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2003, volume 56, articles 12

Normalizing the exceptional: incorporating the "abortion pill" into mainstream medicine pp. 2353-2366

Carole Joffe and Tracy A. Weitz

Social capital, life expectancy and mortality: a cross-national examination pp. 2367-2377

Brendan Kennelly, Eamon O'Shea and Eoghan Garvey

Investments in social capital--implications of social interactions for the production of health pp. 2379-2390

Kristian Bolin, Björn Lindgren, Martin Lindström and Paul Nystedt

The methodology of HIV/AIDS impact studies: a review of current practices pp. 2391-2405

Frederik le R. Booysen and Tanja Arntz

The Rule of Rescue pp. 2407-2419

John McKie and Jeff Richardson

From damaged nerves to masked depression: inevitability and hope in Latvian psychiatric narratives pp. 2421-2431

V. Skultans

Using burden of disease information for health planning in developing countries: the experience from Uganda pp. 2433-2441

Lydia Kapiriri, Ole Frithjof Norheim and Kristian Heggenhougen

Does low reading achievement at school entry cause conduct problems? pp. 2443-2448

Kathryn J. Bennett, K. Stephen Brown, Michael Boyle, Yvonne Racine and Dan Offord

Pregnant smokers who quit, pregnant smokers who don't: does history of problem behavior make a difference? pp. 2449-2460

Lauren S. Wakschlag, Kate E. Pickett, Molly K. Middlecamp, Laura L. Walton, Penny Tenzer and Bennett L. Leventhal

Evaluation of primary health care reform in Estonia pp. 2461-2466

Agris Koppel, Kersti Meiesaar, Hannu Valtonen, Andrus Metsa and Margus Lember

Community stress, demoralization, and body mass index: evidence for social signal transduction pp. 2467-2478

Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace and Virginia Rauh

Variation in physicians' definitions of the competent parent and other barriers to guideline adherence: the case of pediatric minor head injury management pp. 2479-2491

Elisa J. Sobo and Paul Kurtin

Country of birth, instrumental activities of daily living, self-rated health and mortality: a Swedish population-based survey of people aged 55-74 pp. 2493-2503

Sonja Pudaric, Jan Sundquist and Sven-Erik Johansson

Sociodemographics, self-rated health, and mortality in the US pp. 2505-2514

Peter Franks, Marthe R. Gold and Kevin Fiscella

Civil war and child health: regional and ethnic dimensions of child immunization and malnutrition in Angola pp. 2515-2527

Victor Agadjanian and Ndola Prata

Politics of leprosy segregation in Japan: the emergence, transformation and abolition of the patient segregation policy pp. 2529-2539

Hajime Sato and Minoru Narita

A spatial analysis of county-level variation in hospitalization rates for low back problems in North Carolina pp. 2541-2553

Jerry D. Joines, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Timothy S. Carey, Wilbert Gesler and Chirayath Suchindran

Understanding long-standing illness among older people pp. 2555-2564

Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Salma Ayis and Shah Ebrahim

Response to Gilbert & Walker 'Treading the path of least resistance' pp. 2565-2565

Ashraf Kagee

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L. Gilbert and L. Walker

2003, volume 56, articles 11

Vulnerable places: contextualizing health practices pp. 2243-2244

Ruth E. Malone

From space to place in contemporary health care pp. 2245-2247

Edward S. Casey

Hidden places, uncommon persons pp. 2249-2261

Sharon R. Kaufman

Space, place and movement as aspects of health care in three women's prisons pp. 2263-2275

Nancy Stoller

Bioethics and rural health: theorizing place, space, and subjects pp. 2277-2288

Susan E. Kelly

From home to hospital and back again: economic restructuring, end of life, and the gendered problems of place-switching health services pp. 2289-2301

Carolyn Cartier

Placing private health care: reading Ascot hospital in the landscape of contemporary Auckland pp. 2303-2315

Robin A. Kearns, J. Ross Barnett and Daniel Newman

Distal nursing pp. 2317-2326

Ruth E. Malone

Locating gene-environment interaction: at the intersections of genetics and public health pp. 2327-2342

