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2005, volume 60, articles 12

'Burning Issues': an introduction to selected papers from the 10th International Symposium in Medical Geography, Manchester 2003 pp. 2657-2660

Fiona Smyth and Richard Thomas

Complexity theory and geographies of health: a critical assessment pp. 2661-2671

Anthony C. Gatrell

The 'geneticisation' of heart disease: a network analysis of the production of new genetic knowledge pp. 2673-2683

Edward Hall

Replacing positivism in medical geography pp. 2685-2695

David Bennett

Everyday health histories and the making of place: the case of an English coastal town pp. 2697-2713

Gavin J. Andrews and Robin A. Kearns

Defining regions for locality health care planning: a multidimensional approach pp. 2715-2727

Niamh K. Shortt, Adrian Moore, Mike Coombes and Colin Wymer

Zone design for environment and health studies using pre-aggregated data pp. 2729-2742

Samantha Cockings and David Martin

The index of multiple deprivation 2000 access domain: a useful indicator for public health? pp. 2743-2753

Aphrodite Niggebrugge, Robin Haynes, Andrew Jones, Andrew Lovett and Ian Harvey

Selective migration, health and deprivation: a longitudinal analysis pp. 2755-2771

Paul Norman, Paul Boyle and Philip Rees

Housing improvement and self-reported mental distress among council estate residents pp. 2773-2783

Richard Thomas, Sherrill Evans, Peter Huxley, Claire Gately and Anne Rogers

The impacts of dwelling conditions on older persons' psychological well-being in Hong Kong: the mediating role of residential satisfaction pp. 2785-2797

David R. Phillips, Oi-ling Siu, Anthony G.O. Yeh and Kevin H.C. Cheng

Who you know, where you live: social capital, neighbourhood and health pp. 2799-2818

Gerry Veenstra, Isaac Luginaah, Sarah Wakefield, Stephen Birch, John Eyles and Susan Elliott

Family, friend or foe? Critical reflections on the relevance and role of social capital in health promotion and community development pp. 2819-2832

Sarah E.L. Wakefield and Blake Poland

Is the urban excess in lung cancer in Scotland explained by patterns of smoking? pp. 2833-2843

Jamie Pearce and Paul Boyle

Particulate air pollution, social confounders, and mortality in small areas of an industrial city pp. 2845-2863

Michael Jerrett, Michael Buzzelli, Richard T. Burnett and Patrick F. DeLuca

Geographical inequalities of mortality by income in two developed island countries: a cross-national comparison of Britain and Japan pp. 2865-2875

Tomoki Nakaya and Danny Dorling

Urban/rural inequalities in suicide in Scotland, 1981-1999 pp. 2877-2890

Kate A. Levin and Alastair H. Leyland

2005, volume 60, articles 11

Socio-economic position and its relationship to physical capacity among elderly people living in Jyväskylä, Finland: five- and ten-year follow-up studies pp. 2405-2416

Nina Rautio, Eino Heikkinen and Shah Ebrahim

A model of underlying socioeconomic vulnerability in human populations: evidence from variability in population health and implications for public health pp. 2417-2430

Sandro Galea, Jennifer Ahern and Adam Karpati

A European comparative study of marital status and socio-economic inequalities in suicide pp. 2431-2441

V. Lorant, Anton E. Kunst, Martijn Huisman, Matthias Bopp and Johan Mackenbach

A comparative study of the patterning of women's health by family status and employment status in Finland and Sweden pp. 2443-2451

Eva Roos, Bo Burström, Peppiina Saastamoinen and Eero Lahelma

The influence of neighborhood environment on the incidence of childhood asthma: a multilevel approach pp. 2453-2464

Young J. Juhn, Jennifer St. Sauver, Slavica Katusic, Delfino Vargas, Amy Weaver and John Yunginger

Current and lifetime exposure to working conditions. Do they explain educational differences in subjective health? pp. 2465-2476

Christiaan W.S. Monden

Exploring the generalisability of the association between income inequality and self-assessed health pp. 2477-2488

Neil Craig

Adoption of hospital case management: economic and institutional influences pp. 2489-2500

Susan D. Roggenkamp, Kenneth R. White and Gloria J. Bazzoli

Influence of waiting time on cost-effectiveness pp. 2501-2504

M.A. Koopmanschap, Werner Brouwer, L. Hakkaart-van Roijen and Job van Exel

Contracts in the real world: Case studies from Southern Africa pp. 2505-2514

Natasha Palmer and Anne Mills

Aids, race and the limits of science pp. 2515-2525

Wende Elizabeth Marshall

Racialized bodies, disabling worlds "they [service providers] always saw me as a client, not as a worker" pp. 2527-2536

Parin Dossa

The impact of own and spouse's urinary incontinence on depressive symptoms pp. 2537-2548

Nancy H. Fultz, Kristi Rahrig Jenkins, Truls Østbye, Donald Taylor, Mohammed U. Kabeto and Kenneth M. Langa

Gender differences in the relation between social support, problems in parent-offspring communication, and depression and anxiety pp. 2549-2559

Karlien M.C. Landman-Peeters, Catharina A. Hartman, Gieta van der Pompe, Johan A. den Boer, Ruud B. Minderaa and Johan Ormel

