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2005, volume 61, articles 12

Is migration to Canada associated with unhealthy weight gain? Overweight and obesity among Canada's immigrants pp. 2469-2481

James McDonald and Steven Kennedy

A narrative approach to understanding the nursing work environment in Canada pp. 2482-2491

Linda McGillis Hall and Diana Kiesners

Physician migration: Views from professionals in Colombia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan and the Philippines pp. 2492-2500

Avraham Astor, Tasleem Akhtar, María Alexandra Matallana, Vasantha Muthuswamy, Folarin A. Olowu, Veronica Tallo and Reidar K. Lie

Combined effects of uncertainty and organizational justice on employee health: Testing the uncertainty management model of fairness judgments among Finnish public sector employees pp. 2501-2512

Marko Elovainio, Kees van den Bos, Anne Linna, Mika Kivimäki, Leena Ala-Mursula, Jaana Pentti and Jussi Vahtera

Intragenerational mobility and mortality in Oslo: Social selection versus social causation pp. 2513-2520

Bjorgulf Claussen, Jeroen Smits, Oyvind Naess and George Davey Smith

Health status among young people in Slovakia: comparisons on the basis of age, gender and education pp. 2521-2527

Maria Sleskova, Ferdinand Salonna, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Jitse P. van Dijk and Johan W. Groothoff

Barriers to cervical cancer screening: A qualitative study with women in Serbia pp. 2528-2535

Milica Markovic, Vesna Kesic, Lidija Topic and Bojana Matejic

Ruling in and ruling out: Implications of molecular genetic diagnoses for disease classification pp. 2536-2545

Fiona Alice Miller, Catherine Ahern, Jacqueline Ogilvie, Mita Giacomini and Lisa Schwartz

Psychiatrists as social engineers: A study of an anti-stigma campaign pp. 2546-2556

David Pilgrim and Anne E. Rogers

Spousal influence on smoking behaviors in a US community sample of newly married couples pp. 2557-2567

Gregory G. Homish and Kenneth E. Leonard

Income inequality, poverty, and population health: Evidence from recent data for the United States pp. 2568-2576

Rati Ram

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) in South Africa: Engaging multiple constituents to shape the research question pp. 2577-2587

Maghboeba Mosavel, Christian Simon, Debbie van Stade and Mara Buchbinder

The focus group method: Insights from focus group interviews on sexual health with adolescents pp. 2588-2599

Abbey Hyde, Etaoine Howlett, Dympna Brady and Jonathan Drennan

Retrofitting houses with insulation to reduce health inequalities: Aims and methods of a clustered, randomised community-based trial pp. 2600-2610

P. Howden-Chapman, J. Crane, A. Matheson, H. Viggers, M. Cunningham, T. Blakely, D. O'Dea, C. Cunningham, A. Woodward, K. Saville-Smith, M. Baker and N. Waipara

'Unilateral' and 'bilateral' practitioner approaches in decision-making about treatment pp. 2611-2627

Sarah Collins, Paul Drew, Ian Watt and Vikki Entwistle

"When the obvious brother is not there": Political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda pp. 2628-2638

Christopher Oleke, Astrid Blystad and Ole Bjørn Rekdal

State health policy making determinants, theory, and methods: A synthesis pp. 2639-2657

Edward Alan Miller

2005, volume 61, articles 11

Characterizing the scope of socialization and its impact on health: A commentary on Singh-Manoux and Marmot's "Role of socialization in explaining social inequalities in health" (60: 9, 2005, 2129-2133) pp. 2269-2271

Michael Siegal and Frances Aboud

Early childhood socialization and social gradients in adult health: A commentary on Singh-Manoux and Marmot's "Role of socialization in explaining social inequalities in health" (60: 9, 2005, 2129-2133) pp. 2272-2276

Garth E. Kendall and Jianghong Li

Socialization & health inequalities: Some clarifications. A reply to Kendall & Li, and Siegal & Aboud pp. 2277-2279

Archana Singh-Manoux

Depression in the United States and Japan: Gender, marital status, and SES patterns pp. 2280-2292

Akihide Inaba, Peggy A. Thoits, Koji Ueno, Walter R. Gove, Ranae J. Evenson and Melissa Sloan

Marital transitions and mental health: Are there gender differences in the short-term effects of marital status change? pp. 2293-2303

Lisa Strohschein, Peggy McDonough, Georges Monette and Qing Shao

Heavy alcohol use and marital dissolution in the USA pp. 2304-2316

Jan Ostermann, Frank A. Sloan and Donald H. Taylor

Gender role orientations and alcohol use among Moscow and Toronto adults pp. 2317-2330

Karen Van Gundy, Scott Schieman, Margaret S. Kelley and Cesar J. Rebellon

What makes things happen? An analysis of the development of nine health-promoting measures aimed at children and adolescents in three Swedish municipalities pp. 2331-2344

Karin Guldbrandsson, Sven Bremberg and Henry Bäck

Socio-economic influences on self-rated health in Russian men and women--a life course approach pp. 2345-2354

