Social Science & Medicine

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2008, volume 67, articles 12

Social assets and mental distress among the homeless: Exploring the roles of social support and other forms of social capital on depression pp. 1935-1943

Jay Irwin, Mark LaGory, Ferris Ritchey and Kevin Fitzpatrick

Social comparison of distress and mental health help-seeking in the US general population pp. 1944-1950

Ramin Mojtabai

Personal and neighborhood socioeconomic status and indices of neighborhood walk-ability predict body mass index in New York City pp. 1951-1958

Andrew Rundle, Sam Field, Yoosun Park, Lance Freeman, Christopher C. Weiss and Kathryn Neckerman

Self-rated health and trust in low-income Mexican-origin individuals in Texas pp. 1959-1969

Luisa Franzini

The inverse hazard law: Blood pressure, sexual harassment, racial discrimination, workplace abuse and occupational exposures in US low-income black, white and Latino workers pp. 1970-1981

Nancy Krieger, Jarvis T. Chen, Pamela D. Waterman, Cathy Hartman, Anne M. Stoddard, Margaret M. Quinn, Glorian Sorensen and Elizabeth M. Barbeau

Is precarious employment damaging to self-rated health? Results of propensity score matching methods, using longitudinal data in South Korea pp. 1982-1994

Myoung-Hee Kim, Chang-yup Kim, Jin-Kyung Park and Ichiro Kawachi

Studying place effects on health by synthesising individual and area-level outcomes pp. 1995-2006

Christopher H. Jackson, Sylvia Richardson and Nicky G. Best

A small-area index of socioeconomic deprivation to capture health inequalities in France pp. 2007-2016

Sabrina Havard, Séverine Deguen, Julie Bodin, Karine Louis, Olivier Laurent and Denis Bard

Social participation and healthy ageing: An international comparison using SHARE data pp. 2017-2026

Nicolas Sirven and Thierry Debrand

Payments for health care and its effect on catastrophe and impoverishment: Experience from the transition to Universal Coverage in Thailand pp. 2027-2035

Tewarit Somkotra and Leizel P. Lagrada

Do Mexican immigrants substitute health care in Mexico for health insurance in the United States? The role of distance pp. 2036-2042

Henry Brown

Convergent validity between a discrete choice experiment and a direct, open-ended method: Comparison of preferred attribute levels and willingness to pay estimates pp. 2043-2050

Marjon van der Pol, Alan Shiell, Flora Au, David Johnston and Suzanne Tough

Who is hurt by procyclical mortality? pp. 2051-2058

Ryan Edwards

Examining the impact of federally-funded syphilis elimination activities in the USA pp. 2059-2062

Harrell Chesson and Kwame Owusu-Edusei

Empowering interventions in health and social care: Recognition through 'ecologies of practice' pp. 2063-2071

Pamela Fisher and Jenny Owen

The evolving concept of health literacy pp. 2072-2078

Don Nutbeam

Does narrative information bias individual's decision making? A systematic review pp. 2079-2088

Anna Winterbottom, Hilary L. Bekker, Mark Conner and Andrew Mooney

Making sense of suicide: A discourse analysis of young people's talk about suicidal subjecthood pp. 2089-2097

Katrina Roen, Jonathan Scourfield and Elizabeth McDermott

Changing the knowledge base in Western herbal medicine pp. 2098-2106

Sue Evans

Social rank and adult male nutritional status: Evidence of the social gradient in health from a foraging-farming society pp. 2107-2115

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

Water insecurity and emotional distress: Coping with supply, access, and seasonal variability of water in a Bolivian squatter settlement pp. 2116-2125

Amber Wutich and Kathleen Ragsdale

Antiretroviral therapy in Zambia: Colours, 'spoiling', 'talk' and the meaning of antiretrovirals pp. 2126-2134

Lynette Louise Schumaker and Virginia A. Bond

2008, volume 67, articles 11

Early accounts of Gulf War illness and the construction of narratives in UK service personnel pp. 1641-1649

Simon Cohn, Clare Dyson and S. Wessely

The institutional context of Gulf War illness claims: A commentary on Cohn, Dyson and Wessely pp. 1650-1653

Thomas Shriver and Sherry Cable

Contextualising Gulf War illness experience: A response to Shriver and Cable pp. 1654-1656

Simon Wessely and Simon Cohn

Widening health inequalities among U.S. military retirees since 1974 pp. 1657-1668

Ryan Edwards

Seeing the forest and the trees: Using network analysis to develop an organizational blueprint of state tobacco control systems pp. 1669-1678

Jenine K. Harris, Douglas A. Luke, Ryan C. Burke and Nancy B. Mueller

Health promotion research and practice require sound policy analysis models: The case of Quebec's Tobacco Act pp. 1679-1689

Eric Breton, Lucie Richard, France Gagnon, Marie Jacques and Pierre Bergeron

Tobacco industry attempts to counter the World Bank report curbing the epidemic and obstruct the WHO framework convention on tobacco control pp. 1690-1699

Hadii M. Mamudu, Ross Hammond and Stanton Glantz

A randomized trial evaluating tobacco possession-use-purchase laws in the USA pp. 1700-1707

