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2003, volume 57, articles 12

Inequalities in child mortality in Mozambique: differentials by parental socio-economic position pp. 2255-2264

Gloria Macassa, Gebrenegus Ghilagaber, Eva Bernhardt, Finn Diderichsen and Bo Burström

Does stage at diagnosis influence the observed relationship between socioeconomic status and breast cancer incidence, case-fatality, and mortality? pp. 2265-2279

K. Robin Yabroff and Leon Gordis

Occupational class and physical activity among Japanese employees pp. 2281-2289

Soshi Takao, Norito Kawakami and Tadahiro Ohtsu

Is position in the occupational hierarchy a determinant of decline in perceived health status? pp. 2291-2303

Cameron A. Mustard, Marian Vermeulen and John N. Lavis

Socioeconomic gradients in health status over 29 years of follow-up after midlife: the Alameda county study pp. 2305-2323

John W. Frank, Richard Cohen, Irene Yen, Jennifer Balfour and Margot Smith

A symptom perception approach to common physical symptoms pp. 2343-2354

Annemarie M. Kolk, Gerrit J. F. P. Hanewald, Simon Schagen and Cecile M. T. Gijsbers van Wijk

Toward understanding youth suicide in an Australian rural community pp. 2355-2365

Lisa Bourke

Supplying emergency contraception via community pharmacies in the UK: reflections on the experiences of users and providers pp. 2367-2378

Paul Bissell and Claire Anderson

Family caregiver perspective-taking and accuracy in estimating cancer patient symptom experiences pp. 2379-2384

Michelle M. Lobchuk and Jacquie D. Vorauer

The quality of life of spouse dementia caregivers: changes associated with yielding to formal care and widowhood pp. 2385-2395

Malcolm J. Bond, Michael S. Clark and Suzanne Davies

Causal inference from randomized trials in social epidemiology pp. 2397-2409

Jay S. Kaufman, Sol Kaufman and Charles Poole

Mobility limitations 1974-1991: period changes explaining improvement in the population pp. 2411-2422

Kozma Ahacic, Marti G. Parker and Mats Thorslund

Networked for change? identifying obstetric opinion leaders and assessing their opinions on caesarean delivery pp. 2423-2434

Richard L. Kravitz, David Krackhardt, Joy Melnikow, Carol E. Franz, William M. Gilbert, Andra Zach, Debora A. Paterniti and Patrick S. Romano

Stigma as a barrier to treatment of sexually transmitted infection in the American deep south: issues of race, gender and poverty pp. 2435-2445

Bronwen Lichtenstein

Utilization of care during pregnancy in rural Guatemala: does obstetrical need matter? pp. 2447-2463

Dana A. Glei, Noreen Goldman and Germán Rodríguez

The continuum of patient satisfaction--from satisfied to very satisfied pp. 2465-2470

Karen Collins and Alicia O'Cathain

Letter response to Margaret Everett (2003) "The social life of genes: privacy, property and the new genetics" Social Science & Medicine, 56:1 pp. 2471-2472

Leigh Rich

Response to Rich's letter regarding "the social life of genes: Privacy, property and the new genetics" pp. 2473-2473

Margaret Everett

2003, volume 57, articles 11

Air pollution and children's health in São Paulo (1986-1998) pp. 2013-2022

Helena Ribeiro and Maria Regina Alves Cardoso

Acculturation and overweight-related behaviors among Hispanic immigrants to the US: the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health pp. 2023-2034

Penny Gordon-Larsen, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Dianne S. Ward and Barry M. Popkin

Identifying children in need of ancillary and enabling services: a population approach pp. 2035-2047

Ruth E Benedict and Anita M Farel

Public and private domains of religiosity and adolescent health risk behaviors: evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health pp. 2049-2054

James M. Nonnemaker, Clea A. McNeely and Robert Wm. Blum

Rural/urban differences in the association between deprivation and healthcare utilisation pp. 2055-2063

Mark S. Gilthorpe and Richard C. Wilson

Zones of prevention: the geography of fall injuries in the elderly pp. 2065-2073

Nikolaos Yiannakoulias, Brian H. Rowe, Lawrence W. Svenson, Donald P. Schopflocher, Karen Kelly and Donald C. Voaklander

