Social Science & Medicine

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2010, volume 71, articles 12

An appreciation of Mildred Blaxter, 1925-2010 pp. 2047-2048

Sally Macintyre

Effects of child health on housing in the urban U.S pp. 2049-2056

Marah A. Curtis, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman

Are local health department expenditures related to racial disparities in mortality? pp. 2057-2065

David Grembowski, Betty Bekemeier, Douglas Conrad and William Kreuter

Mortality and business cycles by level of development: Evidence from Mexico pp. 2066-2073

Fidel Gonzalez and Troy Quast

Demand for voluntary health insurance in developing countries: The case of Vietnam's school-age children and adolescent student health insurance program pp. 2074-2082

Ha Nguyen and James Knowles

Economic fluctuations and suicide: A comparison of Taiwan and Hong Kong pp. 2083-2090

Ying-Yeh Chen, Paul S.F. Yip, Carmen Lee, Hsiang-Fang Fan and King-Wa Fu

Sex differences in physical and mental functioning of Japanese civil servants: Explanations from work and family characteristics pp. 2091-2099

Michikazu Sekine, Tarani Chandola, Pekka Martikainen, Michael Marmot and Sadanobu Kagamimori

What does "occupation" represent as an indicator of socioeconomic status?: Exploring occupational prestige and health pp. 2100-2107

Kaori Fujishiro, Jun Xu and Fang Gong

Metropolitan isolation segregation and Black-White disparities in very preterm birth: A test of mediating pathways and variance explained pp. 2108-2116

Michael R. Kramer, Hannah L. Cooper, Carolyn D. Drews-Botsch, Lance A. Waller and Carol R. Hogue

The geography of institutional psychiatric care in France 1800-2000: Historical analysis of the spatial diffusion of specialised facilities for institutional care of mental illness pp. 2117-2129

Magali Coldefy and Sarah E. Curtis

Employment relations, social class and health: A review and analysis of conceptual and measurement alternatives pp. 2130-2140

Carles Muntaner, Carme Borrell, Christophe Vanroelen, Haejoo Chung, Joan Benach, Il Ho Kim and Edwin Ng

Inventory and analysis of definitions of social participation found in the aging literature: Proposed taxonomy of social activities pp. 2141-2149

Mélanie Levasseur, Lucie Richard, Lise Gauvin and Émilie Raymond

Correlates and consequences of internalized stigma for people living with mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 2150-2161

James D. Livingston and Jennifer E. Boyd

Chinese and American employers' perspectives regarding hiring people with behaviorally driven health conditions: The role of stigma pp. 2162-2169

Patrick W. Corrigan, Hector W.H. Tsang, Kan Shi, Chow S. Lam and Jon Larson

Experience of human rights violations and subsequent mental disorders - A study following the war in the Balkans pp. 2170-2177

Stefan Priebe, Marija Bogic, Richard Ashcroft, Tanja Franciskovic, Gian Maria Galeazzi, Abdulah Kucukalic, Dusica Lecic-Tosevski, Nexhmedin Morina, Mihajlo Popovski, Michael Roughton, Matthias Schützwohl and Dean Ajdukovic

The gendered experience of stigmatization in severe and persistent mental illness in Lima, Peru pp. 2178-2186

Chantal Robillard

Precarious spaces: Risk, responsibility and uncertainty in school-based suicide prevention programs pp. 2187-2194

Jennifer White and Jonathan Morris

Medical training as adventure-wonder and adventure-ordeal: A dialogical analysis of affect-laden pedagogy pp. 2195-2203

Anne Madill and Paul Sullivan

Fresh or frozen? Classifying 'spare' embryos for donation to human embryonic stem cell research pp. 2204-2211

Kathryn Ehrich, Clare Williams and Bobbie Farsides

Experiences of, and attitudes towards, pregnancy and fatherhood amongst incarcerated young male offenders: Findings from a qualitative study pp. 2212-2218

Katie Margaret Buston

Special issue call for papers: Challenges of changing health behaviours pp. 2219-2219

Frances Aboud

2010, volume 71, articles 11

Virtual special issue introduction: Health behaviour change pp. 1897-1900

Frances E. Aboud

Impacts of a support intervention for low-income women who smoke pp. 1901-1909

Miriam J. Stewart, Kaysi Eastlick Kushner, Lorraine Greaves, Nicole Letourneau, Denise Spitzer and Madeline Boscoe

The value of more information: A commentary on Stewart et al pp. 1910-1912

Dean R. Lillard

Participatory pilot interventions for vulnerable populations: A response to Lillard pp. 1913-1915

Miriam J. Stewart, Nicole L. Letourneau and Kaysi E. Kushner

An RCT study to evaluate a targeted, theory driven healthy eating leaflet pp. 1916-1920

Holly J. Baker, Laurie T. Butler, Stephanie A. Chambers, William Traill, Alexandra Lobb and Georgia Herbert

Factors associated with partner referral among patients with sexually transmitted infections in Bangladesh pp. 1921-1926

Nazmul Alam, Peter Kim Streatfield, Sharful Islam Khan, Dalia Momtaz, Sibylle Kristensen and Sten H. Vermund

A life-cycle approach to the analysis of the relationship between social capital and health in Britain pp. 1927-1934

Francesca Borgonovi

Do the wealthy have a health advantage? Cardiovascular disease risk factors and wealth pp. 1935-1942

A. Hajat, J.S. Kaufman, K.M. Rose, A. Siddiqi and J.C. Thomas

Neighborhoods, daily activities, and measuring health risks experienced in urban environments pp. 1943-1950

Luke A. Basta, Therese S. Richmond and Douglas J. Wiebe

Scottish mortality rates 2000-2002 by deprivation and small area population mobility pp. 1951-1957

Denise Brown and Alastair H. Leyland

National female literacy, individual socio-economic status, and maternal health care use in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1958-1963

Sarah McTavish, Spencer Moore, Sam Harper and John Lynch

Income-related health inequalities in the Nordic countries: Examining the role of education, occupational class, and age pp. 1964-1972

Tim Huijts, Terje Andreas Eikemo and Vera Skalická

Reducing child malnutrition in Nigeria: Combined effects of income growth and provision of information about mothers' access to health care services pp. 1973-1980

Mark D. Agee

Do self-perceived health changes predict longevity? pp. 1981-1988

Esen Erdogan-Ciftci, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Teresa Bago d'Uva and Frank van Lenthe

Extending transaction cost economics: Towards a synthesised approach for analysing contracting in health care markets with experience from the Australian private sector pp. 1989-1996

Ronald Donato

Integrated care in the emergency department: A complex adaptive systems perspective pp. 1997-2004