Amanda Nicholson, Martin Bobak, Michael Murphy, Richard Rose and Michael Marmot

Priority setting in hospitals: Fairness, inclusiveness, and the problem of institutional power differences pp. 2355-2362

Jennifer L. Gibson, Douglas K. Martin and Peter A. Singer

"Unless you went in with your head under your arm": Patient perceptions of emergency room visits pp. 2363-2373

Katie Wellstood, Kathi Wilson and John Eyles

Calls to a home birth helpline: Empowerment in childbirth pp. 2374-2383

Rebecca Shaw and Celia Kitzinger

Beliefs about treatment of mental health problems among Cambodian American children and parents pp. 2384-2395

Tamara C. Daley

Challenges and changes in spirituality among doctors who become patients pp. 2396-2406

Robert L. Klitzman and Shaira Daya

A longitudinal assessment of inter-sectoral participation in a community-based diabetes prevention programme pp. 2407-2422

Camilla Maria Andersson, Gunilla Bjärås, Per Tillgren and Claes-Göran Östenson

Pediatric adherence: Perspectives of mothers of children with HIV pp. 2423-2433

Judith Wrubel, Judith Tedlie Moskowitz, T. Anne Richards, Heleen Prakke, Michael Acree and Susan Folkman

Achieving social change on gender-based violence: A report on the impact evaluation of Soul City's fourth series pp. 2434-2445

S. Usdin, E. Scheepers, Susan Goldstein and Garth Japhet

Achieving the 'good life': Why some people want latrines in rural Benin pp. 2446-2459

Marion W. Jenkins and Val Curtis

Sociodemographic and attitudinal correlates of cervical screening uptake in a national sample of women in Britain pp. 2460-2465

Stephen Sutton and Celia Rutherford

2005, volume 61, articles 10

Local neighbourhood and mental health: Evidence from the UK pp. 2065-2083

Carol Propper, Kelvyn Jones, Anne Bolster, Simon Burgess, Ron Johnston and Rebecca Sarker

Mental health and hostility as predictors of temporary employment: Evidence from two prospective studies pp. 2084-2095

Marianna Virtanen, Mika Kivimäki, Marko Elovainio, Jussi Vahtera, Katja Kokko and Lea Pulkkinen

A census-based socio-economic status (SES) index as a tool to examine the relationship between mental health services use and deprivation pp. 2096-2105

Juan Eduardo Tello, Julia Jones, Paola Bonizzato, Mariangela Mazzi, Francesco Amaddeo and Michele Tansella

The poor have become rich, and the rich have become poor: Collective trauma in the Guinean Languette pp. 2106-2118

Sharon A. Abramowitz

Health implications of access to social capital: findings from an Australian study pp. 2119-2131

Anna M. Ziersch

The role of constructed meaning in adaptation to the onset of life-threatening illness pp. 2132-2143

Betsy L. Fife

Consequences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic heart failure: The relationship between objective and subjective health pp. 2144-2154

Rosemarie Arnold, Adelita V. Ranchor, Gerard H. Koëter, Mike J.L. de Jongste and Robbert Sanderman

Contesting stigma and contested emotions: Personal experience and public perception of specific phobias pp. 2155-2164

Joyce Davidson

Sedentarization and children's health: Changing discourses in the northeast Badia of Jordan pp. 2165-2176

Neil J. Spicer

Longevity following the experience of parental divorce pp. 2177-2189

Leslie R. Martin, Howard S. Friedman, Kathleen M. Clark and Joan S. Tucker

The social trajectory of illness: Autism in the ultraorthodox community in Israel pp. 2190-2200

Michal Shaked

Social implications of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh pp. 2201-2211

M. Manzurul Hassan, Peter J. Atkins and Christine E. Dunn

What causes sustainable changes in hygiene behaviour? A cross-sectional study from Kerala, India pp. 2212-2220

Sandy Cairncross, Kathleen Shordt, Suma Zacharia and Beena Kumari Govindan

Health selection in a 14-year follow-up study--A question of gendered discrimination? pp. 2221-2232

Anne Hammarström and Urban Janlert

Widening ethnic mortality disparities in New Zealand 1981-99 pp. 2233-2251

Tony Blakely, Martin Tobias, Bridget Robson, Shilpi Ajwani, Martin Bonné and Alistair Woodward

Information giving and decision-making in patients with advanced cancer: A systematic review pp. 2252-2264

Christine M. Gaston and Geoffrey Mitchell

2005, volume 61, articles 9

Working in London hospitals: Perceptions of place in nursing students' employment considerations pp. 1867-1881

David A. Brodie, Gavin J. Andrews, Justin P. Andrews, B. Gail Thomas, Josephine Wong and Lorna Rixon

Digging deep: Using diary techniques to explore the place of health and well-being amongst older people pp. 1882-1892

Christine Milligan, Amanda Bingley and Anthony Gatrell

Place, policy and practitioners: On rehabilitation, independence and the therapeutic landscape in the changing geography of care provision to older people in the UK pp. 1893-1904