Leonard A. Jason, Steven B. Pokorny and Monica Adams

Smoking behaviours in a remote Australian Indigenous community: The influence of family and other factors pp. 1708-1716

Vanessa Johnston and David P. Thomas

The relationship between alcohol consumption and self-reported health status using the EQ5D: Evidence from rural Australia pp. 1717-1726

Dennis Petrie, Chris Doran, Anthony Shakeshaft and Rob Sanson-Fisher

Modifiable health risk factors and medical expenditures - The case of Taiwan pp. 1727-1736

Tsui-Fang Lin

Scientific resistance to research, training and utilization of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy in treating post-war disorders pp. 1737-1746

Mark C. Russell

The fetal tissue economy: From the abortion clinic to the stem cell laboratory pp. 1747-1756

Julie Kent

Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-service management pp. 1757-1765

Graham P. Martin

Family structure differences in health care utilization among U.S. children pp. 1766-1775

Bridget K. Gorman and Jennifer Braverman

General practitioners' experiences and understandings of diagnosing dementia: Factors impacting on early diagnosis pp. 1776-1783

Emily C. Hansen, Clarissa Hughes, Georgina Routley and Andrew L. Robinson

Doctors' strikes and mortality: A review pp. 1784-1788

Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham, Kristina Mitchell, K.M. Venkat Narayan and Salim Yusuf

Situated/being situated: Client and co-worker roles of family caregivers in hospice palliative care pp. 1789-1797

Kelli I. Stajduhar, Dawn D. Nickel, Wanda L. Martin and Laura Funk

Integrating the nurturer-trainer roles: Parental and behavior/symptom management processes for mothers of children with autism pp. 1798-1806

Wen-Che Tsai, Jia-Ling Tsai and Yea-Ing Lotus Shyu

Claiming power through hardship: Initiation narratives of Palestinian traditional women healers in Israel pp. 1807-1816

Ariela Popper-Giveon and Jonathan Ventura

"She'll be right"? National identity explanations for poor sexual health statistics in Aotearoa/New Zealand pp. 1817-1825

Virginia Braun

"So, are you back to work yet?" Re-conceptualizing 'work' and 'return to work' in the context of primary bone cancer pp. 1826-1836

Janet A. Parsons, Joan M. Eakin, Robert S. Bell, Renée-Louise Franche and Aileen M. Davis

Understanding, embracing, rejecting: Women's negotiations of disability constructions and categorizations after becoming chronically ill pp. 1837-1846

Valorie A. Crooks, Vera Chouinard and Robert D. Wilton

Cerebral implants and Parkinson's disease: A unique form of biographical disruption? pp. 1847-1851

Elsa Gisquet

Patient race and physicians' decisions to prescribe opioids for chronic low back pain pp. 1852-1860

Diana Jill Burgess, Megan Crowley-Matoka, Sean Phelan, John F. Dovidio, Robert Kerns, Craig Roth, Somnath Saha and Michelle van Ryn

Putting cognitive psychology to work: Improving decision-making in the medical encounter pp. 1861-1869

Abraham P. Schwab

The contribution of occupational factors to social inequalities in health: Findings from the national French SUMER survey pp. 1870-1881

Isabelle Niedhammer, Jean-François Chastang, Simone David and Cecily Kelleher

Leaving Las Vegas: Exposure to Las Vegas and risk of suicide pp. 1882-1888

Matt Wray, Matthew Miller, Jill Gurvey, Joanna Carroll and Ichiro Kawachi

Male-female differences in the association between socioeconomic status and atherosclerotic risk in adolescents pp. 1889-1897

Jason Murasko

Are Educational Differences in U.S. Self-Rated Health Increasing?: An Examination by Gender and Race pp. 1898-1906

Hui Liu and Robert A. Hummer

Change in reciprocity as a predictor of depressive symptoms: A prospective cohort study of Finnish women and men pp. 1907-1916

Ari Väänänen, Abraham P. Buunk, Mika Kivimäki, Jussi Vahtera and Markku Koskenvuo

Associations between physical activity, perceptions of the neighbourhood environment and access to facilities in an English city pp. 1917-1923

Jenna R. Panter and Andrew P. Jones

International return mobility, learning and knowledge transfer: A case study of Slovak doctors pp. 1924-1933

Allan M. Williams and Vladimír Baláž

2008, volume 67, articles 10

When there is no doctor: Reasons for the disappearance of primary care physicians in the US during the early 21st century pp. 1481-1491

John McKinlay and Lisa Marceau

Oh look, there is a doctor after all: About the resilience of professional medicine: A Commentary on McKinlay and Marceau's 'When there is no doctor' pp. 1492-1496

Stefan Timmermans

The blindness of those who will not see: On the replacement of primary care doctors in the 21st century. A response to Timmermans pp. 1497-1501

Lisa Marceau and John B. McKinlay

Do physicians care about patient choice? pp. 1502-1511

Ulrika Winblad

Constructing a European healthcare market: The private healthcare company Capio and the strategic aspect of the drive for transparency pp. 1512-1520

Maria Blomgren and Eva Sundén

Impact of maternity unit closures on access to obstetrical care: The French experience between 1998 and 2003 pp. 1521-1529