Sara Shostak

Bio-medical Topoi--the dominance of space, the recalcitrance of place, and the making of persons pp. 2343-2351

Jeff Malpas

2003, volume 56, articles 10

Community tuberculosis care through "TB clubs" in rural North Ethiopia pp. 2009-2018

M. Demissie, H. Getahun and B. Lindtjørn

With the help of one's neighbors: externalities in the production of nutrition in Peru pp. 2019-2031

Harold Alderman, Jesko Hentschel and Ricardo Sabates

Changing the nature of physician referral relationships in the US: the impact of managed care pp. 2033-2044

Denise Anthony

Ultrasound screening in pregnancy: advancing technology, soft markers for fetal chromosomal aberrations, and unacknowledged ethical dilemmas pp. 2045-2057

Linn Getz and Anne Luise Kirkengen

Health selection in the Whitehall II study, UK pp. 2059-2072

Tarani Chandola, Mel Bartley, Amanda Sacker, Crispin Jenkinson and Michael Marmot

Changes in the spatial pattern of low birth weight in a southern California county: the role of individual and neighborhood level factors pp. 2073-2088

Paul B. English, Martin Kharrazi, Stephanie Davies, Rusty Scalf, Lance Waller and Raymond Neutra

Searching for an optimum solution to the Bangladesh arsenic crisis pp. 2089-2096

Bruce K. Caldwell, John C. Caldwell, S. N. Mitra and Wayne Smith

The unfortunate generation: stroke survivors in Riga, Latvia pp. 2097-2108

Christopher McKevitt, Agita Luse and Charles Wolfe

Implications of women's work for child nutritional status in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of Nigeria pp. 2109-2121

Festus A. Ukwuani and Chirayath M. Suchindran

The effect of structural characteristics on family planning program performance in Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria pp. 2123-2137

Dominic J. Mancini, Guy Stecklov and John F. Stewart

Hostility, unemployment and health status: testing three theoretical models pp. 2139-2152

Mika Kivimäki, Marko Elovainio, Katja Kokko, Lea Pulkkinen, Matti Kortteinen and Hannu Tuomikoski

Evaluation of three interventions to promote workplace health and safety: evidence for the utility of implementation intentions pp. 2153-2163

Paschal Sheeran and Michael Silverman

Longitudinal analyses of the relationship between unsupportive social interactions and psychological adjustment among women with fertility problems pp. 2165-2180

Erica J. Mindes, Kathleen M. Ingram, Wendy Kliewer and Cathy A. James

A comparison of the reliability of the take-it-or-leave-it and the bidding game approaches to estimating willingness-to-pay in a rural population in West Africa pp. 2181-2189

Hengjin Dong, Bocar Kouyate, John Cairns and Rainer Sauerborn

Stigma revisited, disclosure of emotional problems in primary care consultations in Wales pp. 2191-2200

Lindsay Prior, Fiona Wood, Glyn Lewis and Roisin Pill

Referral to rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury: a model for understanding inequities in access pp. 2201-2210

Michele Foster and Cheryl Tilse

Houseofficers' reactions to media coverage about the sequencing of the human genome pp. 2211-2220

Gail Geller, Ellen S. Tambor, Barbara A. Bernhardt, Joann Rodgers and Neil A. Holtzman

An investigation into expectation-led interviewer effects in health surveys pp. 2221-2228

Paul Clarke, Kerry Sproston and Roger Thomas

Reform and autonomy: perceptions of the Australian general practice community pp. 2229-2239

Tim Marjoribanks and Jenny M. Lewis

2003, volume 56, articles 9

Reproduction gone awry: medical anthropological perspectives pp. 1831-1836

Gwynne L. Jenkins and Marcia C. Inhorn

Global infertility and the globalization of new reproductive technologies: illustrations from Egypt pp. 1837-1851

Marcia C. Inhorn

With or against nature? IVF, gender and reproductive agency in Athens, Greece pp. 1853-1866

Heather Paxson

Why adoption is not an option in India: the visibility of infertility, the secrecy of donor insemination, and other cultural complexities pp. 1867-1880

Aditya Bharadwaj

Unhappy endings: a feminist reappraisal of the women's health movement from the vantage of pregnancy loss pp. 1881-1891

