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2011, volume 73, articles 12

Organizational justice at school and its associations with pupils’ psychosocial school environment, health, and wellbeing pp. 1675-1682

Marko Elovainio, Minna Pietikäinen, Pauliina Luopa, Mika Kivimäki, Jane E. Ferrie, Jukka Jokela, Sakari Suominen, Jussi Vahtera and Marianna Virtanen

Distinct impact of education and income on habitual exercise: A cross-sectional analysis in a rural city in Japan pp. 1683-1688

Keiko Murakami, Hideki Hashimoto, Jung Su Lee, Kiyoshi Kawakubo, Katsumi Mori and Akira Akabayashi

The contextual effects of social capital on health: A cross-national instrumental variable analysis pp. 1689-1697

Daniel Kim, Christopher Baum, Michael L. Ganz, S.V. Subramanian and Ichiro Kawachi

Residential mobility within England and urban–rural inequalities in mortality pp. 1698-1706

Mylène Riva, Sarah Curtis and Paul Norman

Association between neighborhood walkability, cardiorespiratory fitness and body-mass index pp. 1707-1716

Christine M. Hoehner, Susan L. Handy, Yan Yan, Steven N. Blair and David Berrigan

The social context of food insecurity among persons living with HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda pp. 1717-1724

Alexander C. Tsai, David R. Bangsberg, Nneka Emenyonu, Jude K. Senkungu, Jeffrey N. Martin and Sheri D. Weiser

Beyond debt. A moderator analysis of the relationship between perceived financial strain and mental health pp. 1725-1732

Eva Selenko and Bernad Batinic

The impact of causal attributions on diagnosis and successful referral of depressed patients in primary care pp. 1733-1740

Th. Michael van den Boogaard, P.F.M. Verhaak, Richard van Dyck and Philip Spinhoven

"The Most Important Test You’ll Ever Take"?: Attitudes toward confidential carrier matching and open individual testing among modern-religious Jews in Israel pp. 1741-1747

Ayala Frumkin, Aviad E. Raz, Morasha Plesser-Duvdevani and Sari Lieberman

Circus monkeys or change agents? Civil society advocacy for HIV/AIDS in adverse policy environments pp. 1748-1755

Neil Spicer, Andrew Harmer, Julia Aleshkina, Daryna Bogdan, Ketevan Chkhatarashvili, Gulgun Murzalieva, Natia Rukhadze, Arnol Samiev and Gill Walt

Is blood thicker than water? Peer effects in stent utilization among Floridian cardiologists pp. 1756-1765

Marco D. Huesch

Measuring the outcomes of long-term care pp. 1766-1774

Julien E. Forder and James Caiels

The ‘cultural inflation of morbidity’ during the English mortality decline: A new look pp. 1775-1783

Martin Gorsky, Aravinda Guntupalli, Bernard Harris and Andrew Hinde

2011, volume 73, articles 11

Rising premature mortality in the UK’s persistently deprived areas: Only a Scottish phenomenon? pp. 1575-1584

Paul Norman, Paul Boyle, Daniel Exeter, Zhiqiang Feng and Frank Popham

The ecology of unhealthy places: Violence, birthweight, and the importance of territoriality in structurally disadvantaged communities pp. 1585-1592

Robert J. Kane

The psychological impact of chronic environmental adversity: Responding to prolonged drought pp. 1593-1599

Helen J. Stain, Brian Kelly, Vaughan J. Carr, Terry J. Lewin, Michael Fitzgerald and Lyn Fragar

Risky health environments: Women sex workers’ struggles to find safe, secure and non-exploitative housing in Canada’s poorest postal code pp. 1600-1607

L. Lazarus, J. Chettiar, K. Deering, R. Nabess and K. Shannon

Social inequalities in ‘sickness’: European welfare states and non-employment among the chronically ill pp. 1608-1617

Kjetil A. van der Wel, Espen Dahl and Karsten Thielen

A life course perspective on migration and mental health among Asian immigrants: The role of human agency pp. 1618-1626

Fang Gong, Jun Xu, Kaori Fujishiro and David T. Takeuchi

Associations between unemployment and major depressive disorder: Evidence from an international, prospective study (the predict cohort) pp. 1627-1634

Barbara J. Jefferis, Irwin Nazareth, Louise Marston, Berta Moreno-Kustner, Juan Ángel Bellón, Igor Svab, Danica Rotar, Mirjam I. Geerlings, Miguel Xavier, Manuel Goncalves-Pereira, Benjamin Vicente, Sandra Saldivia, Anu Aluoja, Ruth Kalda and Michael King

The influence of indigenous status and community indigenous composition on obesity and diabetes among Mexican adults pp. 1635-1643

Pamela Stoddard, Margaret A. Handley, Arturo Vargas Bustamante and Dean Schillinger

Quality and quantity: The role of social interactions in self-reported individual health pp. 1644-1652

Damiano Fiorillo and Fabio Sabatini

Maternal social capital and birth outcomes in the mother–child cohort in Crete, Greece (Rhea study) pp. 1653-1660

George Kritsotakis, Maria Vassilaki, Leda Chatzi, Vaggelis Georgiou, Anastassios E. Philalithis, Manolis Kogevinas and Antonis Koutis

