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2007, volume 64, articles 12

Girl, woman, lover, mother: Towards a new understanding of child prostitution among young Devadasis in rural Karnataka, India pp. 2379-2390

Treena Rae Orchard

Why are early maturing girls less active? Links between pubertal development, psychological well-being, and physical activity among girls at ages 11 and 13 pp. 2391-2404

Kirsten Krahnstoever Davison, Jessica L. Werder, Stewart G. Trost, Birgitta L. Baker and Leann L. Birch

"I wanted to do a good job": Experiences of 'becoming a mother' and breastfeeding in mothers of very preterm infants after discharge from a neonatal unit pp. 2405-2416

Renée Flacking, Uwe Ewald and Bengt Starrin

Maternal and child health problems: The inter-generational consequences of early maternal aggression and withdrawal pp. 2417-2426

Natacha Marie De Genna, Dale M. Stack, Lisa A. Serbin, Jane Ledingham and Alex E. Schwartzman

Behavioral indicators of household decision-making and demand for sanitation and potential gains from social marketing in Ghana pp. 2427-2442

Marion W. Jenkins and Beth Scott

The quality of life, mental health, and perceived stigma of leprosy patients in Bangladesh pp. 2443-2453

Atsuro Tsutsumi, Takashi Izutsu, Akramul Md Islam, A.N. Maksuda, Hiroshi Kato and Susumu Wakai

Political economy, labor migration, and the AIDS epidemic in rural Malawi pp. 2454-2463

Mike Mathambo Mtika

Chaos, co-existence, and the potential for collective action: HIV-related vulnerability in Brazil's international borders pp. 2464-2475

Sheri A Lippman, Deanna Kerrigan, Magda Chinaglia and Juan Díaz

Emerging health disparities in Botswana: Examining the situation of orphans during the AIDS epidemic pp. 2476-2486

Candace Marie Miller, Sofia Gruskin, S.V. Subramanian and Jody Heymann

Genetics, insurance and participation: How a Citizens' Jury reached its verdict pp. 2487-2498

Paul Bennett and Susan J. Smith

Do NHS clinicians and members of the public share the same views about reducing inequalities in health? pp. 2499-2503

Aki Tsuchiya and Paul Dolan

Who kicks the habit and how they do it: Socioeconomic differences across methods of quitting smoking in the USA pp. 2504-2519

Dean R. Lillard, Vandana Plassmann, Donald Kenkel and Alan Mathios

Perceived job stress and sleep-related breathing disturbance in Japanese male workers pp. 2520-2532

Akinori Nakata, Masaya Takahashi, Tomoko Ikeda, Takashi Haratani, Minoru Hojou and Shunichi Araki

How do objective and subjective assessments of neighbourhood influence social and physical functioning in older age? Findings from a British survey of ageing pp. 2533-2549

Ann Bowling and Mai Stafford

Oncologists' and specialist cancer nurses' approaches to complementary and alternative medicine and their impact on patient action pp. 2550-2564

P. Tovey and Alex Broom

On physician well being--You'll get by with a little help from your friends pp. 2565-2577

Jean Elizabeth Wallace and Jane Lemaire

Buprenorphine substitution treatment in France: Drug users' views of the doctor-user relationship pp. 2578-2593

Anne Guichard, France Lert, Jean-Marc Brodeur and Lucie Richard

Correlates of family, school, and peer variables with adolescent substance use in Taiwan pp. 2594-2600

Grace Hui-Min Wu, Mian-Yoon Chong, Andrew T.A. Cheng and Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen

2007, volume 64, articles 11

Understanding the sociocultural roots of childhood obesity: Food practices among Latino families of Bushwick, Brooklyn pp. 2177-2188

Leslie Kaufman and Adam Karpati

African-American men's perceptions about prostate cancer: Implications for designing educational interventions pp. 2189-2200

Jennifer D. Allen, Mark Kennedy, Athene Wilson-Glover and Timothy D. Gilligan

Masculinity and perceived normative health behaviors as predictors of men's health behaviors pp. 2201-2209

James R. Mahalik, Shaun M. Burns and Matthew Syzdek

Scaling-up a public health innovation: A comparative study of post-abortion care in Bolivia and Mexico pp. 2210-2222

Deborah L. Billings, Barbara B. Crane, Janie Benson, Julie Solo and Tamara Fetters

"Diabetes is my companion": Lifestyle and self-management among good and poor control Mexican diabetic patients pp. 2223-2235

Javier Garcia de Alba Garcia, Ana L. Salcedo Rocha, Ivette Lopez, Roberta D. Baer, William Dressler and Susan C. Weller

The value of "life at any cost": Talk about stopping kidney dialysis pp. 2236-2247

Ann J. Russ, Janet K. Shim and Sharon R. Kaufman

Fetal conditions and fatal decisions: Ethical dilemmas in ultrasound screening in Vietnam pp. 2248-2259

