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1999, volume 48, articles 12

Neighbourhood characteristics and use of benzodiazepines in The Netherlands pp. 1701-1711

Peter P. Groenewegen, Hubert G. Leufkens, Peter Spreeuwenberg and Wilmar Worm

Do risk factors and health behaviours contribute to self-ratings of health? pp. 1713-1720

Kristiina Manderbacka, Olle Lundberg and Pekka Martikainen

Social support, social selection and self-assessed health status: results from the veterans health study in the United States pp. 1721-1734

Xinhua S. Ren, Katherine Skinner, Austin Lee and Lewis Kazis

The influence of the cardiac surgery patient's sex and age on care-giving received pp. 1735-1742

Kathryn M. King and Priscilla M. Koop

Disease activity and severity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: relations to socioeconomic inequality pp. 1743-1750

Mette Brekke, Per Hjortdahl, Dag S. Thelle and Tore K. Kvien

Social inequalities in male mortality amenable to medical intervention in British Columbia pp. 1751-1758

Evan Wood, Anthony M. Sallar, Martin T. Schechter and Robert S. Hogg

Explaining differential rates of mortality decline for Swedish men and women: a time-series analysis, 1945-1992 pp. 1759-1777

Örjan Hemström

Ethnicity and attitudes towards life sustaining technology pp. 1779-1789

Leslie J. Blackhall, Gelya Frank, Sheila T. Murphy, Vicki Michel, Joycelynne M. Palmer and Stanley P. Azen

The meanings of pain: an exploration of women's descriptions of symptoms pp. 1791-1802

Eva E. Johansson, Katarina Hamberg, Göran Westman and Gerd Lindgren

The health transition, global modernity and the crisis of traditional medicine: the Tibetan case pp. 1803-1820

Craig R. Janes

The historical roots of high rates of infant death in Aboriginal communities in Canada in the early twentieth century: the case of Fisher River, Manitoba pp. 1821-1832

Tina Moffat and Ann Herring

Disease and immunity in the pre-Spanish Philippines pp. 1833-1850

Linda A. Newson

The health impact of smoking in manual and non-manual social class men and women: a test of the Blaxter hypothesis pp. 1851-1856

Perla J. Marang-van de Mheen, George Davey Smith and Carole L. Hart

Will genetic testing for predisposition for disease result in fatalism? A qualitative study of parents responses to neonatal screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia pp. 1857-1860

Victoria Senior, Theresa M. Marteau and Timothy J. Peters

1999, volume 48, articles 11

Integrating response shift into health-related quality of life research: a theoretical model pp. 1507-1515

Mirjam A. G. Sprangers and Carolyn E. Schwartz

Social comparison as a mediator of response shift pp. 1517-1530

F. X. Gibbons

Methodological approaches for assessing response shift in longitudinal health-related quality-of-life research pp. 1531-1548

Carolyn E. Schwartz and Mirjam A. G. Sprangers

Discrepancies between self-reported and observed physical function in the elderly: the influence of response shift and other factors pp. 1549-1561

Lawren H. Daltroy, Martin G. Larson, Holley M. Eaton, Charlotte B. Phillips and Matthew H. Liang

Helping others helps oneself: response shift effects in peer support pp. 1563-1575

Carolyn E. Schwartz and Rabbi Meir Sendor

Clinical understanding and clinical implications of response shift pp. 1577-1588

Ira B. Wilson

The role of the privatization process on tuberculosis control in HoChiMinh City Province, Vietnam pp. 1589-1598

Eric Naterop and Ivan Wolffers

Economic and health efficiency of education funding policy pp. 1599-1611

Timothy Curtin and E. A. S. Nelson

The impact of perinatal loss on adjustment to subsequent pregnancy pp. 1613-1623

Renée-Louise Franche and Samuel F. Mikail

Beyond the biomedical and behavioural: towards an integrated approach to HIV prevention in the Southern African mining industry pp. 1625-1639

