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2002, volume 55, articles 12

Income inequality, residential poverty clustering and infant mortality: a study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil pp. 2083-2092

Célia Landmann Szwarcwald, Carla Lourenço Tavares de Andrade and Francisco Inácio Bastos

Puerto Rican understandings of child disability: methods for the cultural validation of standardized measures of child health pp. 2093-2105

Mary E. Gannotti and W. Penn Handwerker

Birth spacing, sibling rivalry and child mortality in India pp. 2107-2119

Alison Whitworth and Rob Stephenson

Investigating starting-point bias: a survey of willingness to pay for insecticide-treated nets pp. 2121-2130

Obinna Onwujekwe and Douglas Nwagbo

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and hopelessness: psychosocial factors pp. 2131-2140

Janice M. Plahuta, B. Jan McCulloch, Edward J. Kasarskis, Mark A. Ross, Rhoda A. Walter and Evelyn R. McDonald

Perceptions of philosophic and practice differences between US osteopathic physicians and their allopathic counterparts pp. 2141-2148

Shirley M. Johnson and Margot E. Kurtz

The role of adaptation to disability and disease in health state valuation: a preliminary normative analysis pp. 2149-2158

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

The impact of the changing marital structure on fertility of Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region) pp. 2159-2169

Paul S. F. Yip and Joseph Lee

Differences in low-birthweight among documented and undocumented foreign-born and US-born Latinas pp. 2171-2175

Margaret Kelaher and Dorothy Jones Jessop

Determinants of and inequalities in self-perceived health in Ukraine pp. 2177-2188

Anna B. C. Gilmore, Martin McKee and Richard Rose

Drawing lines in the sand: the boundaries of the HIV pandemic in perspective pp. 2189-2191

Roger L. Shapiro

From retreat to health centre: legislation, commercial opportunity and the repositioning of a Victorian private asylum pp. 2193-2200

Alun E. Joseph and Graham Moon

Catching waves: the historical geography of the general practice fundholding initiative in England and Wales pp. 2201-2213

Graham Moon, John Mohan, Liz Twigg, Kevin McGrath and Allyson Pollock

Strategies to improve adherence to recommended chloroquine treatment regimes: a quasi-experiment in the context of integrated primary health care delivery in Ghana pp. 2215-2226

Irene Akua Agyepong, Evelyn Ansah, Margaret Gyapong, Sam Adjei, Guy Barnish and David Evans

The social and psychological impact of the chemical contamination incident in Weston Village, UK: a qualitative analysis pp. 2227-2241

Geoffrey Barnes, Jamie Baxter, Andrea Litva and Brian Staples

Race/ethnicity and depressive symptoms: a cross-cultural/ethnic comparison among university students in East Asia, North and South America pp. 2243-2252

Noboru Iwata and Stephen Buka

Health care reform in Russia: a survey of head doctors and insurance administrators pp. 2253-2265

Judyth L. Twigg

Using the DATCAP and ASI to estimate the costs and benefits of residential addiction treatment in the State of Washington pp. 2267-2282

Michael T. French, Helena J. Salomé and Molly Carney

2002, volume 55, articles 11

Cultural correlates of youth suicide pp. 1891-1904

Richard Eckersley and Keith Dear

The contribution of medical care to changing life expectancy in Germany and Poland pp. 1905-1921

Ellen Nolte, Rembrandt Scholz, Vladimir Shkolnikov and Martin McKee

On the measurement of relative and absolute income-related health inequality pp. 1923-1928

Philip M. Clarke, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Magnus Johannesson, Kerstin Bingefors and Len Smith

Economic role of solidarity and social capital in accessing modern health care services in the Ivory Coast pp. 1929-1946

Marcellin Ayé, François Champagne and André-Pierre Contandriopoulos

Qualitative differences among cancer clinical trial explanations pp. 1947-1955

Felicia Roberts

Lifetime risk factors for women's psychological distress in midlife pp. 1957-1973

