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2009, volume 68, articles 12

Differences in self-rated health by immigrant status and language preference among Arab Americans in the Detroit Metropolitan Area pp. 2097-2103

Sawsan Abdulrahim and Wayne Baker

Social connections, immigration-related factors, and self-rated physical and mental health among Asian Americans pp. 2104-2112

Wei Zhang and Van M. Ta

Low-income mothers' social support and children's injuries pp. 2113-2121

Lindsey Jeanne Leininger, Rebecca M. Ryan and Ariel Kalil

Income incongruity, relative household income, and preterm birth in the Black Women's Health Study pp. 2122-2128

Ghasi S. Phillips, Lauren A. Wise, Janet W. Rich-Edwards, Meir J. Stampfer and Lynn Rosenberg

Bonding and bridging neighborliness: An individual-level study in the context of health pp. 2129-2136

Christopher E. Beaudoin

Parent-child dietary intake resemblance in the United States: Evidence from a large representative survey pp. 2137-2144

May A. Beydoun and Youfa Wang

Time perspective and socioeconomic status: A link to socioeconomic disparities in health? pp. 2145-2151

Lori C. Guthrie, Stephen C. Butler and Michael M. Ward

Socioeconomic status and health in the Japanese population pp. 2152-2160

Sadanobu Kagamimori, Alexandru Gaina and Ali Nasermoaddeli

The role of socioeconomic indicators on non-alcohol and alcohol-associated suicide mortality among women in Finland. A register-based follow-up study of 12 million person-years pp. 2161-2169

Netta Mäki and Pekka Martikainen

Changing health status and health expectancies among older adults in China: Gender differences from 1992 to 2002 pp. 2170-2179

Danan Gu, Matthew E. Dupre, David F. Warner and Yi Zeng

Poverty-alleviation program participation and salivary cortisol in very low-income children pp. 2180-2189

Lia C.H. Fernald and Megan R. Gunnar

Looking for resilience: Understanding the longitudinal trajectories of responses to stress pp. 2190-2198

Fran H. Norris, Melissa Tracy and Sandro Galea

Determinants, correlates and mediators of psychological distress: A longitudinal study pp. 2199-2205

Tahany M. Gadalla

Theory driven research designs for explaining behavioural health risk transitions: The case of smoking pp. 2206-2214

Jane Dixon and Cathy Banwell

Why do people cooperate with medical research? Findings from three studies pp. 2215-2222

Mary Dixon-Woods and Carolyn Tarrant

Understanding pharmacists' values: A qualitative study of ideals and dilemmas in UK pharmacy practice pp. 2223-2230

Ailsa Benson, Alan Cribb and Nick Barber

US religious congregations and the sponsorship of health-related programs pp. 2231-2239

Jenny Trinitapoli, Christopher G. Ellison and Jason D. Boardman

Drivers of tuberculosis epidemics: The role of risk factors and social determinants pp. 2240-2246

Knut Lönnroth, Ernesto Jaramillo, Brian G. Williams, Christopher Dye and Mario Raviglione

Investigating public preferences on 'severity of health' as a relevant condition for setting healthcare priorities pp. 2247-2255

Colin Green

Health policy reform in China: Lessons from Asia pp. 2256-2262

M. Ramesh and Xun Wu

Increasing the acceptability of HIV counseling and testing with three C's: Convenience, confidentiality and credibility pp. 2263-2270

Nicole Angotti, Agatha Bula, Lauren Gaydosh, Eitan Zeev Kimchi, Rebecca Thornton and Sara E. Yeatman

A comparison of HIV stigma and discrimination in five international sites: The influence of care and treatment resources in high prevalence settings pp. 2271-2278

Suzanne Maman, Laurie Abler, Lisa Parker, Tim Lane, Admire Chirowodza, Jacob Ntogwisangu, Namtip Srirak, Precious Modiba, Oliver Murima and Katherine Fritz

A comparison of HIV/AIDS-related stigma in four countries: Negative attitudes and perceived acts of discrimination towards people living with HIV/AIDS pp. 2279-2287

Becky L. Genberg, Zdenek Hlavka, Kelika A. Konda, Suzanne Maman, Suwat Chariyalertsak, Alfred Chingono, Jessie Mbwambo, Precious Modiba, Heidi Van Rooyen and David D. Celentano

2009, volume 68, articles 11

Inequality, race, and mortality in U.S. cities: A political and econometric review of Deaton and Lubotsky (56:6, 1139-1153, 2003) pp. 1909-1913

Michael Ash and Dean E. Robinson

Income inequality and mortality in U.S. cities: Weighing the evidence. A response to Ash pp. 1914-1917

Angus Deaton and Darren Lubotsky

The effect of changes in health sector resources on infant mortality in the short-run and the long-run: A longitudinal econometric analysis pp. 1918-1925

Mansour Farahani, S.V. Subramanian and David Canning

The influence of national policy change on subnational policymaking: Medicaid nursing facility reimbursement in the American states pp. 1926-1934

Edward Alan Miller and Lili Wang

"I can see where they're coming from, but when you're on the end of it... you just want to get the money and the drug.": Explaining reactions to explicit healthcare rationing pp. 1935-1942

Amanda Owen-Smith, Joanna Coast and Jenny Donovan

How the economy affects teenage weight pp. 1943-1947

Jeremy Arkes

Associations between maternal older age, family environment and parent and child wellbeing in families using assisted reproductive techniques to conceive pp. 1948-1955

J. Boivin, Frances Rice, Dale Hay, Gordon Harold, Allyson Lewis, Marianne M.B. van den Bree and Anita Thapar

Family and school socioeconomic disadvantage: Interactive influences on adolescent dating violence victimization pp. 1956-1965

Aubrey L. Spriggs, Carolyn Tucker Halpern, Amy H. Herring and Victor J. Schoenbach

Perceived discrimination and health among Puerto Rican and Mexican Americans: Buffering effect of the Lazo matrimonial? pp. 1966-1974

Min-Ah Lee and Kenneth F. Ferraro

Neighborhood residential segregation and mental health: A multilevel analysis on Hispanic Americans in Chicago pp. 1975-1984

Min-Ah Lee

Geographic hierarchies of diagnostic practice style in cerebrovascular disease pp. 1985-1992

Nikolaos Yiannakoulias, Michael D. Hill and Lawrence W. Svenson

A multilevel analysis of social capital and self-rated health: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey pp. 1993-2001