Linda L. Layne

Burning bridges: policy, practice, and the destruction of midwifery in rural Costa Rica pp. 1893-1909

Gwynne L. Jenkins

Home-birth emergencies in the US and Mexico: the trouble with transport pp. 1911-1931

Robbie Davis-Floyd

Genetic counseling gone awry: miscommunication between prenatal genetic service providers and Mexican-origin clients pp. 1933-1946

C. H. Browner, H. Mabel Preloran, Maria Christina Casado, Harold N. Bass and Ann P. Walker

Emplotting children's lives: developmental delay vs. disability pp. 1947-1960

Gail Landsman

Polygamy, disrupted reproduction, and the state: Malian migrants in Paris, France pp. 1961-1972

Carolyn Sargent and Dennis Cordell

Antiabortion positions and young women's life plans in contemporary Ireland pp. 1973-1986

Laury Oaks

Post-diagnostic abortion in Germany: reproduction gone awry, again? pp. 1987-2001

Susan L. Erikson

2003, volume 56, articles 8

Same-sex attraction in a birth cohort: prevalence and persistence in early adulthood pp. 1607-1615

Nigel Dickson, Charlotte Paul and Peter Herbison

How important is sex in later life? The views of older people pp. 1617-1628

Merryn Gott and Sharron Hinchliff

Managing menopause: a qualitative analysis of self-help literature for women at midlife pp. 1629-1642

Antonia C. Lyons and Christine Griffin

Feminist ethics and menopause: autonomy and decision-making in primary medical care pp. 1643-1652

Madeleine J. Murtagh and Julie Hepworth

Factors predicting choice of treatment for menorrhagia in gynaecology outpatient clinics pp. 1653-1660

Sirkku Vuorma, Pekka Rissanen, Anna-Mari Aalto, Erkki Kujansuu, Ritva Hurskainen and Juha Teperi

Elderly people's ratings of the importance of health-related factors to their self-assessments of health pp. 1661-1667

Yael Benyamini, Elaine A. Leventhal and Howard Leventhal

What lies behind the subjective evaluation of health status? pp. 1669-1676

Giora Kaplan and Orna Baron-Epel

Undernutrition in Benin--an analysis based on graphical models pp. 1677-1691

Angelika Caputo, Ronja Foraita, Stephan Klasen and Iris Pigeot

Developing a framework for assessment of the environmental determinants of walking and cycling pp. 1693-1703

Terri Pikora, Billie Giles-Corti, Fiona Bull, Konrad Jamrozik and Rob Donovan

Social and health determinants of the efficiency of cotton farmers in Northern Côte d'Ivoire pp. 1705-1717

Martine Audibert, Jacky Mathonnat and Marie-Claire Henry

Indigenous social insurance as an alternative financing mechanism for health care in Ethiopia (the case of eders) pp. 1719-1726

Damen Haile Mariam

The influence of cost-effectiveness information on physicians' cancer screening recommendations pp. 1727-1736

Peter A. Ubel, Christopher Jepson, Jonathan Baron, John C. Hershey and David A. Asch

Self-esteem and women with disabilities pp. 1737-1747

Margaret A. Nosek, Rosemary B. Hughes, Nancy Swedlund, Heather B. Taylor and Paul Swank

"Good jobs" to "bad jobs": replicated evidence of an employment continuum from two large surveys pp. 1749-1760

Joseph G. Grzywacz and David Dooley

Quality of life in an urban Asian population: the impact of ethnicity and socio-economic status pp. 1761-1772

Julian Thumboo, Kok-Yong Fong, David Machin, Siew-Pang Chan, Chang-Heok Soh, Keng-Hong Leong, Pao-Hsii Feng, Szu-tien Thio and Mee-Leng Boey

Primary health and social care services in the UK: progress towards partnership? pp. 1773-1782

Kirstein Rummery and Anna Coleman

Suicide attempts in the United States: the role of physical illness pp. 1783-1788

Renee D. Goodwin, Andrej Marusic and Christina W. Hoven

Predictors of adherence to treatment for latent tuberculosis infection in high-risk Latino adolescents: a behavioral epidemiological analysis pp. 1789-1796

