Social Science & Medicine

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2014, volume 103, articles C

Systemic racism and U.S. health care pp. 7-14

Joe Feagin and Zinobia Bennefield

Stigma, status, and population health pp. 15-23

Jo C. Phelan, Jeffrey W. Lucas, Cecilia L. Ridgeway and Catherine J. Taylor

Stigma power pp. 24-32

Bruce G. Link and Jo Phelan

Structural stigma and all-cause mortality in sexual minority populations pp. 33-41

Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, Anna Bellatorre, Yeonjin Lee, Brian K. Finch, Peter Muennig and Kevin Fiscella

Structural racism and myocardial infarction in the United States pp. 42-50

Alicia Lukachko, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler and Katherine M. Keyes

Physiological stress response to loss of social influence and threats to masculinity pp. 51-59

Catherine J. Taylor

Public attitudes regarding individual and structural discrimination: Two sides of the same coin? pp. 60-66

Matthias C. Angermeyer, Herbert Matschinger, Bruce G. Link and Georg Schomerus

The influence of structural stigma and rejection sensitivity on young sexual minority men's daily tobacco and alcohol use pp. 67-75

John E. Pachankis, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler and Tyrel J. Starks

Pathologizing poverty: New forms of diagnosis, disability, and structural stigma under welfare reform pp. 76-83

Helena Hansen, Philippe Bourgois and Ernest Drucker

“What matters most:” A cultural mechanism moderating structural vulnerability and moral experience of mental illness stigma pp. 84-93

Lawrence H. Yang, Fang-pei Chen, Kathleen Janel Sia, Jonathan Lam, Katherine Lam, Hong Ngo, Sing Lee, Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good

Self-regulatory processes underlying structural stigma and health pp. 94-100

Laura Smart Richman and Micah R. Lattanner

Intervening within and across levels: A multilevel approach to stigma and public health pp. 101-109

Jonathan E. Cook, Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Ilan H. Meyer and Justin T.A. Busch

Competing perspectives on erasing the stigma of illness: What says the dodo bird? pp. 110-117

Patrick W. Corrigan and Mandy W.M. Fong

HIV prevention interventions to reduce sexual risk for African Americans: The influence of community-level stigma and psychological processes pp. 118-125

Allecia E. Reid, John F. Dovidio, Estrellita Ballester and Blair T. Johnson

Structural competency: Theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality pp. 126-133

Jonathan M. Metzl and Helena Hansen

2014, volume 102, articles C

Do flexible alcohol trading hours reduce violence? A theory-based natural experiment in alcohol policy pp. 1-9

David K. Humphreys and Manuel P. Eisner

Mobilising “vulnerability” in the public health response to pandemic influenza pp. 10-17

Niamh Stephenson, Mark Davis, Paul Flowers, Casimir MacGregor and Emily Waller

The spread of ‘Post Abortion Syndrome’ as social diagnosis pp. 18-25

Kimberly Kelly

Perceived Organizational Justice in Care Services: Creation and multi-sample validation of a measure pp. 26-32

Diana Pérez-Arechaederra, Elena Briones, Allan Lind and Luis García-Ortiz

Socioeconomic status and the incidence of child injuries in China pp. 33-40

Xiangming Fang, Ruiwei Jing, Guang Zeng, Huan Wan Linnan, Xu Zhu and Michael Linnan

Healthy migrant and salmon bias hypotheses: A study of health and internal migration in China pp. 41-48

Yao Lu and Lijian Qin

Treatment seeking and health financing in selected poor urban neighbourhoods in India, Indonesia and Thailand pp. 49-57

Jens Seeberg, Supasit Pannarunothai, Retna Siwi Padmawati, Laksono Trisnantoro, Nupur Barua and Chandrakant S. Pandav

Health capabilities and diabetes self-management: The impact of economic, social, and cultural resources pp. 58-68

Robert R. Weaver, Manon Lemonde, Naghmeh Payman and William M. Goodman

Pricing schemes for new drugs: A welfare analysis pp. 69-73

Rosella Levaggi

Caregiving intensity and retirement status in Canada pp. 74-82

Josephine C. Jacobs, Audrey Laporte, Courtney Van Houtven and Peter C. Coyte

Quality of life instruments for economic evaluations in health and social care for older people: A systematic review pp. 83-93

Peter Makai, Werner Brouwer, Marc A. Koopmanschap, Elly A. Stolk and Anna P. Nieboer

The interaction of family background and personal education on depressive symptoms in later life pp. 94-102

Barbara Schaan

Can mobile phones help control neglected tropical diseases? Experiences from Tanzania pp. 103-110

Shirin Madon, Jackline Olanya Amaguru, Mwele Ntuli Malecela and Edwin Michael

Informal caregivers' hopes and expectations of a referral to a memory clinic pp. 111-118

Debra G. Morgan, Sheena Walls-Ingram, Allison Cammer, Megan E. O'Connell, Margaret Crossley, Vanina Dal Bello-Haas, Dorothy Forbes, Anthea Innes, Andrew Kirk and Norma Stewart

Selling patients and other metaphors: A discourse analysis of the interpretive frames that shape emergency department admission handoffs pp. 119-128

Brian Hilligoss

Does change in the neighborhood environment prevent obesity in older women? pp. 129-137