What's in a country average? Wealth, gender, and regional inequalities in immunization in India pp. 2075-2088

Rohini P. Pande and Abdo S. Yazbeck

The dental care pathway of welfare recipients in Quebec pp. 2089-2099

Christophe Bedos, Jean-Marc Brodeur, Laurence Boucheron, Lucie Richard, Mike Benigeri, Marie Olivier and Slim Haddad

Management of return-to-work programs for workers with musculoskeletal disorders: a qualitative study in three Canadian provinces pp. 2101-2114

R. Baril, J. Clarke, M. Friesen, S. Stock and D. Cole

Health inequality and users' risk-taking: a longitudinal analysis in a French reproductive technology centre pp. 2115-2125

Laurence Tain

The struggle against neuromuscular diseases in France and the emergence of the "partnership model" of patient organisation pp. 2127-2136

Vololona Rabeharisoa

Marriage, widowhood, and health-care use pp. 2137-2147

Theodore J. Iwashyna and Nicholas A. Christakis

Pedestrian injuries in Mexico: a multi-method approach pp. 2149-2159

Martha Híjar, James Trostle and Mario Bronfman

Putting the Q into quality of life; the identification of subjective constructions of health-related quality of life using Q methodology pp. 2161-2172

Paul H. D. Stenner, Deborah Cooper and Suzanne M. Skevington

Inequalities in nonfatal work injury: the significance of race, human capital, and occupations pp. 2173-2182

Joong-Hwan Oh and Eui Hang Shin

The burden of traditional practices, ebino and tea-tea, on child health in Northern Uganda pp. 2183-2191

Sandro Accorsi, Massimo Fabiani, Nicoletta Ferrarese, Robert Iriso, Matthew Lukwiya and Silvia Declich

The life course prospective design: an example of benefits and problems associated with study longevity pp. 2193-2205

M. E. J. Wadsworth, S. L. Butterworth, R. J. Hardy, D. J. Kuh, M. Richards, C. Langenberg, W. S. Hilder and M. Connor

Optimizing a portfolio of health care programs in the presence of uncertainty and constrained resources pp. 2207-2215

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

Health selection: the role of inter- and intra-generational mobility on social inequalities in health pp. 2217-2227

Orly Manor, Sharon Matthews and Chris Power

Parents' contributions to the narrative identity of offspring of donor-assisted conception pp. 2229-2242

Maggie Kirkman

Chronic back pain sufferers--striving for the sick role pp. 2243-2252

Claire Glenton

2003, volume 57, articles 10

Evolutionary perspectives on pregnancy: maternal age at menarche and infant birth weight pp. 1771-1781

David A. Coall and James S. Chisholm

Solutions forgone? How health professionals frame the problem of postnatal depression pp. 1783-1795

Beverley Lloyd and Penelope Hawe

Listening to mothers: qualitative studies on motherhood and depression from Goa, India pp. 1797-1806

Merlyn Rodrigues, Vikram Patel, Surinder Jaswal and Nandita de Souza

The impact of the national polio immunization campaign on levels and equity in immunization coverage: evidence from rural North India pp. 1807-1819

Sekhar Bonu, Manju Rani and Timothy D. Baker

Risk of transmission of hepatitis B virus through childhood immunization in northwestern China pp. 1821-1832

Hitoshi Murakami, Makoto Kobayashi, Xu Zhu, Yixing Li, Susumu Wakai and Yasuo Chiba

Somatization and mental health: A comparative study of the idiom of distress hypothesis pp. 1833-1845

Corey L. M. Keyes and Carol D. Ryff

Contributions of social context to inequalities in years of life lost to heart disease in Texas, USA pp. 1847-1861

Luisa Franzini and William Spears

Social stratification, development and health in Pakistan: an empirical exploration of relationships in population-based national health examination survey data pp. 1863-1874

