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2007, volume 65, articles 12

Retaining the sociology in medical sociology pp. 2409-2412

Sarah Nettleton

British Asian families and the use of child and adolescent mental health services: A qualitative study of a hard to reach group pp. 2413-2424

Hannah Bradby, Maya Varyani, Rachel Oglethorpe, Wendy Raine, Ishbel White and Minnis Helen

Portraying Islam and Muslims in MEDLINE: A content analysis pp. 2425-2439

Lance Daniel Laird, Justine de Marrais and Linda L. Barnes

Neighborhood economic disadvantage, violent crime, group density, and pregnancy outcomes in a diverse, urban population pp. 2440-2457

Christopher M. Masi, Louise C. Hawkley, Z. Harry Piotrowski and Kate E. Pickett

Disparities in obesity rates: Analysis by ZIP code area pp. 2458-2463

Adam Drewnowski, Colin D. Rehm and David Solet

Mobility and its liminal context: Exploring sexual partnering among truck drivers crossing the Southern Brazilian border pp. 2464-2473

Sheri A. Lippman, Julie Pulerwitz, Magda Chinaglia, Alan Hubbard, Arthur Reingold and Juan Díaz

From macro to micro: The health of Swedish lone mothers during changing economic and social circumstances pp. 2474-2488

Sara Fritzell, Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft, Johan Fritzell and Bo Burström

Socioeconomic status and age trajectories of health pp. 2489-2502

Jinyoung Kim and Emily Durden

Low birthweight among US Hispanic/Latino subgroups: The effect of maternal foreign-born status and education pp. 2503-2516

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Mah-J. Soobader and Lisa F. Berkman

Tobacco expenditures and child health and nutritional outcomes in rural Bangladesh pp. 2517-2526

James Nonnemaker and Mona Sur

The determinants of the willingness to donate an organ among young adults: Evidence from the United States and the European Union pp. 2527-2538

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

A panel multinomial logit analysis of elderly living arrangements: Evidence from aging in Manitoba longitudinal data, Canada pp. 2539-2552

Sisira Sarma and Wayne Simpson

The influence of prescription drug insurance on psychotropic and non-psychotropic drug utilization in Canada pp. 2553-2565

Sisira Sarma, Kisalaya Basu and Anil Gupta

A qualitative study of the duty to care in communicable disease outbreaks pp. 2566-2575

Cécile M. Bensimon, C. Shawn Tracy, Mark Bernstein, Randi Zlotnik Shaul and Ross E.G. Upshur

Modelling the contribution of changes in family life to time trends in adolescent conduct problems pp. 2576-2587

Stephan Collishaw, Robert Goodman, Andrew Pickles and Barbara Maughan

Covariations of emotional states and alcohol consumption: Evidence from 2 years of daily data collection pp. 2588-2602

Kerstin E.E. Schroder and Mervyn W. Perrine

2007, volume 65, articles 11

Informed consent in a changing environment pp. 2187-2198

Mary Boulton and Michael Parker

Changing constructions of informed consent: Qualitative research and complex social worlds pp. 2199-2211

Tina Miller and Mary Boulton

Beyond "misunderstanding": Written information and decisions about taking part in a genetic epidemiology study pp. 2212-2222

Mary Dixon-Woods, Richard E. Ashcroft, Clare J. Jackson, Martin D. Tobin, Joelle Kivits, Paul R. Burton and Nilesh J. Samani

Informed consent, anticipatory regulation and ethnographic practice pp. 2223-2234

Elizabeth Murphy and Robert Dingwall

Translating ethics: Researching public health and medical practices in Nepal pp. 2235-2247

Ian Harper

Ethnography/ethics pp. 2248-2259

Michael Parker

Informed consent: Interpretations and practice on social surveys pp. 2260-2271

Jean Martin and David A. Marker

Competent children? Minors' consent to health care treatment and research pp. 2272-2283

Priscilla Alderson

Proposing modesty for informed consent pp. 2284-2295

Michael M. Burgess

Doing participant observation in a psychiatric hospital-- Research ethics resumed pp. 2296-2306

Christine Oeye, Anne Karen Bjelland and Aina Skorpen

A quackery with a difference--New medical pluralism and the problem of 'dangerous practitioners' in the United Kingdom pp. 2307-2316

Ayo Wahlberg

A critical examination of home care: End of life care as an illustrative case pp. 2317-2327

Catherine Exley and Davina Allen

The role of the bioethicist in family meetings about end of life care pp. 2328-2341

Liza T. Watkins, Galit Sacajiu and Alison Karasz

Sometimes doing the right thing sucks: Frame combinations and multi-fetal pregnancy reduction decision difficulty pp. 2342-2356

