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2004, volume 59, articles 12

Changes at Social Science & Medicine pp. 2405-2407

S. Macintyre

Income inequality and self-rated health in US metropolitan areas: A multi-level analysis pp. 2409-2419

Russ Lopez

A multilevel analysis of race, community disadvantage, and body mass index among adults in the US pp. 2421-2434

Stephanie A. Robert and Eric N. Reither

Municipal socioeconomic status and mortality in Japan: sex and age differences, and trends in 1973-1998 pp. 2435-2445

Yoshiharu Fukuda, Keiko Nakamura and Takehito Takano

Social capital in working life and the health of employees pp. 2447-2458

Virpi Liukkonen, Pekka Virtanen, Mika Kivimäki, Jaana Pentti and Jussi Vahtera

Inpatient/outpatient health care costs and remaining years of life--effect of decreasing mortality on future acute health care demand pp. 2459-2466

Ilija Batljan and Mårten Lagergren

Preferences in end-of-life care of older persons: after-death interviews with proxy respondents pp. 2467-2477

Marianne Klinkenberg, Dick L. Willems, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Dorly J. H. Deeg and Gerrit van der Wal

Gender and use of health care among older adults in Egypt and Tunisia pp. 2479-2497

Kathryn M. Yount, Emily M. Agree and Cesar Rebellon

Gender and age inequity in the provision of coronary revascularisation in England in the 1990s: is it getting better? pp. 2499-2507

Mary Shaw, Roy Maxwell, Karen Rees, Davidson Ho, Steven Oliver, Yoav Ben-Shlomo and Shah Ebrahim

Acculturation and physical activity among North Carolina Latina immigrants pp. 2509-2522

Kelly R. Evenson, Olga L. Sarmiento and Guadalupe X. Ayala

Health pessimism among black and white adults: the role of interpersonal and institutional maltreatment pp. 2523-2533

Jason D. Boardman

Single mothers and the use of professionals for mental health care reasons pp. 2535-2546

John Cairney, Michael H. Boyle, Ellen L. Lipman and Yvonne Racine

Understanding of informed consent in a low-income setting: three case studies from the Kenyan coast pp. 2547-2559

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

Representations of SARS in the British newspapers pp. 2561-2571

Peter Washer

Service users' strategies for managing risk in the volatile environment of an acute psychiatric ward pp. 2573-2583

Alan Quirk, Paul Lelliott and Clive Seale

Utilization of delivery services at the primary health care level in rural Vietnam pp. 2585-2595

Dat V Duong, Colin W Binns and Andy H Lee

Drug name confusion: evaluating the effectiveness of capital ("Tall Man") letters using eye movement data pp. 2597-2601

Ruth Filik, Kevin Purdy, Alastair Gale and David Gerrett

Migration, community context, and child immunization in Ethiopia pp. 2603-2616

Gebre-Egzbiabher Kiros and Michael J. White

Policy formation in gamete donation and egg sharing in the UK--a critical appraisal pp. 2617-2626

Eric Blyth, Marilyn Crawshaw and Ken Daniels

The sense of belonging to a neighbourhood: can it be measured and is it related to health and well being in older women? pp. 2627-2637

Anne F. Young, Anne Russell and Jennifer R. Powers

2004, volume 59, articles 11

Diabetes meanings a mong those without diabetes: explanatory models of immigrant Latinos in rural North Carolina pp. 2183-2193

Thomas A. Arcury, Anne H. Skelly, Wilbert M. Gesler and Molly C. Dougherty

Cultural competence among physicians treating Mexican Americans who have diabetes: a structural model pp. 2195-2205

Joachim O. F. Reimann, Gregory A. Talavera, Michelle Salmon, Joseph A. Nuñez and Roberto J. Velasquez

Effects of nurse follow-up on emergency room revisits: a randomized controlled trial pp. 2207-2218

Frances Kam Yuet Wong, Susan Chow, Katherine Chang, Albert Lee and Jiexin Liu

Client satisfaction with reproductive health-care quality: integrating business approaches to modeling and measurement pp. 2219-2232

Dana L. Alden, Do Mai Hoa and Dharm Bhawuk

Patient satisfaction and ethnic identity among American Indian older adults pp. 2233-2244

Eva Marie Garroutte, Robert M. Kunovich, Clemma Jacobsen and Jack Goldberg

Social relationships and allostatic load in Taiwanese elderly and near elderly pp. 2245-2257

Teresa Seeman, Dana Glei, Noreen Goldman, Maxine Weinstein, Burt Singer and Yu-Hsuan Lin

