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2011, volume 72, articles 12

Analysing global health assistance: The reach for ethnographic, institutional and political economic scope pp. 1915-1920

Devi Sridhar and David Craig

Understanding use of health services in conditional cash transfer programs: Insights from qualitative research in Latin America and Turkey pp. 1921-1929

Michelle Adato, Terry Roopnaraine and Elisabeth Becker

Resource mobilization for health advocacy: Afro-Brazilian religious organizations and HIV prevention and control pp. 1930-1938

Jonathan Garcia and Richard G. Parker

What can transaction costs tell us about governance in the delivery of large scale HIV prevention programmes in southern India? pp. 1939-1947

Lorna Guinness

Effects of the World Bank's maternal and child health intervention on Indonesia's poor: Evaluating the safe motherhood project pp. 1948-1955

John Baird, Steven Ma and Jennifer Prah Ruger

National poverty reduction strategies and HIV/AIDS governance in Malawi: A preliminary study of shared health governance pp. 1956-1964

Catherine Wachira and Jennifer Prah Ruger

A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of factors associated with trends in narrowing health inequalities in England pp. 1965-1974

Tim Blackman, Jonathan Wistow and David Byrne

'Tackling health inequalities' and its pros, cons and contradictions: A commentary on Blackman, Wistow and Byrne pp. 1975-1977

Graham Scambler

Income inequality and personality: Are less equal U.S. states less agreeable? pp. 1978-1985

Robert de Vries, Samuel Gosling and Jeff Potter

Socioeconomic inequalities in old-age mortality: A comparison of Denmark and the USA pp. 1986-1992

Rasmus Hoffmann

When does neighbourhood matter? Multilevel relationships between neighbourhood social fragmentation and mental health pp. 1993-2002

Vivienne C. Ivory, Sunny C. Collings, Tony Blakely and Kevin Dew

Psychological strains and youth suicide in rural China pp. 2003-2010

Jie Zhang, William F. Wieczorek, Yeates Conwell and Xin Ming Tu

Feasibility, acceptability, and initial efficacy of a knowledge-contact program to reduce mental illness stigma and improve mental health literacy in adolescents pp. 2011-2019

Melissa D. Pinto-Foltz, M. Cynthia Logsdon and John A. Myers

Young adults' decision making surrounding heavy drinking: A multi-staged model of planned behaviour pp. 2020-2025

Jeremy Northcote

Informing health? Negotiating the logics of choice and care in everyday practices of 'healthy living' pp. 2026-2032

Flis Henwood, Roma Harris and Philippa Spoel

Scouting for talent: Appointment practices of women professors in academic medicine pp. 2033-2040

Marieke Van den Brink

Forging convictions: The effects of active participation in a clinical trial pp. 2041-2048

Clare Scott, Jan Walker, Peter White and George Lewith

Do new cohorts of family physicians work less compared to their older predecessors? The evidence from Canada pp. 2049-2058

Sisira Sarma, Amardeep Thind and Man-Kee Chu

2011, volume 72, articles 11

Genetics, health care, family and kinship in a global perspective: Situated processes of co-construction pp. 1739-1742

Klasien Horstman and Kaja Finkler

Voicing the lifeworld: Parental accounts of responsibility in genetic consultations for polycystic kidney disease pp. 1743-1751

Angus Clarke, Srikant Sarangi and Kate Verrier-Jones

Making genetics not so important: Family work in dealing with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy pp. 1752-1759

Els Geelen, Ine Van Hoyweghen and Klasien Horstman

Exploring genetic responsibility for the self, family and kin in the case of hereditary raised cholesterol pp. 1760-1767

Kate Weiner

Postgenomics, uncertain futures, and the familiarization of susceptibility genes pp. 1768-1775

Gillian Chilibeck, Margaret Lock and Megha Sehdev

They say it runs in the family: Diabetes and inheritance in Oaxaca, Mexico pp. 1776-1783

Margaret Everett

Family medicine, 'La Herencia' and breast cancer; understanding the (dis)continuities of predictive genetics in Cuba pp. 1784-1792

Sahra Gibbon

Unambiguous test results or individual independence? The role of clients and families in predictive BRCA-testing in the Netherlands compared to the USA pp. 1793-1801

Marianne Boenink

Genetic testing, governance, and the family in the People's Republic of China pp. 1802-1809

Margaret Elizabeth Sleeboom-Faulkner

Moral landscapes and everyday life in families with Huntington's disease: Aligning ethnographic description and bioethics pp. 1810-1816

Lotte Huniche

Worry, worry attacks, and PTSD among Cambodian refugees: A path analysis investigation pp. 1817-1825

Devon E. Hinton, Angela Nickerson and Richard A. Bryant

Caught in the crosshairs: Identity and cultural authority within chiropractic pp. 1826-1837

Yvonne Villanueva-Russell

Making a difference: The construction of ethnicity in HIV and STI epidemiological research by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) pp. 1838-1845

Alana Proctor, Anja Krumeich and Agnes Meershoek

Medical returns: Seeking health care in Mexico pp. 1846-1852

Sarah Horton and Stephanie Cole

Connecting food environments and health through the relational nature of aesthetics: Gaining insight through the community gardening experience pp. 1853-1863

