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2006, volume 63, articles 12

Women's status and child well-being: A state-level analysis pp. 2999-3012

Karestan C. Koenen, Alisa Lincoln and Allison Appleton

Racial disparities in low birthweight and the contribution of residential segregation: A multilevel analysis pp. 3013-3029

Sue C. Grady

Birth outcomes among urban African-American women: A multilevel analysis of the role of racial residential segregation pp. 3030-3045

Janice F. Bell, Frederick J. Zimmerman, Gunnar R. Almgren, Jonathan D. Mayer and Colleen E. Huebner

Facility and county effects on racial differences in nursing home quality indicators pp. 3046-3059

Susan C. Miller, George Papandonatos, Mary Fennell and Vincent Mor

Patient-physician racial and ethnic concordance and perceived medical errors pp. 3060-3066

Irena Stepanikova

The interpersonal experience of health care through the eyes of patients with diabetes pp. 3067-3079

Paul Ciechanowski and Wayne J. Katon

Living without labels: The interactional management of diagnostic uncertainty in the genetic counselling clinic pp. 3080-3091

Lucy Claire Brookes-Howell

Genetic screening as a technique of government: The case of neonatal screening for cystic fibrosis in France pp. 3092-3101

Joëlle Vailly

Health technology adoption and the politics of governance in the UK pp. 3102-3112

Timothy Milewa

Responding to global infectious disease outbreaks: Lessons from SARS on the role of risk perception, communication and management pp. 3113-3123

Richard D. Smith

Formative research on adolescent and adult perceptions of risk factors for breast cancer pp. 3124-3136

Kami J. Silk, Elizabeth Bigbsy, Julie Volkman, Catherine Kingsley, Charles Atkin, Merissa Ferrara and Leigh-Anne Goins

The cognitive structuring of patient delay in breast cancer pp. 3137-3149

Noreen C. Facione and Peter A. Facione

Developing a cultural model for long-term female urinary incontinence pp. 3150-3161

Christine Wanich Bradway and Frances Barg

The sexuality and social performance of androgen-deprived (castrated) men throughout history: Implications for modern day cancer patients pp. 3162-3173

Michael William Aucoin and Richard Joel Wassersug

Stigma, fatigue and social breakdown: Exploring the impacts of HIV/AIDS on patient and carer well-being in the Caprivi Region, Namibia pp. 3174-3187

Felicity Thomas

Illness-related stigma, mood and adjustment to illness in persons with hepatitis C pp. 3188-3198

Jeannette Golden, Ronán Michael Conroy, Ann Marie O'Dwyer, Daniel Golden and Jean-Benoit Hardouin

Managing US-Mexico "border health": An organizational field approach pp. 3199-3211

Julie Collins-Dogrul

2006, volume 63, articles 11

Barriers to condom purchasing: Effects of product positioning on reactions to condoms pp. 2755-2769

Lori A.J. Scott-Sheldon, Demis E. Glasford, Kerry L. Marsh and Sarah A. Lust

Contraceptive practices in Armenia: Panel evaluation of an Information-Education-Communication Campaign pp. 2770-2783

Michael E. Thompson and Tsovinar L. Harutyunyan

Cigarette smoking and poverty in China pp. 2784-2790

Yuanli Liu, Keqin Rao, Teh-wei Hu, Qi Sun and Zhenzhong Mao

Socioeconomic gradients in smoking among young women: A British survey pp. 2791-2800

Juliet Harman, Hilary Graham, Brian Francis and Hazel M. Inskip

The association of smoking with perception of income inequality, relative material well-being, and social capital pp. 2801-2812

Mohammad Siahpush, Ron Borland, Janet Taylor, Gopal K. Singh, Zahid Ansari and Adrian Serraglio

Socioeconomic position in childhood and in adulthood and functional limitations in midlife: Data from a nationally-representative survey of French men and women pp. 2813-2824

Maria Melchior, France Lert, Magali Martin and Isabelle Ville

Childhood socioeconomic status and suicide mortality in early adulthood among Norwegian men and women. A prospective study of Norwegians born between 1955 and 1965 followed for suicide from 1990 to 2001 pp. 2825-2834

B.H. Strand and Anton Kunst

Perceptions of the environment, physical activity, and obesity pp. 2835-2846

Wouter Poortinga

Neighborhood microclimates and vulnerability to heat stress pp. 2847-2863

Sharon L. Harlan, Anthony J. Brazel, Lela Prashad, William L. Stefanov and Larissa Larsen

Managing competition in the countryside: Non-profit and for-profit perceptions of long-term care in rural Ontario pp. 2864-2876

Mark W. Skinner and Mark W. Rosenberg

From rhetoric to reality: A systemic approach to understanding the constraints faced by Health For All initiatives in England pp. 2877-2889

Dina Berkeley and Jane Springett

Determinants for the adoption of angiotensin II receptor blockers by general practitioners pp. 2890-2898

Jacoba P. Greving, Petra Denig, Willem Jan van der Veen, Frank W. Beltman, Miriam C.J.M. Sturkenboom and Flora M. Haaijer-Ruskamp

Targeted intervention for the ultra poor in rural Bangladesh: Does it make any difference in their health-seeking behaviour? pp. 2899-2911

Syed Masud Ahmed, Max Petzold, Zarina Nahar Kabir and Göran Tomson

Child access to health services during the economic crisis: An Indonesian experience of the safety net program pp. 2912-2925

Eunike Suci

Asthma disparities in the prevalence, morbidity, and treatment of Latino children pp. 2926-2937

Glorisa Canino, Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, Alexander N. Ortega, Elizabeth L. McQuaid, Gregory K. Fritz and Margarita Alegría

Inupiat youth suicide and culture loss: Changing community conversations for prevention pp. 2938-2948

Lisa Marin Wexler

Rape perpetration by young, rural South African men: Prevalence, patterns and risk factors pp. 2949-2961

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

Creating meaning in fibromyalgia syndrome pp. 2962-2973

Sue Madden and Julius Sim

Information seeking during "bad news" oncology interactions: Question asking by patients and their companions pp. 2974-2985

Susan Eggly, Louis A. Penner, Meredith Greene, Felicity W.K. Harper, John C. Ruckdeschel and Terrance L. Albrecht