Mental health among older adults in Japan: do sources of social support and negative interaction make a difference? pp. 2259-2270

Hideki Okabayashi, Jersey Liang, Neal Krause, Hiroko Akiyama and Hidehiro Sugisawa

Short-term effects of moving from public housing in poor to middle-class neighborhoods on low-income, minority adults' outcomes pp. 2271-2284

Rebecca C. Fauth, Tama Leventhal and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Preventing long-term welfare receipt: the theoretical relationship between health and poverty over the early life course pp. 2285-2301

Marcia J. Nielsen, Hee-Soon Juon and Margaret Ensminger

The relationships of social participation and community ratings to health and health behaviors in areas with high and low population density pp. 2303-2312

K. Allen Greiner, Chaoyang Li, Ichiro Kawachi, D. Charles Hunt and Jasjit S. Ahluwalia

Foreign direct investment and trade in health services: A review of the literature pp. 2313-2323

Richard D Smith

Death and organ procurement: public beliefs and attitudes pp. 2325-2334

Laura A. Siminoff, Christopher Burant and Stuart J. Youngner

A review of empirical studies on the model of effort-reward imbalance at work: reducing occupational stress by implementing a new theory pp. 2335-2359

Akizumi Tsutsumi and Norito Kawakami

Prevention of mosquito nuisance among urban populations in Burkina Faso pp. 2361-2371

Helle Samuelsen, Léa Paré Toé, Thierry Baldet and Ole Skovmand

Violence against women in Ghana: a look at women's perceptions and review of policy and social responses pp. 2373-2385

Margaret Ivy Amoakohene

Geographical proximity and health care utilization in veterans with SCI&D in the USA pp. 2387-2399

Sherri L. LaVela, Bridget Smith, Frances M. Weaver and Scott A. Miskevics

2004, volume 59, articles 10

Hospital ethnography: introduction pp. 1995-2001

Sjaak van der Geest and Kaja Finkler

"Villagers": Differential treatment in a Ghanaian hospital pp. 2003-2012

Helle Max Andersen

The gaps in the gaze in South African hospitals pp. 2013-2024

Diana Gibson

Poverty and violence, frustration and inventiveness: hospital ward life in Bangladesh pp. 2025-2036

Shahaduz Zaman

Biomedicine globalized and localized: western medical practices in an outpatient clinic of a Mexican hospital pp. 2037-2051

Kaja Finkler

Compliance as strategy: the importance of personalised relations in obstetric practice pp. 2053-2069

Lucia M. Tanassi

Dealing with doubt: Making decisions in a neonatal ward in The Netherlands pp. 2071-2085

Eric Vermeulen

Doctors and retribution: the hospitalisation of compensation claims in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea pp. 2087-2094

Hans van Amstel and Sjaak van der Geest

Privacy, privatization, and the politics of patronage: ethnographic challenges to penetrating the secret world of Middle Eastern, hospital-based in vitro fertilization pp. 2095-2108

Marcia C. Inhorn

Social inequalities and disability in older men: prospective findings from the British regional heart study pp. 2109-2120

Shah Ebrahim, Olia Papacosta, Goya Wannamethee and Joy Adamson

Gender differences in factors affecting use of health services: an analysis of a community study of middle-aged and older Australians pp. 2121-2129

Ruth Parslow, Anthony Jorm, Helen Christensen, Patricia Jacomb and Bryan Rodgers

Childhood IQ and cardiovascular disease in adulthood: prospective observational study linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan studies pp. 2131-2138

C. L. Hart, M. D. Taylor, G. Davey Smith, L. J. Whalley, J. M. Starr, D. J. Hole, V. Wilson and I. J. Deary

The association of personal and neighborhood socioeconomic indicators with subclinical cardiovascular disease in an elderly cohort. The cardiovascular health study pp. 2139-2147

Cheryl K. Nordstrom, Ana V. Diez Roux, Sharon A. Jackson and Julius M. Gardin

Clarifying the relationships between health and residential mobility pp. 2149-2160

Ann Larson, Martin Bell and Anne Frances Young

The elderly and AIDS: Coping with the impact of adult death in Tanzania pp. 2161-2172

Julia Dayton and Martha Ainsworth

Organ transplantation in Singapore: history, problems, and policies pp. 2173-2182

Volker H. Schmidt and Chee Han Lim

2004, volume 59, articles 9

The importance of being expert: the quest for cancer information on the Internet pp. 1783-1793

Sue Ziebland

Characteristics of online and offline health information seekers and factors that discriminate between them pp. 1795-1806