Tine Gammeltoft and Hanh Thi Thuy Nguyen

Discourses of normality and difference: Responses to diagnosis and treatment of gynaecological cancer of Australian women pp. 2260-2271

Natalie Wray, Milica Markovic and Lenore Manderson

Psychosocial sequelae of cesarean delivery: Review and analysis of their causes and implications pp. 2272-2284

Marci Lobel and Robyn Stein DeLuca

Childhood cognitive ability and adult mental health in the British 1946 birth cohort pp. 2285-2296

Stephani L. Hatch, Peter B. Jones, Diana Kuh, Rebecca Hardy, Michael E.J. Wadsworth and Marcus Richards

Health concordance within couples: A systematic review pp. 2297-2310

Deanna Meyler, Jim P. Stimpson and M. Kristen Peek

Engagement in a cohesive group and higher-level functional capacity in older adults in Japan: A case of the Mujin pp. 2311-2323

Naoki Kondo, Junko Minai, Hisashi Imai and Zentaro Yamagata

Social capital and rates of gonorrhea and syphilis in the United States: Spatial regression analyses of state-level associations pp. 2324-2341

Salaam Semaan, Maya Sternberg, Akbar Zaidi and Sevgi O. Aral

Does "community social capital" contribute to population health? pp. 2342-2354

Sherman Folland

When time is more than money: The allocation of time between work and leisure in HIV-infected patients pp. 2355-2361

Pedram Sendi, Werner Brouwer, Heiner C. Bucher, Rainer Weber and Manuel Battegay

Distancing the mad: Jarvis's Law and the spatial distribution of admissions to the Hamilton Lunatic Asylum in Canada, 1876-1902 pp. 2362-2377

Christopher A. Smith, David Wright and Shawn Day

2007, volume 64, articles 10

What to make of it? The (Re)emergence of a biological conceptualization of race in health disparities research pp. 1977-1983

Reanne Frank

The association between self-reported racial discrimination and 12-month DSM-IV mental disorders among Asian Americans nationwide pp. 1984-1996

Gilbert C. Gee, Michael Spencer, Juan Chen, Tiffany Yip and David T. Takeuchi

Job stress and poor sleep quality: Data from an American sample of full-time workers pp. 1997-2007

Hannah K. Knudsen, Lori J. Ducharme and Paul M. Roman

Increasing inequalities in health: Is it an artefact caused by the selective movement of people? pp. 2008-2015

Sheelah Connolly, Dermot O'Reilly and Michael Rosato

Does the measure of economic disadvantage matter? Exploring the effect of individual and relative deprivation on intrauterine growth restriction pp. 2016-2029

Patricia B. Reagan, Pamela J. Salsberry and Randall J. Olsen

Socio-economic status and body mass index in low-income Mexican adults pp. 2030-2042

Lia C.H. Fernald

China's one-child policy and overweight children in the 1990s pp. 2043-2057

Juhua Yang

Children, AIDS and the politics of orphan care in Ethiopia: The extended family revisited pp. 2058-2069

Tatek Abebe and Asbjorn Aase

Performance of predictors: Evaluating sustainability in community-directed treatment projects of the African programme for onchocerciasis control pp. 2070-2082

Uche Amazigo, Joseph Okeibunor, Victoria Matovu, Honorat Zouré, Jesse Bump and Azodoga Seketeli

Applying a framework for assessing the quality of maternal health services in urban India pp. 2083-2095

Louise Anne Hulton, Zoë Matthews and Robert William Stones

A case study of the elder care functions of a Chilean non-governmental organization pp. 2096-2106

Javier Pereira, Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel

The use of psychosocial criteria in Australian patient selection guidelines for kidney transplantation pp. 2107-2114

Kate Anderson, Alan Cass, Joan Cunningham, Paul Snelling, Jeannie Devitt and Cilla Preece

Examining the role of context in the implementation of a deliberative public participation experiment: Results from a Canadian comparative study pp. 2115-2128

Julia Abelson, Pierre-Gerlier Forest, John Eyles, Ann Casebeer, Elisabeth Martin and Gail Mackean

Centralized or decentralized? A case study of Norwegian hospital reform pp. 2129-2137

Jon Magnussen, Terje P. Hagen and Oddvar Kaarboe

Antidepressants and youth: Healing or harmful? pp. 2138-2151

Sara Markowitz and Alison Cuellar

Culture, context, and sexual risk among Northern Plains American Indian Youth pp. 2152-2164

Carol E. Kaufman, Jennifer Desserich, Cecelia K. Big Crow, Bonnie Holy Rock, Ellen Keane and Christina M. Mitchell

Clinical encounters between nurses and First Nations women in a Western Canadian hospital pp. 2165-2176

Annette J. Browne

2007, volume 64, articles 9

Affect and enacted support in couples undergoing in-vitro fertilization: When providing is better than receiving pp. 1789-1801

Nina Knoll, Rolf Kienle, Katharina Bauer, Bettina Pfüller and Aleksandra Luszczynska