Decentred comparative research: Context sensitive analysis of maternal health care pp. 2986-2997

Sirpa Wrede, Cecilia Benoit, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Edwin R. van Teijlingen, Jane Sandall and Raymond G. De Vries

2006, volume 63, articles 10

The influence of socioeconomic factors on cardiovascular disease risk factors in the context of economic development in the Samoan archipelago pp. 2533-2545

Amara E. Ezeamama, Satupaitea Viali, John Tuitele and Stephen T. McGarvey

Social capital, socio-economic status and psychological distress among Australian adults pp. 2546-2561

Philayrath Phongsavan, Tien Chey, Adrian Bauman, Robert Brooks and Derrick Silove

For whom is income inequality most harmful? A multi-level analysis of income inequality and mortality in Norway pp. 2562-2574

Espen Dahl, Jon Ivar Elstad, Dag Hofoss and Melissa Martin-Mollard

Objective and perceived neighborhood environment, individual SES and psychosocial factors, and self-rated health: An analysis of older adults in Cook County, Illinois pp. 2575-2590

Ming Wen, Louise C. Hawkley and John T. Cacioppo

"A lot of sacrifices:" Work-family spillover and the food choice coping strategies of low-wage employed parents pp. 2591-2603

Carol M. Devine, Margaret Jastran, Jennifer Jabs, Elaine Wethington, Tracy J. Farell and Carole A. Bisogni

Urban neighborhoods, chronic stress, gender and depression pp. 2604-2616

Flora I. Matheson, Rahim Moineddin, James R. Dunn, Maria Isabella Creatore, Piotr Gozdyra and Richard H. Glazier

How far can complementary and alternative medicine go? The case of chiropractic and homeopathy pp. 2617-2627

Merrijoy Kelner, Beverly Wellman, Sandy Welsh and Heather Boon

"Everyone dies, so you might as well have fun!" Attitudes of Dutch youths about their health lifestyle pp. 2628-2639

Job van Exel, G. de Graaf and Werner Brouwer

Somatic complaints and health care use in children: Mood, emotion awareness and sense of coherence pp. 2640-2648

Francine C. Jellesma, Carolien Rieffe, Mark Meerum Terwogt and C.M. Frank Kneepkens

The impact of stigma, experience, and group referent on HIV risk assessments and HIV testing intentions in Namibia pp. 2649-2660

Rachel A. Smith and Daniel Morrison

'Rakter dosh'--corrupting blood: The challenges of preventing thalassemia in Bengal, India pp. 2661-2673

Sreeparna Chattopadhyay

The roles performed by peer educators during outreach among heroin addicts in India: Ethnographic insights pp. 2674-2685

Amar Dhand

Self-care as a response to diarrhoea in rural Bangladesh: Empowered choice or enforced adoption? pp. 2686-2697

Ross Edgeworth and Andrew E. Collins

The myth of agency and patient choice in health care? The case of drug treatments to prevent coronary disease pp. 2698-2701

Stirling Bryan, Paramjit Gill, Sheila Greenfield, Kerry Gutridge and Tom Marshall

The double burden on safety net providers: Placing health disparities in the context of the privatization of health care in the US pp. 2702-2714

Sarah Horton

Moral reasoning as a model for health promotion pp. 2715-2726

David Buchanan

The physical challenges of early breastfeeding pp. 2727-2738

Christa M. Kelleher

Twins: A cloning experience pp. 2739-2752

Barbara Prainsack and Tim D. Spector

2006, volume 63, articles 9

The family environment and American adolescents' risk of obesity as young adults pp. 2255-2267

Ashley Crossman, Deborah Anne Sullivan and Mary Benin

The emergence of overweight as a disease entity: Measuring up normality pp. 2268-2276

Annemarie Jutel

Purity and the dangers of regenerative medicine: Regulatory innovation of human tissue-engineered technology pp. 2277-2288

Alex Faulkner, Julie Kent, Ingrid Geesink and David FitzPatrick

Governance and public involvement in the British National Health Service: Understanding difficulties and developments pp. 2289-2300

Gillian Callaghan and Gerald Wistow

Access point analysis on the state of health care services in South African prisons: A qualitative exploration of correctional health care workers' and inmates' perspectives in Kwazulu-Natal and Mpumalanga pp. 2301-2309

Sibusiso Sifunda, Priscilla S. Reddy, Ron Braithwaite, Torrance Stephens, Rob AC Ruiter and Bart van den Borne

'Stickiness' and 'inflow' as proxy measures of the relative attractiveness of various sub-sectors of nursing employment pp. 2310-2319

Mohamad Alameddine, Audrey Laporte, Andrea Baumann, Linda O'Brien-Pallas, Barbara Mildon and Raisa Deber

Determinants of hospital closure in South Korea: Use of a hierarchical generalized linear model pp. 2320-2329

Maengseok Noh, Youngjo Lee, Sung-Cheol Yun, Sang-Il Lee, Moo-Song Lee and Young-Ho Khang

Outpatient process quality evaluation and the Hawthorne Effect pp. 2330-2340

Kenneth Leonard and Melkiory C. Masatu

Economic rationality and health and lifestyle choices for people with diabetes pp. 2341-2353

Rachel Mairi Baker

A qualitative analysis of a dyad approach to health-related quality of life measurement in children with asthma pp. 2354-2366

Wendy J. Ungar, Cara Mirabelli, Martha Cousins and Katherine M. Boydell

Gender differences in health-related quality of life among the elderly: The role of objective functional capacity and chronic conditions pp. 2367-2380

Francesc Orfila, Montserrat Ferrer, Rosa Lamarca, Cristian Tebe, Antonia Domingo-Salvany and Jordi Alonso

Psychological distress, gender, and health lifestyles in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine pp. 2381-2394

William C. Cockerham, Brian P. Hinote and Pamela Abbott

Cognitive appraisals and psychological distress following venous thromboembolic disease: An application of the theory of cognitive adaptation pp. 2395-2406

Tria Moore, Paul Norman, Peter R. Harris and Michael Makris

Do Dutch doctors communicate differently with immigrant patients than with Dutch patients? pp. 2407-2417

