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1998, volume 47, articles 12

Review of nursing turnover research, 1977-1996 pp. 1905-1924

Teresa Wai Chi Tai, Sherry I. Bame and Chester D. Robinson

Outcomes and effectiveness in reproductive health pp. 1925-1936

Wendy J. Graham

Compulsory medical service in Ecuador: the physician's perspective pp. 1937-1946

Anthony Cavender and Manuel Albán

When acculturation hurts: the case of immunization pp. 1947-1956

Radmila Prislin, Lucina Suarez, Diane M. Simspon and James A. Dyer

Trends in health services utilization in eight provinces in China, 1989-1993 pp. 1957-1971

G. E. Henderson, John Akin, P. M. Hutchinson, S. G. Jin, J. M. Wang, J. Dietrich and L. M. Mao

The development of a dementia process within the family context: the case of Alice pp. 1973-1980

Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Fred Wester, Marcel Auf den Kamp and Frans Huygen

Sexual networks: the integration of social and genetic data pp. 1981-1992

S. Day, H. Ward, C. Ison, G. Bell and J. Weber

In the company of friends: Peer influence on Thai male extramarital sex pp. 1993-2011

Mark Vanlandingham, John Knodel, Chanpen Saengtienchai and Anthony Pramualratana

The meaning of playing-related musculoskeletal disorders to classical musicians pp. 2013-2023

Christine Zaza, Cathy Charles and Alicja Muszynski

Diagnosing moral disorder: the discovery and evolution of fetal alcohol syndrome pp. 2025-2042

Elizabeth M. Armstrong

Social class, assets, organizational control and the prevalence of common groups of psychiatric disorders pp. 2043-2053

C. Muntaner, W. W. Eaton, C. Diala, R. C. Kessler and P. D. Sorlie

Mortality variations in England and Wales between types of place: an analysis of the ONS longitudinal study pp. 2055-2066

Russell Ecob and Kelvyn Jones

Linking measures of health gain to explicit priority setting by an Area Health Service in Australia pp. 2067-2074

David A. Cromwell, Rosalie Viney, John Halsall and Don Hindle

Beliefs related to breast health practices: the perceptions of South Asian women living in Canada pp. 2075-2085

Joan L. Bottorff, Joy L. Johnson, Radhika Bhagat, Sukhdev Grewal, Lynda G. Balneaves, Heather Clarke and B. Ann Hilton

Health and access to care: Perspectives of homeless youth in Baltimore City, U.S.A pp. 2087-2099

Jo Ensign and Joel Gittelsohn

Careseeking for illness in young infants in an urban slum in India pp. 2101-2111

Isabelle de Zoysa, Nita Bhandari, Naseema Akhtari and Maharaj K. Bhan

Stories of meaning: lay perspectives on the origin and management of noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus among older women in the United States pp. 2113-2125

Nancy E. Schoenberg, Cheryl H. Amey and Raymond T. Coward

Radio and the commodification of natural medicine in Ecuador pp. 2127-2137

Ann Miles

1998, volume 47, articles 11

Screening and counselling for sickle cell disorders and thalassaemia: The experience of parents and health professionals pp. 1639-1651

Karl Atkin, Waqar I. U. Ahmad and Elizabeth N. Anionwu

Revealed identity: a study of the process of genetic counselling pp. 1653-1658

David Armstrong, Susan Michie and Theresa Marteau

Effect of social class on tumour size at diagnosis and surgical treatment in Danish women with breast cancer pp. 1659-1663

Marie Norredam, Mogens Groenvold, Jorgen Holm Petersen and Allan Krasnik

Educational differences in leisure-time physical inactivity: a descriptive and explanatory study pp. 1665-1676

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

Suicide in urban New South Wales, Australia 1985-1994: socio-economic and migrant interactions pp. 1677-1686

Richard Taylor, Stephen Morrell, Emma Slaytor and Paul Ford

Hearts and minds: suicide among United States combat troops in Vietnam, 1957-1973 pp. 1687-1694

David P. Adams, Cole Barton, G. Lynn Mitchell, Alan L. Moore and Victor Einagel

Increasing homicide rate in Finland accompanied by decreasing seasonality over the period 1957-95 pp. 1695-1698

