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1999, volume 49, articles 12

Psychological impact of predicting individuals' risks of illness: a systematic review pp. 1571-1598

Chris Shaw, Keith Abrams and Theresa M. Marteau

Social network influences on reproductive health behaviors in urban northern Thailand pp. 1599-1614

Katherine C. Bond, Thomas W. Valente and Carl Kendall

Family focus or career focus: controlling for infertility pp. 1615-1622

Christine Siegwarth Meyer

Health inequality and population variation in fertility-timing pp. 1623-1636

Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound and Timothy Waidmann

Does financial hardship account for elevated psychological distress in lone mothers? pp. 1637-1649

Steven Hope, Chris Power and Bryan Rodgers

What makes new mothers unhappy: psychological distress one year after birth in Italy and France pp. 1651-1661

Patrizia Romito, Marie-Josèphe Saurel-Cubizolles and Nathalie Lelong

Complaining about chronic pain pp. 1663-1676

Robert Kugelmann

Household nutrition and health in Poland pp. 1677-1687

Rosalie Bakken, Marzena Jezewska-Zychowicz and Mary Winter

The emerging international policy agenda for reproductive health services in conflict settings pp. 1689-1703

Celia A. Palmer, Louisiana Lush and Anthony B. Zwi

Patterns of vaccination acceptance pp. 1705-1716

Pieter Streefland, A. M. R. Chowdhury and Pilar Ramos-Jimenez

Religious characteristics of US women physicians pp. 1717-1722

Erica Frank, Mary Lynn Dell and Rebecca Chopp

1999, volume 49, articles 11

Empowerment of women for health promotion: a meta-analysis pp. 1431-1460

Snehendu B. Kar, Catherine A. Pascual and Kirstin L. Chickering

Women, poverty and common mental disorders in four restructuring societies pp. 1461-1471

Vikram Patel, Ricardo Araya, Mauricio de Lima, Ana Ludermir and Charles Todd

Referral revisited: community financing schemes and emergency transport in rural Africa pp. 1473-1487

Kate Macintyre and David R. Hotchkiss

Purchasing a quick fix from private pharmacies in the Gaza Strip pp. 1489-1500

S. Beckerleg, G. Lewando-Hundt, M. Eddama, A. el Alem, R. Shawa and Y. Abed

Online commentary in acute medical visits: a method of shaping patient expectations pp. 1501-1517

John Heritage and Tanya Stivers

Treatment issues for HIV+ Africans in London pp. 1519-1528

Jo Erwin and Barry Peters

Attitudes to health care prioritisation methods and criteria among nurses, doctors, politicians and the general public pp. 1529-1539

Olli-Pekka Ryynänen, Markku Myllykangas, Juha Kinnunen and Jorma Takala

The psychosocial burden of caring for some Nigerian women with breast cancer and cervical cancer pp. 1541-1549

Jude U. Ohaeri, Oladapo B. Campbell, Abiodun O. Ilesanmi and Akinyinka O. Omigbodun

Assessment of ambulance response performance using a geographic information system pp. 1551-1566

Jeremy Peters and G. Brent Hall

1999, volume 49, articles 10

The impact of a quasi-market on sexually transmitted disease services in the UK pp. 1287-1298

David Evans

Incentives and health policy: primary and secondary care in the British National Health Service pp. 1299-1307

Dan Hausman and Julian Le Grand

The impact of public spending on health: does money matter? pp. 1309-1323

Deon Filmer and Lant Pritchett

New estimates of the demand for health: results based on a categorical health measure and Swedish micro data pp. 1325-1332

Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Magnus Johannesson

Equity in health and health care: the Chinese experience pp. 1349-1356

Yuanli Liu, William C. Hsiao and Karen Eggleston

HIV/AIDS prevention for migrants and ethnic minorities: three phases of evaluation pp. 1357-1372

Mary Haour-Knipe, Francois Fleury and Francois Dubois-Arber

A comparison of the relationships of education and income with mortality: the national longitudinal mortality study pp. 1373-1384