Shelia R Cotten and Sipi S Gupta

Preventing hepatitis C: 'Common sense', 'the bug' and other perspectives from the risk narratives of people who inject drugs pp. 1807-1818

Mark Davis, Tim Rhodes and Anthea Martin

Rapid assessment: an international review of diffusion, practice and outcomes in the substance use field pp. 1819-1830

Chris Fitch, Gerry V Stimson, Tim Rhodes and Vladimir Poznyak

Attendance for general practitioner asthma care by children with moderate to severe asthma in Auckland, New Zealand pp. 1831-1842

Stephen Buetow, Deborah Richards, Ed Mitchell, Barry Gribben, Vivienne Adair, Gregor Coster and Makere Hight

An issue of culture: the effects of daily activities on prenatal care utilization patterns in rural South Africa pp. 1843-1855

Talia M. McCray

"Important to test, important to support": attitudes toward disability rights and prenatal diagnosis among leaders of support groups for genetic disorders in Israel pp. 1857-1866

Aviad Raz

Referral to rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury: practitioners and the process of decision-making pp. 1867-1878

Michele Foster, Cheryl Tilse and Jennifer Fleming

Nursing, knowledge and power: A case analysis pp. 1879-1889

Christine Ceci

Preferences for disclosure: the case of bedside rationing pp. 1891-1897

David L.B Schwappach and Christian M Koeck

Making sense of diabetes: cultural models, gender and individual adjustment to Type 2 diabetes in a Mexican community pp. 1899-1912

Raminta Daniulaityte

The political environment of HIV: lessons from a comparison of Uganda and South Africa pp. 1913-1924

Justin O Parkhurst and Louisiana Lush

Gender differences in the relationship of partner's social class to behavioural risk factors and social support in the Whitehall II study pp. 1925-1936

M Bartley, P Martikainen, M Shipley and M Marmot

Waiting time information services: An evaluation of how well clearance time statistics can forecast a patient's wait pp. 1937-1948

David A Cromwell

Changes in authorship patterns in prestigious US medical journals pp. 1949-1954

William B Weeks, Amy E Wallace and B.C.Surott Kimberly

Do dietary intakes affect search for nutrient information on food labels? pp. 1955-1967

Chung-Tung Jordan Lin, Jonq-Ying Lee and Steven T. Yen

Mental health burden amongst inhabitants of an arsenic-affected area in Inner Mongolia, China pp. 1969-1973

Yoshihisa Fujino, Xiaojuan Guo, Jun Liu, Lingui You, Munetoshi Miyatake and Takesumi Yoshimura

The use of personal data from medical records and biological materials: ethical perspectives and the basis for legal restrictions in health research pp. 1975-1984

Enrique Regidor

The European health divide: a matter of financial or social capital? pp. 1985-1992

Per Carlson

2004, volume 59, articles 8

Interactive video behavioral intervention to reduce adolescent females' STD risk: a randomized controlled trial pp. 1561-1572

Julie S. Downs, Pamela J. Murray, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Joyce Penrose, Claire Palmgren and Baruch Fischhoff

Unmet need for contraception in Kuwait: issues for health care providers pp. 1573-1580

Makhdoom A. Shah, Nasra M. Shah, Rafiqul Islam Chowdhury and Indu Menon

Transactional sex among women in Soweto, South Africa: prevalence, risk factors and association with HIV infection pp. 1581-1592

Kristin L. Dunkle, Rachel K. Jewkes, Heather C. Brown, Glenda E. Gray, James A. McIntryre and Siobán D. Harlow

What constitutes success in preventive health care? A case study in assessing the benefits of hip protectors pp. 1593-1601

G. Salkeld, S. Quine and I. D. Cameron

'In the eye of the beholder': perceptions of local impact in English Health Action Zones pp. 1603-1612

Helen Sullivan, Ken Judge and Kate Sewel

Insights into the 'healthy immigrant effect': health status and health service use of immigrants to Canada pp. 1613-1627

James McDonald and Steven Kennedy

Socioeconomic, cultural, and personal influences on health outcomes in low income Mexican-origin individuals in Texas pp. 1629-1646

Luisa Franzini and Maria Eugenia Fernandez-Esquer

Utilization of well-baby care visits provided by Taiwan's National Health Insurance Program pp. 1647-1659

Likwang Chen, Wen-Shan Yang, Shyh-Dye Lee, Hua-Chih Chang and Chen-Lin Yeh

Committed to health for all? How the G7/G8 rate pp. 1661-1676

Ronald Labonte and Ted Schrecker

Research report: do general practitioners tell their patients about side effects to common treatments? pp. 1677-1683

