Social Science & Medicine

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2014, volume 106, articles C

Healthy ageing and home: The perspectives of very old people in five European countries pp. 1-9

J. Sixsmith, A. Sixsmith, A. Malmgren Fänge, D. Naumann, C. Kucsera, S. Tomsone, M. Haak, S. Dahlin-Ivanoff and R. Woolrych

The Roman–Irish Bath: Medical/health history as therapeutic assemblage pp. 10-19

Ronan Foley

Poverty and mental health in Indonesia pp. 20-27

Gindo Tampubolon and Wulung Hanandita

Unemployment, measured and perceived decline of economic resources: Contrasting three measures of recessionary hardships and their implications for adopting negative health behaviors pp. 28-34

Lucie Kalousova and Sarah A. Burgard

The impact of social action funds on child health in a conflict affected country: Evidence from Angola pp. 35-42

Eric W. Djimeu

The impact of youth, family, peer and neighborhood risk factors on developmental trajectories of risk involvement from early through middle adolescence pp. 43-52

Bo Wang, Lynette Deveaux, Xiaoming Li, Sharon Marshall, Xinguang Chen and Bonita Stanton

Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors pp. 53-58

Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby and Filiz Garip

Reducing emergency bed-days for older people? Network governance lessons from the ‘Improving the Future for Older People’ programme pp. 59-66

Rod Sheaff, Karen Windle, Gerald Wistow, Sue Ashby, Roger Beech, Angela Dickinson, Catherine Henderson and Martin Knapp

From policy making to service use. Down's syndrome antenatal screening in England, France and the Netherlands pp. 67-74

Carine Vassy, Sophia Rosman and Bénédicte Rousseau

Does incentivising pill-taking ‘crowd out’ risk-information processing? Evidence from a web-based experiment pp. 75-82

Eleni Mantzari, Florian Vogt and Theresa M. Marteau

Tracking human activity and well-being in natural environments using wearable sensors and experience sampling pp. 83-92

Sean T. Doherty, Christopher J. Lemieux and Culum Canally

Motivation, justification, normalization: Talk strategies used by Canadian medical tourists regarding their choices to go abroad for hip and knee surgeries pp. 93-100

Keri Cameron, Valorie A. Crooks, Vera Chouinard, Jeremy Snyder, Rory Johnston and Victoria Casey

Changing policy and practice: Making sense of national guidelines for osteoarthritis pp. 101-109

Bie Nio Ong, Andrew Morden, Lauren Brooks, Mark Porcheret, John J. Edwards, Tom Sanders, Clare Jinks and Krysia Dziedzic

Gender, acculturation, and smoking behavior among U.S. Asian and Latino immigrants pp. 110-118

Bridget K. Gorman, Joseph T. Lariscy and Charisma Kaushik

Supporting knowledge translation through collaborative translational research initiatives: ‘Bridging’ versus ‘blurring’ boundary-spanning approaches in the UK CLAHRC initiative pp. 119-127

Sarah Evans and Harry Scarbrough

Historical trauma as public narrative: A conceptual review of how history impacts present-day health pp. 128-136

Nathaniel Vincent Mohatt, Azure B. Thompson, Nghi D. Thai and Jacob Kraemer Tebes

Comparing the effects of defaults in organ donation systems pp. 137-142

Hendrik van Dalen and Kène Henkens

Challenges of health measurement in studies of health disparities pp. 143-150

Sarah A. Burgard and Patricia V. Chen

‘Safer environment interventions’: A qualitative synthesis of the experiences and perceptions of people who inject drugs pp. 151-158

Ryan McNeil and Will Small

The potential consequences of informal interpreting practices for assessment of patients in a South African psychiatric hospital pp. 159-167

Sanja Kilian, Leslie Swartz, Tessa Dowling, Mawande Dlali and Bonginkosi Chiliza

Mindfulness meditation: Do-it-yourself medicalization of every moment pp. 168-176

Kristin K. Barker

Long-term consequences of female genital mutilation in a European context: Self perceived health of FGM women compared to non-FGM women pp. 177-184

Armelle Andro, Emmanuelle Cambois and Marie Lesclingand

Women's empowerment and generalized anxiety in Minya, Egypt pp. 185-193

Kathryn M. Yount, Sally Dijkerman, Sarah Zureick-Brown and Kristin E. VanderEnde

Valuing patients' experiences of healthcare processes: Towards broader applications of existing methods pp. 194-203

Mandy Ryan, Philip Kinghorn, Vikki A. Entwistle and Jill J. Francis

Barriers in access to healthcare in countries with different health systems. A cross-sectional study in municipalities of central Colombia and north-eastern Brazil pp. 204-213