Ludwien Meeuwesen, Johannes A.M. Harmsen, Roos M.D. Bernsen and Marc A. Bruijnzeels

Still a difficult business? Negotiating alcohol-related problems in general practice consultations pp. 2418-2428

Tim Rapley, Carl May and Eileen Frances Kaner

Primary caregivers of cancer patients in the palliative phase: A path analysis of variables influencing their burden pp. 2429-2439

Ellen Karine Grov, Sophie D. Fosså, Øystein Sørebø and Alv A. Dahl

The prediction of bereavement outcome: Development of an integrative risk factor framework pp. 2440-2451

Margaret Susan Stroebe, Susan Folkman, Robert O. Hansson and Henk Schut

Non-fatal occupational injury among active and passive smokers in small- and medium-scale manufacturing enterprises in Japan pp. 2452-2463

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

Neighborhood disorder and smoking: Findings of a European urban survey pp. 2464-2475

Rebecca Miles

Try to be healthy, but don't forgo your masculinity: Deconstructing men's health discourse in the media pp. 2476-2488

Brendan Gough

Mechanisms through which drug, sex partner, and friendship network characteristics relate to risky needle use among high risk youth and young adults pp. 2489-2499

Cynthia M. Lakon, Susan T. Ennett and Edward Norton

The interpretation of "culture": Diverging perspectives on medical provision in rural Montana pp. 2500-2511

Meghan E. Johnston and Rebecca M. Herzig

Assessment of the health status and risk factors of Kham Tibetan pastoralists in the alpine grasslands of the Tibetan plateau pp. 2512-2532

Peter M. Foggin, Marion E. Torrance, Drashi Dorje, Wenzha Xuri, J. Marc Foggin and Jane Torrance

2006, volume 63, articles 8

Taking ad-Vantage of lax advertising regulation in the USA and Canada: Reassuring and distracting health-concerned smokers pp. 1973-1985

Stacey J. Anderson, Richard W. Pollay and Pamela M. Ling

Gendering the migraine market: Do representations of illness matter? pp. 1986-1997

Joanna Kempner

The promises and limitations of female-initiated methods of HIV/STI protection pp. 1998-2009

Joanne E. Mantell, Shari L. Dworkin, Theresa M. Exner, Susie Hoffman, Jenni A. Smit and Ida Susser

Syndemics, sex and the city: Understanding sexually transmitted diseases in social and cultural context pp. 2010-2021

Merrill C. Singer, Pamela I. Erickson, Louise Badiane, Rosemary Diaz, Dugeidy Ortiz, Traci Abraham and Anna Marie Nicolaysen

Do homosexual persons use health care services more frequently than heterosexual persons: Findings from a Dutch population survey pp. 2022-2030

Floor C. Bakker, Theo G.M. Sandfort, Ine Vanwesenbeeck, Hanneke van Lindert and Gert P. Westert

Marital quality predicts hospital stay following coronary artery bypass surgery for women but not men pp. 2031-2040

James A. Kulik and Heike I.M. Mahler

From a genetic innovation to mass health programmes: The diffusion of Down's Syndrome prenatal screening and diagnostic techniques in France pp. 2041-2051

Carine Vassy

From bench to bedside? Biomedical scientists' expectations of stem cell science as a future therapy for diabetes pp. 2052-2064

Steven P. Wainwright, Clare Williams, Mike Michael, Bobbie Farsides and Alan Cribb

The significance for decision-making of information that is not exchanged by patients and health professionals during consultations pp. 2065-2078

Carol Bugge, Vikki A. Entwistle and Ian S. Watt

Dilemmas of talking about lifestyle changes among couples coping with a cardiac event pp. 2079-2090

Daena J. Goldsmith, Kristin A. Lindholm and Jennifer J. Bute

Focus group research and "the patient's view" pp. 2091-2104

Pascale Lehoux, Blake Poland and Genevieve Daudelin

The permeable institution: An ethnographic study of three acute psychiatric wards in London pp. 2105-2117

Alan Quirk, Paul Lelliott and Clive Seale

The power gap: Freedom, power and mental illness pp. 2118-2128

Brendan D. Kelly

The role of power, process, and relationships in participatory research for statewide HIV/AIDS programming pp. 2129-2140

Kimberly Chung and David W. Lounsbury

The "hospital superbug": Social representations of MRSA pp. 2141-2152

Peter Washer and Helene Joffe

All in the family: Media presentations of family assisted suicide in Britain pp. 2153-2164

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Albert Banerjee and Steve Taylor

The black-white suicide paradox: Possible effects of misclassification pp. 2165-2175

Ian R.H. Rockett, Julie B. Samora and Jeffrey H. Coben

Education, gender, and mortality: Does schooling have the same effect on mortality for men and women in the US? pp. 2176-2190

Anna Zajacova

A community-based participatory research study of multifaceted in-home environmental interventions for pediatric asthmatics in public housing pp. 2191-2203

Jonathan I. Levy, Doug Brugge, Junenette L. Peters, Jane E. Clougherty and Shawnette S. Saddler

Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden pp. 2204-2217

Sadiq M. Ali, Juan Merlo, Maria Rosvall, Thor Lithman and Martin Lindström

Workplace conflict resolution and the health of employees in the Swedish and Finnish units of an industrial company pp. 2218-2227

Martin Hyde, Paavo Jappinen, Tores Theorell and Gabriel Oxenstierna

Religious involvement and health outcomes among older persons in Taiwan pp. 2228-2241

D.M. Yeager, Dana A. Glei, Melanie Au, Hui-Sheng Lin, Richard P. Sloan and Maxine Weinstein

The influence of economic development level, household wealth and maternal education on child health in the developing world pp. 2242-2254

Michael H. Boyle, Yvonne Racine, Katholiki Georgiades, Dana Snelling, Sungjin Hong, Walter Omariba, Patricia Hurley and Purnima Rao-Melacini

2006, volume 63, articles 7

Determinants of variation in the cost of inpatient stays versus outpatient visits in hospitals: A multi-country analysis pp. 1700-1710

Taghreed Adam and David B. Evans

The influence of child abuse on the pattern of expenditures in women's adult health service utilization in Ontario, Canada pp. 1711-1719

