Social Science & Medicine

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2014, volume 100, articles C

The effect of children on depression in old age pp. 1-11

Kai Eberhard Kruk and Steffen Reinhold

Subjective financial well-being, income and health inequalities in mid and later life in Britain pp. 12-20

Sara Arber, Kirsty Fenn and Robert Meadows

Physicians' perceptions of autonomy across practice types: Is autonomy in solo practice a myth? pp. 21-29

Katherine Y. Lin

Child passenger safety laws in the United States, 1978–2010: Policy diffusion in the absence of strong federal intervention pp. 30-37

Jin Yung Bae, Evan Anderson, Diana Silver and James Macinko

Labor migration, externalities and ethics: Theorizing the meso-level determinants of HIV vulnerability pp. 38-45

Jennifer S. Hirsch

Political contexts and maternal health policy: Insights from a comparison of south Indian states pp. 46-53

Stephanie L. Smith

A fundamental cause approach to the study of disparities in lung cancer and pancreatic cancer mortality in the United States pp. 54-61

Marcie S. Rubin, Sean Clouston and Bruce G. Link

The risk of unintended pregnancy among young women with mental health symptoms pp. 62-71

Kelli Stidham Hall, Yasamin Kusunoki, Heather Gatny and Jennifer Barber

Health sector demand-side financial incentives in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review on demand- and supply-side effects pp. 72-83

Saji Gopalan, Ronald Mutasa, Jed Friedman and Ashis Das

Household income and health problems during a period of labour-market change and widening income inequalities – A study among the Finnish population between 1987 and 2007 pp. 84-92

Akseli Aittomäki, Pekka Martikainen, Ossi Rahkonen and Eero Lahelma

Exploring personal interests of physicians in hospitals and specialty clinics pp. 93-98

Wout T. Koelewijn, Michel L. Ehrenhard, Aard J. Groen and Wim H. van Harten

Exploring the migration decisions of health workers and trainees from Africa: A meta-ethnographic synthesis pp. 99-106

C. Blacklock, A.M. Ward, C. Heneghan and M. Thompson

The effect of asset-based wealth inequality on problem drinking among rural Thai elders: A prospective population-based cohort study pp. 107-114

Tawanchai Jirapramukpitak, Melanie Abas, Kanchana Tangchonlatip and Sureeporn Punpuing

The effect of unpaid caregiving intensity on labour force participation: Results from a multinomial endogenous treatment model pp. 115-122

Ha Nguyen and Luke Connelly

Process evaluation of a problem solving intervention to prevent recurrent sickness absence in workers with common mental disorders pp. 123-132

Iris Arends, Ute Bültmann, Karina Nielsen, Willem van Rhenen, Michiel R. de Boer and Jac J.L. van der Klink

Cannabis careers revisited: Applying Howard S. Becker's theory to present-day cannabis use pp. 133-140

Margaretha Järvinen and Signe Ravn

Cognitive social capital and mental illness during economic crisis: A nationwide population-based study in Greece pp. 141-147

Marina Economou, Michael Madianos, Lily Evangelia Peppou, Kyriakos Souliotis, Athanasios Patelakis and Costas Stefanis

Modernization is associated with intensive breastfeeding patterns in the Bolivian Amazon pp. 148-158

Amanda Veile, Melanie Martin, Lisa McAllister and Michael Gurven

Medicalizing to demedicalize: Lactation consultants and the (de)medicalization of breastfeeding pp. 159-166

Jennifer M.C. Torres

Social relationships and healthful dietary behaviour: Evidence from over-50s in the EPIC cohort, UK pp. 167-175

Annalijn I. Conklin, Nita G. Forouhi, Paul Surtees, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nicholas J. Wareham and Pablo Monsivais

2013, volume 99, articles C

Neighbourhood amenities and health: Examining the significance of a local park pp. 1-8

