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Volume 52, issue 12 , 2001
Developing socio-spatial knowledge networks:: a qualitative methodology for chronic disease prevention pp. 1763-1775
Altha J. Cravey , Sarah A. Washburn , Wilbert M. Gesler , Thomas A. Arcury and Anne H. Skelly
The impacts of distance to hospital on families with a child with a chronic condition pp. 1777-1791
Nicole Yantzi , Mark W. Rosenberg , Sharon O. Burke and Margaret B. Harrison
Impact of rural hospital closures in Saskatchewan, Canada pp. 1793-1804
Liyan Liu , Joanne Hader , Bonnie Brossart , Robin White and Steven Lewis
Orientations to motherhood and male partner support among women in Mexico and Mexican-origin women in the United States pp. 1805-1813
Sylvia Guendelman , Christina Malin , Barbara Herr-Harthorn and Patricia Noemi Vargas
Adolescent girls, illegal abortions and "sugar-daddies" in Dar es Salaam: vulnerable victims and active social agents pp. 1815-1826
Margrethe Silberschmidt and Vibeke Rasch
"The tongue is venomous": perception, verbalisation and manipulation of mortality and fertility regimes in rural Mali pp. 1827-1841
Sarah Castle
Effect of orthographic and phonological similarity on false recognition of drug names pp. 1843-1857
Bruce L. Lambert , Ken-Yu Chang and Swu-Jane Lin
Patients' perceptions of medical care in chronic fatigue syndrome pp. 1859-1864
Alicia Deale and Simon Wessely
Sharing decisions in cancer care pp. 1865-1878
Melina Gattellari , Phyllis N. Butow and Martin H. N. Tattersall
Social inequalities in ischaemic heart and cerebrovascular disease mortality in men: Spain and France, 1980-1982 and 1988-1990 pp. 1879-1887
Lourdes Lostao , Enrique Regidor , Pierre Aïach and Vicente Domínguez
Resisting and promoting new technologies in clinical practice: the case of telepsychiatry pp. 1889-1901
Carl May , Linda Gask , Theresa Atkinson , Nicola Ellis , Frances Mair and Aneez Esmail
The impact of privatization on access in Tanzania pp. 1903-1915
John S. Benson
Volume 52, issue 11 , 2001
'I think condoms are good but, aai, I hate those things':: condom use among adolescents and young people in a Southern African township pp. 1613-1627
Catherine MacPhail and Catherine Campbell
Trends in healthy life expectancy in the United States, 1970-1990: gender, racial, and educational differences pp. 1629-1641
Eileen M. Crimmins and Yasuhiko Saito
"Being dealt with as a whole person." Care seeking and adherence: the benefits of culturally competent care pp. 1643-1659
Arn J. Schilder , Cornelis Kennedy , Irene L. Goldstone , Russel D. Ogden , Robert S. Hogg and O'Shaughnessy, Michael V.
Perceived control in relation to socioeconomic and behavioral resources for health pp. 1661-1676
Daniel S. Bailis , Alexander Segall , Michael J. Mahon , Judith G. Chipperfield and Elaine M. Dunn
The ethics of social risk reduction in the era of the biological brain pp. 1677-1687
Ted Schrecker , Lisa Acosta , Margaret A. Somerville and Harold J. Bursztajn
The closure of rural hospitals in Saskatchewan: method or madness? pp. 1689-1707
Rein Lepnurm and Marje K. Lepnurm
Emerging paradigms in the mental health care of refugees pp. 1709-1718
Charles Watters
On reflection:: doctors learning to care for people who are dying pp. 1719-1727
Roderick D. MacLeod
Recurrent symptoms: well-being and management pp. 1729-1740
Carol M. Musil , Diana L. Morris , Marie R. Haug , Camille B. Warner and Adriana T. Whelan
Transitions of employment status among suicide attempters during a severe economic recession pp. 1741-1750
Aini Ostamo , Eero Lahelma and Jouko Lönnqvist
GIS approaches to the problem of disease clusters: a brief commentary pp. 1751-1754
Tom Koch and Ken Denike
Volume 52, issue 10 , 2001
Patient' voices, social movements and the habitus; how psychiatric survivors 'speak out pp. 1477-1489
Michele L. Crossley and Nick Crossley
Exchanging spare parts or becoming a new person? People's attitudes toward receiving and donating organs pp. 1491-1499
Margareta A. Sanner
Poor people, poor places, and poor health: the mediating role of social networks and social capital pp. 1501-1516
Vicky Cattell
Efficacy of a minimal intervention to reduce fat intake pp. 1517-1524
Christopher J. Armitage and Mark Conner
HIV/AIDS institutional discrimination in Switzerland pp. 1525-1535
Françoise Dubois-Arber and Mary Haour-Knipe