Melbourne Hovell, Elaine Blumberg, Laura Gil-Trejo, Alicia Vera, Norma Kelley, Carol Sipan, C. Richard Hofstetter, Sandra Marshall, Jill Berg, Lawrence Friedman, Antonino Catanzaro and Kathleen Moser

Social capital and neighborhood mortality rates in Chicago pp. 1797-1805

Kimberly A. Lochner, Ichiro Kawachi, Robert T. Brennan and Stephen L. Buka

Economy, community and mortality in British Columbia, Canada pp. 1807-1816

Gerry Veenstra

Social relations and self-reported health: a prospective analysis of the French Gazel cohort pp. 1817-1830

Maria Melchior, Lisa F. Berkman, Isabelle Niedhammer, Maline Chea and Marcel Goldberg

2003, volume 56, articles 7

Social representations of HIV/AIDS in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 1373-1384

Robin Goodwin, Alexandra Kozlova, Anna Kwiatkowska, Lan Anh Nguyen Luu, George Nizharadze, Anu Realo, Ahto Külvet and Andu Rämmer

Trends in mortality attributable to current alcohol consumption in east and west Germany pp. 1385-1395

Ellen Nolte, Annie Britton and Martin McKee

Socioeconomic differences in dietary patterns among middle-aged men and women pp. 1397-1410

Pekka Martikainen, Eric Brunner and Michael Marmot

Behavioral risk factors for STD/HIV transmission in Bangladesh's trucking industry pp. 1411-1424

Laura Gibney, Nazmus Saquib and Jesse Metzger

An examination of social capital and social disorganisation in neighbourhoods in the British household panel study pp. 1425-1438

Andrew McCulloch

Public health ethics: teaching survey and critical review pp. 1439-1445

Anthony S. Kessel

The effect of point of reference on the association between self-rated health and mortality pp. 1447-1452

Kristiina Manderbacka, Ingemar Kåreholt, Pekka Martikainen and Olle Lundberg

Trust and the development of health care as a social institution pp. 1453-1468

Lucy Gilson

Nostalgic and nostophobic referencing and the authentication of nurses' use of complementary therapies pp. 1469-1480

Philip Tovey and Jon Adams

Tobacco dependence: adolescents' perspectives on the need to smoke pp. 1481-1492

Joy L. Johnson, Joan L. Bottorff, Barbara Moffat, Pamela A. Ratner, Jean A. Shoveller and Chris Y. Lovato

The role of performance indicators in changing the autonomy of the general practice profession in the UK pp. 1493-1504

M. Exworthy, E. K. Wilkinson, A. McColl, M. Moore, P. Roderick, H. Smith and J. Gabbay

Charitable food assistance as symbolic gesture: an ethnographic study of food banks in Ontario pp. 1505-1515

Valerie Tarasuk and Joan M. Eakin

How did Finland's economic recession in the early 1990s affect socio-economic equity in the use of hospital care? pp. 1517-1530

Ilmo Keskimäki

Reliability of health utility measures and a test of values clarification pp. 1531-1541

Alan Shiell, Penelope Hawe and Megan Fletcher

Marital status changes and body weight changes: a US longitudinal analysis pp. 1543-1555

Jeffery Sobal, Barbara Rauschenbach and Edward A. Frongillo

Evaluating the influence of implicit models of mental disorder on processes of shared decision making within community-based multi-disciplinary teams pp. 1557-1570

A. Colombo, G. Bendelow, B. Fulford and S. Williams

Spirituality and attempted suicide among American Indians pp. 1571-1579

Eva Marie Garroutte, Jack Goldberg, Janette Beals, Richard Herrell and Spero M. Manson

The role of choice in health education intervention trials: a review and case study pp. 1581-1594

Mary R. Janevic, Nancy K. Janz, Julia A. Dodge, Xihong Lin, Wenqin Pan, Brandy R. Sinco and Noreen M. Clark

The new subjective medicine: taking the patient's point of view on health care and health pp. 1595-1604