Stereotactic radiosurgery: the patient's experience pp. 2561-2573

David B. Menkes, Mary P. Davison, Shaun A. Costello and Chrystal Jaye

The experiential knowledge of patients: a new resource for biomedical research? pp. 2575-2584

J. Francisca Caron-Flinterman, Jacqueline E.W. Broerse and Joske F.G. Bunders

Assessing patients' preferences for treatments for angina using a modified repertory grid method pp. 2585-2595

Gene Rowe, Nigel Lambert, Ann Bowling, Shah Ebrahim, Ian Wakeling and Richard Thomson

The place of death of cancer patients: can qualitative data add to known factors? pp. 2597-2607

Carol Thomas

French hormones: progestins and therapeutic variation in France pp. 2609-2622

Ilana Löwy and George Weisz

Do panel surveys make people sick? US arthritis trends in the Health and Retirement Study pp. 2623-2627

Sven E. Wilson and Benjamin L. Howell

Disease metaphors in new epidemics: the UK media framing of the 2003 SARS epidemic pp. 2629-2639

Patrick Wallis and Brigitte Nerlich

Do higher status and more autonomous women have longer birth intervals?: Results from Cebu, Philippines pp. 2641-2655

Ushma D. Upadhyay and Michelle J. Hindin

2005, volume 60, articles 10

Extended family's and women's roles in safeguarding orphans' education in AIDS-afflicted rural Zimbabwe pp. 2155-2167

Constance Nyamukapa and Simon Gregson

Canadian Aboriginal people's experiences with HIV/AIDS as portrayed in selected English language Aboriginal media (1996-2000) pp. 2169-2180

Juanne N. Clarke, Daniela B. Friedman and Laurie Hoffman-Goetz

Commercial sex work, drug use, and sexually transmitted infections in St. Petersburg, Russia pp. 2181-2190

Sevgi O. Aral, Janet S. St. Lawrence, Roman Dyatlov and Andrei Kozlov

What girls need: recommendations for preventing violence among urban girls in the US pp. 2191-2204

Beth E. Molnar, Andrea L. Roberts, Angela Browne, Hannah Gardener and Stephen L. Buka

Community level effects of gender inequality on intimate partner violence and unintended pregnancy in Colombia: testing the feminist perspective pp. 2205-2216

Christina C. Pallitto and Patricia O'Campo

Race and ethnic differences in determinants of preterm birth in the USA: broadening the social context pp. 2217-2228

Patricia B. Reagan and Pamela J. Salsberry

The effects of racial density and income incongruity on pregnancy outcomes pp. 2229-2238

Kate E. Pickett, James Collins, Christopher M. Masi and Richard G. Wilkinson

Does chronic illness place constraints on positive constructions of identity? Temporal comparisons and self-evaluations in people with schizophrenia pp. 2239-2248

S. Dinos, E. Lyons and W.M.L. Finlay

Constructions of masculinity following prostatectomy-induced impotence pp. 2249-2259

John Oliffe

Sickness absence in female- and male-dominated occupations and workplaces pp. 2261-2272

Arne Mastekaasa

'Choosing' to work when sick: workplace presenteeism pp. 2273-2282

Kevin Dew, Vera Keefe and Keitha Small

'Supply' and 'demand': breastfeeding as labour pp. 2283-2293

Fiona Dykes

Mothers reframing physical activity: family oriented politicism, transgression and contested expertise in Australia pp. 2295-2306

Belinda Lewis and Damien Ridge

Physician-elderly patient-companion communication and roles of companions in Japanese geriatric encounters pp. 2307-2320

Hirono Ishikawa, Debra L. Roter, Yoshihiko Yamazaki and Tomoko Takayama

Quality of life and coping strategies among lung transplant candidates and their family caregivers pp. 2321-2332

Larissa Myaskovsky, Mary Amanda Dew, Galen E. Switzer, Mary L. McNulty, Andrea F. DiMartini and Kenneth R. McCurry

Participatory action research: considerations for ethical review pp. 2333-2340

N. Khanlou and E. Peter

Parents' perceptions of pediatric day surgery risks: unforeseeable complications, or avoidable mistakes? pp. 2341-2350

Elisa J. Sobo

The impact of advertising on nicotine replacement therapy demand pp. 2351-2358

John Tauras, Frank Chaloupka and Sherry Emery

Governance in gridlock in the Russian health system; the case of Sverdlovsk oblast pp. 2359-2369

Rod Sheaff

Credit program outcomes: coping capacity and nutritional status in the food insecure context of Ethiopia pp. 2371-2382

Shannon Doocy, Shimeles Teferra, Dan Norell and Gilbert Burnham

Beyond intention: do specific plans increase health behaviours in patients in primary care? A study of fruit and vegetable consumption pp. 2383-2391

Cath Jackson, Rebecca Lawton, Peter Knapp, David K. Raynor, Mark Conner, Catherine Lowe and S. José Closs

A pharmacist model of perceived responsibility for drug therapy outcomes pp. 2393-2403

Lourdes G. Planas, Carole L. Kimberlin, Richard Segal, David B. Brushwood, Charles D. Hepler and Barry R. Schlenker

2005, volume 60, articles 9

Does 'welfare-to-work' work? A systematic review of the effectiveness of the UK's welfare-to-work programmes for people with a disability or chronic illness pp. 1905-1918

