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2009, volume 69, articles 12

New approaches to researching patient safety pp. 1701-1704

Rick Iedema

The geography of patient safety: A topical analysis of sterility pp. 1705-1712

Jessica Mesman

Sociological refigurations of patient safety; ontologies of improvement and 'acting with' quality collaboratives in healthcare pp. 1713-1721

Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Mathilde Strating, Anna Nieboer and Roland Bal

Constructing and re-constructing narratives of patient safety pp. 1722-1731

Justin J. Waring

Intergroup communication between hospital doctors: Implications for quality of patient care pp. 1732-1740

David G. Hewett, Bernadette M. Watson, Cindy Gallois, Michael Ward and Barbara A. Leggett

A problem shared...? Teamwork, autonomy and error in assisted conception pp. 1741-1749

Anne Kerr

Affect is central to patient safety: The horror stories of young anaesthetists pp. 1750-1756

Rick Iedema, Christine Jorm and Martin Lum

Uptake of a team briefing in the operating theatre: A Burkean dramatistic analysis pp. 1757-1766

Sarah Whyte, Carrie Cartmill, Fauzia Gardezi, Richard Reznick, Beverley A. Orser, Diane Doran and Lorelei Lingard

Studying large-scale programmes to improve patient safety in whole care systems: Challenges for research pp. 1767-1776

Jonathan Benn, Susan Burnett, Anam Parand, Anna Pinto, Sandra Iskander and Charles Vincent

Social scientists and patient safety: Critics or contributors? pp. 1777-1779

Charles Vincent

The contribution of new social science research to patient safety pp. 1780-1783

John Ovretveit

Clinical trials as treatment option: Bioethics and health care disparities in substance dependency pp. 1784-1790

Stefan Timmermans and Tara McKay

Therapeutic misconception and the limits of ethnography. A commentary on Timmermans and McKay pp. 1791-1792

Charles W. Lidz

The bioethical misconception: A response to Lidz pp. 1793-1796

Tara McKay and Stefan Timmermans

Healthy partnerships, healthy citizens? An international review of partnerships in health and social care and patient/user outcomes pp. 1797-1804

Kirstein Rummery

Exploring patient involvement in healthcare decision making across different education and functional health literacy groups pp. 1805-1812

Sian K. Smith, Ann Dixon, Lyndal Trevena, Don Nutbeam and Kirsten J. McCaffery

How are organisational climate models and patient satisfaction related? A competing value framework approach pp. 1813-1818

Alessandro Ancarani, Carmela Di Mauro and Maria Daniela Giammanco

Experts and 'knowledge that counts': A study into the world of brain cancer diagnosis pp. 1819-1826

Sky Gross

Reworking therapeutic landscapes: The spatiality of an 'alternative' self-help group pp. 1827-1833

Jennifer Laws

What happens to people before and after disability? Focusing effects, lead effects, and adaptation in different areas of life pp. 1834-1844

Nattavudh Powdthavee

Socio-geographic mobility and health status: A longitudinal analysis using the National Population Health Survey of Canada pp. 1845-1853

Sarah Curtis, Maninder S. Setia and Amelie Quesnel-Vallee

2009, volume 69, articles 11

A meta-synthesis of pregnant women's decision-making processes with regard to antenatal screening for Down syndrome pp. 1561-1573

Bernie Reid, Marlene Sinclair, Owen Barr, Frank Dobbs and Grainne Crealey

Reflecting on a meta-synthesis of qualitative papers concerned with pregnant women's decision-making about prenatal screening for Down syndrome: AÂ commentary on Reid, Sinclair, Barr, Dobbs and Crealey pp. 1574-1576

Bob Heyman

Reflections on the methodological challenges of undertaking a meta-synthesis: AÂ response to Heyman pp. 1577-1579

Bernie Reid, Marlene Sinclair, Owen Barr, Frank Dobbs and Grainne Crealey

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in arterial stiffness and intima media thickness among adolescents. A commentary on Thurston and Matthews (68(5), 2009, 807-813) pp. 1580-1581

Ronnie Thomas Collins and Bruce S. Alpert

The importance of considering both racial and socioeconomic disparities: A response to Collins and Alpert pp. 1582-1583

Rebecca C. Thurston and Karen A. Matthews

Misspecification of the effect of race in fixed effects models of health inequalities pp. 1584-1591

Richard Allen Scribner, Katherine P. Theall, Neal R. Simonsen, Karen E. Mason and Qingzhao Yu

The estimation of mortality for ethnic groups at local scale within the United Kingdom pp. 1592-1607

Philip Howell Rees, Pia N. Wohland and Paul D. Norman

Marital status, gender, and depression: Analysis of the baseline survey of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA) pp. 1608-1615

Soong-Nang Jang, Ichiro Kawachi, Jiyeun Chang, Kachung Boo, Hyun-Gu Shin, Hyejung Lee and Sung-il Cho

Job authority and health: Unraveling the competing suppression and explanatory influences pp. 1616-1624

Scott Schieman and Sarah Reid

Immigrant obesity and unhealthy assimilation: Alternative estimates of convergence or divergence, 1995-2005 pp. 1625-1633

Julie Park, Dowell Myers, Dennis Kao and SeongHee Min

Can regional resource shares be based only on prevalence data? An empirical investigation of the proportionality assumption pp. 1634-1642

Laura Vallejo-Torres, Stephen Morris, Roy Carr-Hill, Paul Dixon, Malcom Law, Nigel Rice and Matthew Sutton