Choreographies of sperm donations: Dilemmas of intimacy in lesbian couple donor conception pp. 1661-1668

Petra Nordqvist

“Cutting” on cancer: Attitudes about cancer spread and surgery among primary care patients in the USA pp. 1669-1673

Aimee James, Christine M. Daley and K.A. Greiner

2011, volume 73, articles 10

Is unimpeded marketing for breast milk substitutes responsible for the decline in breastfeeding in the Philippines? An exploratory survey and focus group analysis pp. 1445-1448

Howard L. Sobel, Alessandro Iellamo, René R. Raya, Alexander A. Padilla, Jean-Marc Olivé and Soe Nyunt-U

Why is UK medicine no longer a self-regulating profession? The role of scandals involving “bad apple” doctors pp. 1452-1459

Mary Dixon-Woods, Karen Yeung and Charles L. Bosk

Deliberating Tarceva: A case study of how British NHS managers decide whether to purchase a high-cost drug in the shadow of NICE guidance pp. 1460-1468

David Hughes and Shane Doheny

Anthropology, organ transplantation and the immune system: Resituating commodity and gift exchange pp. 1469-1476

Ciara Kierans

Access to health care, reproductive health and disability: A large scale survey in Sierra Leone pp. 1477-1489

Jean-Francois Trani, Joyce Browne, Maria Kett, Osman Bah, Teddy Morlai, Nicki Bailey and Nora Groce

Melting bones: The social construction of postmenopausal osteoporosis in Turkey pp. 1490-1497

Maral Erol

Relying on nature’s pharmacy in rural Burkina Faso: Empirical evidence of the determinants of traditional medicine consumption pp. 1498-1507

Mariève Pouliot

Time-bound opportunity costs of informal care: Consequences for access to professional care, caregiver support, and labour supply estimates pp. 1508-1516

Wolter H.J. Hassink and Bernard van den Berg

Allocation of household responsibilities influences change in dietary behavior pp. 1517-1524

Candace C. Nelson, Amy Sapp, Lisa F. Berkman, Yi Li and Glorian Sorensen

Aging in neighborhoods differing in walkability and income: Associations with physical activity and obesity in older adults pp. 1525-1533

Abby C. King, James F. Sallis, Lawrence D. Frank, Brian E. Saelens, Kelli Cain, Terry L. Conway, James E. Chapman, David K. Ahn and Jacqueline Kerr

Household capacities, vulnerabilities and food insecurity: Shifts in food insecurity in urban and rural Ethiopia during the 2008 food crisis pp. 1534-1542

Craig Hadley, Drew A. Linzer, Tefera Belachew, Abebe Gebre Mariam, Fasil Tessema and David Lindstrom

Why socially deprived populations have a faster resting heart rate: Impact of behaviour, life course anthropometry, and biology – the RECORD Cohort Study pp. 1543-1550

Basile Chaix, Xavier Jouven, Frédérique Thomas, Cinira Leal, Nathalie Billaudeau, Kathy Bean, Yan Kestens, Bertrand Jëgo, Bruno Pannier and Nicolas Danchin

Immigration and the health of U.S. black adults: Does country of origin matter? pp. 1551-1560

Tod G. Hamilton and Robert A. Hummer

Income inequality, social capital and self-rated health and dental status in older Japanese pp. 1561-1568

Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Naoki Kondo, Richard G. Watt, Aubrey Sheiham and Georgios Tsakos

2011, volume 73, articles 9

Consumers of eldercare in Sweden: The semblance of choice pp. 1285-1289

Bettina Meinow, Marti G. Parker and Mats Thorslund

Understanding high-risk behavior among non-dominant minorities: A social resistance framework pp. 1292-1301

Roni Factor, Ichiro Kawachi and David R. Williams

Neighborhood conditions are associated with maternal health behaviors and pregnancy outcomes pp. 1302-1311

L.C. Vinikoor-Imler, L.C. Messer, K.R. Evenson and B.A. Laraia

Race/ethnic differences in adult mortality: The role of perceived stress and health behaviors pp. 1312-1322

Patrick M. Krueger, Jarron M. Saint Onge and Virginia W. Chang

Parenthood and trajectories of change in body weight over the life course pp. 1323-1331

Debra Umberson, Hui Liu, John Mirowsky and Corinne Reczek

Does the sale of sweetened beverages at school affect children’s weight? pp. 1332-1339

Solveig A. Cunningham and Madeline Zavodny

Distal and variably proximal causes: Education, obesity, and health pp. 1340-1348

Markus H. Schafer and Kenneth F. Ferraro

How do obese individuals perceive and respond to the different types of obesity stigma that they encounter in their daily lives? A qualitative study pp. 1349-1356

Sophie Lewis, Samantha L. Thomas, R. Warwick Blood, David J. Castle, Jim Hyde and Paul A. Komesaroff

Resistance and vulnerability to stigmatization in abortion work pp. 1357-1364

O’Donnell, Jenny, Tracy A. Weitz and Lori R. Freedman

How does network structure affect partnerships for promoting physical activity? Evidence from Brazil and Colombia pp. 1365-1370