Catherine Campbell and Brian Williams

Cognitive predictors of adherence to malaria prophylaxis regimens on return from a malarious region: a prospective study pp. 1641-1654

Charles Abraham, Stephen Clift and Peter Grabowski

Harmonising and competing for medicines regulation: how healthy are the European Union's systems of drug approval? pp. 1655-1667

John Abraham and Graham Lewis

Preventive behavior among recent immigrants: Russian-speaking women and cancer screening in Israel pp. 1669-1684

Larissa I. Remennick

Stories of illness and trauma survival: liberation or repression? pp. 1685-1695

Michele L. Crossley

1999, volume 48, articles 10

Power, control and resistance in the timing of health and care pp. 1307-1319

Nick J Fox

Spatiality, embodiment and hazards encountered in the making of pots pp. 1321-1332

Paul Bellaby

Family structure and patient survival in an African-American end-stage renal disease population: a preliminary investigation pp. 1333-1340

Jocelyn Turner-Musa, David Leidner, Samuel Simmens, David Reiss, Paul L Kimmel and Barbara Holder

Information needs in terminal illness pp. 1341-1352

Jean S Kutner, John F Steiner, Kitty K Corbett, Dennis W Jahnigen and Phoebe L Barton

Psychosocial problem disclosure by primary care patients pp. 1353-1362

John W Robinson and Debra L Roter

Gender, psychosocial factors and the use of medical services: a longitudinal analysis pp. 1363-1372

Carla A Green and Clyde R Pope

Psychosocial outcome assessments for use in cardiac rehabilitation service evaluation: a 10-year systematic review pp. 1373-1393

H.M. McGee, D. Hevey and J.H. Horgan

Disability terminology in the media: a comparison of newspaper reports in Canada and Israel pp. 1395-1405

Gail K Auslander and Nora Gold

The `dop' system, alcohol abuse and social control amongst farm workers in South Africa: a public health challenge pp. 1407-1414

Leslie London

The impact of market oriented reforms on choice and information: a case study of cataract surgery in outer London and Stockholm pp. 1415-1432

Marianna Fotaki

Demographic and socio-economic determinants of community and hospital services costs for people with HIV/AIDS in London pp. 1433-1440

Emil Kupek, Mary Dooley, Luke Whitaker, Stavros Petrou and Adrian Renton

Doing a shotgun: a drug use practice and its relationship to sexual behaviors and infection risk pp. 1441-1448

David C Perlman, Anthony R Henman, Lee Kochems, Denise Paone, Nadim Salomon and Don C Des Jarlais

A critique of seven assumptions behind psychological trauma programmes in war-affected areas pp. 1449-1462

Derek Summerfield

`With the best of reasons': cervical cancer prevention policy and the suppression of sexual risk factor information pp. 1463-1474

Virginia Braun and Nicola Gavey

Political self-characterization of US women physicians pp. 1475-1481

Erica Frank

Geographies of health perception in Québec: a multilevel perspective pp. 1483-1490

Robert Pampalon, Craig Duncan, S.v Subramanian and Kelvyn Jones

The persisting effect of unemployment on health and social well-being in men early in working life pp. 1491-1499

M.E.j Wadsworth, S.m Montgomery and M.j Bartley

1999, volume 48, articles 9

''You just look at our work and see if you have any freedom on earth'': Ghanaian women's accounts of their work and their health pp. 1123-1133

Joyce Yaa Avotri and Vivienne Walters

Antecedents and consequences of work-home interference among medical residents pp. 1135-1148

Sabine Geurts, Christel Rutte and Maria Peeters

The incorporation of different demand concepts in the job demand-control model: effects on health care professionals pp. 1149-1160

Jan de Jonge, Marike J. G. P. Mulder and Frans J. N. Nijhuis

The relationship of functional limitations to disability and the moderating effects of psychological attributes in community-dwelling older persons pp. 1161-1172

Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen, Marieke J. G. van Heuvelen, Eric van Sonderen, Rob H. S. van den Brink, Aart C. Kooijman and Johan Ormel

