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2001, volume 52, articles 12

Developing socio-spatial knowledge networks:: a qualitative methodology for chronic disease prevention pp. 1763-1775

Altha J. Cravey, Sarah A. Washburn, Wilbert M. Gesler, Thomas A. Arcury and Anne H. Skelly

The impacts of distance to hospital on families with a child with a chronic condition pp. 1777-1791

Nicole Yantzi, Mark W. Rosenberg, Sharon O. Burke and Margaret B. Harrison

Impact of rural hospital closures in Saskatchewan, Canada pp. 1793-1804

Liyan Liu, Joanne Hader, Bonnie Brossart, Robin White and Steven Lewis

Orientations to motherhood and male partner support among women in Mexico and Mexican-origin women in the United States pp. 1805-1813

Sylvia Guendelman, Christina Malin, Barbara Herr-Harthorn and Patricia Noemi Vargas

Adolescent girls, illegal abortions and "sugar-daddies" in Dar es Salaam: vulnerable victims and active social agents pp. 1815-1826

Margrethe Silberschmidt and Vibeke Rasch

"The tongue is venomous": perception, verbalisation and manipulation of mortality and fertility regimes in rural Mali pp. 1827-1841

Sarah Castle

Effect of orthographic and phonological similarity on false recognition of drug names pp. 1843-1857

Bruce L. Lambert, Ken-Yu Chang and Swu-Jane Lin

Patients' perceptions of medical care in chronic fatigue syndrome pp. 1859-1864

Alicia Deale and Simon Wessely

Sharing decisions in cancer care pp. 1865-1878

Melina Gattellari, Phyllis N. Butow and Martin H. N. Tattersall

Social inequalities in ischaemic heart and cerebrovascular disease mortality in men: Spain and France, 1980-1982 and 1988-1990 pp. 1879-1887

Lourdes Lostao, Enrique Regidor, Pierre Aïach and Vicente Domínguez

Resisting and promoting new technologies in clinical practice: the case of telepsychiatry pp. 1889-1901

Carl May, Linda Gask, Theresa Atkinson, Nicola Ellis, Frances Mair and Aneez Esmail

The impact of privatization on access in Tanzania pp. 1903-1915

John S. Benson

2001, volume 52, articles 11

'I think condoms are good but, aai, I hate those things':: condom use among adolescents and young people in a Southern African township pp. 1613-1627

Catherine MacPhail and Catherine Campbell

Trends in healthy life expectancy in the United States, 1970-1990: gender, racial, and educational differences pp. 1629-1641

Eileen M. Crimmins and Yasuhiko Saito

"Being dealt with as a whole person." Care seeking and adherence: the benefits of culturally competent care pp. 1643-1659

Arn J. Schilder, Cornelis Kennedy, Irene L. Goldstone, Russel D. Ogden, Robert S. Hogg and Michael V. O'Shaughnessy

Perceived control in relation to socioeconomic and behavioral resources for health pp. 1661-1676

Daniel S. Bailis, Alexander Segall, Michael J. Mahon, Judith G. Chipperfield and Elaine M. Dunn

The ethics of social risk reduction in the era of the biological brain pp. 1677-1687

Ted Schrecker, Lisa Acosta, Margaret A. Somerville and Harold J. Bursztajn

The closure of rural hospitals in Saskatchewan: method or madness? pp. 1689-1707

Rein Lepnurm and Marje K. Lepnurm

Emerging paradigms in the mental health care of refugees pp. 1709-1718

Charles Watters

On reflection:: doctors learning to care for people who are dying pp. 1719-1727

Roderick D. MacLeod

Recurrent symptoms: well-being and management pp. 1729-1740

Carol M. Musil, Diana L. Morris, Marie R. Haug, Camille B. Warner and Adriana T. Whelan

Transitions of employment status among suicide attempters during a severe economic recession pp. 1741-1750

Aini Ostamo, Eero Lahelma and Jouko Lönnqvist

GIS approaches to the problem of disease clusters: a brief commentary pp. 1751-1754

Tom Koch and Ken Denike

2001, volume 52, articles 10

Patient' voices, social movements and the habitus; how psychiatric survivors 'speak out pp. 1477-1489

Michele L. Crossley and Nick Crossley

Exchanging spare parts or becoming a new person? People's attitudes toward receiving and donating organs pp. 1491-1499

Margareta A. Sanner

Poor people, poor places, and poor health: the mediating role of social networks and social capital pp. 1501-1516

