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2000, volume 51, articles 12

Planning and change: a Cambodian public health case study pp. 1711-1722

Peter S. Hill

Prenatal care among Puerto Ricans on the United States mainland pp. 1723-1739

R. S. Oropesa, N. S. Landale, M. Inkley and B. K. Gorman

Health behaviours and health: evidence that the relationship is not conditional on income adequacy pp. 1741-1754

Deanna L. Williamson

"Impact? What impact?" Epidemiological research findings in the public domain: a case study from north-east England pp. 1755-1769

S. Moffatt, P. Phillimore, E. Hudson and D. Downey

Evaluating effectiveness of syringe exchange programmes: current issues and future prospects pp. 1771-1782

F. I. Bastos and S. A. Strathdee

The dragnet of children's feeding programs in Atlantic Canada pp. 1783-1793

Jutta B. Dayle, Lynn McIntyre and Kim D. Raine-Travers

Reconstructing self-narratives in coping with traumatic brain injury pp. 1795-1804

Masahiro Nochi

From "reducing" to "coping with" uncertainty: reconceptualizing the central challenge in breast self-exams pp. 1805-1816

Austin S. Babrow and Kimberly N. Kline

Information and its impact on satisfaction among surgical patients pp. 1817-1825

Edward Krupat, Marcella Fancey and Paul D. Cleary

Strategies for reducing the prescribing of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs): patient self-regulation of treatment may be an under-exploited resource pp. 1827-1839

K. Pollock and J. Grime

Oral health behaviour and self-esteem in Swedish children pp. 1841-1849

C. Källestål, L. Dahlgren and H. Stenlund

2000, volume 51, articles 11

Social determinants of health in Canada's immigrant population: results from the National Population Health Survey pp. 1573-1593

James R. Dunn and Isabel Dyck

Candies in hell: women's experiences of violence in Nicaragua pp. 1595-1610

Mary Ellsberg, Rodolfo Peña, Andrés Herrera, Jerker Liljestrand and Anna Winkvist

Defining quality of care pp. 1611-1625

S. M. Campbell, M. O. Roland and S. A. Buetow

Socioeconomic disparities in health in the US: an agenda for action pp. 1627-1638

Nancy Moss

Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and white women in the Detroit metropolitan area pp. 1639-1653

A. Schulz, B. Israel, D. Williams, E. Parker, A. Becker and S. James

A challenge to the cross-cultural validity of the SF-36 health survey: factor structure in Maori, Pacific and New Zealand European ethnic groups pp. 1655-1664

Kate M. Scott, Diana Sarfati, Martin I. Tobias and Stephen J. Haslett

The rise and fall of Type A man pp. 1665-1674

Elianne Riska

Circumstances of post-neonatal deaths in Ceara, Northeast Brazil: mothers' health care-seeking behaviors during their infants' fatal illness pp. 1675-1693

A. C. Terra de Souza, K. E. Peterson, F. M. O. Andrade, James Gardner and A. Ascherio

Attitudes as barriers in breast screening: a prospective study among Singapore women pp. 1695-1703

P. T. Straughan and A. Seow

2000, volume 51, articles 10

Rhetoric and reality in stroke patient care pp. 1437-1446

Pandora Pound and Shah Ebrahim

Infant death rates and animal-shed delivery in remote rural areas of Nepal pp. 1447-1456

Narbada Thapa, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Alan F. Geater, Magnar Ulstein and Gregory A. Bechtel

Trying to keep a balance: the meaning of health and diabetes in an urban Aboriginal community pp. 1457-1472

Samantha J. Thompson and Sandra M. Gifford

Environmental factors, situation of women and child mortality in southwestern Nigeria pp. 1473-1489

Iyun B. Folasade

Patterns of care for childhood malaria in Zambia pp. 1491-1503

Carol Baume, Deborah Helitzer and S. Patrick Kachur

The role of 'African Chemists' in the health care system of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa pp. 1505-1515

Michelle Cocks and Anthony Dold

Women's power and anthropometric status in Zimbabwe pp. 1517-1528

Michelle J. Hindin

The control of schistosomiasis in Brazil: an ethno-epidemiological study of the effectiveness of a community mobilization program for health education pp. 1529-1541

Elizabeth Uchoa, Sandhi M. Barreto, Joselia O. A. Firmo, Henrique L. Guerra, Fabiano G. Pimenta and Maria Fernanda F. Lima e Costa