Are private physicians more likely to veto generic substitution of prescribed pharmaceuticals? pp. 1643-1650

David Granlund

Are rural health professionals also social entrepreneurs? pp. 1651-1658

Jane Farmer and Sue Kilpatrick

Hastening death in end-of-life care: A survey of doctors pp. 1659-1666

Clive Seale

Assets for policy making in health promotion: Overcoming political barriers inhibiting women in difficult life situations to access sport facilities pp. 1667-1673

Alfred Rütten, Karim Abu-Omar, Annika Frahsa and Antony Morgan

Tuberculosis and syndemics: Implications for Pacific health in New Zealand pp. 1674-1680

Judith Littleton and Julie Park

Pediatric therapeutics and medicine administration in resource-poor settings: A review of barriers and an agenda for interdisciplinary approaches to improving outcomes pp. 1681-1690

Sienna R. Craig, Lisa V. Adams, Stephen P. Spielberg and Benjamin Campbell

Is my mum going to hear this? Methodological and ethical challenges in qualitative health research with young people pp. 1691-1699

Rony E. Duncan, Sarah E. Drew, Jan Hodgson and Susan M. Sawyer

2009, volume 69, articles 10

Socioeconomic inequalities in physical and mental functioning of British, Finnish, and Japanese civil servants: Role of job demand, control, and work hours pp. 1417-1425

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

A critical reflection on the role of social democracy in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in health: A commentary on Sekine, Chandola, Martikainen, Marmot and Kagamimori pp. 1426-1428

Hans Bosma

What we learn from British, Finnish, and Japanese civil servants study and the role of social democracy in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in health: A response to Bosma pp. 1429-1431

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

Age, cohort and period effects in the prevalence of sleep disturbances among older people: The impact of economic downturn pp. 1432-1438

Alex Dregan and David Armstrong

Do birth cohorts matter? Age-period-cohort analyses of the obesity epidemic in the United States pp. 1439-1448

Eric N. Reither, Robert M. Hauser and Yang Yang

Recent advances in age-period-cohort analysis. A commentary on Dregan and Armstrong, and on Reither, Hauser and Yang pp. 1449-1451

David J. Harding

The role of health insurance in explaining immigrant versus non-immigrant disparities in access to health care: Comparing the United States to Canada pp. 1452-1459

Arjumand Siddiqi, Daniyal Zuberi and Quynh C. Nguyen

Can subjective and objective socioeconomic status explain minority health disparities in Israel? pp. 1460-1467

Orna Baron-Epel and Giora Kaplan

The individual and contextual pathways between oral health and income inequality in Brazilian adolescents and adults pp. 1468-1475

Roger Keller Celeste, Paulo Nadanovsky, Antonio Ponce de Leon and Johan Fritzell

Ethnic density effects on maternal and infant health in the Millennium Cohort Study pp. 1476-1483

Kate E. Pickett, Richard J. Shaw, Karl Atkin, Kathleen E. Kiernan and Richard G. Wilkinson

Mortality effects of average education in current and earlier municipality of residence among internal migrants, net of their own education pp. 1484-1492

Øystein Kravdal

Running to the Store? The relationship between neighborhood environments and the risk of obesity pp. 1493-1500

Cathleen D. Zick, Ken R. Smith, Jessie X. Fan, Barbara B. Brown, Ikuho Yamada and Lori Kowaleski-Jones

Parental education and children's online health information seeking: Beyond the digital divide debate pp. 1501-1505

Shanyang Zhao

Dynamics of adolescent friendship networks and smoking behavior: Social network analyses in six European countries pp. 1506-1514

Liesbeth Mercken, Tom A.B. Snijders, Christian Steglich and Hein de Vries

Gender and the associated impairments of childhood sexual abuse: A national study of Icelandic youth pp. 1515-1522

Martha Gault-Sherman, Eric Silver and Inga Dóra Sigfúsdóttir

Performance management in healthcare: Performance indicator development, task uncertainty, and types of performance indicators pp. 1523-1530

Eric van der Geer, Harrie F.J.M. van Tuijl and Christel G. Rutte

Policy-related determinants of child nutritional status in China: The effect of only-child status and access to healthcare pp. 1531-1538

Caryn Bredenkamp

Evidence-based policy-making: The implications of globally-applicable research for context-specific problem-solving in developing countries pp. 1539-1546

Dominique Behague, Charlotte Tawiah, Mikey Rosato, Télésphore Some and Joanna Morrison

Degrees of disclosure: A study of women's covert use of the diaphragm in an HIV prevention trial in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1547-1555

Nuriye Nalan Sahin-Hodoglugil, Ariane van der Straten, Helen Cheng, Elizabeth T. Montgomery, Deborah Kacanek, Sibongile Mtetwa, Neetha Morar, Jane Munyoro and Nancy Padian

'Wellbeing': A collateral casualty of modernity? pp. 1556-1560

Sandra Carlisle, Gregor Henderson and Phil W. Hanlon

2009, volume 69, articles 9

On the prospects for a blame-free medical culture pp. 1287-1290

Molly E. Collins, Susan D. Block, Robert M. Arnold and Nicholas A. Christakis

An end to the witch hunts: Responding to the defenders of blame and shame. AÂ commentary on Collins, Block, Arnold and Christakis pp. 1291-1293

Helen I. Woodward, Claire Lemer and Albert W. Wu

Responsibility and reflection: Understanding our responses to perceived errors. A response to Woodward, Lemer and Wu pp. 1294-1295