Aleksander Krag, Henriette Svarre Nielsen, Michael Norup, Søren M. Madsen and Peter Rossel

Truth telling and truthfulness in the care for patients with advanced dementia: an ethnographic study in Dutch nursing homes pp. 1685-1693

Cees M. P. M. Hertogh, B. Anne Mei The, Bere M. L. Miesen and Jan A. Eefsting

Relief, risk and renewal: mixed therapy regimens in an Australian suburb pp. 1695-1705

Linda H. Connor

Street children in Pakistan: A situational analysis of social conditions and nutritional status pp. 1707-1717

Moazzam Ali, Saqib Shahab, Hiroshi Ushijima and Aime de Muynck

Job stress, social support, and prevalence of insomnia in a population of Japanese daytime workers pp. 1719-1730

Akinori Nakata, Takashi Haratani, Masaya Takahashi, Norito Kawakami, Heihachiro Arito, Fumio Kobayashi and Shunichi Araki

The effect of hospital bed reduction on the use of beds: A comparative study of 10 European countries pp. 1731-1740

Madelon Kroneman and Jacques J. Siegers

Arsenic contamination awareness among the rural residents in Bangladesh pp. 1741-1755

Bimal Kanti Paul

Does traditional birth attendant training improve referral of women with obstetric complications: a review of the evidence pp. 1757-1768

Lynn Sibley, Theresa Ann Sipe and Marge Koblinsky

Denial of impending death: a discourse analysis of the palliative care literature pp. 1769-1780

Camilla Zimmermann

2004, volume 59, articles 7

Social inequality and depressive disorders in Bahia, Brazil: interactions of gender, ethnicity, and social class pp. 1339-1353

Naomar Almeida-Filho, Ines Lessa, Lucélia Magalhães, Maria Jenny Araújo, Estela Aquino, Sherman A. James and Ichiro Kawachi

Individualisation and inequalities in health: a qualitative study of class identity and health pp. 1355-1365

Bruce Bolam, Simon Murphy and Kate Gleeson

Job characteristics as mediators in SES-health relationships pp. 1367-1378

John Robert Warren, Peter Hoonakker, Pascale Carayon and Jennie Brand

Men's influences on women's reproductive health: medical anthropological perspectives pp. 1379-1395

Matthew R. Dudgeon and Marcia C. Inhorn

The rhetoric of "natural" in natural childbirth: childbearing women's perspectives on prolonged pregnancy and induction of labour pp. 1397-1408

Rachel Emma Westfall and Cecilia Benoit

Health lifestyles in central Asia: the case of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan pp. 1409-1421

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

Analysis of health-related quality of life (HRQL), its distribution, and its distribution by income in Japan, 1989 and 1998 pp. 1423-1433

Yukiko Asada and Yasushi Ohkusa

Socioeconomic determinants of mortality in two Canadian provinces: Multilevel modelling and neighborhood context pp. 1435-1447

Leslie L. Roos, Jennifer Magoon, Sumit Gupta, Dan Chateau and Paul J. Veugelers

Premature mortality among lone fathers and childless men pp. 1449-1459

Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft, Bo Burström and Måns Rosén

Blood and bioidentity: ideas about self, boundaries and risk among blood donors and people living with Hepatitis C pp. 1461-1471

Catherine Waldby, Marsha Rosengarten, Carla Treloar and Suzanne Fraser

Striving for normalcy: symptoms and the threat of rejection after lung transplantation pp. 1473-1484

Annette De Vito Dabbs, Leslie A. Hoffman, Valerie Swigart, Mary Beth Happ, James H. Dauber, Kenneth R. McCurry and Aldo Iacono

Neighbourhood influences on health in Montréal, Canada pp. 1485-1494

Nancy A. Ross, Stéphane Tremblay and Katie Graham

The expression of aversion to medicines in general practice consultations pp. 1495-1503

Nicky Britten, Fiona Stevenson, Joseph Gafaranga, Christine Barry and Colin Bradley

Rapid income growth adversely affects diet quality in China--particularly for the poor! pp. 1505-1515

Shufa Du, Thomas Mroz, Fengying Zhai and Barry M. Popkin

Around-the-clock: parent work schedules and children's well-being in a 24-h economy pp. 1517-1527

Lyndall Strazdins, Rosemary J. Korda, Lynette L-Y. Lim, Dorothy H. Broom and Rennie M. D'Souza

Community-based treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lima, Peru: 7 years of experience pp. 1529-1539

Sonya Shin, Jennifer Furin, Jaime Bayona, Kedar Mate, Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer

Audience, consequence, and journal selection in toxic-exposure epidemiology pp. 1541-1546