Jocelyn Plane and Fran Klodawsky

Political, cultural and economic foundations of primary care in Europe pp. 9-17

Dionne S. Kringos, Wienke G.W. Boerma, Jouke van der Zee and Peter P. Groenewegen

Perceptions of susceptibility to pregnancy among U.S. women obtaining abortions pp. 18-26

Lori Frohwirth, Ann M. Moore and Renata Maniaci

Subjective well-being and the measurement of quality in healthcare pp. 27-34

Henry Lee, Ivo Vlaev, Dominic King, Erik Mayer, Ara Darzi and Paul Dolan

Stakeholder perceptions of thoracic rapid tissue donation: An exploratory study pp. 35-41

Jessica McIntyre, Christie Pratt, Rebecca D. Pentz, Eric B. Haura and Gwendolyn P. Quinn

Prospective study on the reciprocal relationship between intimate partner violence and depression among women in Korea pp. 42-48

Jinseok Kim and Joohee Lee

“I was pretty sure I had the 'flu”: Qualitative description of confirmed-influenza symptoms pp. 49-55

Annemarie Jutel and Elizabeth Banister

Neighborhood Hispanic composition and depressive symptoms among Mexican-descent residents of Texas City, Texas pp. 56-63

Alyssa Marie Shell, M. Kristen Peek and Karl Eschbach

Making families: Organizational boundary work in US egg and sperm donation pp. 64-71

Katherine M. Johnson

A matter of perception: Exploring the role of income satisfaction in the income–mortality relationship in German survey data 1995–2010 pp. 72-79

Alexander Miething

Between surveillance and subjectification: Professionals and the governance of quality and patient safety in English hospitals pp. 80-88

Graham P. Martin, Myles Leslie, Joel Minion, Janet Willars and Mary Dixon-Woods

“I'm thrilled that you see that”: Guiding parents to see success in interactions with children with deafness and autistic spectrum disorder pp. 89-101

Alison Pilnick and Deborah James

Dealing with moral dilemma raised by adaptive preferences in health technology assessment: The example of growth hormones and bilateral cochlear implants pp. 102-109

Clémence Thébaut

Online and in-person health-seeking for infertility pp. 110-115

Kathleen S. Slauson-Blevins, Julia McQuillan and Arthur L. Greil

A case for critical ethnography pp. 119-126

Didier Fassin

On sitting and doing: Ethnography as action in global health pp. 127-134

Stacy Leigh Pigg

India's “tryst” with universal health coverage: Reflections on ethnography in Indian health policymaking pp. 135-142

Devaki Nambiar

Revolution as a care plan: Ethnography, nursing and somatic solidarity in Honduras pp. 143-152

Adrienne Pine

“Is it worth risking your life?”: Ethnography, risk and death on the U.S.–Mexico border pp. 153-161

Seth M. Holmes

The pill hustle: Risky pain management for a gunshot victim pp. 162-168

Jooyoung Lee

Health discourse and within-group stigma in professional BDSM pp. 169-175

Danielle J. Lindemann

The good-enough science-and-politics of anthropological collaboration with evidence-based clinical research: Four ethnographic case studies pp. 176-186

Luke Messac, Dan Ciccarone, Jeffrey Draine and Philippe Bourgois

Entangled ethnography: Imagining a future for young adults with learning disabilities pp. 187-193

Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp

Weighing the evidence: Risks and benefits of participatory documentary in corporatized clinics pp. 194-200

Helena Hansen

The murky middle ground – When ethnographers engage public health pp. 201-204

Kim Hopper

2013, volume 98, articles C

Concurrent trajectories of BMI and mental health patterns in emerging adulthood pp. 1-7

Elizabeth A. Mumford, Weiwei Liu, Elizabeth C. Hair and Tzy-Chyi Yu

Immigrant health, place effect and regional disparities in Canada pp. 8-17

Lu Wang and Wei Hu

Finding the right interactional temperature: Do colder patients need more warmth in physician communication style? pp. 18-23