Diana C. Parra, Marsela Dauti, Jenine K. Harris, Lissette Reyes, Deborah C. Malta, Ross C. Brownson, Mario A. Quintero and Michael Pratt

Dying cases in emergency places: Caring for the dying in emergency departments pp. 1371-1377

Cara J. Bailey, Roger Murphy and Davina Porock

Where do human organs come from? Trends of generalized and restricted altruism in organ donations pp. 1378-1385

Hagai Boas

Life of a partnership: The process of collaboration between the National Tuberculosis Program and the hospitals in Yogyakarta, Indonesia pp. 1386-1394

Ari Probandari, Adi Utarini, Lars Lindholm and Anna-Karin Hurtig

The effect of national suicide prevention programs on suicide rates in 21 OECD nations pp. 1395-1400

Tetsuya Matsubayashi and Michiko Ueda

The impact of fiscal decentralization on infant mortality rates: Evidence from OECD countries pp. 1401-1407

Dolores Jiménez-Rubio

The effect of change in mental disorder status on change in spousal mental health: The HUNT study pp. 1408-1415

Mariann Idstad, Espen Røysamb and Kristian Tambs

Do general practitioners overestimate the health of their patients with lower education? pp. 1416-1421

Michelle Kelly-Irving, Cyrille Delpierre, Anne-Cécile Schieber, Benoit Lepage, Christine Rolland, Anissa Afrité, Jean Pascal, Chantal Cases, Pierre Lombrail and Thierry Lang

The very high sex ratio in rural China: Impact on the psychosocial wellbeing of unmarried men pp. 1422-1427

Xu Dong Zhou, Xiao Lei Wang, Lu Li and Therese Hesketh

Gender, social engagement, and limitations in late life pp. 1428-1435

Patricia A. Thomas

Sources of somatization: Exploring the roles of insecurity in relationships and styles of anger experience and expression pp. 1436-1443

Liang Liu, Shiri Cohen, Marc S. Schulz and Robert J. Waldinger

2011, volume 73, articles 8

Using matched areas to explore international differences in population health pp. 1113-1122

Richard Mitchell, Claire Dujardin, Frank Popham, Maria-Isabel Farfan Portet, Isabelle Thomas and Vincent Lorant

Does country influence the health burden of informal care? An international comparison between Belgium and Great Britain pp. 1123-1132

Claire Dujardin, Maria-Isabel Farfan-Portet, Richard Mitchell, Frank Popham, Isabelle Thomas and Vincent Lorant

The role of daily mobility in mental health inequalities: The interactive influence of activity space and neighbourhood of residence on depression pp. 1133-1144

Julie Vallée, Emmanuelle Cadot, Christelle Roustit, Isabelle Parizot and Pierre Chauvin

Place effects for areas defined by administrative boundaries: A life course analysis of mortality and cause specific morbidity in Scania, Sweden pp. 1145-1151

Henrik Ohlsson and Juan Merlo

Mismatched racial identities, colourism, and health in Toronto and Vancouver pp. 1152-1162

Gerry Veenstra

Racial and ethnic disparities in hospital care resulting from air pollution in excess of federal standards pp. 1163-1168

Andrew D. Hackbarth, John Romley and Dana Goldman

The role of migration in the development of depressive symptoms among Latino immigrant parents in the USA pp. 1169-1177

India J. Ornelas and Krista M. Perreira

Lifetime income patterns and alcohol consumption: Investigating the association between long- and short-term income trajectories and drinking pp. 1178-1185

Magdalena Cerdá, Vicki D. Johnson-Lawrence and Sandro Galea

Estimates of peer effects in adolescent smoking across twenty six European Countries pp. 1186-1193

Duncan McVicar

Instrumental variable estimation of the effect of prayer on depression pp. 1194-1199

Kevin Denny

Techno-politics of genomic nationalism: Tracing genomics and its use in drug regulation in Japan and Taiwan pp. 1200-1207

Wen-Hua Kuo

Colleague interactions and new drug prescribing behavior: The case of the initial prescription of antidepressants in Taiwanese medical centers pp. 1208-1213

Shu-Jou Lin, Kuan-An Jan and Jen-Tse Kao

A multilevel intervention for HIV-affected families in China: Together for Empowerment Activities (TEA) pp. 1214-1221

Li Li, Guoping Ji, Li-Jung Liang, Yingying Ding, Junru Tian and Yongkang Xiao

“Everything that I thought that they would be, they weren’t:” Family systems as support and impediment to recovery pp. 1222-1229

Elizabeth Sara EnglandKennedy and Sarah Horton

“But Then I Learned…”: Weight loss surgery patients negotiate surgery discourses pp. 1230-1237

Patricia Drew

Uncertainty in medicine: Meanings of menopause and hormone replacement therapy in medical textbooks pp. 1238-1245

Patricia Niland and Antonia C. Lyons

Influence of Valentine’s Day and Halloween on Birth Timing pp. 1246-1248

Becca R. Levy, Pil H. Chung and Martin D. Slade

Where do pharmaceuticals on the market originate? An analysis of the informal drug supply in Cotonou, Benin pp. 1249-1256

Carine Baxerres and Jean-Yves Le Hesran

Comparing HIV-related symbolic stigma in six African countries: Social representations in young people’s narratives pp. 1257-1265