Peter Nugus, Katherine Carroll, David G. Hewett, Alison Short, Roberto Forero and Jeffrey Braithwaite

Discursive gaps in the implementation of public health policy guidelines in India: The case of HIV testing pp. 2005-2013

Kabir Sheikh and John Porter

Increasing supply of dentists induces their geographic diffusion in contrast with physicians in Japan pp. 2014-2019

Satoshi Toyokawa and Yasuki Kobayashi

Urban-rural differences in dental caries of 5-year old children in Scotland pp. 2020-2027

Kate A. Levin, Carolyn A. Davies, Gail V.A. Douglas and Nigel B. Pitts

False hope: Effects of social class and health policy on oral health inequalities for migrant farmworker families pp. 2028-2037

Heide Castañeda, Iraida V. Carrion, Nolan Kline and Dinorah Martinez Tyson

Birth choices in Timor-Leste: A framework for understanding the use of maternal health services in low resource settings pp. 2038-2045

Kayli Wild, Lesley Barclay, Paul Kelly and Nelson Martins

Corrigendum to: "Suicide prevention by limiting access to methods: A review of theory and practice" [Social Science & Medicine, 70, (2010), 1626-1632] pp. 2046-2046

Julia Buus Florentine and Catherine Crane

2010, volume 71, articles 10

Joining-up thinking: Loss in childbearing from inter-disciplinary perspectives pp. 1703-1710

Bregje de Kok, Julia Hussein and Patricia Jeffery

Only when the boat has started sinking: A maternal death in rural north India pp. 1711-1718

Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery

Confronting maternal mortality, controlling birth in Nepal: The gendered politics of receiving biomedical care at birth pp. 1719-1727

Jan Brunson

A lost cause? Extending verbal autopsy to investigate biomedical and socio-cultural causes of maternal death in Burkina Faso and Indonesia pp. 1728-1738

Lucia D'Ambruoso, Peter Byass, Siti Nurul Qomariyah and Moctar Ouédraogo

Assessing and understanding quality of care in a labour ward: A pilot study combining clinical and social science perspectives in Gondar, Ethiopia pp. 1739-1748

Emma Pitchforth, Richard J. Lilford, Yigzaw Kebede, Getahun Asres, Charlotte Stanford and Jodie Frost

Beyond body counts: A qualitative study of lives and loss in Burkina Faso after 'near-miss' obstetric complications pp. 1749-1756

Katerini Tagmatarchi Storeng, Susan F. Murray, Mélanie S. Akoum, Fatoumata Ouattara and Véronique Filippi

Loss in childbearing among Gambia's kanyalengs: Using a stratified reproduction framework to expand the scope of sexual and reproductive health pp. 1757-1763

Carolyn A. Hough

"These are not good things for other people to know": How rural Tanzanian women's experiences of pregnancy loss and early neonatal death may impact survey data quality pp. 1764-1772

Rachel A. Haws, Irene Mashasi, Mwifadhi Mrisho, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, Gary L. Darmstadt and Peter J. Winch

Marginal matters: Pregnancy loss as a social event pp. 1773-1779

Erica van der Sijpt

Health seeking behaviour of childless women in Bangladesh: An ethnographic exploration for the special issue on: Loss in child bearing pp. 1780-1787

Papreen Nahar

Linking two opposites of pregnancy loss: Induced abortion and infertility in Yoruba society, Nigeria pp. 1788-1795

Winny Koster

How children and young people construct and negotiate living with medical technology pp. 1796-1803

Susan Kirk

"So we started talking about a beach in Barbados": Visualization practices and needle phobia pp. 1804-1810

Gavin J. Andrews and David Shaw

Do patient autonomy preferences matter? Linking patient-centered care to patient-physician relationships and health outcomes pp. 1811-1818

Yin-Yang Lee and Julia L. Lin

Can we explain increases in young people's psychological distress over time? pp. 1819-1830

Helen Sweeting, Patrick West, Robert Young and Geoff Der

Marital status and gender differences in managing a chronic illness: The function of health-related social control pp. 1831-1838

Kristin J. August and Dara H. Sorkin

Translating HIV interventions into practice: Community-based organizations' experiences with the diffusion of effective behavioral interventions (DEBIs) pp. 1839-1846

M. Margaret Dolcini, Alice A. Gandelman, Stacy A. Vogan, Carol Kong, Tia-Nicole Leak, A.J. King, Linda DeSantis and Ann O'Leary

Adversities in childhood and adult psychopathology in the South Africa Stress and Health Study: Associations with first-onset DSM-IV disorders pp. 1847-1854

Natalie Slopen, David R. Williams, Soraya Seedat, Hashim Moomal, Allen Herman and Dan J. Stein

Spirituality within the family and the prevention of health risk behavior among adolescents in Bangkok, Thailand pp. 1855-1863

Aphichat Chamratrithirong, Brenda A. Miller, Hilary F. Byrnes, Orratai Rhucharoenpornpanich, Pamela K. Cupp, Michael J. Rosati, Warunee Fongkaew, Katharine A. Atwood and Warunee Chookhare

Socioeconomic variation in the impact of obesity on health-related quality of life pp. 1864-1871

Jonas Minet Kinge and Stephen Morris

Examining cost variation across hospital departments-a two-stage multi-level approach using patient-level data pp. 1872-1881

Mauro Laudicella, Kim Rose Olsen and Andrew Street

Estimating the additional cost of disability: Beyond budget standards pp. 1882-1889

Laura Wilkinson-Meyers, Paul Brown, Robert McNeill, Philip Patston, Sacha Dylan and Ronelle Baker

Measurement challenges of informal caregiving: A novel measurement method applied to a cohort of palliative care patients pp. 1890-1895

Serge Dumont, Philip Jacobs, Véronique Turcotte, Donna Anderson and François Harel

2010, volume 71, articles 9

Virtual special issue introduction: Public participation in health policy in high income countries - A review of why, who, what, which, and where? pp. 1537-1540

Tim Tenbensel

Configuring users of cholesterol lowering foods: A review of biomedical discourse pp. 1541-1547

Kate Weiner

Cancergazing? CA125 and post-treatment surveillance in advanced ovarian cancer pp. 1548-1556

Christopher F.C. Jordens, Bronwen Morrell, Paul Harnett, Kim Hobbs, Catherine Mason and Ian H. Kerridge

Looking upstream to understand low back pain and return to work: Psychosocial factors as the product of system issues pp. 1557-1566

Sophie Soklaridis, Carlo Ammendolia and David Cassidy

Young women facing multiple and intersecting stressors of modernity, gender orders and youth pp. 1567-1575