James Hale, Corrine Knapp, Lisa Bardwell, Michael Buchenau, Julie Marshall, Fahriye Sancar and Jill S. Litt

Housing and health in three contrasting neighbourhoods in Accra, Ghana pp. 1864-1872

Godwin Arku, Isaac Luginaah, Paul Mkandawire, Philip Baiden and Alex B. Asiedu

The intersection of school racial composition and student race/ethnicity on adolescent depressive and somatic symptoms pp. 1873-1883

Katrina M. Walsemann, Bethany A. Bell and Debeshi Maitra

Socioeconomic influences at different life stages on health in Guangzhou, China pp. 1884-1892

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

Infant mortality and adult stature in Spain pp. 1893-1903

Climent Quintana-Domeque, Carlos Bozzoli and Mariano Bosch

Understanding the effect of disease adaptation information on general population values for hypothetical health states pp. 1904-1912

Helen McTaggart-Cowan, Aki Tsuchiya, Alicia O'Cathain and John Brazier

2011, volume 72, articles 10

The unspoken work of general practitioner receptionists: A re-examination of emotion management in primary care pp. 1583-1587

Jenna Ward and Robert McMurray

Understanding the interplay of time, gender and professionalism in hospital medicine in the UK pp. 1588-1594

Mustafa F. Ozbilgin, Maria Tsouroufli and Merryn Smith

Enacting 'team' and 'teamwork': Using Goffman's theory of impression management to illuminate interprofessional practice on hospital wards pp. 1595-1602

Simon Lewin and Scott Reeves

Time matters - A theoretical and empirical examination of the temporal landscape of a hospital pathology service and the impact of e-health pp. 1603-1610

Andrew Georgiou, Johanna I. Westbrook and Jeffrey Braithwaite

Sexual minority youth, social connection and resilience: From personal struggle to collective identity pp. 1611-1617

Gloria T. DiFulvio

Understanding HIV disclosure: A review and application of the Disclosure Processes Model pp. 1618-1629

Stephenie R. Chaudoir, Jeffrey D. Fisher and Jane M. Simoni

A methodology for building culture and gender norms into intervention: An example from Mumbai, India pp. 1630-1638

Kristin M. Kostick, Stephen L. Schensul, Rajendra Singh, Pertti Pelto and Niranjan Saggurti

Understanding the conviction of Binayak Sen: Neocolonialism, political violence and the political economy of health in the central Indian tribal belt pp. 1639-1642

Jonathan J. Kennedy and Lawrence P. King

Prevalence and predictors of smoking in "smoke-free" bars. Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Europe Surveys pp. 1643-1651

Gera E. Nagelhout, Ute Mons, Shane Allwright, Romain Guignard, François Beck, Geoffrey T. Fong, Hein de Vries and Marc C. Willemsen

Impact of occupational stress on stroke across occupational classes and genders pp. 1652-1658

Akizumi Tsutsumi, Kazunori Kayaba and Shizukiyo Ishikawa

Stress trajectories, health behaviors, and the mental health of black and white young adults pp. 1659-1666

Jason D. Boardman and Kari B. Alexander

Obesity disparities among disadvantaged men: National adult male inmate prevalence pooled with non-incarcerated estimates, United States, 2002-2004 pp. 1667-1673

Brian Houle

Participation among adults with disability: The role of the urban environment pp. 1674-1684

Philippa J. Clarke, Jennifer A. Ailshire, Els R. Nieuwenhuijsen and Marijke W. de Kleijn - de Vrankrijker

Rural/urban mortality differences in England and Wales and the effect of deprivation adjustment pp. 1685-1694

Andrea Gartner, Daniel Farewell, Paul Roach and Frank Dunstan

Prenatal care among immigrant and racial-ethnic minority women in a new immigrant destination: Exploring the impact of immigrant legal status pp. 1695-1703

Kim Korinek and Ken R. Smith

Is demand-side financing equity enhancing? Lessons from a maternal health voucher scheme in Bangladesh pp. 1704-1710

Shakil Ahmed and M. Mahmud Khan

Incorporating concerns for equal lifetime health in evaluations of public health programs pp. 1711-1716

Bjarne Robberstad and Ole F. Norheim

Best-worst scaling vs. discrete choice experiments: An empirical comparison using social care data pp. 1717-1727

Dimitris Potoglou, Peter Burge, Terry Flynn, Ann Netten, Juliette Malley, Julien Forder and John Brazier

The increasing value of education to health pp. 1728-1737

Dana Goldman and James P. Smith

2011, volume 72, articles 9

Environmental correlates of adiposity in 9-10 year old children: Considering home and school neighbourhoods and routes to school pp. 1411-1419

Flo Harrison, Andrew P. Jones, Esther M.F. van Sluijs, Aedín Cassidy, Graham Bentham and Simon J. Griffin

Child overweight and undernutrition in Thailand: Is there an urban effect? pp. 1420-1428

Rebecca Firestone, Sureeporn Punpuing, Karen E. Peterson, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Steven L. Gortmaker

The effect of maternal tetanus immunization on children's schooling attainment in Matlab, Bangladesh: Follow-up of a randomized trial pp. 1429-1436