Wilbur C. Hadden, Gregory Pappas and Abdul Qayyum Khan

Observing the onset of disability in older adults pp. 1875-1889

Sandra L. Reynolds and Merril Silverstein

Equalisation of socioeconomic differences in injury risks at school age? A study of three age cohorts of Swedish children and adolescents pp. 1891-1899

K. Engström, L. Laflamme and F. Diderichsen

Partner's and own education: does who you live with matter for self-assessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption? pp. 1901-1912

Christiaan W. S. Monden, Frank van Lenthe, Nan Dirk De Graaf and Gerbert Kraaykamp

Social influences on substance-use behaviors of gay, lesbian, and bisexual college students: findings from a national study pp. 1913-1923

Marla E. Eisenberg and Henry Wechsler

Strengthening capacity in developing countries for evidence-based public health:: the data for decision-making project pp. 1925-1937

Marguerite Pappaioanou, Michael Malison, Karen Wilkins, Bradley Otto, Richard A. Goodman, R. Elliott Churchill, Mark White and Stephen B. Thacker

Effects of frequency and similarity neighborhoods on pharmacists' visual perception of drug names pp. 1939-1955

Bruce L. Lambert, Ken-Yu Chang and Prahlad Gupta

Research relationships between the South and the North: Cinderella and the ugly sisters? pp. 1957-1967

Birgit Jentsch and Catherine Pilley

Patient empowerment and control: a psychological discourse in the service of medicine pp. 1969-1980

Peter Salmon and George M Hall

Health status and Canada's immigrant population pp. 1981-1995

Bruce Newbold and Jeff Danforth

Traditional healing systems and the ethos of science pp. 1997-2012

Stella R. Quah

2003, volume 57, articles 9

Child health on a dollar a day: some tentative cross-country comparisons pp. 1529-1538

Adam Wagstaff

Downsizing within a hospital: cutting care or just costs? pp. 1539-1546

Claire Brown, Bengt Arnetz and Ove Petersson

Norms in tension: democracy and efficiency in Bangladeshi health and population sector reform pp. 1547-1557

Jeremy Shiffman and Yonghong Wu

Hidden health costs of pesticide use in Zimbabwe's smallholder cotton growers pp. 1559-1571

Blessing M. Maumbe and Scott M. Swinton

An agenda for future research on HIV and sexual behaviour among African migrant communities in the UK pp. 1573-1592

M. Kesby, K. Fenton, P. Boyle and R. Power

Effective methods to change sex-risk among drug users: a review of psychosocial interventions pp. 1593-1608

Pepijn van Empelen, Gerjo Kok, Nicole M. C. van Kesteren, Bart van den Borne, Arjan E. R. Bos and Herman P. Schaalma

Physicians' experiences of caring for late-stage HIV patients in the post-HAART era: challenges and adaptations pp. 1609-1620

Alison Karasz, Larry Dyche and Peter Selwyn

Does inequality in self-assessed health predict inequality in survival by income? Evidence from Swedish data pp. 1621-1629

Eddy Van Doorslaer and Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Why is poverty unhealthy? Social and physical mediators pp. 1631-1641

Deborah A. Cohen, Thomas A. Farley and Karen Mason

Socioeconomic status and health among the aged in the United States and Germany: A comparative cross-sectional study pp. 1643-1652

Olaf von dem Knesebeck, Günther Lüschen, William C. Cockerham and Johannes Siegrist

Priority setting in health authorities: a novel approach to a historical activity pp. 1653-1663

Craig Mitton, San Patten, Howard Waldner and Cam Donaldson

Obstetricians' attitudes, subjective norms, perceived controls, and intentions on antibiotic prophylaxis in caesarean section pp. 1665-1674

Tippawan Liabsuetrakul, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Pisake Lumbiganon and Gunilla Lindmark

Disclosure of a cancer diagnosis in Thai patients treated with radiotherapy pp. 1675-1682

Temsak Phungrassami, Hutcha Sriplung, Aran Roka, Em-nasree Mintrasak, Thanarpan Peerawong and Umard Aegem

Pain management and symptoms of substance dependence among patients with sickle cell disease pp. 1683-1696