Helinä Hakko, Pirkko Räsänen and Jari Tiihonen

Political repression and its psychological effects on Honduran children pp. 1699-1713

Débora S. Munczek and Steven Tuber

Using metaphor to read the organisation of the NHS pp. 1715-1727

Andrea Elkind

Achieving clinical behaviour change: a case of becoming indeterminate pp. 1729-1738

Martin Wood, Ewan Ferlie and Louise Fitzgerald

The evolution of professional identity: the case of osteopathic medicine pp. 1739-1748

Katherine Miller

Promoting health, promoting women: the construction of female and professional identities in the discourse of community health workers pp. 1749-1762

Jesus Ramirez-Valles

Psychosocial stressors and well-being in health care workers. The impact of an intervention program pp. 1763-1772

Inga-Lill Petterson and Bengt B. Arnetz

Gender differences in accessing cardiac surgery across England: a cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England pp. 1773-1780

Wei Dong, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Helen Colhoun and Nish Chaturvedi

Why do nurses abuse patients? Reflections from South African obstetric services pp. 1781-1795

Rachel Jewkes, Naeemah Abrahams and Zodumo Mvo

Describing the "white" ethnic group and its composition in medical research pp. 1797-1808

Peter J. Aspinall

Putting risk in its place: methodological considerations for investigating extreme event health risk pp. 1809-1824

Karen E. Smoyer

Informed consent for clinical trials: in search of the "best" method pp. 1825-1840

Sarah J. L. Edwards, Richard J. Lilford, Jim Thornton and Jenny Hewison

Infant mortality: A multi-level analysis of individual and community risk factors pp. 1841-1854

Donald W. Matteson, Jeffrey A. Burr and James R. Marshall

Age patterns of smoking initiation among Kuwait University male students pp. 1855-1858

T. N. Sugathan, Philip M. Moody, Mahmood A. Bustan and Najwa S. Elgerges

Medicinal plants in Mexico: healers' consensus and cultural importance pp. 1859-1871

Michael Heinrich, Anita Ankli, Barbara Frei, Claudia Weimann and Otto Sticher

Physician assessments of patient compliance with medical treatment pp. 1873-1876

Albert I. Goldberg, Gilat Cohen and Ami-Hai E. Rubin

Dental students' attitude to gender roles pp. 1877-1880

Howard M. Rosenberg, Andrew J. Cucchiara and Mark L. Helpin

1998, volume 47, articles 10

Explanations of social class differences in alcoholism among young men pp. 1399-1405

Tomas Hemmingsson, Ingvar Lundberg, Finn Diderichsen and Peter Allebeck

Health related behavioural change in context: young people in transition pp. 1407-1418

Stephen Pavis, Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Amanda Amos

Critical reflections on the politics of need: implications for public health pp. 1419-1430

Ann Robertson

Sexual behaviour and risk assessment of HIV seroconvertors among urban male factory workers in Zimbabwe pp. 1431-1443

Sunanda Ray, Ahmed Latif, Roderick Machekano and David Katzenstein

The learning curve: Health education in STI clinics in South Africa pp. 1445-1453

Priscilla Reddy, Anna Meyer-Weitz, Bart van den Borne, Gerjo Kok and Wies Weijts

Injections and self-help: risk and trust in Ugandan health care pp. 1455-1462

Harriet Birungi

Perception of the social support role of the extended family network by some Nigerians with schizophrenia and affective disorders pp. 1463-1472

Jude U. Ohaeri

Family responses to HIV/AIDS in Mexico pp. 1473-1484

Roberto Castro, Emanuel Orozco, Peter Aggleton, Enrique Eroza and Juan Jacobo Hernández

Liminality: a major category of the experience of cancer illness pp. 1485-1494

Miles Little, Christopher FC Jordens, Kim Paul, Kathleen Montgomery and Bertil Philipson

The holistic health movement in the San Francisco Bay Area: Some preliminary observations pp. 1495-1501

Hans A. Baer, John Hays, Nicole McClendon, Neil McGoldrick and Raffella Vespucci

Stress and low birth weight: A structural modeling approach using real life stressors pp. 1503-1512