Models of disablement, universalism and the international classification of impairments, disabilities and handicaps pp. 1173-1187

Jerome E. Bickenbach, Somnath Chatterji, E. M. Badley and T. B. Üstün

The power of the visible: the meaning of diagnostic tests in chronic back pain pp. 1189-1203

Lorna A. Rhodes, Carol A. McPhillips-Tangum, Christine Markham and Rebecca Klenk

A cost-effectiveness analysis of vaccination strategies against N. meningitidis meningitis in sub-Saharan African countries pp. 1205-1220

Patrick A. Bovier, Kaspar Wyss and Heather J. Au

Gender differences in structural and behavioral determinants of health: an analysis of the social production of health pp. 1221-1235

Margaret Denton and Vivienne Walters

Do ethnic groups use health services like the majority of the population? A study from Quebec, Canada pp. 1237-1245

Régis Blais and Aboubacrine Maïga

No struggle, no strength: how pharmacists lost their monopoly pp. 1247-1258

Janine Marie Morgall and Anna Birna Almarsdóttir

Measuring both negative and positive reactions to giving care to cancer patients: psychometric qualities of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA) pp. 1259-1269

Chris Nijboer, Mattanja Triemstra, Reike Tempelaar, Robbert Sanderman and Geertrudis A. M. van den Bos

Extending specialist palliative care to all? pp. 1271-1280

David Field and Julia Addington-Hall

The gradient in mammography screening behavior: a lifestyle marker pp. 1281-1290

Lea Hagoel, Liora Ore, Efrat Neter, Galia Shifroni and Gad Rennert

The effect of spiritual beliefs on outcome from illness pp. 1291-1299

Michael King, Peter Speck and Angela Thomas

1999, volume 48, articles 8

The disability paradox: high quality of life against all odds pp. 977-988

Gary L. Albrecht and Patrick J. Devlieger

Patient satisfaction in developing countries pp. 989-996

Michael H. Bernhart, I. G. P. Wiadnyana, Haryoko Wihardjo and Imbalos Pohan

Risk analysis of poor health and growth failure of children in the central highlands of Guatemala pp. 997-1009

Maarten D. C. Immink and Ellen Payongayong

Predictors of childhood immunization completion in a rural population pp. 1011-1027

Prasanna Gore, Suresh Madhavan, David Curry, Gordon McClung, Mary Castiglia, Sidney A. Rosenbluth and Raymond A. Smego

Starting mental health services in Cambodia pp. 1029-1046

Daya J. Somasundaram, Willem A. C. M. van de Put, Maurice Eisenbruch and Joop T. V. M. de Jong

From African health and influenza pandemics to disease in Russia: the medical history of K. David Patterson pp. 1047-1051

Gerald F. Pyle

Attaining health for all through community partnerships: principles of the census-based, impact-oriented (CBIO) approach to primary health care developed in Bolivia, South America pp. 1053-1067

Henry Perry, Nathan Robison, Dardo Chavez, Orlando Taja, Carolina Hilari, David Shanklin and John Wyon

Perceptions of soil-eating and anaemia among pregnant women on the Kenyan coast pp. 1069-1079

P. W. Geissler, R. J. Prince, M. Levene, C. Poda, S. E. Beckerleg, W. Mutemi and C. E. Shulman

The social ecology of syphilis pp. 1081-1094

James C. Thomas, Michele Clark, Jadis Robinson, Martha Monnett, Peter H. Kilmarx and Thomas A. Peterman

Implications of social class and race for urban public health policy making: a case study of HIV/AIDS and TB policy in Washington, DCThe views in this paper are the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or position of the authors' agencies pp. 1095-1102

Anne Dievler and Gregory Pappas

Sexual regimes and sexual networking: the risk of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in Bangladesh pp. 1103-1116