Kate Winskell, Elizabeth Hill and Oby Obyerodhyambo

Maternal health and knowledge and infant health outcomes in the Ariaal people of northern Kenya pp. 1266-1274

Elizabeth M. Miller

Dynamics of change in the practice of female genital cutting in Senegambia: Testing predictions of social convention theory pp. 1275-1283

Bettina Shell-Duncan, Katherine Wander, Ylva Hernlund and Amadou Moreau

2011, volume 73, articles 7

Implementing ‘translational’ biomedical research: Convergence and divergence among clinical and basic scientists pp. 945-952

Myfanwy Morgan, Christine A. Barry, Jenny L. Donovan, Jane Sandall, Charles D.A. Wolfe and Annette Boaz

The interplay of structure and agency in health promotion: Integrating a concept of structural change and the policy dimension into a multi-level model and applying it to health promotion principles and practice pp. 953-959

Alfred Rütten and Peter Gelius

Effects of a health-social partnership transitional program on hospital readmission: A randomized controlled trial pp. 960-969

Frances Kam-yuet Wong, May M. Ho, SikYing Yeung, Stanley K. Tam and Susan K. Chow

Physician shortages in rural Vietnam: Using a labor market approach to inform policy pp. 970-977

Marko Vujicic, Bakhuti Shengelia, Marco Alfano and Ha Bui Thu

An extension in eligibility for free primary care and avoidable hospitalisations: A natural experiment pp. 978-985

Anne Nolan

Product development public–private partnerships for public health: A systematic review using qualitative data pp. 986-994

Katia De Pinho Campos, Cameron D. Norman and Alejandro R. Jadad

Living in the “land of no”? Consumer perceptions of healthy lifestyle portrayals in direct-to-consumer advertisements of prescription drugs pp. 995-1002

Dominick L. Frosch, Suepattra G. May, Caroline Tietbohl and José A. Pagán

Difficulties leaving home: A cross-sectional study of delays in seeking emergency obstetric care in Herat, Afghanistan pp. 1003-1013

Atsumi Hirose, Matthias Borchert, Homa Niksear, Ahmad Shah Alkozai, Jonathan Cox, Julian Gardiner, Khadija Ruina Osmani and Véronique Filippi

Newborn screening and maternal diagnosis: Rethinking family benefit pp. 1014-1018

Mara Buchbinder and Stefan Timmermans

Racial taxonomy in genomics pp. 1019-1027

Catherine Bliss

How surgeons design treatment recommendations in orthopaedic surgery pp. 1028-1036

Pamela L. Hudak, Shannon J. Clark and Geoffrey Raymond

“All Cubans are doctors!” news coverage of health and bioexceptionalism in Cuba pp. 1037-1044

Charles L. Briggs

Responding to racism: Insights on how racism can damage health from an urban study of Australian Aboriginal people pp. 1045-1053

Anna M. Ziersch, Gilbert Gallaher, Fran Baum and Michael Bentley

“Meet me at the hill where we used to park”: Interpersonal processes associated with victim recantation pp. 1054-1061

Amy E. Bonomi, Rashmi Gangamma, Chris R. Locke, Heather Katafiasz and David Martin

Dynamics of stigma in abortion work: Findings from a pilot study of the Providers Share Workshop pp. 1062-1070

Lisa Hope Harris, Michelle Debbink, Lisa Martin and Jane Hassinger

The effect of food insecurity on mental health: Panel evidence from rural Zambia pp. 1071-1079

Steven M. Cole and Gelson Tembo

Community resilience, quality childcare, and preschoolers’ mental health: A three-city comparison pp. 1080-1087

Stefania Maggi, William Roberts, David MacLennan and D’Angiulli, Amedeo

Childhood socio-economic status and the onset, persistence, and severity of DSM-IV mental disorders in a US national sample pp. 1088-1096

Katie A. McLaughlin, Joshua Breslau, Jennifer Greif Green, Matthew D. Lakoma, Nancy A. Sampson, Alan M. Zaslavsky and Ronald C. Kessler

Individual, study, and neighborhood level characteristics associated with peer recruitment of young illicit drug users in New York City: Optimizing respondent driven sampling pp. 1097-1104

Abby E. Rudolph, Natalie D. Crawford, Carl Latkin, Kellee White, Ebele O. Benjamin, Kandice Jones and Crystal M. Fuller

The global financial crisis and psychological health in a sample of Australian older adults: A longitudinal study pp. 1105-1112

Kerry Sargent-Cox, Peter Butterworth and Kaarin J. Anstey

2011, volume 73, articles 6

Towards a sociology of diagnosis: Reflections and opportunities pp. 793-800

Annemarie Jutel and Sarah Nettleton

Diagnosis and nosology in primary care pp. 801-807

David Armstrong

Risk, significance and biomedicalisation of a new population: Older women's experience of osteoporosis screening pp. 808-815

Charlotte Ingrid Salter, Amanda Howe, Lisa McDaid, Jeanette Blacklock, Elizabeth Lenaghan and Lee Shepstone

Regulating diagnosis in post-genomic medicine: Re-aligning clinical judgment? pp. 816-824