Diana Kuh, Rebecca Hardy, Bryan Rodgers and Michael E. J. Wadsworth

Change in psychological and vasomotor symptom reporting during the menopause pp. 1975-1988

Rebecca Hardy and Diana Kuh

Childhood and adulthood risk factors for socio-economic differentials in psychological distress: evidence from the 1958 British birth cohort pp. 1989-2004

C. Power, S. A. Stansfeld, S. Matthews, O. Manor and S. Hope

Building an inter-disciplinary science of health inequalities: the example of lifecourse research pp. 2005-2016

Hilary Graham

Exploring the determinants of health for First Nations peoples in Canada: can existing frameworks accommodate traditional activities? pp. 2017-2031

Kathleen Wilson and Mark W. Rosenberg

Unemployment and health: contextual-level influences on the production of health in populations pp. 2033-2052

Francois Béland, Stephen Birch and Greg Stoddart

SWAp dynamics in a decentralized context: experiences from Uganda pp. 2053-2060

Anders Jeppsson

Afghan refugees and the temporal and spatial distribution of malaria in Pakistan pp. 2061-2072

Mark Rowland, Mohammad Abdur Rab, Tim Freeman, Naeem Durrani and Naveeda Rehman

2002, volume 55, articles 10

Choices about treatment for ARI and diarrhea in rural Guatemala pp. 1693-1712

Noreen Goldman, Anne R. Pebley and Michele Gragnolati

The changing nature of murder in Russia pp. 1713-1724

Valeriy V. Chervyakov, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, William Alex Pridemore and Martin McKee

Development of a questionnaire for quantitative assessment in the field of health and human rights pp. 1725-1744

Manfred Wildner, Richela Fischer and Anne Brunner

Entering the well-guarded fortress: alternative practitioners in hospital settings pp. 1745-1755

Judith T. Shuval, Nissim Mizrachi and Emma Smetannikov

Being deaf and being other things: young Asian people negotiating identities pp. 1757-1769

Waqar I. U. Ahmad, Karl Atkin and Lesley Jones

Clinical autonomy, individual and collective: the problem of changing doctors' behaviour pp. 1771-1777

David Armstrong

Equity in health care access to: assessing the urban health insurance reform in China pp. 1779-1794

Gordon G. Liu, Zhongyun Zhao, Renhua Cai, Tetsuji Yamada and Tadashi Yamada

Illness management strategies among Chinese immigrants living with arthritis pp. 1795-1802

Jinjin Zhang and Marja J. Verhoef

The influence of the Chinese zodiac on fertility in Hong Kong SAR pp. 1803-1812

Paul S. F. Yip, Joseph Lee and Y. B. Cheung

Chronic pain in land mine accident survivors in Cambodia and Kurdistan pp. 1813-1816

Hans Husum, Kirsten Resell, Gyri Vorren, Yang Van Heng, Mudhafar Murad, Mads Gilbert and Torben Wisborg

The effects of migration on the detection of geographic differences in disease risk pp. 1817-1828

Peter A. Rogerson and Daikwon Han

Radically changing the research framework during a health geography study pp. 1829-1833

Leonard D. Baer

Parenting in a crisis: conceptualising mothers of children with cancer pp. 1835-1847

Bridget Young, Mary Dixon-Woods, Michelle Findlay and David Heney

Utilization of maternal health care services in Southern India pp. 1849-1869

Kannan Navaneetham and A. Dharmalingam

Inter and intra individual variations in physicians' verbal behaviour during primary care consultations pp. 1871-1885

Lidia Del Piccolo, Mariangela Mazzi, Anna Saltini and Christa Zimmermann

2002, volume 55, articles 9

Young men in 'crisis': attending to the language of teenage boys' distress pp. 1493-1509

Carolyn McQueen and Karen Henwood

Vaginal wetness: an underestimated problem experienced by progestogen injectable contraceptive users in South Africa pp. 1511-1522