James Elander, Joanne Lusher, David Bevan and Paul Telfer

A test of the QALY model when health varies over time pp. 1697-1706

Anne Spencer

Integrating measurement of control and affiliation in studies of physician-patient interaction: the interpersonal circumplex pp. 1707-1722

Donald J. Kiesler and Stephen M. Auerbach

Social capital: a strategy for enhancing health? pp. 1723-1733

Ricca Edmondson

What is 'normal' about women's (hetero)sexual desire and orgasm?: a report of an in-depth interview study pp. 1735-1745

Paula Nicolson and Jennifer Burr

Consumption and impacts of local brewed alcohol (akpeteshie) in the Upper West Region of Ghana: a public health tragedy pp. 1747-1760

Isaac Luginaah and Crescentia Dakubo

Smoking and perceived health in Hong Kong Chinese pp. 1761-1770

Sai Yin Ho, Tai Hing Lam, Richard Fielding and Edward Denis Janus

2003, volume 57, articles 8

Measuring homicide in Russia: a comparison of estimates from the crime and vital statistics reporting systems pp. 1343-1354

William Alex Pridemore

Association between measures of morbidity and locomotor disability: diagnosis alone is not enough pp. 1355-1360

Joy Adamson, Kate Hunt and Shah Ebrahim

"What do you mean 'what's wrong with her?'": stigma and the lives of families of children with disabilities pp. 1361-1374

Sara E. Green

Disarmed complaints:: unpacking satisfaction with end-of-life care pp. 1375-1385

Christina Sinding

The radicalized self: the impact on the self of the contested nature of the diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome pp. 1387-1395

Juanne N. Clarke and Susan James

Vulnerability to coastal cholera ecology pp. 1397-1407

Andrew E. Collins

It is hard work behaving as a credible patient: encounters between women with chronic pain and their doctors pp. 1409-1419

Anne Werner and Kirsti Malterud

Incidence and correlates of breast milk feeding in hospitalized preterm infants pp. 1421-1428

Kimberly Andrews Espy and Theresa E. Senn

Hospital utilization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: health outcome disparities associated with race and ethnicity pp. 1429-1441

James N. Laditka, Sarah B. Laditka and Melanie P. Mastanduno

Fertility and perinatal health among Finnish immigrants in sweden pp. 1443-1454

Mika Gissler, Milla Pakkanen and Petra Otterblad Olausson

Selective migration from deprived areas in Northern Ireland and the spatial distribution of inequalities: implications for monitoring health and inequalities in health pp. 1455-1462

Dermot O'Reilly and Michael Stevenson

Exploring relative deprivation: Is social comparison a mechanism in the relation between income and health? pp. 1463-1473

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

Social causation, health-selective mobility, and the reproduction of socioeconomic health inequalities over time: panel study of adult men pp. 1475-1489

Jon Ivar Elstad and Steinar Krokstad

Social role occupancy, gender, income adequacy, life stage and health: a longitudinal study of employed Canadian men and women pp. 1491-1503

B. L. Janzen and Nazeem Muhajarine

Age and education patterns of smoking among women in high-income nations pp. 1505-1514

Fred C. Pampel

Mutual influences of general practitioners in partnerships pp. 1515-1524

Judith D. de Jong, Peter P. Groenewegen and Gert P. Westert

2003, volume 57, articles 7

Methods for studying private sector supply of public health products in developing countries: a conceptual framework and review pp. 1147-1161

Lesong Conteh and Kara Hanson

The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities pp. 1163-1172

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

Are seasonalities in suicide dependent on suicide methods? A reappraisal pp. 1173-1181

Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, Jen Wang, Matthias Bopp, Dominique Eich, Wulf Rössler and Felix Gutzwiller

Urban-rural differences in suicide trends in young adults: England and Wales, 1981-1998 pp. 1183-1194

Nicos Middleton, David Gunnell, Stephen Frankel, Elise Whitley and Daniel Dorling

Social capital and trust in providers pp. 1195-1203

Melissa M. Ahern and Michael S. Hendryx

Declining subscriptions to the Maliando Mutual Health Organisation in Guinea-Conakry (West Africa): what is going wrong? pp. 1205-1219