Perceiving benefits in adversity: stress-related growth in women living with HIV/AIDS pp. 1543-1554

Karolynn Siegel and Eric W. Schrimshaw

General practitioners' attitudes toward complementary therapies pp. 1555-1561

G. Easthope, B. Tranter and G. Gill

C.A.R.E.: an approach for teaching ethics in medicine pp. 1563-1567

Gregory W. Schneider and Laura Snell

2000, volume 51, articles 9

Place, social exchange and health: proposed sociological framework pp. 1283-1293

Johannes Siegrist

A multilevel city health profile of Moscow pp. 1295-1312

I. V. McKeehan

Health lifestyles in Russia pp. 1313-1324

William C. Cockerham

Health-related lifestyles and alienation in Moscow and Helsinki pp. 1325-1341

Hannele Palosuo

Socioeconomic factors, material inequalities, and perceived control in self-rated health: cross-sectional data from seven post-communist countries pp. 1343-1350

Martin Bobak, Hynek Pikhart, Richard Rose, Clyde Hertzman and Michael Marmot

Psychosocial risk factors, inequality and self-rated morbidity in a changing society pp. 1351-1361

Maria S. Kopp, Árpád Skrabski and Sándor Szedmák

Educational differences in self-rated health during the Russian transition. Evidence from Taganrog 1993-1994 pp. 1363-1374

Per Carlson

Self-rated health and occupational conditions in Russia pp. 1375-1385

Inna Nazarova

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ukraine: its potential social and economic impact pp. 1387-1403

Tony Barnett, Alan Whiteside, Lev Khodakevich, Yuri Kruglov and Valentyna Steshenko

Eastern European transition and suicide mortality pp. 1405-1420

Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen

How much does social capital add to individual health?A survey study of Russians pp. 1421-1435

Richard Rose

2000, volume 51, articles 8

Medical sociology at the start of the new millennium pp. 1139-1142

Mildred Blaxter

Residential segregation and the epidemiology of infectious diseases pp. 1143-1161

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

Disability, space and sexuality: access to family planning services pp. 1163-1173

Paul Anderson and Rob Kitchin

Mortality differentials among women: the Israel Longitudinal Mortality Study pp. 1175-1188

Orly Manor, Zvi Eisenbach, Avi Israeli and Yechiel Friedlander

Stage of change is associated with assessment of the health risks of maternal smoking among pregnant women pp. 1189-1196

Cheryl Haslam and Elizabeth Draper

Driving donation: a geographic analysis of potential organ donors in the state of Ohio, USA pp. 1197-1210

Tony Grubesic

To boil or not: drinking water for children in a periurban barrio pp. 1211-1220

J. D. McLennan

Contract medicine arrangements in Hong Kong: an example of risk-bearing provider networks in an unregulated environment pp. 1221-1229

Christine Brudevold, Sarah M. McGhee and Lai-Ming Ho

"To every thing there is a season" -- social time and clock time in addiction treatment pp. 1231-1240

Harald Klingemann

Negotiating natural death in intensive care pp. 1241-1252

Jane Elizabeth Seymour

Neutralizing differences: producing neutral doctors for (almost) neutral patients pp. 1253-1265

Brenda L. Beagan

The co-occurrence of correct and incorrect HIV transmission knowledge and perceived risk for HIV among women of childbearing age in El Salvador pp. 1267-1278

Andrew S. London and Arodys Robles

2000, volume 51, articles 7

Commentaries on Coburn 'The role of: neo-liberalism' pp. 991-991

Mildred Blaxter

Coburn's thesis: plausible, but we need more evidence and better measures pp. 993-995

Alvin R. Tarlov

Deeper than "neoliberalism". A reply to David Coburn pp. 997-1000

Richard G. Wilkinson

Income inequality and health: expanding the debate pp. 1001-1005

John Lynch

Social change, market forces and health pp. 1007-1008

Clyde Hertzman

A brief response pp. 1009-1010

David Coburn

Unintended pregnancy and women's use of prenatal care in Ecuador pp. 1011-1018

Elizabeth Eggleston

Social class and self-rated health: can the gradient be explained by differences in life style or work environment? pp. 1019-1030

Vilhelm Borg and Tage S. Kristensen

"The lizard in the green bottle": "aging out" of problem drinking among Navajo men pp. 1031-1045

