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Volume 44, issue 12 , 1997
Some conceptual considerations on the sense of coherence pp. 1771-1779
Siegfried Geyer
The poor pay more: Health-related inequality in Thailand pp. 1781-1790
Supasit Pannarunothai and Anne Mills
Health-seeking strategies and sexual health among female sex workers in urban India: Implications for research and service provision pp. 1791-1803
Catrin Evans and Helen Lambert
Costs and benefits of improving tuberculosis control: The case of Thailand pp. 1805-1816
Holger Sawert , Sukhontha Kongsin , Vallop Payanandan , Pasakorn Akarasewi , Paul P. Nunn and Mario C. Raviglione
Women's perceptions of the complications of pregnancy and childbirth in two Esan communities, Edo State, Nigeria pp. 1817-1824
Francisca Isibhakhome Asowa-Omorodion
Women physicians in Quebec pp. 1825-1832
Maria De Koninck , Pierre Bergeron and Renée Bourbonnais
Women's hidden transcripts about abortion in Brazil pp. 1833-1845
Marilyn K. Nations , Chizuru Misago , Walter Fonseca , Luciano L. Correia and Oona M. R. Campbell
Female labor force participation and suicide pp. 1847-1859
Jeffrey A. Burr , Patricia L. McCall and Eve Powell-Griner
Girls, pecking order and smoking pp. 1861-1869
Lynn Michell and Amanda Amos
Long-term benzodiazepine use: Factors of importance and the development of individual use patterns over time--A 13-year follow-up in a Swedish community pp. 1871-1880
Dag Isacson
Socioeconomic status and adolescent injuries pp. 1881-1891
J. M. Williams , C. E. Currie , P. Wright , R. A. Elton and T. F. Beattie
Dispersion index: Measuring trend assessment of geographical inequality in health--The example of under-five mortality in the Middle East/North African region, 1980-1994 pp. 1893-1902
Osman M. Galal and Azhar K. Qureshi
The Gambian National Impregnated Bednet Programme: Evaluation of the 1994 cost recovery trial pp. 1903-1909
Olaf Müller , Kabbir Cham , Shabbar Jaffar and Brian Greenwood
Willingness to pay for antihypertensive care: Evidence from a staff-model HMO pp. 1911-1917
Scott D. Ramsey , Sean D. Sullivan , Bruce M. Psaty and Donald L. Patrick
Are there social correlates to suicide? pp. 1919-1929
Ilkka Mäkinen
A call for consistency in definition of breastfeeding behaviors pp. 1931-1932
Miriam H. Labbok and C. Jared Coffin
Volume 44, issue 11 , 1997
Patients' acceptance of waiting for cataract surgery: What makes a wait too long? pp. 1603-1610
Elaine Dunn , Charlyn Black , Jordi Alonso , Jens Christian Norregaard and Gerard F. Anderson
Meanings in policy: A textual analysis of Canada's "Achieving Health for All" document pp. 1611-1621
Adele Iannantuono and John Eyles
Health status and risk factors of seminomadic pastoralists in Mongolia: A geographical approach pp. 1623-1647
Peter M. Foggin , Otto Farkas , S. Shiirev-Adiya and B. Chinbat
Urban ecological structure and perceived child and adolescent psychological disorder pp. 1649-1659
James A. Leclair and Frank C. Innes
Community and self: Concepts for rural physician integration and retention pp. 1661-1674
Malcolm P. Cutchin
Intra-household allocation of food and health care: Current findings and understandings--Introduction pp. 1675-1684
Ellen Messer
Social class, gender and intrahousehold food allocations to children in South Asia pp. 1685-1695
Barbara D. Miller
Food allocation in rural Peruvian households: Concepts and behavior regarding children pp. 1697-1709
Margaret A. Graham
Health care allocation and selective neglect in rural Peru pp. 1711-1723
Anne C. Larme
Why are boys so small? Child growth, diet and gender near Ranomafana, Madagascar pp. 1725-1738
Sabrina H. B. Hardenbergh
Cultural factors, caloric intake and micronutrient sufficiency in rural Nepali households pp. 1739-1749
Joel Gittelsohn , Meera Thapa and Laura T. Landman
Examining the gender gap in nutrition: An example from rural Mexico pp. 1751-1759
Jeffrey R. Backstrand , Lindsay H. Allen , Gretel H. Pelto and Adolfo Chávez
Physician location survey: Self-reported and census-defined rural/urban locations pp. 1761-1766
Ge Lin , Thomas C. Rosenthal and Mary Horwitz
Volume 44, issue 10 , 1997