Hugo Pilkington, Béatrice Blondel, Marion Carayol, Gérard Breart and Jennifer Zeitlin

Behind the scenes in health care improvement: The complex structures and emergent strategies of Implementation Science pp. 1530-1540

Elisa J. Sobo, Candice Bowman and Allen L. Gifford

Stigma in the workplace: Employer attitudes about people with HIV in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Chicago pp. 1541-1549

Deepa Rao, Beth Angell, Chow Lam and Patrick Corrigan

Crossing two types of implementation intentions with a protection motivation intervention for the reduction of saturated fat intake: A randomized trial pp. 1550-1558

Andrew Prestwich, Karen Ayres and Rebecca Lawton

Can social capital be intentionally generated? A randomized trial from rural South Africa pp. 1559-1570

Paul M. Pronyk, Trudy Harpham, Joanna Busza, Godfrey Phetla, Linda A. Morison, James R. Hargreaves, Julia C. Kim, Charlotte H. Watts and John D. Porter

Imperial or postcolonial governance? Dissecting the genealogy of a global public health strategy pp. 1571-1579

Tim Brown and Morag Bell

Race, populations, and genomics: Africa as laboratory pp. 1580-1588

Lundy Braun and Evelynn Hammonds

Risk for post-traumatic stress disorder associated with different forms of interpersonal violence in South Africa pp. 1589-1595

Debra Kaminer, Anna Grimsrud, Landon Myer, Dan J. Stein and David R. Williams

Long-term effects of organized violence on young Middle Eastern refugees' mental health pp. 1596-1603

Edith Montgomery

Social context as an explanation for race disparities in hypertension: Findings from the Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities (EHDIC) Study pp. 1604-1611

Roland J. Thorpe , Dwayne T. Brandon and Thomas A. LaVeist

Environmental inequity in England: Small area associations between socio-economic status and environmental pollution pp. 1612-1629

David Briggs, Juan J. Abellan and Daniela Fecht

Gender-specific responses to social determinants associated with self-perceived health in Taiwan: A multilevel approach pp. 1630-1640

Duan-Rung Chen, Ly-Yun Chang and Meng-Li Yang

2008, volume 67, articles 9

Changes at Social Science & Medicine pp. 1341-1342

Ellen Annandale

Media campaigns to promote smoking cessation among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations: What do we know, what do we need to learn, and what should we do now? pp. 1343-1355

Jeff Niederdeppe, Xiaodong Kuang, Brittney Crock and Ashley Skelton

Examining the evidence base of mass media campaigns for socially disadvantaged populations: What do we know, what do we need to learn, and what should we do now? A commentary on Niederdeppe's article pp. 1356-1358

Pebbles Fagan

Critical steps in building the evidence base regarding media campaign effects on disadvantaged populations: A response to Fagan pp. 1359-1360

Jeff Niederdeppe, Xiaodong Kuang, Brittney Crock and Ashley Skelton

Carrier matching and collective socialization in community genetics: Dor Yeshorim and the reinforcement of stigma pp. 1361-1369

Aviad E. Raz and Yafa Vizner

An uncertain revolution: Why the rise of a genetic model of mental illness has not increased tolerance pp. 1370-1381

Jason Schnittker

'Avoiding harm to others' considerations in relation to parental measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination discussions - An analysis of an online chat forum pp. 1382-1390

Zoë C. Skea, Vikki A. Entwistle, Ian Watt and Elizabeth Russell

How are patient characteristics relevant for physicians' clinical decision making in diabetes? An analysis of qualitative results from a cross-national factorial experiment pp. 1391-1399

Karen E. Lutfey, Stephen M. Campbell, Megan R. Renfrew, Lisa D. Marceau, Martin Roland and John B. McKinlay

Clinical relationships tested by iatrogenicity: The case of haemophiliac patients faced with the epidemic of transfusional AIDS pp. 1400-1409

Emmanuelle Fillion

Ethnicity and utilization of family physicians: A case study of Mainland Chinese immigrants in Toronto, Canada pp. 1410-1422

Lu Wang, Mark Rosenberg and Lucia Lo

Social support, material circumstance and health behaviour: Influences on health in First Nation and Inuit communities of Canada pp. 1423-1433

Chantelle A.M. Richmond and Nancy A. Ross

Using in-depth qualitative data to enhance our understanding of quantitative results regarding the impact of HIV and AIDS on households in rural Uganda pp. 1434-1446

Janet Seeley, Samuel Biraro, Leigh Anne Shafer, Pamela Nasirumbi, Susan Foster, Jimmy Whitworth and Heiner Grosskurth

Sex, drugs, and HIV: Rapid assessment of HIV risk behaviors among street-based drug using sex workers in Durban, South Africa pp. 1447-1455

Richard Needle, Karen Kroeger, Hrishikesh Belani, Angeli Achrekar, Charles D. Parry and Sarah Dewing

Marital and cohabitation status as predictors of mortality: A 10-year follow-up of an Italian elderly cohort pp. 1456-1464

Emanuele Scafato, Lucia Galluzzo, Claudia Gandin, Silvia Ghirini, Marzia Baldereschi, Antonio Capurso, Stefania Maggi, Gino Farchi and for the ILSA Working Group

