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1997, volume 45, articles 12

Indicators of socio-economic position and their relation to mortality in Sweden pp. 1757-1766

Jan Sundquist and Sven-Erik Johansson

Factors associated with antibiotic prescribing in a managed care setting: An exploratory investigation pp. 1767-1779

Bruce L. Lambert, J. Warren Salmon, Joann Stubbings, Gina Gilomen-Study, Robert J. Valuck and Kim Kezlarian

Investigating stress effect patterns in hospital staff nurses: Results of a cluster analysis pp. 1781-1788

Joel J. Hillhouse and Christine M. Adler

Cultural eactors constraining the introduction of family planning among the Kassena-Nankana of Northern Ghana pp. 1789-1804

Philip B. Adongo, James F. Phillips, Beverly Kajihara, Clara Fayorsey, Cornelius Debpuur and Fred N. Binka

Does psychological distress contribute to racial and socioeconomic disparities in mortality? pp. 1805-1809

Kevin Fiscella and Peter Franks

Familial and socioeconomic influences on children's well-being: An examination of preschool children in Kenya pp. 1811-1828

Anastasia J. Gage

Patient satisfaction: A review of issues and concepts pp. 1829-1843

John Sitzia and Neil Wood

Professionalism, patient satisfaction and quality of health care: Experience during Zimbabwe's structural adjustment programme pp. 1845-1852

Mary Travis Bassett, Leon Bijlmakers and David M. Sanders

An ecological paradigm for a health behavior analysis of "Konzo", a paralytic disease of Zaire from toxic cassava pp. 1853-1862

Michael J. Boivin

"Survivors" and "victims": Long-term HIV positive individuals and the ethos of self-empowerment pp. 1863-1873

Crossley (neéDavies), Michele L.

Sterilization in Finland: From eugenics to contraception pp. 1875-1884

Elina Hemminki, Anja Rasimus and Erja Forssas

Women's health status and gender inequality in China pp. 1885-1898

Mei-Yu Yu and Rosemary Sarri

Letter to the editor pp. 1899-1899

James R Hebert

1997, volume 45, articles 11

Reproductive characteristics and post-abortion health consequences in women undergoing illegal and legal abortion in Maputo pp. 1607-1613

Fernanda Machungo, Giovanni Zanconato and Staffan Bergström

Health complaints and job stress in Norwegian physicians: The use of an overlapping questionnaire design pp. 1615-1629

Olaf G. Aasland, Miranda Olff, Erik Falkum, Tore Schweder and Holger Ursin

Essential obstetric care: Assessment and determinants of quality pp. 1631-1639

Olusoji Adeyi and Richard Morrow

The comparability and reliability of five health-state valuation methods pp. 1641-1652

Paul F. M. Krabbe, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot and Gouke J. Bonsel

Constant and decreasing timing aversion for saving lives pp. 1653-1659

John Cairns and Marjon van der Pol

The limits of suffering: Critical care nurses' views of hospital care at the end of life pp. 1661-1668

David A. Asch, Judy A. Shea, M. Kathryn Jedrziewski and Charles L. Bosk

Paradoxes of GP fundholding: Contracting for community health services in the British National Health Service pp. 1669-1678

Gareth Williams, Rob Flynn and Susan Pickard

Infertility and psychological distress: A critical review of the literature pp. 1679-1704

Arthur L. Greil

Motivation underlying career choice for internal medicine and surgery pp. 1705-1713

Geoffrey C. Williams, Ronald Saizow, Lisa Ross and Edward L. Deci

Wishes regarding the use of life-sustaining treatments among elderly persons in Israel: An explanatory model pp. 1715-1727

Sara Carmel and Elizabeth Mutran

"I just cope from day to day": Unpredictability and anxiety in the lives of women pp. 1729-1739

Vivienne Walters and Nickie Charles

Emergent perplexity: In search of post-normal questions for community and agroecosystem health pp. 1741-1749

David Waltner-Toews and Ellen Wall

1997, volume 45, articles 10

Undercover careseekers: Simulated clients in the study of health provider behavior in developing countries pp. 1465-1482

J. M. Madden, J. D. Quick, D. Ross-Degnan and K. K. Kafle

Images of health and health care options among low income women in Punjab, Pakistan pp. 1483-1491

Anna Winkvist and Humaira Zareen Akhtar

Developing community mental health services for children in South Africa pp. 1493-1501

A. L. Pillay and M. R. Lockhat

A study of the breast cancer dynamics in North Carolina pp. 1503-1517

George Christakos and Jaim-Jou Lai

Collecting retrospective data: Accuracy of recall after 50 years judged against historical records pp. 1519-1525

