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2001, volume 53, articles 12

Using an interactive framework of society and lifecourse to explain self-rated health in early adulthood pp. 1575-1585

Clyde Hertzman, Chris Power, Sharon Matthews and Orly Manor

An investigation into the cyclical incidence of dengue fever pp. 1587-1597

Joseph Keating

Accessibility and spatial distribution of general practice services in an Australian city by levels of social disadvantage pp. 1599-1609

Jilda C. G. Hyndman and C. D'Arcy J. Holman

What determines health? To where should we shift resources?: Attitudes towards the determinants of health among multiple stakeholder groups in Prince Edward Island, Canada pp. 1611-1619

John Eyles, Michael Brimacombe, Paul Chaulk, Greg Stoddart, Tina Pranger and Olive Moase

Health behaviour, risk awareness and emotional well-being in students from Eastern Europe and Western Europe pp. 1621-1630

Andrew Steptoe and Jane Wardle

Cataract surgery in a community hospital outreach clinic: patients' costs and satisfaction pp. 1631-1640

Robin Haynes, Susan Gale, Miranda Mugford and Peter Davies

Determinants of general practitioner use among women in Australia pp. 1641-1651

Anne F. Young, Annette J. Dobson and Julie E. Byles

Family effects on self-reported health among Russian wives and husbands pp. 1653-1666

Lisa A. Cubbins and Magdalena Szaflarski

The main determinants of infant mortality in Nepal pp. 1667-1681

Juhee V. Suwal

Risk factors and child mortality among the Miao in Yunnan, Southwest China pp. 1683-1696

Peter Foggin, Nagib Armijo-Hussein, Céline Marigaux, Hui Zhu and Zeyuan Liu

When the bough breaks: provider-initiated comprehensive care is more effective and less expensive for sole-support parents on social assistance pp. 1697-1710

Gina Browne, Carolyn Byrne, Jacqueline Roberts, Amiram Gafni and Susan Whittaker

Deprivation and mortality: the implications of spatial autocorrelation for health resources allocation pp. 1711-1719

Vincent Lorant, Isabelle Thomas, Denise Deliège and René Tonglet

Medical audit: threat or opportunity for the medical profession. A comparative study of medical audit among medical specialists in general hospitals in the Netherlands and England, 1970-1999 pp. 1721-1732

R. van Herk, N. S. Klazinga, R. M. J. Schepers and A. F. Casparie

2001, volume 53, articles 11

Determinants of HIV risk among Indian truck drivers pp. 1413-1426

Angela D. Bryan, Jeffrey D. Fisher and T. Joseph Benziger

The death of a Princess and the formulation of medical competence pp. 1427-1438

Michael Nurok

The role of cultural and economic determinants in mortality decline in the Netherlands, 1875/1879-1920/1924: a regional analysis pp. 1439-1453

J. H. Wolleswinkel-van den Bosch, F. W. A. van Poppel, C. W. N. Looman and J. P. Mackenbach

Male complications of female genital mutilation pp. 1455-1460

Lars Almroth, Vanja Almroth-Berggren, Osman Mahmoud Hassanein, Said Salah Eldin Al-Said, Sharif Siddiq Alamin Hasan, Ulla-Britt Lithell and Staffan Bergström

Promoting travel clinic referrals: exploring partnerships for healthier travel pp. 1461-1468

Laura MacDougall and Theresa Gyorkos

Assessing mental capacity in Canadian Aboriginal seniors pp. 1469-1479

Xavier Cattarinich, Nancy Gibson and Andrew J. Cave

Legal abortion: a painful necessity pp. 1481-1490

A. Kero, U. Högberg, L. Jacobsson and A. Lalos

Third sector primary care for vulnerable populations pp. 1491-1502

Peter Crampton, Anthony Dowell and Alistair Woodward

Spirituality and well-being: an exploratory study of the patient perspective pp. 1503-1511

Timothy P. Daaleman, Ann Kuckelman Cobb and Bruce B. Frey

Sources of support and the physical and mental well-being of young women with breast cancer pp. 1513-1524

Joan R. Bloom, Susan L. Stewart, Monica Johnston, Priscilla Banks and Patricia Fobair

Women's health in a rural setting in societal transition in Ethiopia pp. 1525-1539