Gaëtan Cousin, Marianne Schmid Mast and Nicole Jaunin-Stalder

Cross-national differences in the gender gap in subjective health in Europe: Does country-level gender equality matter? pp. 24-28

Johanna Dahlin and Juho Härkönen

Elective surgical patients' narratives of hospitalization: The co-construction of safety pp. 29-36

Carole Doherty and Mark N.K. Saunders

Metropolitan residential segregation and very preterm birth among African American and Mexican-origin women pp. 37-45

Marcus L. Britton and Heeju Shin

Does corruption undermine trust in health care? Results from public opinion polls in Croatia pp. 46-53

Dagmar Radin

Effects of education on cognition at older ages: Evidence from China's Great Famine pp. 54-62

Wei Huang and Yi Zhou

Spousal influence on mammography screening: A life course perspective pp. 63-70

Sarah Missinne, Elien Colman and Piet Bracke

Village characteristics and health of rural Chinese older adults: Examining the CHARLS Pilot Study of a rich and poor province pp. 71-78

Dale E. Yeatts, Xiaomei Pei, Cynthia M. Cready, Yuying Shen, Hao Luo and Junxin Tan

An exploratory study of knowledge brokering in hospital settings: Facilitating knowledge sharing and learning for patient safety? pp. 79-86

Justin Waring, Graeme Currie, Amanda Crompton and Simon Bishop

Service provision for autism in mainland China: Preliminary mapping of service pathways pp. 87-94

Xiang Sun, Carrie Allison, Bonnie Auyeung, Fiona E. Matthews, Simon Baron-Cohen and Carol Brayne

Technology identity: The role of sociotechnical representations in the adoption of medical devices pp. 95-105

S. Ulucanlar, A. Faulkner, S. Peirce and G. Elwyn

A mixed-method study of expert psychological evidence submitted for a cohort of asylum seekers undergoing refugee status determination in Australia pp. 106-115

Kuowei Tay, Naomi Frommer, Jill Hunter, Derrick Silove, Linda Pearson, Mehera San Roque, Ronnit Redman, Richard A. Bryant, Vijaya Manicavasagar and Zachary Steel

Does loneliness mediate the relation between social support and cognitive functioning in later life? pp. 116-124

Lea Ellwardt, Marja Aartsen, Dorly Deeg and Nardi Steverink

Social norms and attitudes linked to waterpipe use in the Eastern Mediterranean Region pp. 125-134

Rima Afifi, Joanna Khalil, Fouad Fouad, Fadi Hammal, Yara Jarallah, Hala Abu Farhat, Maha Ayad and Rima Nakkash

Caregiving appraisal in schizophrenia: A study from India pp. 135-140

Natasha Kate, Sandeep Grover, Parmanand Kulhara and Ritu Nehra

Moral mediation in interpreted health care consultations pp. 141-148

Clive Seale, Carol Rivas, Hela Al-Sarraj, Sarah Webb and Moira Kelly

An assessment of economic measures used in menorrhagia: A systematic review pp. 149-153

Sabina Sanghera, Emma Frew, Joe Kai, Janesh Gupta and Tracy Elizabeth Roberts

Inequalities in Croatian pupils' risk behaviors associated to socioeconomic environment at school and area level: A multilevel approach pp. 154-161

Ivana Pavic Simetin, Josipa Kern, Marina Kuzman and Timo-Kolja Pförtner

Using programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) to set priorities: Reflections from a qualitative assessment in an English Primary Care Trust pp. 162-168

Elizabeth Goodwin and Emma Frew

Brain drain: Do economic conditions “push” doctors out of developing countries? pp. 169-178

Edward N. Okeke

Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse pp. 179-186

Tegan Cruwys, Genevieve A. Dingle, Catherine Haslam, S. Alexander Haslam, Jolanda Jetten and Thomas A. Morton

Operationalising the capability approach for outcome measurement in mental health research pp. 187-196