T. Joseph Sheehan

Analyzing the decentralization of health systems in developing countries: decision space, innovation and performance pp. 1513-1527

Thomas Bossert

Towards equity in health in an unequal society pp. 1529-1538

Gerald Bloom and Diane McIntyre

From practice to research: The case for criticism in an age of evidence pp. 1539-1545

Michael Berkwits

Risk and the general practitioner budget holder pp. 1547-1554

Stephen Martin, Nigel Rice and Peter C. Smith

The ethics of resource allocation: the views of general practitioners in Lincolnshire, U.K pp. 1555-1564

Darrin Baines, Keith H. Tolley and David K. Whynes

A holistic approach to the economic evaluation of health programs using institutionalist methodology pp. 1565-1572

Stephen Jan

A systematic review of the literature on patient priorities for general practice care. Part 1: Description of the research domain pp. 1573-1588

Michel Wensing, Hans Peter Jung, Jan Mainz, Frede Olesen and Richard Grol

The effects of political and economic transitions on health and safety in Estonia: An Estonian-Swedish comparative study pp. 1589-1599

Taie Kaasik, Ragnar Andersson and Lars-Gunnar Hörte

A revised measure of symptom-specific health care use pp. 1601-1609

David W. Baker, Martin F. Shapiro, Claudia L. Schur and Howard Freeman

The correspondence of patient satisfaction and nurse burnout pp. 1611-1617

Michael P. Leiter, Phyllis Harvie and Cindy Frizzell

Ethics of resource allocation in developing countries: The case of Sri Lanka pp. 1619-1625

K. S. A. Jayasinghe, D. De Silva, N. Mendis and R. K. Lie

1998, volume 47, articles 9

Assignments of meaning in epidemiology pp. 1135-1145

Miles Little

"Death by proxy": Ethics and classification in epidemiology pp. 1147-1153

Aileen J. Plant and R. Louise Rushworth

Is imposing risk awareness cultural imperialism? pp. 1155-1159

Olav Helge FØrde

The ethics of attribution: The case of health care outcome indicators pp. 1161-1169

Elizabeth Russell

"Communitarian claims" as an ethical basis for allocating health care resources pp. 1171-1180

Gavin Mooney

Social capital and health: Implications for public health and epidemiology pp. 1181-1188

Jonathan Lomas

Ethics, epidemiology and the thrifty gene: biological determinism as a health hazard pp. 1189-1195

Robyn McDermott

A tale of two (low prevalence) cities: social movement organisations and the local policy response to HIV/AIDS pp. 1197-1208

Roland Petchey, Jacky Williams, Bill Farnsworth and Ken Starkey

Inequalities in the transition of ischaemic heart disease mortality in New South Wales, Australia, 1969-1994 pp. 1209-1222

I. H. Burnley

Towards quality of care in child health programmes: a challenge for the partnership in health and social sciences pp. 1223-1230

Shubhada Kanani

Childhood conditions that predict survival to advanced ages among African-Americans pp. 1231-1246

Samuel H. Preston, Mark E. Hill and Greg L. Drevenstedt

Higher earnings, bursting trains and exhausted bodies: the creation of travelling psychosis in post-reform China pp. 1247-1261

Sing Lee

Mexican use of lead in the treatment of empacho: Community, clinic, and longitudinal patterns pp. 1263-1266

Roberta D. Baer, Javier Garcia De Alba, Rosa Mares Leal, Ana Rosa Plascencia Campos and Neill Goslin

Doctor talk and diabetes: towards an analysis of the clinical construction of chronic illness pp. 1267-1276

Ronald Loewe, John Schwartzman, Joshua Freeman, Laurie Quinn and Steve Zuckerman

Social class and health: The puzzling counter-example of British South Asians pp. 1277-1288

Rory Williams, William Wright and Kate Hunt

Cancer truth disclosure by Lebanese doctors pp. 1289-1294

Ghassan N. Hamadeh and Salim M. Adib

Probabilities and health risks: a qualitative approach pp. 1295-1306

Bob Heyman, Mette Henriksen and Karen Maughan

The sick building syndrome: a diagnostic dilemma pp. 1307-1312

Åke Thörn

The meaning and management of neuroleptic medication: a study of patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia pp. 1313-1323

