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2008, volume 66, articles 12

Age and the balance of emotions pp. 2391-2400

Catherine E. Ross and John Mirowsky

Comparing sense of coherence, depressive symptoms and anxiety, and their relationships with health in a population-based study pp. 2401-2412

Hanna Konttinen, Ari Haukkala and Antti Uutela

Azúcar y nervios: Explanatory models and treatment experiences of Hispanics with diabetes and depression pp. 2413-2424

Leopoldo J. Cabassa, Marissa C. Hansen, Lawrence A. Palinkas and Kathleen Ell

What affects the uptake of screening for bowel cancer using a faecal occult blood test (FOBt): A qualitative study pp. 2425-2435

Alison Chapple, Sue Ziebland, Paul Hewitson and Ann McPherson

How Japanese parents of deaf children arrive at decisions regarding pediatric cochlear implantation surgery: A qualitative study pp. 2436-2447

Suguru Okubo, Miyako Takahashi and Ichiro Kai

Preferences and choices for care and health insurance pp. 2448-2459

Bernard van den Berg, Paula Van Dommelen, Piet Stam, Trea Laske-Aldershof, Thomas Buchmueller and Frederik T. Schut

Community-based health insurance and access to maternal health services: Evidence from three West African countries pp. 2460-2473

Kimberly V. Smith and Sara Sulzbach

Social services utilization by adults with intellectual disabilities and their families pp. 2474-2485

Yueh-Ching Chou, Yue-Chune Lee, Li-Chan Lin, Ai-Ning Chang and Wei-Yi Huang

When to seek health care: A duration analysis for malaria patients in Nepal pp. 2486-2494

Vijaya Raj Sharma

Practicing research ethics: Private-sector physicians & pharmaceutical clinical trials pp. 2495-2505

Jill A. Fisher

Best research - For what? Best health - For whom? A critical exploration of primary care research using discourse analysis pp. 2506-2519

Sara E. Shaw and Trisha Greenhalgh

Biomedical scientists' perception of the social sciences in health research pp. 2520-2531

Mathieu Albert, Suzanne Laberge, Brian D. Hodges, Glenn Regehr and Lorelei Lingard

The expansion of abnormality and the biomedical norm: Neonatal screening, prenatal diagnosis and cystic fibrosis in France pp. 2532-2543

Joëlle Vailly

What British women say matters to them about donating an aborted fetus to stem cell research: A focus group study pp. 2544-2554

Naomi Pfeffer

A multilevel examination of exercise intention and behavior during pregnancy pp. 2555-2561

Heather Hausenblas, Danielle Symons Downs, Peter Giacobbi, Danny Tuccitto and Brian Cook

Brittle bones, pain and fractures - Lay constructions of osteoporosis among Norwegian women attending the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) pp. 2562-2572

John-Arne Skolbekken, Wenche Østerlie and Siri Forsmo

Factors that influence body image representations of black Muslim women pp. 2573-2584

Angela Odoms-Young

You are what you eat? Vegetarianism, health and identity pp. 2585-2595

Nick Fox and Katie J. Ward

How socio-economic status contributes to participation in leisure-time physical activity pp. 2596-2609

Ester Cerin and Eva Leslie

2008, volume 66, articles 11

The Cedar Project: Historical trauma, sexual abuse and HIV risk among young Aboriginal people who use injection and non-injection drugs in two Canadian cities pp. 2185-2194

For the Cedar Project Partnership, Margo E. Pearce, Wayne M. Christian, Katharina Patterson, Kat Norris, Akm Moniruzzaman, Kevin J.P. Craib, Martin T. Schechter and Patricia M. Spittal

My peers, my friend, and I: Peer interactions and somatic complaints in boys and girls pp. 2195-2205

Francine C. Jellesma, Carolien Rieffe and Mark Meerum Terwogt

Beefing up with the Chans: Evidence for the effects of relative income and income inequality on health from the China Health and Nutrition Survey pp. 2206-2217

Zhuo Chen and David Meltzer

The association of fast food, fruit and vegetable prices with dietary intakes among US adults: Is there modification by family income? pp. 2218-2229

May A. Beydoun, Lisa M. Powell and Youfa Wang

Eating patterns may mediate the association between marital status, body mass index, and blood cholesterol levels in apparently healthy men and women from the ATTICA study pp. 2230-2239

Mary Yannakoulia, Dimosthenis Panagiotakos, Christos Pitsavos, Yannis Skoumas and Christodoulos Stafanadis

The contribution of job characteristics to socioeconomic inequalities in incidence of myocardial infarction pp. 2240-2252

Martijn Huisman, Frank Van Lenthe, Mauricio Avendano and Johan Mackenbach

Neighborhoods and disability in later life pp. 2253-2267

Vicki A. Freedman, Irina Grafova, Robert F. Schoeni and Jeannette Rogowski

Contextual social capital as a risk factor for poor self-rated health: A multilevel analysis pp. 2268-2280

Karin Engström, Fredrik Mattsson, Anders Järleborg and Johan Hallqvist

Welfare state regimes and differences in self-perceived health in Europe: A multilevel analysis pp. 2281-2295