John W. Snelgrove, Hynek Pikhart and Mai Stafford

Fostering deliberations about health innovation: What do we want to know from publics? pp. 2002-2009

Pascale Lehoux, Genevieve Daudelin, Olivier Demers-Payette and Antoine Boivin

Distinguishing research from clinical care in cancer genetics: Theoretical justifications and practical strategies pp. 2010-2017

Nina Hallowell, Sarah Cooke, Gill Crawford, Anneke Lucassen and Michael Parker

It's not just what you say, it's also how you say it: Opening the 'black box' of informed consent appointments in randomised controlled trials pp. 2018-2028

Julia Wade, Jenny L. Donovan, J. Athene Lane, David E. Neal and Freddie C. Hamdy

"I couldn't say, I'm not a girl" - Adolescents talk about gender and marijuana use pp. 2029-2036

Rebecca J. Haines, Joy L. Johnson, Connie I. Carter and Kamal Arora

Talking the talk, walking the walk: Social network norms, communication patterns, and condom use among the male partners of female sex workers in La Romana, Dominican Republic pp. 2037-2044

Clare Barrington, Carl Latkin, Michael D. Sweat, Luis Moreno, Jonathan Ellen and Deanna Kerrigan

Symbolic capital and health: The case of women's sex work in Antananarivo, Madagascar pp. 2045-2052

Kirsten Stoebenau

Colonialism, Biko and AIDS: Reflections on the principle of beneficence in South African medical ethics pp. 2053-2060

Hillel David Braude

The problem of infertility in high fertility populations: Meanings, consequences and coping mechanisms in two Nigerian communities pp. 2061-2068

Marida Hollos, Ulla Larsen, Oka Obono and Bruce Whitehouse

Unintended consequences: Exploring the tensions between development programs and indigenous women in Mexico in the context of reproductive health pp. 2069-2077

Vania Smith-Oka

Motivation, money and respect: A mixed-method study of Tanzanian non-physician clinicians pp. 2078-2088

Clare I.R. Chandler, Semkini Chonya, Frank Mtei, Hugh Reyburn and Christopher J.M. Whitty

Explanatory models of influences on the construction and expression of user satisfaction pp. 2089-2096

Sarah Atkinson and Regianne L. Medeiros

2009, volume 68, articles 10

A survey of self-directed dying attended by proxies in the Dutch population pp. 1745-1751

Boudewijn E. Chabot and Arnold Goedhart

The rapidly changing location of death in Canada, 1994-2004 pp. 1752-1758

Donna M. Wilson, Corrine D. Truman, Roger Thomas, Robin Fainsinger, Kathy Kovacs-Burns, Katherine Froggatt and Christopher Justice

You'll "Get Viagraed:" Mexican men's preference for alternative erectile dysfunction treatment pp. 1759-1765

Emily Wentzell and Jorge Salmerón

Decisions about Pap tests: What influences women and providers? pp. 1766-1774

Denzil Fiebig, Marion Haas, Ishrat Hossain, Deborah J. Street and Rosalie Viney

Prescribing behaviour of village doctors under China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme pp. 1775-1779

Xiaoyun Sun, Sukhan Jackson, Gordon A. Carmichael and Adrian C. Sleigh

Do lower birth weight babies have lower grades? Twin fixed effect and instrumental variable method evidence from Taiwan pp. 1780-1787

Ming-Jen Lin and Jin-Tan Liu

Policy determinants affecting the hunger millennium development goal pp. 1788-1792

Marco Antonio Palma, Rocio Ortiz, Carlos Alvarez-Dardet and Maria T. Ruiz

"It's all the time in my mind": Facilitators of adherence to antiretroviral therapy in a Tanzanian setting pp. 1793-1800

Melissa H. Watt, Suzanne Maman, Jo Anne Earp, Eugenia Eng, Philip W. Setel, Carol E. Golin and Mark Jacobson

The independent contribution of individual-, neighbourhood-, and country-level socioeconomic position on attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel model of direct and moderating effects pp. 1801-1809

Olalekan Abdulrahman Uthman, Tahereh Moradi and Stephen Lawoko

Is education the link between orphanhood and HIV/HSV-2 risk among female adolescents in urban Zimbabwe? pp. 1810-1818

Isolde Birdthistle, Sian Floyd, Auxillia Nyagadza, Netsai Mudziwapasi, Simon Gregson and Judith R. Glynn

Individual, familial and community determinants of child physical abuse among high-school students in China pp. 1819-1825

William Chi Wai Wong, Wei Qing Chen, William B. Goggins, Catherine S. Tang and Phil W. Leung

Social determinants of child and adolescent traffic-related and intentional injuries: A multilevel study in Stockholm County pp. 1826-1834

Lucie Laflamme, Marie Hasselberg, Anne-Mari Reimers, Luciana Tricai Cavalini and Antonio Ponce de Leon

Social mobility: Evidence that it can widen health inequalities pp. 1835-1842

Paul J. Boyle, Paul Norman and Frank Popham

Objective and subjective social class gradients for substance use among Mexican adolescents pp. 1843-1851

Miranda Lucia Ritterman, Lia C. Fernald, Emily J. Ozer, Nancy E. Adler, Juan Pablo Gutierrez and S. Leonard Syme

Ethnicity and nativity status as determinants of perceived social support: Testing the concept of familism pp. 1852-1858

Joanna Almeida, Beth E. Molnar, Ichiro Kawachi and S.V. Subramanian

Neighborhood racial composition, social capital and black all-cause mortality in Philadelphia pp. 1859-1865

Rebbeca N. Hutchinson, Mary A. Putt, Lorraine T. Dean, Judith A. Long, Chantal A. Montagnet and Katrina Armstrong

Discrimination, work and health in immigrant populations in Spain pp. 1866-1874

Andrés Agudelo-Suárez, Diana Gil-González, Elena Ronda-Pérez, Victoria Porthé, Gema Paramio-Pérez, Ana M. García and Aitana Garí

Effect of job strain and depressive symptoms upon returning to work after acute coronary syndrome pp. 1875-1881

Yoshimi Fukuoka, Kathleen Dracup, Masako Takeshima, Noriko Ishii, Miyuki Makaya, Linda Groah and Erick Kyriakidis

"There are always two sides to these things": Managing the dilemma of serious adverse effects from SSRIs pp. 1882-1891

Rachel Liebert and Nicola Gavey

How young people find out about their family history of Huntington's disease pp. 1892-1900

