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2004, volume 58, articles 12

The Scope of pharmacy ethics--an evaluation of the international research literature, 1990-2002 pp. 2383-2396

Joy Wingfield, Paul Bissell and Claire Anderson

Pharmaceuticals in Australia: developments in regulation and governance pp. 2397-2407

Hans Lofgren and Rebecca de Boer

The failure of pharmaceuticals and the power of plants: medicinal discourse as a critique of modernity in the Amazon pp. 2409-2419

Coral Wayland

Unrest in Utopia: Israeli patients' dissatisfaction with non-conventional medicine pp. 2421-2429

Judith Fadlon

Place of death: preferences among cancer patients and their carers pp. 2431-2444

C Thomas, S.m Morris and D Clark

Seeking informed consent to cancer clinical trials:: describing current practice pp. 2445-2457

R.f Brown, P.n Butow, P Ellis, F Boyle and M.H.n Tattersall

Changing places. Do changes in the relative deprivation of areas influence limiting long-term illness and mortality among non-migrant people living in non-deprived households? pp. 2459-2471

Paul Boyle, Paul Norman and Philip Rees

Stress and physical health: the role of neighborhoods as mediating and moderating mechanisms pp. 2473-2483

Jason D Boardman

The maternal depletion transition in northern Kenya: the effects of settlement, development and disparity pp. 2485-2498

Bettina Shell-Duncan and Stacie A Yung

Social transfers and the health status of mothers in Norway and Canada pp. 2499-2507

Lori Curtis and Shelley Phipps

A model for alcohol-mediated violence in an Australian Aboriginal community pp. 2509-2521

Jay H Shore and Paul Spicer

The effects of regional characteristics on alcohol-related mortality--a register-based multilevel analysis of 1.1 million men pp. 2523-2535

Jenni Blomgren, Pekka Martikainen, Pia Mäkelä and Tapani Valkonen

Death rates of medical school class presidents pp. 2537-2543

Donald A Redelmeier and Jeffrey C Kwong

Careers and mortality in France: evidence on how far occupational mobility predicts differentiated risks pp. 2545-2558

Emmanuelle Cambois

Wellbeing and mental growth--long-term effects of legal abortion pp. 2559-2569

A Kero, U Högberg and A Lalos

'Symbiotic niceness': constructing a therapeutic relationship in psychosocial palliative care pp. 2571-2583

Sarah Li

Gender differences in health: a Canadian study of the psychosocial, structural and behavioural determinants of health pp. 2585-2600

Margaret Denton, Steven Prus and Vivienne Walters

A socio-ecological autopsy of the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Walkerton, Ontario, Canada pp. 2601-2612

S.Harris Ali

Midwifery practice and the crisis of modernity: implications for the role of the midwife pp. 2613-2623

Abbey Hyde and Bernadette Roche-Reid

Isumagijaksaq: mindful of the state: social constructions of Inuit suicide pp. 2625-2636

Frank James Tester and Paule McNicoll

Karenni refugees living in Thai-Burmese border camps: traumatic experiences, mental health outcomes, and social functioning pp. 2637-2644

Barbara Lopes Cardozo, Leisel Talley, Ann Burton and Carol Crawford

Social capital is associated with decreased risk of hunger pp. 2645-2654

Katie S Martin, Beatrice L Rogers, John T Cook and Hugh M Joseph

Profiles of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: the extremes of glycemic control pp. 2655-2666

Margaret R Savoca, Carla K Miller and Sara A Quandt

2004, volume 58, articles 11

General practitioner attitudes to discussing sexual health issues with older people pp. 2093-2103

Merryn Gott, Sharron Hinchliff and Elisabeth Galena

Ambivalent tales of HIV disclosure in San Francisco pp. 2105-2118

Nicolas Sheon and G. Michael Crosby

Community group participation:: Can it help young women to avoid HIV? An exploratory study of social capital and school education in rural Zimbabwe pp. 2119-2132

Simon Gregson, Nicola Terceira, Phyllis Mushati, Constance Nyamukapa and Catherine Campbell

Veterans seeking disability benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder: who applies and the self-reported meaning of disability compensation pp. 2133-2143

Nina A. Sayer, Michele Spoont and Dave Nelson

Prospective association of anxiety, depressive, and addictive disorders with high utilization of primary, specialty and emergency medical care pp. 2145-2148

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

Life-course experiences and mortality by adult social class among young men pp. 2149-2170