David A. Rier

Governing street-based injecting drug users: a critique of heroin overdose prevention in Australia pp. 1547-1557

David Moore

2004, volume 59, articles 6

Income inequality and pregnancy spacing pp. 1117-1126

R. Gold, Frederick A. Connell, Patrick Heagerty, Stephen Bezruchka, Robert Davis and Mary Lawrence Cawthon

Race and pregnancy-related care in Brazil and South Africa pp. 1127-1146

Sarah Burgard

Antenatal care: provision and inequality in rural north India pp. 1147-1158

Saseendran Pallikadavath, Mary Foss and R William Stones

Masculinity and undocumented labor migration: injured latino day laborers in San Francisco pp. 1159-1168

Nicholas Walter, Philippe Bourgois and H. Margarita Loinaz

Masculinity, infertility, stigma and media reports pp. 1169-1175

Kenneth Gannon, Lesley Glover and Paul Abel

Mothering children who have disabilities: a Bourdieusian interpretation of maternal practices pp. 1177-1191

Patricia McKeever and Karen-Lee Miller

Doing their jobs: mothering with Ritalin in a culture of mother-blame pp. 1193-1205

Ilina Singh

Further development of an Australian-based measure of social capital in a US sample pp. 1207-1217

Megan S. O'Brien, Charles A. Burdsal and Craig A. Molgaard

Local services and amenities, neighborhood social capital, and health pp. 1219-1229

Andrea Altschuler, Carol P. Somkin and Nancy E. Adler

The social situation of motherless children in rural and urban areas of Guinea-Bissau pp. 1231-1239

Tania Nicole Masmas, Henrik Jensen, Domingos da Silva, Lars Høj, Anita Sandström and Peter Aaby

Motivation and values of hospital consultants in south-east England who work in the national health service and do private practice pp. 1241-1250

Charlotte Humphrey and Jill Russell

'We are bitter but we are satisfied': nurses as street-level bureaucrats in South Africa pp. 1251-1261

Liz Walker and Lucy Gilson

Discharge from physiotherapy following stroke:: the management of disappointment pp. 1263-1273

Rose Wiles, Ann Ashburn, Sheila Payne and Caroline Murphy

The medical text: between biomedicine and hegemony pp. 1275-1285

D. Filc

A comparison of socioeconomic differences in physical functioning and perceived health among male and female employees in Britain, Finland and Japan pp. 1287-1295

Pekka Martikainen, Eero Lahelma, Michael Marmot, Michikazu Sekine, Nobuo Nishi and Sadanobu Kagamimori

Self-reported health and adult mortality risk: An analysis of cause-specific mortality pp. 1297-1306

Maureen Reindl Benjamins, Robert A. Hummer, Isaac W. Eberstein and Charles B. Nam

Medicine in a multi-cultural society: the effect of cultural background on beliefs about medications pp. 1307-1313

Robert Horne, Lída Graupner, Susie Frost, John Weinman, Siobhan Melanie Wright and Matthew Hankins

Knowledge, attitudes and experiences of sex trafficking by young women in Benin City, South-South Nigeria pp. 1315-1327

F. E. Okonofua, S. M. Ogbomwan, A. N. Alutu, Okop Kufre and Aghahowa Eghosa

While there's life...: hope and the experience of cancer pp. 1329-1337

Miles Little and Emma-Jane Sayers

2004, volume 59, articles 5

The adapting healer: pioneering through shifting epidemiological and sociocultural landscapes pp. 889-902

H.Heather McMillen

Outcomes associated with participation in a therapeutic recreation camping programme for children from 15 European countries: Data from the 'Barretstown Studies' pp. 903-913

Gemma Kiernan, Michael Gormley and Malcolm MacLachlan

Responses of established healthcare to the professionalization of complementary and alternative medicine in Ontario pp. 915-930

Merrijoy Kelner, Beverly Wellman, Heather Boon and Sandy Welsh

The performance of different models of primary care provision in Southern Africa pp. 931-943

Anne Mills, Natasha Palmer, Lucy Gilson, Di McIntyre, Helen Schneider, Edina Sinanovic and Haroon Wadee

Senegalese grandmothers promote improved maternal and child nutrition practices: the guardians of tradition are not averse to change pp. 945-959

Judi Aubel, Ibrahima Touré and Mamadou Diagne

Racial and ethnic diversity and organizational behavior: a focused research agenda for health services management pp. 961-971

Janice L. Dreachslin, Robert Weech-Maldonado and K.H.Kathryn H. Dansky

Should "acculturation" be a variable in health research? A critical review of research on US Hispanics pp. 973-986