Vicky Cattell

Efficacy of a minimal intervention to reduce fat intake pp. 1517-1524

Christopher J. Armitage and Mark Conner

HIV/AIDS institutional discrimination in Switzerland pp. 1525-1535

Françoise Dubois-Arber and Mary Haour-Knipe

Beyond health gain:: the range of health system benefits expressed by social groups in Mexico and Central America pp. 1537-1550

Miguel Angle Angel González Block, Peter Sandiford, José Arturo Ruiz and Joan Rovira

Disadvantaged persons' participation in health promotion projects: some structural dimensions pp. 1551-1564

William F. Boyce

Gender differences in descriptions of angina symptoms and health problems immediately prior to angiography: the ACRE study pp. 1565-1575

Sue Philpott, Petra M. Boynton, Gene Feder and Harry Hemingway

Adolescent perceptions of smoking imagery in film pp. 1577-1587

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

Organochlorines and breast cancer:: the uses of scientific evidence in claimsmaking pp. 1589-1605

S. Michelle Driedger and John Eyles

2001, volume 52, articles 9

Older people and AIDS: quantitative evidence of the impact in Thailand pp. 1313-1327

John Knodel, Mark VanLandingham, Chanpen Saengtienchai and Wassana Im-em

Predictors of decline in self-assessments of health among older people -- a 5-year longitudinal study pp. 1329-1341

Raija Leinonen, Eino Heikkinen and Marja Jylhä

When nurses double as interpreters: a study of Spanish-speaking patients in a US primary care setting pp. 1343-1358

Virginia Elderkin-Thompson, Roxane Cohen Silver and Howard Waitzkin

Service quality perceptions and patient satisfaction: a study of hospitals in a developing country pp. 1359-1370

Syed Saad Andaleeb

Income and health: the time dimension pp. 1371-1390

Michaela Benzeval and Ken Judge

The relationship between heart problems and mortality in different social classes pp. 1391-1402

Ingemar Kåreholt

Malevolent Ogbanje: recurrent reincarnation or sickle cell disease? pp. 1403-1416

Esther Nzewi

Writing wrongs? An analysis of published discourses about the use of patient information leaflets pp. 1417-1432

Mary Dixon-Woods

A family history of breast cancer: women's experiences from a theoretical perspective pp. 1433-1440

G. Rees, A. Fry and A. Cull

Return to work after myocardial infarction/coronary artery bypass grafting: patients' and physicians' initial viewpoints and outcome 12 months later pp. 1441-1450

O. Mittag, K. -D. Kolenda, K. -J. Nordmann, J. Bernien and C. Maurischat

Immigrant women's health pp. 1451-1458

Lynn M. Meadows, Wilfreda E. Thurston and Christina Melton

Estimating time preferences for health using discrete choice experiments pp. 1459-1470

Marjon van der Pol and John Cairns

2001, volume 52, articles 8

Comparative institutional response to economic policy managed competition and governmentality pp. 1151-1166

Donald Light

Managed competition, governmentality and institutional response in the United Kingdom pp. 1167-1181

Donald Light

The marginal success of regulated competition policy in the Netherlands pp. 1183-1194

Harm Lieverdink

Cost containment, solidarity and cautious experimentation: Swedish dilemmas pp. 1195-1204

Ronald Andersen, Björn Smedby and Denny Vågerö

Adopting and adapting managed competition: health care reform in Southern Europe pp. 1205-1217

Laura Cabiedes and Ana Guillén

Implementing managed competition in Israel pp. 1219-1231

Revital Gross and Michael Harrison

Transforming health sectors: new logics of organizing in the New Zealand health system pp. 1233-1242

Geoff Fougere

Managed care in Latin America: the new common sense in health policy reform pp. 1243-1253

Celia Iriart, Emerson Elías Merhy and Howard Waitzkin

Biofantasies: genetics and medicine in the print news media pp. 1255-1268

Alan Petersen

Does childhood health affect chronic morbidity in later life? pp. 1269-1284

Debra L. Blackwell, Mark D. Hayward and Eileen M. Crimmins

Ethnic and class differences in health in relation to British South Asians: using the new National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification pp. 1285-1296

Tarani Chandola

Socioeconomic status and health among older adults in Thailand: an examination using multiple indicators pp. 1297-1311

Zachary Zimmer and Pattama Amornsirisomboon

2001, volume 52, articles 7

What do patients expect of psychiatric services? A systematic and critical review of empirical studies pp. 985-998

Lorraine M. Noble, Brian C. Douglas and Stanton P. Newman

Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain: Relating health disadvantage to socio-economic position pp. 999-1005