Y. Berhane, Y. Gossaye, M. Emmelin and U. Hogberg

Staying healthy: the salience and meaning of health maintenance behaviors among rural older adults in North Carolina pp. 1541-1556

Thomas A. Arcury, Sara A. Quandt and Ronny A. Bell

2001, volume 53, articles 10

Consequences of disease: testing the WHO International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH) model pp. 1261-1273

Marie Johnston and Beth Pollard

A psychometric analysis of the measurement level of the rating scale, time trade-off, and standard gamble pp. 1275-1285

Karon F. Cook, Carol M. Ashton, Margaret M. Byrne, Baruch Brody, Jane Geraci, R. Brian Giesler, Makoto Hanita, Julianne Souchek and Nelda P. Wray

Psycho-social determinants for sexual partner referral in Uganda: Quantitative results pp. 1287-1301

F. Nuwaha, E. Faxelid, F. Wabwire-Mangen, C. Eriksson and B. Höjer

La Familia: methodological issues in the assessment of perinatal social support for Mexicanas living in the United States pp. 1303-1320

Lauren Clark

Language acquisition, unemployment and depressive disorder among Southeast Asian refugees: a 10-year study pp. 1321-1334

Morton Beiser and Feng Hou

Relationship between outpatients' perceptions of physicians' communication styles and patients' anxiety levels in a Japanese oncology setting pp. 1335-1350

Tomoko Takayama, Yoshihiko Yamazaki and Noriyuki Katsumata

Lifestyle incongruity, social integration, and immune function in Samoan adolescents pp. 1351-1362

Thomas W. McDade

Care seeking in Sri Lanka: one possible explanation for low childhood mortality pp. 1363-1372

M. W. Amarasiri de Silva, Ananda Wijekoon, Robert Hornik and Jose Martines

General subjective health status or age-related subjective health status: does it make a difference? pp. 1373-1381

Orna Baron-Epel and Giora Kaplan

"No strength": sex and old age in a rural town in Ghana pp. 1383-1396

Sjaak van der Geest

2001, volume 53, articles 9

Cluster and regional influences on suicide in a Southwestern American Indian tribe pp. 1115-1124

Lawrence S. Wissow, John Walkup, Allison Barlow, Raymond Reid and Scott Kane

Hong Kong Chinese daughters' intergenerational caregiving obligations:: a cultural model approach pp. 1125-1134

Eleanor Holroyd

Infant care practices in New Zealand: a cross-cultural qualitative study pp. 1135-1148

Sally Abel, Julie Park, David Tipene-Leach, Sitaleki Finau and Michele Lennan

Equity of access to health care services:: Theory and evidence from the UK pp. 1149-1162

Maria Goddard and Peter Smith

Gendered embodiment and survival for young people with cystic fibrosis pp. 1163-1174

Evan Willis, Rosemary Miller and Johanna Wyn

Public health responses for skin cancer prevention: the policy framing of Sun Safety in Australia, Canada and England pp. 1175-1189

Theresa Garvin and John Eyles

Health needs of the Roma population in the Czech and Slovak Republics pp. 1191-1204

Ilona Koupilová, Helen Epstein, Jan Holcík, Steve Hajioff and Martin McKee

Exposure, resistance, and recovery: a three-dimensional framework for the study of mortality from infectious disease pp. 1205-1215

James B. Kirby

From salvation to civics: service to the sick in nursing discourse pp. 1217-1225

Sioban Nelson

Life disruption and generic complexity: a social linguistic analysis of narratives of cancer illness pp. 1227-1236

Christopher F. C. Jordens, Miles Little, Kim Paul and Emma-Jane Sayers

Cross-cultural surveys of adolescent health and behavior: progress and problems pp. 1237-1246

Pierre-André Michaud, Robert W. Blum and Gail B. Slap

Accommodation, resistance and transcendence: three narratives of autism pp. 1247-1257

David E. Gray

2001, volume 53, articles 8

When protocols fail: technical evaluation, biomedical knowledge, and the social production of 'facts' about a telemedicine clinic pp. 989-1002

Carl May and Nicola T. Ellis

A study of demographic changes under sustained below-replacement fertility in Hong Kong SAR pp. 1003-1009

