Social Science & Medicine

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2002, volume 54, articles 12

Social epidemiology pp. 1739-1741

Ichiro Kawachi

Normative vs. attitudinal considerations in breastfeeding behavior: multifaceted social influences in a developing country context pp. 1743-1753

Fatos Göksen

Utilization of health facilities and trained birth attendants for childbirth in rural Bangladesh: an empirical study pp. 1755-1765

Bimal Kanti Paul and Deborah J. Rumsey

Nurse-physician communication and quality of drug use in Swedish nursing homes pp. 1767-1777

Ingrid K. Schmid and Bonnie L. Svarstad

Individual and neighbourhood determinants of social participation and social capital: a multilevel analysis of the city of Malmö, Sweden pp. 1779-1791

Martin Lindström, Juan Merlo and Per-Olof Östergren

The relative influence of individual, social and physical environment determinants of physical activity pp. 1793-1812

Billie Giles-Corti and Robert J. Donovan

Asking patients about violence: a survey of 510 women attending social and health services in Trieste, Italy pp. 1813-1824

Patrizia Romito and Daniela Gerin

'The public is too subjective': public involvement at different levels of health-care decision making pp. 1825-1837

Andrea Litva, Joanna Coast, Jenny Donovan, John Eyles, Michael Shepherd, Jo Tacchi, Julia Abelson and Kieran Morgan

"If there were a war tomorrow, we'd find the money": contrasting perspectives on the rationing of health care pp. 1839-1851

Joanna Coast, Jenny Donovan, Andrea Litva, John Eyles, Kieran Morgan, Michael Shepherd and Jo Tacchi

The paradoxical use of interpreting in psychiatry pp. 1853-1866

Gerard Drennan and Leslie Swartz

Social integration of children with epilepsy in rural India pp. 1867-1874

Deb K. Pal, Gautam Chaudhury, Suryanil Sengupta and Tulika Das

Drug utilisation and self-medication in rural communities in Vietnam pp. 1875-1886

Junko Okumura, Susumu Wakai and Takusei Umenai

Science writers' reactions to a medical "breakthrough" story pp. 1887-1896

Crystale Purvis Cooper and Darcie Yukimura

2002, volume 54, articles 11

International health in the 21st Century: trends and challenges pp. 1615-1620

Anthony B. Zwi and Derek Yach

Social inequalities in health within countries: not only an issue for affluent nations pp. 1621-1635

Paula Braveman and Eleuther Tarimo

Putting equity in health back onto the social policy agenda: experience from South Africa pp. 1637-1656

Di McIntyre and Lucy Gilson

Staking a claim for claims: a case study of resource allocation in Australian Aboriginal health care pp. 1657-1667

Gavin Mooney, Stephen Jan and Virginia Wiseman

Reshaping the state from above, from within, from below: implications for public health pp. 1669-1675

Michael R. Reich

Regulating incentives: the past and present role of the state in health care systems pp. 1677-1684

Richard B. Saltman

Improving basic health service delivery in low-income countries: 'voice' to the poor pp. 1685-1690

Santosh Mehrotra and Stephen W. Jarrett

Financing reforms of public health services in China: lessons for other nations pp. 1691-1698

Xingzhu Liu and Anne Mills

Research capacity strengthening in the South pp. 1699-1711

Thomas C. Nchinda

Placing gender at the centre of health programming: challenges and limitations pp. 1713-1723

Carol Vlassoff and Claudia Garcia Moreno

The rhetoric of sector-wide approaches for health development pp. 1725-1737

Peter S. Hill

2002, volume 54, articles 10

Adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) in HIV-infected patients: from a predictive to a dynamic approach pp. 1481-1496

Bruno Spire, Ségolène Duran, Marc Souville, Catherine Leport, François Raffi and Jean-Paul Moatti

Youth homelessness in San Francisco: A life cycle approach pp. 1497-1512

Colette L. Auerswald and Stephen L. Eyre

Neurolathyrism in Ethiopia: assessment and comparison of knowledge and attitude of health workers and rural inhabitants pp. 1513-1524

Haileyesus Getahun, Fernand Lambein and Michel Vanhoorne

Dynamics of change in local physician supply: an ecological perspective pp. 1525-1541

H. Joanna Jiang and James W. Begun

Development of a 'communication disability model' and its implication on service delivery in low-income countries pp. 1543-1557

Sally D. Hartley and Sheila L. Wirz

One hundred and eighteen years of the German health insurance system: are there any lessons for middle- and low-income countries? pp. 1559-1587