Bruce Caldwell, Indrani Pieris, Barkat-e-Khuda, John Caldwell and Pat Caldwell

Reliability of perceived health by sex and age pp. 1117-1122

Pekka Martikainen, Arpo Aromaa, Markku Heliövaara, Timo Klaukka, Paul Knekt, Jouni Maatela and Eero Lahelma

1999, volume 48, articles 7

Developing health insurance in transitional Asia pp. 871-879

Tim Ensor

Social movements and health insurance: a critical evaluation of voluntary, non-profit insurance schemes with case studies from Ghana and Cameroon pp. 881-896

Chris Atim

The Bwamanda hospital insurance scheme: effective for whom? A study of its impact on hospital utilization patterns pp. 897-911

Bart Criel, Patrick Van der Stuyft and Wim Van Lerberghe

The social security scheme in Thailand: what lessons can be drawn? pp. 913-923

Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Anuwat Supachutikul and Jongkol Lertiendumrong

The potential for social mobilisation in Bangladesh: the organisation and functioning of two health insurance schemes pp. 925-938

M. Desmet, A. Q. Chowdhury and Md. K. Islam

NGOs in community health insurance schemes: examples from Guatemala and the Philippines pp. 939-950

Aviva Ron

Rural health prepayment schemes in China: towards a more active role for government pp. 951-960

Gerald Bloom and Tang Shenglan

The reform of the rural cooperative medical system in the People's Republic of China: interim experience in 14 pilot counties pp. 961-972

Guy Carrin, Aviva Ron, Yang Hui, Wang Hong, Zhang Tuohong, Zhang Licheng, Zhang Shuo, Ye Yide, Chen Jiaying, Jiang Qicheng, Zhang Zhaoyang, Yu Jun and Li Xuesheng

1999, volume 48, articles 6

Issues in promoting health pp. 711-718

David Mechanic

Crime: social disorganization and relative deprivation pp. 719-731

Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P. Kennedy and Richard G. Wilkinson

Aggregation and the measurement of income inequality: effects on morbidity pp. 733-744

Mah-Jabeen Soobader and Felicia B. LeClere

Gender matters: an integrated model for understanding men's and women's health pp. 745-755

Chloe E. Bird and Patricia P. Rieker

The relationship between tobacco access and use among adolescents: a four community study pp. 759-775

David G. Altman, Anne Y. Wheelis, Mary McFarlane, Hye-Ryeon Lee and Stephen P. Fortmann

Drug policy in China: pharmaceutical distribution in rural areas pp. 777-786

Hengjin Dong, Lennart Bogg, Clas Rehnberg and Vinod Diwan

Marital food interaction and dietary behavior pp. 787-796

Robert B. Schafer, Elisabeth Schafer, Martin Dunbar and Patricia M. Keith

Prioritising family health needs: a time-space analysis of women's health-related behaviours pp. 797-813

Ruth Young

Effectiveness of community-directed diabetes prevention and control in a rural Aboriginal population in British Columbia, Canada pp. 815-832

Mark Daniel, Lawrence W. Green, Stephen A. Marion, Diane Gamble, Carol P. Herbert, Clyde Hertzman and Sam B. Sheps

Addressing birth in Gaza: using qualitative methods to improve vital registration pp. 833-843

G. Lewando-Hundt, Y. Abed, M. Skeik, S. Beckerleg and A. El Alem

Improving drug use: a case study of events which led to changes in use of flucloxacillin in Australia pp. 845-853

Elizabeth E. Roughead, Andrew L. Gilbert and John G. Primrose

1999, volume 48, articles 5

Psychological aspects of in vitro fertilization: a review pp. 575-589

A. Eugster and A. J. J. M. Vingerhoets

Structuring the meaning of hope in health and illness pp. 591-605

Cheryl L. Nekolaichuk, Ronna F. Jevne and Thomas O. Maguire

Local knowledge and treatment of malaria in Agusan del Sur, The Philippines pp. 607-618