David W. Britt and Mark I. Evans

Sequence analysis in multilevel models. A study on different sources of patient cues in medical consultations pp. 2357-2370

Lidia Del Piccolo, Maria Angela Mazzi, Graham Dunn, Marco Sandri and Christa Zimmermann

Framework for Aboriginal-guided decolonizing research involving Métis and First Nations persons with diabetes pp. 2371-2382

Judith G. Bartlett, Yoshitaka Iwasaki, Benjamin Gottlieb, Darlene Hall and Roger Mannell

Sex, money, and premarital partnerships in southern Malawi pp. 2383-2393

Michelle Poulin

A longitudinal, qualitative analysis of the context of substance use and sexual behavior among 18- to 29-year-old men after their release from prison pp. 2394-2406

D.W. Seal, G.D. Eldrige, D. Kacanek, D. Binson and R.J. MacGowan

2007, volume 65, articles 10

Health care delivery systems for older adults: How do the Netherlands and Lebanon compare? pp. 1979-1985

Aaltje Paulien Nelian Hospers, Lama M. Chahine and Zeina Chemali

Are urban children really healthier? Evidence from 47 developing countries pp. 1986-2003

Ellen Van de Poel, Owen O'Donnell and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Racially mixed neighborhoods, perceived neighborhood social cohesion, and adolescent health in Canada pp. 2004-2017

Teresa Abada, Feng Hou and Bali Ram

Determinants of prostate cancer stage in northern New England: USA Franco-American contextual effects pp. 2018-2030

Margaret A. Parsons and Kathleen D. Askland

Disappearing acts: The social networks of formerly homeless individuals with co-occurring disorders pp. 2031-2042

Robert Leibson Hawkins and Courtney Abrams

Loop analysis of causal feedback in epidemiology: An illustration relating to urban neighborhoods and resident depressive experiences pp. 2043-2057

Alexis Dinno

A prospective study of cultural consonance and depressive symptoms in urban Brazil pp. 2058-2069

William W. Dressler, Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro and Jose E. dos Santos

Going to scale with community-based primary care: An analysis of the family health program and infant mortality in Brazil, 1999-2004 pp. 2070-2080

James Macinko, Maria de Fátima Marinho de Souza, Frederico C. Guanais and Celso Cardoso da Silva Simões

On new reproductive technologies and family ethics: Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for sibling donor in Israel and Germany pp. 2081-2092

Yael Hashiloni-Dolev and Shiri Shkedi

Genes, ownership, and indigenous reality pp. 2093-2104

Grant Gillett and Felicity McKergow

Risk perception and decision processes underlying informed consent to research participation pp. 2105-2115

William W. Reynolds and Robert M. Nelson

Cost-effectiveness analysis and formulary decision making in England: Findings from research pp. 2116-2129

Iestyn P. Williams and Stirling Bryan

Beyond the medical-informational model: Recasting the role of communication in tuberculosis control pp. 2130-2134

Silvio Waisbord

From child to adult: An exploration of shifting family roles and responsibilities in managing physiotherapy for cystic fibrosis pp. 2135-2146

Brian Williams, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Jon Dowell and Joanne Coyle

Being a 'good mother': Managing breastfeeding and merging identities pp. 2147-2159

Joyce L. Marshall, Mary Godfrey and Mary J. Renfrew

The emotional costs of caring incurred by men and women in the British labour market pp. 2160-2171

David Nicholas Barron and Elizabeth West

An exploration of walking behaviour--An interpretative phenomenological approach pp. 2172-2183

Catherine D. Darker, Michael Larkin and David P. French

2007, volume 65, articles 9

Placing health in context pp. 1821-1824

James R. Dunn and Steven Cummins

Understanding and representing 'place' in health research: A relational approach pp. 1825-1838

Steven Cummins, Sarah Curtis, Ana V. Diez-Roux and Sally Macintyre

Health inequalities and place: A theoretical conception of neighbourhood pp. 1839-1852

Paul Bernard, Rana Charafeddine, Katherine L. Frohlich, Mark Daniel, Yan Kestens and Louise Potvin

Understanding social disparities in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control: The role of neighborhood context pp. 1853-1866

Jeffrey D. Morenoff, James S. House, Ben B. Hansen, David R. Williams, George A. Kaplan and Haslyn E. Hunte

The importance of social context: Neighborhood stressors, stress-buffering mechanisms, and alcohol, drug, and mental health disorders pp. 1867-1881

Susan E. Stockdale, Kenneth B. Wells, Lingqi Tang, Thomas R. Belin, Lily Zhang and Cathy D. Sherbourne

Pathways to obesity: Identifying local, modifiable determinants of physical activity and diet pp. 1882-1897