Joanne Abbotts, Rory Williams and Graeme Ford

Establishing the causes of childhood mortality in Ghana: the 'spirit child' pp. 1007-1012

Pascale Allotey and Daniel Reidpath

The medicalization of female "circumcision": harm reduction or promotion of a dangerous practice? pp. 1013-1028

Bettina Shell-Duncan

Stressors, resources, and distress among homeless persons:: a longitudinal analysis pp. 1029-1042

Yin-Ling Irene Wong and Irving Piliavin

Disease and dislocation: the impact of refugee movements on the geography of malaria in NWFP, Pakistan pp. 1043-1055

Jamil H. Kazmi and Kavita Pandit

Determinants of condom use intentions of university students in Ghana: an application of the theory of reasoned action pp. 1057-1069

Kwadwo Bosompra

The impact of AIDS, immigration and housing overcrowding on tuberculosis deaths in São Paulo, Brazil, 1994-1998 pp. 1071-1080

José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes and Eliseu Alves Waldman

Injury in children of low-income Mexican, Mexican American, and non-Hispanic white mothers in the USA: a focused ethnography pp. 1081-1091

Dorothy S. Mull, Phyllis F. Agran, Diane G. Winn and Craig L. Anderson

Looking means listening: coordinating displays of engagement in doctor-patient interaction pp. 1093-1108

Johanna Ruusuvuori

Negotiating control and meaning: home birth as a self-constructed choice in Finland pp. 1109-1121

Kirsi Viisainen

Clinical, provider and sociodemographic determinants of the number of antenatal visits in England and Wales pp. 1123-1134

Stavros Petrou, Emil Kupek, Sarah Vause and Michael Maresh

Social patterns of birth weight in Hong Kong, 1984-1997 pp. 1135-1141

Y. B. Cheung and Paul S. F. Yip

2001, volume 52, articles 6

Physician satisfaction revisited pp. 825-837

David C. Dunstone and Harold R. Reames

Community values and preferences in transplantation organ allocation decisions pp. 853-861

Colette J. Browning and Shane A. Thomas

Cost effectiveness of brief interventions for reducing alcohol consumption pp. 863-870

Sonia E. Wutzke, Alan Shiell, Michelle K. Gomel and Katherine M. Conigrave

Who rules? The new politics of medical regulation pp. 871-883

Brian Salter

Private practitioners and their role in the resurgence of malaria in Mumbai (Bombay) and Navi Mumbai (New Bombay), India: serving the affected or aiding an epidemic? pp. 885-909

Vinay R. Kamat

Adult outpatients with depression: worse quality of life than in other chronic medical diseases in Argentina pp. 911-919

S. C. Bonicatto, M. A. Dew, R. Zaratiegui, L. Lorenzo and P. Pecina

Problems with the Sickness Impact Profile: a theoretically based analysis and a proposal for a new method of implementation and scoring pp. 921-934

Beth Pollard and Marie Johnston

Can I afford free treatment?: Perceived consequences of health care provider choices among people with tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam pp. 935-948

Knut Lönnroth, Thuc-Uyen Tran, Le Minh Thuong, Hoang Thi Quy and Vinod Diwan

The will to live: gender differences among elderly persons pp. 949-958

Sara Carmel

Domestic labour, paid employment and women's health: analysis of life course data pp. 959-965

D. Blane, L. Berney and S. M. Montgomery

Networks, resources and risk among women who use drugs pp. 967-978

Maureen Miller and Alan Neaigus

Letter to the Editor pp. 979-979

Lennarth Nyström

2001, volume 52, articles 5

Monitoring health reform: a report card approach pp. 657-670

Marni D. Brownell, Noralou P. Roos and Leslie L. Roos

Competitive health policies and community health pp. 671-679

Pauline Stanton

Networks and tuberculosis: an undetected community outbreak involving public places pp. 681-694

A. S. Klovdahl, E. A. Graviss, A. Yaganehdoost, M. W. Ross, A. Wanger, G. J. Adams and J. M. Musser

Primary care as intersecting social worlds pp. 695-706

Philip Tovey and Jon Adams

The social construction of male 'homosexuality' in India: implications for HIV transmission and prevention pp. 707-721

Sheena Asthana and Robert Oostvogels

Implementing AIDS policy in post-apartheid South Africa pp. 723-731

Helen Schneider and Joanne Stein

Relationship dynamics and teenage pregnancy in South Africa pp. 733-744

Rachel Jewkes, Caesar Vundule, Fidelia Maforah and Esmé Jordaan

China's one-child policy: the economic choices and consequences faced by pregnant women pp. 745-761