Paul S. F. Yip, Joseph Lee, Beda Chan and Jade Au

'They've forgotten that I'm the mum': constructing and practising motherhood in special care nurseries pp. 1011-1021

Deborah Lupton and Jennifer Fenwick

Demand for health care in Denmark: results of a national sample survey using contingent valuation pp. 1023-1036

Marlene Gyldmark and Gwendolyn C. Morrison

Using time-series analyses to detect the health effects of medical care reforms:: a Norwegian example pp. 1037-1043

Ralph Catalano and Hans-Tore Hansen

Utilisation of private care by public primary care clinic attenders with diabetes:: relationship to health status and social factors pp. 1045-1056

Martin C. Gulliford and Deepak Mahabir

Is hospital case management a rationalized myth? pp. 1057-1066

Susan D. Roggenkamp and Kenneth R. White

'Smoke like a man, die like a man'?: A review of the relationship between gender, sex and lung cancer pp. 1067-1080

Sarah Payne

Medicine betrayed: hemophilia patients and HIV in the US pp. 1081-1094

Salmaan Keshavjee, Sheri Weiser and Arthur Kleinman

Mot Luuk problems in northeast Thailand: why women's own health concerns matter as much as disease rates pp. 1095-1112

Pimpawun Boonmongkon, Mark Nichter and Jen Pylypa

2001, volume 53, articles 7

Navigating the time-space context of HIV and AIDS:: daily routines and access to care pp. 845-863

Lois M. Takahashi, Douglas Wiebe and Rigoberto Rodriguez

Gender and health services use for a mental health problem pp. 865-878

Carmen E. Albizu-Garcia, Margarita Alegría, Daniel Freeman and Mildred Vera

Adoption of smart cards in the medical sector:: the Canadian experience pp. 879-894

Benoit A. Aubert and Geneviève Hamel

Innovation and regulation in human implant technologies: developing comparative approaches pp. 895-913

Alex Faulkner and Julie Kent

Social deprivation, income inequality, social cohesion and dental caries in Brazilian school children pp. 915-925

Marcos Pascoal Pattussi, Wagner Marcenes, Ray Croucher and Aubrey Sheiham

In their own words: a model of healthy aging pp. 927-941

Lucinda L. Bryant, Kitty K. Corbett and Jean S. Kutner

The reprofessionalisation of community pharmacy? An exploration of attitudes to extended roles for community pharmacists amongst pharmacists and General Practioners in the United Kingdom pp. 943-955

June Edmunds and Michael W. Calnan

The effects of sex and age of responders on the reliability of self-diagnosed infection: a study of self-reported urinary schistosomiasis in Tanzanian school children pp. 957-967

Juliet Ansell, Helen Guyatt, Andrew Hall, Charles Kihamia and Donald Bundy

Estimating the employment and earnings costs of mental illness--recent developments in the United States, Marcotte and Wilcox-Gok pp. 969-970

Marc A. Koopmanschap

2001, volume 53, articles 6

The dilemma of "to-be or not-to-be": needs and expectations of the Taiwanese cadaveric organ donor families during the pre-donation transition pp. 693-706

Fu-Jin Shih, Ming-Kuen Lai, Min-Heuy Lin, Hui-Ying Lin, Chuan-I Tsao, Bau-Ruei Duh and Shu-Hsun Chu

Ethical issues and the importance of consensus for the intensive care team pp. 707-719

Kath M. Melia

Decisions about treatment: interpretations of two measures of control by women having a hysterectomy pp. 721-732

Vikki A. Entwistle, Zoë C. Skea and Máire T. O'Donnell

Post-modernity and post-traumatic stress disorder pp. 733-743

Patrick J. Bracken

Understanding the role of opinion leaders in improving clinical effectiveness pp. 745-757

Louise Locock, Sue Dopson, David Chambers and John Gabbay

Marital fertility in Lebanon: a study based on the population and housing survey pp. 759-771

May A. Beydoun

Health and variation in deprivation: commentary on Boyle et al pp. 773-774

Frank T Houghton

Reply to commentary: health and variation in deprivation pp. 775-775

Paul J Boyle, Anthony C Gatrell and Oliver Duke-Williams

Understanding the role of contextual influences on local health-care decision making: case study results from Ontario, Canada pp. 777-793