Till Bärnighausen and Rainer Sauerborn

Change in job satisfaction, and its association with self-reported stress, cardiovascular risk factors and mortality pp. 1589-1599

Pauline Heslop, George Davey Smith, Chris Metcalfe, John Macleod and Carole Hart

The contingent ranking method--a feasible and valid method when eliciting preferences for health care? pp. 1601-1609

Ulla Slothuus, Mette L. Larsen and Peter Junker

2002, volume 54, articles 9

Sleep disturbance in cancer patients pp. 1309-1321

Judith R. Davidson, Alistair W. MacLean, Michael D. Brundage and Karleen Schulze

Comparing social inequalities in health in Spain: 1987 and 1995/97 pp. 1323-1332

Enrique Regidor, Juan L. Gutierrez-Fisac, Vicente Domínguez, M. Elisa Calle and Pedro Navarro

Attitudes to bioethical issues: a case study of a screening project pp. 1333-1344

U. Gustafsson Stolt, P. -E. Liss, T. Svensson and J. Ludvigsson

Meanings of immediate: the practical use of the Patient's Charter in the accident and emergency department pp. 1345-1355

Lynn C Sbaih

The relevance of client-centered communication to family planning settings in developing countries: Lessons from the Egyptian experience pp. 1357-1368

Nahla Abdel-Tawab and Debra Roter

Shared treatment decision making in a collectively funded health care system: possible conflicts and some potential solutions pp. 1369-1377

Mark Sculpher, Amiram Gafni and Ian Watt

Life expectancy and mortality differences between migrant groups living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands pp. 1379-1388

Daan G. Uitenbroek and Arnoud P. Verhoeff

Concepts of illness causation and attitudes to health care among older people in the Republic of Ireland pp. 1389-1400

Anne MacFarlane and Cecily Kelleher

A theoretical and empirical analysis of context:: neighbourhoods, smoking and youth pp. 1401-1417

Katherine L. Frohlich, Louise Potvin, Patrick Chabot and Ellen Corin

Socio-demographic correlates of psychiatric morbidity among low-income women in Aleppo, Syria pp. 1419-1427

Wasim Maziak, Taghrid Asfar, Fawaz Mzayek, Fouad M Fouad and Nael Kilzieh

Health risk escalators and the rehabilitation of offenders with learning disabilities pp. 1429-1440

Bob Heyman, Carol Buswell Griffiths and John Taylor

Awareness among community-dwelling elderly of assistive devices for mobility and self-care and attitudes towards their use pp. 1441-1451

Marc Roelands, Paulette Van Oost, Ann Buysse and AnneMarie Depoorter

Coping styles and locus of control as predictors for psychological adjustment of adolescents with a chronic illness pp. 1453-1461

Susan A. Meijer, Gerben Sinnema, Jan O. Bijstra, Gideon J. Mellenbergh and Wim H. G. Wolters

2002, volume 54, articles 8

Beliefs about and responses to childhood ear infections: a study of parents in Eastern North Carolina pp. 1153-1165

Matthew D. Curry, Holly F. Mathews, Hal J. Daniel, Jeffrey C. Johnson and Christopher J. Mansfield

Managed care and the US health care system: a social exchange perspective pp. 1167-1180

David E. Grembowski, Karen S. Cook, Donald L. Patrick and Amy Elizabeth Roussel

Regional differences in functional status among the aged pp. 1181-1198

Frank W. Porell and Helen B. Miltiades

The construction of community participation: village family planning groups and the Indonesian state pp. 1199-1214

Jeremy Shiffman

Users' understanding of medical knowledge in general practice pp. 1215-1224

Alison Chapple, Stephen Campbell, Anne Rogers and Martin Roland

Construction of a GP integration model pp. 1225-1241

R. Batterham, D. Southern, N. Appleby, G. Elsworth, S. Fabris, D. Dunt and D. Young

"Women enjoy punishment": attitudes and experiences of gender-based violence among PHC nurses in rural South Africa pp. 1243-1254

Julia Kim and Mmatshilo Motsei

Health sector reform and public sector health worker motivation: a conceptual framework pp. 1255-1266

Lynne Miller Franco, Sara Bennett and Ruth Kanfer

Researching Aboriginal health: experience from a study of urban young people's health and well-being pp. 1267-1279

Wendy Holmes, Paul Stewart, Anne Garrow, Ian Anderson and Lisa Thorpe

Depression, parenthood, and age at first birth pp. 1281-1298

John Mirowsky and Catherine E. Ross

Household economic strategies and nutritional anthropometry of women in American Samoa and highland Bolivia pp. 1299-1308