Jim P. Doherty, Edward Norton and James E. Veney

Dimensions of social inequality in the health of women in England: occupational, material and behavioural pathways pp. 763-781

Amanda Sacker, Mel Bartley, David Firth and Ray Fitzpatrick

"It's some kind of women's empowerment": the ambiguity of the female condom as a marker of female empowerment pp. 783-796

Amy Kaler

African Americans' views on research and the Tuskegee Syphilis study pp. 797-808

Vicki S. Freimuth, Sandra Crouse Quinn, Stephen B. Thomas, Galen Cole, Eric Zook and Ted Duncan

2001, volume 52, articles 4

Mental health and stress in the workplace: the case of general practice in the UK pp. 499-507

Michael Calnan, David Wainwright, Malcolm Forsythe, Barbara Wall and Stephen Almond

AIDS and cultural practices in Africa: the case of the Tonga (Zambia) pp. 509-518

Quentin Gausset

Understanding the dynamics of illness and help-seeking: event-structure analysis and a Cambodian-American narrative of "Spirit Invasion" pp. 519-536

Edwina S. Uehara

Gender trends in occupancy rates in mental health beds in Northern Ireland pp. 537-545

Pauline M. Prior and Bernadette C. Hayes

Gender and health: reassessing patterns and explanations pp. 547-559

Peggy McDonough and Vivienne Walters

Knowledge, action and resistance: the selective use of pre-natal screening among Bedouin women of the Negev, Israel pp. 561-569

G. Lewando-Hundt, I. Shoham-Vardi, S. Beckerleg, I. Belmaker, F. Kassem and A. Abu Jaafar

Substance use during pregnancy in the state of California, USA pp. 571-583

Brian Karl Finch, William A. Vega and Bohdan Kolody

Female control of sexuality: illusion or reality? Use of vaginal products in south west Uganda pp. 585-598

Gill Green, Robert Pool, Susan Harrison, Graham J. Hart, Joanie Wilkinson, Stella Nyanzi and James . A. G. Whitworth

High-risk behaviors and the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among women prisoners at the women state penitentiary in Metro Manila pp. 599-608

Nymia P. Simbulan, Angela S. Aguilar, Timothy Flanigan and Susan Cu-Uvin

Predictors of patient satisfaction pp. 609-620

Jeffrey L. Jackson, Judith Chamberlin and Kurt Kroenke

Why do women use dietary supplements? The use of the theory of planned behaviour to explore beliefs about their use pp. 621-633

Mark Conner, Sara F. L. Kirk, Janet E. Cade and Jennifer H. Barrett

Managing and treating risk and uncertainty for health: a case study of diabetes among First Nation's people in Ontario, Canada pp. 635-650

Julie Sunday and John Eyles

2001, volume 52, articles 3

Medical women -- towards full integration? An analysis of the specialty choices made by two cohorts of Norwegian doctors pp. 331-343

Elisabeth Gjerberg

Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups pp. 345-356

Nancy E. Avis, Rebecca Stellato, Sybil Crawford, Joyce Bromberger, Patricia Ganz, Virginia Cain and Marjorie Kagawa-Singer

The impact of marital status on cancer survival pp. 357-368

Øystein Kravdal

Subjective well-being and severe motor impairments: the Tetrafigap survey on the long-term outcome of tetraplegic spinal cord injured persons pp. 369-384

I. Ville, J. -F. Ravaud and Tetrafigap Group

Compression or expansion of morbidity? Trends in healthy-life expectancy in the elderly Austrian population between 1978 and 1998 pp. 385-391

Gabriele Doblhammer and Josef Kytir

Real world pharmacy: assessing the quality of private pharmacy practice in the Lao People's Democratic Republic pp. 393-404

Bo Stenson, Lamphone Syhakhang, Bo Eriksson and Göran Tomson

Psychophysiological effects of temporary alternative employment pp. 405-415

Hugo Westerlund, Töres Theorell and Anna Bergström

Violence towards health care staff and possible effects on the quality of patient care pp. 417-427

Judith E. Arnetz and Bengt B. Arnetz

Health and cultural factors associated with enrolment in basic education: a study in rural Ghana pp. 429-439

Alicia Fentiman, Andrew Hall and Don Bundy

Socioeconomic differences in leisure-time physical activity: the role of social participation and social capital in shaping health related behaviour pp. 441-451

Martin Lindström, Bertil S. Hanson and Per-Olof Östergren

Future states: the axioms underlying prospective, future-oriented, health planning instruments pp. 453-465

