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2006, volume 62, articles 12

Physical violence by husbands: Magnitude, disclosure and help-seeking behavior of women in Bangladesh pp. 2917-2929

Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Safia Azim, Abbas Bhuiya and Lars Åke Persson

Challenges to the reproductive-health needs of African women: On religion and maternal health utilization in Ghana pp. 2930-2944

Stephen Gyimah, Baffour K. Takyi and Isaac Addai

"I thought it was only ordinary fever!" cultural knowledge and the micropolitics of therapy seeking for childhood febrile illness in Tanzania pp. 2945-2959

Vinay R. Kamat

Beyond paradigm: Making transcultural connections in a scientific translation of acupuncture pp. 2960-2972

Jongyoung Kim

Variations in provider conceptions of integrative medicine pp. 2973-2987

An-Fu Hsiao, Gery W. Ryan, Ronald D. Hays, Ian D. Coulter, Ronald M. Andersen and Neil S. Wenger

Racializing narratives: Obesity, diabetes and the "Aboriginal" thrifty genotype pp. 2988-2997

Margery Fee

The role of education in the uptake of preventative health care: The case of cervical screening in Britain pp. 2998-3010

Ricardo Sabates and Leon Feinstein

'It's only a blood test': What people know and think about venepuncture and blood pp. 3011-3023

Naomi Pfeffer and Sophie Laws

Age perceptions and physical activity among middle-aged men in three occupational groups pp. 3024-3034

Margareta Wandel and Gun Roos

Putting at risk what we know: Reflecting on the drug-using subject in harm reduction and its political implications pp. 3035-3047

David Moore and Suzanne Fraser

Time in the United States, social support and health behaviors during pregnancy among women of Mexican descent pp. 3048-3061

Kim Harley and Brenda Eskenazi

Alcohol outlets, gonorrhea, and the Los Angeles civil unrest: A longitudinal analysis pp. 3062-3071

Deborah A. Cohen, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Richard Scribner, Angela Miu, Molly Scott, Paul Robinson, Thomas A. Farley, Ricky N. Bluthenthal and Didra Brown-Taylor

Perceptions of social capital and the built environment and mental health pp. 3072-3083

Ricardo Araya, Frank Dunstan, Rebecca Playle, Hollie Thomas, Stephen Palmer and Glyn Lewis

Public and private domains of religiosity and adolescent smoking transitions pp. 3084-3095

James Nonnemaker, Clea A McNeely and Robert Wm Blum

Men's constructions of smoking in the context of women's tobacco reduction during pregnancy and postpartum pp. 3096-3108

Joan L. Bottorff, John Oliffe, Cecilia Kalaw, Joanne Carey and Lawrence Mroz

Physical activity and depressive symptoms in cardiac rehabilitation: Long-term effects of a self-management intervention pp. 3109-3120

Urte Scholz, Nina Knoll, Falko F. Sniehotta and Ralf Schwarzer

Before and after the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake: Traumatic events and depressive symptoms in an older population pp. 3121-3132

Christopher L. Seplaki, Noreen Goldman, Maxine Weinstein and Yu-Hsuan Lin

Meaning-making intervention during breast or colorectal cancer treatment improves self-esteem, optimism, and self-efficacy pp. 3133-3145

Virginia Lee, S. Robin Cohen, Linda Edgar, Andrea M. Laizner and Anita J. Gagnon

Predicting physical activity intention and behaviour among children in a longitudinal sample pp. 3146-3156

Ryan E. Rhodes, Heather M. Macdonald and Heather A. McKay

Where does the waiting list begin? A short review of the dynamics and organization of modern waiting lists pp. 3157-3160

Dalia L. Rotstein and David A. Alter

Exposure to indoor air pollution from household energy use in rural China: The interactions of technology, behavior, and knowledge in health risk management pp. 3161-3176

Yinlong Jin, Xiao Ma, Xining Chen, Yibin Cheng, Enis Baris and Majid Ezzati

Social health insurance in a developing country: The case of the Philippines pp. 3177-3185

Konrad Obermann, Matthew R. Jowett, Maria Ofelia O. Alcantara, Eduardo P. Banzon and Claude Bodart

The geography of self-injury: Spatial patterns in attempted and completed suicide pp. 3186-3196

Katherine Hempstead

2006, volume 62, articles 11

Introduction: Gift horse or Trojan horse? Social science perspectives on evidence-based health care pp. 2613-2620

Helen Lambert, Elisa J. Gordon and Elizabeth A. Bogdan-Lovis

On evidence and evidence-based medicine: Lessons from the philosophy of science pp. 2621-2632

Maya J. Goldenberg

Accounting for EBM: Notions of evidence in medicine pp. 2633-2645

Helen Lambert

The role of evidence in alternative medicine: Contrasting biomedical and anthropological approaches pp. 2646-2657

Christine Ann Barry

Of spineless babies and folic acid: Evidence and efficacy in biomedicine and ayurvedic medicine pp. 2658-2669

Harish Naraindas

What evidence, whose evidence?: Physical therapy in New York State's clinical practice guideline and in the lives of mothers of disabled children pp. 2670-2680

Gail H. Landsman

The contextual influence of professional culture: Certified nurse-midwives' knowledge of and reliance on evidence-based practice pp. 2681-2693

Elizabeth A. Bogdan-Lovis and Aron Sousa

The social and cultural shaping of medical evidence: Case studies from pharmaceutical research and obstetric science pp. 2694-2706

Raymond De Vries and Trudo Lemmens

The political contexts of evidence-based medicine: Policymaking for daily hemodialysis pp. 2707-2719

Elisa Jill Gordon

Making the invisible body visible. Bone scans, osteoporosis and women's bodily experiences pp. 2720-2731

Susanne Dalsgaard Reventlow, Lotte Hvas and Kirsti Malterud

The stratification of social capital and its consequences for self-rated health in Taganrog, Russia pp. 2732-2741