Mai Stafford, Steven Cummins, Anne Ellaway, Amanda Sacker, Richard Wiggins and Sally Macintyre

Stepping towards causation: Do built environments or neighborhood and travel preferences explain physical activity, driving, and obesity? pp. 1898-1914

Lawrence Douglas Frank, Brian E. Saelens, Ken E. Powell and James E. Chapman

Health intervention in social context: Understanding social networks and neighbourhood pp. 1915-1927

Lai Fong Chiu and Robert M. West

New communities, new relations: The impact of community organization on health outcomes pp. 1928-1941

Robin Durie and Katrina Wyatt

An exploratory spatial data analysis approach to understanding the relationship between deprivation and mortality in Scotland pp. 1942-1952

Sanjeev Sridharan, Helena Tunstall, Richard Lawder and Richard Mitchell

Locality deprivation and Type 2 diabetes incidence: A local test of relative inequalities pp. 1953-1964

Matthew Cox, Paul J. Boyle, Peter G. Davey, Zhiqiang Feng and Andrew D. Morris

The problems of relative deprivation: Why some societies do better than others pp. 1965-1978

Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate E. Pickett

2007, volume 65, articles 8

"How could you let yourself get like that?": Stories of the origins of obesity in accounts of weight loss surgery pp. 1561-1571

Karen Throsby

Environmental, parental, and personal influences on food choice, access, and overweight status among homeless children pp. 1572-1583

Rickelle Richards and Chery Smith

Living with low back pain--Stories of hope and despair pp. 1584-1594

Mandy Corbett, Nadine E. Foster and Bie Nio Ong

An analysis over time (1990-2000) of the experiences of living with HIV pp. 1595-1605

Janine Pierret

Governing the healthy male citizen: Men, masculinity and popular health in Men's Health magazine pp. 1606-1618

Paul Crawshaw

The passing dilemma in socially invisible diseases: Narratives on chronic headache pp. 1619-1629

Cristina Lonardi

"Nobody's just normal, you know": The social creation of developmental disability pp. 1630-1641

Valerie Leiter

Using narrative analysis to understand the combined use of complementary therapies and bio-medically oriented health care pp. 1642-1653

Johanna Hök, Caroline Wachtler, Torkel Falkenberg and Carol Tishelman

Exploring identity, culture, and suffering with a Kashmiri Sikh refugee pp. 1654-1665

Neil Krishan Aggarwal

Barriers to the utilization of maternal health care in rural Mali pp. 1666-1682

Anastasia J. Gage

The impact of perceived stigma and mediating social factors on infertility-related stress among women seeking infertility treatment in Southern Ghana pp. 1683-1694

Ernestina S. Donkor and Jane Sandall

Current health and preferences for life-prolonging treatments: An application of prospect theory to end-of-life decision making pp. 1695-1707

Laraine Winter and Barbara Parker

Ethical climate, ethics stress, and the job satisfaction of nurses and social workers in the United States pp. 1708-1719

Connie Ulrich, Patricia O'Donnell, Carol Taylor, Adrienne Farrar, Marion Danis and Christine Grady

Implementing Family Health Nursing in Tajikistan: From policy to practice in primary health care reform pp. 1720-1729

Barbara Ann Parfitt and Flora Cornish

How much can a large population study on genes, environments, their interactions and common diseases contribute to the health of the American people? pp. 1730-1741

Claudia Chaufan

'Health's a difficult beast': The interrelationships between domestic violence, women's health and the health sector: An Australian case study pp. 1742-1750

Colleen Fisher, Lynne Hunt, Rhonda Adamsam and Wilfreda E. Thurston

What influences government adoption of vaccines in developing countries? A policy process analysis pp. 1751-1764

Liza Munira and Scott A. Fritzen

Maternal education, child immunizations, and public policy: Evidence from the US National Immunization Survey pp. 1765-1772

Andrew D. Racine and Theodore J. Joyce

More free syringes, fewer drug injectors in the case of Spain pp. 1773-1778

Maria J. Bravo, Luis Royuela, Gregorio Barrio, Luis de la Fuente, Mónica Suarez and M. Teresa Brugal

Non-residential neighborhood exposures suppress neighborhood effects on self-rated health pp. 1779-1791

Sanae Inagami, Deborah A. Cohen and Brian K. Finch

The association between contextual socioeconomic factors and prevalent asthma in a cohort of Southern California school children pp. 1792-1806

Ketan Shankardass, Rob S. McConnell, Joel Milam, Kiros Berhane, Zaria Tatalovich, John P. Wilson and Michael Jerrett

Have urban/rural inequalities in suicide in New Zealand grown during the period 1980-2001? pp. 1807-1819