David Canning, Abdur Razzaque, Julia Driessen, Damian G. Walker, Peter Kim Streatfield and Mohammad Yunus

Effect of Ecuador's cash transfer program (Bono de Desarrollo Humano) on child development in infants and toddlers: A randomized effectiveness trial pp. 1437-1446

Lia C.H. Fernald and Melissa Hidrobo

Environmental stressors, low well-being, smoking, and alcohol use among South African adolescents pp. 1447-1453

David W. Brook, Elizabeth Rubenstone, Chenshu Zhang, Neo K. Morojele and Judith S. Brook

Food insecurity, social capital and perceived personal disparity in a predominantly rural region of Texas: An individual-level analysis pp. 1454-1462

Wesley R. Dean and Joseph R. Sharkey

The association of food security with psychological distress in New Zealand and any gender differences pp. 1463-1471

Kristie N. Carter, Kerri Kruse, Tony Blakely and Sunny Collings

Does geographic access to primary healthcare influence the detection of hepatitis C? pp. 1472-1481

Thomas Astell-Burt, Robin Flowerdew, Paul J. Boyle and John F. Dillon

Social isolation, C-reactive protein, and coronary heart disease mortality among community-dwelling adults pp. 1482-1488

Kathi L. Heffner, Molly E. Waring, Mary B. Roberts, Charles B. Eaton and Robert Gramling

Similar but different: Health and economic crisis in 1990s Cuba and Russia pp. 1489-1498

Iris Borowy

Gender relations, prostate cancer and diet: Re-inscribing hetero-normative food practices pp. 1499-1506

Lawrence William Mróz, Gwen E. Chapman, John L. Oliffe and Joan L. Bottorff

Adolescent men's attitudes and decision-making in relation to an unplanned pregnancy. Responses to an interactive video drama pp. 1507-1514

Maria Lohan, Sharon Cruise, Peter O'Halloran, Fiona Alderdice and Abbey Hyde

The effect of breastfeeding on children's educational test scores at nine years of age: Results of an Irish cohort study pp. 1515-1521

Cathal McCrory and Richard Layte

Safe access to safe water in low income countries: Water fetching in current times pp. 1522-1526

Susan B. Sorenson, Christiaan Morssink and Paola Abril Campos

God-sent ordeals and their discontents: Ultra-orthodox Jewish women negotiate prenatal testing pp. 1527-1533

Tsipy Ivry, Elly Teman and Ayala Frumkin

Impacts of domestic violence on child growth and nutrition: A conceptual review of the pathways of influence pp. 1534-1554

Kathryn M. Yount, Ann M. DiGirolamo and Usha Ramakrishnan

Conceptions of acculturation: A review and statement of critical issues pp. 1555-1562

Maria Lopez-Class, Felipe González Castro and Amelie G. Ramirez

Finding the moral heart of treatment: Mental health care in a French prison pp. 1563-1569

Fabrice Fernandez and Samuel Lézé

Lay people's experiences with reading their medical record pp. 1570-1573

Torunn Wibe, Ragnhild Hellesø, Laura Slaughter and Mirjam Ekstedt

The socio-political roots of pharmaceutical uncertainty in the evaluation of 'innovative' diabetes drugs in the European Union and the US pp. 1574-1581

Courtney Davis and John Abraham

2011, volume 72, articles 8

Social capital and change in psychological health over time pp. 1219-1227

Giuseppe Nicola Giordano and Martin Lindström

Favourable changes in economic well-being and self-rated health among the elderly pp. 1228-1235

Gilbert Brenes-Camacho

Understanding how race/ethnicity and gender define age-trajectories of disability: An intersectionality approach pp. 1236-1248

David F. Warner and Tyson H. Brown

Disparity in disability between native-born non-Hispanic white and foreign-born Asian older adults in the United States: Effects of educational attainment and age at immigration pp. 1249-1257

Min-Ah Lee

Parenthood, drinking locations and heavy drinking pp. 1258-1265

Catherine Paradis

Neighborhood walkability, physical activity, and walking behavior: The Swedish Neighborhood and Physical Activity (SNAP) study pp. 1266-1273

Kristina Sundquist, Ulf Eriksson, Naomi Kawakami, Lars Skog, Henrik Ohlsson and Daniel Arvidsson

Are neighborhood education levels associated with BMI among adults in Cairo, Egypt? pp. 1274-1283

Mona Mowafi, Zeinab Khadr, S.V. Subramanian, Gary Bennett, Allan Hill and Ichiro Kawachi

Internal migration and health: Premarital sexual initiation in Nigeria pp. 1284-1293

Blessing Uchenna Mberu and Michael J. White

Internal migration and health: Re-examining the healthy migrant phenomenon in China pp. 1294-1301

Juan Chen

Building institutions for an effective health system: Lessons from China's experience with rural health reform pp. 1302-1309

Gerald Bloom

Public financial support receipt and non-medical resource utilization in Alzheimer's disease results from the PLASA study pp. 1310-1316

Thomas Rapp, Alain Grand, Christelle Cantet, Sandrine Andrieu, Nicola Coley, Florence Portet and Bruno Vellas