L.M.Linda M. Hunt, Suzanne Schneider and Brendon Comer

The economic consequences for parents of losing an adult child to AIDS: Evidence from Thailand pp. 987-1001

John Knodel and Wassana Im-em

Search for a cure: narratives of Thai family caregivers living with a person with AIDS pp. 1003-1010

Kittikorn Nilmanat and Annette Street

STD care: variations in clinical care associated with provider sex, patient sex, patients' self-reported symptoms or high-risk behaviors, partner STD history pp. 1011-1018

J.S.Janet S. St. Lawrence, Wen-Hung Kuo, Matthew Hogben, Daniel E Montaño, Danuta Kasprzyk and William R. Phillips

The determinants of withdrawal use in Turkey: A husband's imposition or a woman's choice? pp. 1019-1033

Andrzej Kulczycki

'I am not the kind of woman who complains of everything': Illness stories on self and shame in women with chronic pain pp. 1035-1045

Anne Werner, L.W.Lise Widding Isaksen and Kirsti Malterud

Sociocultural context of women's body image pp. 1047-1058

M.-C.Marie-Claude Paquette and Kim Raine

The problem of evidence-based medicine: directions for social science pp. 1059-1069

Eric Mykhalovskiy and Lorna Weir

'It takes three to tango':: a framework for understanding patient partnership in paediatric clinics pp. 1071-1079

Jonathan Gabe, Gillian Olumide and Michael Bury

Occupational stressors and hypertension: a multi-method study using observer-based job analysis and self-reports in urban transit operators pp. 1081-1094

Birgit A. Greiner, Niklas Krause, David Ragland and J.M.June M. Fisher

Remaking family life: strategies for re-establishing continuity among Congolese refugees during the family reunification process pp. 1095-1108

C.Cécile Rousseau, Marie-Claire Rufagari, Déogratias Bagilishya and Toby Measham

Self-rated oral health as an independent predictor of self-rated general health, self-esteem and life satisfaction pp. 1109-1116

Yael Benyamini, Howard Leventhal and E.A.Elaine A. Leventhal

2004, volume 59, articles 4

Women's menarche stories from a multicultural sample pp. 667-679

A.K.Ayse K. Uskul

Health service utilization for perceived postpartum morbidity among poor women living in Karachi pp. 681-694

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

Gender inequality, family planning, and maternal and child care in a rural Chinese county pp. 695-708

Jianghong Li

Eating, drinking and being depressed: the social, cultural and psychological context of alcohol consumption and nutrition in a Brazilian community pp. 709-720

William W. Dressler, Rosane Pilot Ribeiro, Mauro Campos Balieiro, Kathryn S. Oths and J.E.José Ernesto Dos Santos

Chronic diseases and depression: the modifying role of psychosocial resources pp. 721-733

M. Isabella Bisschop, Didi M. W. Kriegsman, Aartjan T. F. Beekman and D.J.H.Dorly J. H. Deeg

'White liquor hits black livers': meanings of excessive liquor consumption in South Africa in the second half of the twentieth century pp. 735-751

Anne Mager

Sociocultural aspects of tuberculosis: a literature review and a case study of immigrant tuberculosis pp. 753-762

M.-J.Ming-Jung Ho

A social disease/a social response: lessons in tuberculosis from early 20th century Chile pp. 763-773

J.E.Joan E. Paluzzi

Physician commitment in end of life care--perspectives from New Zealand and the Netherlands pp. 775-785

K. Mitchell

RCT of a theory-based intervention promoting healthy eating and physical activity amongst out-patients older than 65 years pp. 787-797

Kate Kelley and C.Charles Abraham

The impact of stigma on maternal attitudes toward placement of children with disabilities in residential care facilities pp. 799-812

S.E.Sara E. Green

Physical, mental and social factors associated with frequent attendance in Danish general practice. A population-based cross-sectional study pp. 813-823

Peter Vedsted, Per Fink, H.T.Henrik Toft Sørensen and Frede Olesen

Los Años de la Crisis: An examination of change in differential infant mortality risk within Mexico pp. 825-835

R. Frank and B.K.Brian Karl Finch

A comparison of traditional healers' medicinal plant knowledge in the Bolivian Andes and Amazon pp. 837-849

Ina Vandebroek, Patrick Van Damme, Luc Van Puyvelde, Susana Arrazola and Norbert De Kimpe

Dhandha, dharma and disease: traditional sex work and HIV/AIDS in rural India pp. 851-860

John O'Neil, Treena Orchard, R. C. Swarankar, J.F.James F. Blanchard, Kaveri Gurav and Stephen Moses