Clare Bambra, Margaret Whitehead and Val Hamilton

The impact of media coverage of the suicide of a well-known Quebec reporter: the case of Gaëtan Girouard pp. 1919-1926

Michel Tousignant, Brian L. Mishara, Aline Caillaud, Veronique Fortin and Danielle St-Laurent

Beyond blame: cultural barriers to medical incident reporting pp. 1927-1935

Justin J. Waring

How acceptable are innovative health-care technologies? A survey of public beliefs and attitudes in England and Wales pp. 1937-1948

Michael Calnan, David Montaner and Rob Horne

Doing criticism in 'symbiotic niceness': a study of palliative care nurses' talk pp. 1949-1959

Sarah Li

Physicians' attitudes towards end-of-life decisions: a comparison between seven countries pp. 1961-1974

Guido Miccinesi, Susanne Fischer, Eugenio Paci, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Colleen Cartwright, Agnes van der Heide, Tore Nilstun, Michael Norup and Freddy Mortier

Diversity in clinical guidelines: the role of repertoires of evaluation pp. 1975-1985

Tiago Moreira

Socioeconomic status and weight change in adults: a review pp. 1987-2010

Kylie Ball and David Crawford

Low levels of maternal education and the proximate determinants of childhood mortality: a little learning is not a dangerous thing pp. 2011-2023

Alaka Malwade Basu and Rob Stephenson

Prehospital delay and independent/interdependent construal of self among Japanese patients with acute myocardial infarction pp. 2025-2034

Yoshimi Fukuoka, Kathleen Dracup, Sally H. Rankin, Erika Sivarajan Froelicher, Fumio Kobayashi, Haro Hirayama, Miyoshi Ohno and David Matsumoto

Breast-feeding, day-care attendance and the frequency of antibiotic treatments from 1.5 to 5 years: a population-based longitudinal study in Canada pp. 2035-2044

Lise Dubois and Manon Girard

The impact of socio-economic factors on functional status decline among community-dwelling older adults in China pp. 2045-2057

May A. Beydoun and Barry M. Popkin

Location, location, location: contextual and compositional health effects of social capital in British Columbia, Canada pp. 2059-2071

Gerry Veenstra

A multilevel analysis of ethnic variation in depressive symptoms among adolescents in the United States pp. 2073-2084

Richard G. Wight, Carol S. Aneshensel, Amanda L. Botticello and Joslan E. Sepúlveda

Framing the fetus in medical work: rituals and practices pp. 2085-2095

Clare Williams

Translators and mediators: bilingual young people's accounts of their interpreting work in health care pp. 2097-2110

Judith Green, Caroline Free, Vanita Bhavnani and Tony Newman

Antibiomedicine belief and integrative health seeking in Taiwan pp. 2111-2116

Chih-Yin Lew-Ting

"Sneaky disease": the body and health knowledge for people at risk for coronary heart disease in Ontario, Canada pp. 2117-2128

J. Angus, S. Evans, J. Lapum, E. Rukholm, R. St. Onge, R. Nolan and I. Michel

Role of socialization in explaining social inequalities in health pp. 2129-2133

Archana Singh-Manoux and Michael Marmot

Guiding the design and selection of interventions to influence the implementation of evidence-based practice: an experimental simulation of a complex intervention trial pp. 2135-2147

Debbie Bonetti, Martin Eccles, Marie Johnston, Nick Steen, Jeremy Grimshaw, Rachel Baker, Anne Walker and Nigel Pitts

Health care and illegality: a survey of undocumented pregnant immigrants in Geneva pp. 2149-2154

Hans Wolff, Hans Stalder, Manuella Epiney, Angela Walder, Olivier Irion and Alfredo Morabia

2005, volume 60, articles 8

On the relevance of personal characteristics in setting health priorities: a comment on Olsen, Richardson, Dolan and Menzel (2003) pp. 1661-1664

Duncan Mortimer

Response to "on the relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities" pp. 1665-1666

Jan Abel Olsen, Jeff Richardson, Paul Dolan and Paul Menzel

Racial residential segregation and geographic heterogeneity in black/white disparity in poor self-rated health in the US: a multilevel statistical analysis pp. 1667-1679

S.V. Subramanian, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Theresa L. Osypuk

Gender differences in the associations between health and neighbourhood environment pp. 1681-1692

M. Stafford, S. Cummins, S. Macintyre, A. Ellaway and M. Marmot

Comparing sex inequalities in common affective disorders across countries: Great Britain and Chile pp. 1693-1703

Graciela Rojas, Ricardo Araya and Glyn Lewis

A gender-based dynamic multidimensional longitudinal analysis of resilience and mortality in the old-old in Israel: the cross-sectional and longitudinal aging study (CALAS) pp. 1705-1715

Adrian Walter-Ginzburg, Dov Shmotkin, Tzvia Blumstein and Aviva Shorek

The impact of current and past interpersonal violence on women's mental health pp. 1717-1727

Patrizia Romito, Janet Molzan Turan and Margherita De Marchi

'My fear is to fall in love again...' How HIV-positive African women survive in London pp. 1729-1738

Lesley Doyal and Jane Anderson

A typology of groups at risk of HIV/STI in a gold mining town in north-western Tanzania pp. 1739-1749