Molly E. Collins, Susan D. Block, Robert M. Arnold and Nicholas A. Christakis

Disentangling the relative influence of built and socioeconomic environments on walking: The contribution of areas homogenous along exposures of interest pp. 1296-1305

Mylene Riva, Lise Gauvin, Philippe Apparicio and Jean-Marc Brodeur

Neighbourhoods in eco-epidemiologic research: Delimiting personal exposure areas. A response to Riva, Gauvin, Apparicio and Brodeur pp. 1306-1310

Basile Chaix, Juan Merlo, David Evans, Cinira Leal and Sabrina Havard

From place-based to people-based exposure measures pp. 1311-1313

Mei-Po Kwan

City structure, obesity, and environmental justice: An integrated analysis of physical and social barriers to walkable streets and park access pp. 1314-1322

Bethany B. Cutts, Kate J. Darby, Christopher G. Boone and Alexandra Brewis

Social capital, gender and self-rated health. Evidence from the Moscow Health Survey 2004 pp. 1323-1332

Sara Ferlander and Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen

Rising U.S. income inequality, gender and individual self-rated health, 1972-2004 pp. 1333-1342

Hui Zheng

The relative contribution of income inequality and imprisonment to the variation in homicide rates among Developed (OECD), South and Central American countries pp. 1343-1350

Paulo Nadanovsky and Joana Cunha-Cruz

Willingness to pay for health insurance: An analysis of the potential market for new low-cost health insurance products in Namibia pp. 1351-1359

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Abay Asfaw and Jacques van der Gaag

Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life pp. 1360-1367

Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and Marta Lopez

Why doctors choose small towns: A developmental model of rural physician recruitment and retention pp. 1368-1376

Christine Hancock, Alan Steinbach, Thomas S. Nesbitt, Shelley R. Adler and Colette L. Auerswald

A model of mother-child adjustment in Arab Muslim immigrants to the US pp. 1377-1386

Karen Aroian, Edythe S. Hough, Thomas N. Templin, Anahid Kulwicki, Vidya Ramaswamy and Anne Katz

Anger, PTSD, and the nuclear family: A study of Cambodian refugees pp. 1387-1394

Devon E. Hinton, Andrew Rasmussen, Leakhena Nou, Mark H. Pollack and Mary-Jo Good

A "usual occurrence:" Stress incontinence among reproductive aged women in Sri Lanka pp. 1395-1401

Nilmini N. Hemachandra, Lalini C. Rajapaksa and Lenore Manderson

Governing childhood obesity: Framing regulation of fast food advertising in the Australian print media pp. 1402-1408

Julie Henderson, John Coveney, Paul Ward and Anne Taylor

Involuntary autonomy: Patients' perceptions of physicians, conventional medicines and risks in the management of atopic dermatitis pp. 1409-1415

Mikkel Noerreslet, Gregor B.E. Jemec and Janine M. Traulsen

2009, volume 69, articles 8

Negotiating 'depression' in primary care: A qualitative study pp. 1137-1143

Susan McPherson and David Armstrong

When diagnosis fails: A commentary on McPherson & Armstrong pp. 1144-1146

Christopher Dowrick

Demographic data in asthma clinical trials: A systematic review with implications for generalizing trial findings and tackling health disparities pp. 1147-1154

Geoff K. Frampton, Jonathan Shepherd and Jean-Lou C.M. Dorne

Considering race/ethnicity and socio-economic status in randomized controlled trials. A commentary on Frampton et al.'s systematic review generalizing trial findings and tackling health disparities in asthma research pp. 1155-1156

Catherine Kreatsoulas and Sonia Anand

Empowering sex workers in India to reduce vulnerability to HIV and sexually transmitted diseases pp. 1157-1166

Dallas Swendeman, Ishika Basu, Sankari Das, Smarajit Jana and Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus

Alcohol and transactional sex: How risky is the mix? pp. 1167-1176

Alison H. Norris, Amani J. Kitali and Eric Worby

Public-sector ART in the Free State Province, South Africa: Community support as an important determinant of outcome pp. 1177-1185

Edwin Wouters, Wim Van Damme, Francis Van Loon, Dingie van Rensburg and Herman Meulemans

Cumulative risk and AIDS-orphanhood: Interactions of stigma, bullying and poverty on child mental health in South Africa pp. 1186-1193

Lucie Cluver and Mark Orkin

Mental health, substance use and suicidal behaviour among young indigenous people in the Arctic: A systematic review pp. 1194-1203

Venla Lehti, Solja Niemelä, Christina Hoven, Donald Mandell and Andre Sourander

Coming 'down here': Young people's reflections on becoming entrenched in a local drug scene pp. 1204-1210

Danya Fast, Will Small, Evan Wood and Thomas Kerr

Postnatal mental distress in relation to the sociocultural practices of childbirth: An exploratory qualitative study from Ethiopia pp. 1211-1219

Charlotte Hanlon, Rob Whitley, Dawit Wondimagegn, Atalay Alem and Martin Prince

The etiquette of endometriosis: Stigmatisation, menstrual concealment and the diagnostic delay pp. 1220-1227

Kate Seear

"Someone's rooting for you": Continuity, advocacy and street-level bureaucracy in UK maternal healthcare pp. 1228-1235

Susanna Finlay and Jane Sandall

Does government provision of healthcare explain the relationship between income inequality and low birthweight? pp. 1236-1245