Correlates of depressive symptomatology during the second trimester of pregnancy among Hong Kong Chinese pp. 1802-1811

Ying Lau and Daniel Wong Fu Keung

Real life is different: A qualitative study of why women delay abortion until the second trimester in Vietnam pp. 1812-1822

Maria F. Gallo and Nguyen C. Nghia

Internalized stigma, discrimination, and depression among men and women living with HIV/AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa pp. 1823-1831

Leickness C. Simbayi, Seth Kalichman, Anna Strebel, Allanise Cloete, Nomvo Henda and Ayanda Mqeketo

Evaluation of the chronic disease self-management program (CDSMP) among chronically ill older people in the Netherlands pp. 1832-1841

Henrike Elzen, Joris P.J. Slaets, Tom A.B. Snijders and Nardi Steverink

Telling stories: News media, health literacy and public policy in Canada pp. 1842-1852

Michael Hayes, Ian E. Ross, Mike Gasher, Donald Gutstein, James R. Dunn and Robert A. Hackett

How do patients evaluate and make use of online health information? pp. 1853-1862

Elizabeth Sillence, Pam Briggs, Peter Richard Harris and Lesley Fishwick

Prioritising patients on surgical waiting lists: A conjoint analysis study on the priority judgements of patients, surgeons, occupational physicians, and general practitioners pp. 1863-1875

Jurriaan P. Oudhoff, D.R.M. Timmermans, D.L. Knol, A.B. Bijnen and G. Van der Wal

Sub-Saharan Africa: Beyond the health worker migration crisis? pp. 1876-1891

John Connell, Pascal Zurn, Barbara Stilwell, Magda Awases and Jean-Marc Braichet

Does increased gender equality lead to a convergence of health outcomes for men and women? A study of Swedish municipalities pp. 1892-1903

Mona C. Backhans, Michael Lundberg and Anna Månsdotter

Average household income, crime, and smoking behaviour in a local area: The Finnish 10-Town study pp. 1904-1913

Marianna Virtanen, Mika Kivimäki, Anne Kouvonen, Marko Elovainio, Anne Linna, Tuula Oksanen and Jussi Vahtera

General preferences for involvement in treatment decision making among European women with urinary incontinence pp. 1914-1924

Máire O' Donnell, Brigitta Monz and Steinar Hunskaar

There's no place like (a) home: Ontological security among persons with serious mental illness in the United States pp. 1925-1936

Deborah K. Padgett

Agency and dependency within treatment: Drug treatment clients negotiating methadone and antidepressants pp. 1937-1947

Martin Holt

The production of disability culture among young African-American men pp. 1948-1959

Patrick J. Devlieger, Gary L. Albrecht and Miram Hertz

Ethical challenges in the design and conduct of locally relevant international health research pp. 1960-1969

Christian Simon, Maghboeba Mosavel and Debbie van Stade

People, other animals and health knowledges: Towards a research agenda pp. 1970-1976

Melanie Rock, Eric Mykhalovskiy and Thomas Schlich

2007, volume 64, articles 8

Examining attribution model of self-stigma on social support and psychological well-being among people with HIV+/AIDS pp. 1549-1559

Winnie W.S. Mak, Rebecca Y.M. Cheung, Rita W. Law, Jean Woo, Patrick C.K. Li and Rita W.Y. Chung

Drug abuse, HIV/AIDS and stigmatisation in a Dai community in Yunnan, China pp. 1560-1571

Rui Deng, Jianghong Li, Luechai Sringernyuang and Kaining Zhang

An information-motivation-behavioral skills (IMB) model-based HIV prevention intervention for truck drivers in India pp. 1572-1584

Deborah H. Cornman, Sarah J. Schmiege, Angela Bryan, T. Joseph Benziger and Jeffrey D. Fisher

The political economy of AIDS leadership in developing countries: An exploratory analysis pp. 1585-1599

Jacob Bor

Seeking help for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in developing countries: A study of parental explanatory models in Goa, India pp. 1600-1610

Claire E. Wilcox, Rachel Washburn and Vikram Patel

Legacies of primary health care in an age of health sector reform: Vietnam's commune clinics in transition pp. 1611-1623

Scott A. Fritzen

Neither seen nor heard: Children and homecare policy in Canada pp. 1624-1635

Elizabeth Peter, Karen Spalding, Nuala Kenny, Patricia Conrad, Patricia McKeever and Amy Macfarlane

A spatial analysis of the determinants of pneumonia and influenza hospitalizations in Ontario (1992-2001) pp. 1636-1650

Eric J. Crighton, Susan J. Elliott, Rahim Moineddin, Pavlos Kanaroglou and Ross Upshur

KW - Quebec: A local-scale evaluation system pp. 1651-1664

M.D. Philibert, R. Pampalon, D. Hamel, J.-P. Thouez and C.G. Loiselle

Health differences between European countries pp. 1665-1678

Karen M. Olsen and Svenn-Åge Dahl

Relieving suffering at the end of life: Practitioners' perspectives on palliative sedation from three European countries pp. 1679-1691