Tiina Pensola and Pekka Martikainen

Life course influences on quality of life in early old age pp. 2171-2179

D. Blane, P. Higgs, M. Hyde and Richard Wiggins

Regulation of junior doctors' work hours: an analysis of British and American doctors' experiences and attitudes pp. 2181-2191

Reshma Jagsi and Rebecca Surender

The migration of doctors and nurses from South Pacific Island Nations pp. 2193-2210

Richard P. C. Brown and John Connell

Repeated follow-up as a method for reducing non-trading behaviour in discrete choice experiments pp. 2211-2218

John Cairns and Marjon van der Pol

Testing the internal consistency of the standard gamble in 'success' and 'failure' frames pp. 2219-2229

Adam Oliver

Policy analysis in an information-rich environment pp. 2231-2241

Leslie L. Roos, Verena Menec and R. J. Currie

Inter-professional conflict and professionalization: dentistry and dental hygiene in Ontario pp. 2243-2252

Tracey L. Adams

A methodological and substantive review of the evidence that schools cause pupils to smoke pp. 2253-2265

Paul Aveyard, Wolfgang A. Markham and K. K. Cheng

Mental health and social capital in Cali, Colombia pp. 2267-2277

Trudy Harpham, Emma Grant and Carlos Rodriguez

Choosing where to deliver: decision criteria among women with low-risk pregnancies in France pp. 2279-2289

E. Combier, J. Zeitlin, N. de Courcel, S. Vasseur, A. Lalouf, J. M. Amat-Roze and G. de Pouvourville

"No somos iguales": The effect of household economic standing on women's energy intake in the Andes pp. 2291-2300

Margaret A. Graham

Changing gender roles and health impacts among female workers in export-processing industries in Sri Lanka pp. 2301-2312

Chamila T. Attanapola

Patients' perceptions of informed consent in acute myocardial infarction research: a Danish study pp. 2313-2324

Anne Gammelgaard, Peter Rossel and Ole Steen Mortensen

The medical practice of patient autonomy and cancer treatment refusals: a patients' and physicians' perspective pp. 2325-2336

Titia van Kleffens, Berna van Baarsen and Evert van Leeuwen

Liminality as biographical disruption: unclassifiability following hormonal therapy for advanced prostate cancer pp. 2337-2347

Liora Navon and Amira Morag

United States coronary mortality trends and community services associated with occupational structure, among blacks and whites, 1984-1998 pp. 2349-2361

Donna L. Armstrong, David Strogatz and Ruby Wang

Unloading the trunk: neurasthenia, CFS and race pp. 2363-2369

A. Luthra and S. Wessely

Controlling diabetes, controlling diabetics: moral language in the management of diabetes type 2 pp. 2371-2382

Dorothy Broom and Andrea Whittaker

2004, volume 58, articles 10

The motivation and behaviour of hospital Trusts pp. 1809-1823

Tessa Crilly and Julian Le Grand

Effects of early health-insurance programs on European mortality and fertility trends pp. 1825-1836

C. R. Winegarden and John E. Murray

Disability in society--medical and non-medical determinants for disability pension in a Norwegian total county population study pp. 1837-1848

Steinar Krokstad and Steinar Westin

Portfolio evaluation of health programs: a reply to Sendi et al pp. 1849-1851

John F. P. Bridges and Darcey D. Terris

Portfolio theory and the alternative decision rule of cost-effectiveness analysis: theoretical and practical considerations pp. 1853-1855

Pedram Sendi, Maiwenn J. Al, Amiram Gafni and Stephen Birch

Adjustment latitude and attendance requirements as determinants of sickness absence or attendance. Empirical tests of the illness flexibility model pp. 1857-1868

Gun Johansson and Ingvar Lundberg

Social class and self-reported health status among men and women: what is the role of work organisation, household material standards and household labour? pp. 1869-1887

Carme Borrell, Carles Muntaner, Joan Benach and Lucía Artazcoz

Tinker, tailor, soldier, patient: work attributes and depression disparities among young adults pp. 1889-1901

Frederick J. Zimmerman, Dimitri A. Christakis and Ann Vander Stoep

Maintenance of subjective health during a merger: the role of experienced change and pre-merger social support at work in white- and blue-collar workers pp. 1903-1915

Ari Väänänen, Krista Pahkin, Raija Kalimo and Bram P. Buunk

Child well-being and neighbourhood quality: evidence from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth pp. 1917-1927

Lori Curtis, Martin D. Dooley and Shelley Phipps

The (mis)estimation of neighborhood effects: causal inference for a practicable social epidemiology pp. 1929-1952