Patients' self-interested preferences: Empirical evidence from a priority setting experiment pp. 1317-1324

Begoña Álvarez and Eva Rodríguez-Míguez

Demand for sanitation in Salvador, Brazil: A hybrid choice approach pp. 1325-1332

Andreia C. Santos, Jennifer A. Roberts, Mauricio L. Barreto and Sandy Cairncross

Health care rationing in an age of uncertainty: A conceptual model pp. 1333-1341

Tiago Moreira

The pharmaceutical corporation and the 'good work' of managing women's bodies pp. 1342-1350

Tasleem Juana Padamsee

Dead by 50: Lay expertise and breast cancer screening pp. 1351-1358

Kristin K. Barker and Tasha R. Galardi

Tacit and transitionary: An exploration of patients' and primary care health professionals' goals in relation to asthma pp. 1359-1366

Brian Williams, Karen Steven and Frank M. Sullivan

Techniques and transitions: A sociological analysis of sleeping practices amongst recovering heroin users pp. 1367-1373

Sarah Nettleton, Joanne Neale and Lucy Pickering

On the remarkable persistence of asymmetry in doctor/patient interaction: A critical review pp. 1374-1382

Alison Pilnick and Robert Dingwall

Non-adherence to antiretroviral treatment and unplanned treatment interruption among people living with HIV/AIDS in Cameroon: Individual and healthcare supply-related factors pp. 1383-1392

Sylvie Boyer, Isabelle Clerc, Cécile-Renée Bonono, Fabienne Marcellin, Paule-Christiane Bilé and Bruno Ventelou

'All is done by Allah'. Understandings of Down syndrome and prenatal testing in Pakistan pp. 1393-1399

Louise D. Bryant, Shenaz Ahmed, Mushtaq Ahmed, Hussain Jafri and Yasmin Raashid

The limits of resilience: Distress following chronic political violence among Palestinians pp. 1400-1408

Stevan E. Hobfoll, Anthony D. Mancini, Brian J. Hall, Daphna Canetti and George A. Bonanno

Corrigendum to "Which patients improve: Characteristics increasing sensitivity to a supportive patient-practitioner relationship" [Social Science & Medicine 70 (2010) 479-484] pp. 1409-1409

Lisa Ann Conboy, Eric Macklin, John Kelley, Efi Kokkotou, Anthony Lembo, Roger Davis and Ted Kaptchuk

2011, volume 72, articles 7

The evolving socio-political context of community health worker programmes in South Africa: Implications for historical analysis. A commentary on van Ginneken, Lewin and Berridge "the emergence of community health worker programmes in the late-apartheid era in South Africa: An historical analysis"(2010) pp. 1021-1024

Dingie J. van Rensburg, Edwin Wouters and Katinka de Wet

What can be learnt from historical analysis? Community health workers and health policy in South Africa. A response to van Rensburg, H.C.J., Wouters, E., and de Wet, K.'s critique (in this issue) pp. 1025-1027

Nadja van Ginneken, Simon Lewin and Virginia Berridge

Organizational analysis of Canadian supported employment programs for people with psychiatric disabilities pp. 1028-1035

Matthew Menear, Daniel Reinharz, Marc Corbière, Nathalie Houle, Nathalie Lanctôt, Paula Goering, Elliot M. Goldner, Bonnie Kirsh and Tania Lecomte

Implementation of IPS supported employment around the world: Planned vs. unplanned dissemination. A commentary on Menear et al pp. 1036-1038

Gary R. Bond, Robert E. Drake and Deborah R. Becker

Getting evidence into policy: The need for deliberative strategies? pp. 1039-1046

Kathy Flitcroft, James Gillespie, Glenn Salkeld, Stacy Carter and Lyndal Trevena

From "our world" to the "real world": Exploring the views and behaviour of policy-influential Australian public health researchers pp. 1047-1055

Abby S. Haynes, Gjemma E. Derrick, Simon Chapman, Sally Redman, Wayne D. Hall, James Gillespie and Heidi Sturk

Journal peer review in context: A qualitative study of the social and subjective dimensions of manuscript review in biomedical publishing pp. 1056-1063

Wendy L. Lipworth, Ian H. Kerridge, Stacy M. Carter and Miles Little

Interpreting social network metrics in healthcare organisations: A review and guide to validating small networks pp. 1064-1068

Adam G. Dunn and Johanna I. Westbrook

Sourcing the crowd for health services improvement: The reflexive patient and "share-your-experience" websites pp. 1069-1076

Samantha A. Adams

Established users and the making of telecare work in long term condition management: Implications for health policy pp. 1077-1084

Anne Rogers, Sue Kirk, Claire Gately, Carl R. May and Tracy Finch

Measuring patient-centered communication in cancer care: A literature review and the development of a systematic approach pp. 1085-1095

Lauren A. McCormack, Katherine Treiman, Douglas Rupert, Pamela Williams-Piehota, Eric Nadler, Neeraj K. Arora, William Lawrence and Richard L. Street

Breast cancer delay: A grounded model of help-seeking behaviour pp. 1096-1104

Karla Unger-Saldaña and Claudia B. Infante-Castañeda

Patient resistance as agency in treatment decisions pp. 1105-1114

Christopher J. Koenig

Immunitary bioeconomy: The economisation of life in the international cord blood market pp. 1115-1122

