Social Science & Medicine

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2014, volume 113, articles C

Health worker performance in rural health organizations in low- and middle-income countries: Do organizational factors predict non-task performance? pp. 1-4

Rohan Jayasuriya, Upali W. Jayasinghe and Qian Wang

Valuing QALYs at the end of life pp. 5-14

Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades, Fernando-Ignacio Sánchez-Martínez, Belen Corbacho and Rachel Baker

Unemployment and mortality: Evidence from the PSID pp. 15-22

Timothy Halliday

The influence of work-family conflict trajectories on self-rated health trajectories in Switzerland: A life course approach pp. 23-33

Stéphane Cullati

Methods of legitimation: How ethics committees decide which reasons count in public policy decision-making pp. 34-41

Kyle T. Edwards

Distributional effects of Oportunidades on early child development pp. 42-49

José Luis Figueroa

Active travel intervention and physical activity behaviour: An evaluation pp. 50-58

Patricia Norwood, Barbara Eberth, Shelley Farrar, Jillian Anable and Anne Ludbrook

Does poverty reduce mental health? An instrumental variable analysis pp. 59-67

Wulung Hanandita and Gindo Tampubolon

A person-centred segmentation study in elderly care: Towards efficient demand-driven care pp. 68-76

M.R. Eissens van der Laan, M.A.G. van Offenbeek, H. Broekhuis and J.P.J. Slaets

The ‘gender puzzle’ of alternative medicine and holistic spirituality: A literature review pp. 77-86

Yael Keshet and Dalit Simchai

Assessing the responsiveness of chronic disease care - Is the World Health Organization's concept of health system responsiveness applicable? pp. 87-94

Julia Röttger, Miriam Blümel, Sabine Fuchs and Reinhard Busse

Examining the association between social health insurance participation and patients' out-of-pocket payments in China: The role of institutional arrangement pp. 95-103

Kai Liu, Qiaobing Wu and Junqiang Liu

Public acceptability of population-level interventions to reduce alcohol consumption: A discrete choice experiment pp. 104-109

Rachel Pechey, Peter Burge, Emmanouil Mentzakis, Marc Suhrcke and Theresa M. Marteau

Are public–private partnerships a healthy option? A systematic literature review pp. 110-119

Kurt Roehrich, Michael A. Lewis and Gerard George

How potentially serious symptom changes are talked about and managed in COPD clinical review consultations: A micro-analysis pp. 120-136

John Chatwin, Anne Kennedy, Adam Firth, Andrew Povey, Anne Rogers and Caroline Sanders

The impact of housing displacement on the mental health of low-income parents after Hurricane Katrina pp. 137-144

Elizabeth Fussell and Sarah R. Lowe

A peer adherence support intervention to improve the antiretroviral treatment outcomes of HIV patients in South Africa: The moderating role of family dynamics pp. 145-153

Edwin Wouters, Caroline Masquillier, Koen Ponnet and Frederik le Roux Booysen

Cross-country variation in the sociodemographic factors associated with major depressive episode in Norway, the United Kingdom, Ghana, and Kenya pp. 154-160

Eliva A. Ambugo

They are not always a burden: Older people and child fostering in Uganda during the HIV epidemic pp. 161-168

Susan Kasedde, Aoife M. Doyle, Janet A. Seeley and David A. Ross

Codifying knowledge to improve patient safety: A qualitative study of practice-based interventions pp. 169-176

Simon Turner, Juliet Higginson, C. Alice Oborne, Rebecca E. Thomas, Angus I.G. Ramsay and Naomi J. Fulop

2014, volume 112, articles C

Attitudes to vaccination: A critical review pp. 1-11

Ohid Yaqub, Sophie Castle-Clarke, Nick Sevdalis and Joanna Chataway

Social class differences in BMI among Danish women: Applying Cockerham's health lifestyles approach and Bourdieu's theory of lifestyle pp. 12-21

Vibeke T. Christensen and Richard M. Carpiano

Social class and body weight among Chinese urban adults: The role of the middle classes in the nutrition transition pp. 22-29

Céline Bonnefond and Matthieu Clément

Impacts of Child Development Accounts on maternal depressive symptoms: Evidence from a randomized statewide policy experiment pp. 30-38

Jin Huang, Michael Sherraden and Jason Q. Purnell

The impact of fiscal austerity on suicide: On the empirics of a modern Greek tragedy pp. 39-50

Nikolaos Antonakakis and Alan Collins

Reassembling epidemiology: Mapping, monitoring and making-up people in the context of HIV prevention in India pp. 51-62

Robert Lorway and Shamshad Khan

Welfare states and population health: The role of minimum income benefits for mortality pp. 63-71

Kenneth Nelson and Johan Fritzell

Working time and cigarette smoking: Evidence from Australia and the United Kingdom pp. 72-79

David Angrave, Andy Charlwood and Mark Wooden

Do school-based physical activity interventions increase or reduce inequalities in health? pp. 80-87

Kerry A. Vander Ploeg, Katerina Maximova, Jonathan McGavock, Wendy Davis and Paul Veugelers

2014, volume 111, articles C

The effects of socioeconomic incongruity in the neighbourhood on social support, self-esteem and mental health in England pp. 1-9