Yerko Rojas and Per Carlson

Why do women consent to surgery, even when they do not want to? An interactionist and Bourdieusian analysis pp. 2742-2753

Mary Dixon-Woods, Simon J. Williams, Clare J. Jackson, Andrea Akkad, Sara Kenyon and Marwan Habiba

The work to make telemedicine work: A social and articulative view pp. 2754-2767

Davide Nicolini

Legal and ethico-legal issues in e-healthcare research projects in the UK pp. 2768-2773

Caroline N. McCubbin

Healing traditions and men's sexual health in Mumbai, India: The realities of practiced medicine in urban poor communities pp. 2774-2785

Stephen L. Schensul, Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada, Bonnie Nastasi, Niranjan Saggurti and Ravi K. Verma

Systems of medicine and nationalist discourse in India: Towards "new horizons" in medical anthropology and history pp. 2786-2797

Shamshad Khan

Barriers to and attitudes towards promoting husbands' involvement in maternal health in Katmandu, Nepal pp. 2798-2809

Britta C. Mullany

Culturally compelling strategies for behaviour change: A social ecology model and case study in malaria prevention pp. 2810-2825

Catherine Panter-Brick, Sian E. Clarke, Heather Lomas, Margaret Pinder and Steve W. Lindsay

The timing of marriage and childbearing among rural families in Bangladesh: Choosing between competing risks pp. 2826-2837

Sidney Ruth Schuler, Lisa M. Bates, Farzana Islam and Md. Khairul Islam

An international study of irritable bowel syndrome: Family relationships and mind-body attributions pp. 2838-2847

Mary-Joan Gerson, Charles D. Gerson, Richard A. Awad, Christine Dancey, Pierre Poitras, Piero Porcelli and Ami D. Sperber

Gender differences in religious practices, spiritual experiences and health: Results from the US General Social Survey pp. 2848-2860

Joanna Maselko and Laura D. Kubzansky

Sharing decisions in consultations involving anti-psychotic medication: A qualitative study of psychiatrists' experiences pp. 2861-2873

Clive Seale, Robert Chaplin, Paul Lelliott and Alan Quirk

The relationship between media reporting of suicide and actual suicide in Australia pp. 2874-2886

Jane E. Pirkis, Philip M. Burgess, Catherine Francis, R. Warwick Blood and Damien J. Jolley

Recent life events and suicide: A case-control study in Tallinn and Frankfurt pp. 2887-2896

Kairi Kõlves, Airi Värnik, Barbara Schneider, Jürgen Fritze and Jüri Allik

Health disparities between racial groups in South Africa: A decomposition analysis pp. 2897-2914

Cécile Charasse-Pouélé and Martin Fournier

2006, volume 62, articles 10

(Re)constructing embryos in stem cell research: Exploring the meaning of embryos for people involved in fertility treatments pp. 2349-2359

Sarah Parry

On being at higher risk: A qualitative study of prenatal screening for chromosomal anomalies pp. 2360-2372

Bob Heyman, Gillian Hundt, Jane Sandall, Kevin Spencer, Clare Williams, Rachel Grellier and Laura Pitson

Understanding the new human genetics: A review of scientific editorials pp. 2373-2385

Fiona Alice Miller, Catherine Ahern, Christopher A. Smith and Erin A. Harvey

The search for social validation and the sexual behavior of people living with HIV in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Understanding the role of treatment optimism in context pp. 2386-2396

Deanna Kerrigan, Francisco I. Bastos, Monica Malta, Claudia Carneiro-da-Cunha, J.H. Pilotto and Steffanie A. Strathdee

Psychosocial problems of bereaved families of HIV-infected hemophiliacs in Japan pp. 2397-2410

Yuri Mizota, Megumi Ozawa, Yoshihiko Yamazaki and Yoji Inoue

Men's involvement in the South African family: Engendering change in the AIDS era pp. 2411-2419

Catherine M. Montgomery, Victoria Hosegood, Joanna Busza and Ian M. Timæus

Vulnerability, unsafe sex and non-adherence to HAART: Evidence from a large sample of French HIV/AIDS outpatients pp. 2420-2433

Patrick Peretti-Watel, B. Spire, M.A. Schiltz, A.D. Bouhnik, I. Heard, F. Lert and Y. Obadia

Female sex workers as health educators with men who buy sex: Utilising narratives of rationalisations pp. 2434-2444

Teela Sanders

Internet marketing of bariatric surgery: Contemporary trends in the medicalization of obesity pp. 2445-2457

Talya Salant and Heena P. Santry

Obesity, weight loss, and physician's advice pp. 2458-2468

Maria Loureiro and Rodolfo Nayga

The burden of disease associated with being African-American in the United States and the contribution of socio-economic status pp. 2469-2478

Peter Franks, Peter Muennig, Erica Lubetkin and Haomiao Jia

Race, socioeconomic status, and the perceived importance of positive self-presentation in health care pp. 2479-2488

Jennifer R. Malat, Michelle van Ryn and David Purcell

Does socio-economic advantage lead to a longer, healthier old age? pp. 2489-2499

Ruth J. Matthews, Carol Jagger and Ruth M. Hancock

Death, depression and 'defensive expansion': Closing down smoking as an issue for discussion in GP consultations pp. 2500-2512

Alison Pilnick and Tim Coleman

Could the peer group explain school differences in pupil smoking rates? An exploratory study pp. 2513-2525

Katrina Turner, Patrick West, Jacki Gordon, Robert Young and Helen Sweeting

Teenage children of teenage mothers: Psychological, behavioural and health outcomes from an Australian prospective longitudinal study pp. 2526-2539

Mary Shaw, Debbie A. Lawlor and Jake M. Najman

Recasting research into children's experiences of parental mental illness: Beyond risk and resilience pp. 2540-2550

Brenda McConnell Gladstone, Katherine M. Boydell and Patricia McKeever

Non-attendance and effective equity of access at four public specialist outpatient centers in Hong Kong pp. 2551-2564