Illness representations and coping following an abnormal colorectal cancer screening result pp. 1465-1474

Sheina Orbell, Ian O'Sullivan, Ron Parker, Bob Steele, Christine Campbell and David Weller

Modeling the mental health effects of victimization among homeless persons pp. 1475-1479

Brian Edward Perron, Ben Alexander-Eitzman, David F. Gillespie and David Pollio

2008, volume 67, articles 8

Post-traumatic stress and psychiatric disorders in Palestinian adolescents following intifada-related injuries pp. 1199-1207

Vivian Khamis

The psychological impact of the Israel-Hezbollah War on Jews and Arabs in Israel: The impact of risk and resilience factors pp. 1208-1216

Patrick A. Palmieri, Daphna Canetti-Nisim, Sandro Galea, Robert J. Johnson and Stevan E. Hobfoll

Understanding adjustment following traumatic brain injury: Is the Goodness-of-Fit coping hypothesis useful? pp. 1217-1224

Elizabeth Kendall and Deborah J. Terry

HIV-related stigma: Adapting a theoretical framework for use in India pp. 1225-1235

Wayne T. Steward, Gregory M. Herek, Jayashree Ramakrishna, Shalini Bharat, Sara Chandy, Judith Wrubel and Maria L. Ekstrand

Community factors affecting rising caesarean section rates in developing countries: An analysis of six countries pp. 1236-1246

Tiziana Leone, Sabu S. Padmadas and Zoë Matthews

Socioeconomic domains and associations with preterm birth pp. 1247-1257

Lynne C. Messer, Lisa C. Vinikoor, Barbara A. Laraia, Jay S. Kaufman, Janet Eyster, Claudia Holzman, Jennifer Culhane, Irma Elo, Jessica G. Burke and Patricia O'Campo

Does place explain racial health disparities? Quantifying the contribution of residential context to the Black/white health gap in the United States pp. 1258-1268

D. Phuong Do, Brian Karl Finch, Ricardo Basurto-Davila, Chloe Bird, Jose Escarce and Nicole Lurie

Recent changes in the geography of social disparities in premature mortality in Québec pp. 1269-1281

Robert Pampalon, Denis Hamel and Philippe Gamache

Is caring associated with an increased risk of mortality? A longitudinal study pp. 1282-1290

Dermot O'Reilly, Sheelah Connolly, Michael Rosato and Chris Patterson

Life sustaining irritations? Relationship quality and mortality in the context of chronic illness pp. 1291-1299

Kira Birditt and Toni C. Antonucci

Differential effect of birthplace and length of residence on body mass index (BMI) by education, gender and race/ethnicity pp. 1300-1310

Emma V. Sanchez-Vaznaugh, Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, Brisa N. Sánchez and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

Kidney disease and the cumulative burden of life course socioeconomic conditions: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study pp. 1311-1320

David A. Shoham, Suma Vupputuri, Jay S. Kaufman, Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, Ana V. Diez Roux, Josef Coresh and Gerardo Heiss

Gender differences in relationships between social capital and individual smoking and drinking behavior in Taiwan pp. 1321-1330

Ying-Chih Chuang and Kun-Yang Chuang

Test of the 'healthy migrant hypothesis': A longitudinal analysis of health selectivity of internal migration in Indonesia pp. 1331-1339

Yao Lu

2008, volume 67, articles 7

The habitus of hygiene: Discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work pp. 1047-1055

Brian Brown, Paul Crawford, Brigitte Nerlich and Nelya Koteyko

Is my sick child healthy? Is my healthy child sick?: Changing parental experiences of cystic fibrosis in the age of expanded newborn screening pp. 1056-1064

Rachel Grob

Are drug treatment services only for 'thieving junkie scumbags'? Drug users and the management of stigmatised identities pp. 1065-1073

Polly Radcliffe and Alex Stevens

Weaving meaning? An exploration of the interplay between lay and professional understandings of cervical cancer risk pp. 1074-1082

Natalie Armstrong and Elizabeth Murphy

'I really tried': Management of normative issues in accounts of responses to infertility pp. 1083-1093

Bregje Christina de Kok and Sue Widdicombe

Forty days and forty nights: A biocultural perspective on postpartum practices in the Amazon pp. 1094-1103

Barbara Ann Piperata

The social construction of surrogacy research: An anthropological critique of the psychosocial scholarship on surrogate motherhood pp. 1104-1112

Elly Teman

Older people's views of a good death in heart failure: Implications for palliative care provision pp. 1113-1121

M. Gott, Neil Small, Sarah Barnes, Sheila Payne and David Seamark

Assessing the effectiveness of interventions to promote advance directives among older adults: A systematic review and multi-level analysis pp. 1122-1132

Gina Bravo, Marie-France Dubois and Bernard Wagneur

Discourses of disease, discourses of disadvantage: A critical analysis of National Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plans pp. 1133-1142

Joshua P. Garoon and Patrick S. Duggan

Where there's a will, is there a way?: Is New Zealand's publicly funded health sector able to steer towards population health? pp. 1143-1152