J. Michael Oakes

Estimating neighborhood health effects: the challenges of causal inference in a complex world pp. 1953-1960

Ana V. Diez Roux

The relevance of multilevel statistical methods for identifying causal neighborhood effects pp. 1961-1967

S. V. Subramanian

Causal inference and the relevance of social epidemiology pp. 1969-1971

J. Michael Oakes

Patients or partners? Case studies of user involvement in the planning and delivery of adult mental health services in London pp. 1973-1984

Deborah Rutter, Catherine Manley, Tim Weaver, Mike J. Crawford and Naomi Fulop

Cumulative biological risk and socio-economic differences in mortality: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging pp. 1985-1997

Teresa E. Seeman, Eileen Crimmins, Mei-Hua Huang, Burton Singer, Alexander Bucur, Tara Gruenewald, Lisa F. Berkman and David B. Reuben

Modernized education of traditional medicine in Korea: is it contributing to the same type of professionalization seen in Western medicine? pp. 1999-2008

Chang-yup Kim and Byungmook Lim

Parental role in medical decision-making: fact or fiction? A comparative study of ethical dilemmas in French and American neonatal intensive care units pp. 2009-2022

Kristina Orfali

Educational differences in starting excessive alcohol consumption: explanations from the longitudinal GLOBE study pp. 2023-2033

Mariël Droomers, Carola T. M. Schrijvers and Johan P. Mackenbach

Prediction of survival: a comparison between two subjective health measures in an elderly population pp. 2035-2043

Orna Baron-Epel, Galia Shemy and Sara Carmel

Changing geographic access to and locational efficiency of health services in two Indian districts between 1981 and 1996 pp. 2045-2067

Naresh Kumar

Social networks and self-rated health in two French-speaking Canadian community dwelling populations over 65 pp. 2069-2081

M. V. Zunzunegui, A. Koné, M. Johri, F. Béland, C. Wolfson and H. Bergman

Effects of drug treatment for heroin sniffers: a protective factor against moving to injection? pp. 2083-2092

Margaret S. Kelley and Dale D. Chitwood

2004, volume 58, articles 9

Women's body dissatisfaction, social class, and social mobility pp. 1575-1584

Lindsay McLaren and Diana Kuh

Do socioeconomic gradients in women's health widen over time and with age? pp. 1585-1595

Gita D. Mishra, Kylie Ball, Annette J. Dobson and Julie E. Byles

(Dis)embodying gender and sexuality in testicular cancer pp. 1597-1607

Maria Gurevich, Scott Bishop, Jo Bower, Monika Malka and Joyce Nyhof-Young

Evaluating the effect of regulatory prohibitions against risk selection by health status on supplemental insurance ownership in Israel pp. 1609-1622

Revital Gross and Shuli Brammli-Greenberg

Insurance and the utilization of medical services pp. 1623-1632

Jonathan Meer and Harvey Rosen

Un-assured instruments: a comment on "insurance and the utilization of medical services" pp. 1633-1634

Ted Joyce

'In this scenario, I do this, for these reasons': narrative, genre and ethical reasoning in the clinic pp. 1635-1645

Christopher F. C. Jordens and Miles Little

Understanding breast cancer stories via Frank's narrative types pp. 1647-1657

Roanne Thomas-MacLean

Job decision latitude, organizational justice and health: multilevel covariance structure analysis pp. 1659-1669

Marko Elovainio, Mika Kivimäki, Nick Steen and Jussi Vahtera

The impact of atypical employment on individual wellbeing: evidence from a panel of British workers pp. 1671-1688

Elena Bardasi and Marco Francesconi

Therapeutic misconception and the appreciation of risks in clinical trials pp. 1689-1697

Charles W. Lidz, Paul S. Appelbaum, Thomas Grisso and Michelle Renaud

Women's preferences for and views on decision-making for diagnostic tests pp. 1699-1707

Heather M Davey, Jacqueline Lim, Phyllis N Butow, Alexandra L Barratt and Sally Redman

The medicalization of compulsive buying pp. 1709-1718

Shirley Lee and Avis Mysyk

Gender bias among children in India in their diet and immunisation against disease pp. 1719-1731

Vani Borooah

Which African men promote smaller families and why? Marital relations and fertility in a Pare community in Northern Tanzania pp. 1733-1749