Anne Rogers, Jennifer C. Day, Brian Williams, Fiona Randall, Pamela Wood, David Healy and Richard P. Bentall

Accidents, assaults, and marital status pp. 1325-1329

Yin-Bun Cheung

Class differences in the food rules mothers impose on their children: a cross-national study pp. 1331-1339

Christianne L. H. Hupkens, Ronald A. Knibbe, Anneke H. van Otterloo and Maria J. Drop

From reviving the living to raising the dead; the making of cardiac resuscitation pp. 1341-1349

Jatinder Bains

The meaning of patient satisfaction: An explanation of high reported levels pp. 1351-1359

Brian Williams, Joanne Coyle and David Healy

Spousal caregivers' activity restriction and depression: A model for changes over time pp. 1361-1371

A. P. Nieboer, R. Schulz, K. A. Matthews, M. F. Scheier, J. Ormel and S. M. Lindenberg

The fake patient: A research experiment in a Ghanaian hospital pp. 1373-1381

Sjaak van der Geest and Samuel Sarkodie

Becoming a doctor -- Was it the wrong career choice? pp. 1383-1387

Harri Hyppölä, Esko Kumpusalo, Liisa Neittaanmäki, Kari Mattila, Irma Virjo, Santero Kujala, Riitta Luhtala, Hannu Halila and Mauri Isokoski

1998, volume 47, articles 8

Hungry earth and vengeful stars: soul loss and identity in the Peruvian Andes pp. 993-1004

Christine Greenway

Environment, vulnerability, and gender in Andean ethnomedicine pp. 1005-1015

Anne C. Larme

Assessing variation in health status in the Andes: a biocultural model pp. 1017-1030

Kathryn S. Oths

Changing biocultural perspectives on health in the Andes pp. 1031-1041

Thomas Leatherman

Medical, law, and business students' perceptions of the changing health care system pp. 1043-1049

Michael Wilkes, Ian Coulter and Eric Hurwitz

A novel method for studying population health impacts of spatiotemporal ozone distribution pp. 1051-1066

George Christakos and Vikram M. Vyas

A ship upon a stormy sea: The medicalization of pregnancy pp. 1067-1076

K. K. Barker

Which aspects of general practitioners' behaviour determine patients' evaluations of care? pp. 1077-1087

H. P. Jung, F. Van Horne, M. Wensing, H. Hearnshaw and R. Grol

Buying safety: The economics of reproductive risk and abortion in Egypt pp. 1089-1099

Sandra D. Lane, Jok Madut Jok and Mawaheb T. El-Mouelhy

Women's health care work in comparative perspective: Canada, Sweden and Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic as case examples pp. 1101-1111

Cecilia Benoit and Alena Heitlinger

The relationship of community quality to the health of women and men pp. 1113-1120

Carol Molinari, Melissa Ahern and Michael Hendryx

Social mobility and 21Â year mortality in a cohort of Scottish men pp. 1121-1130

Carole L. Hart, George Davey Smith and David Blane

1998, volume 47, articles 7

Stigma associated with onchocercal skin disease among those affected near the Ofiki and Oyan rivers in Western Nigeria pp. 841-852

William R. Brieger, Frederick O. Oshiname and Oladele O. Ososanya

A conceptual model of the food and nutrition system pp. 853-863

Jeffery Sobal, Laura Kettel Khan and Carole Bisogni

Reframing the meaning of disability to families: the embrace of paradox pp. 865-875

Elizabeth Larson

R. D. Laing and the British anti-psychiatry movement: a socio-historical analysis pp. 877-889

Nick Crossley

The use of equipoise in clinical trials pp. 891-898

J. A. Chard and R. J. Lilford

Uptake of contraception during postpartum amenorrhoea: Understandings and preferences of poor, urban women in Bangladesh pp. 899-909

Sarah Salway and Sufia Nurani

Risk, motives, and styles of utilization review: A cross-condition comparison pp. 911-926

Nancy Wolff and Mark Schlesinger

A survey of the Hong Kong health sector: Past, present and future pp. 927-939

Robin D. C. Gauld

"Why don't they come to Pike street and ask us"?: Black American women's health concerns pp. 941-947