Mark Sullivan

2003, volume 56, articles 6

Mortality, inequality and race in American cities and states pp. 1139-1153

Angus Deaton and Darren Lubotsky

AIDS in the HAART era: New York's heterogeneous geography pp. 1155-1171

Robert G. Wallace

Respiratory illness in the Dominican Republic: what are the predictors for health services utilization of young children? pp. 1173-1182

Amardeep Thind and Ronald Andersen

Quality of care and the demand for health services in Bamako, Mali: the specific roles of structural, process, and outcome components pp. 1183-1196

Mamadou Mariko

Generating political will for safe motherhood in Indonesia pp. 1197-1207

Jeremy Shiffman

A new theory of health promoting schools based on human functioning, school organisation and pedagogic practice pp. 1209-1220

Wolfgang A. Markham and Paul Aveyard

Religion and women's health in Ghana: insights into HIV/AIDs preventive and protective behavior pp. 1221-1234

Baffour K. Takyi

Dimensions of the emerging orphan crisis in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1235-1247

George Bicego, Shea Rutstein and Kiersten Johnson

Motherhood as a vulnerability factor in major depression: the role of negative pregnancy experiences pp. 1249-1260

Odette Bernazzani and Antonia Bifulco

"It's like an addiction first thing... afterwards it's like a habit": daily smoking behaviour among people living in areas of deprivation pp. 1261-1267

Angus Bancroft, Susan Wiltshire, Odette Parry and Amanda Amos

Health and safety in policing: lessons from the regulation of CS sprays in the UK pp. 1269-1278

Brian Rappert

Different frames, different fears: communicating about chlorinated drinking water and cancer in the Canadian media pp. 1279-1293

S. Michelle Driedger and John Eyles

Implementing participatory intervention and research in communities: lessons from the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project in Canada pp. 1295-1305

Louise Potvin, Margaret Cargo, Alex M. McComber, Treena Delormier and Ann C. Macaulay

Informal HIV caregiving in a vulnerable population: toward a network resource framework pp. 1307-1320

Amy R. Knowlton

Subjective social status: its determinants and its association with measures of ill-health in the Whitehall II study pp. 1321-1333

Archana Singh-Manoux, Nancy E. Adler and Michael G. Marmot

Sociological influences on antidepressant prescribing pp. 1335-1344

Betsy Sleath and Ya-Chen Tina Shih

The impact of attitudes and beliefs on length of benzodiazepine use: a study among inexperienced and experienced benzodiazepine users pp. 1345-1354

Rolf van Hulten, Arnold B Bakker, Aart C Lodder, K Bart Teeuw, Albert Bakker and Hubert G Leufkens

'Double or quits': perceptions and management of organ transplantation by adults with cystic fibrosis pp. 1355-1367

Karen Lowton

2003, volume 56, articles 5

Disclosure of cancer diagnosis and prognosis in Northern Tanzania pp. 905-913

Julian J. Harris, John Shao and Jeremy Sugarman

Social psychological correlates of paying attention to cancer symptoms and seeking medical help pp. 915-920

Jascha de Nooijer, Lilian Lechner and Hein de Vries

Assessing the quality of life of patients in phase I and II anti-cancer drug trials: interviews versus questionnaires pp. 921-934

Karen Cox

Health inequalities in the older population: the role of personal capital, social resources and socio-economic circumstances pp. 935-947

Emily Grundy and Andy Sloggett

The effect of social relations with children on the education-health link in men and women aged 40 and over pp. 949-960

Toni C. Antonucci, Kristine J. Ajrouch and Mary R. Janevic

Trends in the association between average income, poverty and income inequality and life expectancy in Spain pp. 961-971

Enrique Regidor, M. Elisa Calle, Pedro Navarro and Vicente Domínguez

Psychological distress during unemployment and beyond: social support and material deprivation among youth in six northern European countries pp. 973-985

Thoroddur Bjarnason and Thordis J. Sigurdardottir

Trends in social inequality in self-reported health in the Netherlands; does infant mortality in year of birth as a cohort indicator matter? pp. 987-1000

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

Involving the general public in priority setting: experiences from Australia pp. 1001-1012

V. Wiseman, G. Mooney, G. Berry and K. C. Tang

The vaginitis monologues: women's experiences of vaginal complaints in a primary care setting pp. 1013-1021