Terje Andreas Eikemo, Clare Bambra, Ken Judge and Kristen Ringdal

The economic impact of chronic diseases: How do households respond to shocks? Evidence from Russia pp. 2296-2307

Dele Olawale Abegunde and Anderson E. Stanciole

Equity in health care financing in Palestine: The value-added of the disaggregate approach pp. 2308-2320

Mohammad Abu-Zaineh, Awad Mataria, Stéphane Luchini and Jean-Paul Moatti

Doing well by doing good. The relationship between formal volunteering and self-reported health and happiness pp. 2321-2334

Francesca Borgonovi

Enhancing the conceptual clarity of the activity and participation components of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health pp. 2335-2345

Elizabeth M. Badley

The creation of the concept of an antidepressant: An historical analysis pp. 2346-2355

Joanna Moncrieff

Communicating a terminal prognosis in a palliative care setting: Deficiencies in current communication training protocols pp. 2356-2365

Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra Sanchez-Reilly and Sandra L. Ragan

'I don't do like I used to do': A grounded theory approach to conceptualising awareness in people with moderate to severe dementia living in long-term care pp. 2366-2377

Linda Clare, Julia Rowlands, Errollyn Bruce, Claire Surr and Murna Downs

Indigenous women and smoking during pregnancy: Knowledge, cultural contexts and barriers to cessation pp. 2378-2389

Lisa Wood, Kathryn France, Kerry Hunt, Sandra Eades and Linda Slack-Smith

2008, volume 66, articles 10

Future health systems: Why future? Why now? pp. 2067-2075

Gerald Bloom and Hilary Standing

Markets, information asymmetry and health care: Towards new social contracts pp. 2076-2087

Gerald Bloom, Hilary Standing and Robert Lloyd

The health professions and the performance of future health systems in low-income countries: Support or obstacle? pp. 2088-2095

Gilles Dussault

Producing effective knowledge agents in a pluralistic environment: What future for community health workers? pp. 2096-2107

H. Standing and A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury

Scaling-up antiretroviral treatment in Southern African countries with human resource shortage: How will health systems adapt? pp. 2108-2121

Wim Van Damme, Katharina Kober and Guy Kegels

Information and communications technology for future health systems in developing countries pp. 2122-2132

Henry Lucas

Regulating India's health services: To what end? What future? pp. 2133-2144

David H. Peters and V.R. Muraleedharan

Ownership, control, and contention: Challenges for the future of healthcare in Malaysia pp. 2145-2156

Heng Leng Chee

New therapeutic landscapes in Africa: Parental categories and practices in seeking infant health in the Republic of Guinea pp. 2157-2167

Melissa A. Leach, James R. Fairhead, Dominique Millimouno and Alpha Ahmadou Diallo

From life insurance to safer sex - Reflections of a marketing man pp. 2168-2172

Bruce Mackay

Engaging citizens: Lessons from building Brazil's national health system pp. 2173-2184

Andrea Cornwall and Alex Shankland

2008, volume 66, articles 9

Neo-materialist theory and the temporal relationship between income inequality and longevity change pp. 1871-1881

Andrew Clarkwest

A commentary on "Neo-materialist theory and the temporal relationship between income inequality and longevity change" pp. 1882-1894

Frederick J. Zimmerman

Sensitive periods and first difference models: Integrating etiologic thinking into econometric techniques: A commentary on Clarkwest's "Neo-materialist theory and the temporal relationship between income inequality and longevity change" pp. 1895-1902

M. Maria Glymour

Confounding and process-model fit in research on income inequality and population health: a rejoinder to Zimmerman and Glymour pp. 1903-1908

Andrew Clarkwest

How pharmaceutical industry funding affects trial outcomes: Causal structures and responses pp. 1909-1914

Sergio Sismondo

Exploring emerging technologies using metaphors - A study of orphan drugs and pharmacogenomics pp. 1915-1927

Wouter Boon and Ellen Moors

Civil society organisations and global health initiatives: Problems of legitimacy pp. 1928-1938

Cathal Doyle and Preeti Patel

Which aspects of non-clinical quality of care are most important? Results from WHO's general population surveys of "health systems responsiveness" in 41 countries pp. 1939-1950

Nicole Valentine, Charles Darby and Gouke J. Bonsel

Influence of socioeconomic status, wealth and financial empowerment on gender differences in health and healthcare utilization in later life: evidence from India pp. 1951-1962

Kakoli Roy and Anoshua Chaudhuri

Overlooking undernutrition? Using a composite index of anthropometric failure to assess how underweight misses and misleads the assessment of undernutrition in young children pp. 1963-1966

Shailen Nandy and J. Jaime Miranda

The effect of income and occupation on body mass index among women in the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Surveys (1983-2002) pp. 1967-1978

M. Arantxa Colchero, Benjamin Caballero and David Bishai

The crowding-out effects of tobacco and alcohol where expenditure shares are low: Analyzing expenditure data for Taiwan pp. 1979-1989

Cheng-yun Pu, Virginia Lan, Yiing-Jenq Chou and Chung-fu Lan

Belief in ghost month can help prevent drowning deaths: A natural experiment on the effects of cultural beliefs on risky behaviours pp. 1990-1998