Maria Wiklund, Carita Bengs, Eva-Britt Malmgren-Olsson and Ann Öhman

"I feel like half my body is clogged up": Lay models of stroke in Central Aceh, Indonesia pp. 1576-1583

Meriel Norris, Pascale Allotey and Geraldine Barrett

Social networks and contraception practice of women in rural Bangladesh pp. 1584-1592

Kaberi Gayen and Robert Raeside

Knowledge, legitimacy and economic practice in informal markets for medicine: A critical review of research pp. 1593-1600

Jamie Cross and Hayley Nan MacGregor

Social venues that protect against and promote HIV risk for young men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania pp. 1601-1609

Thespina J. Yamanis, Suzanne Maman, Jessie K. Mbwambo, Jo Anne E. Earp and Lusajo J. Kajula

Migration-related health inequalities: Showing the complex interactions between gender, social class and place of origin pp. 1610-1619

Davide Malmusi, Carme Borrell and Joan Benach

From places to flows. International secondary migration and birth outcomes pp. 1620-1626

Marcelo L. Urquia, John W. Frank and Richard H. Glazier

The availability of community ties predicts likelihood of peer referral for mammography: Geographic constraints on viral marketing pp. 1627-1635

Brian G. Southwell, Jonathan S. Slater, Alexander J. Rothman, Laura M. Friedenberg, Tiffany R. Allison and Christina L. Nelson

Characterizing self-rated health during a period of changing health status pp. 1636-1643

Anthony V. Perruccio, Elizabeth M. Badley, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson and Aileen M. Davis

Social inequalities in childhood dental caries: The convergent roles of stress, bacteria and disadvantage pp. 1644-1652

W. Thomas Boyce, Pamela K. Den Besten, Juliet Stamperdahl, Ling Zhan, Yebin Jiang, Nancy E. Adler and John D. Featherstone

Exploring the associations between intimate partner violence and women's mental health: Evidence from a population-based study in Paraguay pp. 1653-1661

Kanako Ishida, Paul Stupp, Mercedes Melian, Florina Serbanescu and Mary Goodwin

Does volunteering moderate the relation between functional limitations and mortality? pp. 1662-1668

Morris A. Okun, Kristin J. August, Karen S. Rook and Jason T. Newsom

Mediating processes in bereavement: The role of rumination, threatening grief interpretations, and deliberate grief avoidance pp. 1669-1676

Karolijne van der Houwen, Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut, Wolfgang Stroebe and Jan van den Bout

A policy case study of blood in Australia pp. 1677-1682

Nicholas Graves, Gina Clare, Mary Haines and Robert Bird

Overcoming gendered and professional hierarchies in order to facilitate escalation of care in emergency situations: The role of standardised communication protocols pp. 1683-1686

Nicola Mackintosh and Jane Sandall

Moral distress experienced by health care professionals who provide home-based palliative care pp. 1687-1691

Kevin Brazil, Sharon Kassalainen, Jenny Ploeg and Denise Marshall

The influence of organizational context on quality improvement and patient safety efforts in infection prevention: A multi-center qualitative study pp. 1692-1701

Sarah L. Krein, Laura J. Damschroder, Christine P. Kowalski, Jane Forman, Timothy P. Hofer and Sanjay Saint

2010, volume 71, articles 8

Culture, status and context in community health worker pay: Pitfalls and opportunities for policy research. A commentary on Glenton et al. (2010) pp. 1375-1378

Kenneth C. Maes, Brandon A. Kohrt and Svea Closser

Should we care what policy makers think? A response to Maes, Kohrt and Closser pp. 1379-1380

Claire Glenton, Inger B. Scheel, Sabina Pradhan, Simon Lewin and Stephen Hodgins

Assisting war-torn populations - Should we prioritize reducing daily stressors to improve mental health? Comment on Miller and Rasmussen (2010) pp. 1381-1384

Frank Neuner

Mental health and armed conflict: The importance of distinguishing between war exposure and other sources of adversity: A response to Neuner pp. 1385-1389

Kenneth E. Miller and Andrew Rasmussen

The public health critical race methodology: Praxis for antiracism research pp. 1390-1398

Chandra L. Ford and Collins O. Airhihenbuwa

Longing to belong: Social inclusion and wellbeing among youth with refugee backgrounds in the first three years in Melbourne, Australia pp. 1399-1408

Ignacio Correa-Velez, Sandra M. Gifford and Adrian G. Barnett

Structural forces and the production of TB-related stigma among Haitians in two contexts pp. 1409-1417

Jeannine Coreil, Gladys Mayard, Kelly M. Simpson, Michael Lauzardo, Yiliang Zhu and Mitchell Weiss

Disability and self-rated health among older women and men in rural Guatemala: The role of obesity and chronic conditions pp. 1418-1427

Kathryn M. Yount, John Hoddinott and Aryeh D. Stein

Spatial and socio-behavioral patterns of HIV prevalence in the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 1428-1435

Jane P. Messina, Michael Emch, Jeremie Muwonga, Kashamuka Mwandagalirwa, Samuel B. Edidi, Nicaise Mama, Augustin Okenge and Steven R. Meshnick

Understanding community context and adult health changes in China: Development of an urbanicity scale pp. 1436-1446

Jessica C. Jones-Smith and Barry M. Popkin

Effects of cumulative risk on behavioral and psychological well-being in first grade: Moderation by neighborhood context pp. 1447-1454

Julie Lima, Margaret Caughy, Saundra M. Nettles and Patricia J. O'Campo

The impact of downsizing on remaining workers' sickness absence pp. 1455-1462

Ståle Østhus and Arne Mastekaasa

Christmas and New Year as risk factors for death pp. 1463-1471

David Phillips, Gwendolyn E. Barker and Kimberly M. Brewer

Do gender differences in mental health contribute to gender differences in physical health? pp. 1472-1479

Belinda Needham and Terrence D. Hill

Exploring the ambiguities of masculinity in accounts of emotional distress in the military among young ex-servicemen pp. 1480-1488

Gill Green, Carol Emslie, Dan O'Neill, Kate Hunt and Steven Walker

Parents who use drugs: Accounting for damage and its limitation pp. 1489-1497

Tim Rhodes, Sarah Bernays and Kathrin Houmoller

'All in the same boat'? Patient and carer attitudes to peer support and social comparison in Motor Neurone Disease (MND) pp. 1498-1505

Louise Locock and Janice B. Brown

Professional autonomy in 21st century healthcare: Nurses' accounts of clinical decision-making pp. 1506-1512

Michael Traynor, Maggie Boland and Niels Buus

The natural, the normal and the normative: Contested terrains in ageing and old age pp. 1513-1519

Ian Rees Jones and Paul F. Higgs

Advancing health equity in the global marketplace: How human rights can help pp. 1520-1526

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

The changing role of agriculture in tobacco control policymaking: A South Carolina case study pp. 1527-1534

Sarah Sullivan and Stanton Glantz

Erratum to: "Epidemiological transition: Model or illusion? A look at the problem of health in Mexico" [Social Science & Medicine, 57, (2003), 539-550] pp. 1535-1535

Carolina Martínez S. and Gustavo Leal F.