Alison Karasz and Matthew Anderson

Interpretations of smoking in film by older teenagers pp. 1023-1032

Judith P. McCool, Linda D. Cameron and Keith J. Petrie

Public hazards or private tragedies? An exploratory study of the effect of coroners' procedures on those bereaved by suicide pp. 1033-1045

Lucy Biddle

Perceptions of health hazards in the narratives of Italian migrant workers at an Australian asbestos mine (1943-1966) pp. 1047-1059

Francesca Cappelletto and Enzo Merler

The M-C-M' cycle and social capital pp. 1061-1072

Sarah Hean, Sarah Cowley, Angus Forbes, Peter Griffiths and Jill Maben

A community-based assessment of learning disabilities using environmental and contextual risk factors pp. 1073-1085

Florence Margai and Norah Henry

Culture and therapy: complementary strategies for the treatment of type-2 diabetes in an urban setting in Kerala, India pp. 1087-1098

Elizabeth Chacko

Diversity in lay perceptions of the sources of human traits: genes, environments, and personal behaviors pp. 1099-1109

Roxanne L. Parrott, Kami J. Silk and Celeste Condit

Social capital and sense of insecurity in the neighbourhood: a population-based multilevel analysis in Malmö, Sweden pp. 1111-1120

Martin Lindström, Juan Merlo and Per-Olof Östergren

Valuing the benefits and costs of health care programmes: where's the 'extra' in extra-welfarism? pp. 1121-1133

Stephen Birch and Cam Donaldson

Somatic fixation: the harm of healing pp. 1135-1138

Aya Biderman, Ayala Yeheskel and Joseph Herman

2003, volume 56, articles 4

Evaluating meta-ethnography: a synthesis of qualitative research on lay experiences of diabetes and diabetes care pp. 671-684

Rona Campbell, Pandora Pound, Catherine Pope, Nicky Britten, Roisin Pill, Myfanwy Morgan and Jenny Donovan

Evaluation of midwifery care: results from a survey in rural Guatemala pp. 685-700

Noreen Goldman and Dana A. Glei

Rapid assessment procedures of malaria in low endemic countries: community perceptions in Jepara district, Indonesia pp. 701-712

Adi Utarini, Anna Winkvist and Fahmi Maria Ulfa

War, gender and culture: Mozambican women refugees pp. 713-724

Tina Sideris

International NGOs and primary health care in Mozambique: the need for a new model of collaboration pp. 725-738

James Pfeiffer

Subfecundity and anxiety in a nationally representative sample pp. 739-751

Rosalind Berkowitz King

Provider bias in the treatment of diarrhea among boys and girls attending public facilities in Minia, Egypt pp. 753-768

Kathryn M. Yount

The measurement of SES in health research: current practice and steps toward a new approach pp. 769-784

J. Michael Oakes and Peter H. Rossi

Does active leisure protect cognition? Evidence from a national birth cohort pp. 785-792

Marcus Richards, Rebecca Hardy and Michael E. J. Wadsworth

Burial at Srebrenica: linking place and trauma pp. 793-801

Craig Evan Pollack

Eliciting preferences of the community for out of hours care provided by general practitioners: a stated preference discrete choice experiment pp. 803-814

Anthony Scott, M. Stuart Watson and Sue Ross

Psychosocial burden of [beta]-thalassaemia major in Antalya, south Turkey pp. 815-819

Duran Canatan, Siret Ratip, Saniye Kaptan and Rüya Cosan

In search of a Healing Place: Aboriginal women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside pp. 821-833

Cecilia Benoit, Dena Carroll and Munaza Chaudhry

"Patient counselling" by pharmacists: four approaches to the delivery of counselling sequences and their interactional reception pp. 835-849

Alison Pilnick

Ethnic differences in choices of health information by cancer patients using complementary and alternative medicine: an exploratory study with correspondence analysis pp. 851-862

Hisako Kakai, Gertraud Maskarinec, Dianne M. Shumay, Yvonne Tatsumura and Katsuya Tasaki

Menstrual-related changes expected by premenarcheal girls living in rural and urban areas of Mexico pp. 863-868