Janice M. Johnston, Gabriel Leung, Hnin Saing, Kin-On Kwok, Lai-Ming Ho, Irene O.L. Wong and Keith Y.K. Tin

What do cancer support groups provide which other supportive relationships do not? The experience of peer support groups for people with cancer pp. 2565-2576

Jane Ussher, Laura Kirsten, Phyllis Butow and Mirjana Sandoval

Gender, cancer experience and internet use: A comparative keyword analysis of interviews and online cancer support groups pp. 2577-2590

Clive Seale, Sue Ziebland and Jonathan Charteris-Black

Cancer in the mass print media: Fear, uncertainty and the medical model pp. 2591-2600

Juanne N. Clarke and Michelle M. Everest

Negotiation over self-control and activity: An analysis of balancing in the repertoires of Finnish healthy lifestyles pp. 2601-2611

Pia M. Pajari, Piia Jallinoja and Pilvikki Absetz

2006, volume 62, articles 9

Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs): The silence of the lambda pp. 2091-2100

Amiram Gafni and Stephen Birch

Price elasticity of demand for malt liquor beer: Findings from a US pilot study pp. 2101-2111

Michael Thomas French, Didra BrownTaylor and Ricky Neville Bluthenthal

Does chain affiliation make a difference in efficiency of dialysis providers in the USA pp. 2112-2124

Hacer Ozgen

Being around and knowing the players: Networks of influence in health policy pp. 2125-2136

Jenny M. Lewis

The effects of economic instability on infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates: Evidence from Taiwan pp. 2137-2150

Shin-Jong Lin

Social class assignment and mortality in Sweden pp. 2151-2160

Robert Erikson

Socioeconomic status and health: Do gradients differ within childhood and adolescence? pp. 2161-2170

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

The wealthy get healthy, the poor get poorly? Lay perceptions of health inequalities pp. 2171-2182

Rosemary Davidson, Jenny Kitzinger and Kate Hunt

Sickness absence and sickness attendance--What people with neck or back pain think pp. 2183-2195

Margareta Hansson, Carina Boström and Karin Harms-Ringdahl

Challenges for the adoption of evidence-based maternity care in Turkey pp. 2196-2204

Janet Molzan Turan, Aysen Bulut, Hacer Nalbant, Nuriye OrtaylI and Tugrul Erbaydar

Maternity referral systems in developing countries: Current knowledge and future research needs pp. 2205-2215

Susan F. Murray and Stephen C. Pearson

Quality of care and its impact on population health: A cross-sectional study from Macedonia pp. 2216-2224

John W. Peabody, Robert J. Nordyke, Fimka Tozija, Jeff Luck, Jorge A. Muñoz, Anne Sunderland, Karen DeSalvo, Ninez Ponce and Charles McCulloch

The performance of health workers in Ethiopia: Results from qualitative research pp. 2225-2235

Magnus Lindelow and Pieter Serneels

Quest, chaos and restitution: Living with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis pp. 2236-2245

Lisa Claire Whitehead

Men's accounts of depression: Reconstructing or resisting hegemonic masculinity? pp. 2246-2257

Carol Emslie, Damien Ridge, Sue Ziebland and Kate Hunt

Conversational silence, coercion, equality: The role of language in influencing who gets identified as abused pp. 2258-2266

Amy E. Bonomi, David G. Allen and Victoria L. Holt

Doctor-patient interaction in a randomised controlled trial of decision-support tools pp. 2267-2278

Tim Rapley, Carl May, Ben Heaven, Madeline Murtagh, Ruth Graham, Eileen F.S. Kaner and Richard Thomson

"It was a snap decision": Parental and professional perspectives on the speed of decisions about participation in perinatal randomised controlled trials pp. 2279-2290

Claire Snowdon, Diana Elbourne and Jo Garcia

The nature and correlates of unmet health care needs in Ontario, Canada pp. 2291-2300

Connie Holmes Nelson and Jungwee Park

Living in the shadow of terrorism: Psychological distress and alcohol use among religious and non-religious adolescents in Jerusalem pp. 2301-2312

Miriam Schiff

Husbands' and wives' reports of women's decision-making power in Western Guatemala and their effects on preventive health behaviors pp. 2313-2326

Stan Becker, Fannie Fonseca-Becker and Catherine Schenck-Yglesias

Health, wealth and fairness based on gender: The support for ethical principles pp. 2327-2335

Anna Månsdotter, Lars Lindholm and Michael Lundberg

Physiotherapy and the shadow of prostitution: The Society of Trained Masseuses and the massage scandals of 1894 pp. 2336-2348

David A. Nicholls and Julianne Cheek

2006, volume 62, articles 8

Associations of childhood circumstances with physical and mental functioning in adulthood pp. 1831-1839

Tomi Mäkinen, Mikko Laaksonen, Eero Lahelma and Ossi Rahkonen

Team leadership and patient outcomes in US psychiatric treatment settings pp. 1840-1852

Rebecca Wells, Kimberly Jinnett, Jeffrey Alexander, Richard Lichtenstein, Dawei Liu and James L. Zazzali

Mental and social health in disasters: Relating qualitative social science research and the Sphere standard pp. 1853-1864

Rajaie Batniji, Mark Van Ommeren and Benedetto Saraceno

Variation in children's cognitive and behavioural adjustment between different types of place in the British National Child Development Study pp. 1865-1879

Andrew McCulloch

Genetic susceptibility testing from a stress and coping perspective pp. 1880-1890

Holly C. Gooding, Kurt Organista, Jeffrey Burack and Barbara Bowles Biesecker

Developing attributes for a generic quality of life measure for older people: Preferences or capabilities? pp. 1891-1901

Ini Grewal, Jane Lewis, Terry Flynn, Jackie Brown, John Bond and Joanna Coast

"Does it mean I'm gonna die?": On meaning assessment in the delivery of diagnostic news pp. 1902-1916