Tovia G. Freedman

Family planning policies and programmes in eight low-income countries: A comparative policy analysis pp. 949-959

Kelley Lee, Louisiana Lush, Gill Walt and John Cleland

Resident characteristics and organizational factors influencing the quality of drug use in Swedish nursing homes pp. 961-971

Ingrid Schmidt, Cecilia B. Claesson, Barbro Westerholm and Bonnie L. Svarstad

Living in a housing co-operative for low income women: Issues of identity, environment and control pp. 973-981

Christine Wasylishyn and Joy L. Johnson

1998, volume 47, articles 6

Cognitive assessment and health education in children from two different cultures pp. 697-712

Malathi Sivaramakrishnan, José F. Arocha and Vimla L. Patel

The natural life of policy indices: geographical problem areas in the U.S. and U.K pp. 713-725

Donald H. Taylor

Determinants of dental care use in dentate adults: Six-monthly use during a 24-month period in the Florida dental care study pp. 727-737

Gregg H. Gilbert, R. Paul Duncan and W. Bruce Vogel

A conceptual model of independence and dependence for adults with chronic physical illness and disability pp. 739-753

Monique A. M. Gignac and Cheryl Cott

Asthma and domestic air quality pp. 755-764

A. P. Jones

Social network characteristics as mediators in the relationship between sexual abuse and HIV risk pp. 765-777

Maureen Miller and Denise Paone

Pharmacies, self-medication and pharmaceutical marketing in Bombay, India pp. 779-794

Vinay R. Kamat and Mark Nichter

Third World medicine in First World cities: capital accumulation, uneven development and public health pp. 795-808

David G. Whiteis

The occupational integration of former Soviet physicians in Israel pp. 809-819

Judith H. Bernstein and Judith T. Shuval

Personal constitution and health status among Chinese elderly in Taipei and Los Angeles pp. 821-830

Chih-yin Lew-Ting, Margo-Lea Hurwicz and Emil Berkanovic

Racial differences in functional status among elderly U.S. migrants from the south pp. 831-840

Raynard Kington, David Carlisle, Dan McCaffrey, Hector Myers and Walter Allen

1998, volume 47, articles 5

Negotiating reproduction and gender during the fertility decline in Turkey pp. 555-564

Zeynep Angin and Frederic C. Shorter

Place of death and access to home care services: are certain patient groups at a disadvantage? pp. 565-579

G. E. Grande, J. M. Addington-Hall and C. J. Todd

Well-being of haemophilia patients: a model for direct and indirect effects of medical parameters on the physical and psychosocial functioning pp. 581-593

A. H. M. Triemstra, H. M. Van der Ploeg, C. Smit, E. Briët, H. J. Adèr and F. R. Rosendaal

Patients' reactions to attempts to increase passive or active coping with surgery pp. 595-601

Denise Peerbhoy, George M. Hall, Christopher Parker, Alan Shenkin and Peter Salmon

Direct and indirect effects of chronic physical conditions on depression: A preliminary investigation pp. 603-611

Runar Vilhjalmsson

Disparity of medical care utilization among different health insurance schemes in Taiwan pp. 613-620

Shou-Hsia Cheng and Tung-Liang Chiang

Distinguishing between chronic and nonchronic fatigue, the role of gender and age pp. 621-634

Janneke Van Mens-Verhulst and Jozien Bensing

Social relations and mortality. An eleven year follow-up study of 70-year-old men and women in Denmark pp. 635-643

Kirsten Avlund, Mogens Trab Damsgaard and BjØrn E. Holstein

Recognizing the reversible nature of child-feeding decisions: Breastfeeding, weaning, and relactation patterns in a shanty town community of Lima, Peru pp. 645-656

Grace S. Marquis, Judith Díaz, Rosario Bartolini, Hilary Creed de Kanashiro and Kathleen M. Rasmussen

Smoking and smoking cessation among men whose partners are pregnant: a qualitative study pp. 657-664