2010, volume 71, articles 7

Changes in the editorial team and innovations at Social Science & Medicine pp. 1219-1220

Ellen Annandale

Reactions to Fair Society, Healthy Lives (The Marmot Review) pp. 1221-1222

Malavika A. Subramanyam, Ichiro Kawachi and S.V. Subramanian

Investing in health to improve the wellbeing of the disadvantaged: Reversing the argument of Fair Society, Healthy Lives (The Marmot Review) pp. 1223-1226

David Canning and Diana Bowser

Rising up with shoe leather? A comment on Fair Society, Healthy Lives (The Marmot Review) pp. 1227-1230

Amitabh Chandra and Tom S. Vogl

Against the organization of misery? The Marmot Review of health inequalities pp. 1231-1233

Kate E. Pickett and Danny Dorling

Swimming upstream? Taking action on the social determinants of health inequalities pp. 1234-1236

Margaret Whitehead and Jennie Popay

The Marmot Review - Social revolution by Stealth pp. 1237-1239

Constance Nathanson and Kim Hopper

Evidence-based politics: How successful have government reviews been as policy instruments to reduce health inequalities in England? pp. 1240-1243

Philippa Howden-Chapman

Inequalities in child healthy development: Some challenges for effective implementation pp. 1244-1248

John W. Lynch, Catherine Law, Sally Brinkman, Catherine Chittleborough and Michael Sawyer

Has the English strategy to reduce health inequalities failed? pp. 1249-1253

Johan P. Mackenbach

A social movement, based on evidence, to reduce inequalities in health pp. 1254-1258

Michael Marmot, Jessica Allen and Peter Goldblatt

Physical functioning among mid-life women: Associations with trajectory of depressive symptoms pp. 1259-1267

Kristin Tomey, MaryFran R. Sowers, Sioban Harlow, Mary Jannausch, Huiyong Zheng and Joyce Bromberger

Do Mexican immigrants "import" social gradients in health to the US? pp. 1268-1276

Alison Buttenheim, Noreen Goldman, Anne R. Pebley, Rebeca Wong and Chang Chung

Factors associated with the perpetration of sexual violence among wine-shop patrons in Chennai, India pp. 1277-1284

Vivian F. Go, Aylur K. Srikrishnan, Megan L. Salter, Shruti Mehta, Sethulakshmi C. Johnson, Sudha Sivaram, Wendy Davis, Suniti Solomon and David D. Celentano

Cancer and mastery: Do age and cohort matter? pp. 1285-1291

Tetyana Pudrovska

Research on meaning-making and health in secular society: Secular, spiritual and religious existential orientations pp. 1292-1299

Peter la Cour and Niels C. Hvidt

Bullying victimisation, self harm and associated factors in Irish adolescent boys pp. 1300-1307

Elaine M. McMahon, Udo Reulbach, Helen Keeley, Ivan J. Perry and Ella Arensman

You can't get anything perfect: "User perspectives on the delivery of cognitive behavioural therapy by telephone" pp. 1308-1315

Penny Elizabeth Bee, Karina Lovell, Nicola Lidbetter, Katherine Easton and Linda Gask

Food, eating and taste: Parents' perspectives on the making of the middle class teenager pp. 1316-1323

Kathryn C. Backett-Milburn, Wendy J. Wills, Mei-Li Roberts and Julia Lawton

"More natural but less normal": Reconsidering medicalisation and agency through women's accounts of menstrual suppression pp. 1324-1331

Jessica Shipman Gunson

Lean healthcare: Rhetoric, ritual and resistance pp. 1332-1340

Justin J. Waring and Simon Bishop

Niche players in health policy: Medical specialty societies in Congress 1969-2002 pp. 1341-1348

Aaron Rabinowitz and Miriam Laugesen

A new approach to global health institutions? A case study of new vaccine introduction and the formation of the GAVI Alliance pp. 1349-1356

Kristin Ingstad Sandberg, Steinar Andresen and Gunnar Bjune

The "aid contract" and its compensation scheme: A case study of the performance of the Ugandan health sector pp. 1357-1365

Valeria Oliveira Cruz and Barbara McPake

Poverty and childhood undernutrition in developing countries: A multi-national cohort study pp. 1366-1373

Stavros Petrou and Emil Kupek

Corrigendum to: "Understanding factors influencing substance use in people with recent onset psychosis: A qualitative study" [Social Science & Medicine 70 (2010) 1141-1147] pp. 1374-1374

Fiona Lobban, Christine Barrowclough, Sophie Jeffery, Sandra Bucci, Katherine Taylor, Sara Mallinson, Mike Fitzsimmons and Max Marshall

2010, volume 71, articles 6

Evidence and policymaking: The introduction of MMR vaccine in the Netherlands pp. 1049-1055

Stuart Blume and Janneke Tump

Evidence based public health: A review of the experience of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) of developing public health guidance in England pp. 1056-1062

Michael Kelly, Antony Morgan, Simon Ellis, Tricia Younger, Jane Huntley and Catherine Swann

From mainstream to marginal? Trends in the use of Chinese medicine in China from 1991 to 2004 pp. 1063-1067

Lei Jin

'Fantastic hands' - But no evidence: The construction of expertise by users of CAM pp. 1068-1075

Inge Kryger Pedersen and Charlotte Baarts

The medicalisation of 'tall' girls: A discourse analysis of medical literature on the use of synthetic oestrogen to reduce female height pp. 1076-1083

Jo-Anne Rayner, Priscilla Pyett and Jill Astbury

Medical specialty prestige and lifestyle preferences for medical students pp. 1084-1088

Peter A. Creed, Judy Searle and Mary E. Rogers

Cervical cancer screening in Malaysia: Are targeted interventions necessary? pp. 1089-1093

Richard Dunn and Andrew K.G. Tan

"I like to be an informed person but..." negotiating responsibility for treatment decisions in cancer care pp. 1094-1101

Christina Sinding, Pamela Hudak, Jennifer Wiernikowski, Jane Aronson, Pat Miller, Judy Gould and Donna Fitzpatrick-Lewis