Julia Abelson

Do area-level population change, deprivation and variations in deprivation affect individual-level self-reported limiting long-term illness? pp. 795-799

Paul J. Boyle, Anthony C. Gatrell and Oliver Duke-Williams

On the methodological, theoretical and philosophical context of health inequalities research: a critique pp. 801-816

Angus Forbes and Steven P. Wainwright

Does class matter? SES and psychosocial health among Hungarian adolescents pp. 817-830

Bettina Piko and Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

2001, volume 53, articles 5

Feminism meets the "new" epidemiologies: toward an appraisal of antifeminist biases in epidemiological research on women's health pp. 553-567

Marcia C. Inhorn and K. Lisa Whittle

Comorbid depressive symptomatology: isolating the effects of chronic medical conditions on self-reported depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults pp. 569-578

Terry L. Mills

Neighbourhood and family influences on the cognitive ability of children in the British National Child Development Study pp. 579-591

Andrew McCulloch and Heather E. Joshi

Anxious adults vs. cool children: children's views on smoking and addiction pp. 593-602

Jorun Rugkåsa, Barbara Knox, Julie Sittlington, Orla Kennedy, Margaret P. Treacy and Pilar Santos Abaunza

Sense of coherence and school-related stress as predictors of subjective health complaints in early adolescence: interactive, indirect or direct relationships? pp. 603-614

Torbjorn Torsheim, Leif Edvard Aaroe and Bente Wold

Living a 'normal' life: young people coping with thalassaemia major or sickle cell disorder pp. 615-626

Karl Atkin and Waqar I. U. Ahmad

Down's syndrome: cost, quality and value of life pp. 627-638

Priscilla Alderson

Closing medical encounters: two physician practices and their implications for the expression of patients' unstated concerns pp. 639-656

Jeffrey D. Robinson

Male physicians' narratives about being in ethically difficult care situations in paediatrics pp. 657-667

Sørlie V, R. Førde, A. Lindseth and A. Norberg

Taking responsibility for cancer treatment pp. 669-677

J. M. Deadman, S. J. Leinster, R. G. Owens, M. E. Dewey and P. D. Slade

Declining the offer of flexible sigmoidoscopy screening for bowel cancer:: a qualitative investigation of the decision-making process pp. 679-691

Kirsten McCaffery, Jo Borril, Sara Williamson, Tamara Taylor, Stephen Sutton, Wendy Atkin and Jane Wardle

2001, volume 53, articles 4

Organ donation and family decision-making within the Spanish donation system pp. 405-421

José M. Martínez, Jorge S. López, Antonio Martín, María J. Martín, Barbara Scandroglio and José M. Martín

Children's emotional and behavioural well-being and the family environment: findings from the Health Survey for England pp. 423-440

Anne M. McMunn, James Y. Nazroo, Michael G. Marmot, Richard Boreham and Robert Goodman

Debt, social disadvantage and maternal depression pp. 441-453

Richard Reading and Shirley Reynolds

Chinese seniors' perspectives on end-of-life decisions pp. 455-464

Kerry W. Bowman and Peter A. Singer

Perceptions of illness causation among new referrals to a community mental health team: "explanatory model" or "exploratory map"? pp. 465-476

Brian Williams and David Healy

The socioeconomic position of employed women, risk factors and mortality pp. 477-485

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

Giving voice to the lifeworld. More humane, more effective medical care? A qualitative study of doctor-patient communication in general practice pp. 487-505

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

Variations in general practitioners' views of asthma management in four European countries pp. 507-518

R. Wahlström, P. Lagerløv, C. Stålsby Lundborg, C. C. M. Veninga, E. Hummers-Pradier, L. O. Dahlgren and P. Denig

The convergence of vulnerable characteristics and health insurance in the US pp. 519-529

Leiyu Shi

Legalized, regulated, but unfunded: midwifery's laborious professionalization in Alberta, Canada, 1975-99 pp. 531-542

Rachael McKendry and Tom Langford

2001, volume 53, articles 3

A hierarchical analysis of long-term illness and mortality in socially deprived areas pp. 265-275

Marianne Malmström, SvenErik Johansson and Jan Sundquist

Children's behaviour and the urban environment: an ecological analysis pp. 277-292