Nicola Desmond, Caroline F. Allen, Simon Clift, Butolwa Justine, Joseph Mzugu, Mary L. Plummer, Deborah Watson-Jones and David A. Ross

'I never go anywhere': extricating the links between women's mobility and uptake of reproductive health services in Pakistan pp. 1751-1765

Zubia Mumtaz and Sarah Salway

What happened when Scottish women were given advance supplies of emergency contraception? A survey and qualitative study of women's views and experiences pp. 1767-1779

Sue Ziebland, Sally Wyke, Pete Seaman, Karen Fairhurst, Jeremy Walker and Anna Glasier

Attitudes toward palliative care, conceptions of euthanasia and opinions about its legalization among French physicians pp. 1781-1793

Patrick Peretti-Watel, M.K. Bendiane and J.P. Moatti

Dimensions of privacy in palliative care: views of health professionals pp. 1795-1804

Annette F. Street and Anthony Love

Cost structure of osteopathic hospitals and their local counterparts in the USA: Are they any different? pp. 1805-1814

Tony Sinay

Managed care and infant health: an evaluation of Medicaid in the US pp. 1815-1833

Robert Kaestner, Lisa Dubay and Genevieve Kenney

Social and psychological characteristics of Kuwaiti children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes pp. 1835-1844

M.A.A. Moussa, M. Alsaeid, N. Abdella, T.M.K. Refai, N. Al-Sheikh and J.E. Gomez

Perceptions of tuberculosis patients about their physical, mental and social well-being: a field report from south India pp. 1845-1853

R. Rajeswari, M. Muniyandi, R. Balasubramanian and P.R. Narayanan

Perspectives on use and protection of genetic information in work settings: results of a preliminary study pp. 1855-1858

Laura Weiss Roberts, Cynthia M.A. Geppert, Teddy D. Warner, Katherine A. Green Hammond, Melinda Rogers, Julienne Smrcka and Brian B. Roberts

Variation and change in the meaning of oral health related quality of life: a 'grounded' systems approach pp. 1859-1868

Jane Gregory, Barry Gibson and Peter G. Robinson

Repositioning the patient: the implications of being 'at risk' pp. 1869-1879

S. Scott, L. Prior, F. Wood and J. Gray

Potential access and revealed access to pain management medications pp. 1881-1891

Swu-Jane Lin, Stephanie Y. Crawford and J. Warren Salmon

Health sector reform in Argentina: a cautionary tale pp. 1893-1903

Peter Lloyd-Sherlock

2005, volume 60, articles 7

The purpose of attributing cause: beliefs about the causes of myocardial infarction pp. 1411-1421

DavidP. French, Esther Maissi and Theresa M. Marteau

Lay perceptions of type 2 diabetes in Scotland: bringing health services back in pp. 1423-1435

Julia Lawton, Elizabeth Peel, Odette Parry, Gonzalo Araoz and Margaret Douglas

Moral hazard and prescription medicine use in Australia--the patient perspective pp. 1437-1443

Evan Doran, Jane Robertson and David Henry

Fee-for-service or donation? Hungarian perspectives on informal payment for health care pp. 1445-1457

Peter Gaal and Martin McKee

Whose informational needs are considered? A comparison between cancer patients and their spouses' perceptions of their own and their partners' knowledge and informational needs pp. 1459-1465

Yoram Bar-Tal, Sivia Barnoy and Bracha Zisser

Health information-seeking behaviour in adolescence: the place of the internet pp. 1467-1478

Nicola J. Gray, Jonathan D. Klein, Peter R. Noyce, Tracy S. Sesselberg and Judith A. Cantrill

The impact of an organ donation registration information program for high school students in the Netherlands pp. 1479-1486

A. Reubsaet, J. Brug, M.D. Nijkamp, M.J.J.M. Candel, J.P. van Hooff and H.W. van den Borne

Exploring the social and cultural context of sexual health for young people in Mongolia: implications for health promotion pp. 1487-1498

Amanda B. Roberts, C. Oyun, E. Batnasan and Lory Laing

Association of sociodemographic characteristics of children with intellectual disability in Western Australia pp. 1499-1513

Helen Leonard, Beverly Petterson, Nicholas De Klerk, Stephen R. Zubrick, Emma Glasson, Richard Sanders and Carol Bower

Does social inequality matter? Changing ethnic socio-economic disparities and Maori smoking in New Zealand, 1981-1996 pp. 1515-1526

Ross Barnett, Jamie Pearce and Graham Moon

Ethnic differences in social participation and social capital in Malmö, Sweden: a population-based study pp. 1527-1546

Martin Lindström

Residential mobility in the California Teachers Study: implications for geographic differences in disease rates pp. 1547-1555

Susan E. Hurley, Peggy Reynolds, Debbie E. Goldberg, Andrew Hertz, Hoda Anton-Culver, Leslie Bernstein, Dennis Deapen, David Peel, Richard Pinder, Ronald K. Ross, Dee West, William E. Wright, Argyrios Ziogas and Pamela L. Horn-Ross

Neighbourhood inequality, neighbourhood affluence and population health pp. 1557-1569

Feng Hou and John Myles

A comparison of generic, indirect utility measures (the HUI2, HUI3, SF-6D, and the EQ-5D) and disease-specific instruments (the RAQoL and the HAQ) in rheumatoid arthritis pp. 1571-1582