Chasing the dragon: Developing indicators for the assessment of community participation in health programmes pp. 1102-1109

Alizon Katharine Draper, Gillian Hewitt and Susan Rifkin

The emergence of community health worker programmes in the late apartheid era in South Africa: An historical analysis pp. 1110-1118

Nadja van Ginneken, Simon Lewin and Virginia Berridge

Exploring the use of social network methods in designing healthcare quality improvement teams pp. 1119-1130

David Meltzer, Jeanette Chung, Parham Khalili, Elizabeth Marlow, Vineet Arora, Glen Schumock and Ron Burt

Rural vs urban hospital performance in a 'competitive' public health service pp. 1131-1140

Javier Garcia-Lacalle and Emilio Martin

Associations between income inequality at municipality level and health depend on context - A multilevel analysis on myocardial infarction in Sweden pp. 1141-1149

Göran Henriksson, Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft and Peter Allebeck

Socioeconomic position, gender, health behaviours and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and diabetes pp. 1150-1160

Anne Kavanagh, Rebecca J. Bentley, Gavin Turrell, Jonathan Shaw, David Dunstan and S.V. Subramanian

The effect of immigrant generation and duration on self-rated health among US adults 2003-2007 pp. 1161-1172

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Lisa M. Bates, Theresa L. Osypuk and Nancy McArdle

The mental health and psychosocial adjustment of Cuban immigrants in south Florida pp. 1173-1181

Andrew M. Cislo, Naomi J. Spence and Mathew D. Gayman

Do experiences of racial discrimination predict cardiovascular disease among African American men? The moderating role of internalized negative racial group attitudes pp. 1182-1188

David H. Chae, Karen D. Lincoln, Nancy E. Adler and S. Leonard Syme

The contribution of smoking and obesity to income-related inequalities in health in England pp. 1189-1198

Laura Vallejo-Torres and Stephen Morris

Intimate partner violence and initiation of smoking and drinking: A population-based study of women in Yokohama, Japan pp. 1199-1207

Mieko Yoshihama, Julie Horrocks and Deborah Bybee

Trajectory of functional status among older Taiwanese: Gender and age variations pp. 1208-1217

Jersey Liang, Chia-Ning Wang, Xiao Xu, Hui-Chuan Hsu, Hui-Shen Lin and Yu-Hsuan Lin

Corrigendum to: "Harmed patients gaining voice: Challenging dominant perspectives in the construction of medical harm and patient safety reforms" [Social Science & Medicine 71 (2010) 510-516] pp. 1218-1218

Josephine Enyonam Ocloo

2010, volume 71, articles 5

Politics and health in eight European countries: A comparative study of mortality decline under social democracies and right-wing governments pp. 841-850

José A. Tapia Granados

Politics, public health and pessimism: Should we take studies on welfare states and public health further? A commentary on Tapia Granados pp. 851-852

Olle Lundberg

Jade and the journalists: Media coverage of a young British celebrity dying of cancer pp. 853-860

Tony Walter

How the mass media report social statistics: A case study concerning research on end-of-life decisions pp. 861-868

Clive Seale

Masculinity, moralities and being cared for: An exploration of experiences of living and dying in a hospice pp. 869-876

Alex Broom and John Cavenagh

Smokers' accounts on the health risks of smoking: Why is smoking not dangerous for me? pp. 877-883

Hanne Heikkinen, Kristiina Patja and Piia Jallinoja

'Waiting until they got home': Gender, smoking and tobacco exposure in households in Scotland pp. 884-890

Jude Robinson, Deborah Ritchie, Amanda Amos, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Lorraine Greaves and Claudia Martin

Westernization and tobacco use among young people in Delhi, India pp. 891-897

Melissa Stigler, Poonam Dhavan, Duncan Van Dusen, Monika Arora, K.S. Reddy and Cheryl L. Perry

How and where clinicians exercise power: Interprofessional relations in health care pp. 898-909

Peter Nugus, David Greenfield, Joanne Travaglia, Johanna Westbrook and Jeffrey Braithwaite

Genetic unexceptionalism: Clinician accounts of genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia pp. 910-917

Catherine M. Will, David Armstrong and Theresa M. Marteau

The effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on fertility pp. 918-924

Madeline Zavodny and Marianne Bitler

The tradeoff between centralized and decentralized health services: Evidence from rural areas in Mexico pp. 925-934

Arturo Vargas Bustamante

Improved health outcomes in urban slums through infrastructure upgrading pp. 935-940

Neel M. Butala, Michael J. VanRooyen and Ronak Bhailal Patel

Childhood nutritional deprivation and cognitive impairment among older Chinese people pp. 941-949

Zhenmei Zhang, Danan Gu and Mark D. Hayward

A consideration of medicalisation: Choice, engagement and other responsibilities of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder pp. 950-957

Kylie Valentine

Sibling supervision and young children's risk of injury: A comparison of mothers' and older siblings' reactions to risk taking by a younger child in the family pp. 958-965

Barbara Morrongiello, Sarah Schmidt and Stacy L. Schell

AIDS in the family and community: The impact on child health in Malawi pp. 966-974

Rachel Kidman, James A. Hanley, S.V. Subramanian, Geoff Foster and Jody Heymann

Exploring children's stigmatisation of AIDS-affected children in Zimbabwe through drawings and stories pp. 975-985

Catherine Campbell, Morten Skovdal, Zivai Mupambireyi and Simon Gregson

Working outside of the box: How HIV counselors in Sub-Saharan Africa adapt Western HIV testing norms pp. 986-993

Nicole Angotti

Hygiene and sanitation among ethnic minorities in Northern Vietnam: Does government promotion match community priorities? pp. 994-1001

Thilde Rheinländer, Helle Samuelsen, Anders Dalsgaard and Flemming Konradsen

Health status, health behaviour and healthcare use among migrants in the UK: Evidence from mothers in the Millennium Cohort Study pp. 1002-1010

Hiranthi Jayaweera and Maria A. Quigley

Dissonances in self-reported health and mortality across denominational groups in Northern Ireland pp. 1011-1017

Dermot O'Reilly and Michael Rosato

The associations of household wealth and income with self-rated health - A study on economic advantage in middle-aged Finnish men and women pp. 1018-1026

Akseli Aittomäki, Pekka Martikainen, Mikko Laaksonen, Eero Lahelma and Ossi Rahkonen

Short and long sleep are positively associated with obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease among adults in the United States pp. 1027-1036

Orfeu M. Buxton and Enrico Marcelli

A four year (1996-2000) analysis of social capital and health status of Canadians: The difference that love makes pp. 1037-1044