Beyond health gain:: the range of health system benefits expressed by social groups in Mexico and Central America pp. 1537-1550
Miguel Angle Angel González Block , Peter Sandiford , José Arturo Ruiz and Joan Rovira
Disadvantaged persons' participation in health promotion projects: some structural dimensions pp. 1551-1564
William F. Boyce
Gender differences in descriptions of angina symptoms and health problems immediately prior to angiography: the ACRE study pp. 1565-1575
Sue Philpott , Petra M. Boynton , Gene Feder and Harry Hemingway
Adolescent perceptions of smoking imagery in film pp. 1577-1587
Judith P. McCool , Linda D. Cameron and Keith J. Petrie
Organochlorines and breast cancer:: the uses of scientific evidence in claimsmaking pp. 1589-1605
S. Michelle Driedger and John Eyles
Volume 52, issue 9 , 2001
Older people and AIDS: quantitative evidence of the impact in Thailand pp. 1313-1327
John Knodel , Mark VanLandingham , Chanpen Saengtienchai and Wassana Im-em
Predictors of decline in self-assessments of health among older people -- a 5-year longitudinal study pp. 1329-1341
Raija Leinonen , Eino Heikkinen and Marja Jylhä
When nurses double as interpreters: a study of Spanish-speaking patients in a US primary care setting pp. 1343-1358
Virginia Elderkin-Thompson , Roxane Cohen Silver and Howard Waitzkin
Service quality perceptions and patient satisfaction: a study of hospitals in a developing country pp. 1359-1370
Syed Saad Andaleeb
Income and health: the time dimension pp. 1371-1390
Michaela Benzeval and Ken Judge
The relationship between heart problems and mortality in different social classes pp. 1391-1402
Ingemar Kåreholt
Malevolent Ogbanje: recurrent reincarnation or sickle cell disease? pp. 1403-1416
Esther Nzewi
Writing wrongs? An analysis of published discourses about the use of patient information leaflets pp. 1417-1432
Mary Dixon-Woods
A family history of breast cancer: women's experiences from a theoretical perspective pp. 1433-1440
G. Rees , A. Fry and A. Cull
Return to work after myocardial infarction/coronary artery bypass grafting: patients' and physicians' initial viewpoints and outcome 12 months later pp. 1441-1450
O. Mittag , K. -D. Kolenda , K. -J. Nordmann , J. Bernien and C. Maurischat
Immigrant women's health pp. 1451-1458
Lynn M. Meadows , Wilfreda E. Thurston and Christina Melton
Estimating time preferences for health using discrete choice experiments pp. 1459-1470
Marjon van der Pol and John Cairns
Volume 52, issue 8 , 2001
Comparative institutional response to economic policy managed competition and governmentality pp. 1151-1166
Donald W. Light
Managed competition, governmentality and institutional response in the United Kingdom pp. 1167-1181
Donald W. Light
The marginal success of regulated competition policy in the Netherlands pp. 1183-1194
Harm Lieverdink
Cost containment, solidarity and cautious experimentation: Swedish dilemmas pp. 1195-1204
Ronald Andersen , Björn Smedby and Denny Vågerö
Adopting and adapting managed competition: health care reform in Southern Europe pp. 1205-1217
Laura Cabiedes and Ana Guillén
Implementing managed competition in Israel pp. 1219-1231
Revital Gross and Michael Harrison
Transforming health sectors: new logics of organizing in the New Zealand health system pp. 1233-1242
Geoff Fougere
Managed care in Latin America: the new common sense in health policy reform pp. 1243-1253
Celia Iriart , Emerson Elías Merhy and Howard Waitzkin
Biofantasies: genetics and medicine in the print news media pp. 1255-1268
Alan Petersen
Does childhood health affect chronic morbidity in later life? pp. 1269-1284
Debra L. Blackwell , Mark D. Hayward and Eileen M. Crimmins
Ethnic and class differences in health in relation to British South Asians: using the new National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification pp. 1285-1296
Tarani Chandola
Socioeconomic status and health among older adults in Thailand: an examination using multiple indicators pp. 1297-1311
Zachary Zimmer and Pattama Amornsirisomboon
Volume 52, issue 7 , 2001
What do patients expect of psychiatric services? A systematic and critical review of empirical studies pp. 985-998
Lorraine M. Noble , Brian C. Douglas and Stanton P. Newman
Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain: Relating health disadvantage to socio-economic position pp. 999-1005