Douglas W. Maynard

Responsive complementary feeding in rural Bangladesh pp. 1917-1930

Anna C Moore, Sadika Akhter and Frances E Aboud

Our health and theirs: Forced migration, othering, and public health pp. 1931-1942

Natalie J. Grove and Anthony B. Zwi

Do individual and program factors matter in the utilization of maternal care services in rural India? A theoretical approach pp. 1943-1957

T.S. Sunil, S. Rajaram and Lisa K. Zottarelli

Kaqchikel midwives, home births, and emergency obstetric referrals in Guatemala: Contextualizing the choice to stay at home pp. 1958-1969

Nicole S. Berry

The male heart and the female mind: A study in the gendering of antidepressants and cardiovascular drugs in advertisements in Irish medical publication pp. 1970-1977

Phillip Curry and Marita O'Brien

"...it's all the same no matter how much fruit or vegetables or fresh air we get": Traveller women's perceptions of illness causation and health inequalities pp. 1978-1990

Margaret Hodgins, Michelle Millar and Margaret M Barry

Never-married childless women in Australia: Health and social circumstances in older age pp. 1991-2001

Julie Cwikel, Helen Gramotnev and Christina Lee

Violence against women and suicide risk: The neglected impact of same-sex sexual behaviour pp. 2002-2013

Brigitte Lhomond and Marie-Josèphe Saurel-Cubizolles

Effects of husbands' and wives' education on each other's mortality pp. 2014-2023

Dena H. Jaffe, Zvi Eisenbach, Yehuda D. Neumark and Orly Manor

Shifting dollars, saving lives: What might happen to mortality rates, and socio-economic inequalities in mortality rates, if income was redistributed? pp. 2024-2034

Tony Blakely and Nick Wilson

Socioeconomic inequalities in premature mortality in France: Have they widened in recent decades? pp. 2035-2045

Annette Leclerc, Jean-François Chastang, Gwenn Menvielle and Danièle Luce

A comparative appraisal of the relationship of education, income and housing tenure with less than good health among the elderly in Europe pp. 2046-2060

J.A.A. Dalstra, A.E. Kunst and J.P. Mackenbach

Neighborhood violent crime and unemployment increase the risk of coronary heart disease: A multilevel study in an urban setting pp. 2061-2071

Kristina Sundquist, Holger Theobald, Min Yang, Xinjun Li, Sven-Erik Johansson and Jan Sundquist

Why do case studies on national health research systems matter? Identifying common challenges in low- and middle-income countries pp. 2072-2078

Carol D'Souza and Ritu Sadana

Health care practices, professions and perspectives: A case study in intensive care pp. 2079-2090

Simon Carmel

2006, volume 62, articles 7

New drug prescribing by hospital doctors: The nature and meaning of knowledge pp. 1565-1578

Helen Prosser and Tom Walley

Dilemmas in decision-making about resuscitation--a focus group study of older people pp. 1579-1593

Tushna Vandrevala, Sarah E. Hampson, Tom Daly, Sara Arber and Hilary Thomas

Exploring limits to market-based reform: Managed competition and rehabilitation home care services in Ontario pp. 1594-1604

Glen E. Randall and A. Paul Williams

Turning the medical gaze in upon itself: Root cause analysis and the investigation of clinical error pp. 1605-1615

Roderick Aren Michael Iedema, Christine Jorm, Debbi Long, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Jo Travaglia and Mary Westbrook

At home in hospital? Interaction and stigma in people affected by cancer pp. 1616-1627

Kate Wilson and Karen A Luker

Supportive social relationships and adolescent health risk behavior among secondary school students in El Salvador pp. 1628-1640

Andrew Springer, Guy Parcel, Elizabeth Baumler and Michael Ross

Associations of poverty, substance use, and HIV transmission risk behaviors in three South African communities pp. 1641-1649

Seth C. Kalichman, Leickness C. Simbayi, Ashraf Kagee, Yoesrie Toefy, Sean Jooste, Demetria Cain and Chauncey Cherry

Behavioral science at the crossroads in public health: Extending horizons, envisioning the future pp. 1650-1671

Thomas A. Glass and Matthew J. McAtee

Gender and HIV risk behavior among intravenous drug users in Sichuan Province, China pp. 1672-1684

Susanne Y.P. Choi, Yuet Wah Cheung and Kanglin Chen

Stigmatizing experience and structural discrimination associated with the treatment of schizophrenia in Hong Kong pp. 1685-1696

Sing Lee, Marcus Y.L. Chiu, Adley Tsang, Helena Chui and Arthur Kleinman

Mental health, employment and gender. Cross-sectional evidence in a sample of refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina living in two Swedish regions pp. 1697-1709

Karin Johansson Blight, Solvig Ekblad, Jan-Olov Persson and Jan Ekberg

Reaching for the bottle of pesticide--A cry for help. Self-inflicted poisonings in Sri Lanka pp. 1710-1719

Flemming Konradsen, Wim van der Hoek and Pushpalatha Peiris

Preservation of self in people with dementia living in residential care: A socio-biographical approach pp. 1720-1730

Claire Alice Surr

The role of mediating factors in the association between social deprivation and low birth weight in Germany pp. 1731-1744

Birgit Reime, Pamela A. Ratner, Sandra N. Tomaselli-Reime, Ann Kelly, Beate A. Schuecking and Paul Wenzlaff

Couples' experiences of postnatal depression: A framing analysis of cultural identity, gender and communication pp. 1745-1756

Christine Rosemary Everingham, Gaynor Heading and Linda Connor

Unfulfilled expectations: How circumstances impinge on women's reproductive choices pp. 1757-1767

Maureen Porter, Siladitya Bhattacharya and Edwin van Teijlingen

Income inequality and population health: A review and explanation of the evidence pp. 1768-1784