Disclosure practices and cultural narratives: Understanding concealment and silence around cancer in Tuscany, Italy pp. 1433-1452
Deborah R. Gordon and Eugenio Paci
Designing educational messages to improve weaning food hygiene practices of families living in proverty pp. 1453-1464
Cristina M. G. Monte , Ann Ashworth , Marilyn K. Nations , A. A. Lima , A. Barreto and Sharon R. A. Huttly
A change of heart and a change of mind? Technology and the redefinition of death in 1968 pp. 1465-1482
Mita Giacomini
Age, adjustment, and costs: A study of chronic illnesses pp. 1483-1490
Susan Watt , Jacqueline Roberts , Gina Browne and Amiram Gafni
Surrogate assessment of coronary artery disease patients' functional capacity pp. 1491-1502
Dean D. Von Dras , Ilene C. Siegler , Redford B. Williams , Nancy Clapp-Channing , Thomas L. Haney and Daniel B. Mark
Beyond single indicators of social networks: A LISREL analysis of social ties among the elderly pp. 1503-1517
Thomas A. Glass , Carlos F. Mendes de Leon , Teresa E. Seeman and Lisa F. Berkman
Mapping visual analogue scale health state valuations onto standard gamble and time trade-off values pp. 1519-1530
Paul Dolan and Matthew Sutton
Patient preference for genders of health professionals pp. 1531-1540
Jan J. Kerssens , Jozien M. Bensing and Margriet G. Andela
Women's health care: For whom and why? pp. 1541-1551
A. van den Brink-Muinen
Patterns of sexual behaviour in a rural population in north-western Tanzania pp. 1553-1561
Katua Munguti , Heiner Grosskurth , James Newell , Kesheni Senkoro , Frank Mosha , James Todd , Philippe Mayaud , Awena Gavyole , Maria Quigley and Richard Hayes
Introduction to symposium: On-going studies in critical medical anthropology pp. 1563-1563
Hans A. Baer
The misconstruction of critical medical anthropology: A response to a cultural constructivist critique pp. 1565-1573
Hans A. Baer
Constructing a complex of contagion: The perceptions of AIDS among working prostitutes in Costa Rica pp. 1575-1583
Pamela J. Downe
Hard lives and evil winds: Illness aetiology and the search for healing amongst Ciskeian villagers pp. 1585-1600
Julia Segar
Volume 44, issue 9 , 1997
Studying the quality of life after organ transplantation: Research problems and solutions pp. 1259-1269
Donald Joralemon and Kim Mika Fujinaga
Kidney failure and transplantation in China pp. 1271-1283
Charlotte Ikels
Changing patterns of pharmaceutical practice in the United States pp. 1285-1302
Nancy Vuckovic and Mark Nichter
Effectiveness of condoms in preventing HIV transmission pp. 1303-1312
Steven D. Pinkerton and Paul R. Abramson
After unification: Gender and subjective health status in East and West Germany pp. 1313-1323
Günther Lüschen , Olga Geling , Christian Janßen , Gerhard Kunz and Olaf Von Dem Knesebeck
Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: A meta-analysis pp. 1325-1339
Deborah E. Sellers , Sybil L. Crawford , Karen Bullock and John B. Mckinlay
Nonconventional medicine in Israel: Consultation patterns of the Israeli population and attitudes of primary care physicians pp. 1341-1348
Judith H. Bernstein and Judith T. Shuval
The socio-economic distribution of heart diseases: Changing gradients in the Netherlands pp. 1349-1356
Ferdy W. J. Otten and Hans H. A. Bosma
The impact of anomia as a factor in a demand resource model of health pp. 1357-1365
W. Freidl
Policy, praxis, and medical anthropology: Introduction: Health policy and health praxis in the United States--A symposium pp. 1367-1369
Mary K. Anglin
Pregnancy and addiction: Translating research into practice pp. 1371-1380
Linda M. Whiteford and Judi Vitucci
Anthropological research and the politics of HIV prevention: Towards a critique of policy and priorities in the age of AIDS pp. 1381-1391
Alisse Waterston
Clearing the air: Challenges to introducing smoking restrictions in West Virginia pp. 1393-1401
Kenyon R. Stebbins
Working from the inside out: Implications of breast cancer activism for biomedical policies and practices pp. 1403-1415
Mary K. Anglin
Politicizing abortion: Personal morality and professional responsibility of residents training in the United States pp. 1417-1425
Ellen S. Lazarus
Firearm suicide among older women in the U.S pp. 1427-1430