Yvonne L. Michael, Corey L. Nagel, Rachel Gold and Teresa A. Hillier

Governing healthcare: Finding meaning in a clinical practice guideline for the management of non-specific low back pain pp. 138-145

Nicky Wilson, Catherine Pope, Lisa Roberts and Robert Crouch

“She mixes her business”: HIV transmission and acquisition risks among female migrants in western Kenya pp. 146-156

Carol S. Camlin, Zachary A. Kwena, Shari L. Dworkin, Craig R. Cohen and Elizabeth A. Bukusi

Implications for alcohol minimum unit pricing advocacy: What can we learn for public health from UK newsprint coverage of key claim-makers in the policy debate? pp. 157-164

Shona Hilton, Karen Wood, Chris Patterson and Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi

Understanding motives for intravaginal practices amongst Tanzanian and Ugandan women at high risk of HIV infection: The embodiment of social and cultural norms and well-being pp. 165-173

Shelley Lees, Flavia Zalwango, Bahati Andrew, Judith Vandepitte, Janet Seeley, Richard J. Hayes and Suzanna C. Francis

Income inequality and sexually transmitted in the United States: Who bears the burden? pp. 174-182

Guy Harling, S.V. Subramanian, Till Bärnighausen and Ichiro Kawachi

Assessing the population-level impact of vouchers on access to health facility delivery for women in Kenya pp. 183-189

Francis Obare, Charlotte Warren, Timothy Abuya, Ian Askew and Ben Bellows

Health sector priority setting at meso-level in lower and middle income countries: Lessons learned, available options and suggested steps pp. 190-200

David B. Hipgrave, Katarzyna Bolsewicz Alderman, Ian Anderson and Eliana Jimenez Soto

2014, volume 101, articles C

The effect of belonging to an alcohol-proscribing religious group on the relationship between moderate alcohol consumption and mortality pp. 1-8

R. David Hayward and Neal Krause

Social capital and chronic post-traumatic stress disorder among survivors of the 2007 earthquake in Pisco, Peru pp. 9-17

Elaine C. Flores, Andres M. Carnero and Angela M. Bayer

Can social capital help explain enrolment (or lack thereof) in community-based health insurance? Results of an exploratory mixed methods study from Senegal pp. 18-27

Philipa Mladovsky, Werner Soors, Pascal Ndiaye, Alfred Ndiaye and Bart Criel

Effect of the Crisis Assistance Program on poverty transition for seriously ill people in South Korea: A quasi-experimental study pp. 28-35

Chang-O Kim and Won Oh Joung

Social inequality in infant mortality: What explains variation across low and middle income countries? pp. 36-46

Mohammad Hajizadeh, Arijit Nandi and Jody Heymann

The failure of financial incentive? The seemingly inexorable rise of cesarean section pp. 47-51

Chin-Shyan Chen, Tsai-Ching Liu, Bradley Chen and Chung-Liang Lin

Socioeconomic inequalities in health after age 50: Are health risk behaviors to blame? pp. 52-60

Benjamin A. Shaw, Kelly McGeever, Elizabeth Vasquez, Neda Agahi and Stefan Fors

Public social monitoring reports and their effect on a policy programme aimed at addressing the social determinants of health to improve health equity in New Zealand pp. 61-69

Frank Pega, Nicole B. Valentine, Don Matheson and Kumanan Rasanathan

National electronic health records and the digital disruption of moral orders pp. 70-77

Karin Garrety, Ian McLoughlin, Rob Wilson, Gregor Zelle and Mike Martin

Against all odds? Understanding the emergence of accreditation of the Danish hospitals pp. 78-85

Peter Triantafillou

Discussing dying in the diaspora: Attitudes towards advance care planning among first generation Dutch and Italian migrants in rural Australia pp. 86-93

Craig Sinclair, Jessica Smith, Yann Toussaint and Kirsten Auret

Do post-migration perceptions of social mobility matter for Latino immigrant health? pp. 94-106

Carmela Alcántara, Chih-Nan Chen and Margarita Alegría

Teaching hospital performance: Towards a community of shared values? pp. 107-112

Marianna Mauro, Emma Cardamone, Giusy Cavallaro, Etienne Minvielle, Francesco Rania, Claude Sicotte and Annarita Trotta

Exerting control and adapting to loss in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis pp. 113-119

Geraldine Foley, Virpi Timonen and Orla Hardiman

Creating the ‘dis-ease’ of high cholesterol: A sociology of diagnosis reception analysis pp. 120-128

Maja Jovanovic

The long lasting effects of education on old age health: Evidence of gender differences pp. 129-138

Fabrizio Mazzonna

From sickness to badness: The criminalization of HIV in Michigan pp. 139-147

Trevor Hoppe

Short and long term improvements in quality of chronic care delivery predict program sustainability pp. 148-154

Jane Murray Cramm and Anna Petra Nieboer

The pharmaceuticalization of sexual risk: Vaccine development and the new politics of cancer prevention pp. 155-165

Laura Mamo and Steven Epstein

Death of a child and parental wellbeing in old age: Evidence from Taiwan pp. 166-173

Chioun Lee, Dana A. Glei, Maxine Weinstein and Noreen Goldman