Marida Hollos and Ulla Larsen

HIV and Islam: is HIV prevalence lower among Muslims? pp. 1751-1756

Peter B. Gray

What constitutes evidence in hospital new drug decision making? pp. 1757-1766

K Neil Jenkings and Nick Barber

The influence of school culture on smoking among pupils pp. 1767-1780

Paul Aveyard, Wolfgang A Markham, Emma Lancashire, Alison Bullock, Christine Macarthur, K. K. Cheng and Harry Daniels

'Cultivating health': therapeutic landscapes and older people in northern England pp. 1781-1793

Christine Milligan, Anthony Gatrell and Amanda Bingley

The view from two worlds: The convergence of social network reports between mental health clients and their ties pp. 1795-1806

Bernice A. Pescosolido and Eric R. Wright

2004, volume 58, articles 8

Health inequalities and the psychosocial environment pp. 1461-1461

Michael Marmot and Johannes Siegrist

Health inequalities and the psychosocial environment--two scientific challenges pp. 1463-1473

Johannes Siegrist and Michael Marmot

Psychosocial factors at work and depression in three countries of Central and Eastern Europe pp. 1475-1482

Hynek Pikhart, Martin Bobak, Andrzej Pajak, Sofia Malyutina, Ruzena Kubinova, Roman Topor, Helena Sebakova, Yuri Nikitin and Michael Marmot

The measurement of effort-reward imbalance at work: European comparisons pp. 1483-1499

Johannes Siegrist, Dagmar Starke, Tarani Chandola, Isabelle Godin, Michael Marmot, Isabelle Niedhammer and Richard Peter

The effect of control at home on CHD events in the Whitehall II study: Gender differences in psychosocial domestic pathways to social inequalities in CHD pp. 1501-1509

Tarani Chandola, Hannah Kuper, Archana Singh-Manoux, Mel Bartley and Michael Marmot

Psychobiological mechanisms of socioeconomic differences in health pp. 1511-1522

M. Kristenson, H. R. Eriksen, J. K. Sluiter, D. Starke and H. Ursin

Work stress, socioeconomic status and neuroendocrine activation over the working day pp. 1523-1530

Sabine R. Kunz-Ebrecht, Clemens Kirschbaum and Andrew Steptoe

Effort-reward imbalance model and self-reported health: cross-sectional and prospective findings from the GAZEL cohort pp. 1531-1541

Isabelle Niedhammer, Marie-Ly Tek, Dagmar Starke and Johannes Siegrist

Differential economic stability and psychosocial stress at work: associations with psychosomatic complaints and absenteeism pp. 1543-1553

Isabelle Godin and France Kittel

Can we disentangle life course processes of accumulation, critical period and social mobility? An analysis of disadvantaged socio-economic positions and myocardial infarction in the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program pp. 1555-1562

Johan Hallqvist, John Lynch, Mel Bartley, Thierry Lang and David Blane

Social mobility and health in the Turin longitudinal study pp. 1563-1574

Mario Cardano, Giuseppe Costa and Moreno Demaria

2004, volume 58, articles 7

Economy and job contract as contexts of sickness absence practices: revisiting locality and habitus pp. 1219-1229

P. Virtanen, J. Vahtera, R. Nakari, J. Pentti and M. Kivimäki

Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories pp. 1231-1245

Meei-shia Chen and Anita Chan

Employment status, social ties, and caregivers' mental health pp. 1247-1256

Carolyn C. Cannuscio, Graham A. Colditz, Eric B. Rimm, Lisa F. Berkman, Camara P. Jones and Ichiro Kawachi

The impact of information on non-health attributes on willingness to pay for multiple health care programmes pp. 1257-1269

Christel Protière, Cam Donaldson, Stéphane Luchini, Jean Paul Moatti and Phil Shackley

Spatial access to health care in Costa Rica and its equity: a GIS-based study pp. 1271-1284

Luis Rosero-Bixby

Emergency contraception and morality: reflections of health care workers and clients pp. 1285-1297

Wendy Simonds and Charlotte Ellertson

Lay voices on allergic conditions in children: parents' narratives and the negotiation of a diagnosis pp. 1299-1308

Sonja Olin Lauritzen

Health literacy, social support, and health: a research agenda pp. 1309-1321

Shoou-Yih D. Lee, Ahsan M. Arozullah and Young Ik Cho

From symptom recognition to diagnosis: children with autism in urban India pp. 1323-1335

Tamara C. Daley

School-based HIV prevention programmes for African youth pp. 1337-1351

Melanie Gallant and Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale

Social support and quality of life over time among adults living with HIV in the HAART era pp. 1353-1366

