Social Science & Medicine

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2014, volume 119, articles C

The social construction of ‘dowry deaths’ pp. 1-9

Jyoti Belur, Nick Tilley, Nayreen Daruwalla, Meena Kumar, Vinay Tiwari and David Osrin

Posthumous gamete retrieval and reproduction: Would the deceased spouse consent? pp. 10-17

Jason D. Hans

Healthcare system and the wealth–health gradient: A comparative study of older populations in six countries pp. 18-26

Dina Maskileyson

Perceived quality of an alternative to acute hospitalization: An analytical study at a community hospital in Hallingdal, Norway pp. 27-35

Øystein Lappegard and Per Hjortdahl

Enrolment of older people in social health protection programs in West Africa – Does social exclusion play a part? pp. 36-44

Divya Parmar, Gemma Williams, Fahdi Dkhimi, Alfred Ndiaye, Felix Ankomah Asante, Daniel Kojo Arhinful and Philipa Mladovsky

All gates lead to smoking: The ‘gateway theory’, e-cigarettes and the remaking of nicotine pp. 45-52

Kirsten Bell and Helen Keane

Nativity, duration of residence and chronic health conditions in Australia: Do trends converge towards the native-born population? pp. 53-63

Santosh Jatrana, Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti and Ken Richardson

Assessing patterns of spatial behavior in health studies: Their socio-demographic determinants and associations with transportation modes (the RECORD Cohort Study) pp. 64-73

Camille Perchoux, Yan Kestens, Frédérique Thomas, Andraea Van Hulst, Benoit Thierry and Basile Chaix

Dispensing emotions: Norwegian community nurses' handling of diversity in a changing organizational context pp. 74-80

Jonas Debesay, Ivan Harsløf, Bernd Rechel and Halvard Vike

Social capital and adolescent smoking in schools and communities: A cross-classified multilevel analysis pp. 81-87

Bart De Clercq, Timo-Kolja Pfoertner, Frank J. Elgar, Anne Hublet and Lea Maes

Bucking social norms: Examining anomalous fertility aspirations in the face of HIV in Lusaka, Zambia pp. 88-97

Ann M. Moore, Sarah Keogh, Megan Kavanaugh, Akinrinola Bankole, Chishimba Mulambia and Namuunda Mutombo

What must I do to succeed?: Narratives from the US premedical experience pp. 98-105

Katherine Y. Lin, Renee R. Anspach, Brett Crawford, Sonali Parnami, Andrea Fuhrel-Forbis and Raymond G. De Vries

‘We call it a virus but I want to say it's the devil inside’: Redemption, moral reform and relationships with God among people living with HIV in Papua New Guinea pp. 106-113

Angela Kelly-Hanku, Peter Aggleton and Patti Shih

“Don't eat that, you'll get fat!” Exploring how parents and children conceptualise and frame messages about the causes and consequences of obesity pp. 114-122

Samantha L. Thomas, Timothy Olds, Simone Pettigrew, Melanie Randle and Sophie Lewis

Symptomization and triggering processes: Ovarian cancer patients' narratives on pre-diagnostic sensation experiences and the initiation of healthcare seeking pp. 123-130

Susanne Brandner, Jacqueline Müller-Nordhorn, Wiebke Stritter, Christina Fotopoulou, Jalid Sehouli and Christine Holmberg

Re-conceptualising holism in the contemporary nursing mandate: From individual to organisational relationships pp. 131-138

Davina Allen

The effect of social support on the health of Indigenous Australians in a metropolitan community pp. 139-146

Pippa Waterworth, Michael Rosenberg, Rebecca Braham, Melanie Pescud and James Dimmock

Social capital, collective action and access to water in rural Kenya pp. 147-154

Elijah Bisung, Susan J. Elliott, Corinne J. Schuster-Wallace, Diana M. Karanja and Abudho Bernard

The psychological toll of slum living in Mumbai, India: A mixed methods study pp. 155-169

Ramnath Subbaraman, Laura Nolan, Tejal Shitole, Kiran Sawant, Shrutika Shitole, Kunal Sood, Mahesh Nanarkar, Jess Ghannam, Theresa S. Betancourt, David Bloom and Anita Patil-Deshmukh

Lower prevalence of psychiatric conditions when negative age stereotypes are resisted pp. 170-174

Becca R. Levy, Corey E. Pilver and Robert H. Pietrzak

Survival of offspring who experience early parental death: Early life conditions and later-life mortality pp. 180-190

Ken R. Smith, Heidi A. Hanson, Maria C. Norton, Michael S. Hollingshaus and Geraldine P. Mineau

Ambient temperature during gestation and cold-related adult mortality in a Swedish cohort, 1915–2002 pp. 191-197

Tim A. Bruckner, Gerard van den Berg, Kirk R. Smith and Ralph A. Catalano

Socioeconomic status across the life course and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Finland pp. 198-206

Irma T. Elo, Pekka Martikainen and Mikko Myrskylä

Direct and indirect effects of childhood conditions on survival and health among male and female elderly in China pp. 207-214

Ke Shen and Yi Zeng

The association between advanced maternal and paternal ages and increased adult mortality is explained by early parental loss pp. 215-223

Mikko Myrskylä, Irma T. Elo, Iliana V. Kohler and Pekka Martikainen

Early life conditions and long-term sickness absence during adulthood – A longitudinal study of 9000 siblings in Sweden pp. 224-231

Jonas Helgertz and Mats R. Persson

Independent and additive association of prenatal famine exposure and intermediary life conditions with adult mortality between age 18–63 years pp. 232-239