Aparna Lhila

Crediting his critics' concerns: Remaking John Snow's map of Broad Street cholera, 1854 pp. 1246-1251

Tom Koch and Kenneth Denike

Do ethnic and socio-economic inequalities in mortality vary by region in New Zealand? An application of hierarchical Bayesian modelling pp. 1252-1260

Ken Richardson, Tony Blakely, Jim Young, Patrick Graham and Martin Tobias

Contextual effects on health care access among immigrants: Lessons from three ethnic communities in Hawaii pp. 1261-1271

Jin Young Choi

The relative contributions of hostility and depressive symptoms to the income gradient in hospital-based incidence of ischaemic heart disease: 12-Year follow-up findings from the GLOBE study pp. 1272-1280

Gonnie Klabbers, Hans Bosma, Frank J. Van Lenthe, Gertrudis I. Kempen, Jacques T. Van Eijk and Johan P. Mackenbach

Father absence due to migration and child illness in rural Mexico pp. 1281-1286

Kammi Schmeer

2009, volume 69, articles 7

Defining and measuring acculturation: A systematic review of public health studies with Hispanic populations in the United States pp. 983-991

Maria D. Thomson and Laurie Hoffman-Goetz

Defining and measuring acculturation: A systematic review of public health studies with hispanic populations in the united states. A commentary on Thomson and Hoffman-Goetz pp. 992-995

Olivia Carter-Pokras and Lisa Bethune

The challenge of acculturation measures: What are we missing? A commentary on Thomson & Hoffman-Goetz pp. 996-998

Margarita Alegria

Defining and measuring acculturation in public health: A response to Carter-Pokras and Bethune pp. 999-1001

Maria D. Thomson and Laurie Hoffman-Goetz

Gender and health inequities: A comment on the Final Report of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health pp. 1002-1004

Lisa Michelle Bates, Olena Hankivsky and Kristen W. Springer

A response to Bates, Hankivsky and Springer on the WHO Knowledge Network on Women and Gender Equity Commission on Social Determinants of Health pp. 1005-1005

Gita Sen and Piroska Östlin

Health inequalities: Gendered puzzles and conundrums. The 10th Annual Sol Levine Lecture on Society and Health, October 6, 2008 pp. 1006-1009

Gita Sen

"We only did it because he asked us": Gendered accounts of participation in a population genetic data collection pp. 1010-1017

Gillian Haddow

The politics of 'The Natural Family' in Israel: State policy and kinship ideologies pp. 1018-1024

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli

Adult smokers' perception of the role of religion and religious leadership on smoking and association with quitting: A comparison between Thai Buddhists and Malaysian Muslims pp. 1025-1031

Hua-Hie Yong, Stephen L. Hamann, Ron Borland, Geoffrey T. Fong and Maizurah Omar

The role of shame in posttraumatic stress disorder: A proposal for a socio-emotional model for DSM-V pp. 1032-1039

Ashwin Budden

Use of khat and posttraumatic stress disorder as risk factors for psychotic symptoms: AÂ study of Somali combatants pp. 1040-1048

Michael Odenwald, Harald Hinkel, Elisabeth Schauer, Maggie Schauer, Thomas Elbert, Frank Neuner and Brigitte Rockstroh

The performative function of expectations in translating treatment to prevention: The case of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP pp. 1049-1055

Marsha Rosengarten and Mike Michael

'A bed in the middle of nowhere': Parents' meanings of place of death for adults with cystic fibrosis pp. 1056-1062

Karen Lowton

Health professionals' enactment of their accountability obligations: Doing the best they can pp. 1063-1071

Andrew R. Freeman, Carol L. McWilliam, Joyce R. MacKinnon, Sandra DeLuca and Susan G. Rappolt

Using non-linear decomposition to explain the discriminatory effects of male-female differentials in access to care: A cardiac rehabilitation case study pp. 1072-1079

Jennifer Anne Stewart Williams

Stigmatization of alcohol and other drug users by primary care providers in Southeast Brazil pp. 1080-1084

Telmo Mota Ronzani, John Higgins-Biddle and Erikson F. Furtado

Copycat effects after media reports on suicide: A population-based ecologic study pp. 1085-1090

Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Benedikt Till, Nestor D. Kapusta, Martin Voracek, Kanita Dervic and Gernot Sonneck

Communicating population health: Print news media coverage of type 2 diabetes pp. 1091-1098

Sarah E. Gollust and Paula M. Lantz

The income-climate trap of health development: A comparative analysis of African and Non-African countries pp. 1099-1106

Kam Ki Tang, Dennis Petrie and D.S. Prasada Rao

Do patient characteristics, disease, or treatment explain social inequality in survival from colorectal cancer? pp. 1107-1115

Birgitte Lidegaard Frederiksen, Merete Osler, Henrik Harling, Steen Ladelund and Torben Jørgensen

The extent and distribution of inequalities in childhood mortality by cause of death according to parental socioeconomic positions: A birth cohort study in South Korea pp. 1116-1126

Jongoh Kim, Mia Son, Ichiro Kawachi and Juhwan Oh

The design and validation of a spatial microsimulation model of obesogenic environments for children in Leeds, UK: SimObesity pp. 1127-1134

Kimberley L. Edwards and Graham P. Clarke

2009, volume 69, articles 6

Women, mothers and HIV care in resource-poor settings pp. 803-806

Alice Desclaux, Philippe Msellati and Saskia Walentowitz

Improving mothers' access to PMTCT programs in West Africa: A public health perspective pp. 807-812