Pascale Bourret, Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio

'Get with the Program!': Pharmaceutical marketing, symptom checklists and self-diagnosis pp. 825-832

Mary Ebeling

Listening to Lyrica: contested illnesses and pharmaceutical determinism pp. 833-842

Kristin K. Barker

Patchwork diagnoses: The production of coherence, uncertainty, and manageable bodies pp. 843-850

John Gardner, Kevin Dew, Maria Stubbe, Tony Dowell and Lindsay Macdonald

Making sure. A comparative micro-analysis of diagnostic instruments in medical practice pp. 851-857

Cornelius Schubert

Diagnosis, psychiatry and neurology: The case of Huntington Disease pp. 858-865

Michael Halpin

"Morphology is a witness which doesn't lie": Diagnosis by similarity relation and analogical inference in clinical forensic medicine pp. 866-872

Gethin Rees

Medical residents' use of narrative templates in storytelling and diagnosis pp. 873-881

Nancy H.M. Davenport

Biopolitical endpoints: Diagnosing a deserving British nuclear test veteran pp. 882-888

Catherine Trundle

A disorder of anger and aggression: Children's perspectives on attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the UK pp. 889-896

Ilina Singh

Cancer diagnosis as discursive capture: Phenomenological repercussions of being positioned within dominant constructions of cancer pp. 897-903

Carla Willig

Managing hope, denial or temporal anomie? Informal cancer carers' accounts of spouses' cancer diagnoses pp. 904-911

Rebecca Eileen Olson

Bad news and first impressions: Patient and family caregiver accounts of learning the cancer diagnosis pp. 912-921

Karen Sue Schaepe

Talking about colds and flu: The lay diagnosis of two common illnesses among older British people pp. 922-928

Lindsay Prior, Meirion R. Evans and Hayley Prout

Constructing illness: How the public in eight Western nations respond to a clinical description of "schizophrenia" pp. 929-938

Sigrun Olafsdottir and Bernice A. Pescosolido

From diagnosis to social diagnosis pp. 939-943

Phil Brown, Mercedes Lyson and Tania Jenkins

2011, volume 73, articles 5

The promise of human rights for global health: A programmed deception? A commentary on Schrecker, Chapman, Labonté and De Vogli (2010) "Advancing health equity in the global market place: How human rights can help" pp. 625-628

David Reubi

Health and human rights against the marketplace: A response to Reubi pp. 629-631

Ted Schrecker, Audrey R. Chapman, Ronald Labonte and Roberto De Vogli

Agency versus structure: Genetics, group membership, and a new twist on an old debate pp. 632-635

Ronald J. Angel

Horses for courses: The need for pragmatism and realism as well as balance and caution. A commentary on Angel pp. 636-638

Nick Craddock

Agency versus structure or nature versus nurture: When the new twist on an old debate is not that new after all: A commentary on Angel pp. 639-642

Marianna Fotaki

A response to the commentaries by Craddock and Fotaki pp. 643-644

Ronald J. Angel

What's at stake? Genetic information from the perspective of people with epilepsy and their family members pp. 645-654

Sara Shostak, Dana Zarhin and Ruth Ottman

Institutional policy learning and public consultation: The Canadian xenotransplantation experience pp. 655-662

Mavis Jones and Edna Einsiedel

The relationship between social networks and pathways to kidney transplant parity: Evidence from black Americans in Chicago pp. 663-667

Teri Browne

The problem of "significant risk": Exploring the public health impact of criminalizing HIV non-disclosure pp. 668-675

Eric Mykhalovskiy

The perils of polycentric governance of infectious disease in South Africa pp. 676-684

Evan S. Lieberman

Health and welfare effects of integrating AIDS treatment with food assistance in resource constrained settings: A systematic review of theory and evidence pp. 685-692

Nyasha Tirivayi and Wim Groot

Nothing can defeat combined hands (Abashize hamwe ntakibananira): Protective processes and resilience in Rwandan children and families affected by HIV/AIDS pp. 693-701

Theresa Stichick Betancourt, Sarah Meyers-Ohki, Sara N. Stulac, Amy Elizabeth Barrera, Christina Mushashi and William R. Beardslee

Out of the reach of children? Young people's health-seeking practices and agency in Africa's newly-emerging therapeutic landscapes pp. 702-710

Kate R. Hampshire, Gina Porter, Samuel Asiedu Owusu, Augustine Tanle and Albert Abane

Early life undernutrition and chronic diseases at older ages: The effects of the Dutch famine on cardiovascular diseases and diabetes pp. 711-718

France Portrait, Erica Teeuwiszen and Dorly Deeg

How physical activity shapes, and is shaped by, adolescent friendships pp. 719-728

Kayla de la Haye, Garry Robins, Philip Mohr and Carlene Wilson

Unfulfilled expectations and symptoms of depression among young adults pp. 729-736

Krysia N. Mossakowski

Moving to Opportunity: Does long-term exposure to 'low-poverty' neighborhoods make a difference for adolescents? pp. 737-743

Tama Leventhal and Véronique Dupéré

Migration and mortality trajectories: A study of individuals born in the rural community of Överkalix, Sweden pp. 744-751