Jane E. Seymour, Rien Janssens and Bert Broeckaert

'Getting on with life': The experiences of older people using complementary health care pp. 1692-1703

Tina Cartwright

Constructions of sexuality and intimacy after cancer: Patient and health professional perspectives pp. 1704-1718

Amanda Jane Hordern and Annette F. Street

Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire: Types of participation and associations with distress in a coastal community pp. 1719-1737

Helen Louise Berry, Bryan Rodgers and Keith B.G. Dear

Several methods to investigate relative attribute impact in stated preference experiments pp. 1738-1753

Emily Lancsar, Jordan Louviere and Terry Flynn

Complexity and reflexivity: Two important issues for economic evaluation in health care pp. 1754-1765

Chantale Lessard

Racial disparities in diabetes a century ago: Evidence from the pension files of US Civil War veterans pp. 1766-1775

Margaret Humphreys, Philip Costanzo, Kerry L. Haynie, Truls Østbye, Idrissa Boly, Daniel Belsky and Frank Sloan

Narratives from caregivers of children surviving the terrorist attack in Beslan: Issues of health, culture, and resilience pp. 1776-1787

Ughetta Moscardino, Giovanna Axia, Sara Scrimin and Fabia Capello

2007, volume 64, articles 7

Pathways of influence on equity in health pp. 1355-1362

Barbara Starfield

We also need bold experiments: A response to Starfield's "Commentary: Pathways of influence on equity in health" pp. 1363-1366

Paula A. Braveman

The challenge of prevention: A response to Starfield's "Commentary: Pathways of influence on equity in health" pp. 1367-1370

Richard Wilkinson

Pathways of influence on equity in health: A rejoinder to Braveman and Wilkinson pp. 1371-1372

Barbara Starfield

Social capital, trust in the health-care system and self-rated health: The role of access to health care in a population-based study pp. 1373-1383

Mohabbat Mohseni and Martin Lindstrom

Is social participation associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors? pp. 1384-1391

Anne Ellaway and Sally Macintyre

Linked versus unlinked estimates of mortality and length of life by education and marital status: Evidence from the first record linkage study in Lithuania pp. 1392-1406

Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Domantas Jasilionis, Evgeny M. Andreev, Dmitri A. Jdanov, Vladislava Stankuniene and Dalia Ambrozaitiene

Quantifying the urban environment: A scale measure of urbanicity outperforms the urban-rural dichotomy pp. 1407-1419

Darren L. Dahly and Linda S. Adair

Business cycles, migration and health pp. 1420-1424

Timothy Halliday

The impact of disability transitions on social inclusion pp. 1425-1437

Brenda Gannon and Brian Nolan

Health inequalities in Scotland and England: the contrasting journeys of ideas from research into policy pp. 1438-1449

Katherine Elizabeth Smith

Factors affecting primary care physicians' perceptions of health system reform in Israel: Professional autonomy versus organizational affiliation pp. 1450-1462

Revital Gross, Hava Tabenkin and Shuli Brammli-Greenberg

Health care for the poor--An exploration of primary-care physicians' perceptions of poor patients and of their helping behaviors pp. 1463-1474

Menachem Monnickendam, Shlomo M. Monnickendam, Chana Katz and Joseph Katan

Professional accounts of electroconvulsive therapy: A discourse analysis pp. 1475-1486

Peter Stevens and David J. Harper

Deciding to resuscitate extremely premature babies: How do parents and neonatologists engage in the decision? pp. 1487-1500

Antoine Payot, Sylvie Gendron, Francine Lefebvre and Hubert Doucet

Treating asthma with a self-management model of illness behaviour in an Australian community pharmacy setting pp. 1501-1511

Lorraine Smith, Sinthia Z. Bosnic-Anticevich, Bernadette Mitchell, Bandana Saini, Ines Krass and Carol Armour

Pragmatic pluralism: Mutual tolerance of contested understandings between orthodox and alternative practitioners in autologous stem cell transplantation pp. 1512-1523

Miles Little, Christopher F.C. Jordens, Catherine McGrath, Kathleen Montgomery, Ian Kerridge and Stacy M. Carter

Culture and stigma: Adding moral experience to stigma theory pp. 1524-1535

Lawrence Hsin Yang, Arthur Kleinman, Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan, Sing Lee and Byron Good

Intimate partner violence among Afghan women living in refugee camps in Pakistan pp. 1536-1547

Adnan A. Hyder, Zarin Noor and Emma Tsui

2007, volume 64, articles 6

Nursing in Bangladesh: Rhetoric and reality pp. 1153-1165

Mary B. Hadley and Angie Roques

Why Bangladeshi nurses avoid 'nursing': Social and structural factors on hospital wards in Bangladesh pp. 1166-1177

