Social Science & Medicine

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2013, volume 85, articles C

Socioeconomic status, health behavior, and leukocyte telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2002 pp. 1-8

Belinda L. Needham, Nancy Adler, Steven Gregorich, David Rehkopf, Jue Lin, Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Elissa S. Epel

‘Faking til you make it’: Social capital accumulation of individuals on low incomes living in contrasting socio-economic neighbourhoods and its implications for health and wellbeing pp. 9-17

Kathryn Browne-Yung, Anna Ziersch and Fran Baum

The relationship between five different measures of structural social capital, medical examination outcomes, and mortality pp. 18-26

Peter Muennig, Alison K. Cohen, Aileen Palmer and Wenyi Zhu

Cross-sectional study of ethnic differences in the utility of area deprivation measures to target socioeconomically deprived individuals pp. 27-31

Jessica Baker, Richard Mitchell and Jill Pell

Individual-level social capital and self-rated health in Japan: An application of the Resource Generator pp. 32-37

Tomoko Kobayashi, Ichiro Kawachi, Toshihide Iwase, Etsuji Suzuki and Soshi Takao

How effective has the essential health package been in improving priority setting in low income countries? pp. 38-42

Lydia Kapiriri

Effects of neighborhood violence and perceptions of neighborhood safety on depressive symptoms of older adults pp. 43-49

Maureen Wilson-Genderson and Rachel Pruchno

Neighborhood disorder and telomeres: Connecting children's exposure to community level stress and cellular response pp. 50-58

Katherine P. Theall, Zoë H. Brett, Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Erin C. Dunn and Stacy S. Drury

The impacts of health insurance on health care utilization among the older people in China pp. 59-65

Xin Li and Wei Zhang

Changing expectations concerning life-extending treatment: The relevance of opportunity cost pp. 66-73

Betty Gill, Barbara Griffin and Beryl Hesketh

How do national guidelines frame clinical ethics practice? A comparative analysis of guidelines from the US, the UK, Canada and France pp. 74-78

Nathalie Gaucher, John Lantos and Antoine Payot

Scientific decision-making and stakeholder consultations: The case of salt recommendations pp. 79-86

Lada Timotijevic, Julie Barnett, Kerry Brown, Monique M. Raats and Richard Shepherd

Utilizing community health worker data for program management and evaluation: Systems for data quality assessments and baseline results from Rwanda pp. 87-92

Tisha Mitsunaga, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Elias Ngizwenayo, Didi Bertrand Farmer, Adolphe Karamaga, Peter Drobac, Paulin Basinga, Lisa Hirschhorn, Fidele Ngabo and Cathy Mugeni

Do different types of financial support after illness or injury affect socio-economic outcomes? A natural experiment in New Zealand pp. 93-102

Susan McAllister, Sarah Derrett, Rick Audas, Peter Herbison and Charlotte Paul

Misrecognition of need: Women's experiences of and explanations for undergoing cesarean delivery pp. 103-111

Kristin P. Tully and Helen L. Ball

2013, volume 84, articles C

Health services use and lifestyle choices of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians pp. 1-12

Stephen Whelan and Donald Wright

Neighbourhood social capital and adolescent self-reported wellbeing in New Zealand: A multilevel analysis pp. 13-21

Kaveh Aminzadeh, Simon Denny, Jennifer Utter, Taciano L. Milfont, Shanthi Ameratunga, Tasileta Teevale and Terryann Clark

Managing uncertainty: A grounded theory of stigma in transgender health care encounters pp. 22-29

Tonia Poteat, Danielle German and Deanna Kerrigan

Which doctor for primary health care? Quality of care and non-physician clinicians in India pp. 30-34

Krishna D. Rao, T. Sundararaman, Aarushi Bhatnagar, Garima Gupta, Puni Kokho and Kamlesh Jain

After the death of a friend: Young Men's grief and masculine identities pp. 35-43

Genevieve Creighton, John L. Oliffe, Shauna Butterwick and Elizabeth Saewyc

Diffusion of community empowerment strategies for Aedes aegypti control in Cuba: A muddling through experience pp. 44-52