Joanne Abbotts , Rory Williams and Graeme Ford
Establishing the causes of childhood mortality in Ghana: the 'spirit child' pp. 1007-1012
Pascale Allotey and Daniel Reidpath
The medicalization of female "circumcision": harm reduction or promotion of a dangerous practice? pp. 1013-1028
Bettina Shell-Duncan
Stressors, resources, and distress among homeless persons:: a longitudinal analysis pp. 1029-1042
Yin-Ling Irene Wong and Irving Piliavin
Disease and dislocation: the impact of refugee movements on the geography of malaria in NWFP, Pakistan pp. 1043-1055
Mumtaz Ali Kazmi and Kavita Pandit
Determinants of condom use intentions of university students in Ghana: an application of the theory of reasoned action pp. 1057-1069
Kwadwo Bosompra
The impact of AIDS, immigration and housing overcrowding on tuberculosis deaths in São Paulo, Brazil, 1994-1998 pp. 1071-1080
José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes and Eliseu Alves Waldman
Injury in children of low-income Mexican, Mexican American, and non-Hispanic white mothers in the USA: a focused ethnography pp. 1081-1091
Dorothy S. Mull , Phyllis F. Agran , Diane G. Winn and Craig L. Anderson
Looking means listening: coordinating displays of engagement in doctor-patient interaction pp. 1093-1108
Johanna Ruusuvuori
Negotiating control and meaning: home birth as a self-constructed choice in Finland pp. 1109-1121
Kirsi Viisainen
Clinical, provider and sociodemographic determinants of the number of antenatal visits in England and Wales pp. 1123-1134
Stavros Petrou , Emil Kupek , Sarah Vause and Michael Maresh
Social patterns of birth weight in Hong Kong, 1984-1997 pp. 1135-1141
Y. B. Cheung and Paul S. F. Yip
Volume 52, issue 6 , 2001
Physician satisfaction revisited pp. 825-837
David C. Dunstone and Harold R. Reames
Community values and preferences in transplantation organ allocation decisions pp. 853-861
Colette J. Browning and Shane A. Thomas
Cost effectiveness of brief interventions for reducing alcohol consumption pp. 863-870
Sonia E. Wutzke , Alan Shiell , Michelle K. Gomel and Katherine M. Conigrave
Who rules? The new politics of medical regulation pp. 871-883
Brian Salter
Private practitioners and their role in the resurgence of malaria in Mumbai (Bombay) and Navi Mumbai (New Bombay), India: serving the affected or aiding an epidemic? pp. 885-909
Vinay R. Kamat
Adult outpatients with depression: worse quality of life than in other chronic medical diseases in Argentina pp. 911-919
S. C. Bonicatto , M. A. Dew , R. Zaratiegui , L. Lorenzo and P. Pecina
Problems with the Sickness Impact Profile: a theoretically based analysis and a proposal for a new method of implementation and scoring pp. 921-934
Beth Pollard and Marie Johnston
Can I afford free treatment?: Perceived consequences of health care provider choices among people with tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam pp. 935-948
Knut Lönnroth , Thuc-Uyen Tran , Le Minh Thuong , Hoang Thi Quy and Vinod Diwan
The will to live: gender differences among elderly persons pp. 949-958
Sara Carmel
Domestic labour, paid employment and women's health: analysis of life course data pp. 959-965
D. Blane , L. Berney and S. M. Montgomery
Networks, resources and risk among women who use drugs pp. 967-978
Maureen Miller and Alan Neaigus
Letter to the Editor pp. 979-979
Lennarth Nyström
Volume 52, issue 5 , 2001
Monitoring health reform: a report card approach pp. 657-670
Marni D. Brownell , Noralou P. Roos and Leslie L. Roos
Competitive health policies and community health pp. 671-679
Pauline Stanton
Networks and tuberculosis: an undetected community outbreak involving public places pp. 681-694
A. S. Klovdahl , E. A. Graviss , A. Yaganehdoost , M. W. Ross , A. Wanger , G. J. Adams and J. M. Musser
Primary care as intersecting social worlds pp. 695-706
Philip Tovey and Jon Adams
The social construction of male 'homosexuality' in India: implications for HIV transmission and prevention pp. 707-721
Sheena Asthana and Robert Oostvogels
Implementing AIDS policy in post-apartheid South Africa pp. 723-731
Helen Schneider and Joanne Stein
Relationship dynamics and teenage pregnancy in South Africa pp. 733-744
Rachel Jewkes , Caesar Vundule , Fidelia Maforah and Esmé Jordaan
China's one-child policy: the economic choices and consequences faced by pregnant women pp. 745-761