Mark S. Kaplan , Margaret E. Adamek , Olga Geling and Alvin Calderon
Volume 44, issue 8 , 1997
Valedictory editorial pp. v-vii
Peter J. M. McEwan
Problems and promises of the protocol pp. 1081-1088
Marc Berg
Hostility, cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption in the general population pp. 1089-1096
M. C. Whiteman , F. G. R. Fowkes , . J. Deary and A. J. Lee
High functioning autistic children and the construction of "normal family life" pp. 1097-1106
David E. Gray
Prenatal biopsychosocial risk assessment and low birthweight pp. 1107-1114
Julian A. Herrera , Bertha Salmerón and Hugo Hurtado
The influence of culture and context on the pre- and post-migration experience of school-aged refugees from Central America and Southeast Asia in Canada pp. 1115-1127
Cecile Rousseau , Aline Drapeau and Ellen Corin
Coping with loss of ability: "Good grief" or episodic stress responses? pp. 1129-1139
Daphne Hewson
Local and institutional interpretations of IUDs in southwestern Nigeria pp. 1141-1148
Elisha P. Renne
Interpreting silence, documenting experience: An anthropological approach to the study of health service users' experience with HIV/AIDS care in Lothian, Scotland pp. 1149-1160
Guro Huby
Socio-economic differences in general practitioner and outpatient specialist care in the Netherlands: A matter of health insurance? pp. 1161-1168
Inge M. B. Bongers , Joost B. W. Van Der Meer , Johannes Van Den Bos and Johan P. Mackenbach
Wife-beating in rural South India: A qualitative and econometric analysis pp. 1169-1180
Vijayendra Rao
Male and female circumcision in Africa from a regional to a specific Nigerian examination pp. 1181-1193
John C. Caldwell , . O. Orubuloye and Pat Caldwell
Perceived male sexual needs and male sexual behaviour in southwest Nigeria pp. 1195-1207
. O. Orubuloye , John C. Caldwell and Pat Caldwell
Interdisciplinary health research--A symposium pp. 1209-1210
Lisbeth Sachs and Ingela Krantz
The difficulties of compiling a glossary of diseases associated with sexual intercourse in Chiawa, Rural Zambia pp. 1211-1220
Virginia Bond and Phillimon Ndubani
Practice-knowledge-attitudes-practice: An explorative study of information in primary care pp. 1221-1228
Vinod K. Diwan , Lisbeth Sachs and Rolf Wahlström
North-South health research collaboration: Challenges in institutional interaction pp. 1229-1238
Beth Maina-Ahlberg , Erik Nordberg and Göran Tomson
Partner notification in context: Swedish and Zambian experiences pp. 1239-1243
Elisabeth A. Faxelid and Kristina M. Ramstedt
Lessons for life--Past and present modes of sexuality education in Tanzanian society pp. 1245-1254
Minou Fuglesang
Volume 44, issue 7 , 1997
Isihlambezo: Utilization patterns and potential health effects of pregnancy-related traditional herbal medicine pp. 911-924
C. A. Varga and D. J. H. Veale
Duration of general practice consultations: Association with patient occupational and educational status pp. 925-934
John H. Wiggers and Rob Sanson-Fisher
The hierarchical diffusion of AIDS and violent crime among U.S. metropolitan regions: Inner-city decay, stochastic resonance and reversal of the mortality transition pp. 935-947
Rodrick Wallace , Yi-Shan Huang , Peter Gould and Deborah Wallace
Spatial patterns of human water contact and Schistosoma mansoni transmission and infection in four rural areas in Machakos District, Kenya pp. 949-968
H. Kloos , A. J. C. Fulford , A. E. Butterworth , R. F. Sturrock , J. H. Ouma , H. C. Kariuki , F. W. Thiongo , P. R. Dalton and R. K. Klumpp
The accuracy of self-reported Pap smear utilisation pp. 969-976
Jennifer Ann Bowman , Rob Sanson-Fisher and Sally Redman
Clinical guidelines and the fate of medical autonomy in Ontario pp. 977-987
Susan G. Rappolt
What explains rural-urban differentials in child mortality in Brazil? pp. 989-1002
Narayan Sastry
The role of access in explaining state abortion rates pp. 1003-1016
Patricia Gober
Doctors' perceptions of the links between stress and lowered clinical care pp. 1017-1022
Jenny Firth-Cozens and Joanne Greenhalgh
Effects of socioeconomic disadvantage and women's status on women's health in Cameroon pp. 1023-1042