Bart Criel and Maria Pia Waelkens

Explaining variation in health status across space and time: implications for racial and ethnic disparities in self-rated health pp. 1221-1235

Christopher R. Browning, Kathleen A. Cagney and Ming Wen

Do age and social relations moderate the relationship between self-rated health and mortality among adult Danes? pp. 1237-1247

Marie Helweg-Larsen, Mette Kjøller and Henrik Thoning

Predictors of psychological distress in Lebanese hostages of war pp. 1249-1257

Basem Roberto Saab, Monique Chaaya, Myrna Doumit and Laila Farhood

Predicting young children's quality of life pp. 1277-1288

Pragai Jirojanakul, Suzanne M. Skevington and John Hudson

A systematic and critical review of the process of translation and adaptation of generic health-related quality of life measures in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South America pp. 1289-1306

Annabel Bowden and Julia A. Fox-Rushby

Daily geographies of caregivers: mobility, routine, scale pp. 1307-1325

Janine Wiles

Women doctors in Norway: the challenging balance between career and family life pp. 1327-1341

Elisabeth Gjerberg

2003, volume 57, articles 6

Health insurance and child mortality in Costa Rica pp. 975-986

William Dow and Kammi K. Schmeer

Use of mammography screening among older Samoan women in Los Angeles county: a diffusion network approach pp. 987-1000

Lené Levy-Storms and Steven P. Wallace

Socio-economic adversity and psychosocial adjustment: a developmental-contextual perspective pp. 1001-1015

Ingrid Schoon, Amanda Sacker and Mel Bartley

Managing threats to self: awareness in early stage Alzheimer's disease pp. 1017-1029

Linda Clare

ORS is never enough: physician rationales for altering standard treatment guidelines when managing childhood diarrhoea in Thailand pp. 1031-1044

Nopporn Howteerakul, Nick Higginbotham, Sonia Freeman and Michael J. Dibley

Back pain and the resolution of diagnostic uncertainty in illness narratives pp. 1045-1054

Annika Lillrank

Early puberty is associated with mental health problems in middle adolescence pp. 1055-1064

Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino, Mauri Marttunen, Päivi Rantanen and Matti Rimpelä

Value importance and value congruence as determinants of trust in health policy actors pp. 1065-1075

Susan M. Kehoe and J. Rick Ponting

The process of mediated aging-in-place: a theoretically and empirically based model pp. 1077-1090

Malcolm P. Cutchin

Short report: Migration among persons living with HIV pp. 1091-1097

Marc L. Berk, Claudia L. Schur, Jennifer L. Dunbar, Sam Bozzette and Martin Shapiro

Women's empowerment and fertility decline among the Pare of Kilimanjaro region, Northern Tanzania pp. 1099-1115

Ulla Larsen and Marida Hollos

A new look at neighborhoods near National Priorities List sites pp. 1117-1126

Janet L. Heitgerd and C. Virginia Lee

Indicators of empowerment and disempowerment in the subjective evaluation of the psychiatric treatment process by persons with severe and persistent mental illness: a qualitative and quantitative analysis pp. 1127-1142

Reinhold Kilian, Iro Lindenbach, Uta Löbig, Matthias Uhle, Andreas Petscheleit and Matthias C. Angermeyer

2003, volume 57, articles 5

Psychological distress among Thai migrant workers in Israel pp. 769-774

Jennifer Griffin and Varda Soskolne

Dimensions of trauma associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) caseness, severity and functional impairment: a study of Bosnian refugees resettled in Australia pp. 775-781

S. Momartin, D. Silove, V. Manicavasagar and Z. Steel

Factors affecting decisions to seek treatment for sick children in Kerala, India pp. 783-790

Rajamohanan K Pillai, Sankey V. Williams, Henry A. Glick, Daniel Polsky, Jesse A. Berlin and Robert A. Lowe

Interacting with cancer patients: the significance of physicians' communication behavior pp. 791-806

Neeraj K. Arora

Job characteristics, physical and psychological symptoms, and social support as antecedents of sickness absence among men and women in the private industrial sector pp. 807-824