Gilbert Quintero

New Zealand children's health camps: therapeutic landscapes meet the contract state pp. 1047-1059

Robin A. Kearns and Damian C. A. Collins

Adult life experiences and health in early old age in Great Britain pp. 1061-1074

Emily Grundy and Gemma Holt

Factors associated with non-urgent utilization of Accident and Emergency services: a case-control study in Hong Kong pp. 1075-1085

Albert Lee, Fei-Lung Lau, Clarke B. Hazlett, Chak-Wah Kam, Patrick Wong, Tai-Wai Wong and Susan Chow

Patient-centredness: a conceptual framework and review of the empirical literature pp. 1087-1110

Nicola Mead and Peter Bower

The inertia of self-regulation: a game-theoretic approach to reducing passive smoking in restaurants pp. 1111-1119

Alan Shiell and Simon Chapman

Social class differences in mortality using the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification -- too little, too soon: a reply to Chandola pp. 1121-1127

D. Rose and D. J. Pevalin

Social class differences in mortality using the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification: a reply to Rose and Pevalin pp. 1129-1133

T. Chandola

2000, volume 51, articles 6

Editorial pp. 787-787

Sally Macintyre

Health impacts of rapid economic changes in Thailand pp. 789-807

Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Piya Harnvoravongchai, Siriwan Pitayarangsarit and Vijj Kasemsup

Health and rapid economic change in the late twentieth century pp. 809-819

Clyde Hertzman and Arjumand Siddiqi

Health policy and the new genetics pp. 821-829

Patricia A. Kaufert

The psychological complexity of predictive testing for late onset neurogenetic diseases and hereditary cancers: implications for multidisciplinary counselling and for genetic education pp. 831-841

G. Evers-Kiebooms, M. Welkenhuysen, E. Claes, M. Decruyenaere and L. Denayer

From social integration to health: Durkheim in the new millennium pp. 843-857

Lisa F. Berkman, Thomas Glass, Ian Brissette and Teresa E. Seeman

The evidence-based approach in health policy and health care delivery pp. 859-869

Louis Niessen, Els W. M. Grijseels and Frans F. H. Rutten

Social capital and health promotion: a review pp. 871-885

Penelope Hawe and Alan Shiell

Population ageing in developed and developing regions: implications for health policy pp. 887-895

Peter Lloyd-Sherlock

Private health care pp. 897-904

Mukund W. Uplekar

Child abuse: current problems and key public health challenges pp. 905-915

Carol Djeddah, Paola Facchin, Cristina Ranzato and Claude Romer

Changing patterns of death and dying pp. 917-930

Clive Seale

Gender equity in health: debates and dilemmas pp. 931-939

Lesley Doyal

The role and limitations of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development pp. 941-953

Jocelyn DeJong

International trends in adolescent nutrition pp. 955-967

Dona Schneider

Protecting the vulnerable: testing times for clinical research ethics pp. 969-977

Udo Schüklenk

The development of international health policies -- accountability intact? pp. 979-989

Ilona Kickbusch

2000, volume 51, articles 5

A critical review of recent US market level health care strategy literature pp. 639-656

Rebecca Wells and Jane Banaszak-Holl

Concepts of trust among patients with serious illness pp. 657-668

David Mechanic and Sharon Meyer

Judging the use of clinical protocols by fellow professionals pp. 669-677

Dianne Parker and Rebecca Lawton

The scope of hunter-gatherer ethnomedicine pp. 679-690

Robert A. Voeks and Peter Sercombe

The impact of direct and extra billing for medical services: evidence from a natural experiment in British Columbia pp. 691-702

Michael J. Epp, Aidan Vining, Colleen Collins-Dodd and Ernie Love

Practical logics: the shapes and lessons of popular medical knowledge and practice -- examples from Vietnam and Indigenous Australia pp. 703-711

David Craig

Rules of relevance after a stroke pp. 713-723

Mona Bendz

Are Brazilian women really choosing to deliver by cesarean? pp. 725-740

Kristine Hopkins

The end of the line: has rapid transit contributed to the spatial diffusion of HIV in one of Canada's largest metropolitan areas? pp. 741-748

Evan Wood, Keith Chan, Julio S. G. Montaner, Martin T. Schechter, Mark Tyndall, Michael V. O'Shaughnessy and Robert S. Hogg