Philippe Msellati

The reproductive needs and rights of people living with HIV in Argentina: Health service users' and providers' perspectives pp. 813-820

Mónica Laura Gogna, Mario M. Pecheny, Inés Ibarlucía, Hernán Manzelli and Sara Barrón López

Counseling and choosing between infant-feeding options: Overall limits and local interpretations by health care providers and women living with HIV in resource-poor countries (Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon) pp. 821-829

Alice Desclaux and Chiara Alfieri

Couples, PMTCT programs and infant feeding decision-making in Ivory Coast pp. 830-837

Annick Tijou Traoré, Madina Querre, Hermann Brou, Valériane Leroy, Alice Desclaux and Annabel Desgrées-du-Loû

Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Vietnam and Indonesia: Diverging care dynamics pp. 838-845

Anita Petra Hardon, Pauline Oosterhoff, Johanna D. Imelda, Nguyen Thu Anh and Irwan Hidayana

Gender and access to HIV testing and antiretroviral treatments in Thailand: Why do women have more and earlier access? pp. 846-853

Sophie Le Coeur, Intira J. Collins, Julie Pannetier and Éva Lelièvre

Gender asymmetry in healthcare-facility attendance of people living with HIV/AIDS in Burkina Faso pp. 854-861

Blandine Bila and Marc Egrot

HIV and AIDS, stigma and AIDS support groups: Perspectives from women living with HIV and AIDS in central Thailand pp. 862-868

Pranee Liamputtong, Niphattra Haritavorn and Niyada Kiatying-Angsulee

Care and secrecy: Being a mother of children living with HIV in Burkina Faso pp. 869-876

Fabienne Hejoaka

Gender and HIV testing in Burkina Faso: An exploratory study pp. 877-884

Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, Augustin Sankara, Vincent Bastien and Michelle Parsons

HIV disclosure and unsafe sex among HIV-infected women in Cameroon: Results from the ANRS-EVAL study pp. 885-891

Sandrine Loubiere, Patrick Peretti-Watel, Sylvie Boyer, Jérôme Blanche, Séverin-Cécile Abega and Bruno Spire

From prenatal HIV testing of the mother to prevention of sexual HIV transmission within the couple pp. 892-899

Annabel Desgrées-du-Loû, Hermann Brou, Annick Tijou Traore, Gerard Djohan, Renaud Becquet and Valeriane Leroy

Expressing yourself: A feminist analysis of talk around expressing breast milk pp. 900-907

Sally Johnson, Iain Williamson, Steven Lyttle and Dawn Leeming

Asymmetrical knowledge claims in general practice consultations with frequently attending patients: Limitations and opportunities for patient participation pp. 908-919

Steven M. Ariss

Patient involvement in health research: A contribution to a systematic review on the effectiveness of treatments for degenerative ataxias pp. 920-925

P. Serrano-Aguilar, M.M. Trujillo-Martín, J.M. Ramos-Goñi, V. Mahtani-Chugani, L. Perestelo-Pérez and M. Posada-de la Paz

Women's autonomy and pregnancy care in rural India: A contextual analysis pp. 926-933

Ritesh Mistry, Osman Galal and Michael Lu

Migration to western industrialised countries and perinatal health: A systematic review pp. 934-946

A.J. Gagnon, M. Zimbeck and J. Zeitlin

Predicting emotional well-being following traumatic brain injury: A test of mediated and moderated models pp. 947-954

Elizabeth Kendall and Deborah Terry

The relationship between household income and childhood respiratory health in the United Kingdom pp. 955-963

Mara Violato, Stavros Petrou and Ron Gray

Urban built environments and trajectories of mobility disability: Findings from a national sample of community-dwelling American adults (1986-2001) pp. 964-970

Philippa Clarke, Jennifer A. Ailshire and Paula Lantz

Double burden of deprivation and high concentrations of ambient air pollution at the neighbourhood scale in Montreal, Canada pp. 971-981

Dan L. Crouse, Nancy A. Ross and Mark S. Goldberg

2009, volume 69, articles 5

From pleasure to pain: The role of the MPQ in the language of phantom limb pain pp. 655-661

Cassandra S. Crawford

Indescribable pain in literature: A commentary on Crawford pp. 662-665

Ryan Mowat

The inarticulacy/indescribability of pain: A rejoinder to Mowat pp. 666-669

Cassandra S. Crawford

Explosive anger as a response to human rights violations in post-conflict Timor-Leste pp. 670-677

Derrick Silove, Robert Brooks, Catherine Robina Bateman Steel, Zachary Steel, Kalhari Hewage, James Rodger and Ian Soosay

Experimental emotional disclosure in women undergoing infertility treatment: Are drop outs better off? pp. 678-681

Efharis Panagopoulou, Anthony Montgomery and Basil Tarlatzis

Improving poor women's access to maternity care: Findings from a primary care intervention in Burkina Faso pp. 682-690

Ellen Brazier, Catherine Andrzejewski, Margaret E. Perkins, Ellen M. Themmen, Rodney J. Knight and Brahima Bassane

Community influences on intimate partner violence in India: Women's education, attitudes towards mistreatment and standards of living pp. 691-697

Michael H. Boyle, Katholiki Georgiades, John Cullen and Yvonne Racine

The inequalities of medical pluralism: Hierarchies of health, the politics of tradition and the economies of care in Indian oncology pp. 698-706