Chiang-Hsing Yang, Yu-Tung Huang, Craig Janes, Kuan-Chia Lin and Tsung-Hsueh Lu

Is social capital associated with HIV risk in rural South Africa? pp. 1999-2010

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

The role of educational level and job characteristics on the health of young adults pp. 2011-2022

Sunita D. Karmakar and F. Curtis Breslin

Enduring consequences of parenting for risk behaviors from adolescence into early adulthood pp. 2023-2034

Kathleen M. Roche, Saiffudin Ahmed and Robert W. Blum

Effects of spouses' socioeconomic characteristics on mortality among men and women in a Norwegian longitudinal study pp. 2035-2047

Vera Skalická and Anton E. Kunst

Neighborhood influences on the association between maternal age and birthweight: A multilevel investigation of age-related disparities in health pp. 2048-2060

Magdalena Cerdá, Stephen L. Buka and Janet W. Rich-Edwards

Poverty and mental illness: Fact or fiction? A commentary on Das, Do, Friedman, McKenzie & Scott (65:3, 2007, 467-480) pp. 2061-2063

Joanne Corrigall, Crick Lund, Vikram Patel, Sophie Plagerson and Michelle K. Funk

Revisiting the relationship between mental health and poverty in developing countries: a response to Corrigall pp. 2064-2066

Jishnu Das, Quy-Toan Do, Jed Friedman, David McKenzie and Kinnon Scott

2008, volume 66, articles 8

Epidemiologic analysis of racial/ethnic disparities: Some fundamental issues and a cautionary example pp. 1659-1669

Jay S. Kaufman

Functional or futile?: The (in)utility of methodological critiques of genetic research on racial disparities in health. A commentary on Kaufman's "Epidemiologic analysis of racial/ethnic disparities: Some fundamental issues and a cautionary example" pp. 1670-1674

Reanne Frank

Arguments prove nothing unless verified. A commentary on Kaufman's "Epidemiologic analysis of racial/ethnic disparities: Some fundamental issues and a cautionary example" pp. 1675-1677

Derek V. Exner and Jay N. Cohn

Epidemiologic analysis of racial/ethnic disparities: A rejoinder to Frank and Exner pp. 1678-1680

Jay S. Kaufman

Associations of job strain and working overtime with adverse health behaviors and obesity: Evidence from the Whitehall II Study, Helsinki Health Study, and the Japanese Civil Servants Study pp. 1681-1698

Tea Lallukka, Eero Lahelma, Ossi Rahkonen, Eva Roos, Elina Laaksonen, Pekka Martikainen, Jenny Head, Eric Brunner, Annhild Mosdol, Michael Marmot, Michikazu Sekine, Ali Nasermoaddeli and Sadanobu Kagamimori

Economic development as a determinant of injury mortality - A longitudinal approach pp. 1699-1708

Syed Moniruzzaman and Ragnar Andersson

Achieving better measles immunization in developing countries: does higher coverage imply lower inequality? pp. 1709-1718

Filip Meheus and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Is inequality at the heart of it? Cross-country associations of income inequality with cardiovascular diseases and risk factors pp. 1719-1732

Daniel Kim, Ichiro Kawachi, Stephen Vander Hoorn and Majid Ezzati

Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle? pp. 1733-1749

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

Healthy and happy in Europe? On the association between happiness and life expectancy over time pp. 1750-1759

Christian Bjørnskov

Health-related quality of life among Mexican Americans living in colonias at the Texas-Mexico border pp. 1760-1771

Nelda Mier, Marcia G. Ory, Dongling Zhan, Martha Conkling, Joseph R. Sharkey and James N. Burdine

Tobacco use in sub-Sahara Africa: Estimates from the demographic health surveys pp. 1772-1783

Fred Pampel

A grim contradiction: The practice and consequences of corporate social responsibility by British American Tobacco in Malaysia pp. 1784-1796

Simon Barraclough and Martha Morrow

Potential impacts of iron biofortification in India pp. 1797-1808

Alexander J. Stein, J.V. Meenakshi, Matin Qaim, Penelope Nestel, H.P.S. Sachdev and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

Effects of health literacy on health status and health service utilization amongst the elderly pp. 1809-1816

Young Ik Cho, Shoou-Yih D. Lee, Ahsan M. Arozullah and Kathleen S. Crittenden

Collective self-esteem and the onset of chronic conditions and reduced activity in a longitudinal study of aging pp. 1817-1827

Daniel S. Bailis, Judith G. Chipperfield and Tiffany R. Helgason

Social determinants of psychological distress in a nationally-representative sample of South African adults pp. 1828-1840

Landon Myer, Dan J. Stein, Anna Grimsrud, Soraya Seedat and David R. Williams

Mental health of female survivors of human trafficking in Nepal pp. 1841-1847

Atsuro Tsutsumi, Takashi Izutsu, Amod K. Poudyal, Seika Kato and Eiji Marui

Health work, female sex workers and HIV/AIDS: Global and local dimensions of stigma and deviance as barriers to effective interventions pp. 1848-1862