Jamie Pearce, Ross Barnett and Irfon Jones

2007, volume 65, articles 7

The effects of television advertisements for junk food versus nutritious food on children's food attitudes and preferences pp. 1311-1323

Helen G. Dixon, Maree L. Scully, Melanie A. Wakefield, Victoria M. White and David A. Crawford

Television and the behaviour of adolescents: Does socio-economic status moderate the link? pp. 1324-1336

James Chowhan and Jennifer M. Stewart

Nxwisen, ntzarrin or ntzo'lin? Mapping children's respiratory symptoms among indigenous populations in Guatemala pp. 1337-1350

Lisa Thompson, Janet Diaz, Alisa Jenny, Anaite Diaz, Nigel Bruce and John Balmes

Caretaking as articulation work: The effects of taking up responsibility for a child with asthma on labor force participation pp. 1351-1363

Stefan Timmermans and Betina Freidin

A new approach to understanding pediatric farm injuries pp. 1364-1371

Barbara A. Morrongiello, Barbara Marlenga, Richard Berg, James Linneman and William Pickett

Socioeconomic differences in health among older adults in Mexico pp. 1372-1385

Kimberly V. Smith and Noreen Goldman

The relation of chronic cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus to perceived health, and the moderating effects of sex and age pp. 1386-1396

Sai Yin Ho, Kwok Kei Mak, G. Neil Thomas, Mary Schooling, Richard Fielding, Edward D. Janus and Tai Hing Lam

Intergenerational interaction, social capital and health: Results from a randomised controlled trial in Brazil pp. 1397-1409

Elza Maria de Souza and Emily Grundy

The association between cognitive ability measured at ages 18-20 and coronary heart disease in middle age among men: A prospective study using the Swedish 1969 conscription cohort pp. 1410-1419

Tomas Hemmingsson, Jan v. Essen, Bo Melin, Peter Allebeck and Ingvar Lundberg

Predictors and course of vocational status, income, and quality of life in people with severe mental illness: A naturalistic study pp. 1420-1429

Carlos Nordt, Brigitte Müller, Wulf Rössler and Christoph Lauber

Making a bad thing worse: Effects of communication of results of an epidemiological study after an aviation disaster pp. 1430-1441

M. Verschuur, P. Spinhoven, A. van Emmerik and F. Rosendaal

Assessing oral literacy demand in genetic counseling dialogue: Preliminary test of a conceptual framework pp. 1442-1457

Debra L. Roter, Lori H. Erby, Susan Larson and Lee Ellington

Minding the shop: The case of obstetrics conferences pp. 1458-1465

Joshua Gans, Andrew Leigh and Elena Varganova

What length of hospice use maximizes reduction in medical expenditures near death in the US Medicare program? pp. 1466-1478

Donald H. Taylor , Jan Ostermann, Courtney Van Houtven, James A. Tulsky and Karen Steinhauser

Optimism, pessimism and the compensating income variation of cardiovascular disease: A two-tiered quality of life stochastic frontier model pp. 1479-1489

Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

Banking on it: Public policy and the ethics of stem cell research and development pp. 1490-1500

Mita Giacomini, Francoise Baylis and Jason Robert

"Wailing Lore" in a Yemenite-Israeli community: Bereavement, expertise, and therapy pp. 1501-1511

Tova Gamliel

Kathy Pan, sticks and pummelling: Techniques used to induce abortion by Burmese women on the Thai border pp. 1512-1523

Suzanne Belton and Andrea Whittaker

Beyond acculturation: Immigration, discrimination, and health research among Mexicans in the United States pp. 1524-1535

Edna A. Viruell-Fuentes

Designing a better place for patients: Professional struggles surrounding satellite and mobile dialysis units pp. 1536-1548

Pascale Lehoux, Geneviève Daudelin, Blake Poland, Gavin J. Andrews and Dave Holmes

Complex syndromes, ambivalent diagnosis, and existential uncertainty: The case of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) pp. 1549-1559

Andrea Stockl

2007, volume 65, articles 6

Do panel surveys really make people sick? A commentary on Wilson and Howell (60:11, 2005, 2623-2627) pp. 1071-1077

David R. Weir and James P. Smith

Disease prevalence and survey design effects: A response to Weir and Smith pp. 1078-1081

Sven Wilson and Benjamin L. Howell

A place for genetic uncertainty: Parents valuing an unknown in the meaning of disease pp. 1082-1093

Ian Whitmarsh, Arlene M. Davis, Debra Skinner and Donald Bailey

Facilitating choice, framing choice: Staff views on widening the scope of preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the UK pp. 1094-1105