Reza Nakhaie and Robert Arnold

In memory of Charles Leslie pp. 1045-1046

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

Corrigendum to: "Resources and obstacles to developing and implementing a structural intervention to prevent HIV in San Salvador, El Salvador" [Social Science & Medicine, 70 (2010), 351-359] pp. 1047-1047

Julia Dickson-Gomez, A. Michelle Corbett, Gloria Bodnar, Karla Rodriguez and Carmen E. Guevara

2010, volume 71, articles 4

Rethinking measurement of neighborhood in the context of health research pp. 651-656

Nicole Schaefer-McDaniel, James R. Dunn, Nadia Minian and Danielle Katz

Seasonality in suicide - A review and search of new concepts for explaining the heterogeneous phenomena pp. 657-666

Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, Matthias Bopp, Mariann Ring, Felix Gutzwiller and Wulf Rossler

Policy implications of a financial incentive programme to retain a physician workforce in underserved Japanese rural areas pp. 667-671

Masatoshi Matsumoto, Kazuo Inoue and Eiji Kajii

Changing maternity leave policy: Short-term effects on fertility rates and demographic variables in Germany pp. 672-676

Jochen René Thyrian, Konstanze Fendrich, Anja Lange, Johannes-Peter Haas, Marek Zygmunt and Wolfgang Hoffmann

Ethical challenges in the provision of end-of-life care in Norwegian nursing homes pp. 677-684

Elisabeth Gjerberg, Reidun Førde, Reidar Pedersen and Georg Bollig

Pragmatic evidence and textual arrangements: A case study of French clinical cancer guidelines pp. 685-692

Loes Knaapen, Hervé Cazeneuve, Alberto Cambrosio, Patrick Castel and Beatrice Fervers

Contextualizing diversity and culture within cancer control interventions for Latinas: Changing interventions, not cultures pp. 693-701

Deborah O. Erwin, Michelle Treviño, Frances G. Saad-Harfouche, Elisa M. Rodriguez, Elizabeth Gage and Lina Jandorf

What drives patients to sue doctors? The role of cultural factors in the pursuit of malpractice claims in Taiwan pp. 702-707

Yu-Chan Chiu

Can arts projects improve young people's wellbeing? A social capital approach pp. 708-716

Katherine Rebecca Hampshire and Mathilde Matthijsse

Have investments in on-reserve health services and initiatives promoting community control improved First Nations' health in Manitoba? pp. 717-724

Josée Gabrielle Lavoie, Evelyn Forget, Tara Prakash, Matt Dahl, Patricia Martens and John D. O'Neil

Contemporary neuroscience in the media pp. 725-733

Eric Racine, Sarah Waldman, Jarett Rosenberg and Judy Illes

Specifying the effects of religion on medical helpseeking: The case of infertility pp. 734-742

Arthur Greil, Julia McQuillan, Maureen Benjamins, David R. Johnson, Katherine M. Johnson and Chelsea R. Heinz

From targeted exemptions to user fee abolition in health care: Experience from rural Zambia pp. 743-750

Felix Masiye, Bona M. Chitah and Diane McIntyre

Decentralized health care priority-setting in Tanzania: Evaluating against the accountability for reasonableness framework pp. 751-759

Stephen Maluka, Peter Kamuzora, Miguel San Sebastiån, Jens Byskov, Øystein E. Olsen, Elizabeth Shayo, Benedict Ndawi and Anna-Karin Hurtig

Use of biomedical obstetric care in rural Tanzania: The role of social and material inequalities pp. 760-768

Sydney A. Spangler and Shelah S. Bloom

The meaning of "control" for childbearing women in the US pp. 769-776

Emily E. Namey and Anne Drapkin Lyerly

Relative deprivation and child health in the USA pp. 777-785

Aparna Lhila and Kosali I. Simon

Residential mobility in the UK during pregnancy and infancy: Are pregnant women, new mothers and infants 'unhealthy migrants'? pp. 786-798

Helena Tunstall, Kate Pickett and Sarah Johnsen

Anywhere, anytime: Retail access to tobacco in New South Wales and its potential impact on consumption and quitting pp. 799-806

Christine L. Paul, Kathleen J. Mee, Tanya M. Judd, Raoul A. Walsh, Anita Tang, Andrew Penman and Afaf Girgis

Love thy neighbour? Associations of social capital and crime with physical activity amongst women pp. 807-814

Kylie Ball, Verity J. Cleland, Anna F. Timperio, Jo Salmon, Billie Giles-Corti and David A. Crawford

Unemployment and self-rated health: Neighborhood influence pp. 815-823

Luana Giatti, Sandhi M. Barreto and Cibele C. César

Substance abuse and mental health disparities: Comparisons across sexual identity groups in a national sample of young Australian women pp. 824-831

Tonda Hughes, Laura A. Szalacha and Ruth McNair

Peer norms and consistent condom use with female sex workers among male clients in Sichuan province, China pp. 832-839

Cui Yang, Carl Latkin, Rongsheng Luan and Kenrad Nelson

2010, volume 71, articles 3

Application of directional statistics to health state valuation: A commentary on Craig and Oppe pp. 429-430

James W. Shaw, A. Simon Pickard and Ronald R. Yager

The association of earnings with health in middle age: Do self-reported earnings for the previous year tell the whole story? pp. 431-439

David H. Rehkopf, Christopher Jencks and M. Maria Glymour

The impact of pharmaceutical policy measures: An endogenous structural-break approach pp. 440-450

Pedro Barros and Luis Nunes

Professional status in a changing world: The case of medicines use reviews in English community pharmacy pp. 451-458

Ruth McDonald, Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Caroline Sanders and Darren Ashcroft

The social context of change in tobacco consumption following the introduction of 'smokefree' England legislation: A qualitative, longitudinal study pp. 459-466

Katrina Hargreaves, Amanda Amos, Gill Highet, Claudia Martin, Stephen Platt, Deborah Ritchie and Martin White

Exploratory study of the impacts of Mutual Health Organizations on social dynamics in Benin pp. 467-474

Valery Ridde, Slim Haddad, Moussa Yacoubou and Ismaelou Yacoubou

Medical dominance and neoliberalisation in maternal care provision: The evidence from Canada and Australia pp. 475-481

Cecilia Benoit, Maria Zadoroznyj, Helga Hallgrimsdottir, Adrienne Treloar and Kara Taylor

A rapid method for assessing social versus independent interest in health issues: A case study of 'bird flu' and 'swine flu' pp. 482-485

R. Alexander Bentley and Paul Ormerod

How do structured education programmes work? An ethnographic investigation of the dose adjustment for normal eating (DAFNE) programme for type 1 diabetes patients in the UK pp. 486-493