Mary B. Hadley, Lauren S. Blum, Saraana Mujaddid, Shahana Parveen, Sadid Nuremowla, Mohammad Enamul Haque and Mohammad Ullah

Workplace harassment patterning, gender, and utilization of professional services: Findings from a US national study pp. 1178-1191

Candice A. Shannon, Kathleen M. Rospenda and Judith A. Richman

John Henryism, self-reported physical health indicators, and the mediating role of perceived stress among high socio-economic status Asian immigrants pp. 1192-1203

Jana Haritatos, Ramaswami Mahalingam and Sherman A. James

Course and predictors of mental health of unaccompanied refugee minors in the Netherlands: One year follow-up pp. 1204-1215

Tammy M. Bean, Elisabeth Eurelings-Bontekoe and Philip Spinhoven

Gender and health care utilization: The role of mental distress and help-seeking propensity pp. 1216-1230

Gerrit T. Koopmans and Leida M. Lamers

Evaluations of community mental health care in low- and middle-income countries: A 10-year review of the literature pp. 1231-1241

Elizabeth Wiley-Exley

Modelling covariates for the SF-6D standard gamble health state preference data using a nonparametric Bayesian method pp. 1242-1252

Samer Kharroubi, John Brazier and Anthony O'Hagan

Decentralisation and convergence in health among the provinces of Spain (1980-2001) pp. 1253-1264

Roberto Montero-Granados, Juan de Dios Jiménez and José Martín

Private or public? An empirical analysis of the importance of work values for work sector choice among Norwegian medical specialists pp. 1265-1277

Linda Midttun

Why are you draining your brain? Factors underlying decisions of graduating Lebanese medical students to migrate pp. 1278-1284

Elie A. Akl, Nancy Maroun, Stella Major, Claude Afif, Bechara Chahoud, Jacques Choucair, Mazen Sakr and Holger J. Schünemann

Re-examining 'professionalism' in pharmacy: A South African perspective pp. 1285-1296

Kevin Frank Williams

The meaning of patient involvement and participation in health care consultations: A taxonomy pp. 1297-1310

Andrew G.H. Thompson

A comparative analysis of the use of maternal health services between teenagers and older mothers in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) pp. 1311-1325

Monica Akinyi Magadi, Alfred O. Agwanda and Francis O. Obare

Exceptions to the rule: Healthy deprived areas and unhealthy wealthy areas pp. 1326-1342

Carolien van Hooijdonk, Mariël Droomers, Jeanne A.M. van Loon, Fons van der Lucht and Anton E. Kunst

Off the couch and on the move: Global public health and the medicalisation of nature pp. 1343-1354

Tim Brown and Morag Bell

2007, volume 64, articles 5

HIV/AIDS, gender, agency and empowerment issues in Africa pp. 1015-1018

Ezekiel Kalipeni, Joseph Oppong and Assata Zerai

Urban-rural differences in the socioeconomic deprivation-Sexual behavior link in Kenya pp. 1019-1031

F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo, Eliya M. Zulu and Alex C. Ezeh

The poverty-HIV/AIDS nexus in Africa: A livelihood approach pp. 1032-1041

Winford Masanjala

Market incentives, human lives, and AIDS vaccines pp. 1042-1056

Susan Craddock

Sexual risk behavior among people living with HIV/AIDS in Togo pp. 1057-1066

Ami R. Moore and Joseph Oppong

Cohabitation, marriage, and 'sexual monogamy' in Nairobi's slums pp. 1067-1078

Megan Klein Hattori and F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo

Factors inhibiting educated mothers in Kenya from giving meaningful sex-education to their daughters pp. 1079-1089

Njeri Mbugua

Sex in Geneva, sex in Lilongwe, and sex in Balaka pp. 1090-1101

Linda Tawfik and Susan Cotts Watkins

The condom is an 'intruder' in marriage: Evidence from rural Malawi pp. 1102-1115

Agnes M. Chimbiri

Concern and practice among men about HIV/AIDS in low socioeconomic income areas of Lilongwe, Malawi pp. 1116-1127

Ezekiel Kalipeni and Jayati Ghosh

HIV/AIDS and the construction of Sub-Saharan Africa: Heuristic lessons from the social sciences for policy pp. 1128-1150

Ian E.A. Yeboah

2007, volume 64, articles 4

Socioeconomic status and health in childhood: A comment on Chen, Martin and Matthews, "Socioeconomic status and health: Do gradients differ within childhood and adolescence?" (62:9, 2006, 2161-2170) pp. 757-761

Anne Case, Christina Paxson and Tom Vogl

Issues in exploring variation in childhood socioeconomic gradients by age: A response to Case, Paxson, and Vogl pp. 762-764

Edith Chen, Andrew D. Martin and Karen A. Matthews

Is attachment style a source of resilience against health inequalities at work? pp. 765-775

Mel Bartley, Jenny Head and Stephen Stansfeld

Is precarious employment more damaging to women's health than men's? pp. 776-781

María Menéndez, Joan Benach, Carles Muntaner, Marcelo Amable and Patricia O'Campo