Jennifer Smit, Lynn McFadyen, Khangelani Zuma and Eleanor Preston-Whyte

Change in determinants of use of physician services in Finland between 1987 and 1996 pp. 1523-1537

Unto Häkkinen

Balancing responsibility for sanitation pp. 1539-1551

Maria Clasina Allison

Beneficial effects of a woman-focused development programme on child survival: evidence from rural Bangladesh pp. 1553-1560

Abbas Bhuiya and Mushtaque Chowdhury

A note on the use of a single inequality index in testing the effect of income distribution on mortality pp. 1561-1570

Audrey Laporte

Dutch GPs' perceptions: the influence of out-of-pocket costs on prescribing pp. 1571-1578

W. N. Kasje, J. W. Timmer, P. M. Boendermaker and F. M. Haaijer-Ruskamp

Factors influencing private health providers' technical quality of care for acute respiratory infections among under-five children in rural West Bengal, India pp. 1579-1587

Sarbani Chakraborty and Kevin Frick

Prevalence of battering among 1780 outpatients at an internal medicine institution in Mexico pp. 1589-1602

Claudia Díaz-Olavarrieta, Charlotte Ellertson, Francisco Paz, Samuel Ponce de Leon and Donato Alarcon-Segovia

Risk factors for domestic violence: findings from a South African cross-sectional study pp. 1603-1617

Rachel Jewkes, Jonathan Levin and Loveday Penn-Kekana

Living with asthma: the experiences of young people at home and at school pp. 1619-1633

Jonathan Gabe, Michael Bury and Rosemary Ramsay

The effect of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) on health service utilisation of a Chinese population pp. 1635-1646

Cindy L. K. Lam, Daniel Y. T. Fong, Ian J. Lauder and Tai-Pong D. Lam

Ethnicity, environment and health: putting ethnic inequalities in health in their place pp. 1647-1661

Saffron Karlsen, James Y. Nazroo and Rob Stephenson

High-frequency death certifiers in Taiwan: a sociocultural product pp. 1663-1669

Tsung-Hsueh Lu, Craig R. Janes, Meng-Chih Lee, Ming-Chih Chou and Tai-Ping Shih

Transnational industrial power, the medical profession and the regulatory state: adverse drug reactions and the crisis over the safety of Halcion in the Netherlands and the UK pp. 1671-1690

John Abraham

2002, volume 55, articles 8

Homeopath & patient-a dyad of harmony? pp. 1285-1296

R. Frank

Migration and HIV prevention programmes: linking structural factors, culture, and individual behaviour--an Israeli experience pp. 1297-1307

Varda Soskolne and Ronny A. Shtarkshall

Cross-cultural encounters between careproviders: rabbis' referral letters to a psychiatric clinic in Israel pp. 1309-1323

Yehuda Goodman and Eliezer Witztum

Researching sexual and reproductive behaviour: a peer ethnographic approach pp. 1325-1336

Neil Price and Kirstan Hawkins

The lesser shame: abortion among educated women in southern Cameroon pp. 1337-1349

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Adolescent understandings of political violence and psychological well-being: a qualitative study from Bosnia Herzegovina pp. 1351-1371

Lynne Jones

Social capital and violence in the United States, 1974-1993 pp. 1373-1383

Sandro Galea, Adam Karpati and Bruce Kennedy

Who's at risk? Factors associated with intimate partner violence in the Philippines pp. 1385-1399

Michelle J. Hindin and Linda S. Adair

Physician evaluation of obesity in health surveys: "who are you calling fat?" pp. 1401-1413

Kenneth F. Ferraro and Kimberlee B. Holland

Self-rated economic condition and the health of elderly persons in Hong Kong pp. 1415-1424

Y. H. Cheng, I. Chi, K. W. Boey, L. S. F. Ko and K. L. Chou

The instrumental uses of autonomy: A review of AIDS law and policy in Europe pp. 1425-1434

John A Harrington

Barriers, facilitators, and access for wheelchair users: sbstantive and methodologic lessons from a pilot study of environmental effects pp. 1435-1446