María Luisa Marván, Angeles Vacio and Graciela Espinosa-Hernández

The risk of smoking in relation to engagement with a school-based smoking intervention pp. 869-882

Paul Aveyard, Wolfgang A Markham, Joanne Almond, Emma Lancashire and K. K. Cheng

Gender differences in excessive daytime sleepiness among Japanese workers pp. 883-894

Yuriko Doi and Masumi Minowa

Commentary on: A psychometric analysis of the measurement level of the rating scale, time trade-off, and standard gamble, by Cook et al pp. 895-897

Graeme Hawthorne, Richard H. Osborne and Peter Elliott

2003, volume 56, articles 3

'Let me explain': narrative emplotment and one patient's experience of oral cancer pp. 439-448

Michele L. Crossley

Moving from information transfer to information exchange in health and health care pp. 449-464

Renée Gravois Lee and Theresa Garvin

Norms, social networks, and HIV-related risk behaviors among urban disadvantaged drug users pp. 465-476

Carl A. Latkin, Valerie Forman, Amy Knowlton and Susan Sherman

Tuberculosis mortality and recent childbirth: a retrospective case-control study of Gibraltarian women, 1874-1884 pp. 477-490

Stacie D. A. Burke and Lawrence A. Sawchuk

'They look like my kind of people'--perceptions of smoking images in youth magazines pp. 491-499

Lynn MacFadyen, Amanda Amos, Gerard Hastings and Edward Parkes

Re-reading the IPSS research record pp. 501-515

Charmaine C. Williams

Can the school make a difference? A multilevel analysis of adolescent risk and health behaviour pp. 517-529

Lea Maes and John Lievens

Life in a secure unit: the rehabilitation of young people through the use of sport pp. 531-550

Justin P. Andrews and Gavin J. Andrews

Impacts of an environmental disaster on psychosocial health and well-being in Karakalpakstan pp. 551-567

Eric J. Crighton, Susan J. Elliott, Joost van der Meer, Ian Small and Ross Upshur

Perception of risk and subjective health among victims of the Chernobyl disaster pp. 569-572

J. M. Havenaar, E. J. de Wilde, J. van den Bout, B. M. Drottz-Sjöberg and W. van den Brink

Causes and health consequences of environmental degradation and social injustice pp. 573-587

Martin Donohoe

What are the ingredients for a successful evidence-based patient choice consultation?: A qualitative study pp. 589-602

Sarah Ford, Theo Schofield and Tony Hope

A certain art of uncertainty: case presentation and the development of professional identity pp. 603-616

L. Lingard, K. Garwood, C. F. Schryer and M. M. Spafford

Sandwiching it in: spillover of work onto food choices and family roles in low- and moderate-income urban households pp. 617-630

Carol M. Devine, Margaret M. Connors, Jeffery Sobal and Carole A. Bisogni

Gender and coping: the parents of children with high functioning autism pp. 631-642

David E. Gray

A model of mother-child coping and adjustment to HIV pp. 643-655

Edythe S. Hough, Gail Brumitt, Thomas Templin, Eli Saltz and Darlene Mood

African-Caribbean interactions with mental health services in the UK: experiences and expectations of exclusion as (re)productive of health inequalities pp. 657-669

Carl Mclean, Catherine Campbell and Flora Cornish

2003, volume 56, articles 2

Two views of self-rated general health status pp. 203-217

Daniel S. Bailis, Alexander Segall and Judith G. Chipperfield

Inherited burden of disease: agricultural dams and the persistence of bloody urine (Schistosomiasis hematobium) in the Upper East Region of Ghana, 1959-1997 pp. 219-234

John M. Hunter

Understanding lesbians' healthcare behaviour: the case of breast self-examination pp. 235-245

J. Fish and S. Wilkinson

Social relations and depressive symptoms in older adults with knee osteoarthritis pp. 247-257

Aurora M. Sherman

Volunteering and depression: the role of psychological and social resources in different age groups pp. 259-269

Marc A. Musick and John Wilson

Unraveling the mysteries of timing: women's perceptions about time to treatment for cardiac symptoms pp. 271-284

