1. This issue of the Journal of Urban Health

   • David H. Frankel
   • David Vlahov

   BriefCommunication 01 March 2002 Pages: 1 - 1

2. New York City, 2001: Reaction and response

   • David Vlahov
   • Sandro Galea
   • David Frankel

   Editorials and Commentaries 01 March 2002 Pages: 2 - 5

3. Public health preparedness for disaster: Perspective from Washington, DC

   • Janet Firshein

   Editorials and Commentaries 01 March 2002 Pages: 6 - 7

4. Of butterflies, madmen, and urban health: Perspective from Canada

   • Martin T. Schechter

   Editorials and Commentaries 01 March 2002 Pages: 8 - 9

5. Can cities prepare for terrorism?: Perspective from the United Kingdom

   • David Sharp

   Editorials and Commentaries 01 March 2002 Pages: 10 - 11

6. Public health and the Media: The challenge now faced by bioterrorism

   • Sandra Mullin

   Editorials and Commentaries 01 March 2002 Pages: 12 - 12

7. Literature in brief

   • David Ozonoff
   • Josiah D. Rich

   Editorials and Commentaries 01 March 2002 Pages: 13 - 18

8. Science and politics, or on the irony of the term Political science

   • Robert Seltzer

   Special Feature: Firearms and Violence 01 March 2002 Pages: 19 - 25

9. Firearm availability and suicide, homicide, and unintentional firearm deaths among women

   • Matthew Miller
   • Deborah Azrael
   • David Hemenway

   Special Feature: Firearms and Violence 01 March 2002 Pages: 26 - 38

10. The epidemiology of firearm suicide in the United States

    • Michael P. Romero
    • Garen J. Wintemute

    Special Feature: Firearms and Violence 01 March 2002 Pages: 39 - 48

11. Unintentional gun injuries, firearm design, and prevention: What we know, what we need to know, and what can be done

    • Shannon Frattaroli
    • Daniel W. Webster
    • Stephen P. Teret

    Special Feature: Firearms and Violence 01 March 2002 Pages: 49 - 59

12. How delinquent youths acquire guns: Initial versus most recent gun acquisitions

    • Daniel W. Webster
    • Lorraine H. Freed
    • Modena H. Wilson

    Special Feature: Firearms and Violence 01 March 2002 Pages: 60 - 69

13. Drugs and firearm deaths in New York City, 1990–1998

    • Sandro Galea
    • Jennifer Ahern
    • David Vlahov

    Special Feature: Firearms and Violence 01 March 2002 Pages: 70 - 86

14. Traffic injury data, policy, and public health: Lessons from Boston Chinatown

    • Doug Brugge
    • Zenobia Lai
    • William Rand

    Original Articles: Various Topics 01 March 2002 Pages: 87 - 103

15. Regional varation in drug purchase opportunity among youths in the United States, 1996–1997

    • Kirk E. James
    • Frenando A. Wagner
    • James C. Anthony

    Original Articles: Various Topics 01 March 2002 Pages: 104 - 112

16. Characteristics of injection drug users who utilize tuberculosis services at sites of the baltimore city needle exchange program

    • Elise D. Riley
    • David Vlahov
    • Richard E. Chaisson

    Original Articles: Various Topics 01 March 2002 Pages: 113 - 127

17. Selection effect of needle exchange in Anchorage, Alaska

    • Dennis G. Fisher
    • Grace L. Reynolds
    • Colin R. Harbke

    Original Articles: Various Topics 01 March 2002 Pages: 128 - 135

18. Trends in the AIDS epidemic among New York City’s injection drug users: Localized or citywide?

    • Russell Rockwell
    • Sherry Deren
    • Don C. Des Jarlais

    Original Articles: Various Topics 01 March 2002 Pages: 136 - 146

19. The effect of ethnicity and maternal birthplace on small-for-gestational-age deliveries to HIV-infected women

    • James R. Cocroft
    • Walter W. Hauck
    • Barbara J. Turner

    Original Articles: Various Topics 01 March 2002 Pages: 147 - 160