Allan R. Meyers, Jennifer J. Anderson, Donald R. Miller, Kathy Shipp and Helen Hoenig

The changing nature of contracts in German health care pp. 1447-1455

Petra Riemer-Hommel

Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder: Faris and Dunham revisited pp. 1457-1470

Eric Silver, Edward P. Mulvey and Jeffrey W. Swanson

'Could you please pass one of those health leaflets along?': exploring health, morality and resistance through focus groups pp. 1471-1483

Michele L. Crossley

2002, volume 55, articles 7

Discourse in different voices: reconciling N=1 and N=many pp. 1079-1087

Miles Little, Christopher F. C. Jordens, Kim Paul, Emma-Jane Sayers, Jane Ann Cruickshank, Jantine Stegeman and Kathleen Montgomery

Increasing use of prenatal care in Ladakh (India): the roles of ecological and cultural factors pp. 1089-1102

Andrea S. Wiley

Syringe type and drug injector risk for HIV infection: a case study in Texas pp. 1103-1113

William A. Zule, David P. Desmond and James Alan Neff

"Come back when you're dying:" the commodification of AIDS among California's urban poor pp. 1115-1127

Johanna Crane, Kathleen Quirk and Ariane van der Straten

Rural families caring for a relative with dementia: barriers to use of formal services pp. 1129-1142

Debra G. Morgan, Karen M. Semchuk, Norma J. Stewart and Carl D'Arcy

Concepts of iron deficiency anemia and public health measures in rural Costa Rica pp. 1143-1156

Mariaelena D. Jefferds

The health capital of families: an investigation of the inter-spousal correlation in health status pp. 1157-1172

Sven E. Wilson

Evaluating the participatory process in a community-based heart health project pp. 1173-1187

Patti-Jean Naylor, Joan Wharf-Higgins, Lynne Blair, Lawrence Green and Brian O'Connor

Making health data maps: a case study of a community/university research collaboration pp. 1189-1206

David L Buckeridge, Robin Mason, Ann Robertson, John Frank, Richard Glazier, Lorraine Purdon, Carl G Amrhein, Nita Chaudhuri, Esme Fuller-Thomson, Peter Gozdyra, David Hulchanski, Byron Moldofsky, Maureen Thompson and Robert Wright

Effect of ethnic background on Danish hospital utilisation patterns pp. 1207-1211

Allan Krasnik, Marie Norredam, Tine Moller Sorensen, Jette Joost Michaelsen, Anette Sonne Nielsen and Niels Keiding

Expanding the scope of health reform: application in the United States pp. 1213-1229

Charles E. Begley, Lu Ann Aday, David R. Lairson and Carl H. Slater

The epidemiology of rape and sexual coercion in South Africa: an overview pp. 1231-1244

Rachel Jewkes and Naeema Abrahams

Is GP-patient communication related to their perceptions of illness severity, coping and social support? pp. 1245-1253

M. Deveugele, A. Derese and J. De Maeseneer

Predictors of health and human services use by persons with dementia and their family caregivers pp. 1255-1266

Ronald W. Toseland, Philip McCallion, Todd Gerber and Steve Banks

Chicken or the egg? The biological-psychological controversy surrounding hyperemesis gravidarum pp. 1267-1278

Shari Munch

2002, volume 55, articles 6

Encountering the downward phase: biographical work in people with multiple sclerosis living at home pp. 881-893

Hennie R. Boeije, Mia S. H. Duijnstee, Mieke H. F. Grypdonck and Aart Pool

Cost characteristics of hospitals pp. 895-906

Mike Smet

Ready to die: a postmodern interpretation of the increase of African-American adolescent male suicide pp. 907-920

Leigh A. Willis, David W. Coombs, William C. Cockerham and Sonja L. Frison

State-event relations among indicators of susceptibility to mental distress in Wythenshawe in the UK pp. 921-935