Eric Backlund, Paul D. Sorlie and Norman J. Johnson

Cost-effective malaria control in Brazil: Cost-effectiveness of a Malaria Control Program in the Amazon Basin of Brazil, 1988-1996 pp. 1385-1399

Dariush Akhavan, Philip Musgrove, Alexandre Abrantes and Renato d'A. Gusmão

Life-sustaining treatments: what doctors do, what they want for themselves and what elderly persons want pp. 1401-1408

Sara Carmel

Emergency contraception: an anomalous position in the family planning repertoire? pp. 1409-1417

Sue Ziebland

Increasing rates of suicide in young men in England during the 1980s: the importance of social context pp. 1419-1423

M. J. Crawford and M. Prince

1999, volume 49, articles 9

"Not just a statistic": the history of USA and UK policy over thrombotic disease and the oral contraceptive pill, 1960s-1970s pp. 1139-1155

Lara Marks

'We shall not find salvation in inoculation': BCG vaccination in Scandinavia, Britain and the USA, 1921-1960 pp. 1157-1167

Linda Bryder

The cost of living: kidney dialysis, rationing and health economics in Britain, 1965-1996 pp. 1169-1182

Jennifer Stanton

Passive smoking and its pre-history in Britain: policy speaks to science? pp. 1183-1195

Virginia Berridge

Public health policy paradoxes: science and politics in the Rockefeller Foundation's hookworm campaign in Mexico in the 1920s pp. 1197-1213

Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Armando Solórzano

Cancer chemotherapy, biodiversity, public and private property: the case of the anti-cancer drug Taxol pp. 1215-1225

Vivien Walsh and Jordan Goodman

From what and why did genetics emerge as a medical specialism in the 1970s in the UK? A case-history of research, policy and services in the Manchester region of the NHS pp. 1227-1238

Peter A. Coventry and John V. Pickstone

Risk, science and policy: definitional struggles, information management, the media and BSE pp. 1239-1255

David Miller

Histories of cochlear implantation pp. 1257-1268

Stuart S. Blume

Scientific uncertainty and the role of expert advice: the case of health checks for coronary heart disease prevention by general practitioners in the UK pp. 1269-1283

Dominique Florin

1999, volume 49, articles 8

Determinants of the Permethrin Impregnated Bednets (PIB) in the Republic of Benin: the role of women in the acquisition and utilization of PIBs pp. 993-1005

S. Rashed, H. Johnson, P. Dongier, R. Moreau, Cheng Few Lee, R. Crépeau, J. Lambert, V. Jefremovas and C. Schaffer

The use of research in local health service agencies pp. 1007-1019

Malcolm Anderson, Jarold Cosby, Bill Swan, Heather Moore and Mike Broekhoven

Closing rural hospitals in Saskatchewan: on the road to wellness? pp. 1021-1034

Amanda M. James

Community development through partnership: promoting health in an urban indigenous community in New Zealand pp. 1035-1050

J. A. Voyle and D. Simmons

The roles of social class of origin, achieved social class and intergenerational social mobility in explaining social-class inequalities in alcoholism among young men pp. 1051-1059

Tomas Hemmingsson, Ingvar Lundberg and Finn Diderichsen

Gender differences in physical symptoms and illness behavior: A health diary study pp. 1061-1074

Cecile M. T. Gijsbers van Wijk, Henk Huisman and Annemarie M. Kolk

Things ain't what they ought to be: social forces underlying racial disparities in rates of sexually transmitted diseases in a rural North Carolina county pp. 1075-1084

James C. Thomas and Karen K. Thomas

Infant feeding practices of low-income, African-American, adolescent mothers: an ecological, multigenerational perspective pp. 1085-1100

Margaret Bentley, Lorrie Gavin, Maureen M. Black and Laureen Teti

Female commercial sex workers in Kramat Tunggak, Jakarta, Indonesia pp. 1101-1114

Endang R. Sedyaningsih-Mamahit

Family experiences related to the decision to institutionalize an elderly member in Taiwan: an exploratory study pp. 1115-1123