Workplace injury or "part of the job"?: Towards a gendered understanding of injuries and complaints among young workers pp. 782-793

F. Curtis Breslin, Jessica Polzer, Ellen MacEachen, Barbara Morrongiello and Harry Shannon

The social distribution of risk at work: Acute injuries and physical assaults among healthcare workers working in a long-term care facility pp. 794-806

Douglas J. Myers, David Kriebel, Robert Karasek, Laura Punnett and David H. Wegman

Older siblings as supervisors: Does this influence young children's risk of unintentional injury? pp. 807-817

Barbara A. Morrongiello, Trevor J. MacIsaac and Nora Klemencic

Income change at retirement, neighbourhood-based social support, and ischaemic heart disease: Results from the prospective cohort study "Men born in 1914" pp. 818-829

Basile Chaix, Sven-Olof Isacsson, Lennart Råstam, Martin Lindström and Juan Merlo

Social support at work and the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke in women and men pp. 830-841

Lena André-Petersson, Gunnar Engström, Bo Hedblad, Lars Janzon and Maria Rosvall

Prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents from a Spanish slum pp. 842-849

Lourdes Ezpeleta, Noemí Guillamón, Roser Granero, Núria de la Osa, Josep María Domènech and Isabel Moya

Psychological distress among parents of children with mental retardation in the United Arab Emirates pp. 850-857

Vivian Khamis

China's transition: The effect of rapid urbanization on adult occupational physical activity pp. 858-870

Keri L. Monda, Penny Gordon-Larsen, June Stevens and Barry M. Popkin

Characteristics of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest-old in China pp. 871-883

Danan Gu, Matthew E. Dupre and Guangya Liu

Health insurance benefit packages prioritized by low-income clients in India: Three criteria to estimate effectiveness of choice pp. 884-896

David Dror, Ruth Koren, Alexander Ost, Erika Binnendijk, Sukumar Vellakkal and Marion Danis

Priority setting in health care using multi-attribute utility theory and programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) pp. 897-910

Stuart J. Peacock, Jeff Richardson, Rob Carter and Diana Edwards

Managing risk: Risk perception, trust and control in a Primary Care Partnership pp. 911-923

Rae Walker, Penny Bisset and Jenny Adam

Interpreters as co-diagnosticians: Overlapping roles and services between providers and interpreters pp. 924-937

Elaine Hsieh

Re-expressing the division of British medicine under the NHS: The importance of locality in general practitioners' oral histories pp. 938-948

Graham Smith and Malcolm Nicolson

Social marketing: Should it be used to promote evidence-based health information? pp. 949-953

Giulio Formoso, Anna Maria Marata and Nicola Magrini

Hope is the pillar of the universe: Health-care providers' experiences of delivering anti-retroviral therapy in primary health-care clinics in the Free State province of South Africa pp. 954-964

Joanne Stein, Simon Lewin and Lara Fairall

Assisting or compromising intervention? The concept of 'culture' in biomedical and social research on HIV/AIDS pp. 965-975

Julie J. Taylor

Achieving sustainability of community-based dengue control in Santiago de Cuba pp. 976-988

Maria E. Toledo Romani, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Dennis Perez, Pierre Lefevre, Enrique Ceballos, Digna Bandera, Alberto Baly Gil and Patrick Van der Stuyft

Making sense of dementia in the social world: A qualitative study pp. 989-1000

Shani A. Langdon, Andrew Eagle and James Warner

Meaning and coherence of self and health: An approach based on narratives of life events pp. 1001-1014

Isabelle Ville and Myriam Khlat

2007, volume 64, articles 3

The desirability and feasibility of scaling up community health insurance in low-income settings--Lessons from Armenia pp. 509-520

Tim Poletti, Dina Balabanova, Olga Ghazaryan, Hasmik Kocharyan, Margarita Hakobyan, Karen Arakelyan and Charles Normand

Gifts, bribes and solicitions: Print media and the social construction of informal payments to doctors in Taiwan pp. 521-530

Yu-Chan Chiu, Katherine Clegg Smith, Laura Morlock and Lawrence Wissow

Using focus groups to develop contingent valuation scenarios--A case study of women's groups in rural Nepal pp. 531-542

Josephine Borghi, Daya L. Shrestha, Deepa Shrestha and Stephen Jan

Disciplinary careers of drug-impaired physicians pp. 543-553

Matthew C. Holtman

The sustainability of functional foods pp. 554-561

Anne Sibbel

Integrating conventional science and aboriginal perspectives on diabetes using fuzzy cognitive maps pp. 562-576

Brian G. Giles, C. Scott Findlay, George Haas, Brenda LaFrance, Wesley Laughing and Sakakohe Pembleton

Exploring the altered daily geographies and lifeworlds of women living with fibromyalgia syndrome: A mixed-method approach pp. 577-588