Richard Thomas, Sherrill Evans, Claire Gately, Joe Stordy, Peter Huxley, Anne Rogers and Brian Robson

Early origins and adult correlates of psychosomatic distress pp. 937-948

Yin Bun Cheung

Social status determinants of control in individuals' accounts of their mental illness pp. 949-961

Erin J. Maher and Amy Kroska

Marginal employment and health in Britain and Germany: does unstable employment predict health? pp. 963-979

Eunice Rodriguez

The effects of introducing prospective payments to general hospitals on length of stay, quality of care, and hospitals' income: the early experience of Israel pp. 981-989

Amir Shmueli, Orna Intrator and Avi Israeli

Interdisciplinary collaboration within Quebec community health care centres pp. 991-1003

Claude Sicotte, Danielle D'Amour and Marie-Pierre Moreault

Primary health care in the era of HIV/AIDS. Some implications for health systems reform pp. 1005-1013

Inge Petersen and Leslie Swartz

The spatial epidemiology of cholera in an endemic area of Bangladesh pp. 1015-1024

Mohammad Ali, Michael Emch, J. P. Donnay, Mohammad Yunus and R. B. Sack

An investigation of the health beliefs and motivations of complementary medicine clients pp. 1025-1037

Fuschia M. Sirois and Mary L. Gick

Gender and health in rural China: evidence from HeBei province pp. 1039-1054

Ofra Anson and Shifang Sun

Gradients in risk for youth injury associated with multiple-risk behaviours: a study of 11,329 Canadian adolescents pp. 1055-1068

William Pickett, Michael J. Garner, William F. Boyce and Matthew A. King

Predictors of Canadian legislators' support for tobacco control policies pp. 1069-1076

Joanna E. Cohen, Nicole A. de Guia, Mary Jane Ashley, Roberta Ferrence, David A. Northrup and Donley T. Studlar

2002, volume 55, articles 5

Vocabularies of motive for illicit steroid use among bodybuilders pp. 695-708

Lee F. Monaghan

"Why don't they just tell me straight, why allocate it?" The struggle to make sense of participating in a randomised controlled trial pp. 709-719

Katie Featherstone and Jenny L. Donovan

Bad news from the patient's perspective: an analysis of the written narratives of newly diagnosed cancer patients pp. 721-732

Pär Salander

Medical dominance in Italy: a partial decline pp. 733-741

Willem Tousijn

Too many choices? Hospital and community staff reflect on the future of prenatal screening pp. 743-753

Clare Williams, Priscilla Alderson and Bobbie Farsides

An analysis of private health insurance purchasing decisions with national health insurance in Taiwan pp. 755-774

Tsai-Ching Liu and Chin-Shyan Chen

Gender, family, and the nutritional status of children in three culturally contrasting states of India pp. 775-790

Paula Griffiths, Zoë Matthews and Andrew Hinde

Alcohol mortality: a comparison of spatial clustering methods pp. 791-802

Craig E. Hanson and William F. Wieczorek

Risking risk: the influence of types of capital and social networks on the injection practices of drug users pp. 803-821

Anne M. Lovell

Is low self-esteem an inevitable consequence of stigma? An example from women with chronic mental health problems pp. 823-834

D. L. Camp, W. M. L. Finlay and E. Lyons

Cultural stereotypes of women from South Asian communities: mental health care professionals' explanations for patterns of suicide and depression pp. 835-845

J. Burr

Social variation in self-rated health in Estonia: a cross-sectional study pp. 847-861

Mall Leinsalu

Social inequality in educational achievement and psychosocial adjustment throughout childhood: magnitude and mechanisms pp. 863-880

Amanda Sacker, Ingrid Schoon and Mel Bartley

2002, volume 55, articles 4

Euthanasia, assisted suicide, and cessation of life support: Japan's policy, law, and an analysis of whistle blowing in two recent mercy killing cases pp. 517-527

Akira Akabayashi

Women's perceptions of iron deficiency and anemia prevention and control in eight developing countries pp. 529-544