Karen Forrest Keenan, Edwin van Teijlingen, Lorna McKee, Zosia Miedzybrodzka and Sheila A. Simpson

'You are not yourself': Exploring masculinities among heterosexual African men living with HIV in London pp. 1901-1907

Lesley Doyal, Jane Anderson and Sara Paparini

2009, volume 68, articles 9

Early-life effects on socio-economic performance and mortality in later life: A full life-course approach using contemporary and historical sources pp. 1561-1564

Tommy Bengtsson and Geraldine P. Mineau

Do childhood cognitive ability or smoking behaviour explain the influence of lifetime socio-economic conditions on premature adult mortality in a British post war birth cohort? pp. 1565-1573

Diana Kuh, Imran Shah, Marcus Richards, Gita Mishra, Michael Wadsworth and Rebecca Hardy

Early childhood health, reproduction of economic inequalities and the persistence of health and mortality differentials pp. 1574-1582

Alberto Palloni, Carolina Milesi, Robert G. White and Alyn Turner

Do conditions in early life affect old-age mortality directly and indirectly? Evidence from 19th-century rural Sweden pp. 1583-1590

Tommy Bengtsson and Göran Broström

Exogenous determinants of early-life conditions, and mortality later in life pp. 1591-1598

Gerard van den Berg, Gabriele Doblhammer and Kaare Christensen

Testing the influenza-tuberculosis selective mortality hypothesis with Union Army data pp. 1599-1608

Andrew Noymer

Does exposure to infectious diseases in infancy affect old-age mortality? Evidence from a pre-industrial population pp. 1609-1616

Alain Gagnon and Ryan Mazan

Infant mortality and diminished entelechy in three European countries pp. 1617-1624

Tim A. Bruckner and Ralph A. Catalano

Age at first birth, parity, and post-reproductive mortality among white and black women in the US, 1982-2002 pp. 1625-1632

Naomi J. Spence and Isaac W. Eberstein

The impact of early twentieth century illegitimacy across three generations. Longevity and intergenerational health correlates pp. 1633-1640

Bitte Modin, Ilona Koupil and Denny Vågerö

Long-term mortality consequences of childhood family context in Liaoning, China, 1749-1909 pp. 1641-1648

Cameron D. Campbell and James Z. Lee

Effects of childhood and middle-adulthood family conditions on later-life mortality: Evidence from the Utah Population Database, 1850-2002 pp. 1649-1658

Ken R. Smith, Geraldine P. Mineau, Gilda Garibotti and Richard Kerber

Harms and benefits: Collecting ethnicity data in a clinical context pp. 1659-1666

Colleen Varcoe, Annette J. Browne, Sabrina Wong and Victoria L. Smye

Do biological, sociodemographic, and behavioral characteristics explain racial/ethnic disparities in preterm births? pp. 1667-1675

P. Johnelle Sparks

Does health predict the reporting of racial discrimination or do reports of discrimination predict health? Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth pp. 1676-1684

Gilbert Gee and Katrina Walsemann

Overweight status, self-perception, and suicidal behaviors among adolescents pp. 1685-1691

Dhaval Dave and Inas Rashad

Social origins, early hardship and obesity: A strong association in women, but not in men? pp. 1692-1699

Myriam Khlat, Florence Jusot and Isabelle Ville

The effects of exercise interventions on quality of life in clinical and healthy populations; a meta-analysis pp. 1700-1710

Fiona Bridget Gillison, Suzanne M. Skevington, Ayana Sato, Martyn Standage and Stella Evangelidou

Health interventions and the persistence of rumour: The circulation of sterility stories in African public health campaigns pp. 1711-1719

Amy Kaler

Childhood drowning in Matlab, Bangladesh: An in-depth exploration of community perceptions and practices pp. 1720-1727

Lauren S. Blum, Rasheda Khan, Adnan A. Hyder, Sabina Shahanaj, Shams El Arifeen and Abdullah Baqui

Diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection, and fever among children in the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 1728-1736

Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Jacques B. Emina, Paul Denis K. Nzita and Francesco P. Cappuccio

"Nuts, schiz, psycho": An exploration of young homeless people's perceptions and dilemmas of defining mental health pp. 1737-1744

Michelle O'Reilly, Helen C. Taylor and Panos Vostanis

2009, volume 68, articles 8

Evidence of localized clustering of gastroschisis births in North Carolina, 1999-2004 pp. 1361-1367

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

The dynamics of income and neighborhood context for population health: Do long-term measures of socioeconomic status explain more of the black/white health disparity than single-point-in-time measures? pp. 1368-1375

D. Phuong Do

Conceptualizing community: A comparison of neighborhood characteristics of supportive housing for persons with psychiatric and developmental disabilities pp. 1376-1387

Yin-Ling Irene Wong and Victoria Stanhope

Pioneers and laggards - Is the effect of gender equality on health dependent on context? pp. 1388-1395

Mona Christina Backhans, Bo Burström, Lars Lindholm and Anna Månsdotter

Job loss is bad for your health - Swedish evidence on cause-specific hospitalization following involuntary job loss pp. 1396-1406

Marcus Eliason and Donald Storrie

Social patterns of pay systems and their associations with psychosocial job characteristics and burnout among paid employees in Taiwan pp. 1407-1415

Wan-Yu Yeh, Yawen Cheng and Chiou-Jung Chen

Does school environment affect 11-year-olds' fruit and vegetable intake in Denmark? pp. 1416-1424

Rikke Krølner, Pernille Due, Mette Rasmussen, Mogens Trab Damsgaard, Bjørn E. Holstein, Knut-Inge Klepp and John Lynch

Do childhood and adult socioeconomic circumstances influence health and physical function in middle-age? pp. 1425-1431

Merete Osler, Mia Madsen, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Kirsten Avlund, Matt Mcgue, Bernard Jeune and Kaare Christensen

Do consultation charges deter general practitioner use among older people? A natural experiment pp. 1432-1438

Richard Layte, Anne Nolan, Hannah McGee and Ann O'Hanlon

Tobacco control policies are egalitarian: A vulnerabilities perspective on clean indoor air laws, cigarette prices, and tobacco use disparities pp. 1439-1447

Alexis Dinno and Stanton Glantz

Writing social determinants into and out of cancer control: An assessment of policy practice pp. 1448-1455

Stacy M. Carter, L. Claire Hooker and Heather M. Davey

'Fruit of the accords': Healthcare reform and civil participation in Highland Guatemala pp. 1456-1463