Clare Williams, Kathryn Ehrich, Bobbie Farsides and Rosamund Scott

Determinants of parental reports of children's illnesses: Empirical evidence from Nepal pp. 1106-1117

Subhash Pokhrel

Guardianship of people with mental disorders pp. 1118-1123

Yuval Melamed, Israel Doron and Dan Shnitt

Patient-led partner notification for syphilis: Strategies used by women accessing antenatal care in urban Bolivia pp. 1124-1135

Shannon A. Klisch, Edward Mamary, Claudia Diaz Olavarrieta and Sandra G. Garcia

Problematic Internet experiences: Primary or secondary presenting problems in persons seeking mental health care? pp. 1136-1141

Kimberly J. Mitchell and Melissa Wells

Managing the work-life roller-coaster: Private stress or public health issue? pp. 1142-1153

Lois Bryson, Penny Warner-Smith, Peter Brown and Leanne Fray

Places and health: A qualitative study to explore how older women living alone perceive the social and physical dimensions of their neighbourhoods pp. 1154-1165

Ruth B. Walker and Janet E. Hiller

Gender differences in trajectories of depressive symptomatology and substance use during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood pp. 1166-1179

Belinda L. Needham

Young people's mental health in context: Comparing life in the city and small communities in Siberia pp. 1180-1191

Anthony Glendinning and Patrick West

Caesarean birth: Consumption, safety, order, and good mothering pp. 1192-1201

Joanne Bryant, Maree Porter, Sally K. Tracy and Elizabeth A. Sullivan

Early childhood origins of the income/health gradient: The role of maternal health behaviors pp. 1202-1213

Jennifer Beam Dowd

Associations between childhood maltreatment and sex work in a cohort of drug-using youth pp. 1214-1221

Jo-Anne Madeleine Stoltz, Kate Shannon, Thomas Kerr, Ruth Zhang, Julio S. Montaner and Evan Wood

Does violence affect one gender more than the other? The mental health impact of violence among male and female university students pp. 1222-1234

Patrizia Romito and Michele Grassi

Transactional sex with casual and main partners among young South African men in the rural Eastern Cape: Prevalence, predictors, and associations with gender-based violence pp. 1235-1248

Kristin L. Dunkle, Rachel Jewkes, Mzikazi Nduna, Nwabisa Jama, Jonathan Levin, Yandisa Sikweyiya and Mary P. Koss

Revealing the full extent of households' experiences of HIV and AIDS in rural South Africa pp. 1249-1259

Victoria Hosegood, Eleanor Preston-Whyte, Joanna Busza, Sindile Moitse and Ian M. Timaeus

How healers manage the pluralistic healing context: The perspective of indigenous, religious and allopathic healers in relation to psychosis in Uganda pp. 1260-1273

Joanna Teuton, Christopher Dowrick and Richard P. Bentall

The social consequences of living with and dealing with incontinence--A carers perspective pp. 1274-1283

Katherine R. Brittain and Chris Shaw

SARS and New York's Chinatown: The politics of risk and blame during an epidemic of fear pp. 1284-1295

Laura Eichelberger

Creating knowledge about adverse drug reactions: A critical analysis of the Danish reporting system from 1968 to 2005 pp. 1296-1309

Lise Aagaard, Birthe Soendergaard, Elin Andersen, Jens Peter Kampmann and Ebba Holme Hansen

2007, volume 65, articles 5

Variation in deliberate self-harm around Christmas and New Year pp. 855-867

Helen Bergen and Keith Hawton

Rethinking social recovery in schizophrenia: What a capabilities approach might offer pp. 868-879

Kim Hopper

How do patients expect the mental health service system to act? Testing the WHO responsiveness concept for its appropriateness in mental health care pp. 880-889

Anke Bramesfeld, Ulrike Klippel, Gabriele Seidel, Friedrich W. Schwartz and Marie-Luise Dierks

Patient perspectives on information and choice in cancer screening: A qualitative study in the UK pp. 890-899

Ruth Gillian Jepson, Jenny Hewison, Andrew Thompson and David Weller

Social networks, normative influence and health delivery in rural Bangladesh pp. 900-914

Kaberi Gayen and Robert Raeside

Is the medical brain drain beneficial? Evidence from overseas doctors in the UK pp. 915-923

Mari Kangasniemi, L. Winters and Simon Commander

Organisational determinants of the use of physical restraints: A multilevel approach pp. 924-933

Anna R. Huizing, Jan P.H. Hamers, Jan de Jonge, Math Candel and Martijn P.F. Berger

Re-thinking the relationship between long-term condition self-management education and the utilisation of health services pp. 934-945