Rae Galloway, Erin Dusch, Leslie Elder, Endang Achadi, Ruben Grajeda, Elena Hurtado, Mike Favin, Shubhada Kanani, Julie Marsaban, Nicolas Meda, K. Mona Moore, Linda. Morison, Neena Raina, Jolly Rajaratnam, Javier Rodriquez and Chitra Stephen

What is a 'planned' pregnancy? empirical data from a British study pp. 545-557

Geraldine Barrett and Kaye Wellings

Watching the clock: keeping time during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences pp. 559-570

Wendy Simonds

Understanding household demand for indoor air pollution control in developing countries pp. 571-584

Bruce A. Larson and Sydney Rosen

Polygyny, maternal HIV status and child survival: Rakai, Uganda pp. 585-592

Heena Brahmbhatt, David Bishai, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Godfrey Kigozi, Maria Wawer and Ronald H. Gray

Why is less money spent on health care for the elderly than for the rest of the population? Health care rationing in German hospitals pp. 593-608

Hilke Brockmann

Analysing changes of health inequalities in the Nordic welfare states pp. 609-625

Eero Lahelma, Katariina Kivelä, Eva Roos, Terhi Tuominen, Espen Dahl, Finn Diderichsen, Jon Ivar Elstad, Inge Lissau, Olle Lundberg, Ossi Rahkonen, Niels Kristian Rasmussen and Monica Åberg Yngwe

Impact of improvement of water supply on household economy in a squatter area of Manila pp. 627-641

Hirotsugu Aiga and Takusei Umenai

Ethnic identities, social capital and health inequalities: factors shaping African-Caribbean participation in local community networks in the UK pp. 643-657

Catherine Campbell and Carl McLean

The impact of the 9-21 earthquake experiences of Taiwanese nurses as rescuers pp. 659-672

Fu-Jin Shih, Yen-Chi Liao, Shiu-Mei Chan, Bau-Ruei Duh and Meei-Ling Gau

Cohabitation and marital status as predictors of mortality--an eight year follow-up study pp. 673-679

Rikke Lund, Pernille Due, Jens Modvig, Bjørn Evald Holstein, Mogens Trab Damsgaard and Per Kragh Andersen

Smoking and young women in Vietnam: the influence of normative gender roles pp. 681-690

Martha Morrow, Do Hong Ngoc, Truong Trong Hoang and Tran Hue Trinh

2002, volume 55, articles 3

The resurgence of disease: social and historical perspectives on the 'new' tuberculosis pp. 385-396

Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla

Commentary on 'the resurgence of disease: social and historical perspectives on the 'new' tuberculosis' pp. 397-398

John D. H. Porter and Jessica A. Ogden

Theorizing tuberculosis: a reply to Porter and Ogden pp. 399-401

Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla

Medical syncretism with reference to malaria in a Tanzanian community pp. 403-413

Susanna Hausmann Muela, Joan Muela Ribera, Adiel K. Mushi and Marcel Tanner

Multilevel analysis of situational drinking among Canadian undergraduates pp. 415-424

Andrée Demers, Sylvia Kairouz, Edward Adlaf, Louis Gliksman, Brenda Newton-Taylor and Alain Marchand

Secondhand effects of student alcohol use reported by neighbors of colleges: the role of alcohol outlets pp. 425-435

Henry Wechsler, Jae Eun Lee, John Hall, Alexander C. Wagenaar and Hang Lee

Husbands and maternal health matters in rural Guatemala: wives' reports on their spouses' involvement in pregnancy and birth pp. 437-450

Marion Carter

Habit versus choice: the process of decision-making in health-related behaviour pp. 451-465

Eva Lindbladh and Carl Hampus Lyttkens

Gender gaps, gender traps: sexual identity and vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases among women in Vietnam pp. 467-481

Vivian Fei-ling Go, Vu Minh Quan, A Chung, Jonathan Zenilman, Vu Thi Minh Hanh and David Celentano