Betty Tang, Ellen Jamieson, Michael Boyle, Anne Libby, Amiram Gafni and Harriet MacMillan

Health care costs in the last year of life--The Dutch experience pp. 1720-1731

Johan J. Polder, Jan J. Barendregt and Hans van Oers

Are health services protecting the livelihoods of the urban poor in Sri Lanka? Findings from two low-income areas of Colombo pp. 1732-1744

Steven Russell and Lucy Gilson

Gender differences in the management of risk factors for cardiovascular disease: The importance of insurance status pp. 1745-1756

Jason Murasko

The influence of health insurance on hospital admission and length of stay--The case of Vietnam pp. 1757-1770

Ardeshir Sepehri, Wayne Simpson and Sisira Sarma

The drive for legitimation in Australian naturopathy: Successes and dilemmas pp. 1771-1783

Hans A. Baer

Nurses in alternative health care: Integrating medical paradigms pp. 1784-1795

Judith Shuval

The changing context of Western European healthcare systems: Convergence versus divergence in nursing problematics pp. 1796-1810

Ada Spitzer, Didier Camus, Cécile Desaulles and Nicolas Kuhne

The impact of context on evidence utilization: A framework for expert groups developing health policy recommendations pp. 1811-1824

Mark J. Dobrow, Vivek Goel, Louise Lemieux-Charles and Nick A. Black

Vaccine independence, local competences and globalisation: Lessons from the history of pertussis vaccines pp. 1825-1835

Stuart Blume and Mariska Zanders

Does decentralisation improve human resource management in the health sector? A case study from China pp. 1836-1845

Xiaoyun Liu, Tim Martineau, Lieping Chen, Shaokang Zhan and Shenglan Tang

A prospective study of stage of change for general health promotion action and health-related lifestyle practices among Chinese adults pp. 1846-1856

Tai-Hing Lam, Brandford H.Y. Chan, Steve K.K. Chan, Gabriel M. Leung, S.Y. Ho and W.M. Chan

Perspectives on polio and immunization in Northern Nigeria pp. 1857-1869

Elisha Renne

Factors associated with the use of maternity services in Enugu, southeastern Nigeria pp. 1870-1878

Hyacinth Eze Onah, Lawrence C. Ikeako and Gabriel C. Iloabachie

Brazilian mothers' knowledge about home dangers and safety precautions: An initial evaluation pp. 1879-1888

Rodolfo de Castro Ribas, Alexander J. Tymchuk and Adriana F.P. Ribas

Applying psychological theory to evidence-based clinical practice: Identifying factors predictive of taking intra-oral radiographs pp. 1889-1899

Debbie Bonetti, Nigel B. Pitts, Martin Eccles, Jeremy Grimshaw, Marie Johnston, Nick Steen, Liz Glidewell, Ruth Thomas, Graeme Maclennan, Jan E. Clarkson and Anne Walker

Illness beliefs in schizophrenia pp. 1900-1911

Peter Kinderman, Erika Setzu, Fiona Lobban and Peter Salmon

Comparative stigma of HIV/AIDS, SARS, and Tuberculosis in Hong Kong pp. 1912-1922

Winnie W.S. Mak, Phoenix K.H. Mo, Rebecca Y.M. Cheung, Jean Woo, Fanny M. Cheung and Dominic Lee

'Telling the truth is the best thing': Teenage orphans' experiences of parental AIDS-related illness and bereavement in Zimbabwe pp. 1923-1933

Kate Wood, Elaine Chase and Peter Aggleton

Experience of miscarriage in the UK: Qualitative findings from the National Women's Health Study pp. 1934-1946

Rebecca K. Simmons, Gita Singh, Noreen Maconochie, Pat Doyle and Judith Green

Are genetic tests exceptional? Lessons from a qualitative study on thrombophilia pp. 1947-1959

Paula M. Saukko, Suzanne H. Richards, Maggie H. Shepherd and John L. Campbell

DSM-IV and dangerous and severe personality disorder--an essay pp. 1960-1971

Nick Manning

2006, volume 63, articles 6

Self-reported health, perceived racial discrimination, and skin color in African Americans in the CARDIA study pp. 1415-1427

Luisa N. Borrell, Catarina I. Kiefe, David R. Williams, Ana V. Diez-Roux and Penny Gordon-Larsen

Racism and health: The relationship between experience of racial discrimination and health in New Zealand pp. 1428-1441

Ricci Harris, Martin Tobias, Mona Jeffreys, Kiri Waldegrave, Saffron Karlsen and James Nazroo

Individual versus neighborhood socioeconomic status and race as predictors of adolescent ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate pp. 1442-1453

Jennifer J. McGrath, Karen A. Matthews and Sonya S. Brady

County and organizational predictors of depression symptoms among low-income nursing assistants in the USA pp. 1454-1465

Carles Muntaner, Yong Li, Xiaonan Xue, Theresa Thompson, HaeJoo Chung and Patricia O'Campo

Social environment and depression among pregnant women in urban areas of Pakistan: Importance of social relations pp. 1466-1476

Ambreen Kazi, Zafar Fatmi, Juanita Hatcher, Muhammad Masood Kadir, Unaiza Niaz and Gail A. Wasserman

Mental health, quality of life, and nutritional status of adolescents in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Comparison between an urban slum and a non-slum area pp. 1477-1488

Takashi Izutsu, Atsuro Tsutsumi, Akramul Md. Islam, Seika Kato, Susumu Wakai and Hiroshi Kurita

Endogenous social capital and self-rated health: Cross-sectional data from rural areas of Madagascar pp. 1489-1502

Nicolas Sirven

Family food insufficiency is related to overweight among preschoolers' pp. 1503-1516

Lise Dubois, Anna Farmer, Manon Girard and Marion Porcherie

Nutritional status and spousal empowerment among native Amazonians pp. 1517-1530

Ricardo A. Godoy, Ankur Patel, Victoria Reyes-García, Craig Seyfried, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner and Vincent Vadez

Getting a piece of the pie? The economic boom of the 1990s and declining teen birth rates in the United States pp. 1531-1545