Carlo A. Marra, John C. Woolcott, Jacek A. Kopec, Kamran Shojania, Robert Offer, John Brazier, John M. Esdaile and Aslam H. Anis

Autonomy-related behaviors of patient companions and their effect on decision-making activity in geriatric primary care visits pp. 1583-1591

Marla L. Clayman, Debra Roter, Lawrence S. Wissow and Karen Bandeen-Roche

Self-reported job insecurity and health in the Whitehall II study: potential explanations of the relationship pp. 1593-1602

Jane E. Ferrie, Martin J. Shipley, Katherine Newman, Stephen A. Stansfeld and Michael Marmot

Psychosocial and cultural factors affecting the perceived risk of genetically modified food: an overview of the literature pp. 1603-1612

Melissa L. Finucane and Joan L. Holup

AIDS and "shared sovereignty" in Tanzania from 1987 to 2000: a case study pp. 1613-1624

Kari A. Hartwig, Eugenia Eng, Mark Daniel, Thomas Ricketts and Sandra Crouse Quinn

Cultural differences in conceptual models of depression pp. 1625-1635

Alison Karasz

Identity change and the human dissection experience over the first year of medical training pp. 1637-1647

Anna Madill and Gary Latchford

Between formal and enacted policy: changing the contours of boundaries pp. 1649-1660

Nissim Mizrachi and Judith T. Shuval

2005, volume 60, articles 6

The role of social norms and friends' influences on unhealthy weight-control behaviors among adolescent girls pp. 1165-1173

Marla E. Eisenberg, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Mary Story and Cheryl Perry

Sexual and reproductive behaviour among single women aged 15-24 in eight Latin American countries: a comparative analysis pp. 1175-1185

Mohamed M. Ali and John Cleland

Imposition of virginity testing: a life-saver or a license to kill? pp. 1187-1196

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Provision of HIV treatment in HIV preventive vaccine trials: a developing country perspective pp. 1197-1208

C. Slack, M. Stobie, C. Milford, G. Lindegger, D. Wassenaar, A. Strode and C. IJsselmuiden

HIV/AIDS and community conflict in Nigeria: implications and challenges pp. 1209-1218

Janet Gruber and Margaret Caffrey

Challenges of a pandemic: HIV/AIDS-related problems affecting Kenyan widows pp. 1219-1228

Isaac Luginaah, David Elkins, Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Tamara Landry and Mercy Mathui

Differences in quality of life between women and men in the older population of Spain pp. 1229-1240

Pilar Guallar-Castillón, Áurea Redondo Sendino, José R. Banegas, Esther López-García and Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

Away from home: an ethnographic study of a transitional rehabilitation scheme for older people in the UK pp. 1241-1250

Elizabeth Hart, Mark Lymbery and J.R.f Gladman

Inequity and inequality in the use of health care in England: an empirical investigation pp. 1251-1266

Stephen Morris, Matthew Sutton and Hugh Gravelle

Social capital, geography and health: a small-area analysis for England pp. 1267-1283

John Mohan, Liz Twigg, Steve Barnard and Kelvyn Jones

Perceived neighborhood characteristics and the health of adult Koreans pp. 1285-1297

Youngtae Cho, Gil-Sung Park and Samuel Echevarria-Cruz

The 'expert patient': empowerment or medical dominance? The case of weight loss, pharmaceutical drugs and the Internet pp. 1299-1309

N.J. Fox, K.J. Ward and A.J. O'Rourke

From the doctor's workshop to the iron cage? Evolving modes of physician control in US health systems pp. 1311-1322

Martin Kitchener, Carol A. Caronna and Stephen M. Shortell

The pipeline and the porcupine: alternate metaphors of the physician-industry relationship pp. 1323-1334

Charles Mather

A qualitative study of GPs' and PCO stakeholders' views on the importance and influence of cost on prescribing pp. 1335-1346

Helen Prosser and Tom Walley

Ambivalent helpers and unhealthy choices: public health practitioners' narratives of Indigenous ill-health pp. 1347-1357

Emma Kowal and Yin Paradies

Self-rated health within the Canadian immigrant population: risk and the healthy immigrant effect pp. 1359-1370

Bruce Newbold

Integrated versus non-integrated management and care for clients with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders: a qualitative systematic review of randomised controlled trials pp. 1371-1383

Maria Donald, Jo Dower and David Kavanagh

Is it worth the risk? A systematic review of instruments that measure risk propensity for use in the health setting pp. 1385-1396

James D. Harrison, Jane M. Young, Phyllis Butow, Glenn Salkeld and Michael J. Solomon

Dealing with self-management of chronic illness at work: predictors for self-disclosure pp. 1397-1407

F. Munir, S. Leka and A. Griffiths

2005, volume 60, articles 5

Newborn care practices in low socioeconomic settlements of Karachi, Pakistan pp. 911-921

Fariyal F. Fikree, Tazeen S. Ali, Jill M. Durocher and Mohammad Hossein Rahbar

The prevalence of diarrheal disease among Brazilian children: trends and differentials from 1986 to 1996 pp. 923-935

Narayan Sastry and Sarah Burgard

Assessing the benefits of health research: lessons from research into the use of antenatal corticosteroids for the prevention of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome pp. 937-947