Graham P. Martin, Susan A. Nancarrow, Hilda Parker, Kay Phelps and Emma L. Regen

Relationships between child, family and neighbourhood characteristics and childhood injury: A cohort study pp. 1905-1915

Denise Kendrick, Caroline Mulvaney, Paul Burton and Michael Watson

Is subjective social status a more important determinant of health than objective social status? Evidence from a prospective observational study of Scottish men pp. 1916-1929

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

Interorganizational collaboration for health care between nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Pakistan pp. 1930-1943

Laila Gulzar and Beverly Henry

The use of direct clinician observation and vignettes for health services quality evaluation in developing countries pp. 1944-1951

Kenneth Leonard and Melkiory C. Masatu

Monitoring cause-specific adult mortality in developing countries: A comparison of data sources for Addis Ababa and its implications for policy and research pp. 1952-1957

Georges Reniers, Tekebash Araya, Ab Schaap, Abera Kumie, Derege Kebede, Nico Nagelkerke, Roel Coutinho and Eduard J. Sanders

Creating demand for sanitation and hygiene through Community Health Clubs: A cost-effective intervention in two districts in Zimbabwe pp. 1958-1970

Juliet Waterkeyn and Sandy Cairncross

Food insufficiency and women's mental health: Findings from a 3-year panel of welfare recipients pp. 1971-1982

Colleen M. Heflin, Kristine Siefert and David R. Williams

Women as moral pioneers? Experiences of first trimester antenatal screening pp. 1983-1992

Clare Williams, Jane Sandall, Gillian Lewando-Hundt, Bob Heyman, Kevin Spencer and Rachel Grellier

Can women's autonomy impede male involvement in pregnancy health in Katmandu, Nepal? pp. 1993-2006

Britta C. Mullany, Michelle J. Hindin and Stan Becker

Social capital in settings with a high concentration of road traffic injuries. The case of Cuernavaca, Mexico pp. 2007-2017

Cristina Inclán, Martha Hijar and Victor Tovar

The income-associated burden of disease in the United States pp. 2018-2026

Peter Muennig, Peter Franks, Haomiao Jia, Erica Lubetkin and Marthe R Gold

Safe asleep? Human-machine relations in medical practice pp. 2027-2037

Maggie Mort, Dawn Goodwin, Andrew F Smith and Catherine Pope

The experience of SARS-related stigma at Amoy Gardens pp. 2038-2046

Sing Lee, Lydia Y.Y. Chan, Annie M.Y. Chau, Kathleen P.S. Kwok and Arthur Kleinman

2005, volume 61, articles 8

Using hormone treatment to reduce the adult height of tall girls: Are women satisfied with the decision in later years? pp. 1629-1639

Priscilla Pyett, Jo Rayner, Alison Venn, Fiona Bruinsma, George Werther and Judith Lumley

Speaking of women's 'nameless misery': The everyday construction of depression in Australian women's magazines pp. 1640-1648

Suzy Gattuso, Simone Fullagar and Ilena Young

Research use in children's mental health policy in Canada: Maintaining vigilance amid ambiguity pp. 1649-1657

Charlotte Waddell, John N. Lavis, Julia Abelson, Jonathan Lomas, Cody A. Shepherd, Twylla Bird-Gayson, Mita Giacomini and (Dan) Offord, David R.

Alcohol dependence and depression among heavy drinkers in Canada pp. 1658-1667

Jennifer Lukassen and Marie P. Beaudet

Psychiatric "survivors" and testimonies of self-harm pp. 1668-1677

Mark Cresswell

Fear of crime, mobility and mental health in inner-city London, UK pp. 1678-1688

Rob Whitley and Martin Prince

From mandatory to voluntary testing: Balancing human rights, religious and cultural values, and HIV/AIDS prevention in Ghana pp. 1689-1700

Isaac N. Luginaah, Emmanuel Yiridoe and Mary-Margaret Taabazuing

Listening to those on the frontline: Lessons for community-based tuberculosis programmes from a qualitative study in Swaziland pp. 1701-1710

Sarah Escott and John Walley

The potential of schoolchildren as health change agents in rural western Kenya pp. 1711-1722

W. Onyango-Ouma, J. Aagaard-Hansen and B.B. Jensen

A comparison of attitudes towards end-of-life decisions: Survey among the Dutch general public and physicians pp. 1723-1732

Judith A.C. Rietjens, Agnes van der Heide, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Paul J. van der Maas and Gerrit van der Wal

The medicine user--Lost in translation?: Analysis of the official political debate prior to the deregulation of the Danish medicine distribution system pp. 1733-1740

Mikkel Noerreslet, Jakob B. Larsen and Janine M. Traulsen

Conflicting notions of research ethics: The mutually challenging traditions of social scientists and medical researchers pp. 1741-1749

Klaus Hoeyer, Lisa Dahlager and Niels Lynöe

The flight of physicians from West Africa: Views of African physicians and implications for policy pp. 1750-1760

Amy Hagopian, Anthony Ofosu, Adesegun Fatusi, Richard Biritwum, Ama Essel, L. Gary Hart and Carolyn Watts