Tim Tenbensel, Jacqueline Cumming, Toni Ashton and Pauline Barnett

Family practice: Professional identity in transition. A case study of family medicine in Canada pp. 1153-1163

Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, Marc Rioux, Guy Rocher, Louise Samson and Laurier Boucher

Evaluating the impact of eligibility for free care on the use of general practitioner (GP) services: A difference-in-difference matching approach pp. 1164-1172

Anne Nolan

Dynamic process of adverse selection: Evidence from a subsidized community-based health insurance in rural China pp. 1173-1182

Licheng Zhang and Hong Wang

Insurance covered and non-covered complementary and alternative medicine utilisation among adults in Taiwan pp. 1183-1189

Shu-Fang Shih, Chih-Yin Lew-Ting, Hsing-Yi Chang and Ken N. Kuo

Welfarism, extra-welfarism and capability: The spread of ideas in health economics pp. 1190-1198

Joanna Coast, Richard D. Smith and Paula Lorgelly

2008, volume 67, articles 6

Small area inequalities in health: Are we underestimating them? pp. 891-899

Mai Stafford, Oliver Duke-Williams and Nicola Shelton

Do poorer people have poorer access to local resources and facilities? The distribution of local resources by area deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland pp. 900-914

Sally Macintyre, Laura Macdonald and Anne Ellaway

Individual factors explain neighbourhood variations in accidents to children under 5 years of age pp. 915-927

Richard Reading, Andrew Jones, Robin Haynes, Konstantinos Daras and Alan Emond

Cancer survival in New Zealand: Ethnic, social and geographical inequalities pp. 928-937

Robin Haynes, Jamie Pearce and Ross Barnett

Creating intoxigenic environments: Marketing alcohol to young people in Aotearoa New Zealand pp. 938-946

Tim McCreanor, Helen Moewaka Barnes, Hector Kaiwai, Suaree Borell and Amanda Gregory

Is the duration of poverty and unemployment a risk factor for heavy drinking? pp. 947-955

Krysia N. Mossakowski

Going ill to work - What personal circumstances, attitudes and work-related factors are associated with sickness presenteeism? pp. 956-964

Claus D. Hansen and Johan H. Andersen

The impact of systematic occupational health and safety management for occupational disorders and long-term work attendance pp. 965-970

Lotta Dellve, Katrin Skagert and Mats Eklöf

Relationship of socioeconomic status to C-reactive protein and arterial stiffness in urban Japanese civil servants pp. 971-981

Yasuaki Saijo, Eiji Yoshioka, Tomonori Fukui, Mariko Kawaharada and Reiko Kishi

Do social comparisons explain the association between income inequality and health?: Relative deprivation and perceived health among male and female Japanese individuals pp. 982-987

Naoki Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, Yasuhisa Takeda and Zentaro Yamagata

Explaining gender differences in ill-health in South Korea: The roles of socio-structural, psychosocial, and behavioral factors pp. 988-1001

Heeran Chun, Young-Ho Khang, Il-Ho Kim and Sung-il Cho

Informal and formal care for elderly persons: How adult children's characteristics affect the use of formal care in Japan pp. 1002-1008

Chie Hanaoka and Edward Norton

How important are individual, household and commune characteristics in explaining utilization of maternal health services in Vietnam? pp. 1009-1017

Ardeshir Sepehri, Sisira Sarma, Wayne Simpson and Saeed Moshiri

Understanding a collaborative effort to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care: Contributions from social network analysis pp. 1018-1027

Marsha Gold, Patrick Doreian and Erin Fries Taylor

Doing' public health and 'making' public health practitioners: Putting policy into practice in 'Starting Well pp. 1028-1037

Mhairi Mackenzie

An exploration of food intolerance in the primary care setting: The general practitioner's experience pp. 1038-1045

Mia Nelson and Jane Ogden

2008, volume 67, articles 5

Ethics and the ethnography of medical research in Africa pp. 685-695

Sassy Molyneux and P. Wenzel Geissler

'He is now like a brother, I can even give him some blood' - Relational ethics and material exchanges in a malaria vaccine 'trial community' in The Gambia pp. 696-707

P. Wenzel Geissler, Ann Kelly, Babatunde Imoukhuede and Robert Pool

Taking social relationships seriously: Lessons learned from the informed consent practices of a vaccine trial on the Kenyan Coast pp. 708-720

Caroline Gikonyo, Philip Bejon, Vicki Marsh and Sassy Molyneux

Beginning community engagement at a busy biomedical research programme: Experiences from the KEMRI CGMRC-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya pp. 721-733

Vicki Marsh, Dorcas Kamuya, Yvonne Rowa, Caroline Gikonyo and Sassy Molyneux

Promoting the social value of research in Kenya: Examining the practical aspects of collaborative partnerships using an ethical framework pp. 734-747

Geoffrey Mbaabu Lairumbi, Sassy Molyneux, Robert W. Snow, Kevin Marsh, Norbert Peshu and Mike English

The interface between research and policy: Experience from South Africa pp. 748-759

Lucy Gilson and Di McIntyre

The research, policy and practice interface: Reflections on using applied social research to promote equity in health in Malawi pp. 760-770