Ari Väänänen, Salla Toppinen-Tanner, Raija Kalimo, Pertti Mutanen, Jussi Vahtera and José Peiró

Children's health-related quality of life, neighbourhood socio-economic deprivation and social capital. A contextual analysis pp. 825-841

Marjan Drukker, Charles Kaplan, Frans Feron and Jim van Os

Poverty, affluence, and income inequality: neighborhood economic structure and its implications for health pp. 843-860

Ming Wen, Christopher R. Browning and Kathleen A. Cagney

Socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity among the elderly; a European overview pp. 861-873

Martijn Huisman, Anton E. Kunst and Johan P. Mackenbach

Quality of internet access: barrier behind internet use statistics pp. 875-880

Harvey Skinner, Sherry Biscope and Blake Poland

Damned if you do: culture, identity, privilege, and teenage childbearing in the United States pp. 881-893

Arline T. Geronimus

Ethnicity, socio-economic position and gender--do they affect reported health--care seeking behaviour? pp. 895-904

Joy Adamson, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Nish Chaturvedi and Jenny Donovan

Narrative strategies in medical discourse: constructing the psychiatric "case" in a non-western setting pp. 905-916

Elizabeth M. Coker

Discourses of blame: accounting for aggression and violence on an acute mental health inpatient unit pp. 917-926

Anne Benson, Jenny Secker, Emma Balfe, Maurice Lipsedge, Sarah Robinson and Julian Walker

Patients and doctors: reformulating the UK health policy community? pp. 927-936

Brian Salter

Public and private sector responses to essential drugs policies:: a multilevel analysis of drug prescription and selling practices in Mali pp. 937-948

Fatoumata Ina Maïga, Slim Haddad, Pierre Fournier and Lise Gauvin

The DALY, context and the determinants of the severity of disease: an exploratory comparison of paraplegia in Australia and Cameroon pp. 949-958

Pascale Allotey, Daniel Reidpath, Aka Kouamé and Robert Cummins

2003, volume 57, articles 4

Health behaviours and health in adolescence as predictors of educational level in adulthood: a follow-up study from Finland pp. 577-593

Leena Koivusilta, Rimpelä Arja and Vikat Andres

Why are suicide rates rising in young men but falling in the elderly?--a time-series analysis of trends in England and Wales 1950-1998 pp. 595-611

David Gunnell, Nicos Middleton, Elise Whitley, Daniel Dorling and Stephen Frankel

Contrasting lives, contrasting views? understandings of health inequalities from children in differing social circumstances pp. 613-623

Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Sarah Cunningham-Burley and John Davis

Household and neighbourhood risks for injury to 5-14 year old children pp. 625-636

Robin Haynes, Richard Reading and Susan Gale

Future uncertainty and socioeconomic inequalities in health: the Whitehall II study pp. 637-646

Jane E. Ferrie, Martin J. Shipley, Stephen A. Stansfeld, George Davey Smith and Michael Marmot

Allostatic load and work conditions pp. 647-656

Pia Schnorpfeil, Alexander Noll, Renate Schulze, Ulrike Ehlert, Karl Frey and Joachim E. Fischer

Hygiene in the home: relating bugs and behaviour pp. 657-672

Val Curtis, Adam Biran, Katie Deverell, Clarissa Hughes, Kate Bellamy and Bo Drasar

Dr. John has gone: assessing health professionals' contribution to remote rural community sustainability in the UK pp. 673-686

Jane Farmer, William Lauder, Helen Richards and Siobhan Sharkey

Measuring people's preferences regarding ageism in health: some methodological issues and some fresh evidence pp. 687-696

Aki Tsuchiya, Paul Dolan and Rebecca Shaw

Health technology assessment in its local contexts: studies of telehealthcare pp. 697-710

Carl May, Maggie Mort, Tracy Williams, Frances Mair and Linda Gask

Ideal versus reality: physicians perspectives on patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia pp. 711-720

Pia Åsbring and Anna-Liisa Närvänen

Physician and family assisted suicide: results from a study of public attitudes in Britain pp. 721-731

C. O'Neill, D. Feenan, C. Hughes and D. A. McAlister

Improving antibiotic use in low-income countries: an overview of evidence on determinants pp. 733-744

