The Hon Tom Sackville, MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Lesley Geddes, BSc(Hons), DipHEd, Health Promotion Manager, for Health, Department of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, North Cumbria Health Development Unit, Workington Infirmary London, SW1A 2NS Road, Workington, CA14 2UN and lan Watt, MB, ChB, MPH, Senior Registrar in Public Health Medicine, Department of Public Prevalence of Brucellosis Among Abattoir Workers in Health Medicine, Hull Health Authority, Park Street, Hull, HU2 Saudi Arabia 81D Mohamed Abdulaziz Al-Sekait, BSc, FRSH, Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Department of Community Medi- Exploration of the Frontiers of Tradomedical Practices: cine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, P 0 Box 2925, Basis for Development of Alternative Medical Healthcare Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia Services in Developing Countries Michael Osujih, BSc(Hons), MPH, MBSH, Senior Lecturer, Public The Growth Pattern of Saudi Arabian Pre-School Children Health Education, Rivers State College of Education, Port Harcourt, in Riyadh Compared to NCHS/CDC Reference Population Nigeria Abdulrahman SA l Frayh, MD, Professor of Paediatrics and Consult- ant Paediatrician, Department of Paediatrics (39), College of Medi- Health and Personal Services Since 1979: The New cine, King Saud University, P 0 Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Managerialism Arabia and Elijah A Bamgboye, PhD(Lond), Associate Professor and Gerald Vinten, BA, MSc, DPA, DipEd, IPFA, FRSA, FRGS, FinstD, Consultant Medical Statistician, Department of Family and Commu- FRSH, Whitbread Professor of Business Policy, University of Luton, nity Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, P 0 Box c/o 82 Speed House, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8AU 2925, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia Occupational Health: Control and Monitoring of Psycho- Knowledge about HIV and Views about HIV Testing among logical and Organisational Hazards at Work Students at an Inner London University Tom Cox, BSc, PhD, CPsychol, FBPsS, FRSH, Professor of Organi- Natalie Gommon, BSc, Student, Psychology Division, City Univer- sational Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Not- sity, Northampton Square, London, EC1V OHB and Robert Bor, tingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD and Sue Cox, BSc, MPhil, MIOSH, DPhil, CPsychol, FRSH, Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, FRSH, Senior Lecturer in Health and Safety Management, Centre for City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V OHB Extension Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, Lough- borough, LE11 3TU A Quantative Assessment of the Nigerian Mothers’ ability to Prepare Salt-Sugar Solution for the Home Management Sex and The Nation’s Health of Diarrhoea Francis Drobniewski, MA, MBBS, PhD, FLS, Registrar, Public Health EEEkanem, C 0 Akitoye and 0 T Adedeji, Department of Community Laboratory Service, Dulwich Hospital, East Dulwich Grove, London, Health, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria SE22 80F Early Childhood Mortality — A Rural Study Food Hygiene Training: The Next Step Najam Khalique, Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine,J N Graham Aston, MIEH, FIH, FIMgt, FRSH, Senior Consultancy Part- Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, India, S N Sinha, Professor, Depart- ner, Graham Aston Associates, Eaton House, P 0 Box 34, Walton-on- ment of Community Medicine, J N Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, Thames, Surrey, KT12 1LN India, Mohammad Yunus, Reader, Department of Community Medi- cine, J N Medicai College, AMU, Aligarh, India and Ashraf, Malik, Research-Based Teaching: A Model for Teaching Environ- Reader, Department of Paediatrics, J N Medical College, AMU, mental Health Protection Issues Aligarh, India Kafwe C Tembo, MPA, MA, Senior Lecturer in Public Health Educa- tion, University of Malawi The Polytechnic, Private Bag 303, Chichiri, New Trends of Postgraduate Education in Public Health in Blantyre 3, Malawi Slovakia, (The first experiences of the school of public health in Bratislava) Sharing Information Between Health, Social Services Professor L Badalik, MD, DSc, FRSH, Department of Medical Educa- and Education Re: Children with Special Needs - The tion, School of Public Health in Bratislava, Czecho-Slovakia, M Issues Paniakova, PhD, FRSH, Department of Medical Education, School of Aidan Macfarlane, PhD, MA, MB, BChir, FRCP, Consultant Commu- Public Health in Bratislava, Czecho-Slovakia, D Farkasova, PhD, nity, Paediatrician, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Clinical DepartomfeM enditca l Education, School of Public Health inB ratislava, Lecturer in Paediatrics, Community Health Offices, Radcliffe Infir- Czecho- Slovakia and A Kubjatkova, PhD, Department of Medical mary, Oxford, OX2 6HE Education, School of Public Health in Bratislava, Czecho-Slovakia CONTENTS FOR 1993 PAPERS PAGE PAGE 252 Hair Loss in Children 298 