Julia Lawton and David Rankin

Intervention-mediated effects for adult physical activity: A latent growth curve analysis pp. 494-501

Scott C. Roesch, Greg J. Norman, Feion Villodas, James F. Sallis and Kevin Patrick

Design-based regulation and patient safety: A regulatory studies perspective pp. 502-509

Karen Yeung and Mary Dixon-Woods

Harmed patients gaining voice: Challenging dominant perspectives in the construction of medical harm and patient safety reforms pp. 510-516

Josephine Enyonam Ocloo

Poverty and common mental disorders in low and middle income countries: A systematic review pp. 517-528

Crick Lund, Alison Breen, Alan J. Flisher, Ritsuko Kakuma, Joanne Corrigall, John A. Joska, Leslie Swartz and Vikram Patel

Do mental health and behavioural problems of early menarche persist into late adolescence? A three year follow-up study among adolescent girls in Oslo, Norway pp. 529-533

Lars Lien, Ole Rikard Haavet and Florence Dalgard

Linking hospital workers' organisational work environment to depressive symptoms: A mediating effect of effort-reward imbalance? The ORSOSA study pp. 534-540

Anne Jolivet, Sandrine Caroly, Virgine Ehlinger, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Cyrille Delpierre, Franck Balducci, Annie Sobaszek, Régis De Gaudemaris and Thierry Lang

Is neighborhood racial/ethnic composition associated with depressive symptoms? The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis pp. 541-550

Christina Mair, Ana V. Diez Roux, Theresa L. Osypuk, Stephen R. Rapp, Teresa Seeman and Karol E. Watson

Mortality consequences of the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward famine in China: Debilitation, selection, and mortality crossovers pp. 551-558

Shige Song

A multi-level analysis of urban/rural and socioeconomic differences in functional health status transition among older Chinese pp. 559-567

Zachary Zimmer, Ming Wen and Toshiko Kaneda

Gender differences in relationships between urban green space and health in the United Kingdom pp. 568-575

Elizabeth A. Richardson and Richard Mitchell

How do masculinity, paternity leave, and mortality associate? -A study of fathers in the Swedish parental & child cohort of 1988/89 pp. 576-583

Anna Månsdotter and Andreas Lundin

Child obesity associated with social disadvantage of children's neighborhoods pp. 584-591

H. Mollie Greves Grow, Andrea J. Cook, David E. Arterburn, Brian E. Saelens, Adam Drewnowski and Paula Lozano

The epidemiology of spirit possession in the aftermath of mass political violence in Mozambique pp. 592-599

Victor Igreja, Beatrice Dias-Lambranca, Douglas A. Hershey, Limore Racin, Annemiek Richters and Ria Reis

Do stigma, blame and stereotyping contribute to unsafe sexual behaviour? A test of claims about the spread of HIV/AIDS arising from social representation theory and the AIDS risk reduction model pp. 600-607

Gerard Anthony Riley and Dinah Baah-Odoom

Chasing spirits: Clarifying the spirit child phenomenon and infanticide in Northern Ghana pp. 608-615

Aaron R. Denham, Philip B. Adongo, Nicole Freydberg and Abraham Hodgson

A multi-level model of condom use among male and female upper primary school students in Nyanza, Kenya pp. 616-625

Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale and Eric Y. Tenkorang

Soft targets or partners in health? Retail pharmacies and their role in Tanzania's malaria control program pp. 626-633

Vinay R. Kamat and Daniel J. Nyato

Women's empowerment and reproductive experiences over the lifecourse pp. 634-642

Susan M. Lee-Rife

Narratives of deprivation: Women's life stories around Maori sudden infant death syndrome pp. 643-649

Verne McManus, Sally Abel, Tim McCreanor and David Tipene-Leach

2010, volume 71, articles 2

Silencing distressed children in the context of war in northern Uganda: An analysis of its dynamics and its health consequences pp. 213-220

Grace Akello, Ria Reis and Annemiek Richters

Human-initiated disaster, social disorganization and post-traumatic stress disorder above Nigeria's oil basins pp. 221-227

Morton Beiser, Owens Wiwa and Sylvia Adebajo

Context, evidence and attitude: The case for photography in medical examinations of asylum seekers in the Netherlands pp. 228-235

Rebekah Park and Janus Oomen

Between the lines: Republicanism, dissenters and the politics of meta-trauma in the Northern Irish conflict pp. 236-243

Olaf Zenker

Death knocks, professional practice, and the public good: The media experience of suicide reporting in New Zealand pp. 244-248

Sunny C. Collings and Christopher G. Kemp

Contribution to knowledge about media professionals' experiences with reporting suicide. A commentary on Collings and Kemp pp. 249-250

Jane Elizabeth Pirkis

A new conceptualization of ethnicity for social epidemiologic and health equity research pp. 251-258

Chandra L. Ford and Nina T. Harawa

Life-course financial strain and health in African-Americans pp. 259-265

Sarah L. Szanton, Roland J. Thorpe and Keith Whitfield

Is wealthier always healthier? The impact of national income level, inequality, and poverty on public health in Latin America pp. 266-273

Brian Biggs, Lawrence King, Sanjay Basu and David Stuckler

Racial differences in stage at diagnosis and survival from epithelial ovarian cancer: A fundamental cause of disease approach pp. 274-281

Seijeoung Kim, Therese A. Dolecek and Faith G. Davis

Is socioeconomic disparity in disability improving among Korean elders? pp. 282-287

Soong-Nang Jang, Sung-il Cho and Ichiro Kawachi

Does education buffer the impact of disability on psychological distress? pp. 288-297

Jornt J. Mandemakers and Christiaan W.S. Monden

Work stress of primary care physicians in the US, UK and German health care systems pp. 298-304

Johannes Siegrist, Rebecca Shackelton, Carol Link, Lisa Marceau, Olaf von dem Knesebeck and John McKinlay

Gender differences in depression in 23 European countries. Cross-national variation in the gender gap in depression pp. 305-313

Sarah Van de Velde, Piet Bracke and Katia Levecque

Fever, malaria and primary repetition rates amongst school children in Mali: Combining demographic and health surveys (DHS) with spatial malariological measures pp. 314-323

Josselin Thuilliez

Malaria and primary education in Mali: A longitudinal study in the village of Donéguébougou pp. 324-334

Josselin Thuilliez, Mahamadou S. Sissoko, Ousmane B. Toure, Paul Kamate, Jean-Claude Berthélemy and Ogobara K. Doumbo

Investigating the association between HIV/AIDS and recent fertility patterns in Kenya pp. 335-344