Aryanti Radyowijati and Hilbrand Haak

Intellectual property rights and traditional medicine: policy dilemmas at the interface pp. 745-756

Karin Timmermans

Ageing and public satisfaction with the health service: an analysis of recent trends pp. 757-762

Michael Calnan, Stephen Almond and Nick Smith

2003, volume 57, articles 3

The meanings of organ donation: Muslims of Pakistani origin and white English nationals living in North England pp. 389-401

Clare Hayward and Anna Madill

The new genetics and its consequences for family, kinship, medicine and medical genetics pp. 403-412

Kaja Finkler, Cécile Skrzynia and James P. Evans

Examining the disablement process among older Mexican American adults pp. 413-425

M. Kristen Peek, Kenneth J. Ottenbacher, Kyriakos S. Markides and Glenn V. Ostir

A politico-economic analysis of decision making in funding health service organisations pp. 427-435

Stephen Jan, Eric Dommers and Gavin Mooney

"It wasn't the plague we expected." Parents' perceptions of the health and environmental impact of opencast coal mining pp. 437-451

Suzanne Moffatt and Tanja Pless-Mulloli

The health politics of asthma: environmental justice and collective illness experience in the United States pp. 453-464

Phil Brown, Brian Mayer, Stephen Zavestoski, Theo Luebke, Joshua Mandelbaum and Sabrina McCormick

The health impact of health care on families: a matched cohort study of hospice use by decedents and mortality outcomes in surviving, widowed spouses pp. 465-475

Nicholas A. Christakis and Theodore J. Iwashyna

Socio-demographic predictors of self-rated health in the Republic of Ireland: findings from the National Survey on Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition, SLAN pp. 477-486

C. C. Kelleher, S. Friel, S. Nic Gabhainn and Joseph B. Tay

Born out of wedlock and never married--it breaks a man's heart pp. 487-501

Bitte Modin

Language barriers between nurses and asylum seekers: their impact on symptom reporting and referral pp. 503-512

Alexander Bischoff, Patrick A. Bovier, Rrustemi Isah, Gariazzo Francoise, Eytan Ariel and Loutan Louis

Self-treatment and its discussion in medical consultations: how is medical pluralism managed in practice? pp. 513-527

Fiona A. Stevenson, Nicky Britten, Christine A. Barry, Colin P. Bradley and Nick Barber

Pharmaceutical reform and physician strikes in Korea: separation of drug prescribing and dispensing pp. 529-538

Soonman Kwon

Epidemiological transition: Model or illusion? A look at the problem of health in Mexico pp. 539-550

Martínez S Carolina and Leal F Gustavo

Geographic analysis of diabetes prevalence in an urban area pp. 551-560

Chris Green, Robert D. Hoppa, T. Kue Young and J. F. Blanchard

Sexual violence among a cohort of injection drug users pp. 561-569

Paula Braitstein, Kathy Li, Mark Tyndall, Patricia Spittal, Michael V. O'Shaughnessy, Arn Schilder, Caitlin Johnston, Robert S. Hogg and Martin T. Schechter

Hospitalisation process seen by patients and health care professionals pp. 571-576

Denis Rentsch, Christophe Luthy, Thomas V. Perneger and Anne-Françoise Allaz

2003, volume 57, articles 2

Reshaping the carcinogenic risk assessment of medicines: international harmonisation for drug safety, industry/regulator efficiency or both? pp. 195-204

John Abraham and Tim Reed

Physician-patient interaction: a gynecology clinic in Turkey pp. 205-215

Ayse K. Uskul and Farah Ahmad

Reproductive health indicators for China's rural areas pp. 217-225

Caroline C. Wang, Yan Wang, Kaining Zhang, Jing Fang, Wei Liu, Shusheng Luo, Songyuan Tang, Shaoxian Wang and Virginia C. Li

When being alone might be better: neighborhood poverty, social capital, and child mental health pp. 227-237

Margaret O'Brien Caughy, Patricia J. O'Campo and Carles Muntaner

Deliberations about deliberative methods: issues in the design and evaluation of public participation processes pp. 239-251