Cynthia G. Colen, Arline T. Geronimus and Maureen G. Phipps

Young mothers and smoking: evidence of an evidence gap pp. 1546-1549

Elizabeth McDermott and Hilary Graham

Rethinking the biological clock: Eleventh-hour moms, miracle moms and meanings of age-related infertility pp. 1550-1560

Carrie Friese, Gay Becker and Robert D. Nachtigall

Women's health in mid-life: Life course social roles and agency as quality pp. 1561-1572

Anne McMunn, Mel Bartley and Diana Kuh

Is chronic widespread pain biographically disruptive? pp. 1573-1585

Jane C. Richardson, Bie Nio Ong and Julius Sim

Potency and vulnerability: Troubled 'selves' in the context of antiretroviral therapy pp. 1586-1596

Asha Persson and Christy Newman

Injectable diclofenac: A painful shot into Iran's health system pp. 1597-1601

A. Majid Cheraghali

How does social comparison within a self-help group influence adjustment to chronic illness? A longitudinal study pp. 1602-1613

Bridget Dibb and Lucy Yardley

Changes in finding benefit after cancer surgery and the prediction of well-being one year later pp. 1614-1624

Ralf Schwarzer, Aleksandra Luszczynska, Sonja Boehmer, Steffen Taubert and Nina Knoll

The influence of significant others in complementary and alternative medicine decisions by cancer patients pp. 1625-1636

Joakim Öhlén, Lynda G. Balneaves, Joan L. Bottorff and Alison S.A. Brazier

Users' perceptions of health care reforms: Quality of care and patient rights in four regions in the Russian Federation pp. 1637-1647

Marianna Fotaki

Global review of health care surveys using lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS), 1984-2004 pp. 1648-1660

Susan E. Robertson and Joseph J. Valadez

Investigating the sustainability of outcomes in a chronic disease treatment programme pp. 1661-1670

Ross S. Bailie, Gary Robinson, Srinivas N. Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan, Stephen Halpin and Zhiqiang Wang

Predicting and comparing patient satisfaction in four different modes of health care across a nation pp. 1671-1683

Annemieke P. Bikker and Andrew G.H. Thompson

Verbal prescribing in general practice consultations pp. 1684-1698

Mark Gibson, K. Neil Jenkings, Rob Wilson and Ian Purves

2006, volume 63, articles 5

Using participatory action research to build a priority setting process in a Canadian Regional Health Authority pp. 1121-1134

San Patten, Craig Mitton and Cam Donaldson

Should structural interventions be evaluated using RCTs? The case of HIV prevention pp. 1135-1142

Christopher Bonell, James Hargreaves, Vicki Strange, Paul Pronyk and John Porter

Community participation in AIDS vaccine trials: Empowerment or science? pp. 1143-1146

Leslie Swartz and Ashraf Kagee

Control and adherence: Living with diabetes in Bangkok, Thailand pp. 1147-1157

Bhensri Naemiratch and Lenore Manderson

A typology of preferences for participation in healthcare decision making pp. 1158-1169

Kathryn E. Flynn, Maureen A. Smith and David Vanness

Communicative and strategic action in interpreted consultations in primary health care: A Habermasian perspective pp. 1170-1187

Trisha Greenhalgh, Nadia Robb and Graham Scambler

Understandings of Down's syndrome: A Q methodological investigation pp. 1188-1200

Louise D. Bryant, Josephine M. Green and Jenny Hewison

A root cause analysis of clinical error: Confronting the disjunction between formal rules and situated clinical activity pp. 1201-1212

Roderick Aren Michael Iedema, Christine Jorm, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Jo Travaglia and Martin Lum

Social welfare, genetic welfare? Boundary-work in the IVF/PGD clinic pp. 1213-1224

Kathryn Ehrich, Clare Williams, Rosamund Scott, Jane Sandall and Bobbie Farsides

Making the normal deviant: The introduction of predictive medicine in life insurance pp. 1225-1235

Ine Van Hoyweghen, Klasien Horstman and Rita Schepers

Adverse selection in a voluntary Rural Mutual Health Care health insurance scheme in China pp. 1236-1245

Hong Wang, Licheng Zhang, Winnie Yip and William Hsiao

Socioeconomic inequalities in health: A comparative longitudinal analysis using the European Community Household Panel pp. 1246-1261

Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Andrew Jones, Angel López-Nicolás and Nigel Rice

The close relation between birth, abortion and employment rates in Sweden from 1980 to 2004 pp. 1262-1266

Mikael Rahmqvist

What mediates the inverse association between education and occupational disability from back pain?--A prospective cohort study from the Nord-Trøndelag health study in Norway pp. 1267-1275

Kåre Birger Hagen, Kristian Tambs and Tor Bjerkedal

Psychosocial job characteristics and risk of mortality in a Japanese community-based working population: The Jichi Medical School Cohort Study pp. 1276-1288

Akizumi Tsutsumi, Kazunori Kayaba, Kumi Hirokawa and Shizukiyo Ishikawa

Racial residential segregation and weight status among US adults pp. 1289-1303

Virginia W. Chang

Distrust, social fragmentation and adolescents' health in the outer city: Beirut and beyond pp. 1304-1315

Marwan Khawaja, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Rima A.Afifi. Soweid and Dima Karam

Access to specialized health care for asthmatic children in Norway: The significance of parents' educational background and social network pp. 1316-1327

Jon Erik Finnvold

'Help, educate, encourage?': Geographical variations in the provision and utilisation of diabetes education in New Zealand pp. 1328-1343

J. Ross Barnett, Jamie Pearce and Pamela Howes

Education and health in 22 European countries pp. 1344-1351

Olaf von dem Knesebeck, Pablo E. Verde and Nico Dragano

Rural habitat and risk of death in small areas of Southern Spain pp. 1352-1362

Ricardo Ocaña-Riola, Carmen Sánchez-Cantalejo and Alberto Fernández-Ajuria

Primary care professionals' perceptions of depression in older people: a qualitative study pp. 1363-1373

Joanna Murray, Sube Banerjee, Richard Byng, Andre Tylee, Dinesh Bhugra and Alastair Macdonald

The longitudinal effects of social support and hostility on depressive tendencies pp. 1374-1382