Petter Tinghög, John Carstensen, Gunnar Kaati, Sören Edvinsson, Michael Sjöström and Lars Olov Bygren

Sociodemographic and geographic variability in smoking in the U.S.: A multilevel analysis of the 2006-2007 Current Population Survey, Tobacco Use Supplement pp. 752-758

T. Chahine, S.V. Subramanian and J.I. Levy

Religious social capital: Its measurement and utility in the study of the social determinants of health pp. 759-767

Joanna Maselko, Cayce Hughes and Rose Cheney

Indices of socioeconomic position across the life course as predictors of coronary calcification in black and white men and women: Coronary artery risk development in young adults study pp. 768-774

Karen A. Matthews, Joseph E. Schwartz and Sheldon Cohen

"He's more typically female because he's not afraid to cry": Connecting heterosexual gender relations and men's depression pp. 775-782

John L. Oliffe, Mary T. Kelly, Joan L. Bottorff, Joy L. Johnson and Sabrina T. Wong

Dyadic planning of health-behavior change after prostatectomy: A randomized-controlled planning intervention pp. 783-792

Silke Burkert, Urte Scholz, Oliver Gralla, Jan Roigas and Nina Knoll

2011, volume 73, articles 4

Health status and health care utilization following collective trauma: A 3-year national study of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States pp. 483-490

E. Alison Holman and Roxane Cohen Silver

Vulnerability to fat-stigma in women's everyday relationships pp. 491-497

Alexandra A. Brewis, Daniel J. Hruschka and Amber Wutich

Labeling of mental disorders and stigma in young people pp. 498-506

Annemarie Wright, Anthony F. Jorm and Andrew J. Mackinnon

Dichotomies of collectivism and individualism in bioethics: Selective abortion debates and issues of self-determination in Japan and 'the West' pp. 507-514

Masae Kato and Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner

Theorising the 'human subject' in biomedical research: International clinical trials and bioethics discourses in contemporary Sri Lanka pp. 515-521

Salla Sariola and Bob Simpson

Innovation and the English National Health Service: A qualitative study of the independent sector treatment centre programme pp. 522-529

Simon Turner, Pauline Allen, Will Bartlett and Virginie Pérotin

Prevention better than cure? Health consumer and patients' organisations and public health pp. 530-534

Rob Baggott and Kathryn L. Jones

Physician-leaders and hospital performance: Is there an association? pp. 535-539

Amanda Goodall

Bypassing health providers: The quest for better price and quality of health care in Chad pp. 540-549

Bernard Gauthier and Waly Wane

Dynamics of social health insurance development: Examining the determinants of Chinese basic health insurance coverage with panel data pp. 550-558

Jun-Qiang Liu

Does the financial protection of health insurance vary across providers? Vietnam's experience pp. 559-567

Ardeshir Sepehri, Sisira Sarma and Umut Oguzoglu

Mortality among the working age population receiving incapacity benefits in New Zealand, 1981-2004 pp. 568-575

Caroline Shaw, Tony Blakely and Martin Tobias

Trends in malnutrition among children in India: Growing inequalities across different economic groups pp. 576-585

Praveen Kumar Pathak and Abhishek Singh

The impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on immigrant health: Perceptions of immigrants in Everett, Massachusetts, USA pp. 586-594

Karen Hacker, Jocelyn Chu, Carolyn Leung, Robert Marra, Alex Pirie, Mohamed Brahimi, Margaret English, Joshua Beckmann, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Robert P. Marlin

Sex inequalities in physical and mental functioning of British, Finnish, and Japanese civil servants: Role of job demand, control and work hours pp. 595-603

Michikazu Sekine, Takashi Tatsuse, Sadanobu Kagamimori, Tarani Chandola, Noriko Cable, Michael Marmot, Pekka Martikainen, Tea Lallukka, Ossi Rahkonen and Eero Lahelma

Socioeconomic status and depression across Japan, Korea, and China: Exploring the impact of labor market structures pp. 604-614

Junko Nishimura

Sex, stressful life events, and adult onset depression and alcohol dependence: Are men and women equally vulnerable? pp. 615-622

Natalie Slopen, David R. Williams, Garrett M. Fitzmaurice and Stephen E. Gilman

Corrigendum to: "Socioeconomic influences at different life stages on health in Guangzhou, China." [Social Science & Medicine, 72 (2011), 1884-1892] pp. 623-623

Timothy M. Elwell-Sutton, Chao Qiang Jiang, Wei Sen Zhang, Kar Keung Cheng, Tai Hing Lam, Gabriel M. Leung and C.M. Schooling

2011, volume 73, articles 3

Has HIV/AIDS displaced other health funding priorities? Evidence from a new dataset of development aid for health pp. 351-355

Grace Lordan, Kam Ki Tang and Fabrizio Carmignani

Apparent displacement of global health funding priorities: Time for some difficult decisions? A commentary on Lordan, Tang and Carmignani pp. 356-358

David Berlan and Daniel T. Halperin

Moving towards universal health insurance in China: Performance, issues and lessons from Thailand pp. 359-366

Cheng Li, Xuan Yu, James R.G. Butler, Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan and Min Yu

From consent to institutions: Designing adaptive governance for genomic biobanks pp. 367-374