L. R. Berney and D. B. Blane

Ageing and the relationship between functional status and self-rated health in elderly men pp. 1527-1536

N. Hoeymans, E. J. M. Feskens, D. Kromhout and G. A. M. Van Den Bos

Unintended effects of a cost-containment policy: Results of a natural experiment in Germany pp. 1537-1539

Oliver Schöffski and J. Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg

Decision-making and hormone replacement therapy: A qualitative analysis pp. 1541-1548

Myra S. Hunter, Irene O'Dea and Nicky Britten

Health-related behaviours and psycho-social characteristics of 18 year-old Australians pp. 1549-1562

R. A. K. Milligan, V. Burke, L. J. Beilin, J. Richards, D. Dunbar, M. Spencer, E. Balde and M. P. Gracey

Suicide: Qualitative data from focus group interviews with youth pp. 1563-1570

Carolyn Coggan, Pam Patterson and Jacqui Fill

The rise and rise of proton pump inhibitor drugs: Patients' perspectives pp. 1571-1579

Elizabeth H. Boath and Alison Blenkinsopp

Sex differences in prescribed medications: Another case of discrimination in general practice pp. 1581-1587

Geoffrey P. Sayer and Helena Britt

Health and gender differences between middle and senior managers in the Canadian Public Service pp. 1589-1596

Monica Tomiak, Jane F. Gentleman and Maurice Jette

Letter to the editor pp. 1597-1599

Florie Barnhoorn and Sjaak Van Der Geest

1997, volume 45, articles 9

Thermometer use among Mexican immigrant mothers in California pp. 1315-1323

Norah Schwartz, Sylvia Guendelman and Paul English

The relationship between condition-specific morbidity, social support and material deprivation in pregnancy and early motherhood pp. 1325-1336

Deborah Baker, Hazel Taylor and The Alspac Survey Team

Making sense of randomization; responses of parents of critically ill babies to random allocation of treatment in a clinical trial pp. 1337-1355

Claire Snowdon, Jo Garcia and Diana Elbourne

Psychological and social predictors of motorcycle use by young adult males in New Zealand pp. 1357-1376

A. I. Reeder, D. J. Chalmers, S. W. Marshall and J. D. Langley

Opportunities and impediments for a consolidating and expanding profession: Genetic counseling in the United States pp. 1377-1386

Regina H. Kenen

Marital status effects on health: Are there differences between never married women and divorced and separated women? pp. 1387-1397

Ingrid Waldron, Christopher C. Weiss and Mary Elizabeth Hughes

Early probable Alzheimer's Disease and Awareness Context Theory pp. 1399-1409

Sally A. Hutchinson, Sue Leger-Krall and Holly Skodol Wilson

"We decide, you carry it out": A social network analysis of multidisciplinary long-term care teams pp. 1411-1421

Cheryl Cott

From careless consumptives to recalcitrant patients: The historical construction of noncompliance pp. 1423-1431

Barron H. Lerner

The effects of the cultural context of health care on treatment of and response to chronic pain and illness pp. 1433-1447

Maryann S. Bates, Lesley Rankin-Hill and Melba Sanchez-Ayendez

The significance of the mouth in old age pp. 1449-1458

Michael I. Macentee, Rachelle Hole and Elaine Stolar

1997, volume 45, articles 8

Violence and well-being pp. 1143-1145

Robert Desjarlais and Arthur Kleinman

Gender, domestic violence and sickness in Mexico pp. 1147-1160

Kaja Finkler

Domestic violence and mental health: Correlates and conundrums within and across cultures pp. 1161-1176

Ruth L. Fischbach and Barbara Herbert

Friends, neighbors, enemies, strangers: Aggressor and victim in civilian ethnic riots pp. 1177-1188

Stanley J. Tambiah

Adolescents and violence: "Adults are cruel, they just beat, beat, beat!" pp. 1189-1197

M. A. Ramphele

Physician judgments of chronic pain patients pp. 1199-1205

Raymond C. Tait and John T. Chibnall

Positive psychological states and coping with severe stress pp. 1207-1221

Susan Folkman

The treatment of insomnia through mass media, the results of a televised behavioural training programme pp. 1223-1229

A. Oosterhuis and E. C. Klip

Does intelligence account for the link between maternal literacy and child survival? pp. 1231-1239

P. Sandiford, J. Cassel, G. Sanchez and C. Coldham

Cultural orientation and use of cannabis and inhalants among secondary school children in Zimbabwe pp. 1241-1249