Robert Burgoyne and Rebecca Renwick

Effective/efficient mental health programs for school-age children: a synthesis of reviews pp. 1367-1384

Gina Browne, Amiram Gafni, Jacqueline Roberts, Carolyn Byrne and Basanti Majumdar

Family consequences of chronic back pain pp. 1385-1393

Lee Strunin and Leslie I. Boden

Caregiver's needs as predictors of hospital readmission for the elderly in Taiwan pp. 1395-1403

Yea-Ing Lotus Shyu, Min-Chi Chen and Hsiao-Chin Lee

Parental perspectives on vaccinating children against sexually transmitted infections pp. 1405-1413

Rose M. Mays, Lynne A. Sturm and Gregory D. Zimet

Non-professionals' evaluations of gene therapy ethics pp. 1415-1425

Jackie Leach Scully, Christine Rippberger and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

Assessment of genetic testing and related counseling services: current research and future directions pp. 1427-1442

Catharine Wang, Richard Gonzalez and Sofia D. Merajver

Fosterage patterns in the age of AIDS: continuity and change pp. 1443-1454

Sangeetha Madhavan

2004, volume 58, articles 6

Women, work and musculoskeletal health pp. 997-1005

Lyndall Strazdins and Gabriele Bammer

Women, work, and well-being 1950-2000:: a review and methodological critique pp. 1007-1024

Petra L. Klumb and Thomas Lampert

Factors associated with the use of publicly funded services by Hong Kong Chinese older adults pp. 1025-1035

K. L. Chou and I. Chi

Recessions lower (some) mortality rates:: evidence from Germany pp. 1037-1047

Eric Neumayer

Association of stereotypes about physicians to health care satisfaction, help-seeking behavior, and adherence to treatment pp. 1049-1058

Laura M. Bogart, Sheryl Thorburn Bird, Lisa C. Walt, Douglas L. Delahanty and Jacqueline L. Figler

A question of place: medical power in rural Australia pp. 1059-1073

Amanda Kenny and Stephen Duckett

Living with conflicts-ethical dilemmas and moral distress in the health care system pp. 1075-1084

Sofia Kälvemark, Anna T. Höglund, Mats G. Hansson, Peter Westerholm and Bengt Arnetz

Prevention and genetic testing for breast cancer: variations in medical decisions pp. 1085-1096

Louise Bouchard, I. Blancquaert, F. Eisinger, W. D. Foulkes, G. Evans, H. Sobol and C. Julian-Reynier

The 'hows', 'whos', and 'whens' of screening: gynaecologists' perspectives on cervical cancer screening in urban Sweden pp. 1097-1108

Anna Sarkadi, Catarina Widmark, Sven Törnberg and Carol Tishelman

Prospects of safe motherhood in Botswana: midwifery training and nurses' ability to complete the Botswana obstetric record pp. 1109-1120

Thabo T. Fako, Ntonghanwah Forcheh and Ephraim Ncube

Effects of illness and disability on job separation pp. 1121-1135

William Magee

Effects of urbanization, economic development, and migration of workers on suicide mortality in Japan pp. 1137-1146

Akiko Otsu, Shunichi Araki, Ryoji Sakai, Kazuhito Yokoyama and A. Scott Voorhees

The generational transmission of socioeconomic inequalities in child cognitive development and emotional health pp. 1147-1158

Jake M. Najman, Rosemary Aird, William Bor, Michael O'Callaghan, Gail M. Williams and Gregory J. Shuttlewood

Effects of socioeconomic indicators on coronary risk factors, self-rated health and psychological well-being among urban Japanese civil servants pp. 1159-1170

Nobuo Nishi, Kae Makino, Hideki Fukuda and Kozo Tatara

Socioeconomic inequality of obesity in the United States: do gender, age, and ethnicity matter? pp. 1171-1180

Qi Zhang and Youfa Wang

Inequality of water fluoridation in Southern Brazil--the inverse equity hypothesis revisited pp. 1181-1189

Marco Aurélio Peres, Liliane Simara Fernandes and Karen Glazer Peres

Risk of injury after alcohol consumption: a case-crossover study in the emergency department pp. 1191-1200

Guilherme Borges, Cheryl Cherpitel and Murray Mittleman

"Iceland Inc."?: On the ethics of commercial population genomics pp. 1201-1209

Jon F. Merz, Glenn McGee and Pamela Sankar

Is informed consent a solution to contractual problems? A comment on the article '"Iceland Inc."?: On the Ethics of Commercial Population Genomics' by Jon F. Merz, Glenn E. McGee, and Pamela Sankar pp. 1211-1211