Valorie A. Crooks

Towards an epidemiological understanding of the effects of long-term institutional changes on population health: A case study of Canada versus the USA pp. 589-603

Arjumand Siddiqi and Clyde Hertzman

Culture as an explanation for substance-related problems: A cross-national study among French and Dutch adolescents pp. 604-616

Ronald Arnold Knibbe, Jan Joosten, Marie Choquet, Mieke Derickx, Delphine Morin and Karin Monshouwer

Place and provision: Mapping mental health advocacy services in London pp. 617-632

Ronan Foley and Hazel Platzer

Places, people and mental health: A multilevel analysis of economic inactivity pp. 633-645

David Fone, Frank Dunstan, Gareth Williams, Keith Lloyd and Stephen Palmer

Early life determinants of musculoskeletal sickness absence in a cohort of Norwegians born in 1967-1976 pp. 646-655

Petter Kristensen, Tor Bjerkedal and Lorentz M. Irgens

State-level homicide victimization rates in the US in relation to survey measures of household firearm ownership, 2001-2003 pp. 656-664

Matthew Miller, David Hemenway and Deborah Azrael

Expansion of HIV/AIDS in China: Lessons from Yunnan Province pp. 665-675

Yan Xiao, Sibylle Kristensen, Jiangping Sun, Lin Lu and Sten H. Vermund

In practice, the theory is different: A processual analysis of breastfeeding in northeast Brazil pp. 676-688

Michael Scavenius, Lonneke van Hulsel, Julia Meijer, Hans Wendte and Ricardo Gurgel

The changing political economy of sex in South Africa: The significance of unemployment and inequalities to the scale of the AIDS pandemic pp. 689-700

Mark Hunter

Home management of childhood diarrhoea in southern Mali--Implications for the introduction of zinc treatment pp. 701-712

Amy A. Ellis, Peter Winch, Zana Daou, Kate E. Gilroy and Eric Swedberg

Family context of mental health risk in Tsunami-exposed adolescents: Findings from a pilot study in Sri Lanka pp. 713-723

K.A.S. Wickrama and Violet Kaspar

Genetic counseling communication with an African American BRCA1 kindred pp. 724-734

Lee Ellington, Amiee Maxwel, Bonnie J. Baty, Debra Roter, William N. Dudley and Anita Y. Kinney

Recovery following stroke: The role of self-management education pp. 735-746

Elizabeth Kendall, Tara Catalano, Pim Kuipers, Natasha Posner, Nicholas Buys and Jill Charker

The decline in Australian young male suicide pp. 747-754

Stephen Morrell, Andrew N. Page and Richard J. Taylor

2007, volume 64, articles 2

Seven habits of highly effective global public-private health partnerships: Practice and potential pp. 259-271

Kent Buse and Andrew M. Harmer

Tackling community concerns about commercialisation and genetic research: A modest interdisciplinary proposal pp. 272-282

Gillian Haddow, Graeme Laurie, Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Kathryn G. Hunter

Selecting new health technologies for evaluation: Can clinical experts predict which new anticancer drugs will impact Danish health care? pp. 283-286

Karla Douw and Hindrik Vondeling

Intellectual property organizations and pharmaceutical patents in Africa pp. 287-291

Robert Deiss

Dignity and health: A review pp. 292-302

Nora Jacobson

Participation and knowledge related to a nursing home admission decision among a working age population pp. 303-313

Nancy Miller and Marcie Weinstein

Ambiguities of chronic illness management and challenges to the medical error paradigm pp. 314-325

Karen E. Lutfey and Jeremy Freese

'Real men don't diet': An analysis of contemporary newspaper representations of men, food and health pp. 326-337

Brendan Gough

Masculinities fathering and health: The experiences of African-Caribbean and white working class fathers pp. 338-349

Robert Alan Williams

Young men's ambivalence toward alcohol pp. 350-362

Richard O. de Visser and Jonathan A. Smith

Clinic consultations with children and parents on the dietary management of cystic fibrosis pp. 363-374

Eileen Savage and Peter Callery

Maternal social and pyschological conditions and physical growth in low-income children in Piauí, Northeast Brazil pp. 375-388

Pamela J. Surkan, Louise M. Ryan, Lina M. Carvalho Vieira, Lisa F. Berkman and Karen E. Peterson

Daily negative interactions and mood among patients and partners dealing with multiple sclerosis (MS): The moderating effects of emotional support pp. 389-400

Annet M. Kleiboer, Roeline G. Kuijer, Joop J. Hox, Peter J.H. Jongen, Stephan T.F.M. Frequin and Jozien M. Bensing

The contribution of working conditions and social support to the onset of depressive and anxiety disorders among male and female employees pp. 401-410

Inger Plaisier, Jeanne G.M. de Bruijn, Ron de Graaf, Margreet ten Have, Aartjan T.F. Beekman and Brenda W.J.H. Penninx

Effect of personal cancer history and family cancer history on levels of psychological distress pp. 411-416