Does NHS Direct empower patients? pp. 1761-1771

Alicia O'Cathain, Jackie Goode, Donna Luff, Tim Strangleman, Gerard Hanlon and David Greatbatch

Physicians' willingness to report impaired colleagues pp. 1772-1775

Neil J. Farber, Stephanie G. Gilibert, Brian M. Aboff, Virginia U. Collier, Joan Weiner and E. Gil Boyer

Relating health policy to women's health outcomes pp. 1776-1784

Jennifer P. Wisdom, Michelle Berlin and Jodi A. Lapidus

Overt and covert barriers to the integration of primary and specialist mental health care pp. 1785-1794

Linda Gask

Time on my side? Life course trajectories of poverty and health pp. 1795-1808

Peggy McDonough, Amanda Sacker and Richard Wiggins

''If they rape me, I can't blame them": Reflections on gender in the social context of child rape in South Africa and Namibia pp. 1809-1820

Rachel Jewkes, Loveday Penn-Kekana and Hetty Rose-Junius

Internet use and stigmatized illness pp. 1821-1827

Magdalena Berger, Todd H. Wagner and Laurence C. Baker

Reluctant acceptance of xenotransplantation in kidney patients on the waiting list for transplantation pp. 1828-1834

Leonieke W. Kranenburg, Chantal Kerssens, Jan N.M. Ijzermans, Willij Zuidema, Willem Weimar and Jan J.V. Busschbach

Negative affectivity and enhanced symptom reports: Differentiating between symptoms in men and women pp. 1835-1845

Ilse Van Diest, Steven De Peuter, Audrey Eertmans, Katleen Bogaerts, An Victoir and Omer Van den Bergh

Why do patients and families request transfers to tertiary care? a qualitative study pp. 1846-1853

Sydney Morss Dy, Haya R. Rubin and Harold P. Lehmann

Trials and tribulations: Understanding motivations for clinical research participation amongst adults with cystic fibrosis pp. 1854-1865

Karen Lowton

2005, volume 61, articles 7

Editorial: building trust and value in health systems in low- and middle-income countries pp. 1381-1384

Lucy Gilson

The market shaping of charges, trust and abuse: health care transactions in Tanzania pp. 1385-1395

Paula Tibandebage and Maureen Mackintosh

Treatment-seeking behaviour in urban Sri Lanka: Trusting the state, trusting private providers pp. 1396-1407

Steven Russell

Private obstetric practice in a public hospital: mythical trust in obstetric care pp. 1408-1417

Wachara Riewpaiboon, Komatra Chuengsatiansup, Lucy Gilson and Viroj Tangcharoensathien

Trust and health worker performance: exploring a conceptual framework using South African evidence pp. 1418-1429

Lucy Gilson, Natasha Palmer and Helen Schneider

Trust in micro-health insurance: an exploratory study in Rwanda pp. 1430-1438

Pia Schneider

How can trust be investigated? Drawing lessons from past experience pp. 1439-1451

Jane Goudge and Lucy Gilson

Information and access to health care: is there a role for trust? pp. 1452-1462

Michael Thiede

Trust and informed consent: insights from community members on the Kenyan coast pp. 1463-1473

C.S. Molyneux, N. Peshu and K. Marsh

The birth of the e-clinic. Continuity or transformation in the UK governance of pharmaceutical consumption? pp. 1474-1484

Nick Fox, Katie Ward and Alan O'Rourke

Towards a wireless patient: Chronic illness, scarce care and technological innovation in the United Kingdom pp. 1485-1494

Carl May, Tracy Finch, Frances Mair and Maggie Mort

Essences and imperatives: An investigation of technology in childbirth pp. 1495-1504

Jude Kornelsen

The somatising effect of clinical consultation: What patients and doctors say and do not say when patients present medically unexplained physical symptoms pp. 1505-1515

Adele Ring, Christopher F. Dowrick, Gerry M. Humphris, John Davies and Peter Salmon

Measuring patient-centered communication in Patient-Physician consultations: Theoretical and practical issues pp. 1516-1528

Ronald M. Epstein, Peter Franks, Kevin Fiscella, Cleveland G. Shields, Sean C. Meldrum, Richard L. Kravitz and Paul R. Duberstein

Gender, religious involvement, and HIV/AIDS prevention in Mozambique pp. 1529-1539

Victor Agadjanian

Managing uncertainty around HIV/AIDS in an urban setting: Private medical providers and their patients in Pune, India pp. 1540-1550

Karina Kielmann, Deepali Deshmukh, Sucheta Deshpande, Vinita Datye, John Porter and Sheela Rangan

Mental health and socio-economic variations in Australian suicide pp. 1551-1559

Richard Taylor, Andrew Page, Stephen Morrell, James Harrison and Greg Carter

Discrepancy in the preferences of place of death between terminally ill cancer patients and their primary family caregivers in Taiwan pp. 1560-1566