Klaus Hoeyer and Niels Lynöe

Response from Jon F. Merz, Glenn E. McGee, and Pamela Sankar to Hoeyer and Lynöe's commentary on their article "'Iceland Inc.'? On the Ethics of Commercial Genomics" pp. 1213-1213

J. F. Merz, Glenn McGee and P. Sankar

2004, volume 58, articles 5

Good and bad death: Introduction pp. 883-885

Clive Seale and Sjaak van der Geest

The good, the bad, and the unresolved death in Kaliai pp. 887-897

Dorothy Ayers Counts and David Counts

Dying peacefully: considering good death and bad death in Kwahu-Tafo, Ghana pp. 899-911

Sjaak van der Geest

Cultural scripts for a good death in Japan and the United States: similarities and differences pp. 913-928

Susan Orpett Long

Good enough death: autonomy and choice in Australian palliative care pp. 929-938

Beverley McNamara

Narrative nuances on good and bad deaths: internists' tales from high-technology work places pp. 939-953

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Nina M. Gadmer, Patricia Ruopp, Matthew Lakoma, Amy M. Sullivan, Ellen Redinbaugh, Robert M. Arnold and Susan D. Block

"You're not going to dehydrate mom, are you?": Euthanasia, versterving, and good death in the Netherlands pp. 955-966

Robert Pool

Media constructions of dying alone: a form of 'bad death' pp. 967-974

Clive Seale

Ancient euthanasia: 'good death' and the doctor in the graeco-Roman world pp. 975-985

Anton J. L. Van Hooff

Good death and bad death in ancient Israel according to biblical lore pp. 987-995

Klaas Spronk

2004, volume 58, articles 4

Introduction to: Heresy and orthodoxy in medical theory and research pp. 671-674

R. Kenneth Jones

The role of methods in maintaining orthodox beliefs in health research pp. 675-685

Kathryn Dean

The ambivalence of error: "scientific ideology" in the history of the life sciences and psychosomatic medicine pp. 687-696

Monica Greco

From the biomedical model to the Islamic alternative: a brief overview of medical practices in the contemporary Arab world pp. 697-702

Salim M. Adib

Schism and heresy in the development of orthodox medicine: The threat to medical hegemony pp. 703-712

R. Kenneth Jones

Dissent and heresy in medicine: models, methods, and strategies pp. 713-725

Brian Martin

Clinical medicine and the quest for certainty pp. 727-738

Grant Gillett

Negative pathways to psychiatric care and ethnicity: the bridge between social science and psychiatry pp. 739-752

Craig Morgan, Rosemarie Mallett, Gerard Hutchinson and Julian Leff

Reforming health care financing in Bulgaria: the population perspective pp. 753-765

Dina Balabanova and Martin McKee

Exploring the pathways leading from disadvantage to end-stage renal disease for Indigenous Australians pp. 767-785

Alan Cass, Joan Cunningham, Paul Snelling, Zhiqiang Wang and Wendy Hoy

Coercive sex in rural Uganda: Prevalence and associated risk factors pp. 787-798

Michael A. Koenig, Tom Lutalo, Feng Zhao, Fred Nalugoda, Noah Kiwanuka, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Godfrey Kigozi, Nelson Sewankambo, Jennifer Wagman, David Serwadda, Maria Wawer and Ron Gray

Comparing directly measured standard gamble scores to HUI2 and HUI3 utility scores: group- and individual-level comparisons pp. 799-809

David Feeny, William Furlong, Saroj Saigal and Jian Sun

Lay conceptions of the ethical and scientific justifications for random allocation in clinical trials pp. 811-824

Elizabeth J. Robinson, Cicely Kerr, Andrew Stevens, Richard Lilford, David Braunholtz and Sarah Edwards

Governing peanuts: the regulation of the social bodies of children and the risks of food allergies pp. 825-836

Trevor Rous and Alan Hunt

Dilemmas in sharing care: maternal provision of professionally driven therapy for children with disabilities pp. 837-849

Valerie Leiter

From compliance to concordance: barriers to accomplishing a re-framed model of health care interactions pp. 851-862

Paul Bissell, Carl R. May and Peter R. Noyce

Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study pp. 863-877

Robert A. LeVine, Sarah E. LeVine, Meredith L. Rowe and Beatrice Schnell-Anzola

2004, volume 58, articles 3

Perceived stress following race-based discrimination at work is associated with hypertension in African-Americans. The metro Atlanta heart disease study, 1999-2001 pp. 449-461