Richard G Wilkinson and Kate E. Pickett

Socioeconomic differences in the progression of carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged men and women with subclinical atherosclerosis in Sweden pp. 1785-1798

Maria Rosvall, Per-Olof Östergren, Bo Hedblad, Sven-Olof Isacsson, Lars Janzon and Göran Berglund

Health lifestyles and political ideology in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine pp. 1799-1809

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

Normative processes and adolescents' smoking behaviour in Norway: A multilevel analysis pp. 1810-1818

Nora Wiium, Torbjørn Torsheim and Bente Wold

The role of public policies in reducing smoking and deaths caused by smoking in Vietnam: Results from the Vietnam tobacco policy simulation model pp. 1819-1830

David T. Levy, Sarah Bales, Nguyen T. Lam and Leonid Nikolayev

2006, volume 62, articles 6

Supporting choice and control? Communication and interaction between midwives and women at the antenatal booking visit pp. 1307-1318

Christine McCourt

Parents' experiences of sharing neonatal information and decisions: Consent, cost and risk pp. 1319-1329

Priscilla Alderson, Joanna Hawthorne and Margaret Killen

Subverting the assembly-line: Childbirth in a free-standing birth centre pp. 1330-1340

Denis Walsh

Correlations of siblings' and mothers' utilisation of primary and hospital health care: A record linkage study in Western Australia pp. 1341-1348

Alison M. Ward, Nick de Klerk, Douglas Pritchard, Martin Firth and C. D'Arcy J. Holman

'Just a bystander'? Men's place in the process of fetal screening and diagnosis pp. 1349-1359

Louise Locock and Jo Alexander

Self-regulation and the behavioural response to DNA risk information: A theoretical analysis and framework for future research pp. 1360-1368

Theresa M. Marteau and John Weinman

Understanding health behavior change among couples: An interdependence and communal coping approach pp. 1369-1380

Megan A. Lewis, Colleen M. McBride, Kathryn I. Pollak, Elaine Puleo, Rita M. Butterfield and Karen M. Emmons

Experience of health changes and reasons for delay in seeking care: A UK study of the months prior to the diagnosis of lung cancer pp. 1381-1391

Jessica Corner, Jane Hopkinson and Liz Roffe

Social network in long-term diseases: A comparative study in relatives of persons with schizophrenia and physical illnesses versus a sample from the general population pp. 1392-1402

Lorenza Magliano, Andrea Fiorillo, Claudio Malangone, Corrado De Rosa and Mario Maj

Ventilator dependence and expressions of need: A study of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Japan pp. 1403-1413

Yuko Mandai Hirano, Yoshihiko Yamazaki, Junichi Shimizu, Taisuke Togari and Thomas James Bryce

The impact of tobacco expenditure on household consumption patterns in rural China pp. 1414-1426

Hong Wang, Jody L. Sindelar and Susan H. Busch

Marital life course events and smoking behaviour in Sweden 1980-2000 pp. 1427-1442

Paul Nystedt

Impact of definition on the study of avoidable mortality: Geographical trends in British deaths 1981-1998 using Charlton and Holland's definitions pp. 1443-1456

Katherine Meriel French and Kelvyn Jones

A comparison of health inequalities in urban and rural Scotland pp. 1457-1464

Kate A. Levin and Alastair H. Leyland

Psychosocial and neo-material dimensions of SES and health revisited: Predictors of self-rated health in a Canadian national survey pp. 1465-1473

James R. Dunn, Gerry Veenstra and Nancy Ross

NZiDep: A New Zealand index of socioeconomic deprivation for individuals pp. 1474-1485

Clare Salmond, Peter Crampton, Peter King and Charles Waldegrave

"We are not completely Westernised": Dual medical systems and pathways to health care among Chinese migrant women in England pp. 1498-1509

Gill Green, Hannah Bradby, Anita Chan and Maggie Lee

Empirical uncertainty and moral contest: A qualitative analysis of the relationship between medical specialists and the pharmaceutical industry in Australia pp. 1510-1519

E. Doran, I. Kerridge, P. McNeill and David Henry

"To enrol or not to enrol?": A qualitative investigation of demand for health insurance in rural West Africa pp. 1520-1527

Manuela De Allegri, Mamadou Sanon and Rainer Sauerborn

Attitudes towards patient gender among psychiatric hospital staff: Results of a case study with focus groups pp. 1528-1540

Silvia Krumm, Reinhold Kilian and Thomas Becker

Governance in operating room nursing: Nurses' knowledge of individual surgeons pp. 1541-1551

Robin Glenda Riley and Elizabeth Manias

Frequency and determinants of advance directives concerning end-of-life care in The Netherlands pp. 1552-1563

Mette L. Rurup, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Agnes van der Heide, Gerrit van der Wal and Dorly J.H. Deeg

2006, volume 62, articles 5

Gender inequalities in US adult health: The interplay of race and ethnicity pp. 1045-1065

Jen'nan Ghazal Read and Bridget K. Gorman

Gender differences in job strain, effort-reward imbalance, and health functioning among Chinese physicians pp. 1066-1077

Jian Li, Wenjie Yang and Sung-il Cho

Health professionals, their medical interventions and uncertainty: A study focusing on women at midlife pp. 1078-1090

F. Griffiths, E. Green and G. Bendelow

Men and women managing coronary artery disease risk: Urban-rural contrasts pp. 1091-1102

Kathryn M. King, Elizabeth Thomlinson, Julianne Sanguins and Pamela LeBlanc

Access to rural health services: Research as community action and policy critique pp. 1103-1114

Ruth Panelli, Lou Gallagher and Robin Kearns

Negotiating mothering against the odds: Gastrostomy tube feeding, stigma, governmentality and disabled children pp. 1115-1125

Gillian M. Craig and Graham Scambler

Trends and racial differences in infant mortality in South Africa pp. 1126-1137

Sarah A. Burgard and Donald J. Treiman

An investigation of district spatial variations of childhood diarrhoea and fever morbidity in Malawi pp. 1138-1152

Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Monica Akinyi Magadi and Nyovani Janet Madise

Understanding the process of adjustment to illness pp. 1153-1166

Louise Sharpe and Leah Curran

'I just want permission to be ill': Towards a sociology of medically unexplained symptoms pp. 1167-1178

Sarah Nettleton

Retirement and mental health: Analysis of the Australian national survey of mental health and well-being pp. 1179-1191

Peter Butterworth, Sarah C. Gill, Bryan Rodgers, Kaarin J. Anstey, Elena Villamil and David Melzer

Beyond rankings: Using cognitive mapping to understand what health care journals represent pp. 1192-1204

Richard M. Shewchuk, Stephen J. O'Connor, Eric S. Williams and Grant T. Savage

Anxiolytic-hypnotic drug use associated with trust, social participation, and the miniaturization of community: A multilevel analysis pp. 1205-1214

Kristina Johnell, Martin Lindström, Arne Melander, Jan Sundquist, Charli Eriksson and Juan Merlo

Multi-level modelling in health research: A caution and rejoinder on temporally mismatched data pp. 1215-1218

Michael Buzzelli and Jason Su

Experiences of stigma and access to HAART in children and adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in Brazil pp. 1219-1228

César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero and Arachu Castro

Healthcare in the New Vietnam: Comparing patients' satisfaction with outpatient care in a traditional neighborhood clinic and a new, western-style clinic in Ho Chi Minh City pp. 1229-1236

Sonny Tat and Donald Barr

Views of general practitioners and benzodiazepine users on benzodiazepines: A qualitative analysis pp. 1237-1249

Jannette M. Parr, David J. Kavanagh, Ross McD. Young and Kelly McCafferty

Explaining the social gradient in smoking in pregnancy: Early life course accumulation and cross-sectional clustering of social risk exposures in the 1958 British national cohort pp. 1250-1259

Nick Spencer

Domestic violence against women in Egypt--wife beating and health outcomes pp. 1260-1277

Nafissatou Diop-Sidibé, Jacquelyn C. Campbell and Stan Becker

Hyped biomedical science or uncritical reporting? Press coverage of genomics (1992-2001) in Québec pp. 1278-1290

Eric Racine, Isabelle Gareau, Hubert Doucet, Danielle Laudy, Guy Jobin and Pamela Schraedley-Desmond

Neighborhood effects on primary care access in Los Angeles pp. 1291-1303

Julia C. Prentice

2006, volume 62, articles 4

Disciplining the feminine: The reproduction of gender contradictions in the mental health care of women with eating disorders pp. 793-804

Nicole Moulding

Pathways to suicidal behaviour among adolescent girls in Nicaragua pp. 805-814

A. Herrera, K. Dahlblom, L. Dahlgren and G. Kullgren

Cross-national variation of gender differences in adolescent subjective health in Europe and North America pp. 815-827

Torbjørn Torsheim, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Jorn Hetland, Raili Välimaa, Mia Danielson and Mary Overpeck

Depression and mental health visits to physicians--a prospective records-based study pp. 828-834

Anne Rhodes, R. Liisa Jaakkimainen, Susan Bondy and Kinwah Fung

Economic valuation of informal care: Lessons from the application of the opportunity costs and proxy good methods pp. 835-845

Bernard van den Berg, Werner Brouwer, Job van Exel, Marc Koopmanschap, Geertrudis A.M. van den Bos and Frans Rutten

A conceptually based approach to understanding chronically ill patients' responses to medication cost pressures pp. 846-857

John D. Piette, Michele Heisler, Robert Horne and G Alexander

What are the economic consequences for households of illness and of paying for health care in low- and middle-income country contexts? pp. 858-865

Diane McIntyre, Michael Thiede, Göran Dahlgren and Margaret Whitehead

Understanding the impact of eliminating user fees: Utilization and catastrophic health expenditures in Uganda pp. 866-876

Ke Xu, David B. Evans, Patrick Kadama, Juliet Nabyonga, Peter Ogwang Ogwal, Pamela Nabukhonzo and Ana Mylena Aguilar

Informal payments in government health facilities in Albania: Results of a qualitative study pp. 877-887

Taryn Vian, Kristina Grybosk, Zamira Sinoimeri and Rachel Hall

Evaluations of care by adults following a denial of an advertisement-related prescription drug request: The role of expectations, symptom severity, and physician communication style pp. 888-899

Mansi B. Shah, John P. Bentley and David J. McCaffrey

An implementation intentions intervention, the use of a planning strategy, and physical activity after myocardial infarction pp. 900-908

Aleksandra Luszczynska

Explaining US racial/ethnic disparities in health declines and mortality in late middle age: The roles of socioeconomic status, health behaviors, and health insurance pp. 909-922

Joseph J. Sudano and David W. Baker

A socially neutral disease? Individual social class, household wealth and mortality from Spanish influenza in two socially contrasting parishes in Kristiania 1918-19 pp. 923-940

Svenn-Erik Mamelund

Psychometric and cognitive validation of a social capital measurement tool in Peru and Vietnam pp. 941-953

Mary J De Silva, Trudy Harpham, Tran Tuan, Rosario Bartolini, Mary E Penny and Sharon R Huttly

Low linking social capital as a predictor of coronary heart disease in Sweden: A cohort study of 2.8 million people pp. 954-963

Jan Sundquist, Sven-Erik Johansson, Min Yang and Kristina Sundquist

What factors induce health care decision-makers to use clinical guidelines? Evidence from provincial health ministries, regional health authorities and hospitals in Canada pp. 964-976

Mathieu Ouimet, Réjean Landry, Nabil Amara and Omar Belkhodja

Long-run consequences of parental paid work hours for child overweight status in Canada pp. 977-986