Barthélémy Kuate Defo
Cardiac disease construction on the borderland pp. 1043-1049
Jeanne Daly and Ian Mcdonald
Integration lay and nurse-midwifery into the U.S. and Canadian health care systems pp. 1051-1063
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Mary Fynes
Potential use of traditional fermented foods for weaning in Zimbabwe pp. 1065-1068
Clifford Simango
Integrating behavioral and social sciences research at the National Institutes of Health, U.S.A pp. 1069-1071
Norman B. Anderson
Sectoral investment in health: Prescription or principles? pp. 1073-1076
Andrew Cassels and Katja Janovsky
Volume 44, issue 6 , 1997
Introduction pp. 721-722
Eero Lahelma and Ossi Rahkonen
The black report and beyond what are the issues? pp. 723-745
Sally Macintyre
Whose fault is it? People's own conceptions of the reasons for health inequalities pp. 747-756
Mildred Blaxter
Measuring the magnitude of socio-economic inequalities in health: An overview of available measures illustrated with two examples from Europe pp. 757-771
Johan P. Mackenbach and Anton E. Kunst
Comparing inequalities in women's and men's health: Britain in the 1990s pp. 773-787
Sara Arber
Changes in the social patterning of health? The case of Finland 1986-1994 pp. 789-799
Eero Lahelma , Ossi Rahkonen and Minna Huuhka
Health expectancy by level of education in Finland pp. 801-808
Tapani Valkonen , Ari-Pekka Sihvonen and Eero Lahelma
Why do poor people behave poorly? Variation in adult health behaviours and psychosocial characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse pp. 809-819
J. W. Lynch , G. A. Kaplan and J. T. Salonen
Childhood conditions, sense of coherence, social class and adult ill health: Exploring their theoretical and empirical relations pp. 821-831
Olle Lundberg
Health inequalities in the early years: Is there equalisation in youth? pp. 833-858
Patrick West
Health inequalities in the life course perspective pp. 859-869
M. E. J. Wadsworth
Health inequalities in later life in a social democratic welfare state pp. 871-881
Espen Dahl and Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund
The integration of two health systems: Social stratification, work and health in East and West Germany pp. 883-899
Günther Lüschen , Steffen Niemann and Peter Apelt
Social inequalities in health: Next questions and converging evidence pp. 901-910
Michael Marmot , Carol D. Ryff , Larry L. Bumpass , Martin Shipley and Nadine F. Marks
Volume 44, issue 5 , 1997
Beliefs on coping with illness: A consumer's perspective pp. 553-559
Denise De Ridder , Marja Depla , Peter Severens and Marijke Malsch
Shattered assumptions: Time and the experience of long-term HIV positivity pp. 561-571
Michele L. Davies
Effects of a randomized health education intervention on aspects of peproductive health knowledge and reported behaviour among adolescents in Zimbabwe pp. 573-577
M. T. Mbizvo , J. Kasule , V. Gupta , S. Rusakaniko , S. N. Kinoti , W. Mpanju-Shumbushu , A. J. Sebina-Zziwa , R. Mwateba and J. Padayachy
Identity, ideology and inequality: Methodologies in medical anthropology, Guatemala 1950-1995 pp. 579-587
Bruce Barrett
"Ruling in" and "ruling out": Two approaches to the micro-rationing of health care pp. 589-599
David Hughes and Lesley Griffiths
Conceptualizing oral health and oral health-related quality of life pp. 601-608
Helen C. Gift , Kathryn A. Atchison and C. Mitchell Dayton
Refocusing the lens: Epidemiologic transition theory, mortality differentials, and the AIDS pandemic pp. 609-621
Daniel S. Gaylin and Jennifer Kates
Prior hospitalization and age as predictors of mental health resource utilization in Israel pp. 623-633
Gary Ginsberg , Yakov Lerner , Mordechai Mark and Miriam Popper
"Popular" health and the state: Dialectics of the peace process in El Salvador pp. 635-645
Sandy Smith-Nonini
The role of decision analysis in informed consent: Choosing between intuition and systematicity pp. 647-656
P. A. Ubel and George Loewenstein
Disease ecology and a reformist alternative: The case of infant mortality pp. 657-671
Wilbert M. Gesler , Sheryl Thorburn Bird and Stephen A. Oljeski
Information sharing in semen donation: The views of donors pp. 673-680
