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2013, volume 97, articles C

The impact of different prioritisation policies on waiting times: Case studies of Norway and Scotland pp. 1-6

Jurgita Januleviciute, Jan Erik Askildsen, Oddvar Kaarboe, Tor Helge Holmås and Matt Sutton

Race, life course socioeconomic position, racial discrimination, depressive symptoms and self-rated health pp. 7-14

Darrell L. Hudson, Eli Puterman, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Karen A. Matthews and Nancy E. Adler

Child health security in China: A survey of child health insurance coverage in diverse areas of the country pp. 15-19

Juyang Xiong, David Hipgrave, Karoline Myklebust, Sufang Guo, Robert W. Scherpbier, Xuetao Tong, Lan Yao and Andrew E. Moran

Aboriginal Australians' experience of social capital and its relevance to health and wellbeing in urban settings pp. 20-28

Kathryn Browne-Yung, Anna Ziersch, Fran Baum and Gilbert Gallaher

The effect of marriage and HIV risks on condom use acceptability in rural Malawi pp. 29-40

Philip Anglewicz and Shelley Clark

Efficacy of text messaging-based interventions for health promotion: A meta-analysis pp. 41-48

Katharine J. Head, Seth M. Noar, Nicholas T. Iannarino and Nancy Grant Harrington

Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and stroke pp. 49-55

Eric S. Kim, Nansook Park and Christopher Peterson

Exploring the health consequences of majority–minority neighborhoods: Minority diversity and birthweight among native-born and foreign-born blacks pp. 56-65

Zoua M. Vang and Irma T. Elo

The socioeconomic health gradient across the life cycle: What role for selective mortality and institutionalization? pp. 66-74

Steef Baeten, Tom Van Ourti and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Shame as a barrier to health seeking among indigenous Huichol migrant labourers: An interpretive approach of the “violence continuum” and “authoritative knowledge” pp. 75-81

Jennie B. Gamlin

The acceptability and feasibility of task-sharing for mental healthcare in low and middle income countries: A systematic review pp. 82-86

Prianka Padmanathan and Mary J. De Silva

Planning safer suburbs: Do changes in the built environment influence residents' perceptions of crime risk? pp. 87-94

Sarah Foster, Lisa Wood, Hayley Christian, Matthew Knuiman and Billie Giles-Corti

Neighbourhood socioeconomic status and individual lung cancer risk: Evaluating long-term exposure measures and mediating mechanisms pp. 95-103

Perry Hystad, Richard M. Carpiano, Paul A. Demers, Kenneth C. Johnson and Michael Brauer

Spaces for smoking in a psychiatric hospital: Social capital, resistance to control, and significance for ‘therapeutic landscapes’ pp. 104-111

Victoria J. Wood, Sarah E. Curtis, Wil Gesler, Ian H. Spencer, Helen J. Close, James Mason and Joe G. Reilly

What constitutes a health-enabling neighborhood? A grounded theory situational analysis addressing the significance of social capital and gender pp. 112-123

Malin Eriksson and Maria Emmelin

Child marriage prevention in Amhara Region, Ethiopia: Association of communication exposure and social influence with parents/guardians' knowledge and attitudes pp. 124-133

Anastasia J. Gage

Variation in the interpretation of scientific integrity in community-based participatory health research pp. 134-142

Anne E. Kraemer Diaz, Chaya R. Spears Johnson and Thomas A. Arcury

Exploring substance use normalization among adolescents: A multilevel study in 35 countries pp. 143-151

Sharon R. Sznitman, Tanya Kolobov, Tom ter Bogt, Emmanuel Kuntsche, Sophie D. Walsh, Meyran Boniel-Nissim and Yossi Harel-Fisch

Mothers' reading skills and child survival in Nigeria: Examining the relevance of mothers' decision-making power pp. 152-160

Emily Smith-Greenaway

The influence of parental monitoring and parent–adolescent communication on Bahamian adolescent risk involvement: A three-year longitudinal examination pp. 161-169

Bo Wang, Bonita Stanton, Xiaoming Li, Lesley Cottrell, Lynette Deveaux and Linda Kaljee

Individual and hospital-specific factors influencing medical graduates' time to medical specialization pp. 170-175

Karl-Arne Johannessen and Terje P. Hagen

Negotiating last-minute concerns in closing Korean medical encounters: The use of gaze, body and talk pp. 176-191

Yujong Park

Healthcare provider views on the health effects of biomass fuel collection and use in rural Eastern Cape, South Africa: An ethnographic study pp. 192-200

Margaret Njirambo Matinga, Harold J. Annegarn and Joy S. Clancy

Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards pp. 201-209

Sarah Curtis, Wilbert Gesler, Victoria Wood, Ian Spencer, James Mason, Helen Close and Joseph Reilly