Alex Broom, Assa Doron and Philip Tovey

Interprofessional collaboration within Canadian integrative healthcare clinics: Key components pp. 707-715

Isabelle Gaboury, Mathieu Bujold, Heather Boon and David Moher

Theoretical injections: On the therapeutic aesthetics of medical spaces pp. 716-721

Joshua D. Evans, Valorie A. Crooks and Paul T. Kingsbury

The good, the bad, and the severely mentally ill: Official and informal labels as organizational resources in community mental health services pp. 722-728

Kerry Dobransky

Demanding patient or demanding encounter?: A case study of a cancer clinic pp. 729-737

Clare Louise Stacey, Stuart Henderson, Kelly R. MacArthur and Daniel Dohan

When things fall apart: Gender and suicide across the life-course pp. 738-746

Michael Shiner, Jonathan Scourfield, Ben Fincham and Susanne Langer

Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis transmission: Contextualizing the evidence through social network theory pp. 747-753

Maria-Graciela Hollm-Delgado

Housing wealth and mortality: A register linkage study of the Finnish population pp. 754-760

Mikko Laaksonen, Lasse Tarkiainen and Pekka Martikainen

Regional risk factors for health inequalities in Scotland and England and the "Scottish effect" pp. 761-767

Nicola Jane Shelton

Racial-ethnic disparities in health and the labor market: Losing and leaving jobs pp. 768-776

Kate Strully

Perceived job insecurity and worker health in the United States pp. 777-785

Sarah A. Burgard, Jennie E. Brand and James S. House

Maximisation in extra-welfarism: A critique of the current position in health economics pp. 786-792

Joanna Coast

Inequalities in health care utilization in Spain due to double insurance coverage: An Oaxaca-Ransom decomposition pp. 793-801

M Luz González Álvarez and Antonio Clavero Barranquero

2009, volume 69, articles 4

Is the apparent U-shape of well-being over the life course a result of inappropriate use of control variables? A commentary on Blanchflower and Oswald (66: 8, 2008, 1733-1749) pp. 481-485

Norval Glenn

The U-shape without controls: A response to Glenn pp. 486-488

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

Social capital, income inequality and self-rated health in Chita peninsula, Japan: a multilevel analysis of older people in 25 communities pp. 489-499

Yukinobu Ichida, Katsunori Kondo, Hiroshi Hirai, Tomoya Hanibuchi, Goshu Yoshikawa and Chiyoe Murata

Social capital and perceived health in Japan: An ecological and multilevel analysis pp. 500-505

Yoshikazu Fujisawa, Tsuyoshi Hamano and Shogo Takegawa

Social capital and health in Japan: What has been confirmed and what has not. A commentary on Ichida and on Fujisawa pp. 506-508

Yoji Inaba

Research on social capital and health in Japan. A commentary on Ichida and on Fujisawa pp. 509-511

Soshi Takao

The different effects of vertical social capital and horizontal social capital on dental status: A multilevel analysis pp. 512-518

Jun Aida, Tomoya Hanibuchi, Miyo Nakade, Hiroshi Hirai, Ken Osaka and Katsunori Kondo

Association between attendance at religious services and self-reported health in 22 European countries pp. 519-528

Amanda Nicholson, Richard Rose and Martin Bobak

Gender differences in education effects on all-cause mortality for white and black adults in the United States pp. 529-537

Anna Zajacova and Robert A. Hummer

Racialized identity and health in Canada: Results from a nationally representative survey pp. 538-542

Gerry Veenstra

Convergence and divergence: Differences in disability prevalence estimates in the United States and Canada based on four health survey instruments pp. 543-552

Barbara M. Altman and Stephen P. Gulley

Visual epidemiology: Photographs as tools for probing street-level etiologies pp. 553-564

Carolyn C. Cannuscio, Eve E. Weiss, Hannah Fruchtman, Jeannette Schroeder, Janet Weiner and David A. Asch

Resilience and marginalized youth: Making a case for personal and collective meaning-making as part of resilience research in public health pp. 565-570

Lisa Marin Wexler, Gloria DiFluvio and Tracey K. Burke

Inequality in social rank and adult nutritional status: Evidence from a small-scale society in the Bolivian Amazon pp. 571-578

Victoria Reyes-García, Jose Luis Molina, Thomas W. McDade, Susan N. Tanner, Tomas Huanca and William R. Leonard

Threats to safe motherhood in Honduran Miskito communities: Local perceptions of factors that contribute to maternal mortality pp. 579-586

Shahna Arps

Young carers as social actors: Coping strategies of children caring for ailing or ageing guardians in Western Kenya pp. 587-595

Morten Skovdal, Vincent O. Ogutu, Cellestine Aoro and Catherine Campbell

"AIDS is rape!" gender and sexuality in children's responses to HIV and AIDS pp. 596-603

Deevia Bhana

HIV prevention while the bulldozers roll: Exploring the effect of the demolition of Goa's red-light area pp. 604-612

Maryam Shahmanesh, Sonali Wayal, Gracy Andrew, Vikram Patel, Frances M. Cowan and Graham Hart

"Why doesn't she seek help for partner abuse?" An exploratory study with South Asian immigrant women pp. 613-622

Farah Ahmad, Natasha Driver, Mary Jane McNally and Donna E. Stewart

"You don't need a prescription to go gluten-free": The scientific self-diagnosis of celiac disease pp. 623-631

Denise A. Copelton and Giuseppina Valle

Illness careers and continuity of care in mental health services: A qualitative study of service users and carers pp. 632-639