Jonathan Nathaniel Maupin

Ritual and the organisation of care in primary care clinics in Cape Town, South Africa pp. 1464-1471

Simon Lewin and Judith Green

Genetics on stage: Public engagement in health policy development on preimplantation genetic diagnosis pp. 1472-1480

Susan M. Cox, Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston and Jeff Nisker

Imagining value, imagining users: Academic technology transfer for health innovation pp. 1481-1488

Fiona Alice Miller, Carrie B. Sanders and Pascale Lehoux

Negotiating science and experience in medical knowledge: Gynaecologists on endometriosis pp. 1489-1497

Emma Whelan

Diagnosing and treating premenstrual syndrome in five western nations pp. 1498-1505

George Weisz and Loes Knaapen

A dialogic model of conversations about risk: Coordinating perceptions and achieving quality decisions in cancer care pp. 1506-1512

Dorothy L. Collins and Richard L. Street

Media saturation, communication exposure and HIV stigma in Nigeria pp. 1513-1520

Stella Babalola, Adesegun Fatusi and Jennifer Anyanti

Combining education and video-based contact to reduce stigma of mental illness: "The Same or Not the Same" anti-stigma program for secondary schools in Hong Kong pp. 1521-1526

Jenny Y.N. Chan, Winnie W.S. Mak and Lawrence S.C. Law

Perceived financial status, health, and maladjustment in adolescence pp. 1527-1534

Hayley A. Hamilton, Samuel Noh and Edward M. Adlaf

Partner- and partnership-related risk factors for preterm birth among low-income women in Lima, Peru pp. 1535-1540

Kathleen Paul, Pedro J. Garcia, Lisa E. Manhart, King K. Holmes and Jane E. Hitti

Can sex workers regulate police? Learning from an HIV prevention project for sex workers in southern India pp. 1541-1547

Monica Rao Biradavolu, Scott Burris, Annie George, Asima Jena and Kim M. Blankenship

Rethinking gender-based violence during war: Is violence against civilian men a problem worth addressing? pp. 1548-1551

Natalia Linos

Illegality as risk factor: A survey of unauthorized migrant patients in a Berlin clinic pp. 1552-1560

Heide Castañeda

2009, volume 68, articles 7

Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the 'modernization' of the medical workforce pp. 1191-1198

Graham P. Martin, Graeme Currie and Rachael Finn

Rethinking collegiality: Restratification in English general medical practice 2004-2008 pp. 1199-1205

Ruth McDonald, Kath Checkland, Stephen Harrison and Anna Coleman

Practice nurses and the effects of the new general practitioner contract in the English National Health Service: The extension of a professional project? pp. 1206-1212

Ruth McDonald, Stephen Campbell and Helen Lester

A discourse analysis on how service providers in non-medical primary health and social care services understand their roles in mental health care pp. 1213-1220

Penelope Fay Mitchell

The politics of interprofessional working and the struggle for professional autonomy in nursing pp. 1221-1228

Daniel Salhani and Ian Coulter

The opening phase of telemedicine consultations: An analysis of interaction pp. 1229-1237

Yannis Pappas and Clive Seale

The clinical encounter as local moral world: Shifts of assumptions and transformation in relational context pp. 1238-1246

Arlene M. Katz and Margarita Alegría

Childhood sexual abuse and adult binge drinking among Kanak women in New Caledonia pp. 1247-1253

Christine Hamelin, Christine Salomon, Rémi Sitta, Alice Gueguen, Diane Cyr and France Lert

The specter of post-communism: Women and alcohol in eight post-Soviet states pp. 1254-1262

Brian Philip Hinote, William C. Cockerham and Pamela Abbott

Social roles and alcohol consumption: A study of 10 industrialised countries pp. 1263-1270

Sandra Kuntsche, Ronald A. Knibbe and Gerhard Gmel

Female ever-smoking, education, emancipation and economic development in 19 European countries pp. 1271-1278

Maartje M. Schaap, Anton E. Kunst, Mall Leinsalu, Enrique Regidor, Albert Espelt, Ola Ekholm, Uwe Helmert, Jurate Klumbiene and Johan P. Mackenbach

To what extent does socioeconomic status explain differences in health between Roma and non-Roma adolescents in Slovakia? pp. 1279-1284

Peter Kolarcik, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Olga Orosova, Jitse P. van Dijk and Sijmen A. Reijneveld

Neighborhood built environment and income: Examining multiple health outcomes pp. 1285-1293

James F. Sallis, Brian E. Saelens, Lawrence D. Frank, Terry L. Conway, Donald J. Slymen, Kelli L. Cain, James E. Chapman and Jacqueline Kerr

Pathways connecting neighborhood influences and mental well-being: Socioeconomic position and gender differences pp. 1294-1304

Jessica Burke, Patricia O'Campo, Christina Salmon and Renee Walker

Why have physical activity levels declined among Chinese adults? Findings from the 1991-2006 China health and nutrition surveys pp. 1305-1314

Shu Wen Ng, Edward Norton and Barry M. Popkin

Famine, death, and madness: Schizophrenia in early adulthood after prenatal exposure to the Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine pp. 1315-1321

Shige Song, Wei Wang and Peifeng Hu

Was the economic crisis 1997-1998 responsible for rising suicide rates in East/Southeast Asia? A time-trend analysis for Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand pp. 1322-1331

Shu-Sen Chang, David Gunnell, Jonathan A.C. Sterne, Tsung-Hsueh Lu and Andrew T.A. Cheng

Community-based delivery of maternal care in conflict-affected areas of eastern Burma: Perspectives from lay maternal health workers pp. 1332-1340

Katherine C. Teela, Luke C. Mullany, Catherine I. Lee, Eh Poh, Palae Paw, Nicole Masenior, Cynthia Maung, Chris Beyrer and Thomas J. Lee

Relationships between health and culture in Polynesia - A review pp. 1341-1348

Stuart Capstick, Pauline Norris, Faafetai Sopoaga and Wale Tobata

Understanding gendered influences on women's reproductive health in Pakistan: Moving beyond the autonomy paradigm pp. 1349-1356

Zubia Mumtaz and Sarah Salway

Reflecting and shaping the discourse: The role of music in AIDS communication in Tanzania pp. 1357-1360

Sheri Bastien

2009, volume 68, articles 6

Animal-human connections, "one health," and the syndemic approach to prevention pp. 991-995

Melanie Rock, Bonnie J. Buntain, Jennifer M. Hatfield and Benedikt Hallgrímsson

Doorways in nature: Syndemics, zoonotics, and public health. A commentary on Rock, Buntain, Hatfield & Hallgrímsson pp. 996-999