Nancy E. Schoenberg, Jane C. Peters and Elaine M. Drew

The feasibility of using ethnicity as a primary tool for antenatal selective screening for sickle cell disorders: pointers from the research evidence pp. 285-297

Peter J. Aspinall, Simon M. Dyson and Elizabeth N. Anionwu

Subjective experiences of stigma. A focus group study of schizophrenic patients, their relatives and mental health professionals pp. 299-312

Beate Schulze and Matthias C. Angermeyer

Online commentary during the physical examination: a communication tool for avoiding inappropriate antibiotic prescribing? pp. 313-320

Rita Mangione-Smith, Tanya Stivers, Marc Elliott, Laurie McDonald and John Heritage

Disability and a sense of community belonging A study among tetraplegic spinal-cord-injured persons in France pp. 321-332

Isabelle Ville, Monique Crost and Jean-François Ravaud

The impact of public voluntary health insurance on private health expenditures in Vietnam pp. 333-342

M. Jowett, Paul Contoyannis and N. D. Vinh

Technical and cost efficiency of oral health care provision in Finnish health centres pp. 343-353

Miika Linna, Anne Nordblad and Matti Koivu

Social mobility and self-reported limiting long-term illness among West Indian and South Asian migrants living in England and Wales pp. 355-361

Seeromanie Harding

Gender differences in physical activity in older children and adolescents: the central role of organized sport pp. 363-374

Runar Vilhjalmsson and Gudrun Kristjansdottir

How can we learn to live with pain? A Q-methodological analysis of the diverse understandings of acceptance of chronic pain pp. 375-386

Andrea Risdon, Chris Eccleston, Geert Crombez and Lance McCracken

The influence of attractiveness factors and distance to general practice surgeries by level of social disadvantage and global access in Perth, Western Australia pp. 387-403

Jilda C. G. Hyndman, C. D'Arcy J. Holman and Douglas A. Pritchard

Mortality after spousal loss: are there socio-demographic differences? pp. 405-413

Orly Manor and Zvi Eisenbach

Concepts of arthritis in India's medical traditions: Ayurvedic and Unani perspectives pp. 415-424

Judy F. Pugh

2003, volume 56, articles 1

Frequent job change and associated health pp. 1-15

Chris Metcalfe, George Davey Smith, Jonathan A. C. Sterne, Pauline Heslop, John Macleod and Carole Hart

Children in classrooms: peer status, status distribution and mental well-being pp. 17-29

Viveca Östberg

Sex differences in health at ages 11, 13 and 15 pp. 31-39

Helen Sweeting and Patrick West

Adolescent smoking and family structure in Europe pp. 41-52

Dawn Griesbach, Amanda Amos and Candace Currie

The clinical governance of the soul: 'deep management' and the self-regulating subject in integrated community mental health teams pp. 67-81

Brian Brown and Paul Crawford

Eliciting the smoker's agenda: implications for policy and practice pp. 83-94

L. McKie, E. Laurier, R. J. Taylor and A. S. Lennox

Judging the quality of care at the end of life: can proxies provide reliable information? pp. 95-109

C. J. McPherson and J. M. Addington-Hall

Women, international migration and self-reported health. A population-based study of women of reproductive age pp. 111-124

Edgar Iglesias, Eva Robertson, Sven-Erik Johansson, Peter Engfeldt and Jan Sundquist

Gender inequalities, intimate partner violence and HIV preventive practices: findings of a South African cross-sectional study pp. 125-134

Rachel K. Jewkes, Jonathan B. Levin and Loveday A. Penn-Kekana

Children and adolescents who sell sex: a community study pp. 135-147

Willy Pedersen and Kristinn Hegna

Unsafe sexual behaviour in South African youth pp. 149-165

Liberty Eaton, Alan J. Flisher and Leif E. Aarø

Unplanned childbearing in Kenya: the socio-demographic correlates and the extent of repeatability among women pp. 167-178

Monica Akinyi Magadi

Women's health and the internet: understanding emerging trends and implications pp. 179-191

Sanjay K. Pandey, John J. Hart and Sheela Tiwary

Depression as a predictor of return to work in patients with coronary artery disease pp. 193-202

Eva Söderman, Jan Lisspers and Örjan Sundin