Graham Scambler and Frederique Paoli

Chemotherapy as language: Sound symbolism in cancer medication names pp. 1863-1869

Gregory A. Abel and Lewis H. Glinert

2008, volume 66, articles 7

Promoting research participation: Why not advertise altruism? pp. 1451-1456

Brian Williams, Vikki Entwistle, Gill Haddow and Mary Wells

A comprehensive evidence-based approach is needed for promoting participation in health research: A commentary on Williams pp. 1457-1460

Craig L. Fry

Placing evidence in context: A response to Fry's commentary pp. 1461-1462

Brian Williams, Vikki A. Entwistle, Gill Haddow and Mary Wells

Impact of methamphetamine precursor chemical legislation, a suppression policy, on the demand for drug treatment pp. 1463-1473

James K. Cunningham and Lon-Mu Liu

Gender differences in physicians' communicative skills and their influence on patient satisfaction in gynaecological outpatient consultations pp. 1474-1483

Regula Nelly Christen, Judith Alder and Johannes Bitzer

Time, space and opportunity in the outpatient consultation: 'The doctor's story' pp. 1484-1496

Alan Radley, John Mayberry and Melanie Pearce

Performing stable angina pectoris: An ethnographic study pp. 1497-1508

Claire Somerville, Katie Featherstone, Harry Hemingway, Adam Timmis and Gene Solomon Feder

Resisting social disenfranchisement: Negotiating collective identities and everyday life with memory loss pp. 1509-1520

Renée L. Beard and Patrick J. Fox

Managing self-responsibility through other-oriented blame: Family accounts of genetic testing pp. 1521-1532

Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Srikant Sarangi and Angus Clarke

Dying as a social relationship: A sociological review of debates on the determination of death pp. 1533-1544

Allan Kellehear

Psychosocial factors as mediators between migration and subjective well-being among young Finnish adults pp. 1545-1556

Ellen Ek, Markku Koiranen, Veli-Pekka Raatikka, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin and Anja Taanila

Barriers to the community support of orphans and vulnerable youth in Rwanda pp. 1557-1567

Tonya Renee Thurman, Leslie A. Snider, Neil W. Boris, Edward Kalisa, Laetitia Nyirazinyoye and Lisanne Brown

Quality of life as a mode of governance: NGO talk of HIV 'positive' health in India pp. 1568-1578

Mark Finn and Srikant Sarangi

Quality of life, health and physiological status and change at older ages pp. 1579-1587

David Blane, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli and Scott M. Montgomery

Declines in late-life disability: The role of early- and mid-life factors pp. 1588-1602

Vicki A. Freedman, Linda G. Martin, Robert F. Schoeni and Jennifer C. Cornman

Community-level social capital and recurrence of acute coronary syndrome pp. 1603-1613

Richard M. Scheffler, Timothy T. Brown, Leonard Syme, Ichiro Kawachi, Irina Tolstykh and Carlos Iribarren

Income inequality and population health: Correlation and causality pp. 1614-1626

Salvatore J. Babones

Discrimination and health in an English study pp. 1627-1636

M. Kelaher, Sheila Paul, Helen Lambert, Waqar Ahmad, Yin Paradies and George Davey Smith

Religious affiliation and mortality in Northern Ireland: Beyond Catholic and Protestant pp. 1637-1645

Dermot O'Reilly and Michael Rosato

Psychosocial health of residents exposed to soil pollution in a Flemish neighbourhood pp. 1646-1657

Frédéric Vandermoere

2008, volume 66, articles 6

Neighbourhood effects on health: Does it matter where you draw the boundaries? pp. 1241-1255

Robin Flowerdew, David J. Manley and Clive E. Sabel

Subjective and objective neighborhood characteristics and adult health pp. 1256-1270

Margaret Weden, Richard M. Carpiano and Stephanie A. Robert

"I spent nine years looking for a doctor": Exploring access to health care among immigrants in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada pp. 1271-1283

Jennifer Asanin and Kathi Wilson

Relation of female gender and low socioeconomic status to internalizing symptoms among adolescents: A case of double jeopardy? pp. 1284-1296

Tamar Mendelson, Laura D. Kubzansky, Geetanjali D. Datta and Stephen L. Buka

The contribution of maternal working conditions to socio-economic inequalities in birth outcome pp. 1297-1309

Marit Dahlén Gisselmann and Örjan Hemström

Hostility and anomie: Links to preterm delivery subtypes and ambulatory blood pressure at mid-pregnancy pp. 1310-1321

LindaBeth Tiedje, Claudia B. Holzman, Eric De Vos, Xu Jia, Steve Korzeniewski, Mohammad H. Rahbar, Monica M. Goble and David Kallen

The long-term effects of intimate partner violence on adolescent mothers' depressive symptoms pp. 1322-1333

Taryn Lindhorst and Monica Oxford

Does a higher educational level protect against anxiety and depression? The HUNT study pp. 1334-1345

Ingvar Bjelland, Steinar Krokstad, Arnstein Mykletun, Alv A. Dahl, Grethe S. Tell and K. Tambs

The physical strenuousness of work is slightly associated with an upward trend in the BMI pp. 1346-1355