Tarja Heponiemi, Marko Elovainio, Mika Kivimäki, Laura Pulkki, Sampsa Puttonen and Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen

Multiple measures of socioeconomic circumstances and common mental disorders pp. 1383-1399

Eero Lahelma, Mikko Laaksonen, Pekka Martikainen, Ossi Rahkonen and Sirpa Sarlio-Lähteenkorva

Sex differences in the effect of education on depression: Resource multiplication or resource substitution? pp. 1400-1413

Catherine E. Ross and John Mirowsky

2006, volume 63, articles 4

Retaining the meaning of the words religiousness and spirituality: A commentary on the WHOQOL SRPB group's "A cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion, and personal beliefs as components of quality of life" (62: 6, 2005, 1486-1497) pp. 843-845

Alexander Moreira-Almeida and Harold G. Koenig

When one's main effect is another's error: Material vs. psychosocial explanations of health disparities. A commentary on Macleod et al., "Is subjective social status a more important determinant of health than objective social status? Evidence from a prospective observational study of Scottish men" (61(9), 2005, 1916-1929) pp. 846-850

Nancy Adler

Subjective and objective status and health: A response to Adler's "When one's main effect is another's error: Material vs. psychosocial explanations of health disparities. A commentary on Macleod et al., "Is subjective social status a more important determinant of health than objective social status? Evidence from a prospective observational study of Scottish men" (61(9), 2005, 1916-1929) (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.03.018) pp. 851-857

John Macleod, George Davey Smith, Chris Metcalfe and Carole Hart

Young people of minority ethnic origin in England and early parenthood: Views from young parents and service providers pp. 858-870

G.M.A. Higginbottom, N. Mathers, P. Marsh, M. Kirkham, J.M. Owen and L. Serrant-Green

What "Dr. Mom" ordered: A community-based exploratory study of parental self-care responses to children's ADHD symptoms pp. 871-882

Regina Bussing, Mirka E Koro-Ljungberg, Pamela Williamson, Faye A. Gary and Cynthia Wilson Garvan

Parent communication and child pain and distress during painful pediatric cancer treatments pp. 883-898

Rebecca J.W. Cline, Felicity W.K. Harper, Louis A. Penner, Amy M. Peterson, Jeffrey W. Taub and Terrance L. Albrecht

Determinants of physicians' patient-centred behaviour in the medical specialist encounter pp. 899-910

Linda C. Zandbelt, Ellen M.A. Smets, Frans J. Oort, Mieke H. Godfried and Hanneke C.J.M. de Haes

Patients' perceptions of the side-effects of prostate cancer treatment--A qualitative interview study pp. 911-919

Ida Joanna Korfage, Tony Hak, Harry J. de Koning and Marie-Louise Essink-Bot

Why does it run in families? Explaining family similarity in help-seeking behaviour by shared circumstances, socialisation and selection pp. 920-932

Mieke Cardol, Peter P. Groenewegen, Peter Spreeuwenberg, Liset Van Dijk, Wil J.H.M. Van Den Bosch and Dinny H. De Bakker

Sources of stigma for means-tested government programs pp. 933-945

Jennifer Stuber and Mark Schlesinger

Home is where the hearth is: Grant recipients' views of England's Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (Warm Front) pp. 946-956

Jan Gilbertson, Maryjane Stevens, Bernadette Stiell and Nicki Thorogood

Predictors of improvement in social support: Five-year effects of a structured intervention for caregivers of spouses with Alzheimer's disease pp. 957-967

Patricia Drentea, Olivio J. Clay, David L. Roth and Mary S. Mittelman

Challenges to microbicide introduction in South Africa pp. 968-978

Phyllis Orner, Jane Harries, Diane Cooper, Jennifer Moodley, Margaret Hoffman, Julie Becker, Elizabeth McGrory, Rasha Dabash and Hillary Bracken

Challenges to HIV prevention in psychiatric settings: Perceptions of South African mental health care providers pp. 979-990

Pamela Y. Collins

Predicting intended use of voluntary HIV counselling and testing services among Tanzanian teachers using the theory of planned behaviour pp. 991-999

Deodatus Conatus Kakoko, A.N. Åstrøm, Wycliffe L. Lugoe and Gro T. Lie

Local understandings of, and responses to, HIV: Rural-urban migrants in Tanzania pp. 1000-1010

Ernestina Coast

Social Environment and Physical activity: A review of concepts and evidence pp. 1011-1022

Lorna Haughton McNeill, Matthew W. Kreuter and S.V. Subramanian

The influence of maternal childhood and adulthood social class on the health of the infant pp. 1023-1033

Marit Dahlén Gisselmann

Individual, neighborhood, and state-level predictors of smoking among US Black women: A multilevel analysis pp. 1034-1044

Geetanjali Dabral Datta, S.V. Subramanian, Graham A. Colditz, Ichiro Kawachi, Julie R. Palmer and Lynn Rosenberg

US state- and county-level social capital in relation to obesity and physical inactivity: A multilevel, multivariable analysis pp. 1045-1059

Daniel Kim, S.V. Subramanian, Steven L. Gortmaker and Ichiro Kawachi

Extending systematic reviews to include evidence on implementation: Methodological work on a review of community-based initiatives to prevent injuries pp. 1060-1071

Katrina Roen, Lisa Arai, Helen Roberts and Jennie Popay

Borna disease virus: The generation and review of a scientific study pp. 1072-1083

Fiona Wood and Michael J. Bloor

'When I first came here, I thought medicine was black and white': Making sense of medical students' ways of knowing pp. 1084-1096

Lynn Valerie Knight and Karen Mattick

The problems of offenders with mental disorders: A plurality of perspectives within a single mental health care organisation pp. 1097-1108

Jacqueline P. Davies, Bob Heyman, Paul M. Godin, Monica P. Shaw and Lisa Reynolds

Where techno-science meets poverty: Medical research and the economy of blood in The Gambia, West Africa pp. 1109-1120

James Fairhead, Melissa Leach and Mary Small

2006, volume 63, articles 3

Comment on: "Conceptualizing mainstream health care providers' behaviours in relation to complementary and alternative medicine" by Hirschkorn and Bourgeault pp. 563-565