Nik Brown, Laura Machin and Danae McLeod

Cycling and the city: A case study of how gendered, ethnic and class identities can shape healthy transport choices pp. 1123-1130

Rebecca Steinbach, Judith Green, Jessica Datta and Phil Edwards

Why healthy eating is bad for young people's health: Identity, belonging and food pp. 1131-1139

Martine Stead, Laura McDermott, Anne Marie MacKintosh and Ashley Adamson

Additive and subtractive resilience strategies as enablers of biographical reinvention: A qualitative study of ex-smokers and never-smokers pp. 1140-1148

Paul Russell Ward, Robert Muller, George Tsourtos, Deborah Hersh, Sharon Lawn, Anthony H. Winefield and John Coveney

Two year psychosocial and mental health outcomes for refugees subjected to restrictive or supportive immigration policies pp. 1149-1156

Zachary Steel, Shakeh Momartin, Derrick Silove, Marianio Coello, Jorge Aroche and Kuo Wei Tay

Delays in recognition of and Care-seeking response to prolonged labor in Bangladesh pp. 1157-1168

Sara K. Head, Kathryn M. Yount and Lynn M. Sibley

"There is such a thing as too many daughters, but not too many sons": A qualitative study of son preference and fetal sex selection among Indian immigrants in the United States pp. 1169-1176

Sunita Puri, Vincanne Adams, Susan Ivey and Robert D. Nachtigall

Different stage, different performance: The protective strategy of role play on emotional health in sex work pp. 1177-1184

Gillian M. Abel

"Over here, it's just drugs, women and all the madness": The HIV risk environment of clients of female sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico pp. 1185-1192

Shira M. Goldenberg, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Manuel Gallardo, Tim Rhodes, Karla D. Wagner and Thomas L. Patterson

Self-rated health and social capital in transitional countries: Multilevel analysis of comparative surveys in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia pp. 1193-1204

Nazim N. Habibov and Elvin Afandi

How relevant are district characteristics in explaining subjective health in Germany? - A multilevel analysis pp. 1205-1210

Katharina Diehl and Sven Schneider

The effect of survivalism-self-expressionism culture on black male suicide acceptability: A cross-national analysis pp. 1211-1218

Steven Stack and Augustine J. Kposowa

2011, volume 72, articles 6

Liberating the NHS? A commentary on the Lansley White Paper, "Equity and Excellence" pp. 815-820

Sheena Asthana

Reflections on commissioning and the English coalition government NHS reforms pp. 821-822

Donald Light and Martin Connor

Family presence in routine medical visits: A meta-analytical review pp. 823-831

Jennifer L. Wolff and Debra L. Roter

Economic evaluation to inform health care decision-making: Promise, pitfalls and a proposal for an alternative path pp. 832-839

Astrid Brousselle and Chantale Lessard

Losing life and livelihood: A systematic review and meta-analysis of unemployment and all-cause mortality pp. 840-854

David J. Roelfs, Eran Shor, Karina W. Davidson and Joseph E. Schwartz

Implementing successful intimate partner violence screening programs in health care settings: Evidence generated from a realist-informed systematic review pp. 855-866

Patricia O'Campo, Maritt Kirst, Charoula Tsamis, Catharine Chambers and Farah Ahmad

Association of physical violence by an intimate partner around the time of pregnancy with inadequate gestational weight gain pp. 867-873

Hind A. Beydoun, Hala Tamim, Alicia M. Lincoln, Suzanna D. Dooley and May A. Beydoun

Psychosocial influences on prisoner suicide: A case-control study of near-lethal self-harm in women prisoners pp. 874-883

Lisa Marzano, Keith Hawton, Adrienne Rivlin and Seena Fazel

Do local landmark bridges increase the suicide rate? An alternative test of the likely effect of means restriction at suicide-jumping sites pp. 884-889

Garrett Glasgow

Social factors associated with nitrogen dioxide (NO2) exposure during pregnancy: The INMA-Valencia project in Spain pp. 890-898

Sabrina Llop, Ferran Ballester, Marisa Estarlich, Carmen Iñiguez, Rosa Ramón, MCarmen Gonzalez, Mario Murcia, Ana Esplugues and Marisa Rebagliato

Health among hospital employees in Europe: A cross-national study of the impact of work stress and work control pp. 899-906

Tjasa Pisljar, Tanja van der Lippe and Laura den Dulk

The deleterious consequences of privatization and outsourcing for hospital support work: The experiences of contracted-out hospital cleaners and dietary aids in Vancouver, Canada pp. 907-911

Daniyal M. Zuberi and Melita B. Ptashnick

Compliant, complacent or panicked? Investigating the problematisation of the Australian general public in pandemic influenza control pp. 912-918

Mark Davis, Niamh Stephenson and Paul Flowers

The determinants of the adoption of pharmaceutical innovation: Evidence from Taiwan pp. 919-927

Ya-Ming Liu, Yea-Huei Kao Yang and Chee-Ruey Hsieh

Do pharmaceuticals displace local knowledge and use of medicinal plants? Estimates from a cross-sectional study in a rural indigenous community, Mexico pp. 928-936