Merrill C. Singer

Counter design influences the privacy of patients in health care pp. 1000-1005

Mark P. Mobach

Can the emotion of disgust be harnessed to promote hand hygiene? Experimental and field-based tests pp. 1006-1012

Renata Porzig-Drummond, Richard Stevenson, Trevor Case and Megan Oaten

Explaining socio-economic status differences in walking for transport: An ecological analysis of individual, social and environmental factors pp. 1013-1020

Ester Cerin, Eva Leslie and Neville Owen

Modelling the effects of intimate partner violence and access to resources on women's health in the early years after leaving an abusive partner pp. 1021-1029

Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Judith Wuest, Colleen Varcoe, Lorraine Davies, Marilyn Merritt-Gray, Jacquelyn Campbell and Piotr Wilk

Video messaging: What works to persuade mothers to supervise young children more closely in order to reduce injury risk? pp. 1030-1037

Barbara A. Morrongiello, Daniel Zdzieborski, Megan Sandomierski and Jennifer Lasenby-Lessard

Peer-group support intervention improves the psychosocial well-being of AIDS orphans: Cluster randomized trial pp. 1038-1043

Edward Kumakech, Elizabeth Cantor-Graae, Samuel Maling and Francis Bajunirwe

Migration adversely affects antiretroviral adherence in a population-based cohort of HIV/AIDS patients pp. 1044-1049

Viviane Lima, Kimberly Fernandes, Beth Rachlis, Eric Druyts, Julio Montaner and Robert Hogg

Medical promise and the recalibration of expectation: Hope and HIV treatment engagement in a transitional setting pp. 1050-1059

Tim Rhodes, Sarah Bernays and Katarina Jankovic Terzic

The effects of trust in physician on self-efficacy, adherence and diabetes outcomes pp. 1060-1068

Yin-Yang Lee and Julia L. Lin

Barriers to clinical research participation in a diabetes randomized clinical trial pp. 1069-1074

William N. Robiner, John A. Yozwiak, Diane L. Bearman, Trudy D. Strand and Katherine R. Strasburg

Perceived occupational stress, affective, and physical well-being among telecommunication employees in Greece pp. 1075-1081

Lambros Lazuras, Angelos Rodafinos, Georgios Matsiggos and Alexander Stamatoulakis

The structuring of occupational stressors in a Post-Fordist work environment. Moving beyond traditional accounts of demand, control and support pp. 1082-1090

Christophe Vanroelen, Katia Levecque, Guy Moors, Sylvie Gadeyne and Fred Louckx

Occupation and plasma fibrinogen in Japanese male and female workers: The Jichi Medical School Cohort study pp. 1091-1097

Kumi Hirokawa, Akizumi Tsutsumi and Kazunori Kayaba

The spatial dimensions of neighborhood effects pp. 1098-1105

Seth E. Spielman and Eun-hye Yoo

Transitions in living arrangements of Canadian seniors: Findings from the NPHS longitudinal data pp. 1106-1113

Sisira Sarma, Gordon Hawley and Kisalaya Basu

Length of life inequality around the globe pp. 1114-1123

Jeroen Smits and Christiaan Monden

Why do Italian people rate their health worse than French people do? An exploration of cross-country differentials of self-rated health pp. 1124-1128

Aline Désesquelles, Viviana Egidi and Michele A. Salvatore

Public ideas and values concerning the commercialization of organ donation in four European countries pp. 1129-1136

Mark Schweda and Silke Schicktanz

The influence of institutional characteristics on length of stay for psychiatric patients: A national database study in South Korea pp. 1137-1144

Woojin Chung, Woo Hyun Cho and Chung Won Yoon

Gender equity and health sector reform in Colombia: Mixed state-market model yields mixed results pp. 1145-1152

Christina Ewig and Amparo Hernández Bello

Bureaucratic Itineraries in Colombia. A theoretical and methodological tool to assess managed-care health care systems pp. 1153-1160

Cesar Ernesto Abadia and Diana G. Oviedo

'Workers', 'clients' and the struggle over needs: Understanding encounters between service providers and injecting drug users in an Australian city pp. 1161-1168

David Moore

'Getting through' not 'going under': A qualitative study of gender and spousal support after diagnosis with colorectal cancer pp. 1169-1175

Carol Emslie, Susan Browne, Una MacLeod, Linda Rozmovits, Elizabeth Mitchell and Sue Ziebland

Searching for and making meaning after breast cancer: Prevalence, patterns, and negative affect pp. 1176-1182

William David Kernan and Stephen J. Lepore

"Race" and "ethnicity" in biomedical research: How do scientists construct and explain differences in health? pp. 1183-1190

Catherine Lee

2009, volume 68, articles 5

Violence from parents in childhood and obesity in adulthood: Using food in response to stress as a mediator of risk pp. 791-798

Emily A. Greenfield and Nadine F. Marks

Childhood mistreatment and adolescent and young adult depression pp. 799-806

Jason Fletcher

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in arterial stiffness and intima media thickness among adolescents pp. 807-813

Rebecca C. Thurston and Karen A. Matthews

Effects of neighborhood characteristics on the mortality of black male youth: Evidence from Gautreaux, Chicago pp. 814-823

Mark Edward Votruba and Jeffrey Kling

The worlds of homeless white and African American youth in San Francisco, California: A cultural epidemiological comparison pp. 824-831

Benjamin Hickler and Colette L. Auerswald

Barriers and facilitators related to mammography use among lower educated Mexican women in the USA pp. 832-839

Silvia Tejeda, Beti Thompson, Gloria D. Coronado and Diane P. Martin

Is perceived racial privilege associated with health? Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System pp. 840-844

Kaori Fujishiro

Studying the infant feeding intentions of pregnant women experiencing material deprivation: Methodology of the Looking at Infant Feeding Today (LIFT) study pp. 845-849

Brian McMillan, Josephine M. Green, Michael W. Woolridge, Lisa Dyson, Mary J. Renfrew and Graham P. Clarke

Mental health consequences of unintended childlessness and unplanned births: Gender differences and life course dynamics pp. 850-857

Katerina Maximova and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée

The contribution of material, psychosocial, and behavioral factors in explaining educational and occupational mortality inequalities in a nationally representative sample of South Koreans: Relative and absolute perspectives pp. 858-866