Irene Garcia-Subirats, Ingrid Vargas, Amparo Susana Mogollón-Pérez, Pierre De Paepe, Maria Rejane Ferreira da Silva, Jean Pierre Unger and María Luisa Vázquez

Sites of institutional racism in public health policy making in New Zealand pp. 214-220

Heather Came

Victory for volunteerism? Scottish health board elections and participation in the welfare state pp. 221-228

Scott L. Greer, Ellen A. Stewart, Iain Wilson and Peter D. Donnelly

2014, volume 105, articles C

Cultural targeting and tailoring of shared decision making technology: A theoretical framework for improving the effectiveness of patient decision aids in culturally diverse groups pp. 1-8

Dana L. Alden, John Friend, Marilyn Schapira and Anne Stiggelbout

Neighbourhood social capital as a moderator between individual cognitions and sports behaviour among Dutch adolescents pp. 9-15

R.G. Prins, M.A. Beenackers, M.C. Boog, F.J. Van Lenthe, J. Brug and A. Oenema

Livestock production, animal source food intake, and young child growth: The role of gender for ensuring nutrition impacts pp. 16-21

Minchao Jin and Lora L. Iannotti

Reflections on informed choice in resource-poor settings: The case of infant feeding counselling in PMTCT programmes in Tanzania pp. 22-29

Bodil Bø Våga, Karen Marie Moland, Bjørg Evjen-Olsen and Astrid Blystad

Social capital, ideology, and health in the United States pp. 30-37

Mitchel N. Herian, Louis Tay, Joseph A. Hamm and Ed Diener

Do Sector Wide Approaches for health aid delivery lead to ‘donor-flight’? A comparison of 46 low-income countries pp. 38-46

Rohan Sweeney, Duncan Mortimer and David Johnston

Social capital, mental health and biomarkers in Chile: Assessing the effects of social capital in a middle-income country pp. 47-58

Carlos Javier Riumallo-Herl, Ichiro Kawachi and Mauricio Avendano

Hospitals as a ‘risk environment’: An ethno-epidemiological study of voluntary and involuntary discharge from hospital against medical advice among people who inject drugs pp. 59-66

Ryan McNeil, Will Small, Evan Wood and Thomas Kerr

Childhood peer status and the clustering of social, economic, and health-related circumstances in adulthood pp. 67-75

Ylva B. Almquist and Lars Brännström

“But we're not hypochondriacs”: The changing shape of gluten-free dieting and the contested illness experience pp. 76-83

Lauren Renée Moore

Educated mothers, healthy infants. The impact of a school reform on the birth weight of Norwegian infants 1967–2005 pp. 84-92

Jostein Grytten, Irene Skau and Rune J. Sørensen

Using decision mapping to inform the development of a stated choice survey to elicit youth preferences for sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in rural Malawi pp. 93-102

Christine Michaels-Igbokwe, Mylene Lagarde, John Cairns and Fern Terris-Prestholt

Human rights violations and smoking status among South African adults enrolled in the South Africa Stress and Health (SASH) study pp. 103-111

Lauren M. Dutra, David R. Williams, Jhumka Gupta, Ichiro Kawachi and Cassandra A. Okechukwu

The health financing transition: A conceptual framework and empirical evidence pp. 112-121

Victoria Fan and William D. Savedoff

Childhood trauma and metabolic syndrome in men and women pp. 122-130

Chioun Lee, Vera Tsenkova and Deborah Carr

Why are educated adults slim—Causation or selection? pp. 131-139

Paul von Hippel and Jamie L. Lynch

The effect of financial incentives on chlamydia testing rates: Evidence from a randomized experiment pp. 140-148

Paul Dolan and Caroline Rudisill

2014, volume 104, articles C

Term limits and the tobacco industry pp. 1-5

Dorie E. Apollonio, Stanton A. Glantz and Lisa A. Bero

“I didn't think I could get out of the fucking park.” Gay men's retrospective accounts of neighborhood space, emerging sexuality and migrations pp. 6-14

Victoria Frye, James E. Egan, Hong Van Tieu, Magdalena Cerdá, Danielle Ompad and Beryl A. Koblin

Childhood family psychosocial environment and carotid intima media thickness: The CARDIA study pp. 15-22

Eric B. Loucks, Shelley E. Taylor, Joseph F. Polak, Aude Wilhelm, Preety Kalra and Karen A. Matthews

Relationships between the perceived neighborhood social environment and walking for transportation among older adults pp. 23-30

Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Liesbeth De Donder, Peter Clarys, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Tine Buffel, Nico De Witte, Sarah Dury, Dominique Verté and Benedicte Deforche

Comparing tailored and narrative worksite interventions at increasing colonoscopy adherence in adults 50–75: A randomized controlled trial pp. 31-40

Jakob D. Jensen, Andy J. King, Nick Carcioppolo, Melinda Krakow, N. Jewel Samadder and Susan Morgan

Of kin and kidneys: Do kinship networks contribute to racial disparities in living donor kidney transplantation? pp. 42-47

Jonathan Daw

Fast, cheap, and out of control? Speculations and ethical concerns in the conduct of outsourced clinical trials in India pp. 48-55

Vinay R. Kamat

Why don't clinicians adhere more consistently to guidelines for the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)? pp. 56-63

Siri Lange, Aziza Mwisongo and Ottar Mæstad

The pathways from perceived discrimination to self-rated health: An investigation of the roles of distrust, social capital, and health behaviors pp. 64-73

Danhong Chen and Tse-Chuan Yang

Food and nutrition security public initiatives from a human and socioeconomic development perspective: Mapping experiences within the 1996 World Food Summit signatories pp. 74-79

Marie Agnès Aliaga and Sandra Maria Chaves-Dos-Santos

Rewarding altruism: Addressing the issue of payments for volunteers in public health initiatives pp. 80-87

Jane South, Martin E. Purcell, Peter Branney, Mark Gamsu and Judy White

How is post-industrial decline associated with the geography of physical activity? Evidence from the Health Survey for England pp. 88-97

Esther Rind, Andy Jones and Humphrey Southall

What determines providers' stated preference for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria? pp. 98-106

Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies, Kara Hanson, Wilfred Mbacham, Obinna Onwujekwe and Virginia Wiseman

Youth physical activity and the neighbourhood environment: Examining correlates and the role of neighbourhood definition pp. 107-115

Josh van Loon, Lawrence D. Frank, Lindsay Nettlefold and Patti-Jean Naylor

Constructing a trial as a personal lifestyle change project: Participants' experiences in a clinical study for nicotine vaccination pp. 116-123

Anna Wolters, Guido de Wert, Onno van Schayck and Klasien Horstman

Adolescents' perceptions of health from disadvantaged urban communities: Findings from the WAVE study pp. 124-132

Kristin Mmari, Robert Blum, Freya Sonenstein, Beth Marshall, Heena Brahmbhatt, Emily Venables, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Chaohua Lou, Ershang Gao, Rajib Acharya, Shireen Jejeebhoy and Adesola Sangowawa

Does childhood misfortune raise the risk of acute myocardial infarction in adulthood? pp. 133-141

Patricia M. Morton, Sarah A. Mustillo and Kenneth F. Ferraro

Contextual determinants of US nursing home racial/ethnic diversity pp. 142-147

Jullet A. Davis, Robert Weech-Maldonado, Kate L. Lapane and Alex Laberge

The role of social capital in African–American women's use of mammography pp. 148-156

Lorraine Dean, S.V. Subramanian, David R. Williams, Katrina Armstrong, Camille Zubrinsky Charles and Ichiro Kawachi

Institutional ethical review and ethnographic research involving injection drug users: A case study pp. 157-162

Will Small, Lisa Maher and Thomas Kerr

Racial disparities in self-rated health: Trends, explanatory factors, and the changing role of socio-demographics pp. 163-177

Audrey N. Beck, Brian K. Finch, Shih-Fan Lin, Robert A. Hummer and Ryan K. Masters

Talking with text: Communication in therapist-led, live chat cancer support groups pp. 178-186

Joanne Stephen, Kate Collie, Deborah McLeod, Adina Rojubally, Karen Fergus, Michael Speca, Jill Turner, Jill Taylor-Brown, Scott Sellick, Kimberly Burrus and Mai Elramly

Macroeconomic fluctuations and motorcycle fatalities in the U.S pp. 187-193

Michael T. French and Gulcin Gumus

Parenting with bipolar disorder: Coping with risk of mood disorders to children pp. 194-200

Holly Landrum Peay, Donald L. Rosenstein and Barbara Bowles Biesecker

Health inequalities in Japan: The role of material, psychosocial, social relational and behavioural factors pp. 201-209

Ayako Hiyoshi, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Martin J. Shipley and Eric J. Brunner

Choose and Book: A sociological analysis of ‘resistance’ to an expert system pp. 210-219

Trisha Greenhalgh, Rob Stones and Deborah Swinglehurst

Violence as a public health problem: An ecological study of 169 countries pp. 220-227

Achim Wolf, Ron Gray and Seena Fazel