Petri Böckerman, Edvard Johansson, Pekka Jousilahti and Antti Uutela

Crowding out effect of tobacco expenditure and its implications on household resource allocation in India pp. 1356-1367

Rijo John

"The problem of the worst-off is dealt with after all other issues": The equity and health policy implementation gap in Burkina Faso pp. 1368-1378

Valéry Ridde

Defining the "community" in community consultation for emergency research: Findings from the community VOICES study pp. 1379-1392

Deborah Fish Ragin, Edmund Ricci, Rosamond Rhodes, Jennifer Holohan, Margaret Smirnoff and Lynne D. Richardson

Modifying Photovoice for community-based participatory Indigenous research pp. 1393-1405

Heather Castleden, Theresa Garvin and Huu-ay-aht First Nation

Researching reducing health disparities: Mixed-methods approaches pp. 1406-1417

Miriam Stewart, Edward Makwarimba, Alison Barnfather, Nicole Letourneau and Anne Neufeld

Children in chronic pain: Promoting pediatric patients' symptom accounts in tertiary care pp. 1418-1428

Ignasi Clemente, Seung-Hee Lee and John Heritage

Researching health inequalities in adolescents: The development of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Family Affluence Scale pp. 1429-1436

Candace Currie, Michal Molcho, William Boyce, Bjørn Holstein, Torbjørn Torsheim and Matthias Richter

Hygiene and uncertainty in qualitative accounts of hepatitis C transmission among drug injectors in Serbia pp. 1437-1447

Tim Rhodes, Bojan Zikic´, Ana Prodanovic´, Elena Kuneski and Sarah Bernays

2008, volume 66, articles 5

"You are free to set your own hours": Governing worker productivity and health through flexibility and resilience pp. 1019-1033

Ellen MacEachen, Jessica Polzer and Judy Clarke

Social status and health: A comparison of British civil servants in Whitehall-II with European- and African-Americans in CARDIA pp. 1034-1045

Nancy Adler, Archana Singh-Manoux, Joseph Schwartz, Judith Stewart, Karen Matthews and Michael G. Marmot

Socioeconomic context, distance to primary care and detection of hepatitis C: A French population-based study pp. 1046-1056

Elisabeth Monnet, Cécile Ramée, Anne Minello, Valérie Jooste, Didier Carel and Vincent Di Martino

Risk screening, emergency care, and lay concepts of complications during pregnancy in Chiapas, Mexico pp. 1057-1069

Rolando Tinoco-Ojanguren, Namino M. Glantz, Imelda Martinez-Hernandez and Ismael Ovando-Meza

A health transition: Birth weights, households and survival in an Australian working-class population sample born 1857-1900 pp. 1070-1083

Janet McCalman, Ruth Morley and Gita Mishra

The social nature of natural childbirth pp. 1084-1094

Becky Mansfield

"We Grandmothers Know Plenty": Breastfeeding, complementary feeding and the multifaceted role of grandmothers in Malawi pp. 1095-1105

Rachel Bezner Kerr, Laifolo Dakishoni, Lizzie Shumba, Rodgers Msachi and Marko Chirwa

"He will ask why the child gets sick so often": The gendered dynamics of intra-household bargaining over healthcare for children with fever in the Volta Region of Ghana pp. 1106-1117

Rachel Tolhurst, Yaa Peprah Amekudzi, Frank K. Nyonator, S. Bertel Squire and Sally Theobald

Ethnic differentials in parental health seeking for childhood illness in Vietnam pp. 1118-1130

Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan and James F. Phillips

Childhood social class and cancer incidence: Results of the globe study pp. 1131-1139

Inge M.C.M. de Kok, Frank J. van Lenthe, Mauricio Avendano, Marieke Louwman, Jan-Willem W. Coebergh and Johan P. Mackenbach

The impact of cumulative childhood adversity on young adult mental health: Measures, models, and interpretations pp. 1140-1151

Elizabeth A. Schilling, Robert H. Aseltine and Susan Gore

The association between subjective social status and mental health among Asian immigrants: Investigating the influence of age at immigration pp. 1152-1164

Janxin Leu, Irene H. Yen, Stuart A. Gansky, Emily Walton, Nancy E. Adler and David T. Takeuchi

Mental-physical comorbidity in an ethnically diverse population pp. 1165-1173

Kate Scott, Magnus A. McGee, David Schaaf and Joanne Baxter

Social capital in its place: Using social theory to understand social capital and inequalities in health pp. 1174-1184

Christine Stephens

Bringing health home: Householder and provider perspectives on the healthy housing programme in Auckland, New Zealand pp. 1185-1196

Chris Bullen, Robin A. Kearns, Janet Clinton, Patricia Laing, Faith Mahoney and Ingrid McDuff

Emergency department utilization among victims and offenders involved in non-lethal violence pp. 1197-1203

Jerry K. Daday, Lisa M. Broidy and Cameron S. Crandall

Provider and clinic cultural competence in a primary care setting pp. 1204-1216

Kathryn A. Paez, Jerilyn K. Allen, Kathryn A. Carson and Lisa A. Cooper

Women and prostate cancer support groups: The gender connect? pp. 1217-1227

Joan L. Bottorff, John L. Oliffe, Michael Halpin, Melanie Phillips, Graham McLean and Lawrence Mroz