Young-Ho Khang, John W. Lynch, Seungmi Yang, Sam Harper, Sung-Cheol Yun, Kyunghee Jung-Choi and Hye Ryun Kim

Urban/rural differences in body weight: Evidence for social selection and causation hypotheses in Finland pp. 867-875

Markus Jokela, Mika Kivimäki, Marko Elovainio, Jorma Viikari, Olli T. Raitakari and Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen

Community inequality and smoking cessation in New Zealand, 1981-2006 pp. 876-884

Ross Barnett, Jamie Pearce and Graham Moon

Building social capital in post-conflict communities: Evidence from Nicaragua pp. 885-893

Nancy E. Brune and Thomas Bossert

The relational underpinnings of quality internal auditing in medical clinics in Israel pp. 894-902

Abraham Carmeli and Malka Zisu

Mechanisms behind privatization: A case study of private growth in Swedish elderly care pp. 903-911

Ragnar Stolt and Ulrika Winblad

A double-edged sword? Health research and research governance in UK primary care pp. 912-918

Sara E. Shaw, Roland P. Petchey, Jenifer Chapman and Stephen Abbott

Chronic catastrophes: Exploring the concentration and sustained nature of ambulatory prescription drug expenditures in the population of British Columbia, Canada pp. 919-924

Gillian E. Hanley and Steve Morgan

Practitioner perspectives on tackling health inequalities: Findings from an evaluation of healthy living centres in Scotland pp. 925-932

David Rankin, Kathryn Backett-Milburn and Stephen Platt

Determinants of performance failure in the nursing home industry pp. 933-940

Jacqueline Zinn, Vincent Mor, Zhanlian Feng and Orna Intrator

"HIV is irrelevant to our company": Everyday practices and the logic of relationships in HIV/AIDS management by Japanese multinational corporations in northern Thailand pp. 941-948

Ryoko Michinobu

The emergence of global health partnerships as facilitators of access to medication in Africa: A narrative policy analysis pp. 949-956

Michael Zisuh Ngoasong

"When in the body, it makes you look fat and HIV negative": The constitution of antiretroviral therapy in local discourse among youth in Kahe, Tanzania pp. 957-964

Mangi Job Ezekiel, Aud Talle, James M. Juma and Knut-Inge Klepp

The role of religion in HIV-positive women's disclosure experiences and coping strategies in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 965-970

Suzanne Maman, Rebecca Cathcart, Gillian Burkhardt, Serge Omba and Frieda Behets

Incontinence and trauma: Sexual violence, female genital cutting and proxy measures of gynecological fistula pp. 971-979

Amber Peterman and Kiersten Johnson

Diversity within: Deconstructing Aboriginal community health in Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve pp. 980-989

Kristen Jacklin

2009, volume 68, articles 4

Selected research from the XII International Symposium in Medical Geography, Bonn, July 2007: Introduction to the Special Issue pp. 591-592

Gavin Andrews and Sarah Curtis

Weighing the importance of neighbourhood: A multilevel exploration of the determinants of overweight and obesity pp. 593-600

Daniel W. Harrington and Susan J. Elliott

The link between local environment and obesity: A multilevel analysis in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal pp. 601-609

Paula Santana, Rita Santos and Helena Nogueira

Smoking cessation in England: Intentionality, anticipated ease of quitting and advice provision pp. 610-619

Liz Twigg, Graham Moon, Lisa Szatkowski and Paul Iggulden

The resurgence of tuberculosis in the Republic of Ireland: Perceptions and reality pp. 620-624

Dennis Pringle

Is population mixing associated with childhood type 1 diabetes in Canterbury, New Zealand? pp. 625-630

Laura J. Miller, Jamie Pearce, Ross Barnett, Jinny A. Willis, Brian A. Darlow and Russell S. Scott

Spatial and environmental connectivity analysis in a cholera vaccine trial pp. 631-637

Michael Emch, Mohammad Ali, Elisabeth D. Root and Mohammad Yunus

Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among women of reproductive age in the slums of Delhi and Hyderabad, India pp. 638-642

Jayati Ghosh, Vandana Wadhwa and Ezekiel Kalipeni

Global variations in health: Evaluating Wilkinson's income inequality hypothesis using the World Values Survey pp. 643-653

Min Hua Jen, Kelvyn Jones and Ron Johnston

Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas: Evidence from a national sample in England pp. 654-663

Mylene Riva, Sarah Curtis, Lise Gauvin and James Fagg

Older people and their social spaces: A study of well-being and attachment to place in Aotearoa New Zealand pp. 664-671

Janine L. Wiles, Ruth E.S. Allen, Anthea J. Palmer, Karen J. Hayman, Sally Keeling and Ngaire Kerse

Actor modelling and its contribution to the development of integrative strategies for management of pharmaceuticals in drinking water pp. 672-681

Alexandra Titz and Petra Döll

Neither rain nor hail nor sleet nor snow: Provider perspectives on the challenges of weather for home and community care pp. 682-688

Mark W. Skinner, Nicole M. Yantzi and Mark W. Rosenberg

Parents' work patterns and adolescent mental health pp. 689-698

Alfred Dockery, Jianghong Li and Garth Kendall

Early origins of health disparities: Burden of infection, health, and socioeconomic status in U.S. children pp. 699-707

Jennifer Beam Dowd, Anna Zajacova and Allison Aiello

Obesity, race/ethnicity and the multiple dimensions of socioeconomic status during the transition to adulthood: A factor analysis approach pp. 708-716

Melissa Scharoun-Lee, Linda S. Adair, Jay S. Kaufman and Penny Gordon-Larsen

The Black-White difference in age trajectories of functional health over the life course pp. 717-725

Jinyoung Kim and Richard Miech

Discrimination and health among Asian American immigrants: Disentangling racial from language discrimination pp. 726-732

Hyung Chol Yoo, Gilbert C. Gee and David Takeuchi

Intergenerational class mobility and cardiovascular mortality among Swedish women: A population-based register study pp. 733-739

Sanna Tiikkaja, Örjan Hemström and Denny Vågerö

The efficacy of a network intervention to reduce HIV risk behaviors among drug users and risk partners in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Philadelphia, USA pp. 740-748

Carl A. Latkin, Deborah Donnell, David Metzger, Susan Sherman, Apinun Aramrattna, Annet Davis-Vogel, Vu Minh Quan, Sharavi Gandham, Tasanai Vongchak, Tom Perdue and David D. Celentano

The virus stops with me: HIV-infected Ugandans' motivations in preventing HIV transmission pp. 749-757