Peter Giovannini, Victoria Reyes-García, Anna Waldstein and Michael Heinrich

Introducing malaria rapid diagnostic tests at registered drug shops in Uganda: Limitations of diagnostic testing in the reality of diagnosis pp. 937-944

Clare I.R. Chandler, Rachel Hall-Clifford, Turinde Asaph, Magnussen Pascal, Siân Clarke and Anthony K. Mbonye

Strange bedfellows: The Catholic Church and Brazilian National AIDS Program in the response to HIV/AIDS in Brazil pp. 945-952

Laura R. Murray, Jonathan Garcia, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy and Richard G. Parker

Making sense of condoms: Social representations in young people's HIV-related narratives from six African countries pp. 953-961

Kate Winskell, Oby Obyerodhyambo and Rob Stephenson

Children's understanding of the selling versus persuasive intent of junk food advertising: Implications for regulation pp. 962-968

Owen B.J. Carter, Lisa J. Patterson, Robert J. Donovan, Michael T. Ewing and Clare M. Roberts

Food provisioning experiences of ultra poor female heads of household living in Bangladesh pp. 969-976

Lynn McIntyre, Krista Rondeau, Sharon Kirkpatrick, Jennifer Hatfield, Khaled Shamsul Islam and Syed Nazmul Huda

Explaining racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes: Unique sources of stress for Black American women pp. 977-983

Lisa Rosenthal and Marci Lobel

Motherhood, pregnancy, and the negotiation of identity: The moral career of drug treatment pp. 984-991

Polly Radcliffe

Negotiating desires and options: How mothers who carry the fragile X gene experience reproductive decisions pp. 992-998

Kelly Amanda Raspberry and Debra Skinner

Selection in utero contributes to the male longevity deficit pp. 999-1003

Ralph Catalano

Infant mortality, season of birth and the health of older Puerto Rican adults pp. 1004-1015

Mary McEniry

Reconstructing dose: A commentary on McEniry pp. 1016-1017

Ralph Catalano, Claire E. Margerison-Zilko, Katherine Saxton, Kaja LeWinn and Elizabeth Anderson

In utero exposures, season of birth and population studies of older adults: Author's reply pp. 1018-1020

Mary C. McEniry

2011, volume 72, articles 4

Effect of increased private share of inpatient psychiatric resources on jail population growth: Evidence from the United States pp. 447-455

Jangho Yoon

Dysfunctional social control of mental illness: A commentary on Yoon pp. 456-459

Fred. E. Markowitz

Managing Prader-Willi syndrome in families: An embodied exploration pp. 460-468

Kerry Allen

Does parental capital influence the prevalence of child overweight and parental perceptions of child weight-level? pp. 469-477

Vibeke T. Christensen

'I'm a bad mum': Pregnant presenteeism and poor health at work pp. 478-485

Caroline Jane Gatrell

Gender and the hygiene hypothesis pp. 486-493

Sharyn Clough

Explaining the curvilinear relationship between age at first birth and depression among women pp. 494-503

Daniel L. Carlson

How do patients come to be seen as 'difficult'?: A mixed-methods study in community mental health care pp. 504-512

B. Koekkoek, G. Hutschemaekers, B. van Meijel and A. Schene

Professional relations in sport healthcare: Workplace responses to organisational change pp. 513-520

Dominic Malcolm and Andrea Scott

What does an e-mail address add? - Doing health and technology at home pp. 521-528

Hege K. Andreassen

Negotiating competency, professionalism and risk: The integration of complementary and alternative medicine by nurses and midwives in NHS hospitals pp. 529-536

Sarah Cant, Peter Watts and Annmarie Ruston

Translational science and the hidden research system in universities and academic hospitals: A case study pp. 537-544

Bryn Lander and Janet Atkinson-Grosjean

The "biosecuritization" of healthcare delivery: Examples of post-9/11 technological imperatives pp. 545-552

Jill A. Fisher and Torin Monahan

Constructing access in predictive medicine. Comparing classification for hereditary breast cancer risks in England, Germany and the Netherlands pp. 553-559

Erik Aarden, Ine Van Hoyweghen and Klasien Horstman

Privatization of social services: Quality differences in Swedish elderly care pp. 560-567

Ragnar Stolt, Paula Blomqvist and Ulrika Winblad

Factors in health initiative success: Learning from Nepal's newborn survival initiative pp. 568-575

Stephanie L. Smith and Shailes Neupane

Job loss and depression: The role of subjective expectations pp. 576-583

Bidisha Mandal, Padmaja Ayyagari and William T. Gallo

Social capital and self-rated health in Colombia: The good, the bad and the ugly pp. 584-590

David Hurtado, Ichiro Kawachi and John Sudarsky

The interaction of personal and parental education on health pp. 591-599

Catherine E. Ross and John Mirowsky

Social inequalities in the association between partner/marital status and health among workers in Spain pp. 600-607

Lucia Artazcoz, Imma Cortès, Carme Borrell, Vicenta Escribà-Agüir and Lorena Cascant

Attributable risk of psychiatric and socio-economic factors for suicide from individual-level, population-based studies: A systematic review pp. 608-616