James R. Bindon and Virginia J. Vitzthum

2002, volume 54, articles 7

Task orientated nursing in a tuberculosis control programme in South Africa:: where does it come from and what keeps it going? pp. 1001-1009

Hester M. van der Walt and Leslie Swartz

Communicative competence in the delivery of bad news pp. 1011-1023

Cathy Gillotti, Teresa Thompson and Kelly McNeilis

Networks of nomads: negotiating access to health resources among pastoralist women in Chad pp. 1025-1037

Kate Hampshire

Homeless "squeegee kids": Food insecurity and daily survival pp. 1039-1049

Naomi Dachner and Valerie Tarasuk

Birth order and mortality: a life-long follow-up of 14,200 boys and girls born in early 20th century Sweden pp. 1051-1064

Bitte Modin

Factors associated with unintended pregnancy in Yamagata, Japan pp. 1065-1079

Aya Goto, Seiji Yasumura, Michael R. Reich and Akira Fukao

Balancing rigour and acceptability: the use of HIV incidence to evaluate a community-based randomised trial in rural Uganda pp. 1081-1091

Kirstin Mitchell, Sarah Nakamanya, Anatoli Kamali and James A. G. Whitworth

Treading the path of least resistance: HIV/AIDS and social inequalities--a South African case study pp. 1093-1110

Leah Gilbert and Liz Walker

Participating in decisions about treatment: overt parent pressure for antibiotic medication in pediatric encounters pp. 1111-1130

Tanya Stivers

Reflections and recommendations on research ethics in developing countries pp. 1131-1141

S. R. Benatar

Commentary: Biomedical research, trade policy and international health: beyond medical ethics pp. 1143-1144

Richard Ashcroft

Commentary on 'reflections and recommendations on research ethics in developing countries' by S.R. Benatar pp. 1145-1146

Tikki Pang

Response to Doctors Pang and Ashcroft pp. 1147-1148

Solomon R. Benatar

2002, volume 54, articles 6

Social capital and health (plus wealth, income inequality and regional health governance) pp. 849-868

Gerry Veenstra

Private medical practitioners and managed care in Malaysia: a survey of knowledge and attitudes held by Federal Territory based doctors pp. 869-877

Gordon Marnoch and Paul C. S. Lian

Managed care members talk about trust pp. 879-888

Susan Dorr Goold and Glenn Klipp

The theory of use behind telemedicine:: how compatible with physicians' clinical routines? pp. 889-904

P. Lehoux, C. Sicotte, J. -L. Denis, M. Berg and A. Lacroix

The influence of user fees and patient demand on prescribers in rural Nepal pp. 905-918

Kathleen A. Holloway, Bharat R. Gautam, Trudy Harpham and Ann Taket

To what extent can we explain time trade-off values from other information about respondents? pp. 919-929

Paul Dolan and Jennifer Roberts

Predicting small area health-related behaviour: a comparison of multilevel synthetic estimation and local survey data pp. 931-937

Liz Twigg and Graham Moon

Market reforms and public incentives: finding a balance in the Republic of Macedonia pp. 939-953

Robert J. Nordyke and John W. Peabody

Representations of far-flung illnesses: the case of Ebola in Britain pp. 955-969

Hélène Joffe and Georgina Haarhoff

Body image and physical disability--personal perspectives pp. 971-980

George Taleporos and Marita P McCabe

The impact of hospices on health care expenditures--the case of Taiwan pp. 981-991

Joan C. Lo

2002, volume 54, articles 5

Introduction to 'social and economic patterning of women's health in a changing world' pp. 643-647

Sara Arber and Myriam Khlat

Gender equity and socioeconomic inequality: a framework for the patterning of women's health pp. 649-661

Nancy E. Moss

A generation apart? Gender-related experiences and health in women in early and late mid-life pp. 663-676

Kate Hunt

The influence of work, household structure, and social, personal and material resources on gender differences in health: an analysis of the 1994 Canadian National Population Health Survey pp. 677-692

Vivienne Walters, Peggy McDonough and Lisa Strohschein

Investigating socio-economic explanations for gender and ethnic inequalities in health pp. 693-706

Helen Cooper

Women's health status in Poland in the transition to a market economy pp. 707-726

Wiktoria Wróblewska

Multiple roles and health among British and Finnish women: the influence of socioeconomic circumstances pp. 727-740