Rebecca Din-Dzietham, Wendy N. Nembhard, Rakale Collins and Sharon K. Davis

The extraordinary decline of infant and childhood mortality among Palestinian refugees pp. 463-470

Marwan Khawaja

Distribution of distress in post-socialist Mongolia: a cultural epidemiology of yadargaa pp. 471-485

Brandon A. Kohrt, Daniel J. Hruschka, Holbrook E. Kohrt, Nova L. Panebianco and G. Tsagaankhuu

Suicidality and cultural values among Hong Kong adolescents pp. 487-498

T. H. Lam, Sunita M. Stewart, Paul S. F. Yip, Gabriel M. Leung, L. M. Ho, S. Y. Ho and Peter W. H. Lee

Children's nutrition in Jamaica: do household structure and household economic resources matter? pp. 499-514

Jacinta Bronte-Tinkew and Gordon DeJong

The social context of reproductive health in an Egyptian hamlet: a pilot study to identify female genital schistosomiasis pp. 515-524

Maha Talaat, Susan Watts, Shahinaz Mekheimar, Heba Farook Ali and Howaida Hamed

Criterion and content validity of a novel structured haggling contingent valuation question format versus the bidding game and binary with follow-up format pp. 525-537

Obinna Onwujekwe

The pursuit of equity in NHS resource allocation: should morbidity replace utilisation as the basis for setting health care capitations? pp. 539-551

Sheena Asthana, Alex Gibson, Graham Moon, John Dicker and Philip Brigham

User fees at a public hospital in Cambodia: effects on hospital performance and provider attitudes pp. 553-564

Hidechika Akashi, Takako Yamada, Eng Huot, Koum Kanal and Takao Sugimoto

The effects of US state income inequality and alcohol policies on symptoms of depression and alcohol dependence pp. 565-575

Claire Henderson, Xinhua Liu, Ana V. Diez Roux, Bruce G. Link and Deborah Hasin

Assessing the impact of SSRI antidepressants on popular notions of women's depressive illness pp. 577-584

Jonathan M. Metzl and Joni Angel

Labor market experience, work organization, gender inequalities and health status: results from a prospective analysis of US employed women pp. 585-594

Patricia O'Campo, William W. Eaton and Carles Muntaner

Association of self-reported religiosity and mortality in industrial employees: the CORDIS study pp. 595-602

Allen Kraut, Samuel Melamed, Daphna Gofer and Paul Froom

Practitioners' impressions of patients with Parkinson's disease: the social ecology of the expressive mask pp. 603-614

Linda Tickle-Degnen and Kathleen Doyle Lyons

Social participation and coronary heart disease: a follow-up study of 6900 women and men in Sweden pp. 615-622

Kristina Sundquist, Martin Lindström, Marianne Malmström, Sven-Erik Johansson and Jan Sundquist

Knowledge and beliefs of primary care physicians, pharmacists, and parents on antibiotic use for the pediatric common cold pp. 623-629

Hong-Jun Cho, Soo-Jong Hong and Sylvia Park

A story of maladies, misconceptions and mishaps: effective management of heart failure pp. 631-643

Carol R. Horowitz, Stephanie B. Rein and Howard Leventhal

Is going to church good or bad for you? Denomination, attendance and mental health of children in West Scotland pp. 645-656

Joanne E. Abbotts, Rory G. A. Williams, Helen N. Sweeting and Patrick B. West

Alt and Swartz 'task oriented nursing in tuberculosis control programme in South Africa: where does it come from and what keeps it going?' pp. 657-657

Linda Shields

Assessing the quality of life of patients in phases I and II anti-cancer drug trials: Interviews versus questionnaires by Cox K pp. 659-660

Stephen P. McKenna

Assessing the quality of life in phase I and II anti-cancer drug trials: interviews versus questionnaires pp. 661-661

Karen Cox

2004, volume 58, articles 2

Falling short of expectations: public health interventions in developing and transition economies pp. 223-225

William Jack and Maureen Lewis

Provision of ambulatory health services in Poland: a case study from Krakow pp. 227-235

Mukesh Chawla, Peter Berman, Adam Windak and Marzena Kulis

Informal payments for health care in transition economies pp. 237-246

Tim Ensor

Poverty, out-of-pocket payments and access to health care: evidence from Tajikistan pp. 247-258