James A. LeClair

Do high levels of unemployment influence the health of those who are not unemployed? A gendered comparison of young men and women during boom and recession pp. 293-303

Mehmed Novo, Anne Hammarström and Urban Janlert

Unemployment and psychosocial adjustment in young adults: causation or selection? pp. 305-320

David M. Fergusson, L. John Horwood and Lianne J. Woodward

Health psychology and the study of the case: from method to analytic concern pp. 321-332

Alan Radley and Kerry Chamberlain

Evaluation of community-based rehabilitation for disabled persons in developing countries pp. 333-348

P. J. Evans, P. Zinkin, T. Harpham and G. Chaudury

British psychiatry in the 20th century -- observations from a psychiatric journal pp. 349-356

Joanna Moncrieff and M. J. Crawford

Physician-patient communication about over-the-counter medications pp. 357-369

Betsy Sleath, Richard H. Rubin, William Campbell, Lisa Gwyther and Trina Clark

Sexual cleansing (Kusalazya) and levirate marriage (Kunjilila mung'anda) in the era of AIDS: changes in perceptions and practices in Zambia pp. 371-382

J. R. S. Malungo

Determinants of the intention of Dutch adolescents to register as organ donors pp. 383-392

Astrid Reubsaet, Bart van den Borne, Johannes Brug, Jean Pruyn and Hans van Hooff

Sex selection in practice among Hong Kong Chinese pp. 393-397

S. F. Wong and L. C. Ho

2001, volume 53, articles 2

Anthropological perspectives on alcohol and drugs at the turn of the new millennium pp. 153-164

Mac Marshall, Genevieve M. Ames and Linda A. Bennett

Socio-cultural anthropology and alcohol and drug research:: towards a unified theory pp. 165-188

Geoffrey Hunt and Judith C. Barker

Intoxication and bad behaviour: understanding cultural differences in the link pp. 189-198

Robin Room

Toward a bio-cultural and political economic integration of alcohol, tobacco and drug studies in the coming century pp. 199-213

Merrill Singer

Assessing alcohol consumption: developments from qualitative research methods pp. 215-226

Lee Strunin

Culture and the restoration of self among former American Indian drinkers pp. 227-240

Paul Spicer

"These young chaps think they are just men, too": redistributing masculinity in Kgatleng bars pp. 241-250

David N. Suggs

"Take my water":: liberation through prohibition in San Pedro Chenalhó, Chiapas, Mexico pp. 251-262

Christine Eber

2001, volume 53, articles 1

Social deprivation and psychiatric service use for different diagnostic groups pp. 1-8

Jaap Peen and Jack Dekker

Does the state you live in make a difference? Multilevel analysis of self-rated health in the US pp. 9-19

S. V. Subramanian, Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy

Estimating the employment and earnings costs of mental illness: recent developments in the United States pp. 21-27

Dave Marcotte and Virginia Wilcox

Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults: the role of health-risk behaviors pp. 29-40

Paula M. Lantz, John W. Lynch, James S. House, James M. Lepkowski, Richard P. Mero, Marc A. Musick and David R. Williams

Models of acculturation and health behaviors among Latino immigrants to the US pp. 41-53

E. Arcia, M. Skinner, DeeVon Bailey and V. Correa

Defining the "urban" in urbanization and health: a factor analysis approach pp. 55-70

Thomas W. McDade and Linda S. Adair

Casuistry as bioethical method: an empirical perspective pp. 71-81

Annette Braunack-Mayer

Intrahousehold resource allocation and child growth in Mozambique: an ethnographic case-control study pp. 83-97

James Pfeiffer, Stephen Gloyd and Lucy Ramirez Li

Condom use, power and HIV/AIDS risk: sex-workers bargain for survival in Hillbrow/Joubert Park/Berea, Johannesburg pp. 99-121

Janet Maia Wojcicki and Josephine Malala

What do women want? Women's experiences of infertility treatment pp. 123-133

Maili Malin, Elina Hemminki, Outi Räikkönen, Sinikka Sihvo and M-L Perälä

The social context of health selection: a longitudinal study of health and employment pp. 135-145

Peggy McDonough and Benjamin C. Amick