Smoking Habits among Physicians in Two Gulf Countries Alexander K C Leung, MBBS, FRCPC, FAAP, FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Glasg), A Bener, PhD, FRSS, J Gomes, BSc, MSc and J A D Anderson, MD, FRCPI, FRSH, DCH(Lond), DCH(I), Clinical Associate Professor of FRCP, FFHM, FFOM, FRCGP, Department of Community Medicine, Paediatrics, University of Calgary, Paediatric Consultant, Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, P 0 Box Children’s Hospital, 1820 Richmond Road SW, Calgary, Alberta, 17666, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates Canada, T2T 5C7 and Wm Lane M Robson, MD, FRCP(C), FRSH, Medical Director of Paediatric Nephrology, Children’s Hospital, Greenville A Comparison of Community Pharmacists and General Hospital System, 701 Grove Road, Greenville, SC-29605, USA Practitioners’ Opinions on Rational Prescribing, Formu- laries and other Prescribing Related Issues The New US Health Care Plan of 1993 and its Terminology Alan Nathan, BPharm, MRPharmS, Boots Teacher/Practitioner, De- C Nick Wilson, PhD, FACHE, FRSH, Associate Professor, College of partment of Pharmacy, King’s College, London and Carol Ann Health, University of North Florida, 4567 St Johns Bluff Road, South, Sutters, PhD, MRPharmS, Medical Care Group Manager, Forest Jacksonville, Florida, 32216-6699, USA Healthcare Trust The US Health Care System (Its problems and prospects Rapid Assessment of Environmental Radon Levels under the Clinton Administration) CR Grainger, MB, CLB, DObst, DPH, FFPHM, FRSH, Medical Officer VicWt Soidrel , MD, HonFRSH, Montefiore Medical Center, 111 East of Health, Community Health Service, St Helier, Jersey 210th Street, Bronx, New York, 10467-2490, USA Environmental Health in Remote Aboriginal Communities Improving Accident Prevention for Older People Paul Torzillo, Stephan Rainow and Paul Pholeros, c/o Australian John LeM Howard, Director of Safety, The Royal Society for the Institute of Environmental Health, 8 Geils Court, Deakin, Australia Prevention of Accidents, Cannon House, The Priory Queensway, Capital Territory 2600, Australia Birmingham, B4 6BS Restorative Dental Care of the Geriatric Patient Accident Prevention and Older People: Achieving Accident Clive A Wilson, MSc, BDS, DRDRCS(Edin), LDS RCS(Eng), Asso- Prevention ciate Professor, King Saud University, College of Dentistry, P 0 Box Katie Salmon, Healthy Living Adviser, East Sussex Health Authority, 60169, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Health Education Centre, Avenue House, The Avenue, Eastbourne, BN21 3XY Food Safety: An Appraisal of a Training Programme Denise Worsfold, BSc, MSc, FRSH, Food Specialist, Women’s Royal Medical Counselling and Patient Compliance in Turkish Voluntary Service, Welsh Headquarters, Cathedral Road, Cardiff, and Greek Speaking Communities in Haringey and Enfield Wales, CF1 9LJ Vahdet Gul, MRPS, PhD, Priority Care Services St Ann's Hospital, St Ann’s Road, London, N15 3TH and Marilyn Mackenzie, MRPS, Playground Safety Priority Care Services St Ann's Hospital, St Ann’s Road, London, N15 3TH Alexander K C Leung, MMBS, FRCPC, FAAP, FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Glas), FRCPI!, FRSH, DCH(Lon), DCH(!), Clinical Associate A Study of the Impact of Arabic Coffee Consumption on Professor of Paediatrics, University of Calgary, Paediatric Consuit- Serum Cholesterol ant, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Canada, William Lane M Robson, M El Shabrawy Ali, PhD, FRSH, Department of Family and Commu- MD, FRCPC, FRSH, Clinical Associate Professor of Paediatrics, nity Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Ferial University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Stephen HN Lim, M Felimban, MRCGP, Department of Family and Community Medi- BA, BEd, Elementary School Teacher, John Paul |l School and cine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Sulakhan Chopra, BA, BEd, Librarian, University of Calgary Medical Library Arena Tests with Piperonal, A New Louse Repellent Susan Peock, BSc, Medical Entomology Centre at the University of Nutritional Quality - A Contract Caterer’s Perspective Cambridge, Cambridge Road, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB1 5EL andJ Anne Pawan, SRD, MHCIMA, Deputy Chief Dietitian, Gardner Mer- W Maunder, PhD, MSc, FREX, FRSH, Medical Entomology Centre at chant Limited, 7 Newlands Drive, Colnbrook, Slough, Berks, SL3 ODX the University of Cambridge, Cambridge Road, Fulbourn, Cam- bridge, CB1 5EL Joint Hyperiaxity and its Long-Term Effects on Joints Howard A Bird, MD, FRCP, Reader in Rheumatology, University of National Recording of Environmental Incidents in Scotland Leeds, School of Medicine, Royal Bath Hospital, Clinical Pharmacol- Gerald |F orbes, FRACMA, FACOM, FREHIS, MFCM, Environmental ogy Unit, Cornwall Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2PS and Health (Scotland) Unit, Ruchill Hospital, Bilsland Drive, Glasgow, L Barton, BSc, Research Assistant, University of Leeds, School of G20 9NB Medicine, Cornwall Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2PS