Differences between Internet samples and conventional samples of men who have sex with men: implications for research and HIV interventions pp. 749-758

Michael W. Ross, Ronny Tikkanen and Sven-Axel Månsson

Precursive depression among HIV infected AIDS caregivers over time pp. 759-770

Richard G. Wight

Socioeconomic factors and incidence of erectile dysfunction: findings of the longitudinal Massachussetts Male Aging Study pp. 771-778

Isik A. Aytaç, Andre B. Araujo, Catherine B. Johannes, Ken P. Kleinman and John B. McKinlay

2000, volume 51, articles 4

Job stress and the occupational gradient in coronary heart disease risk in women: The Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study pp. 481-489

Sarah P. Wamala, Murray A. Mittleman, Myriam Horsten, Karin Schenck-Gustafsson and Kristina Orth-Gomér

Hospital pharmacy automation: collective mobility or collective control? pp. 491-503

Joel Novek

The politics of herbal drugs in Korea pp. 505-509

Byong-Hee Cho

Caesarean section delivery in Kerala, India: evidence from a National Family Health Survey pp. 511-521

Sabu S. Padmadas, Suresh Kumar S., Sajini B. Nair and Anitha Kumari K.R.

Defensive medicine during hospital obstetrical care: a by-product of the technological age pp. 523-537

Ken L. Bassett, Nitya Iyer and Arminee Kazanjian

Searching for socioeconomic risk factors in perinatal mortality in Kuwait: a case control study pp. 539-550

Nasra M. Shah, Makhdoom A. Shah, Abdul Aziz Khalaf, Mustafa Mohammad Mustafa and Ali Al-Sayed

Frequency and timing of antenatal care in Kenya: explaining the variations between women of different communities pp. 551-561

Monica Akinyi Magadi, Nyovani Janet Madise and Roberto Nascimento Rodrigues

Social inequality, population health, and housing: a study of two Vancouver neighborhoods pp. 563-587

James R. Dunn and Michael V. Hayes

How was life after treatment of a malignant brain tumour? pp. 589-598

Pär Salander, A. Tommy Bergenheim and Roger Henriksson

Measuring equity in access to health care pp. 599-612

Hugh R. Waters

Health risk and inequitable distribution of liquor stores in African American neighborhood pp. 613-617

Thomas A. LaVeist and John M. Wallace

Going down to the local: incorporating social organisation and political culture into assessments of decentralised health care pp. 619-636

Sarah Atkinson, Regianne Leila Rolim Medeiros, Paulo Henrique Lima Oliveira and Ricardo Dias de Almeida

2000, volume 51, articles 3

Comprehensive integrated primary mental health care for South Africa. Pipedream or possibility? pp. 321-334

Inge Petersen

When providers and community leaders define health priorities: the results of a Delphi survey in the canton of Geneva pp. 335-342

D. Schopper, C. Ammon, A. Ronchi and A. Rougemont

Appropriateness measurement: application to advice-giving in community pharmacies pp. 343-359

P. Bissell, P. R. Ward and P. R. Noyce

Gender, socioeconomic development and health-seeking behaviour in Bangladesh pp. 361-371

Syed Masud Ahmed, Alayne M. Adams, Mushtaque Chowdhury and Abbas Bhuiya

Violence and fear of violence in East and West Germany pp. 373-379

David E. Clark and Manfred Wildner

Self-identity in older persons suffering from dementia: preliminary results pp. 381-394

Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Hava Golander and Giyorah Arnheim

Money illusion among health care providers: should we adjust for inflation in analyses of provider behavior? pp. 395-405

Michelle L. Mayer and R. Gary Rozier

Discounted lives? Weighing disability when measuring health and ruling on "compassionate" murder pp. 407-417

Melanie Rock

Life quality vs the 'quality of life':: assumptions underlying prospective quality of life instruments in health care planning pp. 419-427

Tom Koch

Consultation with another physician on euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands pp. 429-438

Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Gerrit van der Wal, Piet J. Kostense and Paul J. van der Maas

The understanding of their illness amongst people with irritable bowel syndrome: a Q methodological study pp. 439-452

P. H. D. Stenner, C. P. Dancey and S. Watts

Information presentation and decisions to enter clinical trials: a hypothetical trial of hormone replacement therapy pp. 453-462

Jillian A. Wragg, Elizabeth J. Robinson and Richard J. Lilford

Patient education literature and help seeking behaviour: perspectives from an evaluation in the United Kingdom pp. 463-475