Sally Theobald and Bertha Nhlema-Simwaka

Ethical dilemmas of social science research on AIDS and orphanhood in Western Kenya pp. 771-779

Erick Otieno Nyambedha

"I know he controls cancer": The meanings of religion among Black Caribbean and White British patients with advanced cancer pp. 780-789

Jonathan Koffman, Myfanwy Morgan, Polly Edmonds, Peter Speck and Irene J. Higginson

HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: Accounts of HIV-positive Caribbean people in the United Kingdom pp. 790-798

Moji Anderson, Gillian Elam, Sarah Gerver, Ijeoma Solarin, Kevin Fenton and Philippa Easterbrook

Vulnerability, gender and "proxy negativity": Women in relationships with HIV-positive men in Australia pp. 799-807

Asha Persson and Wendy Richards

The weaker sex? Exploring lay understandings of gender differences in life expectancy: A qualitative study pp. 808-816

Carol Emslie and Kate Hunt

Seeking refuge from violence in street-based drug scenes: Women's experiences in North America's first supervised injection facility pp. 817-823

Nadia Fairbairn, Will Small, Kate Shannon, Evan Wood and Thomas Kerr

Racial disparity in bacterial vaginosis: the role of socioeconomic status, psychosocial stress, and neighborhood characteristics, and possible implications for preterm birth pp. 824-833

Kathleen Paul, Doris Boutain, Lisa Manhart and Jane Hitti

Caring for independent lives: Geographies of caring for young adults with intellectual disabilities pp. 834-843

Andrew Power

Coping with the Asian tsunami: Perspectives from Tamil Nadu, India on the determinants of resilience in the face of adversity pp. 844-853

Anto P. Rajkumar, Titus S. Premkumar and Prathap Tharyan

The persistent problem of malaria: Addressing the fundamental causes of a global killer pp. 854-862

Leeanne Stratton, Marie S. O'Neill, Margaret E. Kruk and Michelle L. Bell

BCG vaccination and WHO's global strategy for tuberculosis control 1948-1983 pp. 863-873

Niels Brimnes

Valuing the ICECAP capability index for older people pp. 874-882

Joanna Coast, Terry N. Flynn, Lucy Natarajan, Kerry Sproston, Jane Lewis, Jordan J. Louviere and Tim J. Peters

Comparison of two methods of eliciting time preference for future health states pp. 883-889

Marjon van der Pol and John Cairns

2008, volume 67, articles 4

Determinants of provider choice for malaria treatment: Experiences from The Gambia pp. 487-496

Virginia Wiseman, Anthony Scott, Lesong Conteh, Brendan McElroy and Warren Stevens

Differences in influence patterns between groups predicting the adoption of a solar disinfection technology for drinking water in Bolivia pp. 497-504

Stephanie Moser and Hans-Joachim Mosler

Should we have confidence if a physician is accredited? A study of the relative impacts of accreditation and insurance payments on quality of care in the Philippines pp. 505-510

Stella Luz Quimbo, John W. Peabody, Riti Shimkhada, Kimberly Woo and Orville Solon

Health costs from short-term exposure to pesticides in Nepal pp. 511-519

Kishor Atreya

Interaction of working conditions, job satisfaction, and sickness absences: Evidence from a representative sample of employees pp. 520-528

Petri Böckerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas

The association of major depressive episodes with income inequality and the human development index pp. 529-539

Manuel Cifuentes, Grace Sembajwe, SangWoo Tak, Rebecca Gore, David Kriebel and Laura Punnett

Predictors of female worker attitudes towards menstruation and the provision of help to institutionalized women with intellectual disabilities in Taiwan pp. 540-545

Yueh-Ching Chou, Zxy-yann J. Lu, Cheng-yun Pu and Chung-Fu Lan

Perceptions of medical interactions between healthcare providers and American Indian older adults pp. 546-556

Eva Marie Garroutte, Natalia Sarkisian, Jack Goldberg, Dedra Buchwald and Janette Beals

The effects of harassment and victimization on self-rated health and mental health among Canadian adolescents pp. 557-567

Teresa Abada, Feng Hou and Bali Ram

Actual or potential neighborhood resources and access to them: Testing hypotheses of social capital for the health of female caregivers pp. 568-582

Richard M. Carpiano

Caregivers' experiences of caring for a husband with Parkinson's disease and psychotic symptoms pp. 583-589

Caroline Williamson, Jane Simpson and Craig D. Murray

Health in China and India: A cross-country comparison in a context of rapid globalisation pp. 590-605

Trevor J.B. Dummer and Ian G. Cook

Social capital and self-rated health: Results from the US 2006 social capital survey of one community pp. 606-617

Jennifer Schultz, A. Maureen O'Brien and Bedassa Tadesse

The impact of over-the-counter availability of "Plan B" on teens' contraceptive decision making pp. 618-627

Tamar Krishnamurti, Sara L. Eggers and Baruch Fischhoff

Effectiveness of web-based education on Kenyan and Brazilian adolescents' knowledge about HIV/AIDS, abortion law, and emergency contraception: Findings from TeenWeb pp. 628-637

Carolyn Tucker Halpern, Ellen M.H. Mitchell, Tilda Farhat and Phil Bardsley

Religious treatments for drug addiction: An exploratory study in Brazil pp. 638-646