Kieran C. O'Doherty, Michael M. Burgess, Kelly Edwards, Richard P. Gallagher, Alice K. Hawkins, Jane Kaye, Veronica McCaffrey and David E. Winickoff

Diagnostic decision making: The last refuge for general practitioners? pp. 375-382

Marjorie Cecilia Weiss

Exercising choice: The economic determinants of physical activity behaviour of an employed population pp. 383-390

Heather Brown and Jennifer Roberts

Adolescents' expectations for the future predict health behaviors in early adulthood pp. 391-398

Thomas W. McDade, Laura Chyu, Greg Duncan, Lindsay T. Hoyt, Leah D. Doane and Emma K. Adam

Workaholism and well-being among Japanese dual-earner couples: A spillover-crossover perspective pp. 399-409

Akihito Shimazu, Evangelia Demerouti, Arnold B. Bakker, Kyoko Shimada and Norito Kawakami

Environmental justice and health: A study of multiple environmental deprivation and geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand pp. 410-420

Jamie R. Pearce, Elizabeth A. Richardson, Richard J. Mitchell and Niamh K. Shortt

Healthier before they migrate, less healthy when they return? The health of returned migrants in Mexico pp. 421-428

S. Heidi Ullmann, Noreen Goldman and Douglas S. Massey

Maternal education and adverse birth outcomes among immigrant women to the United States from Eastern Europe: A test of the healthy migrant hypothesis pp. 429-435

T. Janevic, D.A. Savitz and M. Janevic

Household and community HIV/AIDS status and child malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from the demographic and health surveys pp. 436-446

Monica A. Magadi

Does maternal autonomy influence feeding practices and infant growth in rural India? pp. 447-455

Monal R. Shroff, Paula L. Griffiths, Chirayath Suchindran, Balakrishna Nagalla, Shahnaz Vazir and Margaret E. Bentley

Mental health interventions for children in adversity: Pilot-testing a research strategy for treatment selection in low-income settings pp. 456-466

M.J.D. Jordans, W.A. Tol and I.H. Komproe

Human rights and universal access for men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs: A qualitative analysis of the 2010 UNGASS narrative country progress reports pp. 467-474

Asha Persson, Jeanne Ellard, Christy Newman, Martin Holt and John de Wit

More than a dance: The production of sexual health risk in the exotic dance clubs in Baltimore, USA pp. 475-481

Susan G. Sherman, Pamela Lilleston and Jacqueline Reuben

2011, volume 73, articles 2

The use of standard contracts in the English National Health Service: A case study analysis pp. 185-192

Christina Petsoulas, Pauline Allen, David Hughes, Peter Vincent-Jones and Jennifer Roberts

Resisting market-inspired reform in healthcare: The role of professional subcultures in medicine pp. 193-200

Pål Erling Martinussen and Jon Magnussen

Empowerment in drug treatment: Dilemmas in implementing policy in welfare institutions pp. 201-208

Vibeke Asmussen Frank and Bagga Bjerge

Stock options, tax credits or employment contracts please! The value of deliberative public disagreement about human tissue donation pp. 209-216

Heather L. Walmsley

Policy and practice in the use of root cause analysis to investigate clinical adverse events: Mind the gap pp. 217-225

Davide Nicolini, Justin Waring and Jeanne Mengis

Mothers' preferences and willingness to pay for HPV vaccines in Vinh Long Province, Vietnam pp. 226-234

Christine Poulos, Jui-Chen Yang, Carol Levin, Hoang Van Minh, Kim Bao Giang and Diep Nguyen

Estimating the economic impact of pandemic influenza: An application of the computable general equilibrium model to the UK pp. 235-244

Richard D. Smith, Marcus R. Keogh-Brown and Tony Barnett

The impact of adding an extra dimension to a preference-based measure pp. 245-253

John Brazier, Donna Rowen, Aki Tsuchiya, Yaling Yang and Tracy A. Young

Differences in health between Americans and Western Europeans: Effects on longevity and public finance pp. 254-263

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, Adam Gailey and Yuhui Zheng

The importance of gender and conceptualization for understanding the association between collective social capital and health: A multilevel analysis from northern Sweden pp. 264-273

Malin Eriksson, Nawi Ng, Lars Weinehall and Maria Emmelin

Deliberate self-harm in rural and urban regions: A comparative study of prevalence and patient characteristics pp. 274-281

Louise Harriss and Keith Hawton

Familial instability and young children's physical health pp. 282-292

Sharon H. Bzostek and Audrey N. Beck

Do changes in parent mental health explain trends in youth emotional problems? pp. 293-300

Karen Schepman, Stephan Collishaw, Frances Gardner, Barbara Maughan, Jacqueline Scott and Andrew Pickles

"Too much of that stuff can't be good": Canadian teens, morality, and fast food consumption pp. 301-307

Deborah McPhail, Gwen E. Chapman and Brenda L. Beagan

Changes in reciprocal support provision and need-based support from partners of patients undergoing radical prostatectomy pp. 308-315

Nina Knoll, Silke Burkert, Jan Roigas and Oliver Gralla

Work-related critical incidents in hospital-based health care providers and the risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety, and depression: A meta-analysis pp. 316-326