Hsueh-Fen Kao and Alexa K. Stuifbergen

Knowledge, attitude and practice survey on immunization service delivery in Guangxi and Gansu, China pp. 1125-1127

Xinglu Zhang, Lixia Wang, Xu Zhu and Kean Wang

1999, volume 49, articles 7

Informal economic activities of public health workers in Uganda: implications for quality and accessibility of care pp. 849-865

Barbara McPake, Delius Asiimwe, Francis Mwesigye, Mathias Ofumbi, Lisbeth Ortenblad, Pieter Streefland and Asaph Turinde

Do measures of self-reported morbidity bias the estimation of the determinants of health care utilisation? pp. 867-878

Matthew Sutton, Roy Carr-Hill, Hugh Gravelle and Nigel Rice

Does the work environment contribute to excess male mortality? pp. 879-894

Örjan Hemström

How stable are people's preferences for giving priority to severely ill patients? pp. 895-903

Peter A. Ubel

Policy analysis for end-stage renal disease in Jamaica pp. 905-920

M. Trisolini, D. Ashley, V. Harik and W. Bicknell

Immunization promotion activities: are they effective in encouraging mothers to immunize their children? pp. 921-932

Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas, Hortensia Reyes, Ulises Pego, Patricia Tomé, Karla Ceja, Sergio Flores and Gonzalo Gutiérrez

Risk factors of pain in mammographic screening pp. 933-941

Eva Bruyninckx, Dimitri Mortelmans, M. Van Goethem and E. Van Hove

Inconsistent responses in three preference-elicitation methods for health states pp. 943-950

Xavier Badia, Monserrat Roset and Michael Herdman

Problems Tamil asylum seekers encounter in accessing health and welfare services in Australia pp. 951-956

D. Silove, Z. Steel, P. McGorry and J. Drobny

Role conflict and rapid socio-economic change: breastfeeding among employed women in Thailand pp. 957-965

S. Yimyam, M. Morrow and W. Srisuphan

Subjective life expectancy in the US: correspondence to actuarial estimates by age, sex and race pp. 967-979

John Mirowsky

Mortality and migration in Britain, first results from the British Household Panel Survey pp. 981-988

Nic Brimblecombe, Danny Dorling and Mary Shaw

1999, volume 49, articles 6

The impact of stroke on informal carers: a literature review pp. 711-725

Joseph T. S. Low, Sheila Payne and Paul Roderick

'Total pain', disciplinary power and the body in the work of Cicely Saunders, 1958-1967 pp. 727-736

David Clark

Determinants of depression and HIV-related worry among HIV-positive women who have recently given birth, Bangkok, Thailand pp. 737-749

Anna Bennetts, Nathan Shaffer, Chomnad Manopaiboon, Pattrawan Chaiyakul, Wimol Siriwasin, Philip Mock, Kunyarat Klumthanom, Sumaleelak Sorapipatana, Chanidapa Yuvasevee, Sujira Jalanchavanapate and Leslie Clark

Socio-demographic and spatial aspects of male mortality from HIV-AIDS related diseases in New South Wales, Australia, 1990-1994 pp. 751-762

I. H. Burnley

The cost-effectiveness of introducing a varicella vaccine to the New Zealand immunisation schedule pp. 763-779

P. Scuffham, Nancy Devlin, J. Eberhart-Phillips and R. Wilson-Salt

Physical activity social support and middle- and older-aged minority women: results from a US survey pp. 781-789

Amy A. Eyler, Ross C. Brownson, Rebecca J. Donatelle, Abby C. King, David Brown and James F. Sallis

The effect on morbidity of variability in deprivation and population stability in England and Wales: an investigation at small-area level pp. 791-799

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

Sexuality education in Russia: defining pleasure and danger for a fledgling democratic society pp. 801-814

Michele Rivkin-Fish

Different tuberculosis in men and women: beliefs from focus groups in Vietnam pp. 815-822

Nguyen Hoang Long, Eva Johansson, Vinod K. Diwan and Anna Winkvist

What price information? Modelling threshold probabilities of fetal loss pp. 823-830