Timothy Milewa, Michael Calnan, Stephen Almond and Alethea Hunter

2000, volume 51, articles 2

Acculturation and health in Korean Americans pp. 159-173

Soo-Kyung Lee, Jeffery Sobal and Edward A. Frongillo

Pain response in Chinese and non-Chinese Canadian infants: is there a difference? pp. 175-184

Christina Rosmus, C. Céleste Johnston, Alice Chan-Yip and Fang Yang

Indices and sociodemographic determinants of childhood mortality in rural Upper Egypt pp. 185-197

Khaled M. Yassin

The determinants of infant mortality in Pakistan pp. 199-208

Sohail Agha

Talking contracts and taking care: managers and professionals in the British National Health Service internal market pp. 209-222

Lesley Griffiths and David Hughes

Cost analysis as a vitamin A program design and evaluation tool: a case study of the Philippines pp. 223-242

John L. Fiedler, Dyezebel R. Dado, Hector Maglalang, Noel Juban, Melgabal Capistrano and Maria Vicenta Magpantay

Precision and accuracy in measuring absence from work as a basis for calculating productivity costs in The Netherlands pp. 243-249

Johan L. Severens, Jan Mulder, Robert J. F. Laheij and André L. M. Verbeek

Lay constructions of HIV and complementary therapy use pp. 251-264

Dorothy Pawluch, Roy Cain and James Gillett

Walking, exercising, and smoking: does neighborhood matter? pp. 265-274

Catherine E. Ross

Gender, poverty and location: how much difference do they make in the geography of health inequalities? pp. 275-287

Mark W. Rosenberg and Kathleen Wilson

Urban-rural mortality differentials: controlling for material deprivation pp. 289-305

Martyn Senior, Huw Williams and Gary Higgs

Heterogeneity in the determinants of health and illness: the example of socioeconomic status and smoking pp. 307-317

Stephen Birch, Mike Jerrett and John Eyles

2000, volume 51, articles 1

Sexual abstinence at age 21 in New Zealand: the importance of religion pp. 1-10

Charlotte Paul, Julie Fitzjohn, Jason Eberhart-Phillips, Peter Herbison and Nigel Dickson

Contamination of medicine injection paraphernalia used by registered medical practitioners in south India: an ethnographic study pp. 11-28

M. Lakshman and Mark Nichter

Hong Kong Chinese perceptions of the experience of unrelated bone marrow donation pp. 29-40

Eleanor Holroyd and Alexander Molassiotis

Chronic physical illness, psychiatric disorder and disability in the workplace pp. 41-50

Carolyn S. Dewa and Elizabeth Lin

The three-year persistence of depressive symptoms in men and women pp. 51-64

Piet Bracke

Theoretical perspectives on suicide in gay men with AIDS pp. 65-72

Angela McNaught and John Spicer

God should give daughters to rich families only: attitudes towards childbearing among low-income women in Punjab, Pakistan pp. 73-81

Anna Winkvist and Humaira Zareen Akhtar

Clinical risk and collective competence in the hospital emergency department in the UK pp. 83-91

N. C. Boreham, C. E. Shea and K. Mackway-Jones

Ambiguity: exploring the complexity of roles and boundaries when working with volunteers in well woman clinics pp. 93-102

Joy Merrell

Women's experiences of maternity care: satisfaction or passivity? pp. 103-113

Tamar Kabakian-Khasholian, Oona Campbell, Mona Shediac-Rizkallah and Françoise Ghorayeb

The social gradient in life expectancy: the contrary case of Okinawa in Japan pp. 115-122

William C. Cockerham, Hiroyuki Hattori and Yukio Yamori

Socio-economic status and the utilisation of physicians' services: results from the Canadian National Population Health Survey pp. 123-133

Sheryl Dunlop, Peter C. Coyte and Warren McIsaac

Income inequality, social cohesion and the health status of populations: the role of neo-liberalism pp. 135-146

David Coburn

Deprivation and sudden infant death syndrome pp. 147-150

E. A. Mitchell, A. W. Stewart, P. Crampton and Clare Salmond

Increasing mortality differentials by residential area level of poverty: Britain 1981-1997 pp. 151-153

Mary Shaw, David Gordon, Danny Dorling, Richard Mitchell and George Davey Smith