Claire Gately, Anne Rogers and Caroline Sanders

WTP and WTA: Do people think differently? pp. 946-957

David K. Whynes and Tracey H. Sach

The role of social support and integration for understanding socioeconomic disparities in self-rated health and hypertension pp. 958-975

Bridget K. Gorman and Ahilan Sivaganesan

Immigrant generation, socioeconomic status, and economic development of countries of origin: A longitudinal study of body mass index among children pp. 976-989

Jennifer Van Hook and Kelly Stamper Balistreri

Why do Hispanics in the USA report poor health? pp. 990-1003

Sharon Bzostek, Noreen Goldman and Anne Pebley

The contribution of migration to changes in the distribution of health over time: Five-year follow-up study in Northern Ireland pp. 1004-1011

Sheelah Connolly and Dermot O'Reilly

Anticipation of migration and psychological stress and the Three Gorges Dam project, China pp. 1012-1024

Sean-Shong Hwang, Juan Xi, Yue Cao, Xiaotian Feng and Xiaofei Qiao

Family communication regarding inherited high cholesterol: Why and how do patients disclose genetic risk? pp. 1025-1037

Hélène W.P. van den Nieuwenhoff, Ilse Mesters, Caroline Gielen and Nanne K. de Vries

Fears and beliefs of patients regarding cardiac catheterization pp. 1038-1048

Patricia Helen Caldwell, Heather M. Arthur, Madhu Natarajan and Sonia S. Anand

Can theory-based messages in combination with cognitive prompts promote exercise in classroom settings? pp. 1049-1058

Chloe Hill, Charles Abraham and Daniel B. Wright

Children's health and the social theory of risk: Insights from the British measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) controversy pp. 1059-1070

Rachel Elizabeth Casiday

2007, volume 65, articles 4

'You think that I'm smoking and they're not': Why mothers still smoke in the home pp. 641-652

Jude Robinson and Andrew J. Kirkcaldy

The effect of single motherhood on smoking by socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity pp. 653-666

Hee-Jin Jun and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

Time away from "smelling the roses": Where do mothers raising children with disabilities find the time to work? pp. 667-679

Peter Brandon

Fetal gender and postpartum depression in a cohort of Chinese women pp. 680-684

Ri-hua Xie, Guoping He, Aizhong Liu, Jacques Bradwejn, Mark Walker and Shi Wu Wen

A life-span perspective on women's careers, health, and well-being pp. 685-697

Gunn Johansson, Qinghai Huang and Petra Lindfors

Antipsychotic medication, sedation and mental clouding: An observational study of psychiatric consultations pp. 698-711

Clive Seale, Robert Chaplin, Paul Lelliott and Alan Quirk

Differential diagnosis of seizure disorders: A conversation analytic approach pp. 712-724

Meike Schwabe, Stephen J. Howell and Markus Reuber

Doctors being up there and we being down here: A metaphorical analysis of talk about student/doctor-patient relationships pp. 725-737

Charlotte E. Rees, Lynn V. Knight and Clare E. Wilkinson

Looking for a better future: Identity construction in socio-economically deprived 16-year olds considering a career in medicine pp. 738-754

Nadia Robb, Lisa Dunkley, Petra Boynton and Trisha Greenhalgh

Positive prevention: Contemporary issues facing HIV positive people negotiating sex in the UK pp. 755-770

Damien Ridge, Sue Ziebland, Jane Anderson, Ian Williams and Jonathan Elford

'Am I normal?' Teenagers, sexual health and the internet pp. 771-781

Kevin James Harvey, Brian Brown, Paul Crawford, Aidan Macfarlane and Ann McPherson

Methodological and ethical issues in Internet-mediated research in the field of health: An integrated review of the literature pp. 782-791

Lisa Claire Whitehead

Written work: The social functions of Research Ethics Committee letters pp. 792-802

Mary Dixon-Woods, Emma Angell, Richard E. Ashcroft and Alan Bryman

Changes in medical end-of-life practices during the legalization process of euthanasia in Belgium pp. 803-808

Johan Bilsen, Robert Vander Stichele, Bert Broeckaert, Freddy Mortier and Luc Deliens

Individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status and progressive chronic kidney disease in an elderly population: The Cardiovascular Health Study pp. 809-821

Sharon Stein Merkin, Ana V. Diez Roux, Josef Coresh, Linda F. Fried, Sharon A. Jackson and Neil R. Powe

Urban-rural difference in stroke mortality from a 19-year cohort study of the Japanese general population: NIPPON DATA80 pp. 822-832

Nobuo Nishi, Hiromi Sugiyama, Fumiyoshi Kasagi, Kazunori Kodama, Takehito Hayakawa, Kazuo Ueda, Akira Okayama and Hirotsugu Ueshima