Rachel King, Julie Lifshay, Sylvia Nakayiwa, David Katuntu, Pille Lindkvist and Rebecca Bunnell

Saving lives, preserving livelihoods: Understanding risk, decision-making and child health in a food crisis pp. 758-765

Katherine Rebecca Hampshire, Catherine Panter-Brick, Kate Kilpatrick and Rachel E. Casiday

Fairness and accountability for reasonableness. Do the views of priority setting decision makers differ across health systems and levels of decision making? pp. 766-773

Lydia Kapiriri, Ole F. Norheim and Douglas K. Martin

Investigating the medical forensic examination from the perspectives of sexually assaulted women pp. 774-780

Janice Du Mont, Deborah White and Margaret J. McGregor

Informed consent in biobank research: A deliberative approach to the debate pp. 781-789

David M. Secko, Nina Preto, Simon Niemeyer and Michael M. Burgess

2009, volume 68, articles 3

The effect of Transtheoretical Model based interventions on smoking cessation pp. 397-403

Paul Aveyard, Louise Massey, Amanda Parsons, Semira Manaseki and Carl Griffin

Flaws in the theory or flaws in the study: A commentary on "The effect of Transtheoretical Model based interventions on smoking cessation" pp. 404-406

James O. Prochaska

What is transtheoretical therapy? A response to Prochaska pp. 407-409

Amanda Parsons and Paul Aveyard

Public health works: Blood donation in urban China pp. 410-418

Vincanne Adams, Kathleen Erwin and Phuoc V. Le

Major reduction in AIDS-mortality inequalities after HAART: The importance of absolute differences in evaluating interventions pp. 419-426

Enrique Regidor, Elisabeth Sánchez, Luis de la Fuente, Francisco J. Luquero, Salvador de Mateo and Vicente Domínguez

Neighborhood social cohesion and youth participation in physical activity in Chicago pp. 427-435

Angie L. Cradock, Ichiro Kawachi, Graham A. Colditz, Steven L. Gortmaker and Stephen L. Buka

Social capital, political trust and self-reported psychological health: A population-based study pp. 436-443

Martin Lindstrom and Mohabbat Mohseni

Life-course socioeconomic positions and subclinical atherosclerosis in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis pp. 444-451

Emily T. Lemelin, Ana V. Diez Roux, Tracy G. Franklin, Mercedes Carnethon, Pamela L. Lutsey, Hanyu Ni, Ellen O'Meara and Sandi Shrager

Pregnancy outcome of migrant women and integration policy: A systematic review of the international literature pp. 452-461

Paola Bollini, Sandro Pampallona, Philippe Wanner and Bruce Kupelnick

Recasting Hope: A process of adaptation following fetal anomaly diagnosis pp. 462-472

Joan Lalor, Cecily M. Begley and Eoin Galavan

The health of female sex workers from three industry sectors in Queensland, Australia pp. 473-478

Charrlotte Seib, Jane Fischer and Jackob M. Najman

From 'silent' to 'heard': Professional mediation, manipulation and women's experiences of their body after an abnormal Pap smear pp. 479-486

Karin Blomberg, Anette Forss, Britt-Marie Ternestedt and Carol Tishelman

Modafinil in the media: Metaphors, medicalisation and the body pp. 487-495

Catherine M. Coveney, Brigitte Nerlich and Paul Martin

Community perceptions on the significant extension of life: An exploratory study among urban adults in Brisbane, Australia pp. 496-503

Mair Underwood, Helen P. Bartlett, Brad Partridge, Jayne Lucke and Wayne D. Hall

Between professional values and the social valuation of patients: The fluctuating economy of pre-hospital emergency work pp. 504-510

Michael Nurok and Nicolas Henckes

Narratives of change and reform processes: Global and local transactions in French psychiatric hospital reform after the Second World War pp. 511-518

Nicolas Henckes

Square pegs in round holes: Information systems, hospitals and the significance of contextual awareness pp. 519-525

Aksel Hagen Tjora and Graham Scambler

When the standards aren't standard: Evidence-based medicine in the Russian context pp. 526-532

Anna Geltzer

Critical elements of culturally competent communication in the medical encounter: A review and model pp. 533-543

Cayla R. Teal and Richard L. Street

"Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS health workers: Educating and retaining the workforce to provide antiretroviral treatment in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 544-551

Till Bärnighausen and David Bloom

Measuring achievement: Changes in risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Australia pp. 552-561

Philip M. Clarke and Alison J. Hayes

Pathways to distress: The multiple determinants of depression, hopelessness, and the desire for hastened death in metastatic cancer patients pp. 562-569

Gary Rodin, Christopher Lo, Mario Mikulincer, Allan Donner, Lucia Gagliese and Camilla Zimmermann

Self-labeling and its effects among adolescents diagnosed with mental disorders pp. 570-578

Tally Moses

A meta-analysis of the hepatitis C virus distribution in diverse racial/ethnic drug injector groups pp. 579-590

Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger, Enrique R. Pouget, Don D.C. Des Jarlais, Hannah L. Cooper, Roberta Scheinmann, Rebecca Stern, Shiela M. Strauss and Holly Hagan

2009, volume 68, articles 2

Non-evidence-based policy: How effective is China's new cooperative medical scheme in reducing medical impoverishment? pp. 201-209

Winnie Yip and William C. Hsiao

Access to healthcare services makes a difference in healthy longevity among older Chinese adults pp. 210-219

Danan Gu, Zhenmei Zhang and Yi Zeng

Health among the oldest-old in China: Which living arrangements make a difference? pp. 220-227

Lydia W. Li, Jiaan Zhang and Jersey Liang

Guardians of health: The dimensions of elder caregiving among women in a Mexico City neighborhood pp. 228-234

Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, David P. Kennedy and Steven P. Wallace

Explaining health differences between men and women in later life: A cross-city comparison in Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 235-242

Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui, Beatriz-Eugenia Alvarado, François Béland and Bilkis Vissandjee

Resources, stressors and psychological distress among older adults in Chennai, India pp. 243-250

Srinivasan Chokkanathan

Ill-health as a household norm: Evidence from other people's health problems pp. 251-259

Nattavudh Powdthavee

Are self-reports of health and morbidities in developing countries misleading? Evidence from India pp. 260-265

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

Disease prevalence in the English population: A comparison of primary care registers and prevalence models pp. 266-274

David Martin and James A. Wright

Does the association between self-rated health and mortality vary by social class? pp. 275-280