The seven Cs of the high acceptability of home-based VCT: Results from a mixed methods approach in Zambia pp. 210-219

Marte Jürgensen, Ingvild F. Sandøy, Charles Michelo, Knut Fylkesnes, Sheila Mwangala and Astrid Blystad

Protecting the public or setting the bar too high? Understanding the causes and consequences of regulatory actions of front-line regulators and specialized drug shop operators in Kenya pp. 220-227

Francis Wafula, Catherine Molyneux, Maureen Mackintosh and Catherine Goodman

Effectiveness and equity impacts of town-wide cycling initiatives in England: A longitudinal, controlled natural experimental study pp. 228-237

Anna Goodman, Jenna Panter, Stephen J. Sharp and David Ogilvie

Subsidized childcare and child development in Colombia: Effects of Hogares Comunitarios de Bienestar as a function of timing and length of exposure pp. 241-249

Raquel Bernal and Camila Fernández

Effectiveness of a parenting program in Bangladesh to address early childhood health, growth and development pp. 250-258

Frances E. Aboud, Daisy R. Singla, Md Imam Nahil and Ivelina Borisova

Malnutrition in early life and adult mental health: Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 259-266

Cheng Huang, Michael R. Phillips, Yali Zhang, Jingxuan Zhang, Qichang Shi, Zhiqiang Song, Zhijie Ding, Shutao Pang and Reynaldo Martorell

Physical growth and cognitive skills in early-life: Evidence from a nationally representative US birth cohort pp. 267-277

Jason Murasko

Periods of child growth up to age 8 years in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Key distal household and community factors pp. 278-287

Whitney B. Schott, Benjamin T. Crookston, Elizabeth A. Lundeen, Aryeh D. Stein and Jere Behrman

The critical period of infant feeding for the development of early disparities in obesity pp. 288-296

Amanda L. Thompson and Margaret E. Bentley

Media representations of early human development: Protecting, feeding and loving the developing brain pp. 297-306

Cliodhna O'Connor and Helene Joffe

Screening for developmental disabilities in developing countries pp. 307-315

Marc H. Bornstein and Charlene Hendricks

Estimating the critical and sensitive periods of investment in early childhood: A methodological note pp. 316-324

Gurleen Popli, Daniel Gladwell and Aki Tsuchiya

2013, volume 96, articles C

Intelligent policy making? Key actors' perspectives on the development and implementation of an early years' initiative in Scotland's public health arena pp. 1-8

L. Deas, L. Mattu and W. Gnich

Disembodied abilities: Sick role and participation in ‘activating’ return-to-work practices pp. 9-16

Lineke van Hal, Agnes Meershoek, Frans Nijhuis and Klasien Horstman

A cluster analytic examination of acculturation and health status among Asian Americans in the Washington DC metropolitan area, United States pp. 17-23

Sunmin Lee, Lu Chen, Xin He, Matthew J. Miller and Hee-Soon Juon

Social valorisation of stoutness as a determinant of obesity in the context of nutritional transition in Cameroon: The Bamiléké case pp. 24-32

E. Cohen, G. Boetsch, F.P. Palstra and P. Pasquet

Getting doctors into the bush: General Practitioners' preferences for rural location pp. 33-44

Anthony Scott, Julia Witt, John Humphreys, Catherine Joyce, Guyonne Kalb, Sung-Hee Jeon and Matthew McGrail

A test of the substitution hypothesis: An analysis of urban and rural trends in solid/liquid poisoning suicides in Taiwan pp. 45-51

Ying-Yeh Chen, Chi-Leung Kwok, Paul S.F. Yip and Kevin Chien-Chang Wu

Discretion or discretions? Delineating professional discretion: The case of English medical practice pp. 52-59

Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi and Michael Calnan

A geographical perspective on access to sexual and reproductive health care for women in rural Africa pp. 60-68

Jing Yao, Alan T. Murray and Victor Agadjanian

How teams use indicators for quality improvement – A multiple-case study on the use of multiple indicators in multidisciplinary breast cancer teams pp. 69-77

Marjan Gort, Manda Broekhuis and Gerdien Regts

Personal identity and the role of ‘carer’ among relatives and friends of people with multiple sclerosis pp. 78-85

Nic Hughes, Louise Locock and Sue Ziebland

A systematic review and meta-analysis of antecedents of blood donation behavior and intentions pp. 86-94

Timothy C. Bednall, Liliana L. Bove, Ali Cheetham and Andrea L. Murray

Biogenetic explanations and stigma: A meta-analytic review of associations among laypeople pp. 95-103