Melanie Wakefield, Yolande Reid, Lyn Roberts, Robyn Mullins and Pamela Gillies

Factors related to physical activity: a study of adolescents pp. 665-675

Runar Vilhjalmsson and Thorolfur Thorlindsson

Service use by family caregivers in Japan pp. 677-691

Noriko Yamamoto and Margaret I. Wallhagen

1998, volume 47, articles 4

Development of mental health services in Tanzania: A reappraisal for the future pp. 419-428

G. P. Kilonzo and N. Simmons

Mortality decline in The Netherlands in the period 1850-1992: A turning point analysis pp. 429-443

Judith H. Wolleswinkel-van den Bosch, Frans W. A. van Poppel, Ewa Tabeau and Johan P. Mackenbach

General practice in urban and rural Europe: The range of curative services pp. 445-453

Wienke G. W. Boerma, Peter P. Groenewegen and Jouke Van der Zee

Female physicians in Mexico: Migration and mobility in the lifecourse pp. 455-468

Margaret E. Harrison

Residential segregation and mortality in New York City pp. 469-476

Jing Fang, Shantha Madhavan, William Bosworth and Michael H. Alderman

Child feeding and care behaviors are associated with xerophthalmia in rural Nepalese households pp. 477-486

Joel Gittelsohn, Anita V. Shankar, Keith P. West, Faisal Faruque, Tara Gnywali and Elizabeth K. Pradhan

General practitioners' attributions of fatigue pp. 487-496

Angelique E. De Rijk, Karlein M. G. Schreurs and Jozien M. Bensing

Practice nurses and the effects of the new general practitioner contract in the British NHS: The advent of a professional project? pp. 497-506

Jane Broadbent

Managerialism and active citizenship in Britain's reformed health service: power and community in an era of decentralisation pp. 507-517

Timothy Milewa, Justin Valentine and Michael Calnan

Doctors' attitudes to acupuncture -- a Norwegian study pp. 519-523

Arne Johan Norheim and Vinjar FØnnebØ

Social inequality in coronary heart disease: a comparison of occupational classifications pp. 525-533

Tarani Chandola

Paradigms of retirement: the importance of health and ageing in the whitehall ii study pp. 535-545

G. Mein, P. Higgs, J. Ferrie and S. A. Stansfeld

1998, volume 47, articles 3

A review of relationships between active living and determinants of health pp. 287-301

C. James Frankish, C. Dawne Milligan and Colleen Reid

Socioeconomic inequalities in health expectancy in Finland and Norway in the late 1980s pp. 303-315

Ari-Pekka Sihvonen, Anton E. Kunst, Eero Lahelma, Tapani Valkonen and Johan P. Mackenbach

The health and welfare effects of day-care: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials pp. 317-327

B. Zoritch, I. Roberts and A. Oakley

Patient participation in decision-making pp. 329-339

Edward Guadagnoli and Patricia Ward

Physicians' prescribing behaviour for diarrhoea in children: An ethnoepidemiological study in southern Brazil pp. 341-346

Jorge U. Béria, Magda F. Damiani, Iná S. dos Santos and Cintia Lombardi

The physician-patient encounter: The physician as a perfect agent for the patient versus the informed treatment decision-making model pp. 347-354

Amiram Gafni, Cathy Charles and Tim Whelan

Educational level and adult mortality in Russia: An analysis of routine data 1979 to 1994 pp. 357-369

Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, David A. Leon, Sergey Adamets, Eugeniy Andreev and Alexander Deev

Attitudes towards helminthic infection in the Jirel population of eastern Nepal pp. 371-379

S. Williams-Blangero, J. Subedi, R. P. Upadhayay, D. B. Manral, K. Khadka, S. Jirel, E. S. Robinson and J. Blangero

What does quality mean to lay people? Community perceptions of primary health care services in Guinea pp. 381-394

Slim Haddad, Pierre Fournier, Nimâ Machouf and Fassinet Yatara

"Alone, I wouldn't have known what to do":A qualitative study on social supportduring labor and delivery in Mexico pp. 395-403

Lourdes Campero, Cecilia García, Carmen Díaz, Olivia Ortiz, Sofía Reynoso and Ana Langer

Guinea worm disease - a chance for successful eradication in the Volta region, Ghana pp. 405-410