Siew Tzuh Tang, Tsang-Wu Liu, Mei-Shu Lai and Ruth McCorkle

Socioeconomic factors associated with the onset of disability in older age: a longitudinal study of people aged 75 years and over pp. 1567-1575

Ruth J. Matthews, Lucy K. Smith, Ruth M. Hancock, Carol Jagger and Nicola A. Spiers

Experiences of discrimination: Validity and reliability of a self-report measure for population health research on racism and health pp. 1576-1596

Nancy Krieger, Kevin Smith, Deepa Naishadham, Cathy Hartman and Elizabeth M. Barbeau

Estimation of private and social time preferences for health in northern Tanzania pp. 1597-1607

Bjarne Robberstad

Determinants of the demand for breast cancer screening among women veterans in the United States pp. 1608-1617

David R. Lairson, Wenyaw Chan and Georgina R. Newmark

Relationship of anxiety, depression and alcohol use disorders to persistent high utilization and potentially problematic under-utilization of primary medical care pp. 1618-1625

Julian D. Ford, Robert L. Trestman, Howard Tennen and Scott Allen

2005, volume 61, articles 6

Effect of specific aspects of community social environment on the mortality of Individuals diagnosed with serious illness pp. 1119-1134

Ming Wen, Kathleen A. Cagney and Nicholas A. Christakis

Neighborhood economic conditions, social processes, and self-rated health in low-income neighborhoods in Texas: A multilevel latent variables model pp. 1135-1150

Luisa Franzini, Margaret Caughy, William Spears and Maria Eugenia Fernandez Esquer

Social capital and substance use among Swedish adolescents--an explorative study pp. 1151-1158

Petter Lundborg

The pet connection: Pets as a conduit for social capital? pp. 1159-1173

Lisa Wood, Billie Giles-Corti and Max Bulsara

Individual socio-economic status, community socio-economic status and stroke in New Zealand: A case control study pp. 1174-1188

Paul Brown, Melody Guy and Joanna Broad

"This glorious twilight zone of uncertainty": Mental health consultations in general practice in New Zealand pp. 1189-1200

Kevin Dew, Anthony Dowell, Deborah McLeod, Sunny Collings and John Bushnell

'At the point at which you can do something about it, then it becomes more relevant': Informed consent in the pharmacogenetic clinic pp. 1201-1210

Adam Hedgecoe

Views of US researchers about informed consent in international collaborative research pp. 1211-1222

Liza Dawson and Nancy E. Kass

The effect of immigrant generation on smoking pp. 1223-1242

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Jocelyn Pan, Hee-Jin Jun, Theresa L. Osypuk and Karen M. Emmons

Do healthy behaviors decline with greater acculturation?: Implications for the Latino mortality paradox pp. 1243-1255

Ana F. Abraído-Lanza, Maria T. Chao and Karen R. Flórez

Self-reported health as a cultural health determinant in Arab and Jewish Israelis: MABAT--National Health and Nutrition Survey 1999-2001 pp. 1256-1266

Orna Baron-Epel, Giora Kaplan, Amalia Haviv-Messika, Jalal Tarabeia, Manfred S. Green and Dorit Nitzan Kaluski

Combat stress reactions, posttraumatic stress disorder, cumulative life stress, and physical health among Israeli veterans twenty years after exposure to combat pp. 1267-1277

Yael Benyamini and Zahava Solomon

Sexuality after breast cancer treatment: Changes and coping strategies among Japanese survivors pp. 1278-1290

Miyako Takahashi and Ichiro Kai

Decision-makers and the usefulness of research evidence in policy implementation--a case study from Lao PDR pp. 1291-1299

G. Tomson, C. Paphassarang, K. Jönsson, K. Houamboun, K. Akkhavong and R. Wahlström

Resemblance talk: A challenge for parents whose children were conceived with donor gametes in the US pp. 1300-1309

Gay Becker, Anneliese Butler and Robert D. Nachtigall

The work of forgetting: Germs, aborigines and postcolonial expertise in the Northern Territory of Australia pp. 1310-1319

Tess Lea

Failure to seek needed medical care: Results from a national health survey of Icelanders pp. 1320-1330

Runar Vilhjalmsson

Utility-driven evidence for healthy cities: Problems with evidence generation and application pp. 1331-1341

Evelyne de Leeuw and Thomas Skovgaard

Economic valuation of informal care: The conjoint measurement method applied to informal caregiving pp. 1342-1355

Bernard van den Berg, Maiwenn Al, Werner Brouwer, Job van Exel and Marc Koopmanschap

Understanding the relationship of maternal health behavior change and intervention strategies in a Nicaraguan NGO network pp. 1356-1368

Joseph J. Valadez, Jerald Hage and William Vargas

The moral career of poor patients in free clinics pp. 1369-1380

Isabelle Parizot, Pierre Chauvin and Serge Paugam

2005, volume 61, articles 5

A comparative analysis of drug safety withdrawals in the UK and the US (1971-1992): Implications for current regulatory thinking and policy pp. 881-892

John Abraham and Courtney Davis

Global trade, public health, and health services: Stakeholders' constructions of the key issues pp. 893-906

