Social Science & Medicine

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2013, volume 95, articles C

Child health in the United States: Recent trends in racial/ethnic disparities pp. 6-15

Neil K. Mehta, Hedwig Lee and Kelly R. Ylitalo

Family structure and child anemia in Mexico pp. 16-23

Kammi K. Schmeer

Going beyond the surface: Gendered intra-household bargaining as a social determinant of child health and nutrition in low and middle income countries pp. 24-33

Esther Richards, Sally Theobald, Asha George, Julia C. Kim, Christiane Rudert, Kate Jehan and Rachel Tolhurst

Perceived instrumental support and children's health across the early life course pp. 34-42

Kristin Turney

Social networks of experientially similar others: Formation, activation, and consequences of network ties on the health care experience pp. 43-51

Elizabeth A. Gage

Parental employment and children's body weight: Mothers, others, and mechanisms pp. 52-59

Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest, Rachel E. Dunifon and Ariel Kalil

Trajectories of growth in body mass index across childhood: Associations with maternal and paternal employment pp. 60-68

Taryn W. Morrissey

Chaos as a social determinant of child health: Reciprocal associations? pp. 69-76

Claire M. Kamp Dush, Kammi K. Schmeer and Miles Taylor

Turbulent times: Effects of turbulence and violence exposure in adolescence on high school completion, health risk behavior, and mental health in young adulthood pp. 77-86

Renée Boynton-Jarrett, Elizabeth Hair and Barry Zuckerman

Spatial clusters of autism births and diagnoses point to contextual drivers of increased prevalence pp. 87-96

Soumya Mazumdar, Alix Winter, Ka-Yuet Liu and Peter Bearman

Neighborhood context and racial/ethnic differences in young children's obesity: Structural barriers to interventions pp. 97-105

Rachel Tolbert Kimbro and Justin T. Denney

Disentangling neighborhood contextual associations with child body mass index, diet, and physical activity: The role of built, socioeconomic, and social environments pp. 106-114

Amy Carroll-Scott, Kathryn Gilstad-Hayden, Lisa Rosenthal, Susan M. Peters, Catherine McCaslin, Rebecca Joyce and Jeannette R. Ickovics

A systematic review of studies examining the relationship between reported racism and health and wellbeing for children and young people pp. 115-127

Naomi Priest, Yin Paradies, Brigid Trenerry, Mandy Truong, Saffron Karlsen and Yvonne Kelly

Prenatal attitudes and parity predict selection into a U.S. child health program: A short report pp. 128-132

Sarah Martin-Anderson

2013, volume 94, articles C

Educational differences in disability-free life expectancy: a comparative study of long-standing activity limitation in eight European countries pp. 1-8

Netta Mäki, Pekka Martikainen, Terje Eikemo, Gwenn Menvielle, Olle Lundberg, Olof Östergren, Domantas Jasilionis and Johan P. Mackenbach

Social exclusion, deprivation and child health: a spatial analysis of ambulatory care sensitive conditions in children aged 0–4 years in Victoria, Australia pp. 9-16

Danielle C. Butler, Linc Thurecht, Laurie Brown and Paul Konings

Gender, family status and physician labour supply pp. 17-25

Chao Wang and Arthur Sweetman

Streetscape greenery and health: Stress, social cohesion and physical activity as mediators pp. 26-33

Sjerp de Vries, Sonja M.E. van Dillen, Peter P. Groenewegen and Peter Spreeuwenberg

From altruism to monetisation: Australian women's ideas about money, ethics and research eggs pp. 34-42

Catherine Waldby, Ian Kerridge, Margaret Boulos and Katherine Carroll

Do slums matter? Location and early childhood preventive care choices among urban residents of Bangladesh pp. 43-55

Lauren R. Heller

Prioritizing treatment of rare diseases: A survey of preferences of Norwegian doctors pp. 56-62

Arna S. Desser

Interacting institutional logics in general dental practice pp. 63-70

Rebecca Harris and Robin Holt

Divorce and changes in the prevalence of psychotropic medication use: A register-based longitudinal study among middle-aged Finns pp. 71-80

Niina Metsä-Simola and Pekka Martikainen

Does social participation improve self-rated health in the older population? A quasi-experimental intervention study pp. 83-90

Yukinobu Ichida, Hiroshi Hirai, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi, Tokunori Takeda and Hideki Endo

Housing affordability and mental health: Does the relationship differ for renters and home purchasers? pp. 91-97

Kate E. Mason, Emma Baker, Tony Blakely and Rebecca J. Bentley

Signalling, status and inequities in maternal healthcare use in Punjab, Pakistan pp. 98-105

Zubia Mumtaz, Adrienne Levay, Afshan Bhatti and Sarah Salway

“And I look down and he is gone”: Narrating autism, elopement and wandering in Los Angeles pp. 106-114

Olga Solomon and Mary C. Lawlor

2013, volume 93, articles C

Women's autonomy and husbands' involvement in maternal health care in Nepal pp. 1-10