Jane Falkingham

Risk segmentation and equity in the Chilean mandatory health insurance system pp. 259-265

Claudio Sapelli

Addressing government and market failures with payment incentives: Hospital reimbursement reform in Hainan, China pp. 267-277

Winnie Yip and Karen Eggleston

Wage inequality, the health system, and infant mortality in wealthy industrialized countries, 1970-1996 pp. 279-292

James A. Macinko, Leiyu Shi and Barbara Starfield

Did the distribution of health insurance in China continue to grow less equitable in the nineties? Results from a longitudinal survey pp. 293-304

John Akin, William Dow and Peter M. Lance

A direct method for estimating the compensating income variation for severe headache and migraine pp. 305-314

Wim Groot and Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink

Optimisation versus certainty: understanding the issue of heterogeneity in economic evaluation pp. 315-320

Warren Stevens and Charles Normand

A sociological perspective on public participation in health care pp. 321-330

Damien Contandriopoulos

The New Zealand health reforms: dividing the labour of care pp. 331-341

Ruth Fitzgerald

Determinants and consequences of health worker motivation in hospitals in Jordan and Georgia pp. 343-355

Lynne Miller Franco, Sara Bennett, Ruth Kanfer and Patrick Stubblebine

Organisational simplification and secondary complexity in health services for adults with learning disabilities pp. 357-367

Bob Heyman, John Swain and Maureen Gillman

Dementia: sociological and philosophical constructions pp. 369-378

Daniel H. J. Davis

Developing ethical strategies to assist oncologists in seeking informed consent to cancer clinical trials pp. 379-390

R. F. Brown, P. N. Butow, D. G. Butt, A. R. Moore and M. H. N. Tattersall

Bereaved parents' experience of research participation pp. 391-400

Kari Dyregrov

Therapeutic and reproductive cloning: a critique pp. 401-409

Finn Bowring

Is the corporate transformation of hospitals creating a new hybrid health care space? A case study of the impact of co-location of public and private hospitals in Australia pp. 427-444

Laurie Brown and J. Ross Barnett

2004, volume 58, articles 1

Gender and the social context of smoking behaviour pp. 1-12

Nicole Dedobbeleer, Francois Béland, André-Pierre Contandriopoulos and Manuella Adrian

Public place restrictions on smoking in Canada: assessing the role of the state, media, science and public health advocacy pp. 13-24

Mark Asbridge

Putting policy into practice? Poverty and people with serious mental illness pp. 25-39

Robert Wilton

Beyond the income inequality hypothesis: class, neo-liberalism, and health inequalities pp. 41-56

David Coburn

Area effects on health variation over the life-course: analysis of the longitudinal study sample in England using new data on area of residence in childhood pp. 57-74

Sarah Curtis, H. Southall, P. Congdon and B. Dodgeon

Health, place and childhood asthma in southwest Alaska pp. 75-88

Steven Wind, David Van Sickle and Anne L. Wright

The drug industry and medical practice--the case of menopausal hormone therapy in Estonia pp. 89-97

Elina Hemminki, Tiina Karttunen, Sirpa-Liisa Hovi and Helle Karro

Sickness absence and early retirement at two workplaces--effects of organisational intervention in Sweden pp. 99-108

Hans Goine, Anders Knutsson, Staffan Marklund and Berndt Karlsson

Religion and preventative health care utilization among the elderly pp. 109-118

Maureen Reindl Benjamins and Carolyn Brown

Changing health inequalities in east and west Germany since unification pp. 119-136

Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee

Predictive genetic test decisions for Huntington's disease: context, appraisal and new moral imperatives pp. 137-149

Sandra D. Taylor

Screening for breast cancer: candidacy and compliance pp. 151-160

Naomi Pfeffer

Patient activism and the struggle for diagnosis: Gulf War illnesses and other medically unexplained physical symptoms in the US pp. 161-175

Stephen Zavestoski, Phil Brown, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, Maryhelen D'Ottavi and Jaime C. Lucove

What is important to continuity in home care?: Perspectives of key stakeholders pp. 177-192

Christel A. Woodward, Julia Abelson, Sara Tedford and Brian Hutchison

Can a brief video intervention improve breast cancer clinical trial knowledge and beliefs? pp. 193-205

Barbara Curbow, Linda A. Fogarty, Karen McDonnell, Julia Chill and Lisa Benz Scott

Evidence-based health policy: context and utilisation pp. 207-217

Mark J. Dobrow, Vivek Goel and R. E. G. Upshur