Reconsidering patient empowerment in chronic illness: A critique of models of self-efficacy and bodily control pp. 1228-1239

Isabelle Aujoulat, Renzo Marcolongo, Leopoldo Bonadiman and Alain Deccache

2008, volume 66, articles 4

Socioeconomic status and health-related quality of life among elderly people: Results from the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health pp. 803-810

Nathalie Huguet, Mark S. Kaplan and David Feeny

Relationship of race and poverty to lower extremity function and decline: Findings from the women's health and aging study pp. 811-821

Roland James Thorpe , Judith D. Kasper, Sarah L. Szanton, Kevin D. Frick, Linda P. Fried and Eleanor M. Simonsick

The contribution of parental and grandparental childhood social disadvantage to circulatory disease diagnosis in young Swedish men pp. 822-834

Bitte Modin, Denny Vågerö, Johan Hallqvist and Ilona Koupil

Status relations in school and their relevance for health in a life course perspective: Findings from the Aberdeen children of the 1950's cohort study pp. 835-848

Viveca Östberg and Bitte Modin

Trajectories of functional health: The 'long arm' of childhood health and socioeconomic factors pp. 849-861

Steven Haas

A multilevel analysis of urban neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and health in late life pp. 862-872

Richard G. Wight, Janet R. Cummings, Dana Miller-Martinez, Arun S. Karlamangla, Teresa E. Seeman and Carol S. Aneshensel

Widowhood and mortality among the elderly: The modifying role of neighborhood concentration of widowed individuals pp. 873-884

S.V. Subramanian, Felix Elwert and Nicholas Christakis

Social capital and health and well-being in East Asia: A population-based study pp. 885-899

Kazue Yamaoka

Individual-level analysis of social capital and health: A comparison of Arab and Jewish Israelis pp. 900-910

Orna Baron-Epel, Ruth Weinstein, Amalia Haviv-Mesika, Noga Garty-Sandalon and Manfred S. Green

Social and structural violence and power relations in mitigating HIV risk of drug-using women in survival sex work pp. 911-921

Kate Shannon, Thomas Kerr, Shari Allinott, Jill Chettiar, Jean Shoveller and Mark W. Tyndall

Accounting for institutional change in health economic evaluation: A program to tackle HIV/AIDS and gender violence in Southern Africa pp. 922-932

Stephen Jan, Paul Pronyk and Julia Kim

Paradoxes and asymmetries of transnational networks: A comparative case study of Mexico's community-based AIDS organizations pp. 933-944

Nielan Barnes

Social impact of preventive HIV vaccine clinical trial participation: A model of prevention, assessment and intervention pp. 945-951

Mary Allen and Chuen-Yen Lau

The Chinese health care regulatory institutions in an era of transition pp. 952-962

Jing Fang

Entrepreneurial ventures and whole-body donations: A regional perspective from the United States pp. 963-969

Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman

Tobacco industry sociological programs to influence public beliefs about smoking pp. 970-981

Anne Landman, Daniel K. Cortese and Stanton Glantz

Planning for end of life care within lay-led chronic illness self-management training: The significance of 'death awareness' and biographical context in participant accounts pp. 982-993

Caroline Sanders, Anne Rogers, Claire Gately and Anne Kennedy

Family context of mental health risk in Tsunami affected mothers: Findings from a pilot study in Sri Lanka pp. 994-1007

K.A.S. Wickrama and K.A. Thulitha Wickrama

Violence against women by their intimate partner and common mental disorders pp. 1008-1018

Ana Bernarda Ludermir, Lilia B. Schraiber, Ana F.P.L. D'Oliveira, Ivan França-Junior and Henrica A. Jansen

2008, volume 66, articles 3

Neuroendocrine biomarkers, social relations, and the cumulative costs of stress in Taiwan pp. 507-519

Omer Gersten

Challenges and opportunities for integrative health research in the context of culture: A commentary on Gersten pp. 520-524

Thomas W. McDade

Neuroendocrine biomarkers, allostatic load, and the challenge of measurement: A commentary on Gersten pp. 525-530

Eric B. Loucks, Robert P. Juster and Jens C. Pruessner

The path traveled and the path ahead for the allostatic framework: A rejoinder on the framework's importance and the need for further work related to theory, data, and measurement pp. 531-535

Omer Gersten

Perceived social position and health in older adults in Taiwan pp. 536-544

Amy Love Collins and Noreen Goldman

Paying the price: The cost and consequences of emergency obstetric care in Burkina Faso pp. 545-557

Katerini Tagmatarchi Storeng, Rebecca F. Baggaley, Rasmané Ganaba, Fatoumata Ouattara, Mélanie S. Akoum and Véronique Filippi

Using qualitative methods to understand the determinants of patients' willingness to pay for cataract surgery: A study in Tanzania pp. 558-568

Robert Geneau, Patrick Massae, Paul Courtright and Susan Lewallen

Providing affordable essential medicines to African households: The missing policies and institutions for price containment pp. 569-581