Ian Rees Jones, Nilufar Ahmed, Jocelyn Catty, Susan McLaren, Diana Rose, Til Wykes and Tom Burns

Comparing hospital costs: What is gained by accounting for more than a case-mix index? pp. 640-647

Anne Hvenegaard, Andrew Street, Torben Højmark Sørensen and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

Economic valuation of informal care in Asia: A case study of care for disabled stroke survivors in Thailand pp. 648-653

Arthorn Riewpaiboon, Wachara Riewpaiboon, Kanyarat Ponsoongnern and Bernard van den Berg

2009, volume 69, articles 3

How Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine challenges the ethics of physician migration pp. 301-304

Robert Huish

A Cuban revolution in medical education: A commentary on Huish pp. 305-306

Ken Flegel

What is self-rated health and why does it predict mortality? Towards a unified conceptual model pp. 307-316

Marja Jylhä

Income inequality, area-level poverty, perceived aversion to inequality, and self-rated health in Japan pp. 317-326

Takashi Oshio and Miki Kobayashi

Relative deprivation in income and self-rated health in the United States pp. 327-334

Malavika Subramanyam, Ichiro Kawachi, Lisa Berkman and S.V. Subramanian

Social comparisons and health: Can having richer friends and neighbors make you sick? pp. 335-344

Genevieve Kanter

Do the determinants of health differ between people living in the community and in institutions? pp. 345-353

Keiko Asakawa, David Feeny, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, Jeffrey A. Johnson and Darryl Rolfson

From boundary concept to boundary object: The practice and politics of care pathway development pp. 354-361

Davina Allen

An ethnographic study of classifying and accounting for risk at the sharp end of medical wards pp. 362-369

Mary Dixon-Woods, Anu Suokas, Emma Pitchforth and Carolyn Tarrant

A comparison of the health status and health care utilization patterns between foreigners and the national population in Spain: New evidence from the Spanish National Health Survey pp. 370-378

Cristina Hernández-Quevedo and Dolores Jiménez-Rubio

Analysing equity in health care financing: A flow of funds approach pp. 379-386

Samantha Smith and Charles Normand

Economic reforms and health insurance in China pp. 387-395

Juan Du

The role of behavioural factors in explaining socio-economic differences in adolescent health: A multilevel study in 33 countries pp. 396-403

Matthias Richter, Michael Erhart, Carine A. Vereecken, Alessio Zambon, William Boyce and Saoirse Nic Gabhainn

Cohort study of informal carers of first-time stroke survivors: Profile of health and social changes in the first year of caregiving pp. 404-410

Chantal Simon, Satinder Kumar and Tony Kendrick

Spatially informed knowledge translation: Informing potential users of Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit pp. 411-419

Melissa Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks, Nadine Schuurman and Allison Williams

Concentrated affluence, concentrated disadvantage, and children's readiness for school: A population-based, multi-level investigation pp. 420-432

Richard M. Carpiano, Jennifer E.V. Lloyd and Clyde Hertzman

Childhood socioeconomic status and racial differences in disability: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (1998-2006) pp. 433-441

Mary Elizabeth Bowen

Differences in stature, BMI, and dietary practices between US born and newly immigrated Hmong children pp. 442-450

Lisa Franzen and Chery Smith

Association of socioeconomic status with inflammation markers in black and white men and women in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study pp. 451-459

Tara L. Gruenewald, Sheldon Cohen, Karen A. Matthews, Russell Tracy and Teresa E. Seeman

Occupational career and risk of mortality among US Civil War Veterans pp. 460-468

Dejun Su

Connecting the invisible dots: Reaching lesbian, gay, and bisexual adolescents and young adults at risk for suicide through online social networks pp. 469-474

Vincent M.B. Silenzio, Paul R. Duberstein, Wan Tang, Naiji Lu, Xin Tu and Christopher M. Homan

Parents' health beliefs and HPV vaccination of their adolescent daughters pp. 475-480

Paul L. Reiter, Noel T. Brewer, Sami L. Gottlieb, Annie-Laurie McRee and Jennifer S. Smith

2009, volume 69, articles 2

Extending specialist palliative care to people with heart failure: Semantic, historical and practical limitations to policy guidelines pp. 147-153

Sangeeta Chattoo and Karl M. Atkin

Palliative care: Based on neither diagnosis nor prognosis, but patient and family need. Commentary on Chattoo and Atkin pp. 154-157

Lucy Ellen Selman, James M. Beattie, Fliss E. Murtagh and Irene J. Higginson

An idealist vision of specialist palliative care: A response to the commentary by Selman, Beattie, Murtagh and Higginson pp. 158-159

Sangeeta Chattoo and Karl M. Atkin

Time to retire - Time to die? A prospective cohort study of the effects of early retirement on long-term survival pp. 160-164

Hilke Brockmann, Rolf Müller and Uwe Helmert

The desire for hastened death in individuals with advanced cancer: A longitudinal qualitative study pp. 165-171

Rinat Nissim, Lucia Gagliese and Gary Rodin

Doctors leaving 12 tertiary hospitals in Iraq, 2004-2007 pp. 172-177

Gilbert M. Burnham, Riyadh Lafta and Shannon Doocy

The impact of the business cycle on occupational injuries in the UK pp. 178-182

Rhys Davies, Paul Jones and Imanol Nuñez

Idle chatter or learning? Evidence of social learning about clinicians and the health system from rural Tanzania pp. 183-190