(Coby) de Boer, Jacoba, Anja Lok, Ellen van't Verlaat, Hugo J. Duivenvoorden, Arnold B. Bakker and Bert J. Smit

Human trafficking and health: A conceptual model to inform policy, intervention and research pp. 327-335

Cathy Zimmerman, Mazeda Hossain and Charlotte Watts

"They don't want our blood": Social inclusion and blood donation among African migrants in Australia pp. 336-342

Michael Jay Polonsky, Bianca Brijnath and André M.N. Renzaho

Structural determinants of adolescent girls' vulnerability to HIV: Views from community members in Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique pp. 343-350

Carol Underwood, Joanna Skinner, Nadia Osman and Hilary Schwandt

2011, volume 73, articles 1

Relationship between distance to social gathering facilities and risk of trachoma for households in rural Tanzanian communities pp. 1-5

Maggie A. Montgomery, Mayur M. Desai, Nora E. Groce and Menachem Elimelech

School-based friendship networks and children's physical activity: A spatial analytical approach pp. 6-12

Kyle Macdonald-Wallis, Russell Jago, Angie S. Page, Rowan Brockman and Janice L. Thompson

Hispanic immigrant women's perspective on healthy foods and the New York City retail food environment: A mixed-method study pp. 13-21

Yoosun Park, James Quinn, Karen Florez, Judith Jacobson, Kathryn Neckerman and Andrew Rundle

Determinants and beliefs of health information mavens among a lower-socioeconomic position and minority population pp. 22-32

Emily Z. Kontos, Karen M. Emmons, Elaine Puleo and K. Viswanath

Democracy and growth in divided societies: A health-inequality trap? pp. 33-41

Timothy Powell-Jackson, Sanjay Basu, Dina Balabanova, Martin McKee and David Stuckler

The neighborhood context of relative position, trust, and self-rated health pp. 42-49

Eileen E.S. Bjornstrom

Comparing social determinants of self-rated health across the United States and Canada pp. 50-59

Steven G. Prus

Critical health literacy: A review and critical analysis pp. 60-67

Deborah Chinn

Protecting the health of employees caring for family members with special health care needs pp. 68-78

Alison Earle and Jody Heymann

Violence against women is strongly associated with suicide attempts: Evidence from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women pp. 79-86

Karen Devries, Charlotte Watts, Mieko Yoshihama, Ligia Kiss, Lilia Blima Schraiber, Negussie Deyessa, Lori Heise, Julia Durand, Jessie Mbwambo, Henrica Jansen, Yemane Berhane, Mary Ellsberg and Claudia Garcia-Moreno

Infertility treatment and fertility-specific distress: A longitudinal analysis of a population-based sample of U.S. women pp. 87-94

Arthur L. Greil, Julia McQuillan, Michele Lowry and Karina M. Shreffler

Culture, gender and health care stigma: Practitioners' response to facial masking experienced by people with Parkinson's disease pp. 95-102

Linda Tickle-Degnen, Leslie A. Zebrowitz and Hui-ing Ma

Sakit Hati: A state of chronic mental distress related to resentment and anger amongst West Papuan refugees exposed to persecution pp. 103-110

Susan Rees and Derrick Silove

Risk and reproductive decisions: British Pakistani couples' responses to genetic counselling pp. 111-120

Alison Shaw

Electronic prescriptions and disruptions to the jurisdiction of community pharmacists pp. 121-128

Aude Motulsky, Claude Sicotte, Lise Lamothe, Nancy Winslade and Robyn Tamblyn

'Non-compliance' as illness management: Hemodialysis patients' descriptions of adversarial patient-clinician interactions pp. 129-134

Dawn Allen, Megan Wainwright and Thomas Hutchinson

Eliciting ethical and social values in health technology assessment: A participatory approach pp. 135-144

Yvonne Bombard, Julia Abelson, Dorina Simeonov and Francois-Pierre Gauvin

Community researchers conducting health disparities research: Ethical and other insights from fieldwork journaling pp. 145-152

Maghboeba Mosavel, Rashid Ahmed, Doria Daniels and Christian Simon

The effect of outpatient dialysis global budget cap on healthcare utilization by end-stage renal disease patients pp. 153-159

Ray-E. Chang, Chi-Jeng Hsieh and Robert C. Myrtle

Price subsidies and the market for mosquito nets in developing countries: A study of Tanzania's discount voucher scheme pp. 160-168

Chris D. Gingrich, Kara Hanson, Tanya Marchant, Jo-Ann Mulligan and Hadji Mponda

Taxing sin and saving lives: Can alcohol taxation reduce female homicides? pp. 169-176

Christine Piette Durrance, Shelley Golden, Krista Perreira and Philip J Cook

Life satisfaction and age: Dealing with underidentification in age-period-cohort models pp. 177-182

Joppe de Ree and Rob Alessie

Corrigendum to: "Food insecurity, social capital and perceived personal disparity in a predominantly rural region of Texas: An individual-level analysis" [Social Science & Medicine, 72, Issue 9, May 2011, Pages 1454-1462.] pp. 183-183

Wesley R. Dean and Joseph R. Sharkey