Eero Lahelma, Sara Arber, Katariina Kivelä and Eva Roos

Combining a job and children: contrasting the health of married and divorced women in the Netherlands? pp. 741-752

Tineke Fokkema

Women's work and health in Iran: a comparison of working and non-working mothers pp. 753-765

Shirin Ahmad-Nia

Chronic stress and the social patterning of women's health in Canada pp. 767-782

Peggy McDonough, Vivienne Walters and Lisa Strohschein

The importance of low control at work and home on depression and anxiety: do these effects vary by gender and social class? pp. 783-798

Joan M. Griffin, Rebecca Fuhrer, Stephen A. Stansfeld and Michael Marmot

Socio-economic gradients in psychological distress: a focus on women, social roles and work-home characteristics pp. 799-810

Sharon Matthews and Chris Power

How gender affects patterns of social relations and their impact on health: a comparison of one or multiple sources of support from "close persons" pp. 811-825

R. Fuhrer and S. A. Stansfeld

Place and personal circumstances in a multilevel account of women's long-term illness pp. 827-838

Richard Wiggins, H. Joshi, M. Bartley, S. Gleave, K. Lynch and A. Cullis

Charting a course for the future of women's health in the United States: concepts, findings and recommendations pp. 839-848

Donna M. Strobino, Holly Grason and Cynthia Minkovitz

2002, volume 54, articles 4

The contribution of gender-role orientation, work factors and home stressors to psychological well-being and sickness absence in male- and female-dominated occupational groups pp. 481-492

Olga Evans and Andrew Steptoe

Factors determining inpatient satisfaction with care pp. 493-504

Phi Linh Nguyen Thi, S. Briancon, F. Empereur and F. Guillemin

Sister cities and easy passage: HIV, mobility and economies of desire in a Thai/Lao border zone pp. 505-518

Chris Lyttleton and Amorntip Amarapibal

Altruistic willingness to pay in community-based sales of insecticide-treated nets exists in Nigeria pp. 519-527

Obinna Onwujekwe, Reginald Chima, Elvis Shu, Douglas Nwagbo, Cyril Akpala and Paul Okonkwo

Companions through cancer:: the care given by informal carers in cancer contexts pp. 529-544

Carol Thomas, Sara M. Morris and Juliet C. Harman

Inequalities in the transition of cerebrovascular disease mortality in New South Wales, Australia 1969-1996 pp. 545-559

Ian H. Burnley and Duncan Rintoul

Letting the Gini out of the bottle? Challenges facing the relative income hypothesis pp. 561-576

George T. H. Ellison

Income, income inequality and health: what can we learn from aggregate data? pp. 577-589

Hugh Gravelle, John Wildman and Matthew Sutton

Gender similarities in doctors' preferences -- and gender differences in final specialisation pp. 591-605

Elisabeth Gjerberg

Worlds apart: a comparison between physical activities among youth in Glasgow, Scotland and Dunedin, New Zealand pp. 607-619

Patrick West, Anthony I. Reeder, Barry J. Milne and Richie Poulton

Gender differences in mental health: evidence from three organisations pp. 621-624

Carol Emslie, Rebecca Fuhrer, Kate Hunt, Sally Macintyre, Martin Shipley and Stephen Stansfeld

Reproductive rights and the state in Serbia and Croatia pp. 625-642

Jeremy Shiffman, Marina Skrabalo and Jelena Subotic

2002, volume 54, articles 3

Health policy: drawing on a "global laboratory" pp. 323-324

Peter Davis

HIV risk environment for Ghanaian women: challenges to prevention pp. 325-337

Judy E. Mill and John K. Anarfi

Is nondirectiveness possible within the context of antenatal screening and testing? pp. 339-347

Clare Williams, Priscilla Alderson and Bobbie Farsides

'The thief of womanhood': women's experience of polycystic ovarian syndrome pp. 349-361

Celia Kitzinger and Jo Willmott

Physiognomy, familism and consumerism: preferences among Jewish-Israeli recipients of donor insemination pp. 363-376

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Yoram S. Carmeli

Health care switching behaviour of malaria patients in a Kenyan rural community pp. 377-386

I. K. Nyamongo

Use of indigenous and indigenised medicines to enhance personal well-being: a South African case study pp. 387-397

Michelle Cocks and Valerie Møller

The doctor as God's mechanic? Beliefs in the Southeastern United States pp. 399-409