Cynthia A. Miguel, Veronica L. Tallo, Lenore Manderson and Mary Ann Lansang

Learning from unreliability: the importance of inconsistency in coping dynamics pp. 619-631

Carolyn E. Schwartz and Lawren H. Daltroy

Hierarchies and cliques in the social networks of health care professionals: implications for the design of dissemination strategies pp. 633-646

Elizabeth West, David N. Barron, Juliet Dowsett and John N. Newton

Value added to health by pharmacists pp. 647-660

Mary E. S. Indritz and Margaret B. Artz

Social relations: network, support and relational strain pp. 661-673

Pernille Due, Bjørn Holstein, Rikke Lund, Jens Modvig and Kirsten Avlund

Short stature and the age of enrolment in Primary School: studies in two African countries pp. 675-682

The Partnership for Child Development

Reducing coronary heart disease in the Australian Coalfields: evaluation of a 10-year community intervention pp. 683-692

Nick Higginbotham, Gaynor Heading, Patrick McElduff, Annette Dobson and Richard Heller

Income and health: what is the nature of the relationship? pp. 693-705

Russell Ecob and George Davey Smith

1999, volume 48, articles 4

The influence of personal care and assistive devices on the measurement of disability pp. 427-443

Emily M. Agree

Risk factors for functional status decline in community-living elderly people: a systematic literature review pp. 445-469

Andreas E. Stuck, Jutta M. Walthert, Thorsten Nikolaus, Christophe J. Büla, Christoph Hohmann and John C. Beck

Selecting national items for the WHOQOL: conceptual and psychometric considerations pp. 473-487

S. M. Skevington, J. Bradshaw and S. Saxena

Patterns of health seeking behavior during episodes of childhood diarrhea: a study of Tzotzil-speaking Mayans in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico pp. 489-495

Reuben Granich, Michael F. Cantwell, Kurt Long, Yvonne Maldonado and Julie Parsonnet

Smoking and deprivation: are there neighbourhood effects? pp. 497-505

Craig Duncan, Kelvyn Jones and Graham Moon

Epidemics and public health in early colonial Somaliland pp. 507-521

Jama Mohamed

Medical knowledge and the intractable patient: the case of chronic low back pain pp. 523-534

Carl May, Helen Doyle and Carolyn Chew-Graham

Using conjoint analysis to take account of patient preferences and go beyond health outcomes: an application to in vitro fertilisation pp. 535-546

Mandy Ryan

HMO physicians' use of referrals pp. 547-557

Keith H. Bachman and Donald K. Freeborn

Personal values of male and female doctors: gender aspects pp. 559-568

Liisa Neittaanmäki, Edith B. Gross, Irma Virjo, Harri Hyppölä and Esko Kumpusalo

1999, volume 48, articles 3

Gender, sexuality, and the prevention of sexually transmissible diseases: a Brazilian study of clinical practice pp. 283-292

Karen Giffin and Catherine M. Lowndes

The social impact of HIV testing: a comparative analysis of Britain and Sweden pp. 293-300

Renée Danziger

Birth intervals, breastfeeding and determinants of childhood mortality in Malawi pp. 301-312

Samuel O. M. Manda

Postpartum health in a Dhaka slum pp. 313-320

Amatul Uzma, Peter Underwood, David Atkinson and Rose Thackrah

Accidents to preschool children: comparing family and neighbourhood risk factors pp. 321-329

Richard Reading, Ian H. Langford, Robin Haynes and Andrew Lovett

Costs of formal care for frail older people in England:: the resource implications study of the MRC cognitive function and ageing study (RIS MRC CFAS) pp. 331-341

Paul McNamee, Barbara A. Gregson, Debbie Buck, Claire H. Bamford, John Bond and Ken Wright

The medical profession and alternative medicine in the Netherlands: its history and recent developments pp. 343-351

R. M. J. Schepers and H. E. G. M. Hermans

Procedures and the professional: the case of the British NHS pp. 353-361

Rebecca Lawton and Dianne Parker

Complaints against nurses: a reflection of 'the new managerialism' and consumerism in health care? pp. 363-374