Julia Abelson, Pierre-Gerlier Forest, John Eyles, Patricia Smith, Elisabeth Martin and Francois-Pierre Gauvin

"Love thy neighbour"--it's good for your health: a study of racial homogeneity, mortality and social cohesion in the United States pp. 253-261

Daniel D. Reidpath

Tracing the social gradient in the health of Canadians: primary and secondary determinants pp. 263-276

Julie G. Kosteniuk and Harley D. Dickinson

Negotiating palliative care expertise in the medical world pp. 277-288

Derek Hibbert, Barbara Hanratty, Carl May, Frances Mair, Andrea Litva and Simon Capewell

Problematising depression: young people, mental health and suicidal behaviours pp. 289-299

Sara Bennett, Carolyn Coggan and Peter Adams

Changing patterns of orphan care due to the HIV epidemic in western Kenya pp. 301-311

Erick Otieno Nyambedha, Simiyu Wandibba and Jens Aagaard-Hansen

Children's feeding programs in Atlantic Canada: some Foucauldian theoretical concepts in action pp. 313-325

Jutta B. Dayle and Lynn McIntyre

Return migration in the context of parental assistance in the AIDS epidemic: the Thai experience pp. 327-342

John Knodel and Mark VanLandingham

A shift in the historical trajectory of medical dominance: the case of Medibank and the Australian doctors' lobby pp. 343-353

Jennifer E. De Voe and Stephanie D. Short

Endangering safe motherhood in Mozambique: prenatal care as pregnancy risk pp. 355-374

Rachel R. Chapman

The role of social support and self-esteem in the presence and course of depressive symptoms: a comparison of cancer patients and individuals from the general population pp. 375-385

Maya J. Schroevers, Adelita V. Ranchor and Robbert Sanderman

2003, volume 57, articles 1

Sustaining safe practice: twenty years on pp. 1-12

Susan Kippax and Kane Race

HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: a conceptual framework and implications for action pp. 13-24

Richard Parker and Peter Aggleton

Nuances and shifts in lesbian women's constructions of STI and HIV vulnerability pp. 25-38

Kathleen A. Dolan and Phillip W. Davis

Situational factors influencing drug injecting, risk reduction and syringe exchange in Togliatti City, Russian Federation: a qualitative study of micro risk environment pp. 39-54

Tim Rhodes, Larissa Mikhailova, Anya Sarang, Catherine M. Lowndes, Andrey Rylkov, Mikhail Khutorskoy and Adrian Renton

A proper place to live: health inequalities, agency and the normative dimensions of space pp. 55-69

Jennie Popay, Carol Thomas, Gareth Williams, Sharon Bennett, Anthony Gatrell and Lisa Bostock

Measuring culture: a critical review of acculturation and health in Asian immigrant populations pp. 71-90

Talya Salant and Diane S. Lauderdale

Patients' attitudes vs. physicians' determination: implications for cesarean sections pp. 91-96

Joan C. Lo

Trust, learning, and vaccination: a case study of a North Indian village pp. 97-112

Jishnu Das and Saumya Das

Television documentary in New Zealand and the construction of doctors by lower socio-economic groups pp. 113-124

Darrin Hodgetts and Kerry Chamberlain

Socio-economic and demographic variation in health and in its measures: the issue of reporting heterogeneity pp. 125-134

Amir Shmueli

"I'll give up smoking when you get me better": patients' resistance to attempts to problematise smoking in general practice (GP) consultations pp. 135-145

Alison Pilnick and Tim Coleman

Layperson and physician perceptions of the malpractice system: implications for patient safety pp. 147-153

Bryan A. Liang

Willingness to pay and determinants of choice for improved malaria treatment in rural Nepal pp. 155-165

Edward Morey, Vijaya R. Sharma and Anne Mills

The impact on breastfeeding of labour market policy and practice in Ireland, Sweden, and the USA pp. 167-177

Judith Galtry

The politics of 'branding' in policy transfer: the case of DOTS for tuberculosis control pp. 179-188

Jessica Ogden, Gill Walt and Louisiana Lush