Tom Koch

Tactics at the interface: Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health managers pp. 467-480

Peter S. Hill, John Wakerman, Sally Matthews and Odette Gibson

The political context of social inequalities and health pp. 481-491

Vicente Navarro and Leiyu Shi

2001, volume 52, articles 2

The physician role in transition: is Hippocrates sick? pp. 171-173

Olaf Gjerløw Aasland

The medical profession and health care reform -- friend or foe? pp. 175-177

Gudmund Hernes

Towards gender balance: but will women physicians have an impact on medicine? pp. 179-187

Elianne Riska

The doctor-nurse relationship: how easy is it to be a female doctor co-operating with a female nurse? pp. 189-202

Elisabeth Gjerberg and Lise Kjølsrød

Psychosocial challenges facing physicians of today pp. 203-213

Bengt B. Arnetz

Interventions to improve physicians' well-being and patient care pp. 215-222

Jenny Firth-Cozens

Interventions to improve physicians' well-being and patient care: a commentary pp. 223-225

Martha S. Gerrity

Doctors drifting: autonomy and career uncertainty in young physicians' stories pp. 227-237

Varpu Löyttyniemi

Paternalism, patient autonomy, and moral deliberation in the physician-patient relationship: Attitudes among Norwegian physicians pp. 239-248

Erik Falkum and Reidun Førde

Breast self-examination and cervical cancer testing among Norwegian female physicians: A nation-wide comparative study pp. 249-258

Elin Olaug Rosvold, Anette Hjartåker, Espen Bjertness and Eiliv Lund

Suicide rates from 1960 to 1989 in Norwegian physicians compared with other educational groups pp. 259-265

Olaf Gjerløw Aasland, Øvind Ekeberg and Tore Schweder

Implications of health care provision on acute lower respiratory infection mortality in Bangladeshi children pp. 267-277

Mohammad Ali, Michael Emch, Fahmida Tofail and Abdullah H. Baqui

Capacity building to improve women's health in rural China pp. 279-292

Virginia C. Li, Wang Shaoxian, Wu Kunyi, Zhang Wentao, Opal Buchthal, Glenn C. Wong and Mary Ann Burris

Impact of urinary schistosomiasis on rural land use: empirical evidence from Nigeria pp. 293-303

J. Chinedu Umeh, O. Amali and E. U. Umeh

Medicaid eligibility and the incidence of ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations for children pp. 305-313

Robert Kaestner, Ted Joyce and A. Racine

Quality of life among women living with HIV: the importance violence, social support, and self care behaviors pp. 315-322

A. C. Gielen, K. A. McDonnell, A. W. Wu, P. O'Campo and R. Faden

2001, volume 52, articles 1

The importance of the social environment for physically active lifestyle -- results from an international study pp. 1-10

T. Ståhl, A. Rütten, D. Nutbeam, A. Bauman, L. Kannas, T. Abel, G. Lüschen, Diaz J. A. Rodriquez, J. Vinck and J. van der Zee

Doing things with illness. The micro politics of the CFS clinic pp. 11-23

Jonathan Banks and Lindsay Prior

Revealing moments: formulating understandings of adverse experiences in a health appraisal interview pp. 25-44

W. A. Beach and C. N. Dixson

Health implications of early childbearing on pregnancy outcome in Botswana: insights from the institutional records pp. 45-52

Gobopamang Letamo and Rolang G. Majelantle

Diffusion of ideas about personal hygiene and contamination in poor countries: evidence from Guatemala pp. 53-69

Noreen Goldman, Anne R. Pebley and Megan Beckett

Determinants of breastfeeding in the Philippines: a survival analysis pp. 71-81

Teresa S. J. Abada, Frank Trovato and Nirannanilathu Lalu

Death rests a while: holy day and Sabbath effects on Jewish mortality in Israel pp. 83-97

Jon Anson and Ofra Anson

Improving the use of pharmaceuticals through patient and community level interventions pp. 99-134

Nuria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde

Cost-effectiveness of the female condom in preventing HIV and STDs in commercial sex workers in rural South Africa pp. 135-148

Elliot Marseille, James G. Kahn, Kelvin Billinghurst and Joseph Saba

Attitudes to traditional Chinese medicine amongst Western trained doctors in the People's Republic of China pp. 149-153

K. Harmsworth and G. T. Lewith

Use of the Internet by medical voluntary groups in the UK pp. 155-156

Nick Fox

'The dog that didn't bark': taking class seriously in the health inequalities debate pp. 157-159

Graham Scambler and Paul Higgs