Deependra Kaji Thapa and Anke Niehof

Exercise, physical activity, and exertion over the business cycle pp. 11-20

Gregory Colman and Dhaval Dave

Assessing health system performance: A model-based approach pp. 21-28

John Gerring, Strom C. Thacker, Ruben Enikolopov, Julián Arévalo and Matthew Maguire

Intergenerational and socioeconomic gradients of child obesity pp. 29-37

Joan Costa-Font and Joan Gil

Realizing good care within a context of cross-cultural diversity: An ethical guideline for healthcare organizations in Flanders, Belgium pp. 38-46

Yvonne Denier and Chris Gastmans

Competing and coexisting logics in the changing field of English general medical practice pp. 47-54

Ruth McDonald, Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Sara Bayes, Richard Morriss and Joe Kai

Tensions around risks in pregnancy: A typology of women's experiences of surveillance medicine pp. 55-63

Raphaël P. Hammer and Claudine Burton-Jeangros

Drug use among sex workers in Hungary pp. 64-69

Levente Móró, Katalin Simon and Péter Sárosi

Influence of neighbourhood ethnic density, diet and physical activity on ethnic differences in weight status: A study of 214,807 adults in Australia pp. 70-77

Thomas Astell-Burt, Xiaoqi Feng, Karen Croteau and Gregory S. Kolt

Health workers' perceptions of access to care for children and pregnant women with precarious immigration status: Health as a right or a privilege? pp. 78-85

Karine Vanthuyne, Francesca Meloni, Monica Ruiz-Casares, Cécile Rousseau and Alexandra Ricard-Guay

What matters to older people with assisted living needs? A phenomenological analysis of the use and non-use of telehealth and telecare pp. 86-94

Trisha Greenhalgh, Joe Wherton, Paul Sugarhood, Sue Hinder, Rob Procter and Rob Stones

From laboratories to chambers of parliament and beyond: Producing bioethics in France and Romania pp. 95-102

Sandrine Bretonnière

Health-related effects of welfare-to-work policies pp. 103-112

Luis Ayala and Magdalena Rodríguez

Cultural health capital and the interactional dynamics of patient-centered care pp. 113-120

Leslie A. Dubbin, Jamie Suki Chang and Janet K. Shim

Rural-to-urban migrant adolescents in Guangzhou, China: Psychological health, victimization, and local and trans-local ties pp. 121-129

Nicole W.T. Cheung

Trading off dietary choices, physical exercise and cardiovascular disease risks pp. 130-138

José M. Grisolía, Alberto Longo, Marco Boeri, George Hutchinson and Frank Kee

Socioeconomic status, John Henryism and blood pressure among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study pp. 139-146

Malavika A. Subramanyam, Sherman A. James, Ana V. Diez-Roux, DeMarc A. Hickson, Daniel Sarpong, Mario Sims, Herman A. Taylor and Sharon B. Wyatt

Travel time to maternity care and its effect on utilization in rural Ghana: A multilevel analysis pp. 147-154

Samuel H. Masters, Roy Burstein, George Amofah, Patrick Abaogye, Santosh Kumar and Michael Hanlon

The role of under-employment and unemployment in recent birth cohort effects in Australian suicide pp. 155-162

Andrew Page, Allison Milner, Stephen Morrell and Richard Taylor

Democratization and life expectancy in Europe, 1960–2008 pp. 166-175

Johan P. Mackenbach, Yannan Hu and Caspar W.N. Looman

What are the components of complex interventions in healthcare? Theorizing approaches to parts, powers and the whole intervention pp. 185-193

Alexander M. Clark

How complexity science can inform scale-up and spread in health care: Understanding the role of self-organization in variation across local contexts pp. 194-202

Holly Jordan Lanham, Luci K. Leykum, Barbara S. Taylor, C. Joseph McCannon, Curt Lindberg and Richard T. Lester

Innovation as emergence in healthcare: Unpacking change from within pp. 203-211

Anna Essén and Staffan Lindblad

Connections and consequences in complex systems: Insights from a case study of the emergence and local impact of crisis resolution and home treatment services pp. 212-219

Ben Hannigan

Essential drugs policy in three rural counties in China: What does a complexity lens add? pp. 220-228

Yue Xiao, Kun Zhao, David Bishai and David H. Peters

Using complexity theory to analyse the organisational response to resurgent tuberculosis across London pp. 229-237

Susan Trenholm and Ewan Ferlie

Unraveling the complexities of disaster management: A framework for critical social infrastructure to promote population health and resilience pp. 238-246

Tracey L. O'Sullivan, Craig E. Kuziemsky, Darene Toal-Sullivan and Wayne Corneil

Modelling the social determinants of health and simulating short-term and long-term intervention impacts for the city of Toronto, Canada pp. 247-255

Aziza Mahamoud, Brenda Roche and Jack Homer