Christopher J. Mansfield, Jim Mitchell and Dana E. King

A social and demographic study of Tibetan refugees in India pp. 411-422

Shushum Bhatia, Tsegyal Dranyi and Derrick Rowley

Tuberculosis among Tibetan refugees in India pp. 423-432

Shushum Bhatia, Tsegyal Dranyi and Derrick Rowley

Dignity in the terminally ill: a developing empirical model pp. 433-443

Harvey Max Chochinov, Thomas Hack, Susan McClement, Linda Kristjanson and Mike Harlos

'The cold hard facts' immunisation and vaccine preventable diseases in Australia's newsprint media 1993-1998 pp. 445-457

Julie Leask and Simon Chapman

Socio-cultural implications of changing organizational technologies in the provision of care pp. 459-467

David Mechanic

Transparency and selfhood:: Utopia and the informed body pp. 469-479

Marc Chrysanthou

2002, volume 54, articles 2

Women's social networks and child survival in Mali pp. 165-178

Alayne M. Adams, Sangeetha Madhavan and Dominique Simon

Women who sell sex in a Ugandan trading town: life histories, survival strategies and risk pp. 179-192

Marjolein Gysels, Robert Pool and Betty Nnalusiba

The reproductive and occupational health of women street vendors in Johannesburg, South Africa pp. 193-204

William M. Pick, Mary H. Ross and Yasmin Dada

The decline of female circumcision in Egypt: evidence and interpretation pp. 205-220

Omaima El-Gibaly, Barbara Ibrahim, Barbara S. Mensch and Wesley H. Clark

Severity of musculoskeletal pain: relations to socioeconomic inequality pp. 221-228

Mette Brekke, Per Hjortdahl and Tore K. Kvien

"Tooth worms", poverty tattoos and dental care conflicts in Northeast Brazil pp. 229-244

Marilyn K. Nations and Sharmênia de Araújo Soares Nuto

Historical trends of survival among widows and widowers pp. 245-254

Geraldine P. Mineau, Ken R. Smith and Lee L. Bean

A socio-legal and economic analysis of contracting in the NHS internal market using a case study of contracting for district nursing pp. 255-266

Pauline Allen

Dual job holding practitioners in Bangladesh: an exploration pp. 267-279

Reinhold Gruen, Raqibul Anwar, Tahmina Begum, James R. Killingsworth and Charles Normand

Responsibility and cancer disclosure in Japan pp. 281-293

Todd S. Elwyn, Michael D. Fetters, Hiroki Sasaki and Tsukasa Tsuda

Constructing an account by contrast in counselling for childhood genetic testing pp. 295-308

Srikant Sarangi and Angus Clarke

Immigrants from Chernobyl-affected areas in Israel: the link between health and social adjustment pp. 309-317

L. I. Remennick

2002, volume 54, articles 1

Gender and outpatient mental health service use pp. 1-10

Anne E. Rhodes, Paula N. Goering, Teresa To and J. Ivan Williams

Listening to respondents:: a qualitative assessment of the Short-Form 36 Health Status Questionnaire pp. 11-21

Sara Mallinson

Quality of registration of maternal deaths in Mozambique: a community-based study in rural and urban areas pp. 23-31

Francisco Ferreira Songane and Staffan Bergström

Cultural change and mental health in Greenland: the association of childhood conditions, language, and urbanization with mental health and suicidal thoughts among the Inuit of Greenland pp. 33-48

Peter Bjerregaard and Tine Curtis

Health care for the elderly: two cases of technology diffusion pp. 49-64

Alexander Dozet, Carl Hampus Lyttkens and Paul Nystedt

Metropolitan area income inequality and self-rated health--a multi-level study pp. 65-77

Tony A. Blakely, Kimberly Lochner and Ichiro Kawachi

An imperfect refuge:: life in an 'old folk's home' for younger residents with psychiatric disorders pp. 79-91

Lori L. Jervis

Smoking and quitting: a qualitative study with community-living psychiatric clients pp. 93-104

Sharon J. Lawn, Rene G. Pols and James G. Barber

Health-seeking behavior of Karachi women with reproductive tract infections pp. 105-117

Lubna Ishaq Bhatti and Fariyal F. Fikree

Characterization of household food insecurity in Québec: food and feelings pp. 119-132

Anne-Marie Hamelin, Micheline Beaudry and Jean-Pierre Habicht

Compensating behaviors, regret, and heterogeneity in the dynamics of smoking behavior pp. 133-146

K. Tom Xu

HIV serostatus and factors related to physical and mental well-being in Latina family AIDS caregivers pp. 147-159

Helen Land and Sharon Hudson