Dennis Pérez, Pierre Lefèvre, Marta Castro, María Eugenia Toledo, Gilberto Zamora, Mariano Bonet and Patrick Van der Stuyft

Local availability of physicians' services as a tool for implicit risk selection pp. 53-60

Amir Shmueli and Esti Nissan-Engelcin

Exploring the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and problem drinking as captured by Google searches in the US pp. 61-68

Paul Frijters, David Johnston, Grace Lordan and Michael Shields

Team-level flexibility, work–home spillover, and health behavior pp. 69-79

Phyllis Moen, Wen Fan and Erin L. Kelly

Time allocation of disabled individuals pp. 80-93

Ricardo Pagan Rodriguez

Structural vulnerability and access to medical care among migrant street-based male sex workers in Germany pp. 94-101

Heide Castañeda

The role of provider supply and organization in reducing racial/ethnic disparities in mental health care in the U.S pp. 102-109

Benjamin Lê Cook, Teresa Doksum, Chih-nan Chen, Adam Carle and Margarita Alegría

How much should be paid for specialised treatment? pp. 110-118

Silvio Daidone and Andrew Street

Paying more for faster care? Individuals' attitude toward price-based priority access in health care pp. 119-128

Tim M. Benning and Benedict Dellaert

Educational inequalities in smoking: The role of initiation versus quitting pp. 129-137

Vida Maralani

2013, volume 83, articles C

Pandemic H1N1 in Canada and the use of evidence in developing public health policies – A policy analysis pp. 1-9

Laura C. Rosella, Kumanan Wilson, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Anna Chu, Ross Upshur, Donald Willison, Shelley L. Deeks, Brian Schwartz, Jordan Tustin, Doug Sider and Vivek Goel

A difference-in-differences analysis of the effect of free dental check-ups in Scotland pp. 10-18

Divine Ikenwilo

Taming systems to create enabling environments for HCV treatment: Negotiating trust in the drug and alcohol setting pp. 19-26

Magdalena Harris, Tim Rhodes and Anthea Martin

Visual representation of statistical information improves diagnostic inferences in doctors and their patients pp. 27-33

Rocio Garcia-Retamero and Ulrich Hoffrage

An impact evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Promotion Project in Bangladesh: Evidence from Japanese aid-funded technical cooperation pp. 34-41

Yusuke Kamiya, Yukie Yoshimura and Mohammad Tajul Islam

Social deprivation and adverse perinatal outcomes among Western and non-Western pregnant women in a Dutch urban population pp. 42-49

Jashvant Poeran, Arno F.G. Maas, Erwin Birnie, Semiha Denktas, Eric A.P. Steegers and Gouke J. Bonsel

Social capital and disaster preparedness among low income Mexican Americans in a disaster prone area pp. 50-60

Belinda M. Reininger, Mohammad H. Rahbar, MinJae Lee, Zhongxue Chen, Sartaj R. Alam, Jennifer Pope and Barbara Adams

Suicide in rural Haiti: Clinical and community perceptions of prevalence, etiology, and prevention pp. 61-69

Ashley K. Hagaman, Bradley H. Wagenaar, Kristen E. McLean, Bonnie N. Kaiser, Kate Winskell and Brandon A. Kohrt

The effect of adverse information and positive promotion on women's preferences for prescribed contraceptive products pp. 70-80

Stephanie Knox, Rosalie Viney, Yuanyuan Gu, Arne Hole, Denzil Fiebig, Deborah J. Street, Marion R. Haas, Edith Weisberg and Deborah Bateson

Social disorganization/social fragmentation and risk of depression among older people in Japan: Multilevel investigation of indices of social distance pp. 81-89

Daisuke Takagi, Katsunori Kondo, Naoki Kondo, Noriko Cable, Ikeda, Ken’ichi and Ichiro Kawachi

‘Emotional rights’, moral reasoning, and Jewish–Arab alliances in the regulation of in-vitro-fertilization in Israel: Theorizing the unexpected consequences of assisted reproductive technologies pp. 90-98