Seeking trust and transcendence: sexual risk-taking among Vietnamese youth pp. 483-496

Tine Gammeltoft

A risky business: the detection of adverse drug reactions in clinical trials and post-marketing exercises pp. 497-507

Oonagh P. Corrigan

2002, volume 55, articles 2

Social environment, life challenge, and health among the elderly in Taiwan pp. 191-209

Megan Beckett, Noreen Goldman, Maxine Weinstein, I-Fen Lin and Yi-Li Chuang

Accounting for unprotected sex: stories of agency and acceptability pp. 211-226

Tim Rhodes and Linda Cusick

Public trust in Dutch health care pp. 227-234

G. F. M. Straten, R. D. Friele and P. P. Groenewegen

Increasing drug users' adherence to HIV treatment: results of a peer-driven intervention feasibility study pp. 235-246

Robert S. Broadhead, Douglas D. Heckathorn, Frederick L. Altice, Yaël van Hulst, Michael Carbone, Gerald H. Friedland, Patrick G. O'Connor and Peter A. Selwyn

Chronic fatigue, abuse-related traumatization, and psychiatric disorders in a community-based sample pp. 247-256

Renée R. Taylor and Leonard A. Jason

Learning to live with glaucoma: a qualitative study of diagnosis and the impact of sight loss pp. 257-267

Judith Green, Helen Siddall and Ian Murdoch

Participatory evaluation of reproductive health care quality in developing countries pp. 269-282

Janet E. Bradley, Marcia V. Mayfield, Manisha P. Mehta and Anatole Rukonge

The impact of general practitioners' patient-centredness on patients' post-consultation satisfaction and enablement pp. 283-299

Nicola Mead, Peter Bower and Mark Hann

Physician-patient communication and patient satisfaction in Japanese cancer consultations pp. 301-311

Hirono Ishikawa, Tomoko Takayama, Yoshihiko Yamazaki, Yukiko Seki and Noriyuki Katsumata

The uneven tides of the health transition pp. 313-322

Patrick Heuveline, Michel Guillot and Davidson R. Gwatkin

Dentistry and distributive justice pp. 323-329

Shafik Dharamsi and Michael I. MacEntee

Peer education, gender and the development of critical consciousness: participatory HIV prevention by South African youth pp. 331-345

Catherine Campbell and Catherine MacPhail

2002, volume 55, articles 1

Editorial pp. 1-5

Jean-Pierre M. Thouez

Spatial patterns of tuberculosis incidence in Cologne (Germany) pp. 7-19

Thomas Kistemann, Annette Munzinger and Friederike Dangendorf

Does migration exaggerate the relationship between deprivation and limiting long-term illness? A Scottish analysis pp. 21-31

Paul Boyle, Paul Norman and Philip Rees

Poverty, social exclusion and health in Portugal pp. 33-45

Paula Santana

Community reappraisal of the perceived health effects of a petroleum refinery pp. 47-61

Isaac N. Luginaah, S. Martin Taylor, Susan J. Elliott and John D. Eyles

Changing local geographies of private residential care for older people 1983-1999: lessons for social policy in England and Wales pp. 63-78

Gavin J Andrews and David R Phillips

Assessing the applicability of GIS in a health and social care setting: planning services for informal carers in East Sussex, England pp. 79-96

Ronan Foley

Car travel time and accessibility by bus to general practitioner services: a study using patient registers and GIS pp. 97-111

Andrew Lovett, Robin Haynes, Gisela Sünnenberg and Susan Gale

Place effects on health: how can we conceptualise, operationalise and measure them? pp. 125-139

Sally Macintyre, Anne Ellaway and Steven Cummins

Changing geographies of care: employing the concept of therapeutic landscapes as a framework in examining home space pp. 141-154

Allison Williams

Themes in British health geography at the end of the century: a review of published research 1998-2000 pp. 167-173

Sheena Asthana, Sarah Curtis, Craig Duncan and Myles Gould