Steve Hanney, Miranda Mugford, Jonathan Grant and Martin Buxton

Non-antibiotic treatment recommendations: delivery formats and implications for parent resistance pp. 949-964

Tanya Stivers

Coping strategies in parents of children with cancer pp. 965-975

Annika Lindahl Norberg, Frank Lindblad and Krister K. Boman

Coping with stress among Aboriginal women and men with diabetes in Winnipeg, Canada pp. 977-988

Yoshi Iwasaki, Judith Bartlett and John O'Neil

Individual, household and neighborhood socioeconomic status and mortality: a study of absolute and relative deprivation pp. 989-997

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

Impact of socioeconomic status on longitudinal accumulation of cardiovascular risk in young adults: the CARDIA Study (USA) pp. 999-1015

Arun S. Karlamangla, Burton H. Singer, David R. Williams, Joseph E. Schwartz, Karen A. Matthews, Catarina I. Kiefe and Teresa E. Seeman

Cities and population health pp. 1017-1033

Sandro Galea, Nicholas Freudenberg and David Vlahov

The role of premorbid psychological attributes in short- and long-term adjustment after cardiac disease. A prospective study in the elderly in The Netherlands pp. 1035-1045

Cornelia H.M. van Jaarsveld, Adelita V. Ranchor, Robbert Sanderman, Johan Ormel and Gertrudis I.J.M. Kempen

The pivotal role of cardiac self-care in treatment timing pp. 1047-1060

Nancy E. Schoenberg, Cheryl H. Amey, Eleanor Palo Stoller and Elaine M. Drew

The legacy of agent orange: empirical evidence from central Vietnam pp. 1061-1070

Michael Palmer

The association between smoking during pregnancy and hospital inpatient costs in childhood pp. 1071-1085

Stavros Petrou, Christine Hockley, Ziyah Mehta and Michael Goldacre

Racial differences in public perceptions of voluntariness of medical research participants in South Africa pp. 1087-1098

Nicola Wendy Barsdorf and Douglas Richard Wassenaar

"What sort of health promotion are you talking about?": a discourse analysis of the talk of general practitioners pp. 1099-1106

Eileen McKinlay, Libby Plumridge, Lynn McBain, Deborah McLeod, Susan Pullon and Selina Brown

Contributions of social science to the alcohol field in an era of biomedicalization pp. 1107-1116

Lorraine Midanik and Robin Room

Reviewing the effort-reward imbalance model: drawing up the balance of 45 empirical studies pp. 1117-1131

Natasja van Vegchel, Jan de Jonge, Hans Bosma and Wilmar Schaufeli

Innovation, diffusion and safety of a medical technology: a review of the literature on injection practices pp. 1133-1147

Atul Kotwal

A tale of two hospitals: assessing cultural landscapes and compositions pp. 1149-1162

Jeffrey Braithwaite, Mary T. Westbrook, Rick Iedema, Nadine A. Mallock, Rowena Forsyth and Kai Zhang

2005, volume 60, articles 4

Systematic review of sexual risk among pregnant and mothering teens in the USA: pregnancy as an opportunity for integrated prevention of STD and repeat pregnancy pp. 661-678

Christina S. Meade and Jeannette R. Ickovics

Factors associated with forced sex among women accessing health services in rural Haiti: implications for the prevention of HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases pp. 679-689

M. C. Smith Fawzi, W. Lambert, J. M. Singler, Y. Tanagho, F. Léandre, P. Nevil, D. Bertrand, M. S. Claude, J. Bertrand, M. Louissaint, L. Jeannis, J. S. Mukherjee, S. Goldie, J. J. Salazar and P. E. Farmer

Indigenous representations of illness and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 691-700

Christine Liddell, Louise Barrett and Moya Bydawell

Domestic violence, sexual ownership, and HIV risk in women in the American deep south pp. 701-714

Bronwen Lichtenstein

The effect of maternal education on gender bias in care-seeking for common childhood illnesses pp. 715-724

Gautam Bhan, Nita Bhandari, Sunita Taneja, Sarmila Mazumder and Rajiv Bahl

Maternal education and adolescent drug use: a longitudinal analysis of causation and selection over a generation pp. 725-735

Richard Miech and Howard Chilcoat

Low control beliefs, classical coronary risk factors, and socio-economic differences in heart disease in older persons pp. 737-745

H. Bosma, C. H. M. Van Jaarsveld, J. Tuinstra, R. Sanderman, A. V. Ranchor, J. Th. M. Van Eijk and G. I. J. M. Kempen

Social isolation, support, and capital and nutritional risk in an older sample: ethnic and gender differences pp. 747-761

Julie L. Locher, Christine S. Ritchie, David L. Roth, Patricia Sawyer Baker, Eric V. Bodner and Richard M. Allman

Neighbourhood inequalities in physical inactivity: the role of neighbourhood attractiveness, proximity to local facilities and safety in the Netherlands pp. 763-775

F. J. van Lenthe, J. Brug and J. P. Mackenbach

Social inequalities in health care services utilisation after eight years of health care reforms: a cross-sectional study of Estonia, 1999 pp. 777-787

Jarno Habicht and Anton E. Kunst

Chronic disease and mental disorder pp. 789-797

Peter F. M. Verhaak, Monique J. W. M. Heijmans, Loe Peters and Mieke Rijken

Oil development and health in the Amazon basin of Ecuador: the popular epidemiology process pp. 799-807