Erlend P. Kvaale, William H. Gottdiener and Nick Haslam

Making information ‘relevant’: General Practitioner judgments and the production of patient involvement pp. 104-111

Megan Clinch and John Benson

Early supplementary feeding among central African foragers and farmers: A biocultural approach pp. 112-120

Courtney L. Meehan and Jennifer W. Roulette

Biomedicalization and the public sphere: Newspaper coverage of health and medicine, 1960s–2000s pp. 121-128

Daniel C. Hallin, Marisa Brandt and Charles L. Briggs

The effect of physical activity on long-term income pp. 129-137

Ari Hyytinen and Jukka Lahtonen

Parents' and professionals' perceptions of family-centered care for children with autism spectrum disorder across service sectors pp. 138-146

Sandra Hodgetts, David Nicholas, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum and David McConnell

The evolving concept of “patient-centeredness” in patient–physician communication research pp. 147-153

Hirono Ishikawa, Hideki Hashimoto and Takahiro Kiuchi

Effects of an HIV peer prevention intervention on sexual and injecting risk behaviors among injecting drug users and their risk partners in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam: A randomized controlled trial pp. 154-164

Vivian F. Go, Constantine Frangakis, Nguyen Le Minh, Carl A. Latkin, Tran Viet Ha, Tran Thi Mo, Teerada Sripaipan, Wendy Davis, Carla Zelaya, Pham The Vu, Yong Chen, David D. Celentano and Vu Minh Quan

The impact of psychological trauma on wages in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina pp. 165-173

Elizabeth A.M. Searing, Fernando Rios-Avila and Jesse D. Lecy

Neighborhood cohesion and daily well-being: Results from a diary study pp. 174-182

Jennifer W. Robinette, Susan T. Charles, Jacqueline A. Mogle and David M. Almeida

Dietary inequalities of mother–child pairs in the rural Amazon: Evidence of maternal-child buffering? pp. 183-191

Barbara A. Piperata, Kammi K. Schmeer, Craig Hadley and Genevieve Ritchie-Ewing

Managing misaligned paternity findings in research including sickle cell disease screening in Kenya: ‘Consulting communities’ to inform policy pp. 192-199

Vicki Marsh, Francis Kombe, Ray Fitzpatrick, Sassy Molyneux and Michael Parker

Specificity of early movie effects on adolescent sexual behavior and alcohol use pp. 200-207

Ross E. O'Hara, Frederick X. Gibbons, Zhigang Li, Meg Gerrard and James D. Sargent

Advancing our understanding of sibling supervision and injury risk for young children pp. 208-213

Barbara A. Morrongiello, Stacey L. Schell and Bethany Keleher

Building institutions for health and health systems in contexts of rapid change pp. 216-222

Gerald Bloom and Sara Wolcott

Strengthening institutional and organizational capacity for social health protection of the informal sector in lesser-developed countries: A study of policy barriers and opportunities in Cambodia pp. 223-231

Peter Leslie Annear, Shakil Ahmed, Chhun Eang Ros and Por Ir

The promises and perils of hospital autonomy pp. 232-240

Jonathan D. London

Strengthening district health service management and delivery through internal contracting: Lessons from pilot projects in Cambodia pp. 241-249

Keovathanak Khim and Peter Leslie Annear

Institutional design and organizational practice for universal coverage in lesser-developed countries: Challenges facing the Lao PDR pp. 250-257

Shakil Ahmed, Peter Leslie Annear, Bouaphat Phonvisay, Chansaly Phommavong, Valeria de Oliveira Cruz, Asmus Hammerich and Bart Jacobs

Financial burden of household out-of pocket health expenditure in Viet Nam: Findings from the National Living Standard Survey 2002–2010 pp. 258-263

Hoang Van Minh, Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong, Priyanka Saksena, Chris D. James and Ke Xu

Social health insurance for the poor: Targeting and impact of Indonesia's Askeskin programme pp. 264-271

Robert Sparrow, Asep Suryahadi and Wenefrida Widyanti

Willingness to pay for voluntary community-based health insurance: Findings from an exploratory study in the state of Penang, Malaysia pp. 272-276

A.A. Shafie and M.A. Hassali

Consumer choice among Mutual Healthcare Purchasers: A feasible option for China? pp. 277-284

Weiwei Xu and Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven

Scaling-up the medical workforce in Timor-Leste: Challenges of a great leap forward pp. 285-289

Jorge Cabral, Gilles Dussault, James Buchan and Paulo Ferrinho

Medical professionalism among clinical physicians in two tertiary hospitals, China pp. 290-296

Jing Chen, Juan Xu, Chunmei Zhang and Xinqiao Fu

Unfree markets: Socially embedded informal health providers in northern Karnataka, India pp. 297-304

Asha George and Aditi Iyer