Howard Waitzkin, Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar, Angela Landwehr and Carolyn Mountain

Income inequality and adult nutritional status: Anthropometric evidence from a pre-industrial society in the Bolivian Amazon pp. 907-919

Ricardo Godoy, Elizabeth Byron, Victoria Reyes-García, Vincent Vadez, William R. Leonard, Lilian Apaza, Tomás Huanca, Eddy Pérez and David Wilkie

Selfhood and social distance: Toward a cultural understanding of psychiatric stigma in Egypt pp. 920-930

Elizabeth M. Coker

Socio-cultural factors influencing prevention and treatment of tuberculosis in immigrant and Aboriginal communities in Canada pp. 931-942

N. Gibson, A. Cave, D. Doering, L. Ortiz and P. Harms

Social capital and mental health: An interdisciplinary review of primary evidence pp. 943-964

Astier M. Almedom

Neighborhood disorder, psychological distress, and heavy drinking pp. 965-975

Terrence D. Hill and Ronald J. Angel

Obtaining sensitive information from a wary population: A comparison of telephone and face-to-face surveys of welfare recipients in the United States pp. 976-984

William Alex Pridemore, Kelly R. Damphousse and Rebecca K. Moore

Third-party informed consent in research with adolescents: The good, the bad and the ugly pp. 985-988

Katia Geluda, Joana Buarque Bisaglia, Vivian Moreira, Beatriz Motta Maldonado, Antônio JLA Cunha and Anete Trajman

Moving beyond the mother-child dyad: Women's education, child immunization, and the importance of context in rural India pp. 989-1000

Sangeeta Parashar

Pregnancy outcomes, site of delivery, and community schisms in regions affected by the armed conflict in Chiapas, Mexico pp. 1001-1014

Paula E. Brentlinger, Héctor Javier Sánchez-Pérez, Marcos Arana Cedeño, Lic. Guadalupe Vargas Morales, Miguel A. Hernán, Mark A. Micek and Douglas Ford

Physician-patient communication following invasive procedures: an analysis of post-angiogram consultations pp. 1015-1025

Howard S. Gordon, Richard Street, P. Adam Kelly, Julianne Souchek and Nelda P. Wray

The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users pp. 1026-1044

Tim Rhodes, Merrill Singer, Philippe Bourgois, Samuel R. Friedman and Steffanie A. Strathdee

Decolonization and the movement for institutionalization of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong: a political process perspective pp. 1045-1058

Stephen W.K. Chiu, Lisanne S.F. Ko and Rance P.L. Lee

Family, kinship, memory and temporality in the age of the new genetics pp. 1059-1071

Kaja Finkler

Mothers, daughters and sexual agency in one low-income South African community pp. 1072-1082

Elmien Lesch and Lou-Marie Kruger

Expectations regarding length and health related quality of life: Some empirical findings pp. 1083-1094

Werner Brouwer and Job van Exel

Men, sport, spinal cord injury, and narratives of hope pp. 1095-1105

Brett Smith and Andrew C. Sparkes

'That's like chopping off a finger because you're afraid it might get broken': Disease and illness in women's views of prophylactic mastectomy pp. 1106-1117

Nancy Press, Susan Reynolds, Linda Pinsky, Vinaya Murthy, Michael Leo and Wylie Burke

2005, volume 61, articles 4

The social production of health: Critical contributions from evolutionary, biological, and cultural anthropology pp. 745-750

Betty Wolder Levin and C.H. Browner

The value of a critical ethnographic engagement: comments on the social production of health pp. 751-753

Shirley Lindenbaum

Evolutionary, historical and political economic perspectives on health and disease pp. 755-765

George J. Armelagos, Peter J. Brown and Bethany Turner

When "health" is not enough: societal, individual and biomedical assessments of well-being among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon pp. 767-783

Carolina Izquierdo

Vital warmth and well-being: steambathing as household therapy among the Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya of highland Chiapas, Mexico pp. 785-795

Kevin P. Groark

"What's wrong with me?": cervical cancer in Venezuela--living in the borderlands of health, disease, and illness pp. 797-808

Rebecca G. Martínez

The call to life: revitalizing a healthy Hawaiian identity pp. 809-820

Juliet McMullin

Desperately seeking "normal": the promise and perils of living with kidney transplantation pp. 821-831

Megan Crowley-Matoka

Coca-colonization of diets in the Yucatan pp. 833-846

Thomas L. Leatherman and Alan Goodman

Limited good and limited vision: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and global health policy pp. 847-859

Jim Yong Kim, Aaron Shakow, Kedar Mate, Chris Vanderwarker, Rajesh Gupta and Paul Farmer

Receding horizons of health: biocultural approaches to public health paradoxes pp. 861-878

Carol M. Worthman and Brandon Kohrt

2005, volume 61, articles 3

'It's caveman stuff, but that is to a certain extent how guys still operate': men's accounts of masculinity and help seeking pp. 503-516