Ebenezer kwabena Tetteh

Mental health recovery and economic recovery after the tsunami: High-frequency longitudinal evidence from Sri Lankan small business owners pp. 582-595

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

The North Korean standard of living during the famine pp. 596-608

Daniel Schwekendiek

Marital status and smoking in Korea: The influence of gender and age pp. 609-619

Hong-Jun Cho, Young-Ho Khang, Hee-Jin Jun and Ichiro Kawachi

A broader perspective on education and mortality: Are we influenced by other people's education? pp. 620-636

Øystein Kravdal

Social capital at work as a predictor of employee health: Multilevel evidence from work units in Finland pp. 637-649

Tuula Oksanen, Anne Kouvonen, Mika Kivimäki, Jaana Pentti, Marianna Virtanen, Anne Linna and Jussi Vahtera

Can individual health differences be explained by workplace characteristics?--A multilevel analysis pp. 650-662

Staffan Marklund, Malin Bolin and Jan von Essen

Economic strain, social relations, gender, and binge drinking in Moscow pp. 663-674

Tanya Jukkala, Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen, Olga Kislitsyna, Sara Ferlander and Denny Vågerö

The weight of place: A multilevel analysis of gender, neighborhood material deprivation, and body mass index among Canadian adults pp. 675-690

Flora I. Matheson, Rahim Moineddin and Richard H. Glazier

Population vulnerabilities and capacities related to health: A test of a model pp. 691-703

Jennifer Ahern, Sandro Galea, Alan Hubbard and Adam Karpati

Factors affecting physician visits in Chinese and Chinese immigrant samples pp. 704-714

Helen B. Miltiades and Bei Wu

Is sleep really for sissies? Understanding the role of work in insomnia in the US pp. 715-726

Doug Henry, Dana McClellen, Leon Rosenthal, David Dedrick and Melissa Gosdin

Discourses of disease: Representations of tuberculosis within New Zealand newspapers 2002-2004 pp. 727-739

Jody Lawrence, Robin A. Kearns, Julie Park, Linda Bryder and Heather Worth

Dazzled by unity? Order and chaos in public discourse on illicit drug use pp. 740-752

Suzanne Fraser and David Moore

The impact of ethical beliefs on decisions about prenatal screening tests: Searching for justification pp. 753-764

Elisa García, Danielle R.M. Timmermans and Evert van Leeuwen

With an attack I associate it more with going into hospital: Understandings of asthma and psychosocial stressors; are they related to use of services? pp. 765-775

Ian Rees Jones, Nilufar Ahmed, Moira Kelly, Graham Bothamley, Raja Rajakulasingam, Christina Victor, Anne O'Malley and Chris Griffiths

The incidence and characteristics of volatile substance use related ambulance attendances in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia pp. 776-783

Stefan Cvetkovski and Paul Dietze

Patient-physician communication barriers regarding fertility preservation among newly diagnosed cancer patients pp. 784-789

Gwendolyn P. Quinn, Susan T. Vadaparampil, Bethany A. Bell-Ellison, Clement K. Gwede and Terrance L. Albrecht

Understanding the role of cancer worry in creating a "teachable moment" for multiple risk factor reduction pp. 790-800

Colleen M. McBride, Elaine Puleo, Kathryn I. Pollak, Elizabeth C. Clipp, Sam Woolford and Karen M. Emmons

2008, volume 66, articles 2

Low perceived benefits and self-efficacy are associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection-related risk among injection drug users pp. 211-220

Joseph Cox, Prithwish De, Carole Morissette, Claude Tremblay, Randolph Stephenson, Robert Allard, Lisa Graves and Élise Roy

The natural history of male mental health: Health and religious involvement pp. 221-231

George Vaillant, Janice Templeton, Monika Ardelt and Stephanie E. Meyer

Repeat suicide attempts in Hong Kong community adolescents pp. 232-241

Joy P.S. Wong, Sunita M. Stewart, Cindy Claassen, Peter W.H. Lee, Uma Rao and T.H. Lam

Area social fragmentation, social support for individuals and psychosocial health in young adults: Evidence from a national survey in England pp. 242-254

James Fagg, Sarah Curtis, Stephen A. Stansfeld, Vicky Cattell, Ann-Marie Tupuola and Muna Arephin

Effects of racial density and income incongruity on pregnancy outcomes in less segregated communities pp. 255-259

Lisa C. Vinikoor, Jay S. Kaufman, Richard F. MacLehose and Barbara A. Laraia

Contextual analysis of breast and cervical cancer screening and factors associated with health care access among United States women, 2002 pp. 260-275

Steven S. Coughlin, Steven Leadbetter, Thomas Richards and Susan A. Sabatino

Women's management of menstrual symptoms: Findings from a postal survey and qualitative interviews pp. 276-288

Miriam Santer, Sally Wyke and Pam Warner

Understanding feticide: An analytic review pp. 289-300

Ruth H. Graham, Stephen C. Robson and Judith M. Rankin

The donor, the father, and the imaginary constitution of the family: Parents' constructions in the case of donor insemination pp. 301-314

Victoria M. Grace, Ken R. Daniels and Wayne Gillett

Self within a climate of contention: Experiences of chronic fatigue syndrome pp. 315-326