P. Tovey and Jon Adams

The relationship between nonstandard working and mental health in a representative sample of the South Korean population pp. 566-574

Il-Ho Kim, Carles Muntaner, Young-Ho Khang, Domyung Paek and Sung-il Cho

The lesser evil: Bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged Australians pp. 575-586

Dorothy H. Broom, Rennie M. D'Souza, Lyndall Strazdins, Peter Butterworth, Ruth Parslow and Bryan Rodgers

Mental health problems in women attending district-level services in South Africa pp. 587-592

Anthony L. Pillay and Anita J. Kriel

Primary mental health care in rural Punjab, Pakistan: Providers, and user perspectives of the effectiveness of treatments pp. 593-597

Ilyas Mirza, Muhammad Mujtaba, Haroon Chaudhry and Rachel Jenkins

Adjustment to cancer in the 8 years following diagnosis: A longitudinal study comparing cancer survivors with healthy individuals pp. 598-610

Maya Schroevers, Adelita V. Ranchor and Robbert Sanderman

The pros and cons of social relations: An analysis of adolescents' health complaints pp. 611-623

Sara Brolin Låftman and Viveca Östberg

Making sense of eating, weight and risk in the early teenage years: Views and concerns of parents in poorer socio-economic circumstances pp. 624-635

Kathryn C. Backett-Milburn, Wendy J. Wills, Susan Gregory and Julia Lawton

Psychological distress among adolescents, and its relationship to individual, family and area characteristics in East London pp. 636-648

James Fagg, Sarah Curtis, Stephen Stansfeld and Peter Congdon

Spaces of sobriety/sites of power: Examining social model alcohol recovery programs as therapeutic landscapes pp. 649-661

Robert Wilton and Geoffrey DeVerteuil

What explains the association between neighborhood-level income inequality and the risk of fatal overdose in New York City? pp. 662-674

Arijit Nandi, Sandro Galea, Jennifer Ahern, Angela Bucciarelli, David Vlahov and Kenneth Tardiff

Understanding risk behaviours: How the sociology of deviance may contribute? The case of drug-taking pp. 675-679

Patrick Peretti-Watel and Jean-Paul Moatti

Individual and area factors associated with general practitioner integration in Australia: A multilevel analysis pp. 680-690

D. Dunt, G. Elsworth, D. Southern, C. Harris, M. Potiriadis and D. Young

Modelling and understanding primary health care accessibility and utilization in rural South Africa: An exploration using a geographical information system pp. 691-705

Frank Tanser, Brice Gijsbertsen and Kobus Herbst

Migration and maternal health services utilization in rural Guatemala pp. 706-721

David P Lindstrom and Elisa Muñoz-Franco

Cultural context and impact of alcohol use in the Sundarban Delta, West Bengal, India pp. 722-731

Arabinda N. Chowdhury, Jayashree Ramakrishna, Ajoy K. Chakraborty and Mitchell G. Weiss

Symptoms, attitudes and treatment choices surrounding menopause among the Q'eqchi Maya of Livingston, Guatemala pp. 732-742

Joanna L. Michel, Gail B. Mahady, Mario Veliz, Doel D. Soejarto and Armando Caceres

European public acceptance of euthanasia: Socio-demographic and cultural factors associated with the acceptance of euthanasia in 33 European countries pp. 743-756

Joachim Cohen, Isabelle Marcoux, Johan Bilsen, Patrick Deboosere, Gerrit van der Wal and Luc Deliens

Clinicians and the governance of hospitals: A cross-cultural perspective on relations between profession and management pp. 757-775

Pieter Degeling, Kai Zhang, Barbara Coyle, Lingzhong Xu, Qingyue Meng, Jiangbin Qu and Michael Hill

Providers' constructions of the role of women in cervical cancer screening in Bulgaria and Romania pp. 776-787

Irina L.G. Todorova, Adriana Baban, Dina Balabanova, Yulia Panayotova and Janet Bradley

The association of subjective social status and health in low-income Mexican-origin individuals in Texas pp. 788-804

Luisa Franzini and Maria Eugenia Fernandez-Esquer

Disability pension among immigrants in Sweden pp. 805-816

Torun Österberg and Björn Gustafsson

On the dynamics of health capital accumulation pp. 817-828

Robert McCarthy

Political and welfare state determinants of infant and child health indicators: An analysis of wealthy countries pp. 829-842

Haejoo Chung and Carles Muntaner

2006, volume 63, articles 2

The relationship between age of menarche and mental distress in Norwegian adolescent girls and girls from different immigrant groups in Norway: Results from an urban city cross-sectional survey pp. 285-295

Lars Lien, Florence Dalgard, Sonja Heyerdahl, Magne Thoresen and Espen Bjertness

Adolescent suicide attempters in Hong Kong and the United States pp. 296-306

Sunita M. Stewart, Elizabeth Felice, Cindy Claassen, Betsy D. Kennard, Peter W.H. Lee and Graham J. Emslie

Suicide mortality of Eastern European regions before and after the Communist period pp. 307-319

Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen

It's good to talk: Adolescent perspectives of an informal, peer-led intervention to reduce smoking pp. 320-334

Suzanne Audrey, Jo Holliday and Rona Campbell

Marital status disparities in maternal smoking during pregnancy, breastfeeding and maternal depression pp. 335-346

Kathleen Kiernan and Kate E. Pickett

Vaccination for Group B Streptococcus during pregnancy: Attitudes and concerns of women and health care providers pp. 347-358

San Patten, Ardene Robinson Vollman, Shannon D. Manning, Melissa Mucenski, Jeanne Vidakovich and H. Dele Davies

Does village inequality in modern income harm the psyche? Anger, fear, sadness, and alcohol consumption in a pre-industrial society pp. 359-372

Ricardo A. Godoy, Victoria Reyes-García, Thomas McDade, Tomás Huanca, William R. Leonard, Susan Tanner and Vincent Vadez

Exit, voice, governance and user-responsiveness: The case of English primary care trusts pp. 373-383

Susan Pickard, Rod Sheaff and Bernard Dowling

The role of law in public health: The case of family planning in the Philippines pp. 384-396