Ken R. Daniels , Gillian M. Lewis and Ruth Curson
Shared decision-making in the medical encounter: What does it mean? (or it takes at least two to tango) pp. 681-692
Cathy Charles , Amiram Gafni and Tim Whelan
Long-term care experience in Saudi Arabia pp. 693-697
Sulaiman Al-Shammari , Jamal S. Jarallah and Ferial Felimban
Does "process utility" exist? A case study of willingness to pay for laparoscopic cholecystectomy pp. 699-707
Cam Donaldson and Phil Shackley
Excess female mortality in rural Somalia--Is inequality in the household a risk factor? pp. 709-715
A. S. Aden , M. M. Omar , H. M. Omar , U. Högberg , L. Å. Persson and S. Wall
Volume 44, issue 4 , 1997
The narrative of AIDS among the Tonga of Zambia pp. 431-439
Hanne Overgaard Mogensen
STDs in women attending family planning clinics: A case study in Addis Ababa pp. 441-454
M. Elizabeth Duncan , Gerard Tibaux , Helmut Kloos , Andrée Pelzer , Letebirhan Mehari , Peter L. Perine , John Peutherer , Hugh Young , Yasmin Jamil , Sohrab Darougar , Inga Lind , Karin Reimann , Peter Piot and Erwin Roggen
HIV prevention among Zambian adolescents: Developing a value utilization/norm change model pp. 455-468
Douglas A. Feldman , O'Hara, Peggy , K. S. Baboo , N-W. Chitalu and Ying Lu
HIV testing history among gay/bisexual men recruited in Barcelona: Evidence of high levels of risk behavior among self-reported HIV+ men pp. 469-477
Jen Wang , Anna Rodés , Carles Blanch and Jordi Casabona
The (dis)embodied self in anorexia nervosa pp. 479-489
Rebecca J. Lester
How lay is lay? Chinese students' perceptions of anorexia nervosa in Hong Kong pp. 491-502
Sing Lee
Reperes pour une modélisation systemique des programmes de sante: Approach for a systemic modelling of health programmes pp. 503-517
Denis Fontaine
The communication atmosphere between physician colleagues: Competitive perfectionism or supportive dialogue? A Norwegian study pp. 519-526
Victoria Akre , Erik Falkum , Bjørn O. Hoftvedt and Olaf G. Aasland
Does organization matter? A multilevel analysis of the demand-control model applied to human services pp. 527-534
Björn Söderfeldt , Marie Söderfeldt , Kelvyn Jones , O'Campo, Patricia , Carles Muntaner , Carl-Göran Ohlson and Lars-Erik Warg
Efficacy of the Tibetan treatment for arthritis pp. 535-539
Mary Ryan
Physician vs patient initiation of psychotropic prescribing in primary care settings: A content analysis of audiotapes pp. 541-548
Betsy Sleath , Bonnie Svarstad and Debra Roter
Volume 44, issue 3 , 1997
Factors affecting the most recent fertility rates in urban-rural Bangladesh pp. 279-289
H. T. Abdullah Khan and Robert Raeside
The children's sentinels: Mothers and their relationships with health professionals in the context of Japanese health care pp. 291-300
Shigeko Saiki-Craighill
The ellipsis of prognosis in modern medical thought pp. 301-315
Nicholas A. Christakis
Perceived social support, family environment and psychosocial recovery in bone marrow transplant long-term survivors pp. 317-325
A. Molassiotis , O. B. A. Van Den Akker and B. J. Boughton
Past or present? Childhood living conditions and current socioeconomic status as determinants of adult health pp. 327-336
Ossi Rahkonen , Eero Lahelma and Minna Huuhka
Comportements vis à vis des medicaments et representations de soi chez des personnes agées souffrant de maladies chroniques pp. 337-345
Joël Ankri , Béatrice Beaufils , Dominique Ledisert and Jean Claude Henrard
Social scientists and the new tuberculosis pp. 347-358
Paul Farmer
Gender, social pressure, and smoking cessations: The Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) at baseline pp. 359-370
Jacqueline M. Royce , Kitty Corbett , Glorian Sorensen and Judith Ockene
Using willingness to pay to value alternative models of antenatal care pp. 371-380
Mandy Ryan , Julie Ratcliffe and Janet Tucker
Female and male physicians' attitudes toward prenatal diagnosis: A Pan-Canadian survey pp. 381-392
Louise Bouchard and Marc Renaud
Direct and buffer effects of social support and personal coping resources in individuals with arthritis pp. 393-402
Brenda W. J. H. Penninx , Theo Van Tilburg , Dorly J. H. Deeg , Didi M. W. Kriegsman , A. Joan P. Boeke and Jacques T. M. Van Eijk