Zhuoyang Li, Andrew Page, Graham Martin and Richard Taylor

World health inequality: Convergence, divergence, and development pp. 617-624

Rob Clark

Socioeconomic context and gastroschisis: Exploring associations at various geographic scales pp. 625-633

Elisabeth D. Root, Robert E. Meyer and Michael Emch

2011, volume 72, articles 3

Health geography in 'Steel City': Selected papers from the XIII International Medical Geography Symposium, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, July 2009 pp. 317-318

Gavin J. Andrews and Susan J. Elliott

'Vulnerability is universal': Considering the place of 'security' and 'vulnerability' within contemporary global health discourse pp. 319-326

Tim Brown

Entitlements to health care: Why is there a preference for private facilities among poorer residents of Chennai, India? pp. 327-337

Christina R. Ergler, Patrick Sakdapolrak, Hans-Georg Bohle and Robin A. Kearns

The influence of culture on home-based family caregiving at end-of-life: A case study of Dutch reformed family care givers in Ontario, Canada pp. 338-346

Rhonda Donovan, Allison Williams, Kelli Stajduhar, Kevin Brazil and Denise Marshall

Telecare and older people: Who cares where? pp. 347-354

Christine Milligan, Celia Roberts and Maggie Mort

Aboriginal peoples, health and healing approaches: The effects of age and place on health pp. 355-364

Kathi Wilson, Mark W. Rosenberg and Sylvia Abonyi

Aging, health and place in residential care facilities in Beijing, China pp. 365-372

Yang Cheng, Mark W. Rosenberg, Wuyi Wang, Linsheng Yang and Hairong Li

Explaining place-based colorectal cancer health disparities: Evidence from a rural context pp. 373-382

Kirsten M.M. Beyer, Sara Comstock, Renea Seagren and Gerard Rushton

Examining spatial variations in the prevalence of mental health problems among 5-year-old children in Canada pp. 383-388

Robert Raos and Magdalena Janus

Deprivation (im)mobility and cause-specific premature mortality in Scotland pp. 389-397

Daniel J. Exeter, Paul J. Boyle and Paul Norman

Conflict and human African trypanosomiasis pp. 398-407

Lea Berrang-Ford, Jamie Lundine and Sebastien Breau

Malaria risk behaviours, socio-cultural practices and rural livelihoods in southern Tanzania: Implications for bednet usage pp. 408-417

Christine E. Dunn, Ann Le Mare and Christina Makungu

Using a neural network for mining interpretable relationships of West Nile risk factors pp. 418-429

Debarchana Ghosh and Rajarshi Guha

Do area characteristics predict change in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity from ages 11 to 15 years? pp. 430-438

Roman Pabayo, Jay Belsky, Lise Gauvin and Sarah Curtis

Concept mapping of diet and physical activity: Uncovering local stakeholders perception in the Quebec City region pp. 439-445

Alexandre Lebel, Michael Cantinotti, Robert Pampalon, Marius Thériault, Lindsay A. Smith and Anne-Marie Hamelin

2011, volume 72, articles 2

The patchwork: Health reform, American style pp. 125-128

Theodore Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander

Historical and comparative reflections on the U.S. national health insurance reforms pp. 129-132

Donald Light

Measuring and decomposing socioeconomic inequality in healthcare delivery: A microsimulation approach with application to the Palestinian conflict-affected fragile setting pp. 133-141

Mohammad Abu-Zaineh, Awad Mataria, Jean-Paul Moatti and Bruno Ventelou

Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: Swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1) pp. 142-148

Olivier Chanel, Stéphane Luchini, Sébastien Massoni and Jean-Christophe Vergnaud

Fishing in dangerous waters: Ecology, gender and economy in HIV risk pp. 149-156

Sanyu A. Mojola

Equity aspects of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana: Who is enrolling, who is not and why? pp. 157-165

Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Genevieve Aryeetey, Ernst Spaan, Thomas Hoop, Irene Agyepong and Rob Baltussen

Effect of the Arizona tobacco control program on cigarette consumption and healthcare expenditures pp. 166-172

James Lightwood and Stanton Glantz

Do the poor cost much more? The relationship between small area income deprivation and length of stay for elective hip replacement in the English NHS from 2001 to 2008 pp. 173-184

Richard Cookson and Mauro Laudicella

Measuring and valuing productivity loss due to poor health: A critical review pp. 185-192

Wei Zhang, Nick Bansback and Aslam H. Anis

Change in income and change in self-rated health: Systematic review of studies using repeated measures to control for confounding bias pp. 193-201

Fiona Imlach Gunasekara, Kristie Carter and Tony Blakely

The antagonism of push and pull strategies, and the current funding campaigns to fight orphan diseases pp. 202-205

Patrick Leoni

Ageing and disability: Job satisfaction differentials across Europe pp. 206-215

Ricardo Pagan Rodriguez

Utilization of HIV-related services from the private health sector: A multi-country analysis pp. 216-223

Wenjuan Wang, Sara Sulzbach and Susna De

Socioeconomic inequalities in the diffusion of health technology: Uptake of coronary procedures as an example pp. 224-229