John Cairns and Phil Shackley

Understanding social variation in cardiovascular risk factors in women and men: the advantage of theoretically based measures pp. 831-845

M. Bartley, A. Sacker, D. Firth and R. Fitzpatrick

1999, volume 49, articles 5

Two good reasons: women's and men's perspectives on dual contraceptive use pp. 567-580

Cynthia Woodsong and Helen P. Koo

Policy and politics of smoking control in Japan pp. 581-600

Hajime Sato

Knowledge, beliefs and practices relevant for malaria control in an endemic urban area of the Colombian Pacific pp. 601-609

Tatiana Nieto, Fabian Méndez and Gabriel Carrasquilla

Health behaviour and the school environment in New South Wales, Australia pp. 611-619

Lyndall McLellan, Chris Rissel, Neil Donnelly and Adrian Bauman

Age differences in the effects of network composition on psychological distress pp. 621-636

M. Kristen Peek and Nan Lin

The quest of infertile women in squatter settlements of Karachi, Pakistan: a qualitative study pp. 637-649

Lubna Ishaq Bhatti, Fariyal F. Fikree and Amanullah Khan

Decision-making in the physician-patient encounter: revisiting the shared treatment decision-making model pp. 651-661

Cathy Charles, Amiram Gafni and Tim Whelan

Evaluating health service equity at a primary care clinic in Chilimarca, Bolivia pp. 663-678

Edward L. Kinman

National health care 'by-passing' in Bangladesh: a comparative study pp. 679-689

Bimal Kanti Paul

Revisiting medicalisation and 'natural' death pp. 691-704

Jane Elizabeth Seymour

1999, volume 49, articles 4

When is a shared decision not (quite) a shared decision? Negotiating preferences in a general practice encounter pp. 437-447

Richard Gwyn and Glyn Elwyn

Patient assertiveness and physician decision-making among older breast cancer patients pp. 449-457

Edward Krupat, Julie T. Irish, Linda E. Kasten, Karen M. Freund, Risa B. Burns, Mark A. Moskowitz and John B. McKinlay

Prescribing benzodiazepines--a critical incident study of a physician dilemma pp. 459-467

Preben Bendtsen, Gunnel Hensing, Lotta McKenzie and Anna-Karin Stridsman

Women's control and choice regarding HRT pp. 469-482

Frances Griffiths

Disputed diagnoses: the cases of RSI and childhood cancer pp. 483-497

Hilary Arksey and Patricia Sloper

Determinants of socioeconomic differences in change in physical and mental functioning pp. 499-507

Pekka Martikainen, Stephen Stansfeld, Harry Hemingway and Michael Marmot

The influence of adult ill health on occupational class mobility and mobility out of and into employment in The Netherlands pp. 509-518

H. van de Mheen, K. Stronks, C. T. M. Schrijvers and J. P. Mackenbach

Diarrheal disease risk in Matlab, Bangladesh pp. 519-530

Michael Emch

Defecation practices of young children in a Peruvian shanty town pp. 531-541

Beth A. C. Yeager, Sharon R. A. Huttly, Rosario Bartolini, Martha Rojas and Claudio F. Lanata

Modernization of medical care in Korea (1876-1990) pp. 543-550

Annette H. K. Son

Valuing the benefits of publicly-provided health care: does 'ability to pay' preclude the use of 'willingness to pay'? pp. 551-563

Cam Donaldson

1999, volume 49, articles 3

Survival vs. quality of life: a study of the Israeli public priorities in medical care pp. 297-302

Amir Shmueli

Stability of elderly persons' expressed preferences regarding the use of life-sustaining treatments pp. 303-311

Sara Carmel and Elizabeth J. Mutran

Attitudes towards informed consent, confidentiality, and substitute treatment decisions in southern African medical students: a case study from Zimbabwe pp. 313-328

Lawrence Hipshman

Ethics education and physician morality pp. 329-342

Michael L. Gross

Balancing effectiveness, side-effects and work: women's perceptions and experiences with modern contraceptive technology in Cambodia pp. 343-358