Problems in accurate medical diagnosis of depression in female patients pp. 403-412
Bonnie J. Floyd
Population density and spatial differentials in child mortality in Zimbabwe pp. 413-421
Graham Root
Health behaviour and risk behaviour: Socioeconomic differences in an Austrian rural county pp. 423-426
Willibald-Julius Stronegger , Wolfgang Freidl and Éva Rásky
Volume 44, issue 2 , 1997
Practitioner provision of preventive care in general practice consultations: Association with patient educational and occupational status pp. 137-146
John H. Wiggers and Rob Sanson-Fisher
Nurse staffing patterns and hospital efficiency in the United States pp. 147-155
Joan R. Bloom , Jeffrey A. Alexander and Beverly A. Nuchols
Health expenditures in Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 157-169
Ramesh Govindaraj , Gnanaraj Chellaraj and Christopher J. L. Murray
Traditions and reproductive technology in an urbanizing north Indian village pp. 171-180
Sunil K. Khanna
Suicide among foreign-born minorities and native Swedes: An epidemiological follow-up study of a defined population pp. 181-187
Leena Maria Johansson , Jan Sundquist , Sven-Erik Johansson , B. O. Bergman , Jan Qvist and Lil Träskman-Bendz
Long-term illness among indigenous and foreign-born people in Sweden pp. 189-198
Jan Sundquist and Sven-Erik Johansson
Contexts and patterns of men's commercial sexual partnerships in northeastern Thailand: Implications for AIDS prevention pp. 199-213
Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale , David Elkins , Melissa Haswell-Elkins , Darunee Rujkarakorn , Thicumporn Kuyyakanond and Kathryn Stam
White, red and black: Colour classification and illness management in Northern Ghana pp. 215-230
Jon P. Kirby
The development of a training model to improve health professionals' skills, self-efficacy and outcome expectancies when communicating with cancer patients pp. 231-240
Michael Parle , Peter Maguire and Cathy Heaven
Marital status and quality of relationships: The impact on health perception pp. 241-249
Xinhua Steve Ren
Measuring the human cost of a weak economy: Does unemployment lead to alcohol abuse? pp. 251-260
Susan L. Ettner
Alcohol abuse and mortality: A 40-year prospective study of Norwegian conscripts pp. 261-267
Ingeborg Rossow and Arvid Amundsen
Socioeconomic factors and dental caries in developing countries: A cross-national study pp. 269-272
Hiroko Miura , Yoshima Araki , Katsuhiro Haraguchi , Yumiko Arai and Takusei Umenai
Volume 44, issue 1 , 1997
The background of adolescent pregnancies in Nicaragua: A qualitative approach pp. 1-12
Staffan Berglund , Jerker Liljestrand , Flor De María Marín , Norma Salgado and Elmer Zelaya
The contribution of childhood environment to the explanation of socio-economic inequalities in health in adult life: A retrospective study pp. 13-24
H. Van De Mheen , K. Stronks , J. Van Den Bos and J. P. Mackenbach
Sexual risk-taking, socio-sexual biographies and sexual interaction: Elements of the French national survey on sexual behaviour pp. 25-40
Nathalie Bajos , Béatrice Ducot , Brenda Spencer and Alfred Spira
Alone in the crowd: How adults with learning difficulties cope with social networks problems pp. 41-53
Bob Heyman , John Swain , Maureen Gillman , Elizabeth C. Handyside and Wendy Newman
The nature of parasuicide in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania pp. 55-61
N. K. Ndosi and M. C. Waziri
Social inequality and injuries: Do morbidity patterns differ from mortality? pp. 63-70
Susan M. Kelly and Rebecca Miles-Doan
Deinstitutionalization, homelessness, and the myth of psychiatric abandonment: A structural anthropology perspective pp. 71-83
Douglas Mossman
Questioning patient satisfaction: An empirical investigation in two outpatient clinics pp. 85-92
Mark Avis , Meg Bond and Antony Arthur
Family life and smoking in adolescence pp. 93-101
Anthony Glendinning , Janet Shucksmith and Leo Hendry
Geographical patterns of guinea worm infestation in Ghana: An historical contribution pp. 103-122
John M. Hunter
Low mortality from ischaemic heart disease in the Sámi district of Finland pp. 123-131
Simo Näyhä