E. McFadden, R. Luben, S. Bingham, N. Wareham, A.-L. Kinmonth and K.-T. Khaw

Gender and socio-economic patterning of self-reported sleep problems in Britain pp. 281-289

Sara Arber, Marcos Bote and Robert Meadows

The effect of socioeconomic status on survival from colorectal cancer in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study pp. 290-297

Helen L. Kelsall, Laura Baglietto, David Muller, Andrew M. Haydon, Dallas R. English and Graham G. Giles

The role of health-related behaviors in the socioeconomic disparities in oral health pp. 298-303

Wael Sabbah, Georgios Tsakos, Aubrey Sheiham and Richard G. Watt

Workplace status and risk of hypertension among hourly and salaried aluminum manufacturing employees pp. 304-313

Jane Ellen Clougherty, Ellen A. Eisen, Martin D. Slade, Ichiro Kawachi and Mark R. Cullen

An examination of the relationship between multiple dimensions of religiosity, blood pressure, and hypertension pp. 314-322

Anna C. Buck, David R. Williams, Marc A. Musick and Michelle J. Sternthal

Involvement of Rabbinic and communal authorities in decision-making by haredi Jews in the UK with breast cancer: An interpretative phenomenological analysis pp. 323-333

Kate Coleman-Brueckheimer, Joseph Spitzer and Jonathan Koffman

Polygynous marital structure and child survivorship in sub-Saharan Africa: Some empirical evidence from Ghana pp. 334-342

Stephen Gyimah

Stuips, spuits and prophet ropes: The treatment of abantu childhood illnesses in urban South Africa pp. 343-351

Natalie Friend-du Preez, Noël Cameron and Paula Griffiths

When is deliberate killing of young children justified? Indigenous interpretations of infanticide in Bolivia pp. 352-361

Caroline de Hilari, Irma Condori and Kirk A. Dearden

A note on the nature of utility in time and health and implications for cost utility analysis pp. 362-367

Ken J. Buckingham and Nancy Devlin

How reliable are surveys of client satisfaction with healthcare services? Evidence from matched facility and household data in Madagascar pp. 368-379

Peter Glick

The spreading of suicidal behavior: The contextual effect of community household poverty on adolescent suicidal behavior and the mediating role of suicide suggestion pp. 380-389

Jon Gunnar Bernburg, Thorolfur Thorlindsson and Inga D. Sigfusdottir

Moving beyond "the Down Low": A critical analysis of terminology guiding HIV prevention efforts for African American men who have secretive sex with men pp. 390-395

Lena Denise Saleh and Don Operario

2009, volume 68, articles 1

Visualizing sexual assault: An exploration of the use of optical technologies in the medico-legal context pp. 1-8

Deborah White and Janice Du Mont

A comment on White and Du Mont's "Visualizing sexual assault: An exploration of the use of optical technologies in the medico-legal contact" pp. 9-11

Patricia Tjaden

HIV prevention risks for Black women in Canada pp. 12-20

Charmaine C. Williams, Peter A. Newman, Izumi Sakamoto and Notisha A. Massaquoi

Polygyny and women's health in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 21-29

Riley Bove and Claudia Valeggia

Health-related stigma among women with lymphatic filariasis from the Dominican Republic and Ghana pp. 30-38

Bobbie Person, L. Kay Bartholomew, Margaret Gyapong, David G. Addiss and Bart van den Borne

Is the crime drop of the 1990s in Canada and the USA associated with a general decline in risky and health-related behavior? pp. 39-48

Sandeep Mishra and Martin Lalumière

A multi-group cross-lagged analyses of work stressors and health using Canadian National sample pp. 49-59

S. Ibrahim, P. Smith and C. Muntaner

Reciprocal relations between effort-reward imbalance at work and adverse health: A three-wave panel survey pp. 60-68

Akihito Shimazu and Jan de Jonge

Evaluation of a peer network intervention trial among young methamphetamine users in Chiang Mai, Thailand pp. 69-79

Susan G. Sherman, Catherine Sutcliffe, Bangorn Srirojn, Carl A. Latkin, Apinun Aramratanna and David D. Celentano

The impact of support network substitution on low-income women's health: Are minor children beneficial substitutes? pp. 80-88

Kristin D. Mickelson and Jessica L. Demmings

Children's delayed development and behavior problems: Impact on mothers' perceived physical health across early childhood pp. 89-99

Abbey Severance Eisenhower, Bruce L. Baker and Jan Blacher

Neighborhood effects on birthweight: An exploration of psychosocial and behavioral pathways in Baltimore, 1995-1996 pp. 100-110

Ashley Schempf, Donna Strobino and Patricia O'Campo

From Kindergarten readiness to fourth-grade assessment: Longitudinal analysis with linked population data pp. 111-123

Jennifer E.V. Lloyd and Clyde Hertzman

A multilevel analysis of the effects of neighbourhood income inequality on individual self-rated health in Hong Kong pp. 124-132

Irene O.L. Wong, Benjamin J. Cowling, Su-Vui Lo and Gabriel M. Leung

The flip-side of social capital: The distinctive influences of trust and mistrust on health in rural China pp. 133-142

Hongmei Wang, Mark Schlesinger, Hong Wang and William C. Hsiao

Tangible evidence, trust and power: Public perceptions of community environmental health studies pp. 143-153

Madeleine Kangsen Scammell, Laura Senier, Jennifer Darrah-Okike, Phil Brown and Susan Santos

"Medication career" or "Moral career"? The two sides of managing antidepressants: A meta-ethnography of patients' experience of antidepressants pp. 154-168

Alice Malpass, Alison Shaw, Debbie Sharp, Fiona Walter, Gene Feder, Matthew Ridd and David Kessler

'If it almost kills you that means it's working!' Cultural models of chemotherapy expressed in a cancer support group pp. 169-176

Kirsten Bell

Attitudes of Arab and Jewish patients toward integration of complementary medicine in primary care clinics in Israel: A cross-cultural study pp. 177-182

Eran Ben-Arye, Khaled Karkabi, Sonia Karkabi, Yael Keshet, Maria Haddad and Moshe Frenkel

Patients' perceptions of research in emergency settings: A study of survivors of sudden cardiac death pp. 183-191

Neal W. Dickert and Nancy E. Kass

Evidence-based healthcare in practice: A study of clinician resistance, professional de-skilling, and inter-specialty differentiation in oncology pp. 192-200

Alex Broom, Jon Adams and Philip Tovey