C. Albor, E.P. Uphoff, M. Stafford, D. Ballas, R.G. Wilkinson and K.E. Pickett

Payment reform and changes in health care in China pp. 10-16

Chen Gao, Fei Xu and Gordon G. Liu

Prenatal smoking and genetic risk: Examining the childhood origins of externalizing behavioral problems pp. 17-24

Melissa A. Petkovsek, Brian B. Boutwell, Kevin M. Beaver and J.C. Barnes

The geography of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A population-based study of Norway pp. 25-34

Thomas Halvorsen and Pål E. Martinussen

Does desire for hastened death change in terminally ill cancer patients? pp. 35-40

Barry Rosenfeld, Hayley Pessin, Allison Marziliano, Colleen Jacobson, Brooke Sorger, Jennifer Abbey, Megan Olden, Robert Brescia and William Breitbart

The spillover effect of National Health Insurance on household consumption patterns: Evidence from a natural experiment in Taiwan pp. 41-49

Ji-Tian Sheu and Jui-fen Rachel Lu

Gold mining on Mayan-Mam territory: Social unravelling, discord and distress in the Western highlands of Guatemala pp. 50-57

C. Susana Caxaj, Helene Berman, Colleen Varcoe, Susan L. Ray and Jean-Paul Restoulec

Temporal effects of separation on suicidal thoughts and behaviours pp. 58-63

Philip J. Batterham, A. Kate Fairweather-Schmidt, Peter Butterworth, Alison L. Calear, Andrew J. Mackinnon and Helen Christensen

Urban liveability: Emerging lessons from Australia for exploring the potential for indicators to measure the social determinants of health pp. 64-73

Hannah Badland, Carolyn Whitzman, Melanie Lowe, Melanie Davern, Lu Aye, Iain Butterworth, Dominique Hes and Billie Giles-Corti

Testing devices or experimental systems? Cancer clinical trials take the genomic turn pp. 74-83

Nicole C. Nelson, Peter Keating, Alberto Cambrosio, Adriana Aguilar-Mahecha and Mark Basik

HIV-related social intolerance and risky sexual behavior in a high HIV prevalence environment pp. 84-93

Adeline Delavande, Mafalda Sampaio and Neeraj Sood

Conditional health-related benefits of higher education: An assessment of compensatory versus accumulative mechanisms pp. 94-100

Shawn Bauldry

An explanatory model of peer education within a complex medicines information exchange setting pp. 101-109

Linda A. Klein, Jan E. Ritchie, Sally Nathan and Sonia Wutzke

Provider payment bares teeth: Dentist reimbursement and the use of check-up examinations pp. 110-116

Stefan Listl and Martin Chalkley

Neighborhoods and mental health: Exploring ethnic density, poverty, and social cohesion among Asian Americans and Latinos pp. 117-124

Seunghye Hong, Wei Zhang and Emily Walton

Reporting risk, producing prejudice: How news reporting on obesity shapes attitudes about health risk, policy, and prejudice pp. 125-133

Abigail C. Saguy, David Frederick and Kjerstin Gruys

2014, volume 110, articles C

A qualitative exploration of access to urban migrant healthcare in Nairobi, Kenya pp. 1-9

Christine Arnold, Jason Theede and Anita Gagnon

Incorporating intersectionality theory into population health research methodology: Challenges and the potential to advance health equity pp. 10-17

Greta R. Bauer

Social marketing of water and sanitation products: A systematic review of peer-reviewed literature pp. 18-25

W.D. Evans, Subhrendu Pattanayak, S. Young, J. Buszin, S. Rai and Jasmine Wallace Bihm

A study on the effect of exclusion period on the suicidal risk among the insured pp. 26-30

Paul S.F. Yip and Feng Chen

Willingness to pay for public health services in rural Central Java, Indonesia: Methodological considerations when using the contingent valuation method pp. 31-40

Aiko Shono, Masahide Kondo, Hiroshi Ohmae and Ichiro Okubo

The multiple truths about crystal meth among young people entrenched in an urban drug scene: A longitudinal ethnographic investigation pp. 41-48

Danya Fast, Thomas Kerr, Evan Wood and Will Small

Hidden harms: Women's narratives of intimate partner violence in a microbicide trial, South Africa pp. 49-55

Jonathan Stadler, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Thesla Palanee and Helen Rees

The breast-cancer-ization of cancer survivorship: Implications for experiences of the disease pp. 56-63

Kirsten Bell

Assessing access to care for transgender and gender nonconforming people: A consideration of diversity in combating discrimination pp. 65-73

Taylor M. Cruz

Examining regional variation in the use of cancer screening in Germany pp. 74-80

Verena Vogt, Martin Siegel and Leonie Sundmacher

Cultures of resistance? A Bourdieusian analysis of doctors' antibiotic prescribing pp. 81-88

Alex Broom, Jennifer Broom and Emma Kirby

Individual and spousal unemployment as predictors of smoking and drinking behavior pp. 89-95

Mariana Arcaya, M. Maria Glymour, Nicholas A. Christakis, Ichiro Kawachi and S.V. Subramanian