Miguel San Sebastián and Anna Karin Hurtig

Reform strategies in Georgia and their impact on health care provision in rural areas: evidence from a household survey pp. 809-821

George Gotsadze, Akaki Zoidze and Otar Vasadze

Providing solutions-defining problems: the imperative of disease prevention in genetic counselling pp. 823-832

Lene Koch and Mette Nordahl Svendsen

The use of patient reported outcome measures in routine clinical practice: lack of impact or lack of theory? pp. 833-843

Joanne Greenhalgh, Andrew F Long and Rob Flynn

The teleo-affective limits of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit pp. 845-857

Rick Iedema, Roslyn Sorensen, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Arthas Flabouris and Liz Turnbull

Habitual self-control and the management of health behavior among heart patients pp. 859-875

Kerstin E.E. Schroder and Ralf Schwarzer

Towards a geography of fitness: an ethnographic case study of the gym in British bodybuilding culture pp. 877-891

Gavin J. Andrews, Mark I. Sudwell and Andrew C. Sparkes

Disclosing and responding to cancer "fears" during oncology interviews pp. 893-910

Wayne A. Beach, David W. Easter, Jeffrey S. Good and Elisa Pigeron

2005, volume 60, articles 3

Some mechanisms linking economic inequality and infant mortality pp. 439-455

Susan Mayer and Ankur Sarin

Determinants of old-age mortality in Taiwan pp. 457-470

Zachary Zimmer, Linda G. Martin and Hui-Sheng Lin

Causes and demographic, medical, lifestyle and psychosocial predictors of premature mortality: the CARDIA study pp. 471-482

Carlos Iribarren, David R. Jacobs, Catarina I. Kiefe, Cora E. Lewis, Karen A. Matthews, Jeffrey M. Roseman and Stephen B. Hulley

Smoking, respiratory disease and health service utilisation: the paradox pp. 483-490

Peymané Adab, Sarah M. McGhee, Anthony J. Hedley and Tai Hing Lam

Exploring the association of John Henry active coping and education on smoking behavior and nicotine dependence among Blacks in the USA pp. 491-500

Anita F. Fernander, Christi A. Patten, Darrell R. Schroeder, Susanna R. Stevens, Kay M. Eberman and Richard D. Hurt

Individual and district scale determinants of users' satisfaction with primary health care in developing countries pp. 501-513

Sarah Atkinson and Dave Haran

Quantifying the effect of health status on health care utilization using a preference-based health measure pp. 515-524

Viviane Dias Lima and Jacek A. Kopec

Do divergences between stated and actual willingness to pay signify the existence of bias in contingent valuation surveys? pp. 525-536

Obinna Onwujekwe, Kara Hanson and Julia Fox-Rushby

Economic antecedents of the Swedish sex ratio pp. 537-543

Ralph A. Catalano and Tim Bruckner

Evidence-based medicine and its implications for the profession of chiropractic pp. 545-561

Yvonne Villanueva-Russell

Aggressive active case detection: a malaria control strategy based on the Brazilian model pp. 563-573

Cameron Macauley

A tailored intervention to promote breast cancer screening among South Asian immigrant women pp. 575-586

Farah Ahmad, Jill I. Cameron and Donna E. Stewart

Between 'desperation' and disability rights: a narrative analysis of complementary/alternative medicine use by parents for children with Down syndrome pp. 587-598

Erica Prussing, Elisa J. Sobo, Elizabeth Walker and Paul S. Kurtin

Influence of social support on progression of coronary artery disease in women pp. 599-607

Hui-Xin Wang, Murray A. Mittleman and Kristina Orth-Gomer

Shifting the demand for emergency care in Cuba's health system pp. 609-616

Pol De Vos, Pedro Murlá, Armando Rodriguez, Mariano Bonet, Pedro Màs and Patrick Van der Stuyft

Trend and area variation in amphetamine prescription usage among children and adolescents in Michigan pp. 617-626

Swu-Jane Lin, Stephanie Y. Crawford and Patricia L. Lurvey

Injury recurrence among untreated and medically treated victims of violence in the USA pp. 627-635

Catherine A. Gallagher

Widowhood and depressive symptoms among older Chinese: Do gender and source of support make a difference? pp. 637-647

Lydia Li, Jersey Liang, Amanda Toler and Shengzu Gu

Perceptions of risk and strategies for prevention: responses to HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi pp. 649-660

Kirsten P. Smith and Susan Cotts Watkins

2005, volume 60, articles 2

Equity, capabilities and health pp. 219-222

Paul Anand and Paul Dolan

The nature of procedural preferences for health-care rationing decisions pp. 223-236

Allan Wailoo and Paul Anand

Acceptability of less than perfect health states pp. 237-246

Werner Brouwer, Job van Exel and Elly A. Stolk

Communitarian claims and community capabilities: furthering priority setting? pp. 247-255

Gavin Mooney

Concerns for the worse off: fair innings versus severity pp. 257-263

Erik Nord

Empiricism, ethics and orthodox economic theory: what is the appropriate basis for decision-making in the health sector? pp. 265-275

Jeff Richardson and John McKie

A "fair innings" between the sexes: are men being treated inequitably? pp. 277-286