Rosaleen O'Brien, Kate Hunt and Graham Hart

Smoking behaviour change among fathers of new infants pp. 517-526

Clare Blackburn, Sheila Bonas, Nick Spencer, Alan Dolan, Christine Coe and Robert Moy

Cultural consonance and arterial blood pressure in urban Brazil pp. 527-540

William W. Dressler, Mauro C. Balieiro, Rosane P. Ribeiro and José Ernesto Dos Santos

The impact of health care providers on female sterilization among HIV-positive women in Brazil pp. 541-554

Kristine Hopkins, Regina Maria Barbosa, Daniela Riva Knauth and Joseph E. Potter

Psychological distress among AIDS orphans in rural Uganda pp. 555-564

Benjamin Atwine, Elizabeth Cantor-Graae and Francis Bajunirwe

Adherence, stereotyping and unequal HIV treatment for active users of illegal drugs pp. 565-576

Norma C. Ware, Monique A. Wyatt and Toni Tugenberg

The ecology of health care in Hong Kong pp. 577-590

Gabriel M. Leung, Irene O.L. Wong, Wai-Sum Chan, Sarah Choi and Su-Vui Lo

Exposure to suicide and suicidal behaviors among Hong Kong adolescents pp. 591-599

Joy P.S. Wong, Sunita M. Stewart, S.Y. Ho, Uma Rao and T.H. Lam

Longitudinal study of child immunization determinants in China pp. 601-611

Jipan Xie and William Dow

Measuring the quality of child health care at first-level facilities pp. 613-625

Eleanor Gouws, Jennifer Bryce, George Pariyo, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, João Amaral and Jean-Pierre Habicht

Comparison or consumption? Distinguishing between different effects of income on health in Nordic welfare states pp. 627-635

Monica Åberg Yngwe, Johan Fritzell, Bo Burström and Olle Lundberg

Health inequalities by wage income in Sweden: The role of work environment pp. 637-647

Örjan Hemström

Tobacco taxation and public health: ethical problems, policy responses pp. 649-659

Nick Wilson and George Thomson

Coding patient-centred behaviour in the medical encounter pp. 661-671

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

The impact of a police drug crackdown on drug injectors' ability to practice harm reduction: A qualitative study pp. 673-684

Hannah Cooper, Lisa Moore, Sofia Gruskin and Nancy Krieger

Patient preferences in randomised controlled trials: Conceptual framework and implications for research pp. 685-695

Peter Bower, Michael King, Irwin Nazareth, Fiona Lampe and Bonnie Sibbald

Carer distress: A prospective, population-based study pp. 697-708

Michael Hirst

'MMR talk' and vaccination choices: An ethnographic study in Brighton pp. 709-719

Mike Poltorak, Melissa Leach, James Fairhead and Jackie Cassell

Structural violence and schizophrenia pp. 721-730

Brendan D. Kelly

Forecasting science futures: Legitimising hope and calming fears in the embryo stem cell debate pp. 731-740

Jenny Kitzinger and Clare Williams

2005, volume 61, articles 2

Continuity through change: The rhetoric and reality of health reform in New Zealand pp. 253-262

Toni Ashton, Nicholas Mays and Nancy Devlin

Developing a scale for measuring professional equity among Canadian physicians pp. 263-266

Roy Thomas Dobson, Rein Lepnurm and Elmer Struening

The impact of considering adaptation in health state valuation pp. 267-277

Laura J. Damschroder, Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher and Peter A. Ubel

Maternal and child health and family planning service utilization in Guatemala: implications for service integration pp. 279-291

Eric E. Seiber, David R. Hotchkiss, Jeffrey J. Rous and Andrés A. Berruti

Smoking behavior in persons with a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: a qualitative investigation of the transtheoretical model pp. 293-303

Michelle L. Esterberg and Michael T. Compton

Effects of patients with bipolar, schizophrenic, and major depressive disorders on the mental and other healthcare expenses of family members pp. 305-311

Frank D. Gianfrancesco, Ruey-hua Wang and Elaine Yu

Family burden in long-term diseases: a comparative study in schizophrenia vs. physical disorders pp. 313-322

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

"Like roulette": Australian women's explanations of gynecological cancers pp. 323-332

Lenore Manderson, Milica Markovic and Michael Quinn

Medical disorders of suicides in Australia: analysis using a multiple-cause-of-death approach pp. 333-341

Lado T. Ruzicka, Ching Y. Choi and Krys Sadkowsky

Women's experience of intimate partner violence in Haiti pp. 343-364

Anastasia J. Gage

Does pregnancy provide immunity from intimate partner abuse among Hong Kong Chinese women? pp. 365-377

Ying Lau

What does skin color have to do with infant health? An analysis of low birth weight among mainland and island Puerto Ricans pp. 379-391

Nancy S. Landale and R.S. Oropesa

Visualising abortion: emotion discourse and fetal imagery in a contemporary abortion debate pp. 393-403

Nick Hopkins, Suzanne Zeedyk and Fiona Raitt

Boundary breaches: the body, sex and sexuality after stoma surgery pp. 405-415

Lenore Manderson

Storylines of research in diffusion of innovation: a meta-narrative approach to systematic review pp. 417-430