Kenneth Leonard, Sarah W. Adelman and Timothy Essam

Asset ownership and health and mental health functioning among AIDS-orphaned adolescents: Findings from a randomized clinical trial in rural Uganda pp. 191-198

Fred M. Ssewamala, Chang-Keun Han and Torsten B. Neilands

Religious teachings and influences on the ABCs of HIV prevention in Malawi pp. 199-209

Jenny Trinitapoli

Arranging and negotiating the use of informal interpreters in general practice consultations: Experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in the west of Ireland pp. 210-214

Anne MacFarlane, Zhanna Dzebisova, Dmitri Karapish, Bosiljka Kovacevic, Florence Ogbebor and Ekaterina Okonkwo

Gatekeeping practices of nurses in operating rooms pp. 215-222

Robin Riley and Elizabeth Manias

Marital status, gender and cardiovascular mortality: Behavioural, psychological distress and metabolic explanations pp. 223-228

Gerard John Molloy, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Gemma Randall and Mark Hamer

Financial hardship, socio-economic position and depression: Results from the PATH Through Life Survey pp. 229-237

Peter Butterworth, Bryan Rodgers and Tim D. Windsor

Tales of the unexpected? Hidden resilience in poor households in Britain pp. 238-245

Krysia Canvin, Anneli Marttila, Bo Burstrom and Margaret Whitehead

Depression and anxiety in labor migrants and refugees - A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 246-257

Jutta Lindert, Ondine S. von Ehrenstein, Stefan Priebe, Andreas Mielck and Elmar Brähler

Differences in the self-reported racism experiences of US-born and foreign-born Black pregnant women pp. 258-265

Tyan Parker Dominguez, Emily Ficklin Strong, Nancy Krieger, Matthew W. Gillman and Janet W. Rich-Edwards

German genes and Turkish traits: Ethnicity, infertility, and reproductive politics in Germany pp. 266-273

Lisa K. Vanderlinden

How do prospective parents who decline prenatal screening account for their decision? A qualitative study pp. 274-277

Gottfre[eth]sdóttir, Helga, Kristín Björnsdóttir and Jane Sandall

Postponing worrisome thoughts in children: The effects of a postponement intervention on perseverative thoughts, emotions and somatic complaints pp. 278-284

Francine C. Jellesma, Bart Verkuil and Jos F. Brosschot

Who feeds children? A child's-eye-view of caregiver feeding patterns among the Aka foragers in Congo pp. 285-292

Hillary N. Fouts and Robyn A. Brookshire

The postconventional body: Retheorising women's health pp. 293-300

Gillian Einstein and Margrit Shildrick

2009, volume 69, articles 1

Physician as partner or salesman? Shared decision-making in real-time encounters pp. 1-8

Orit Karnieli-Miller and Zvi Eisikovits

Can physicians both persuade and partner? A commentary on Karnieli-Miller and Eisikovits pp. 9-11

Susan Eggly

The place of persuasion in shared decision making: A contextual approach. A response to Eggly pp. 12-13

Orit Karnieli-Miller and Zvi Eisikovits

The promotion of olanzapine in primary care: An examination of internal industry documents pp. 14-20

Glen I. Spielmans

Objectification, standardization, and commodification in health care: A conceptual readjustment pp. 21-27

Stefan Timmermans and Rene Almeling

Depression and mental health in neoliberal times: A critical analysis of policy and discourse pp. 28-35

Katherine Teghtsoonian

Is the political system really related to health? pp. 36-46

Jeroen Klomp and Jakob de Haan

Age and disability: Explaining the wage differential pp. 47-55

Brenda Gannon and Margaret Munley

When work and satisfaction with life do not go hand in hand: Health barriers and personal resources in the participation of people with chronic physical disabilities pp. 56-60

Cretien van Campen and Mieke Cardol

Hospital efficiency and transaction costs: A stochastic frontier approach pp. 61-67

Martijn Ludwig, Wim Groot and Frits Van Merode

Patient satisfaction revisited: A multilevel approach pp. 68-75

Karin Dorieke Hekkert, Sezgin Cihangir, Sophia Martine Kleefstra, Bernard van den Berg and Rudolf Bertijn Kool

Effects of child health on parents' social capital pp. 76-84

Jennifer Schultz, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman

The association of sexual orientation with self-rated health, and cigarette and alcohol use in Mexican adolescents and youths pp. 85-93

Luis Ortiz-Hernández, Blanca Lilia Gómez Tello and Jesús Valdés

Risk of smoking initiation among Mexican immigrants before and after immigration to the United States pp. 94-100

Pamela Stoddard

Segmented assimilation theory and perinatal health disparities among women of Mexican descent pp. 101-109

Michelle A. Johnson and Kristen S. Marchi

Are immigrant enclaves healthy places to live? The Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis pp. 110-120

Theresa L. Osypuk, Ana V. Diez Roux, Craig Hadley and Namratha R. Kandula

Race, place and AIDS: The role of socioeconomic context on racial disparities in treatment and survival in San Francisco pp. 121-128

Michael Arnold, Ling Hsu, Sharon Pipkin, Willi McFarland and George W. Rutherford

The neighborhood effects of disrupted family processes on adolescent substance use pp. 129-137

Jon Gunnar Bernburg, Thorolfur Thorlindsson and Inga D. Sigfusdottir

Childhood physical abuse and midlife physical health: Testing a multi-pathway life course model pp. 138-146

Kristen W. Springer