Michelle Marie Mello, Marcus Powlowski, Juan M.P. Nañagas and Thomas Bossert

Building effective public-private partnerships: Experiences and lessons from the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) pp. 397-408

Ilavenil Ramiah and Michael R. Reich

The scope of naturopathic medicine in Canada: An emerging profession pp. 409-417

Marja J. Verhoef, Heather s Boon and Donatus R. Mutasingwa

"Women do what they want": Islam and permanent contraception in Northern Tanzania pp. 418-429

Susi Krehbiel Keefe

Socioeconomic inequalities in physical and mental functioning of Japanese civil servants: Explanations from work and family characteristics pp. 430-445

Michikazu Sekine, Tarani Chandola, Pekka Martikainen, Michael Marmot and Sadanobu Kagamimori

Socioeconomic inequalities in coronary heart disease in Italy: A multilevel population-based study pp. 446-456

Alessio Petrelli, Roberto Gnavi, Chiara Marinacci and Giuseppe Costa

State-level variations in income-related inequality in health and health achievement in the US pp. 457-464

Ke Tom Xu

The "Americanisation" of migrants: Evidence for the contribution of ethnicity, social deprivation, lifestyle and life-course processes to the mid-20th century Coronary Heart Disease epidemic in the US pp. 465-484

C.C. Kelleher, J.W. Lynch, L. Daly, S. Harper, N. Fitz-simon, Y. Bimpeh, E. Daly and H. Ulmer

Community unemployment and immigrants' health in Montreal pp. 485-500

Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui, Mathieu Forster, Lise Gauvin, Marie-France Raynault and J. Douglas Willms

Dwellings, crowding, and tuberculosis in Montreal pp. 501-511

Ian Wanyeki, Sherry Olson, Paul Brassard, Dick Menzies, Nancy Ross, Marcel Behr and Kevin Schwartzman

The effect of medical experience on the economic evaluation of health policies. A discrete choice experiment pp. 512-524

Jorge Araña, Carmelo J. León and Jose L. Quevedo

Impact of the timing, type and severity of disability on the subjective well-being of individuals with disabilities pp. 525-539

Sharanjit Uppal

Loyalties in clinical research on drugs: The case of hormone replacement therapy pp. 540-551

Ingar Palmlund

Physicians' difficulty with emergency department patients is related to patients' attachment style pp. 552-562

Robert G. Maunder, Annie Panzer, Margaretha Viljoen, Johanna Owen, Schalk Human and Jonathan J. Hunter

2006, volume 63, articles 1

What is the preimplantation embryo? pp. 1-20

Tanja Krones, Elmar Schlüter, Elke Neuwohner, Susan El Ansari, Thomas Wissner and Gerd Richter

Chance, choice and control: Lay debate on prenatal social sex selection pp. 21-31

Jackie Leach Scully, Sarah Banks and Tom W. Shakespeare

The best experts: The narratives of those who have a genetic condition pp. 32-42

Alan Petersen

Personal meanings in the construction of need for total knee replacement surgery pp. 43-53

Francine M. Toye, Julie Barlow, Chris Wright and Sarah E. Lamb

Sleep, health and the dynamics of biomedicine pp. 54-63

Tiago Moreira

How social context impacts on women's fears of childbirth: A Western Australian example pp. 64-75

Colleen Fisher, Yvonne Hauck and Jenny Fenwick

Out of the dissecting room: News media portrayal of human anatomy teaching and research pp. 76-88

Sam Regan de Bere and Alan Petersen

Are we expecting too much from print media? An analysis of newspaper coverage of the 2002 Canadian healthcare reform debate pp. 89-102

Patricia A. Collins, Julia Abelson, Heather Pyman and John N. Lavis

Influence of education and knowledge on perceptions and practices to control malaria in Southeast Nigeria pp. 103-106

Nkem Dike, Obinna Onwujekwe, Juliana Ojukwu, Arthur Ikeme, Benjamin Uzochukwu and Elvis Shu

Does prenatal care increase access to child immunization? Gender bias among children in India pp. 107-117

Jin Young Choi and Sang-Hyop Lee

Social support and self-rated health revisited:: Is there a gender difference in later life? pp. 118-122

Sheung-Tak Cheng and Alfred C.M. Chan

Changes in family financial circumstances and the physical health of married and recently divorced mothers pp. 123-136

K.A.S. Wickrama, Frederick O. Lorenz, Rand D. Conger, Glen Elder, W. Todd Abraham and Shu-Ann Fang

Ethnic identity, resettlement stress and depressive affect among Southeast Asian refugees in Canada pp. 137-150

Morton N.M.N. Beiser and Feng Hou

Do religious/spiritual coping strategies affect illness adjustment in patients with cancer? A systematic review of the literature pp. 151-164

Ingela C. Thuné-Boyle, Jan A. Stygall, Mohammed R. Keshtgar and Stanton P. Newman

The health of nations in a global context: Trade, global stratification, and infant mortality rates pp. 165-178

Spencer Moore, Ana C. Teixeira and Alan Shiell

From rhetoric to reality: Barriers faced by Health For All initiatives pp. 179-188

Dina Berkeley and Jane Springett

Regulatory objectivity and the generation and management of evidence in medicine pp. 189-199

Alberto Cambrosio, Peter Keating, Thomas Schlich and George Weisz

Centralized drug review processes: Are they fair? pp. 200-211

Craig R. Mitton, Meghan McMahon, Steve Morgan and Jennifer Gibson

Advocacy coalitions and pharmacy policy in Denmark--Solid cores with fuzzy edges pp. 212-224

Jakob Bjerg Larsen, Karsten Vrangbæk and Janine M. Traulsen

The pervasiveness of pharmaceutical expenditure inertia in the OECD countries pp. 225-238

Albert Okunade and Chutima Suraratdecha

Association between gross domestic product throughout the life course and old-age mortality across birth cohorts: Parallel analyses of seven European countries, 1950-1999 pp. 239-254

Fanny Janssen, Anton E. Kunst and Johan P. Mackenbach

Social relations or social capital? Individual and community health effects of bonding social capital pp. 255-270

Wouter Poortinga

Rethinking John Snow's South London study: A Bayesian evaluation and recalculation pp. 271-283

Thomas Koch and Kenneth Denike