Zila van der Meer Sanchez and Solange A. Nappo

Dying cancer patients talk about euthanasia pp. 647-656

Jaklin A. Eliott and Ian N. Olver

Beliefs about common health problems and work: A qualitative study pp. 657-665

Maria Carla Barnes, Rhiannon Buck, Gareth Williams, Katie Webb and Mansel Aylward

Longitudinal studies to detect gene x environment interactions in common disease - Bang for your buck? A commentary on Chaufan's "How much can a large population study on genes, environments, their interactions and common diseases contribute to the health of the American people?" (65:8, 1730-1741(2007)) pp. 666-672

Stephen Robertson and Richie Poulton

A letter response to Chaufan's "How much can a large population study on genes, environments, their interactions and common diseases contribute to the health of the American people?" (65:8, 2007, 1730-1741) pp. 673-674

Reed V. Tuckson and Huntington F. Willard

In search of "genetic predispositions" to common diseases: Bang for your buck? Not really. A response to Robertson and Poulton, and Tuckson and Willard pp. 675-683

Claudia Chaufan

2008, volume 67, articles 3

Stigma, prejudice, discrimination and health pp. 351-357

Jennifer Stuber, Ilan Meyer and Bruce Link

Stigma and prejudice: One animal or two? pp. 358-367

Jo C. Phelan, Bruce G. Link and John F. Dovidio

Social patterning of stress and coping: Does disadvantaged social statuses confer more stress and fewer coping resources? pp. 368-379

Ilan H. Meyer, Sharon Schwartz and David M. Frost

Stigma, social inequality, and HIV risk disclosure among Dominican male sex workers pp. 380-388

Mark Padilla, Daniel Castellanos, Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Armando Matiz Reyes, Leonardo E. Sánchez Marte and Martha Arredondo Soriano

Church ladies, good girls, and locas: Stigma and the intersection of gender, ethnicity, mental illness, and sexuality in relation to HIV risk pp. 389-397

Pamela Y. Collins, Hella von Unger and Adria Armbrister

'Face' and the embodiment of stigma in China: The cases of schizophrenia and AIDS pp. 398-408

Lawrence Hsin Yang and Arthur Kleinman

Stigma and coercion in the context of outpatient treatment for people with mental illnesses pp. 409-419

Bruce Link, Dorothy M. Castille and Jennifer Stuber

Smoking and the emergence of a stigmatized social status pp. 420-430

Jennifer Stuber, Sandro Galea and Bruce G. Link

Rethinking theoretical approaches to stigma: A Framework Integrating Normative Influences on Stigma (FINIS) pp. 431-440

Bernice A. Pescosolido, Jack K. Martin, Annie Lang and Sigrun Olafsdottir

Perceived discrimination, race and health in South Africa pp. 441-452

David R. Williams, Hector M. Gonzalez, Stacey Williams, Selina A. Mohammed, Hashim Moomal and Dan J. Stein

Reasons for disclosing depression matter: The consequences of having egosystem and ecosystem goals pp. 453-462

Julie A. Garcia and Jennifer Crocker

Stigma and the ethics of public health: Not can we but should we pp. 463-472

Ronald Bayer

Stigma, ethics and policy: A commentary on Bayer's "Stigma and the ethics of public health: Not can we but should we" pp. 473-475

Scott Burris

What means this thing called stigma? A response to Burris pp. 476-477

Ronald Bayer

Disparities and distrust: The implications of psychological processes for understanding racial disparities in health and health care pp. 478-486

John F. Dovidio, Louis A. Penner, Terrance L. Albrecht, Wynne E. Norton, Samuel L. Gaertner and J. Nicole Shelton

2008, volume 67, articles 2

The sequelae of political violence: Assessing trauma, suffering and dislocation in the Peruvian highlands pp. 205-217

Duncan Pedersen, Jacques Tremblay, Consuelo Errázuriz and Jeffrey Gamarra

Debating war-trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in an interdisciplinary arena pp. 218-227

Hanna Kienzler

"Feeling blue" in Spanish: A qualitative inquiry of depression among Mexican immigrants pp. 228-237

Gerald F. Lackey

Abortion and anxiety: What's the relationship? pp. 238-252

Julia Renee Steinberg and Nancy F. Russo

Conflict rationalisation: How family members cope with a diagnosis of brain stem death pp. 253-261

Tracy Long, Magi Sque and Julia Addington-Hall

The elementary forms of care: An empirical approach to ethics in a South African Hospital pp. 262-270

Didier Fassin

Consequences of a decentralized healthcare governance model: Measuring regional authority support for patient choice in Sweden pp. 271-279

Mio Fredriksson and Ulrika Winblad

Partnerships in primary care in Australia: Network structure, dynamics and sustainability pp. 280-291

Jenny M. Lewis, Juan I. Baeza and Damon Alexander

District-based malaria epidemic early warning systems in East Africa: Perceptions of acceptability and usefulness among key staff at health facility, district and central levels pp. 292-300

Caroline Jones, Tarekegn A. Abeku, Beth Rapuoda, Michael Okia and Jonathan Cox

The relationship of acceptance or denial of HIV-status to antiretroviral adherence among adult HIV patients in urban Botswana pp. 301-310