Barbara Beardwood, Vivienne Walters, John Eyles and Susan French

Smoking-attributable medical care costs in the USA pp. 375-391

Vincent P. Miller, Carla Ernst and François Collin

Medicine, economics and agenda-setting pp. 393-405

Jenny M. Lewis and Mark Considine

Dentistry and medical dominance pp. 407-420

Tracey Adams

1999, volume 48, articles 2

An evaluation of the informed consent procedure used during a trial of a Haemophilus influenzae type B conjugate vaccine undertaken in The Gambia, West Africa pp. 139-148

A. Leach, S. Hilton, B. M. Greenwood, E. Manneh, B. Dibba, A. Wilkins and E. K. Mulholland

Women's strategies to alleviate nutritional stress in a rural African society pp. 149-162

Gillian R. Bentley, Robert Aunger, Alisa M. Harrigan, Mark Jenike, Robert C. Bailey and Peter T. Ellison

Ngaka ya setswana, ngaka ya sekgoa or both? Health seeking behaviour in Batswana with pulmonary tuberculosis pp. 163-172

T. W. Steen and G. N. Mazonde

Ethnicity, alcohol, and acculturation pp. 173-184

M. C. Gutmann

Holocaust survivors' perspectives on the euthanasia debate pp. 185-196

Ronit D. Leichtentritt, Kathryn D. Rettig and Steven H. Miles

Risk adjustment and hospital cost-based resource allocation, with an application to El Salvador pp. 197-212

John L. Fiedler, Jonathan Wight and Robert M. Schmidt

Obstacles on the path to a primary-care led National Health Service: complexities of outpatient care pp. 213-225

Maggie Somerset, Alex Faulkner, Alison Shaw, Liz Dunn and Deborah J. Sharp

Health promotion versus disease and care: failure to establish "blissful clarity" in British nurse education and practice pp. 227-239

P. Smith, A. Masterson and S. Lloyd Smith

Re-forming medical delivery systems: economic organization and dynamics of regional planning and managed competition pp. 241-251

Barbara Bridgman Perkins

No fathers' names: a risk factor for infant mortality in the State of Georgia, USA pp. 253-265

James A. Gaudino, Bill Jenkins and Roger W. Rochat

Age-related preferences and age weighting health benefits pp. 267-276

Aki Tsuchiya

1999, volume 48, articles 1

Relocating gender and morbidity: examining men's and women's health in contemporary Western societies. Introduction to Special Issue on Gender and Health pp. 1-5

Kate Hunt and Ellen Annandale

Gender differences in illhealth in Finland: patterns, magnitude and change pp. 7-19

Eero Lahelma, Pekka Martikainen, Ossi Rahkonen and Karri Silventoinen

Women's status and the health of women and men: a view from the States pp. 21-32

Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P. Kennedy, Vanita Gupta and Deborah Prothrow-Stith

Problematizing gender, work and health: the relationship between gender, occupational grade, working conditions and minor morbidity in full-time bank employees pp. 33-48

Carol Emslie, Kate Hunt and Sally Macintyre

Social inequalities in health: are there gender differences? pp. 49-60

Sharon Matthews, Orly Manor and Chris Power

Gender differences in health in later life: the new paradox? pp. 61-76

Sara Arber and Helen Cooper

Gender, social relations and mental health: prospective findings from an occupational cohort (Whitehall II study) pp. 77-87

R. Fuhrer, S. A. Stansfeld, J. Chemali and M. J. Shipley

Do women 'over-report' morbidity? Men's and women's responses to structured prompting on a standard question on long standing illness pp. 89-98

Sally Macintyre, Graeme Ford and Kate Hunt

Social position, social roles and women's health in England: changing relationships 1984-1993 pp. 99-115

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

Making use of official statistics in research on gender and health status: recent British data pp. 117-127

Karen Dunnell, Justine Fitzpatrick and Julia Bunting