Ritu Sadana and Rachel Snow

'Because of the risks': how US pregnant women account for refusing prenatal screening pp. 359-369

Susan Markens, C. H. Browner and Nancy Press

Obligatory medical insurance in Russia: the participants' perspective pp. 371-382

Judyth L. Twigg

A case-control study of employment status and mortality in a cohort of Australian youth pp. 383-392

Stephen Morrell, Richard Taylor, Susan Quine, Charles Kerr and John Western

Encompassing treatment with prevention: the path for a lasting control of tuberculosis pp. 393-404

Ernesto Jaramillo

Resource dependency, doctors and the state: quality control in Sweden pp. 405-424

Peter Garpenby

Effects of distances to hospital and GP surgery on hospital inpatient episodes, controlling for needs and provision pp. 425-433

Robin Haynes, Graham Bentham, Andrew Lovett and Susan Gale

1999, volume 49, articles 2

Planning reproductive health in conflict: a conceptual framework pp. 155-171

Joanna Busza and Louisiana Lush

Lifeboat versus corporate ethic: social and demographic implications of stem and joint families pp. 173-184

Monica Das Gupta

Planned orphanhood pp. 185-196

Ruth Landau

Maternal mortality, women's status, and economic dependency in less developed countries: a cross-national analysis pp. 197-214

Ce Shen and John B. Williamson

Rationality in medical treatment decisions: is there a sunk-cost effect? pp. 215-222

Brian H. Bornstein, A. Christine Emler and Gretchen B. Chapman

National health policies: sub-Saharan African case studies (1980-1990) pp. 223-240

Kwesi Dugbatey

HIV-related sexual risk assessment among Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: an inductive model pp. 241-251

Dorothy Chin

Occupational class and the probability of long-term limiting illness pp. 253-266

Vani Borooah

Goal-setting in clinical medicine pp. 267-278

Elizabeth H. Bradley, Sidney T. BogardusJr., Mary E. Tinetti and Sharon K. Inouye

Pharmacy and herbal medicine in the US pp. 279-289

Alicia S. Bouldin, Mickey C. Smith, Dewey D. Garner, Sheryl L. Szeinbach, Dennis A. Frate and Edward M. Croom

1999, volume 49, articles 1

Effect of price and access on contraceptive use pp. 1-16

Ann Levin, Bruce Caldwell and Barkat-e Khuda

Production gains from health care: what should be included in cost-effectiveness analyses? pp. 17-26

Jan Abel Olsen and Jeff Richardson

The referral process and urban health care in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Lusaka, Zambia pp. 27-38

Sarah Atkinson, Alasford Ngwengwe, Mubiana Macwan'gi, T. J. Ngulube, Trudy Harpham and Andrew O'Connell

Power between evaluator and community: research relationships within New Mexico's healthier communities pp. 39-53

Nina Wallerstein

Between intention and behavior: an application of community pharmacists' assessment of pharmaceutical care pp. 55-66

Karen B. Farris and Donald P. Schopflocher

Exploring the bio-psycho-social approach to premenstrual experiences pp. 67-80

Ofra Anson

Urban and rural suicide differentials in migrants and the Australian-born, New South Wales, Australia 1985-1994 pp. 81-91

Stephen Morrell, Richard Taylor, Emma Slaytor and Paul Ford

Ecological pattern of first admitted schizophrenics in two German cities over 25 years pp. 93-108

W. Löffler and H. Häfner

The sense of coherence, occupation and the risk of coronary heart disease in the Helsinki Heart Study pp. 109-120

Esko Poppius, Leena Tenkanen, Raija Kalimo and Pertti Heinsalmi

Does employment improve the health of lone mothers? pp. 121-131

D. Baker and K. North

Social support at age 33: the influence of gender, employment status and social class pp. 133-142

Sharon Matthews, Stephen Stansfeld and Chris Power

Morbidity and quality of life and the moderating effects of level of education in the elderly pp. 143-149

Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen, Els I. Brilman, Adelita V. Ranchor and Johan Ormel