Rosemary J. Korda, Mark S. Clements and Jane Dixon

Limited English proficient Asian Americans: Threshold language policy and access to mental health treatment pp. 230-237

Lonnie R. Snowden, Mary C. Masland, Carol J. Peng, Christine Wei-Mien Lou and Neal T. Wallace

The role of leader behaviors in hospital-based emergency departments' unit performance and employee work satisfaction pp. 238-246

Blossom Yen-Ju Lin, Chung-Ping C. Hsu, Chi-Wen Juan, Cheng-Chieh Lin, Hung-Jung Lin and Jih-Chang Chen

Referral to and attitude towards traditional Chinese medicine amongst western medical doctors in postcolonial Hong Kong pp. 247-255

Vincent C.H. Chung, Sheila Hillier, Chun Hong Lau, Samuel Y.S. Wong, Eng Kiong Yeoh and Sian M. Griffiths

"So We Adapt Step by Step": Acculturation experiences affecting diabetes management and perceived health for Chinese American immigrants pp. 256-264

Kevin M. Chun, Catherine A. Chesla and Christine M.L. Kwan

Boundaries and risk: Media framing of assisted reproductive technologies and older mothers pp. 265-272

Patricia Campbell

Food security and humanitarian assistance among displaced Iraqi populations in Jordan and Syria pp. 273-282

Shannon Doocy, Adam Sirois, Jamie Anderson, Margarita Tileva, Elizabeth Biermann, J. Douglas Storey and Gilbert Burnham

Young people living with parental bereavement: Insights from an ethnographic study of a UK childhood bereavement service pp. 283-290

Joanne D. Brewer and Andrew C. Sparkes

Effects of social integration on health: A prospective study of community engagement among African American women pp. 291-298

Kate E. Fothergill, Margaret E. Ensminger, Judy Robertson, Kerry M. Green, Roland J. Thorpe and Hee-Soon Juon

Does social trust at school affect students' smoking and drinking behavior in Japan? pp. 299-306

Minoru Takakura

Do biological measures mediate the relationship between education and health: A comparative study pp. 307-315

Noreen Goldman, Cassio Turra, Luis Rosero-Bixby, David Weir and Eileen Crimmins

2011, volume 72, articles 1

Major reductions in global suicide numbers can be made rapidly through pesticide regulation without the need for psychosocial interventions pp. 1-2

Michael Eddleston and D. Nicholas Bateman

Pesticides, paracetamol and psychosocial interventions: A reply to a commentary on Florentine and Crane pp. 3-5

Julia B. Florentine and Catherine Crane

Ironic technology: Old age and the implantable cardioverter defibrillator in US health care pp. 6-14

Sharon R. Kaufman, Paul S. Mueller, Abigale L. Ottenberg and Barbara A. Koenig

The construction of ethnic differences in work incapacity risks: Analysing ordering practices of physicians in the Netherlands pp. 15-22

Agnes Meershoek, Anja Krumeich and Rein Vos

Accessing the field: Disability and the research process pp. 23-30

Lindsey Brown and Felicity K. Boardman

Unpacking capacity to utilize research: A tale of the Burkina Faso public health association pp. 31-38

Nadia Hamel and Ted Schrecker

Health sector decentralization and local decision-making: Decision space, institutional capacities and accountability in Pakistan pp. 39-48

Thomas John Bossert and Andrew David Mitchell

How will e-health affect patient participation in the clinic? A review of e-health studies and the current evidence for changes in the relationship between medical professionals and patients pp. 49-53

Christine Dedding, Roesja van Doorn, Lex Winkler and Ria Reis

Internet peer support for individuals with psychiatric disabilities: A randomized controlled trial pp. 54-62

Katy Kaplan, Mark S. Salzer, Phyllis Solomon, Eugene Brusilovskiy and Pamela Cousounis

Effectiveness of a video-based motivational skills-building HIV risk-reduction intervention for female military personnel pp. 63-71

E. James Essien, Osaro Mgbere, Emmanuel Monjok, Ernest Ekong, Marcia M. Holstad and Seth C. Kalichman

Examining the association of abortion history and current mental health: A reanalysis of the National Comorbidity Survey using a common-risk-factors model pp. 72-82

Julia R. Steinberg and Lawrence B. Finer

Predictors of alcohol use prior to pregnancy recognition among township women in Cape Town, South Africa pp. 83-90

Mary J. O'Connor, Mark Tomlinson, Ingrid M. LeRoux, Jacqueline Stewart, Erin Greco and Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus

"When you got nothing to do, you do somebody": A community's perceptions of neighborhood effects on adolescent sexual behaviors pp. 91-99

Aletha Y. Akers, Melvin R. Muhammad and Giselle Corbie-Smith

Do early-life conditions predict functional health status in adulthood? The case of Mexico pp. 100-107

Cheng Huang, Beth J. Soldo and Irma T. Elo

Inequalities in childhood cancer mortality according to parental socioeconomic position: A birth cohort study in South Korea pp. 108-115

Mia Son, Jongoh Kim, Juhwan Oh and Ichiro Kawachi

A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between changes in socio-economic status and changes in health pp. 116-123

Björn Halleröd and Jan-Eric Gustafsson