Stanley K. Diamenu and Albertha A. Nyaku

1998, volume 47, articles 2

Pharmacy's attempts to extend its roles: A case study in South Africa pp. 153-164

Leah Gilbert

Patterns of visits to hospital-based emergency rooms pp. 165-179

François Béland, Anne Lemay and Marcel Boucher

Women in general practice: Responding to the sexual division of labour? pp. 181-193

Fiona Brooks

The meanings of tuberculosis for Mexican migrant farmworkers in the United States pp. 195-202

Jane E. Poss

Cost-effectiveness of strategies to market and train primary health care physicians in brief intervention techniques for hazardous alcohol use pp. 203-211

Michelle K. Gomel, Sonia E. Wutzke, Deborah M. Hardcastle, Helen Lapsley and Robert B. Reznik

Valuing temporary and chronic health states associated with breast screening pp. 213-222

Katharine Johnston, Jackie Brown, Karen Gerard, Moira O'Hanlon and Alison Morton

Mandatory pooling as a supplement to risk-adjusted capitation payments in a competitive health insurance market pp. 223-232

Erik M. van Barneveld, Leida M. Lamers, René C. J. A. van Vliet and Wynand P. M. M. van de Ven

"He forced me to love him": putting violence on adolescent sexual health agendas pp. 233-242

Katharine Wood, Fidelia Maforah and Rachel Jewkes

Health appraisal models in multiple sclerosis pp. 243-253

Greg Roberts and Alexa K. Stuifbergen

Can prostitutes marry? Thai attitudes toward female sex workers pp. 255-267

Sara Peracca, John Knodel and Chanpen Saengtienchai

Socioeconomic factors, perceived control and self-reported health in Russia. A cross-sectional survey pp. 269-279

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

1998, volume 47, articles 1

Are geographic regions with high income inequality associated with risk of abdominal weight gain? pp. 1-6

Henry S. Kahn, Lilith M. Tatham, Elsie R. Pamuk and Clark W. Heath

Social capital, income inequality, and firearm violent crime pp. 7-17

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

Intra-urban differentials in death rates from homicide in the city of São Paulo, Brazil,1988-1994 pp. 19-23

Rita Barradas Barata, Manoel Carlos Sampaio de Almeida Ribeiro, Marilda Braga Lauretti da Silva Guedes and José Cássio de Moraes

Occupation and unemployment rates as predictors of long term sickness absence in two Swedish counties pp. 25-31

Anders Knutsson and Hans Goine

Socioeconomic and environmental covariates of premature mortality in Ontario pp. 33-49

Michael Jerrett, John Eyles and Donald Cole

Social class and substance use disorders: The value of social class as distinct from socioeconomic status pp. 51-58

Tamar Wohlfarth and Wim van den Brink

Social disadvantage in the international classification of impairments, disabilities, and handicap pp. 59-66

F. Chapireau and A. Colvez

Socio-economic differences in health risk behavior in adolescence: Do they exist? pp. 67-74

Jolanda Tuinstra, Johan W. Groothoff, Wim J. A. van den Heuvel and Doeke Post

Hours to hell and back: A social epidemiology of railway injury in a South African city, 1890-1995 pp. 75-83

Richard Matzopoulos and Leonard B. Lerer

The doctor-patient relationship and the management of asthma pp. 85-91

Per LagerlØv, Anne Leseth and Ingrid Matheson

Cognitive representations of illness and functional and affective adjustment following surgery for osteoarthritis pp. 93-102

Sheina Orbell, Marie Johnston, David Rowley, Arthur Espley and Peter Davey

Lifestyle discussion in the provision of health care. An empirical study of patient-physician interaction pp. 103-112

Marita Johanson, Ullabeth Sätterlund Larsson, Roger Säljö and Kurt Svärdsudd

Age rationing for renal transplantation? The role of age in decisions regarding scarce life extending medical resources pp. 113-120

I. Varekamp, L. J. Krol and J. A. C. Danse

"Race", ethnicity and haemoglobin disorders pp. 121-131

Simon M. Dyson

Tet offensive: winning hearts and minds for prevention: Discourse and ideology in Vietnam's "Health" Newspaper pp. 133-145

David Finer, Torsten Thurén and Göran Tomson