'It might happen or it might not': how patients with multiple sclerosis explain their perception of prognostic risk pp. 861-868

Hennie R. Boeije and A.C.J.W.A. Cecile J. W. Janssens

The post-war public health effects of civil conflict pp. 869-884

H.A.Hazem Adam Ghobarah, Paul Huth and Bruce Russett

2004, volume 59, articles 3

Gendered communication among young people in Mexico: implications for sexual health interventions pp. 445-456

Cicely Marston

Risks, stigma and Honduran Garífuna conceptions of HIV/AIDS pp. 457-471

James P. Stansbury and Manuel Sierra

Socio-cultural influences on young people's sexual development pp. 473-487

Jean A. Shoveller, Joy L. Johnson, Donald B. Langille and Terry Mitchell

Viagra stories": challenging 'erectile dysfunction pp. 489-499

Annie Potts, Victoria Grace, Nicola Gavey and Tiina Vares

A critical review of behavioral issues related to malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa:: what contributions have social scientists made? pp. 501-523

Holly Ann Williams and Caroline O. H. Jones

Cost-effectiveness of malaria control interventions when malaria mortality is low: insecticide-treated nets versus in-house residual spraying in India pp. 525-539

Mrigesh R Bhatia, Julia Fox-Rushby and Anne Mills

A comparison of breast, testicular and prostate cancer in mass print media (1996-2001) pp. 541-551

Juanne Nancarrow Clarke

Accommodating risk: Responses to BRCA1/2 genetic testing of women who have had cancer pp. 553-565

N. Hallowell, C. Foster, R. Eeles, A. Ardern-Jones and M. Watson

Gender and physical violence pp. 567-571

Knut Steen and Steinar Hunskaar

"Social thinking" and cultural images: teenagers' notions of tobacco use pp. 573-583

Marie-Louise Stjerna, Sonja Olin Lauritzen and Per Tillgren

Using a point system in the management of waiting lists: the case of cataracts pp. 585-594

Eva Rodríguez-Míguez, Carmen Herrero and Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades

Social capital, the miniaturisation of community and self-reported global and psychological health pp. 595-607

Martin Lindström

Physical well-being and school enrollment:: a comparison of adopted and biological children in one-child families in China pp. 609-623

Jihong Liu, Grace Wyshak and Ulla Larsen

Present concerns of survivors of human rights violations in South Africa pp. 625-635

Ashraf Kagee

Authorizing tradition: vectors of contention in Highland Maya midwifery pp. 637-651

Servando Z. Hinojosa

Turning the tide: Benefit finding after cancer surgery pp. 653-662

Ute Schulz and Nihal E. Mohamed

2004, volume 59, articles 2

Integrating genetics as practices of primary care pp. 223-233

Rosemary Robins and Sylvia Metcalfe

Optimising clinical practice in cancer genetics with cultural competence: lessons to be learned from ethnographic research with Chinese-Australians pp. 235-248

M.Maurice Eisenbruch, Soo See Yeo, Bettina Meiser, David Goldstein, Kathy Tucker and Kristine Barlow-Stewart

Socioeconomic differences in cancer screening participation: comparing cognitive and psychosocial explanations pp. 249-261

Jane Wardle, Kirsten McCaffery, Marion Nadel and Wendy Atkin

Women, family demands and health: the importance of employment status and socio-economic position pp. 263-274

L.Lucía Artazcoz, Carme Borrell, Joan Benach, Imma Cortès and Izabella Rohlfs

Understanding the role of mediating risk factors and proxy effects in the association between socio-economic status and untreated hypertension pp. 275-283

A. Colin Bell, Linda S. Adair and Barry M. Popkin

AIDS-talk in everyday life: the presence of HIV/AIDS in men's informal conversation in Southern Malawi pp. 285-297

Amy Kaler

Secretive females or swaggering males?: An assessment of the quality of sexual partnership reporting in rural Tanzania pp. 299-310

Soori Nnko, J.T.J Ties Boerma, Mark Urassa, Gabriel Mwaluko and Basia Zaba

Violent deaths among women of reproductive age in rural Bangladesh pp. 311-319

M.K.M. Kapil Ahmed, Jeroen van Ginneken, Abdur Razzaque and Nurul Alam

Dependency, democracy, and infant mortality: a quantitative, cross-national analysis of less developed countries pp. 321-333

John M. Shandra, Jenna Nobles, Bruce London and J.B.John B. Williamson

Wilp Wa'ums: colonial encounter, decolonization and medical care among the Nisga'a pp. 335-349