Jim P. Doherty , Edward C. Norton and James E. Veney
Dimensions of social inequality in the health of women in England: occupational, material and behavioural pathways pp. 763-781
Amanda Sacker , Mel Bartley , David Firth and Ray Fitzpatrick
"It's some kind of women's empowerment": the ambiguity of the female condom as a marker of female empowerment pp. 783-796
Amy Kaler
African Americans' views on research and the Tuskegee Syphilis study pp. 797-808
Vicki S. Freimuth , Sandra Crouse Quinn , Stephen B. Thomas , Galen Cole , Eric Zook and Ted Duncan
Volume 52, issue 4 , 2001
Mental health and stress in the workplace: the case of general practice in the UK pp. 499-507
Michael Calnan , David Wainwright , Malcolm Forsythe , Barbara Wall and Stephen Almond
AIDS and cultural practices in Africa: the case of the Tonga (Zambia) pp. 509-518
Quentin Gausset
Understanding the dynamics of illness and help-seeking: event-structure analysis and a Cambodian-American narrative of "Spirit Invasion" pp. 519-536
Edwina S. Uehara
Gender trends in occupancy rates in mental health beds in Northern Ireland pp. 537-545
Pauline M. Prior and Bernadette C. Hayes
Gender and health: reassessing patterns and explanations pp. 547-559
Peggy McDonough and Vivienne Walters
Knowledge, action and resistance: the selective use of pre-natal screening among Bedouin women of the Negev, Israel pp. 561-569
G. Lewando-Hundt , . Shoham-Vardi , S. Beckerleg , . Belmaker , F. Kassem and A. Abu Jaafar
Substance use during pregnancy in the state of California, USA pp. 571-583
Brian Karl Finch , William A. Vega and Bohdan Kolody
Female control of sexuality: illusion or reality? Use of vaginal products in south west Uganda pp. 585-598
Gill Green , Robert Pool , Susan Harrison , Graham J. Hart , Joanie Wilkinson , Stella Nyanzi and James . A. G. Whitworth
High-risk behaviors and the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among women prisoners at the women state penitentiary in Metro Manila pp. 599-608
Nymia P. Simbulan , Angela S. Aguilar , Timothy Flanigan and Susan Cu-Uvin
Predictors of patient satisfaction pp. 609-620
Jeffrey L. Jackson , Judith Chamberlin and Kurt Kroenke
Why do women use dietary supplements? The use of the theory of planned behaviour to explore beliefs about their use pp. 621-633
Mark Conner , Sara F. L. Kirk , Janet E. Cade and Jennifer H. Barrett
Managing and treating risk and uncertainty for health: a case study of diabetes among First Nation's people in Ontario, Canada pp. 635-650
Julie Sunday and John Eyles
Volume 52, issue 3 , 2001
Medical women -- towards full integration? An analysis of the specialty choices made by two cohorts of Norwegian doctors pp. 331-343
Elisabeth Gjerberg
Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups pp. 345-356
Nancy E. Avis , Rebecca Stellato , Sybil Crawford , Joyce Bromberger , Patricia Ganz , Virginia Cain and Marjorie Kagawa-Singer
The impact of marital status on cancer survival pp. 357-368
Øystein Kravdal
Subjective well-being and severe motor impairments: the Tetrafigap survey on the long-term outcome of tetraplegic spinal cord injured persons pp. 369-384
. Ville , J. -F. Ravaud and Tetrafigap Group
Compression or expansion of morbidity? Trends in healthy-life expectancy in the elderly Austrian population between 1978 and 1998 pp. 385-391
Gabriele Doblhammer and Josef Kytir
Real world pharmacy: assessing the quality of private pharmacy practice in the Lao People's Democratic Republic pp. 393-404
Bo Stenson , Lamphone Syhakhang , Bo Eriksson and Göran Tomson
Psychophysiological effects of temporary alternative employment pp. 405-415
Hugo Westerlund , Töres Theorell and Anna Bergström
Violence towards health care staff and possible effects on the quality of patient care pp. 417-427
Judith E. Arnetz and Bengt B. Arnetz
Health and cultural factors associated with enrolment in basic education: a study in rural Ghana pp. 429-439
Alicia Fentiman , Andrew Hall and Don Bundy
Socioeconomic differences in leisure-time physical activity: the role of social participation and social capital in shaping health related behaviour pp. 441-451
Martin Lindström , Bertil S. Hanson and Per-Olof Östergren
Future states: the axioms underlying prospective, future-oriented, health planning instruments pp. 453-465
Tom Koch