Carolyn Rabin, Michelle L. Rogers, Bernardine M. Pinto, Justin M. Nash, Georita M. Frierson and Peter C. Trask

Feeling like a burden: Exploring the perspectives of patients at the end of life pp. 417-427

Christine J. McPherson, Keith G. Wilson and Mary Ann Murray

Some issues in the provision of adult bereavement support by UK hospices pp. 428-438

David Field, Sheila Payne, Marilyn Relf and David Reid

The decision-making process of parents regarding organ donation of their brain dead child: A Greek study pp. 439-450

Thalia Bellali and Danai Papadatou

Combining individual and ecological data to determine compositional and contextual socio-economic risk factors for suicide pp. 451-461

Esben Agerbo, Jonathan A.C. Sterne and David J. Gunnell

A multilevel decomposition approach to estimate the role of program location and neighborhood disadvantage in racial disparities in alcohol treatment completion pp. 462-476

Jerry Owen Jacobson, Paul Robinson and Ricky N. Bluthenthal

Social cohesion, social support, and health among Latinos in the United States pp. 477-495

Norah E. Mulvaney-Day, Margarita Alegría and William Sribney

The necessary contradictions of 'community-led' health promotion: A case study of HIV prevention in an Indian red light district pp. 496-507

Flora Cornish and Riddhi Ghosh

2007, volume 64, articles 1

Editorial pp. 1-4

Ellen Annandale

Social capital and mental health: A comparative analysis of four low income countries pp. 5-20

Mary J. De Silva, Sharon R. Huttly, Trudy Harpham and Michael G. Kenward

Low-linking social capital as a predictor of mental disorders: A cohort study of 4.5 million Swedes pp. 21-34

Jonas Lofors and Kristina Sundquist

Does social capital enhance health and well-being? Evidence from rural China pp. 35-49

Winnie Yip, S.V. Subramanian, Andrew D. Mitchell, Dominic T.S. Lee, Jian Wang and Ichiro Kawachi

Measuring dimensions of social capital: Evidence from surveys in poor communities in Nicaragua pp. 50-63

Andrew David Mitchell and Thomas J. Bossert

Marital status, intergenerational co-residence and cardiovascular and all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older men and women during wartime in Beirut: Gains and liabilities pp. 64-76

Abla M. Sibai, Kathryn M. Yount and Astrid Fletcher

Marital status and mortality in the elderly: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 77-94

Lamberto Manzoli, Paolo Villari, Giovanni M Pirone and Antonio Boccia

The shackles of misfortune: Social adversity assessment and representation in a chronic-disease epidemiological setting pp. 95-111

Paul G. Surtees and Nicholas W.J. Wainwright

Irreconcilable differences: Health professionals' constructions of adolescence and motherhood pp. 112-124

Mary Breheny and Christine Stephens

Advance Australia Fair: Social democratic and conservative politicians' discourses concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their health 1972-2001 pp. 125-137

Rosemary Aldrich, Anthony B. Zwi and Stephanie Short

Hope and hoping in the talk of dying cancer patients pp. 138-149

Jaklin A. Eliott and Ian N. Olver

"We're tired, not sad": Benefits and burdens of mothering a child with a disability pp. 150-163

Sara Eleanor Green

The paradoxical reliance on allopathic medicine and positivist science among skeptical audiences pp. 164-173

Juanne N. Clarke, Stephanie Arnold, Michelle Everest and Kyle Whitfield

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the Canadian blood system after the tainted blood tragedy pp. 174-185

Kumanan Wilson, Ian Graham, Maura Ricketts, Christopher Dornan, Andreas Laupacis and Paul Hebert

An examination of income-related disparities in the nutritional quality of food selections among Canadian households from 1986-2001 pp. 186-198

Laurie E. Ricciuto and Valerie S. Tarasuk

Horizontal equity in health care utilization evidence from three high-income Asian economies pp. 199-212

Jui-fen R. Lu, Gabriel M. Leung, Soonman Kwon, Keith Y.K. Tin, Eddy Van Doorslaer and Owen O'Donnell

Protecting the privacy of third-party information: Recommendations for social and behavioral health researchers pp. 213-222

David W. Lounsbury, Thomas C. Reynolds, Bruce D. Rapkin, Mark E. Robson and Jamie Ostroff

Patients, privacy and trust: Patients' willingness to allow researchers to access their medical records pp. 223-235

Laura J. Damschroder, Joy L. Pritts, Michael A. Neblo, Rosemarie J. Kalarickal, John W. Creswell and Rodney A. Hayward

Comparability work and the management of difference in research synthesis studies pp. 236-247

Margarete Sandelowski, Corrine I. Voils and Julie Barroso

Developing, integrating, and perpetuating new ways of applying sociology to health, medicine, policy, and everyday life pp. 248-258

Jeffrey Michael Clair, Cullen Clark, Brian P. Hinote, Caroline O. Robinson and Jason A. Wasserman