Do not go breaking your heart: Do economic upturns really increase heart attack mortality? pp. 833-841

Mikael Svensson

The role of social capital in reducing non-specific psychological distress: The importance of controlling for omitted variable bias pp. 842-854

Richard M. Scheffler, Timothy T. Brown and Jennifer K. Rice

2007, volume 65, articles 3

News of disparity: Content analysis of news coverage of African American healthcare inequalities in the USA, 1994-2004 pp. 405-417

Kalahn Alexandra Taylor-Clark, Felicia E. Mebane, Gillian K. SteelFisher and Robert J. Blendon

Media constructions of sleep and sleep disorders: A study of UK national newspapers pp. 418-430

Clive Seale, Sharon Boden, Simon Williams, Pam Lowe and Deborah Steinberg

Might the decrease in the suicide rates in France be due to regional prevention programmes? pp. 431-441

Martine Marie Bellanger, Alain Jourdain and Agnes Batt-Moillo

Further increases in rural suicide in young Australian adults: Secular trends, 1979-2003 pp. 442-453

Andrew Page, Stephen Morrell, Richard Taylor, Michael Dudley and Greg Carter

The association of current and sustained area-based adverse socioeconomic environment with physical inactivity pp. 454-466

Cruz Pascual, Enrique Regidor, Paloma Astasio, Paloma Ortega, Pedro Navarro and Vicente Domínguez

Mental health and poverty in developing countries: Revisiting the relationship pp. 467-480

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

Measuring access to social capital: The validity and reliability of the Resource Generator-UK and its association with common mental disorder pp. 481-492

Martin P. Webber and Peter J. Huxley

How might we understand men's health better? Integrating explanations from critical studies on men and inequalities in health pp. 493-504

Maria Lohan

Men on the margin: A Bourdieusian examination of living into adulthood with muscular dystrophy pp. 505-517

Barbara E. Gibson, Nancy L. Young, Ross E.G. Upshur and Patricia McKeever

The will-to-live and survival at old age: Gender differences pp. 518-523

Sara Carmel, Orna Baron-Epel and Galia Shemy

Biographical disruption associated with multiple sclerosis: Using propensity scoring to assess the impact pp. 524-535

Gill Green, Jennifer Todd and David Pevalin

The survival of psychiatric diagnosis pp. 536-547

David Pilgrim

Challenges to sanctuary: The clergy as a resource for mental health care in the community pp. 548-559

Gerard Leavey, Kate Loewenthal and Michael King

Caring and daring to complain: An examination of UK national phobics society members' perception of primary care pp. 560-571

Joyce Davidson

Risk, shame and the public injector: A qualitative study of drug injecting in South Wales pp. 572-585

Tim Rhodes, Louise Watts, Sarah Davies, Anthea Martin, Josie Smith, David Clark, Noel Craine and Marion Lyons

Physicians' communication and perceptions of patients: Is it how they look, how they talk, or is it just the doctor? pp. 586-598

Richard L. Street , Howard Gordon and Paul Haidet

Nurse prescribing: Reflections on safety in practice pp. 599-609

Eleanor Bradley, Brian Hynam and Peter Nolan

Piercing the veil: The marginalization of midwives in the United States pp. 610-621

Steffie Goodman

Multidisciplinary teamwork in US primary health care pp. 622-634

Karen Solheim, Beverly J. McElmurry and Mi Ja Kim

Cultures in hospitals and their influence on attitudes to, and satisfaction with, the use of clinical information systems pp. 635-639

Joanne L. Callen, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Johanna I. Westbrook

2007, volume 65, articles 2

Psychosocial resources and depression among chronically ill young adults: Are males more vulnerable? pp. 173-186

Olli Kiviruusu, Taina Huurre and Hillevi Aro

The effect of pre-employment factors on job control, job strain and psychological distress: A 31-year longitudinal study pp. 187-199

Marko Elovainio, Mika Kivimäki, Ellen Ek, Jussi Vahtera, Teija Honkonen, Anja Taanila, Juha Veijola and Marjo-Riitta Järvelin

Profiles of depressive symptoms among African Americans and Caribbean Blacks pp. 200-213

Karen D. Lincoln, Linda M. Chatters, Robert Joseph Taylor and James S. Jackson

Understanding differences in past year psychiatric disorders for Latinos living in the US pp. 214-230

Margarita Alegria, Patrick E. Shrout, Meghan Woo, Peter Guarnaccia, William Sribney, Doryliz Vila, Antonio Polo, Zhun Cao, Norah Mulvaney-Day, Maria Torres and Glorisa Canino