Peter Ekamper, F. van Poppel, A.D. Stein and L.H. Lumey

Can individual conditions during childhood mediate or moderate the long-term cognitive effects of poor economic environments at birth? pp. 240-248

Thomas Fritze, Gabriele Doblhammer and Gerard van den Berg

Small for gestational age and adulthood risk of disability pension: The contribution of childhood and adulthood conditions pp. 249-257

Jonas Helgertz and Denny Vågerö

Lifelong Socio Economic Position and biomarkers of later life health: Testing the contribution of competing hypotheses pp. 258-265

George B. Ploubidis, Lenka Benova, Emily Grundy, Daniel Laydon and Bianca DeStavola

Early life effects across the life course: The impact of individually defined exogenous measures of disease exposure on mortality by sex in 19th- and 20th-century Southern Sweden pp. 266-273

Luciana Quaranta

Kinship matters: Long-term mortality consequences of childhood migration, historical evidence from northeast China, 1792–1909* pp. 274-283

Hao Dong and James Z. Lee

Intergenerational health consequences of in utero exposure to maternal stress: Evidence from the 1980 Kwangju uprising pp. 284-291

Chulhee Lee

2014, volume 118, articles C

Mental health in the foreclosure crisis pp. 1-8

Jason N. Houle

Patients' diagnosis decisions in Alzheimer's disease: The influence of family factors pp. 9-16

Thomas Rapp

Displays of authority in the clinical consultation: A linguistic ethnographic study of the electronic patient record pp. 17-26

Deborah Swinglehurst

Evidence of accelerated aging among African Americans and its implications for mortality pp. 27-32

M.E. Levine and E.M. Crimmins

Acceptability and feasibility of using non-specialist health workers to deliver mental health care: Stakeholder perceptions from the PRIME district sites in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda pp. 33-42

Emily Mendenhall, Mary J. De Silva, Charlotte Hanlon, Inge Petersen, Rahul Shidhaye, Mark Jordans, Nagendra Luitel, Joshua Ssebunnya, Abebaw Fekadu, Vikram Patel, Mark Tomlinson and Crick Lund

The effect of in-office waiting time on physician visit frequency among working-age adults pp. 43-51

Hyo Jung Tak, Gavin W. Hougham, Atsuko Ruhnke and Gregory W. Ruhnke

Are social organizational factors independently associated with a current bacterial sexually transmitted infection among urban adolescents and young adults? pp. 52-60

Jacky M. Jennings, Devon J. Hensel, Amanda E. Tanner, Meredith L. Reilly and Jonathan M. Ellen

A short report on knowledge exchange through research-based theatre: ‘Inside out of mind’ pp. 61-65

Justine Schneider, Stephen Lowe, Tanya Myers, Kezia Scales, Simon Bailey and Joanne Middleton

Prenatal investments, breastfeeding, and birth order pp. 66-70

Kasey Buckles and Shawna Kolka

Racial/ethnic disparities in short sleep duration by occupation: The contribution of immigrant status pp. 71-79

Chandra L. Jackson, Frank B. Hu, Susan Redline, David R. Williams, Josiemer Mattei and Ichiro Kawachi

Is religion the forgotten variable in maternal and child health? Evidence from Zimbabwe pp. 80-88

Wei Ha, Peter Salama, Stanley Gwavuya and Chifundo Kanjala

The association between grandparenthood and mortality pp. 89-96

Solveig Glestad Christiansen

The general and mental health of movers to more- and less-disadvantaged socio-economic and physical environments within the UK pp. 97-107

Helena Tunstall, Richard Mitchell, Jamie Pearce and Niamh Shortt

How does mental–physical multimorbidity express itself in lived time and space? A phenomenological analysis of encounters with depression and chronic physical illness pp. 108-118

Peter A. Coventry, Chris Dickens and Chris Todd

Fragile health and fragile wealth: Mortgage strain among African American homeowners pp. 119-126

Danya E. Keene, Julia F. Lynch and Amy Castro Baker

Modeling satisfaction amongst the elderly in different Chinese urban neighborhoods pp. 127-134

Bingqiu Yan, Xiaolu Gao and Michael Lyon

Predictors of suicides occurring within suicide clusters in Australia, 2004–2008 pp. 135-142

Yee Tak Derek Cheung, Matthew J. Spittal, Michelle Kate Williamson, Sui Jay Tung and Jane Pirkis

Social status and biological dysregulation: The “status syndrome” and allostatic load pp. 143-151

Melvin Seeman, Sharon Stein Merkin, Arun Karlamangla, Brandon Koretz and Teresa Seeman

Stigma and the perpetuation of obesity pp. 152-158

Alexandra A. Brewis

Colonization of later life? Laypersons' and users' agency regarding anti-aging medicine in Germany pp. 159-165

Mark Schweda and Larissa Pfaller

The association between psychosocial stress and mortality is mediated by lifestyle and chronic diseases: The Hoorn Study pp. 166-172

Femke Rutters, Stefan Pilz, Anitra D. Koopman, Simone P. Rauh, Saskia J. Te Velde, Coen D. Stehouwer, Petra J. Elders, Giel Nijpels and Jacqueline M. Dekker

Dependency denied: Health inequalities in the neo-liberal era pp. 173-180

Marian Peacock, Paul Bissell and Jenny Owen

Are the educational differences in incidence of cardiovascular disease explained by underlying familial factors? A twin study pp. 182-190

Mia Madsen, Per K. Andersen, Mette Gerster, Anne-Marie N. Andersen, Kaare Christensen and Merete Osler