Trisha Greenhalgh, Glenn Robert, Fraser Macfarlane, Paul Bate, Olympia Kyriakidou and Richard Peacock

Managing constraint: the experience of people with chronic pain pp. 431-441

A. Miles, H.V. Curran, S. Pearce and L. Allan

'Even if they ask you to stand by a tree all day, you will have to do it (laughter)...!': Community voices on the notion and practice of informed consent for biomedical research in developing countries pp. 443-454

C.S. Molyneux, D.R. Wassenaar, N. Peshu and K. Marsh

Inequities in healthcare seeking in the treatment of communicable endemic diseases in Southeast Nigeria pp. 455-463

Obinna Onwujekwe

From a relationship to encounter: an examination of longitudinal and lateral dimensions in the doctor-patient relationship pp. 465-479

Sharyn J. Potter and John B. McKinlay

The structure of patients' presenting concerns: the completion relevance of current symptoms pp. 481-493

Jeffrey D. Robinson and John Heritage

Is what I have just a cold or is it dengue? Addressing the gap between the politics of dengue control and daily life in Villavicencio-Colombia pp. 495-502

M. Roberto Suarez, S. Maria Fernanda Olarte, M.F.A. Ana and U. Catalina González

2005, volume 61, articles 1

Does work really cause distress? The contribution of occupational structure and work organization to the experience of psychological distress pp. 1-14

Alain Marchand, Andrée Demers and Pierre Durand

Dealing with it: Black Caribbean women's response to adversity and psychological distress associated with pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood pp. 15-25

Dawn Edge and Anne Rogers

Job strain, iso-strain, and the incidence of low back and neck injuries. A 7.5-year prospective study of San Francisco transit operators pp. 27-39

Reiner Rugulies and Niklas Krause

Job insecurity and its association with health among employees in the Taiwanese general population pp. 41-52

Yawen Cheng, Chun-Wan Chen, Chiou-Jong Chen and Tung-liang Chiang

Ethnic variation in health and the determinants of health among Latinos pp. 53-63

Barbara A. Zsembik and Dana Fennell

Primary care, race, and mortality in US states pp. 65-75

Leiyu Shi, James Macinko, Barbara Starfield, Robert Politzer and Jiahong Xu

Arab immigrants: a new case for ethnicity and health? pp. 77-82

Jen'nan Ghazal Read, Benjamin Amick and Katharine M. Donato

Income inequality and weight status in US metropolitan areas pp. 83-96

Virginia W. Chang and Nicholas A. Christakis

Access, utilization, quality, and effective coverage: An integrated conceptual framework and measurement strategy pp. 97-109

Bakhuti Shengelia, Ajay Tandon, Orvill B. Adams and Christopher J.L. Murray

Psychosocial work characteristics and incidence of newly diagnosed depression: a prospective cohort study of three different models pp. 111-122

Jaana Ylipaavalniemi, Mika Kivimäki, Marko Elovainio, Marianna Virtanen, Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen and Jussi Vahtera

The role of psychosocial factors in explaining socio-economic differences in mobility decline in a chronically ill population: results from the GLOBE study pp. 123-132

Annemarie Koster, Hans Bosma, Frank J. van Lenthe, Gertrudis I.J.M. Kempen, Johan P. Mackenbach and Jacques Th.M. van Eijk

Resisting medicines: a synthesis of qualitative studies of medicine taking pp. 133-155

Pandora Pound, Nicky Britten, Myfanwy Morgan, Lucy Yardley, Catherine Pope, Gavin Daker-White and Rona Campbell

Conceptualizing mainstream health care providers' behaviours in relation to complementary and alternative medicine pp. 157-170

K.A. Hirschkorn and I.L. Bourgeault

HIV and intimate partner violence among methadone-maintained women in New York City pp. 171-183

Nabila El-Bassel, Louisa Gilbert, Elwin Wu, Hyun Go and Jennifer Hill

Social capital and young adolescents' perceived health in different sociocultural settings pp. 185-198

Marjan Drukker, Stephen L. Buka, Charles Kaplan, Kwame McKenzie and Jim Van Os

The importance of eating rice: changing food habits among pregnant Indonesian women during the economic crisis pp. 199-210

T. Ninuk S. Hartini, R. Siwi Padmawati, Lars Lindholm, Achmad Surjono and Anna Winkvist

The contribution of lone parenthood and economic difficulties to smoking pp. 211-216

Ossi Rahkonen, Mikko Laaksonen and Sakari Karvonen

Fertility history and health in later life: a record linkage study in England and Wales pp. 217-228

Emily Grundy and Cecilia Tomassini

Where there is no state: household strategies for the management of illness in Chad pp. 229-243

Lori Leonard

Biases in internet sexual health samples: Comparison of an internet sexuality survey and a national sexual health survey in Sweden pp. 245-252

Michael W. Ross, Sven-Axel Månsson, Kristian Daneback, Al Cooper and Ronny Tikkanen