Sara L. Nam, Katherine Fielding, Ava Avalos, Diana Dickinson, Tendani Gaolathe and P. Wenzel Geissler

Mobilizing collective identity to reduce HIV risk among sex workers in Sonagachi, India: The boundaries, consciousness, negotiation framework pp. 311-320

Toorjo Ghose, Dallas Swendeman, Sheba George and Debasish Chowdhury

Social norms information enhances the efficacy of an appearance-based sun protection intervention pp. 321-329

Heike I.M. Mahler, James A. Kulik, Heather A. Butler, Meg Gerrard and Frederick X. Gibbons

Socioeconomic status and health: The role of subjective social status pp. 330-340

Panayotes Demakakos, James Nazroo, Elizabeth Breeze and Michael Marmot

Measuring the school impact on child obesity pp. 341-349

Kimberley L. Procter, Mary C. Rudolf, Richard G. Feltbower, Ronnie Levine, Anne Connor, Michael Robinson and Graham P. Clarke

2008, volume 67, articles 1

Framing disease: An underappreciated mechanism for the social patterning of health pp. 1-9

Robert Aronowitz

A case of old wine in re-labeled bottles? A commentary on Aronowitz pp. 10-13

Stephen J. Kunitz

Out from under the skin: Disease etiology, biology and society: A commentary on Aronowitz pp. 14-17

Duana Fullwiley

Revisiting labeling theory and health: A commentary on Aronowitz pp. 18-19

Constance Nathanson

Rejoinder to commentaries on "Framing disease: an underappreciated mechanism for the social patterning of health" pp. 20-22

Robert Aronowitz

Pathways to depression: The impact of neighborhood violent crime on inner-city residents in Baltimore, Maryland, USA pp. 23-30

Aaron Curry, Carl Latkin and Melissa Davey-Rothwell

Does neighborhood violence lead to depression among caregivers of children with asthma? pp. 31-37

Emily S. Tonorezos, Patrick N. Breysse, Elizabeth C. Matsui, Meredith C. McCormack, Jean Curtin-Brosnan, D'Ann Williams, Nadia N. Hansel, Peyton A. Eggleston and Gregory B. Diette

An examination of processes linking perceived neighborhood disorder and obesity pp. 38-46

Amy M. Burdette and Terrence D. Hill

Shifting accountability: A longitudinal qualitative study of diabetes causation accounts pp. 47-56

Julia Lawton, Elizabeth Peel, Odette Parry and Margaret Douglas

Illness experience in fibromyalgia syndrome: A metasynthesis of qualitative studies pp. 57-67

Julius Sim and Sue Madden

Health, healing and recovery: Therapeutic landscapes and the everyday lives of breast cancer survivors pp. 68-78

Jennifer English, Kathi Wilson and Sue Keller-Olaman

The meaning of the survivor identity for women with breast cancer pp. 79-87

Karen Kaiser

The effects of household joblessness on mental health pp. 88-100

Rosanna Scutella and Mark Wooden

Export of health services from developing countries: The case of Tunisia pp. 101-110

Marc Lautier

What do people value when they provide unpaid care for an older person? A meta-ethnography with interview follow-up pp. 111-121

Hareth Al-Janabi, Joanna Coast and Terry N. Flynn

Transitions into informal caregiving and out of paid employment of women in their 50s pp. 122-127

Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, Jayne Lucke, Richard Hockey and Annette Dobson

The two facets of electronic care surveillance: An exploration of the views of older people who live with monitoring devices pp. 128-136

Anna Essén

What influences referrals within community palliative care services? A qualitative case study pp. 137-146

Catherine Walshe, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Chris Todd and Ann Caress

Are 'anonymous' and 'non-directed' prerequisites for living altruistic donation? The views of transplant physicians from France and Québec pp. 147-151

Marie-Chantal Fortin, Marianne Dion-Labrie, Marie-Josée Hébert, Marie Achille and Hubert Doucet

Contending visions in the evolution of genetic medicine: The case of cancer genetic services in Ontario, Canada pp. 152-160

Fiona Alice Miller, Mita Giacomini and Catherine Ahern

Reducing child mortality in Nigeria: A case study of immunization and systemic factors pp. 161-164

Rufus Ngowu, James S. Larson and Min Su Kim

Who's talking? Communication between health providers and HIV-infected adults related to herbal medicine for AIDS treatment in western Uganda pp. 165-176

Deanne Langlois-Klassen, Walter Kipp and Tom Rubaale

Using 'complexity' for improving educational research in health care pp. 177-182

Helen Cooper and Robert Geyer

Tacit and encoded knowledge in the use of standardised outcome measures in multidisciplinary team decision making: A case study of in-patient neurorehabilitation pp. 183-194

Joanne Greenhalgh, Rob Flynn, Andrew F. Long and Sarah Tyson

Qualitative research and the politics of knowledge in an age of evidence: Developing a research-based practice of immanent critique pp. 195-203

Eric Mykhalovskiy, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Ivy Bourgeault, Jackie Choiniere, Joel Lexchin, Suzanne Peters and Jerry White