Monica Akinyi Magadi and Alfred O. Agwanda

Antiretroviral therapy and reproductive life projects: Mitigating the stigma of AIDS in Nigeria pp. 345-352

Daniel Jordan Smith and Benjamin C. Mbakwem

Somali immigrant women and the American health care system: Discordant beliefs, divergent expectations, and silent worries pp. 353-361

Carol Lynn Pavlish, Sahra Noor and Joan Brandt

Therapeutic networks of pregnancy care: Bengali immigrant women in New York City pp. 362-369

Ranjana Chakrabarti

Negotiating normalization: The perils of producing pregnancy symptoms in prenatal care pp. 370-377

Danielle Bessett

'Containment' as an analytical framework for understanding patient delay: A qualitative study of cancer patients' symptom interpretation processes pp. 378-385

Rikke Sand Andersen, Bjarke Paarup, Peter Vedsted, Flemming Bro and Jens Soendergaard

No one listens to me, nobody believes me: Self management and the experience of living with encephalitis pp. 386-393

Karl Atkin, Sally Stapley and Ava Easton

Network analysis as a tool to assess the intersectoral management of health determinants at the local level: A report from an exploratory study of two Cuban municipalities pp. 394-399

Nino Pagliccia, Jerry Spiegel, Milagros Alegret, Mariano Bonet, Barbara Martinez and Annalee Yassi

Disparities in systems development for elder abuse prevention among municipalities in Japan: Implications for strategies to help municipalities develop community systems pp. 400-404

Miharu Nakanishi, Taeko Nakashima and Tatsuo Honda

Direct and indirect effects of obesity on U.S. labor market outcomes of older working age adults pp. 405-413

F. Renna and Nidhi Thakur

Health outcomes of Experience Corps®: A high-commitment volunteer program pp. 414-420

S.I. Hong and Nancy Morrow-Howell

Waiting is the hardest part: Anticipating medical test results affects processing and recall of important information pp. 421-428

David B. Portnoy

2010, volume 71, articles 1

Race and shared decision-making: Perspectives of African-Americans with diabetes pp. 1-9

Monica E. Peek, Angela Odoms-Young, Michael T. Quinn, Rita Gorawara-Bhat, Shannon C. Wilson and Marshall H. Chin

What do we mean by 'racism'? Conceptualising the range of what we call racism in health care settings: A commentary on Peek et al pp. 10-12

Hannah Bradby

Racism in healthcare: Its relationship to shared decision-making and health disparities: A response to Bradby pp. 13-17

Monica E. Peek, Angela Odoms-Young, Michael T. Quinn, Rita Gorawara-Bhat, Shannon C. Wilson and Marshall H. Chin

Help seeking for cardiac symptoms: Beyond the masculine-feminine binary pp. 18-24

Paul M. Galdas, Joy L. Johnson, Myra E. Percy and Pamela A. Ratner

Gender equity in treatment for cardiac heart disease in Portugal pp. 25-29

Julian Perelman, Ceu Mateus and Ana Fernandes

Attrition from self-directed interventions: Investigating the relationship between psychological predictors, intervention content and dropout from a body dissatisfaction intervention pp. 30-37

Adam W.A. Geraghty, Alex M. Wood and Michael E. Hyland

Effectiveness of a knowledge-contact program in improving nursing students' attitudes and emotional competence in serving people living with HIV/AIDS pp. 38-44

Jessie W. Yiu, Winnie W.S. Mak, Winnie S. Ho and Ying Yu Chui

Narratives that address affective forecasting errors reduce perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening pp. 45-52

Amanda J. Dillard, Angela Fagerlin, Sonya Dal Cin, Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher and Peter A. Ubel

'It would be nice if they could give us more language' - Serving South Africa's multilingual patient base pp. 53-61

Ana Deumert

Choosing early pregnancy termination methods in Urban Mozambique pp. 62-70

Ellen M.H. Mitchell, Amata Kwizera, Momade Usta and Hailemichael Gebreselassie

Suffering, hope, and entrapment: Resilience and cultural values in Afghanistan pp. 71-83

Mark Eggerman and Catherine Panter-Brick

The influence of social stigma and discriminatory experience on psychological distress and quality of life among rural-to-urban migrants in China pp. 84-92

Bo Wang, Xiaoming Li, Bonita Stanton and Xiaoyi Fang

Individual and environmental correlates of dietary fat intake in rural communities: A structural equation model analysis pp. 93-101

April K. Hermstad, Deanne W. Swan, Michelle C. Kegler, J.K. Barnette and Karen Glanz

Role of neighbourhoods in child growth and development: Does 'place' matter? pp. 102-109

Bilal Iqbal Avan and Betty Kirkwood

Long-term economic costs of psychological problems during childhood pp. 110-115

James Patrick Smith and Gillian C. Smith

Measurement of health, health inequality, and reporting heterogeneity pp. 116-124

Nicolas Ziebarth

Individual vulnerability and the nurturing state: The case of self-reported health and relative income pp. 125-133

Carina A. Furnée and Gerard Pfann

Heavy drinking and health promotion activities pp. 134-142

Susan L. Ettner, Michael T. French and Ioana Popovici

Education, alcohol use and abuse among young adults in Britain pp. 143-151

Maria C. Huerta and Francesca Borgonovi

Experimental evidence of welfare reform impact on clinical anxiety and depression levels among poor women pp. 152-160

Radha Jagannathan, Michael J. Camasso and Usha Sambamoorthi

Religion and conscientious objection: A survey of pharmacists' willingness to dispense medications pp. 161-165

Laura A. Davidson, Clare T. Pettis, Amber J. Joiner, Daniel M. Cook and Craig M. Klugman

Nurses, Inc.: Expansion and commercialization of nursing education in the Philippines pp. 166-172

Leah E. Masselink and Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee

Interpersonal conflict and depression among Japanese workers with high or low socioeconomic status: Findings from the Japan Work Stress and Health Cohort Study pp. 173-180

Akiomi Inoue and Norito Kawakami

Loneliness and risk of mortality: A longitudinal investigation in Alameda County, California pp. 181-186

Andrew C. Patterson and Gerry Veenstra

Life course socioeconomic position is associated with inflammatory markers: The Framingham Offspring Study pp. 187-195

Eric B. Loucks, Louise Pilote, John W. Lynch, Hugues Richard, Nisha D. Almeida, Emelia J. Benjamin and Joanne M. Murabito

Financial hardship and psychological distress: Exploring the buffering effects of religion pp. 196-204

Matt Bradshaw and Christopher G. Ellison

A Latino advantage in oral health-related quality of life is modified by nativity status pp. 205-211

Anne E. Sanders