M.-E.Mary-Ellen Kelm

Use of a visual analogue scale in a daily patient diary: modelling cross-sectional time-series data on health-related quality of life pp. 351-360

David Parkin, Nigel Rice, Ann Jacoby and Julie Doughty

Geographical variation in acute psychiatric admissions within New York City 1990-2000: growing inequalities in service use? pp. 361-376

Michael Almog, Sarah Curtis, Alison Copeland and Peter Congdon

The health-promoting family: a conceptual framework for future research pp. 377-387

Pia Christensen

The Israeli kibbutz as a venue for reduced disability in old age: lessons from the Cross-sectional And Longitudinal Aging Study (CALAS) pp. 389-403

Adrian Walter-Ginzburg, Tzvia Blumstein and Jack M. Guralnik

Traffic stress, vehicular burden and well-being: A multilevel analysis pp. 405-414

Gilbert C. Gee and D.T.David T. Takeuchi

Popular perceptions of tobacco products and patterns of use among male college students in India pp. 415-431

Mimi Nichter, Mark Nichter and David Van Sickle

Use of benzodiazepine drugs and perceived job stress in a cohort of working men and women in Belgium. Results from the BELSTRESS-study pp. 433-442

Edwin Pelfrene, Peter Vlerick, Michel Moreau, Rudolf P. Mak, Marcel Kornitzer and G.D.Guy De Backer

2004, volume 59, articles 1

Material deprivation and self-rated health: a multilevel study of adolescents from 22 European and North American countries pp. 1-12

Torbjorn Torsheim, Candace Currie, William Boyce, Ilze Kalnins, Mary Overpeck and Siren Haugland

Evidence on equalisation in health in youth from the West of Scotland pp. 13-27

Patrick West and Helen Sweeting

The impact of job strain on social isolation: a longitudinal analysis of French workers pp. 29-38

Michel Vézina, Francis Derriennic and Christine Monfort

Medical malpractice as an epidemiological problem pp. 39-46

Michelle M. Mello and David Hemenway

The threatened self: general practitioners' self-perception in relation to prescribing medicine pp. 47-55

Kristin Henriksen and Ebba Holme Hansen

Planning for the end of life:: the views of older people about advance care statements pp. 57-68

Jane Seymour, Merryn Gott, Gary Bellamy, Sam H. Ahmedzai and David Clark

Multigenerational family structure in Japanese society: impacts on stress and health behaviors among women and men pp. 69-81

Yasuhisa Takeda, Ichiro Kawachi, Zentaro Yamagata, Shuji Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Matsumura, Shigenori Oguri and Akira Okayama

Decision-making models in Japanese psychiatry: Transitions from passive to active patterns pp. 83-91

B. T. Slingsby

Is patient involvement possible when decisions involve scarce resources? A qualitative study of decision-making in primary care pp. 93-102

Ian Rees Jones, Lee Berney, Moira Kelly, Len Doyal, Chris Griffiths, Gene Feder, Sheila Hillier, Gillian Rowlands and Sarah Curtis

In motion, out of place: the public space(s) of Tourette Syndrome pp. 103-112

Kat Kleman Davis, Jeffrey Sasha Davis and Lorraine Dowler

Characteristics of binge drinkers in Europe pp. 113-127

E. Kuntsche, J. Rehm and G. Gmel

Social inequality and ethnic differences in smoking in New Zealand pp. 129-143

Ross Barnett, Graham Moon and Robin Kearns

Physician-patient dialogue surrounding patients' expression of concern: applying sequence analysis to RIAS pp. 145-155

Hilde Eide, Vicenç Quera, Peter Graugaard and Arnstein Finset

How do health workers and community members perceive and practice community participation in the Bamako Initiative programme in Nigeria? A case study of Oji River local government area pp. 157-162

Benjamin S. C. Uzochukwu, Cyril O. Akpala and Obinna E. Onwujekwe

Decentralization and public services: the case of immunization pp. 163-183

Peyvand Khaleghian

Social, cultural and sexual behavioral determinants of observed decline in HIV infection trends: lessons from the Kagera Region, Tanzania pp. 185-198

Joe Lugalla, Maria Emmelin, Aldin Mutembei, Mwiru Sima, Gideon Kwesigabo, Japhet Killewo and Lars Dahlgren

Economies of scale and scope in Vietnamese hospitals pp. 199-208

Marcia Weaver and Anil Deolalikar

Pushing the boundaries of outreach work: the case of needle exchange outreach programs in Canada pp. 209-219

Carol J. Strike, Caroline O'Grady, Ted Myers and Margaret Millson