Shelley Phipps, Lynn Lethbridge and Peter Burton

Contradictory sexual norms and expectations for young people in rural Northern Tanzania pp. 987-997

Daniel Wight, Mary L. Plummer, Gerry Mshana, Joyce Wamoyi, Zachayo S. Shigongo and David A. Ross

Volunteer human subjects' understandings of their participation in a biomedical research experiment pp. 998-1008

Norma Morris and Brian Bàlmer

Lies, damned lies and statistics? Reliability and personal accounts of smoking among young people pp. 1009-1021

Michael Mair, Alexandra Barlow, Susan E. Woods, Ciara Kierans, Beth Milton and Lorna Porcellato

Technogovernance: Evidence, subjectivity, and the clinical encounter in primary care medicine pp. 1022-1030

Carl May, Tim Rapley, Tiago Moreira, Tracy Finch and Ben Heaven

Infertility: Testing a helpseeking model pp. 1031-1041

Lynn White, Julia McQuillan, Arthur L. Greil and David R. Johnson

2006, volume 62, articles 3

Introduction: Patient organization movements and new metamorphoses in patienthood pp. 529-537

Kyra Landzelius

How to build an "active" patient? The work of AIDS associations in France pp. 538-551

Janine Barbot

The field of psychiatric contention in the UK, 1960-2000 pp. 552-563

Nick Crossley

From representation to mediation: The shaping of collective mobilization on muscular dystrophy in France pp. 564-576

Vololona Rabeharisoa

Illnesses you have to fight to get: Facts as forces in uncertain, emergent illnesses pp. 577-590

Joseph Dumit

"To me, it's my life": Medical communication, trust, and activism in cyberspace pp. 591-601

Patricia Radin

Pregnancy and infant loss support: A new, feminist, American, patient movement? pp. 602-613

Linda L. Layne

Contesting contraceptive innovation--Reinventing the script pp. 614-627

Anita Hardon

Anti-vaccination movements and their interpretations pp. 628-642

Stuart Blume

Anti-aging medicine: A patient/practitioner movement to redefine aging pp. 643-653

Courtney Everts Mykytyn

Heroic frames: discursive constructions around the requested death movement in Australia in the late-1990s pp. 654-667

Fran McInerney

The incubation of a social movement? Preterm babies, parent activists, and neonatal productions in the US context pp. 668-682

Kyra Landzelius

Viagra's rise above women's health issues: An analysis of the social and political influences on drug approvals in the United States and Japan pp. 683-693

Ilyssa Hollander

Immunization in india 1993-1999: Wealth, gender, and regional inequalities revisited pp. 694-706

Sylvestre Gaudin and Abdo S. Yazbeck

Making health insurance work for the poor: Learning from the Self-Employed Women's Association's (SEWA) community-based health insurance scheme in India pp. 707-720

M. Kent Ranson, Tara Sinha, Mirai Chatterjee, Akash Acharya, Ami Bhavsar, Saul S. Morris and Anne J. Mills

Conflicts in how interpreters manage their roles in provider-patient interactions pp. 721-730

Elaine Hsieh

Uncharted ground: Patterns of professional interaction among complementary/alternative and biomedical practitioners in integrative health care settings pp. 731-744

Daniel Hollenberg

Salience of self-identity roles in persons with dementia: Differences in perceptions among elderly persons, family members and caregivers pp. 745-757

Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Aleksandra Parpura-Gill and Hava Golander

Nutrition-related health promotion through an after-school project: The responses of children and their families pp. 758-768

Rob Hyland, Rosie Stacy, Ashley Adamson and Paula Moynihan

Collective efficacy and obesity: The potential influence of social factors on health pp. 769-778

Deborah A. Cohen, Brian K. Finch, Aimee Bower and Narayan Sastry

Further examination of the cross-country association between income inequality and population health pp. 779-791

Rati Ram

2006, volume 62, articles 2

The voices of older women in a disadvantaged community: Issues of health and social capital pp. 269-279

Margaret Anne Boneham and Judith A Sixsmith

Psychosocial work conditions, social participation and social capital: A causal pathway investigated in a longitudinal study pp. 280-291

Martin Lindström

Social capital: An individual or collective resource for health? pp. 292-302

Wouter Poortinga

Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in smoking cessation associated with employment and joblessness through young adulthood in the US pp. 303-316

Margaret Weden, Nan M Astone and David Bishai

What accounts for the relationship between social class and smoking cessation? Results of a path analysis pp. 317-328

Kaori Honjo, Akizumi Tsutsumi, Ichiro Kawachi and Norito Kawakami

Life-course influences on mortality at older ages: Evidence from the Oslo Mortality Study pp. 329-336

Øyvind Næss, Frank H. Hernes and David Blane

Regional and racial disparities in breast cancer-specific mortality pp. 337-347

Victor Grann, Andrea B. Troxel, Naseem Zojwalla, Dawn Hershman, Sherry A. Glied and Judith S. Jacobson

US-based indices of area-level deprivation: Results from HealthCare for Communities pp. 348-359

Christine Eibner and Roland Sturm

Gender imbalance in infant mortality: A cross-national study of social structure and female infanticide pp. 360-374

Kana Fuse and Edward M. Crenshaw

Determinants of child morbidity in Latin America: A pooled analysis of interactions between parental education and economic status pp. 375-386

Laurel E. Hatt and Hugh R. Waters

Barriers to healthy eating amongst men: A qualitative analysis pp. 387-395

Brendan Gough and Mark T. Conner

Young teenagers' perceptions of their own and others' bodies: A qualitative study of obese, overweight and 'normal' weight young people in Scotland pp. 396-406

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

Weighing in primary-care nurse-patient interactions pp. 407-421

Danielle Pillet-Shore

Studying physician effects on patient outcomes: Physician interactional style and performance on quality of care indicators pp. 422-432

Peter Franks, Anthony F Jerant, Kevin Fiscella, Cleveland G Shields, Daniel J Tancredi and Ronald M Epstein