Tactics at the interface: Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health managers pp. 467-480
Peter S. Hill , John Wakerman , Sally Matthews and Odette Gibson
The political context of social inequalities and health pp. 481-491
Vicente Navarro and Leiyu Shi
Volume 52, issue 2 , 2001
The physician role in transition: is Hippocrates sick? pp. 171-173
Olaf Gjerløw Aasland
The medical profession and health care reform -- friend or foe? pp. 175-177
Gudmund Hernes
Towards gender balance: but will women physicians have an impact on medicine? pp. 179-187
Elianne Riska
The doctor-nurse relationship: how easy is it to be a female doctor co-operating with a female nurse? pp. 189-202
Elisabeth Gjerberg and Lise Kjølsrød
Psychosocial challenges facing physicians of today pp. 203-213
Bengt B. Arnetz
Interventions to improve physicians' well-being and patient care pp. 215-222
Jenny Firth-Cozens
Interventions to improve physicians' well-being and patient care: a commentary pp. 223-225
Martha S. Gerrity
Doctors drifting: autonomy and career uncertainty in young physicians' stories pp. 227-237
Varpu Löyttyniemi
Paternalism, patient autonomy, and moral deliberation in the physician-patient relationship: Attitudes among Norwegian physicians pp. 239-248
Erik Falkum and Reidun Førde
Breast self-examination and cervical cancer testing among Norwegian female physicians: A nation-wide comparative study pp. 249-258
Elin Olaug Rosvold , Anette Hjartåker , Espen Bjertness and Eiliv Lund
Suicide rates from 1960 to 1989 in Norwegian physicians compared with other educational groups pp. 259-265
Olaf Gjerløw Aasland , Øvind Ekeberg and Tore Schweder
Implications of health care provision on acute lower respiratory infection mortality in Bangladeshi children pp. 267-277
Mohammad Ali , Michael Emch , Fahmida Tofail and Abdullah H. Baqui
Capacity building to improve women's health in rural China pp. 279-292
Virginia C. Li , Wang Shaoxian , Wu Kunyi , Zhang Wentao , Opal Buchthal , Glenn C. Wong and Mary Ann Burris
Impact of urinary schistosomiasis on rural land use: empirical evidence from Nigeria pp. 293-303
J. Chinedu Umeh , O. Amali and E. U. Umeh
Medicaid eligibility and the incidence of ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations for children pp. 305-313
Robert John Kaestner , Ted Joyce and A. Racine
Quality of life among women living with HIV: the importance violence, social support, and self care behaviors pp. 315-322
A. C. Gielen , K. A. McDonnell , A. W. Wu , P. O'Campo, and R. Faden
Volume 52, issue 1 , 2001
The importance of the social environment for physically active lifestyle -- results from an international study pp. 1-10
T. Ståhl , A. Rütten , D. Nutbeam , A. Bauman , L. Kannas , T. Abel , G. Lüschen , Diaz J. A. Rodriquez , J. Vinck and J. van der Zee
Doing things with illness. The micro politics of the CFS clinic pp. 11-23
Jonathan Banks and Lindsay Prior
Revealing moments: formulating understandings of adverse experiences in a health appraisal interview pp. 25-44
W. A. Beach and C. N. Dixson
Health implications of early childbearing on pregnancy outcome in Botswana: insights from the institutional records pp. 45-52
Gobopamang Letamo and Rolang G. Majelantle
Diffusion of ideas about personal hygiene and contamination in poor countries: evidence from Guatemala pp. 53-69
Noreen Goldman , Anne R. Pebley and Megan Beckett
Determinants of breastfeeding in the Philippines: a survival analysis pp. 71-81
Teresa S. J. Abada , Frank Trovato and Nirannanilathu Lalu
Death rests a while: holy day and Sabbath effects on Jewish mortality in Israel pp. 83-97
Jon Anson and Ofra Anson
Improving the use of pharmaceuticals through patient and community level interventions pp. 99-134
Nuria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde
Cost-effectiveness of the female condom in preventing HIV and STDs in commercial sex workers in rural South Africa pp. 135-148
Elliot Marseille , James G. Kahn , Kelvin Billinghurst and Joseph Saba
Attitudes to traditional Chinese medicine amongst Western trained doctors in the People's Republic of China pp. 149-153
K. Harmsworth and G. T. Lewith
Use of the Internet by medical voluntary groups in the UK pp. 155-156
Nick Fox
'The dog that didn't bark': taking class seriously in the health inequalities debate pp. 157-159
Graham Scambler and Paul Higgs