Aki Tsuchiya and Alan Williams

Socioeconomic aspects of the circumstances and consequences of car crashes among young adults pp. 287-295

Marie Hasselberg, Marjan Vaez and Lucie Laflamme

Understanding pregnancy in a population of inner-city women in New Orleans--results of qualitative research pp. 297-311

Carl Kendall, Aimee Afable-Munsuz, Ilene Speizer, Alexis Avery, Norine Schmidt and John Santelli

Are rich people or poor people more likely to be ill? Lay perceptions, by social class and neighbourhood, of inequalities in health pp. 313-317

Sally Macintyre, Laura McKay and Anne Ellaway

Microbicide acceptability research: current approaches and future directions pp. 319-330

Joanne E. Mantell, Landon Myer, Alex Carballo-Diéguez, Zena Stein, Gita Ramjee, Neetha S. Morar and Polly F. Harrison

Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks: a focus group study of public understandings of genetic research pp. 331-344

Benjamin R. Bates, John A. Lynch, Jennifer L. Bevan and Celeste M. Condit

Shifts in global immunisation goals (1984-2004): unfinished agendas and mixed results pp. 345-356

Anita Hardon and Stuart Blume

Under what conditions is euthanasia acceptable to lay people and health professionals? pp. 357-368

Nathalie Teisseyre, Etienne Mullet and Paul Clay Sorum

The economics of social marketing: the case of mosquito nets in Tanzania pp. 369-381

Nassor Kikumbih, Kara Hanson, Anne Mills, Hadji Mponda and Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg

An explanatory model of health promotion and quality of life for persons with post-polio syndrome pp. 383-393

Alexa K. Stuifbergen, Anne Seraphine, Tracie Harrison and Eishi Adachi

Maternal education and child nutritional status in Bolivia: finding the links pp. 395-407

Michelle Bellessa Frost, Renata Forste and David W. Haas

The causes of low back pain: a network analysis pp. 409-419

C. Campbell and S. J. Muncer

Perceived breast cancer risk: heuristic reasoning and search for a dominance structure pp. 421-432

Maria C. Katapodi, Noreen C. Facione, Janice C. Humphreys and Marylin J. Dodd

The health consciousness myth: implications of the near independence of major health behaviors in the North American population pp. 433-437

Jason T. Newsom, Bentson H. McFarland, Mark S. Kaplan, Nathalie Huguet and Brigid Zani

2005, volume 60, articles 1

A meta-analytic investigation of the relationship between the psychological distress of cancer patients and their carers pp. 1-12

L. J. Hodges, G. M. Humphris and G. Macfarlane

Chronic illness and depressive symptoms in late life pp. 13-23

Jason Schnittker

Impact of depression on disablement in late middle aged and older persons: results from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam pp. 25-36

Coen H. van Gool, Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Dorly J. H. Deeg, Aartjan T. F. Beekman and Jacques Th. M. van Eijk

'Normal disruption': South Asian and African/Caribbean relatives caring for an older family member in the UK pp. 37-48

Joy Adamson and Jenny Donovan

Women's status and depressive symptoms: A multilevel analysis pp. 49-60

Ying-Yeh Chen, S. V. Subramanian, Doloros Acevedo-Garcia and Ichiro Kawachi

Geographies of inequality: Child pedestrian injury and walking school buses in Auckland, New Zealand pp. 61-69

Damian C. A. Collins and Robin A. Kearns

Neighbourhood life and social capital: the implications for health pp. 71-86

Anna M Ziersch, Fran E Baum, Colin MacDougall and Christine Putland

Types of provincial structure and population health pp. 87-95

Frank W. Young and Eunice Rodriguez

Cross-national variation in family influences on child health pp. 97-108

Tim B. Heaton, Renata Forste, John P. Hoffmann and Dallan Flake

Implications of genetic risk information in families with a high density of bipolar disorder: an exploratory study pp. 109-118

Bettina Meiser, Philip B. Mitchell, H. McGirr, M. Van Herten and Peter R. Schofield

Changing organisations: a study of the context and processes of mergers of health care providers in England pp. 119-130

Naomi Fulop, Gerasimos Protopsaltis, Annette King, Pauline Allen, Andrew Hutchings and Charles Normand

Effectiveness of a multi-component intervention on dispensing practices at private pharmacies in Vietnam and Thailand--a randomized controlled trial pp. 131-141

J. Chalker, S. Ratanawijitrasin, N. T. K Chuc, M. Petzold and G. Tomson

Diffusion of breast conserving surgery in medical communities pp. 143-151

Bonnie Jerome-D'Emilia and James W. Begun

A naturalistic inquiry on the impact of interventions aiming to improve health and the quality of life in the community pp. 153-164

Selma Sogoric, John Middleton, Slobodan Lang, Davor Ivankovic and Josipa Kern

Does economic inequality affect child malnutrition? The case of Ecuador pp. 165-178

Carlos Larrea and Ichiro Kawachi

Psychosocial distress of Tibetans in exile: integrating western interventions with traditional beliefs and practice pp. 179-189

Stewart W. Mercer, Alastair Ager and Eshani Ruwanpura

Are racial disparities in health conditional on socioeconomic status? pp. 191-204

Melissa M. Farmer and Kenneth F. Ferraro

Business cycles and mortality: results from Swedish microdata pp. 205-218

Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Magnus Johannesson