'Between the demands of truth and government': Health practitioners, trust and immunisation work pp. 433-443

Julie Brownlie and Alexandra Howson

Perceived HIV stigma in AIDS caregiving dyads pp. 444-456

Richard G. Wight, Carol S. Aneshensel, Debra A. Murphy, Dana Miller-Martinez and Kristin P. Beals

Representations of mad cow disease pp. 457-466

Peter Washer

Explaining educational-related inequalities in health: Mediation and moderator models pp. 467-478

Christer Thrane

Cross-cultural perspectives on research participation and informed consent pp. 479-490

Paula C. Barata, Enza Gucciardi, Farah Ahmad and Donna E. Stewart

The healthy migrant theory: Variations in pregnancy outcomes among US-born migrants pp. 491-498

Martha S Wingate and Greg R Alexander

Which surgical decisions should patients participate in and how? Reflections on women's recollections of discussions about variants of hysterectomy pp. 499-509

Vikki Entwistle, Brian Williams, Zoe Skea, Graeme MacLennan and Siladitya Bhattacharya

Psychosocial stress and social support as mediators of relationships between income, length of residence and depressive symptoms among African American women on Detroit's eastside pp. 510-522

Amy J. Schulz, Barbara A. Israel, Shannon N. Zenk, Edith A. Parker, Richard Lichtenstein, Sheryl Shellman-Weir and Laura Klem A.B.

2006, volume 62, articles 1

Pathways to youth homelessness pp. 1-12

Claudine Martijn and Louise Sharpe

The effect of lifetime victimization on the mental health of children and adolescents pp. 13-27

Heather A. Turner, David Finkelhor and Richard Ormrod

Patients, consumers and survivors: A case study of mental health service user discourses pp. 28-38

Ewen Speed

Social support modifies perceived stigmatization in the first years of mental illness: A longitudinal approach pp. 39-49

Brigitte Mueller, Carlos Nordt, Christoph Lauber, Peter Rueesch, Peter C. Meyer and Wulf Roessler

Social determinants of diagnostic labels in depression pp. 50-58

Susan McPherson and David Armstrong

Mothers on the margins: Implications for eradicating perinatal HIV pp. 59-69

Stacy Tessler Lindau, Jessica Jerome, Kate Miller, Elizabeth Monk, Patricia Garcia and Mardge Cohen

Trustful bonds: A key to "becoming a mother" and to reciprocal breastfeeding. Stories of mothers of very preterm infants at a neonatal unit pp. 70-80

Renée Flacking, Uwe Ewald, Kerstin Hedberg Nyqvist and Bengt Starrin

'She would help me from the heart': An ethnography of Egyptian women in labour pp. 81-92

Amina El-Nemer, Soo Downe and Neil Small

Perceived change in quality of life during the menopause pp. 93-102

Gita Mishra and Diana Kuh

Patient characteristics and inequalities in doctors' diagnostic and management strategies relating to CHD: A video-simulation experiment pp. 103-115

Sara Arber, John McKinlay, Ann Adams, Lisa Marceau, Carol Link and Amy O'Donnell

Patient-doctor decision-making about treatment within the consultation--A critical analysis of models pp. 116-124

Veronika Wirtz, Alan Cribb and Nick Barber

Patients' and healthcare providers' understandings of life-sustaining treatment: Are perceptions of goals shared or divergent? pp. 125-133

Keri L. Rodriguez and Amanda J. Young

Narrativizing errors of care: Critical incident reporting in clinical practice pp. 134-144

Rick Iedema, Arthas Flabouris, Susan Grant and Christine Jorm

Cross-district utilization of general hospital care in Nova Scotia: Policy and service delivery implications for rural districts pp. 145-156

Neil Hanlon and Chris Skedgel

Religion and survival in a secular region. A twenty year follow-up of 734 Danish adults born in 1914 pp. 157-164

Peter la Cour, Kirsten Avlund and Kirsten Schultz-Larsen

Toward a neighborhood resource-based theory of social capital for health: Can Bourdieu and sociology help? pp. 165-175

Richard M. Carpiano

Social and psychological resources and health outcomes after the World Trade Center disaster pp. 176-188

Richard E. Adams, Joseph A. Boscarino and Sandro Galea

Aging and eating in the rural, southern United States: Beliefs about salt and its effect on health pp. 189-198

Shannon L. Smith, Sara A. Quandt, Thomas A. Arcury, Lindsay K. Wetmore, Ronny A. Bell and Mara Z. Vitolins

The palliative care in assisted living (PCAL) pilot study: Successes, shortfalls, and methodological implications pp. 199-207

Anthony F. Jerant, Rahman S. Azari, Thomas S. Nesbitt, Adrienne Edwards-Goodbee and Frederick J. Meyers

Coping strategies as predictors of psychosocial adaptation in a sample of elderly veterans with acquired lower limb amputations pp. 208-216

Deirdre M. Desmond and Malcolm MacLachlan

Alcohol use and sexual behaviour among risky drinkers and bar and shebeen patrons in Gauteng province, South Africa pp. 217-227

Neo K. Morojele, Millicent A. Kachieng'a, Evodia Mokoko, Matsobane A. Nkoko, Charles D.H. Parry, Annette M. Nkowane, Kgaogelo M. Moshia and Shekhar Saxena

Health world views of post-soviet citizens pp. 228-238

Pamela A Abbott, Sergei Turmov and Claire Wallace

Therapeutic misconception in early phase gene transfer trials pp. 239-253

Gail E. Henderson, Michele M. Easter, Catherine Zimmer, Nancy M.P. King, Arlene M. Davis, Barbra Bluestone Rothschild, Larry R. Churchill, Benjamin S. Wilfond and Daniel K. Nelson

Estimating clandestine abortion with the confidants method--results from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso pp. 254-266

Clémentine Rossier, George Guiella, Abdoulaye Ouédraogo and Blandine Thiéba