Judit Simon, Paul Anand, Alastair Gray, Jorun Rugkåsa, Ksenija Yeeles and Tom Burns

The impacts of marriage, cohabitation and dating relationships on weekly self-reported physical activity in Germany: A 19-year longitudinal study pp. 197-203

Ingmar Rapp and Björn Schneider

Potential effectiveness of anti-smoking advertisement types in ten low and middle income countries: Do demographics, smoking characteristics and cultural differences matter? pp. 204-213

Sarah Durkin, Megan Bayly, Trish Cotter, Sandra Mullin and Melanie Wakefield

The effects of information, social and financial incentives on voluntary undirected blood donations: Evidence from a field experiment in Argentina pp. 214-223

Victor Iajya, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Robert Slonim

Ethics is for human subjects too: Participant perspectives on responsibility in health research pp. 224-231

Susan M. Cox and Michael McDonald

“Differently normal” and “normally different”: Negotiations of female embodiment in women's accounts of ‘atypical’ sex development pp. 232-238

Lisa Guntram

The relationship between three stages of job change and long-term sickness absence pp. 239-246

Vilde Hoff Bernstrøm

Do bonding and bridging social capital affect self-rated health, depressive mood and cognitive decline in older Japanese? A prospective cohort study pp. 247-252

Hiroshi Murayama, Mariko Nishi, Eri Matsuo, Yu Nofuji, Yumiko Shimizu, Yu Taniguchi, Yoshinori Fujiwara and Shoji Shinkai

Tobacco Road Finland – How did an accepted pleasure turn into an avoidable risk behaviour? pp. 253-259

Pekka Hakkarainen

From bioethics to a sociology of bio-knowledge pp. 264-270

Alan Petersen

Bioethics and religious bodies: Refusal of blood transfusions in Germany pp. 271-277

Małgorzata Rajtar

Ethics and images of suffering bodies in humanitarian medicine pp. 278-285

Philippe Calain

Bioethical ambition, political opportunity and the European governance of patenting: The case of human embryonic stem cell science pp. 286-292

Brian Salter and Charlotte Salter

From global bioethics to ethical governance of biomedical research collaborations pp. 293-300

Ayo Wahlberg, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner, Guangxiu Lu, Ole Döring, Yali Cong, Alicja Laska-Formejster, Jing He, Haidan Chen, Herbert Gottweis and Nikolas Rose

Resisting the seduction of “ethics creep”: Using Foucault to surface complexity and contradiction in research ethics review pp. 301-310

Adrian Guta, Stephanie A. Nixon and Michael G. Wilson

Ethical review: Standardizing procedures and local shaping of ethical review practices pp. 311-318

Patricia Jaspers, Rob Houtepen and Klasien Horstman

How organizational context affects bioethical decision-making: Pharmacists' management of gatekeeping processes in retail and hospital settings pp. 319-329

Elizabeth Chiarello

Bioethics in practice: Addressing ethically sensitive requests in a Dutch fertility clinic pp. 330-339

Trudie Gerrits, Ria Reis, Braat, Didi, D.M., Kremer, Jan, A.M. and Hardon, Anita, P.

Bioethics and power: Informed consent procedures in post-socialist Latvia pp. 340-344

Aivita Putniņa

Human embryonic stem cell science and policy: The case of Iran pp. 345-350

Mansooreh Saniei

‘Give us the full story’: Overcoming the challenges to achieving informed choice about fetal anomaly screening in Australian Aboriginal communities pp. 351-360

Kayli Wild, Elaine Lawurrpa Maypilama, Sue Kildea, Jacqueline Boyle, Lesley Barclay and Alice Rumbold

Experiencing everyday ethics in context: Frontline data collectors perspectives and practices of bioethics pp. 361-370

Patricia Kingori

‘Wicked’ ethics: Compliance work and the practice of ethics in HIV research pp. 371-378

Carol A. Heimer