Michele Kerry Travers and Jocalyn Lawler

Coping with stress and by stress: Russian men and women talking about transition, stress and health pp. 327-338

Ilkka Pietilä and Marja Rytkönen

Perceived stigmatisation of young mothers: An exploratory study of psychological and social experience pp. 339-348

Rob Whitley and Laurence J. Kirmayer

The ambiguous meanings of the racial/ethnic categories routinely used in human genetics research pp. 349-361

Linda M. Hunt and Mary S. Megyesi

Involvement in treatment decision-making: Its meaning to people with diabetes and implications for conceptualisation pp. 362-375

Vikki Entwistle, Maria Prior, Zoe C. Skea and Jillian J. Francis

Ethics policies on euthanasia in nursing homes: A survey in Flanders, Belgium pp. 376-386

Joke Lemiengre, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé, Geert Verbeke, Katleen Van Craen, Paul Schotsmans and Chris Gastmans

Beyond negligence: Avoidability and medical injury compensation pp. 387-402

Allen B. Kachalia, Michelle M. Mello, Troyen A. Brennan and David M. Studdert

The meaning of justice in safety incident reporting pp. 403-413

Bryan Jeffrey Weiner, Cherri Hobgood and Megan A. Lewis

Impacts of China's edible oil pricing policy on nutrition pp. 414-426

Shu Wen Ng, Fengying Zhai and Barry M. Popkin

Gender bias in the food insecurity experience of Ethiopian adolescents pp. 427-438

Craig Hadley, David Lindstrom, Fasil Tessema and Tefara Belachew

Acculturation and the use of complementary and alternative medicine pp. 439-453

Dejun Su, Lifeng Li and José A. Pagán

Lay accounts of depression amongst Anglo-Australian residents and East African refugees pp. 454-466

Renata Kokanovic, Christopher Dowrick, Ella Butler, Helen Herrman and Jane Gunn

Implementing community interventions for HIV prevention: Insights from project ethnography pp. 467-478

Catrin Evans and Helen Lambert

HIV disclosure and discussions about grief with Shona children: A comparison between health care workers and community members in Eastern Zimbabwe pp. 479-491

Anniek J. De Baets, Sibongile Sifovo, Ross Parsons and Isidore E. Pazvakavambwa

The social epidemiology of tuberculosis in South Africa: A multilevel analysis pp. 492-505

Guy Harling, Rodney Ehrlich and Landon Myer

2008, volume 66, articles 1

Social capital, anticipated ethnic discrimination and self-reported psychological health: A population-based study pp. 1-13

Martin Lindström

Health and social outcomes among children in low-income families and families receiving social assistance--A Swedish national cohort study pp. 14-30

Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft, Anders Hjern, Ilija Batljan and Bo Vinnerljung

Socioeconomic status and health: Youth development and neomaterialist and psychosocial mechanisms pp. 31-42

Candyce Kroenke

Social capital, income inequality, and self-rated health in 45 countries pp. 43-56

Carol Mansyur, Benjamin C. Amick, Ronald B. Harrist and Luisa Franzini

Poverty, wealth inequality and health among older adults in rural Cambodia pp. 57-71

Zachary Zimmer

Education, income and ethnic differences in cumulative biological risk profiles in a national sample of US adults: NHANES III (1988-1994) pp. 72-87

Teresa Seeman, Sharon S. Merkin, Eileen Crimmins, Brandon Koretz, Susan Charette and Arun Karlamangla

Deriving a risk-adjustment formula for hospital financing: Integrating the impact of socio-economic status on length of stay pp. 88-98

Julian Perelman, Amir Shmueli and Marie-Christine Closon

Schizophrenia, drug companies and the internet pp. 99-109

John Read

Most of our social scientists are not institution based... they are there for hire--Research consultancies and social science capacity for health research in East Africa pp. 110-116

Daniel Wight

From health research to social research: Privacy, methods, approaches pp. 117-129

Leslie L. Roos, Marni Brownell, Lisa Lix, Noralou P. Roos, Randy Walld and Leonard MacWilliam

Staging data: Theatre as a tool for analysis and knowledge transfer in health research pp. 130-146

Kate Rossiter, Pia Kontos, Angela Colantonio, Julie Gilbert, Julia Gray and Michelle Keightley

Ethnicity and registration as a kidney donor: The significance of identity and belonging pp. 147-158

Myfanwy Morgan, Maya Mayblin and Roger Jones

Paid to share: IVF patients, eggs and stem cell research pp. 159-169

Celia Roberts and Karen Throsby

Discourses of agency and the search for the authentic self: The case of mood-modifying medicines pp. 170-181

Fiona Stevenson and Pia Knudsen

Do diseases have a prestige hierarchy? A survey among physicians and medical students pp. 182-188

Dag Album and Steinar Westin

Women's perceptions and experiences of HIV prevention trials in Soweto, South Africa pp. 189-200

Jonathan J. Stadler, Sinead Delany and Mdu Mntambo

Factors affecting Taiwanese women's choice of cesarean section pp. 201-209

Kuang-Hung Hsu, Pei-Ju Liao and Chorng-Jer Hwang