Explanations of depression among Irish migrants in Britain pp. 231-244

Gerard Leavey, Linda Rozmovits, Louise Ryan and Michael King

Meta-analysis of stigma and mental health pp. 245-261

Winnie W.S. Mak, Cecilia Y.M. Poon, Loraine Y.K. Pun and Shu Fai Cheung

A social comparison theory analysis of group composition and efficacy of cancer support group programs pp. 262-273

Cindy L. Carmack Taylor, James Kulik, Hoda Badr, Murray Smith, Karen Basen-Engquist, Frank Penedo and Ellen R. Gritz

"Life is still going on": Reproductive intentions among HIV-positive women and men in South Africa pp. 274-283

Diane Cooper, Jane Harries, Landon Myer, Phyllis Orner and Hillary Bracken

"If you get AIDS... You have to endure it alone": Understanding the social constructions of HIV/AIDS in China pp. 284-295

Yanqiu Rachel Zhou

Targeted ethnography as a critical step to inform cultural adaptations of HIV prevention interventions for adults with severe mental illness pp. 296-308

Milton L. Wainberg, M. Alfredo González, Karen McKinnon, Katherine S. Elkington, Diana Pinto, Claudio Gruber Mann and Paulo E. Mattos

Khat use and mental illness: A critical review pp. 309-318

Nasir Warfa, Axel Klein, Kamaldeep Bhui, Gerard Leavey, Tom Craig and Stephen Alfred Stansfeld

An ethnography of clinic "noise" in a community-based, promotora-centered mental health intervention pp. 319-330

Christina Getrich, Shirley Heying, Cathleen Willging and Howard Waitzkin

Rethinking nurses' observations: Psychiatric nursing skills and invisibility in an acute inpatient setting pp. 331-343

Bridget Elizabeth Hamilton and Elizabeth Manias

Anticipating ethical aspects of the use of biomarkers in the workplace: A tool for stakeholders pp. 344-354

Chantal Caux, David J. Roy, Louise Guilbert and Claude Viau

Regulating health care in low- and middle-income countries: Broadening the policy response in resource constrained environments pp. 355-366

Tim Ensor and Sabine Weinzierl

Patient cost sharing and social inequalities in access to health care in three western European countries pp. 367-376

Lourdes Lostao, Enrique Regidor, Siegfried Geyer and Pierre Aïach

Towards an understanding of British public attitudes concerning human cloning pp. 377-392

Richard Shepherd, Julie Barnett, Helen Cooper, Adrian Coyle, Jo Moran-Ellis, Victoria Senior and Chris Walton

Secrets and lies: Breastfeeding and professional paid work pp. 393-404

Caroline Jane Gatrell

2007, volume 65, articles 1

Introduction to special issue: Eleventh International Medical Geography Symposium pp. 1-6

Robert J. Earickson

Temporal changes in the spatial pattern of disease rates incorporating known risk factors pp. 7-19

Aniruddha Banerjee

Fat nation: Deciphering the distinctive geographies of obesity in England pp. 20-31

Graham Moon, Gemma Quarendon, Steve Barnard, Liz Twigg and Bill Blyth

Does health-selective migration following diagnosis strengthen the relationship between Type 2 diabetes and deprivation? pp. 32-42

Matthew Cox, Paul J. Boyle, Peter Davey and Andrew Morris

Spatial implications of covariate adjustment on patterns of risk: Respiratory hospital admissions in Christchurch, New Zealand pp. 43-59

Clive Eric Sabel, Jeff Gaines Wilson, Simon Kingham, Catherine Tisch and Mike Epton

Chagas disease in Texas: Recognizing the significance and implications of evidence in the literature pp. 60-79

Elaine Jennifer Hanford, F. Benjamin Zhan, Yongmei Lu and Alberto Giordano

Constructing a Swiss health space model of self-perceived health pp. 80-94

Charis Lengen and Jörg Blasius

Perception of place and health: Differences between neighbourhoods in the Québec City region pp. 95-111

Robert Pampalon, Denis Hamel, Maria De Koninck and Marie-Jeanne Disant

The 'world of yoga': The production and reproduction of therapeutic landscapes pp. 112-124

Anne-Cécile Hoyez

Creating a place for population health: Interpreting the spaces of a new School in Auckland, New Zealand pp. 125-137

Robin A. Kearns

Sociocultural barriers to cervical screening in South Auckland, New Zealand pp. 138-150

Sarah Lovell, Robin A. Kearns and Wardlow Friesen

Geographical Gerontology: The constitution of a discipline pp. 151-168

Gavin J. Andrews, Malcolm Cutchin, Kevin McCracken, David R. Phillips and Janine Wiles

Report from the Eleventh International Symposium in Medical Geography: A comment from the senior editor pp. 169-171

Sarah Curtis