Sigal Gooldin

‘Creating the right therapy vibe’: Relational performances in holistic medicine pp. 99-109

Gavin J. Andrews, Joshua Evans and Seraphina McAlister

Exploration of health risks related to air pollution and temperature in three Latin American cities pp. 110-118

Patricia Romero-Lankao, Hua Qin and Mercy Borbor-Cordova

A large-scale longitudinal study indicating the importance of perceived effectiveness, organizational and management support for innovative culture pp. 119-124

Jane M. Cramm, Mathilde M.H. Strating, Roland Bal and Anna P. Nieboer

The discovery of deliberation. From ambiguity to appreciation through the learning process of doing Moral Case Deliberation in Dutch elderly care pp. 125-132

Sandra van der Dam, Jos M.G.A. Schols, Tinie J.M. Kardol, Bert C. Molewijk, Guy A.M. Widdershoven and Tineke A. Abma

A health equity critique of social marketing: Where interventions have impact but insufficient reach pp. 133-141

Rebecca Langford and Catherine Panter-Brick

2013, volume 82, articles C

Revisiting the Hispanic mortality advantage in the United States: The role of smoking pp. 1-9

Andrew Fenelon

GPs and hospital expenditures. Should we keep expenditure containment programs alive? pp. 10-20

Gianluca Fiorentini, Matteo Lippi Bruni and Cristina Ugolini

Metaphors and myths in pharmaceutical advertising pp. 21-29

Marjorie Delbaere

Addressing the unequal geographic distribution of specialist doctors in Indonesia: The role of the private sector and effectiveness of current regulations pp. 30-34

Andreasta Meliala, Krishna Hort and Laksono Trisnantoro

Provider and patient influences on the formation of socioeconomic health behavior disparities among pregnant women pp. 35-42

Elaine M. Hernandez

Bedouin in Lebanon: Social discrimination, political exclusion, and compromised health care pp. 43-50

Dawn Chatty, Nisrine Mansour and Nasser Yassin

Prevalence and severity of intimate partner violence in women living in eight indigenous regions of Mexico pp. 51-57

Rosario Valdez-Santiago, Martha Híjar, Rosalba Rojas Martínez, Leticia Ávila Burgos and María de la Luz Arenas Monreal

Subjective socioeconomic status and health: Relationships reconsidered pp. 58-66

Jenna Nobles, Miranda Ritterman Weintraub and Nancy E. Adler

The impact of state-level nutrition-education program funding on BMI: Evidence from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system pp. 67-78

Kerry Anne McGeary

A mental model of factors associated with subjective life expectancy pp. 79-86

Barbara Griffin, Vanessa Loh and Beryl Hesketh

Geospatial analysis of naturally occurring boundaries in road-transport emissions and children's respiratory health across a demographically diverse cityscape pp. 87-99

Calvin Jephcote and Haibo Chen

Bringing politics and evidence together: Policy entrepreneurship and the conception of the At Home/Chez Soi Housing First Initiative for addressing homelessness and mental illness in Canada pp. 100-107

Eric Macnaughton, Geoffrey Nelson and Paula Goering

Determinants of breast cancer screening uptake in women, evidence from the British Household Panel Survey pp. 108-114

Patricia Carney, Stephen O'Neill and Ciaran O'Neill

Social inequalities in adolescent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination: A test of fundamental cause theory pp. 115-125

Andrea N. Polonijo and Richard M. Carpiano

Natural disasters and suicide: Evidence from Japan pp. 126-133

Tetsuya Matsubayashi, Yasuyuki Sawada and Michiko Ueda

Political conditions and life expectancy in Europe, 1900–2008 pp. 134-146

Johan P. Mackenbach

McDonaldization or Commercial Re-stratification: Corporatization and the multimodal organisation of English doctors pp. 147-155

Justin Waring and Simon Bishop

Hendra in the news: Public policy meets public morality in times of zoonotic uncertainty pp. 156-163

Chris Degeling and Ian Kerridge