Arne H. Eide and S. W. Acuda

Social stress and trauma: Synthesis and spatial analysis pp. 1251-1264

Keith Harries

Russian medical care in the 1990s: A user's perspective pp. 1265-1276

Julie V. Brown and Nina L. Rusinova

Reactance theory and patient noncompliance pp. 1277-1288

Jeanne S. Fogarty

Valuing health status using VAS and TTO: What lies behind the numbers? pp. 1289-1297

Angela Robinson, Paul Dolan and Alan Williams

Dimensions of quality of life expressed by men treated for metastatic prostate cancer pp. 1299-1309

Jack A. Clark, Nelda Wray, Baruch Brody, Carol Ashton, Brian Giesler and Herbert Watkins

1997, volume 45, articles 7

The economic cost of homicide in New Zealand pp. 973-977

Janet Fanslow, Carolyn Coggan, Brent Miller and Robyn Norton

Why women say yes to prenatal diagnosis pp. 979-989

Nancy Press and C. H. Browner

Pneumonia perceptions and management: An ethnographic study in urban squatter settlements of Karachi, Pakistan pp. 991-1004

Rafat Hussain, Melvyn A. Lobo, Bazmi Inam, Amanullah Khan, Asma Fozia Qureshi and David Marsh

"Painting a Leonardo with finger paint": Medical practitioners communicating about death with Aboriginal people pp. 1005-1015

Tarun Weeramanthri

Caregiving: A common or uncommon experience? pp. 1017-1029

Anna L. Howe, Hilary Schofield and Helen Herrman

Infant mortality among various nationalities in the middle part of Guizhou, China pp. 1031-1040

Wenyong Huang, Huachun Yu, Fuying Wang and Guanchong Li

Modern medicine and the "uncertain body": From corporeality to hyperreality? pp. 1041-1049

Simon J. Williams

Quality of life and social production functions: A framework for understanding health effects pp. 1051-1063

Johan Ormel, Siegwart Lindenberg, Nardi Steverink and Michael Vonkorff

Traditional medicine in contemporary Ghana: A public policy analysis pp. 1065-1074

Komla Tsey

The "race" concept in smoking: A review of the research on African Americans pp. 1075-1087

Gary King

Urban small area variation in adolescents' health behaviour pp. 1089-1098

Sakari Karvonen and Arja H. Rimpelä

Perceived work conditions and work-related symptoms among employed Finns pp. 1099-1110

Kimmo Räsänen, Veijo Notkola and Kaj Husman

Chronic work stress, sickness absence, and hypertension in middle managers: General or specific sociological explanations? pp. 1111-1120

Richard Peter and Johannes Siegrist

The relationship of income inequality to mortality: Does the choice of indicator matter? pp. 1121-1127

Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy

Contingent legitimacy: U.K. alternative practitioners and inter-sectoral acceptance pp. 1129-1133

Philip Tovey

Role concepts and expectations of physicians and nurses in hospitals pp. 1135-1138

P. J. M. Verschuren and H. Masselink

1997, volume 45, articles 6

Male mortality differentials by socio-economic group in Ireland pp. 803-809

Eamon O'Shea

The black box in somatization: Unexplained physical symptoms, culture, and narratives of trauma pp. 811-825

Howard Waitzkin and Holly Magaña

Level of education, age of bearing children and mental health of women pp. 827-836

Sheila Williams, Rob McGee, Susan Olaman and Robert Knight

The legitimacy of grieving: The partner's experience at miscarriage pp. 837-845

John E. Puddifoot and Martin P. Johnson

Healthy or druggy? Self-image, ideal image and smoking behaviour among young people pp. 847-858

Amanda Amos, David Gray, Candace Currie and Rob Elton

The influence of socioeconomic status on health service utilisation by patients with AIDS in North Italy pp. 859-866

A. Tramarin, S. Campostrini, K. Tolley and F. De Lalla

Mutual influences of health and poverty evidence from German panel data pp. 867-877

Michael Thiede and Stefan Traub

Validating a satisfaction questionnaire using multiple approaches: A case study pp. 879-885

Jean-François Etter and Thomas V. Perneger

The ethics of euthanasia--Attitudes and practice among Norwegian physicians pp. 887-892

Reidun Førde, Olaf Gjerløw Aasland and Erik Falkum

People, places and coronary heart disease risk factors: A multilevel analysis of the Scottish heart health study archive pp. 893-902

Carole Hart, Russell Ecob and George Davey Smith

The socio-spatial stigmatization of homelessness and HIV/AIDS: Toward an explanation of the NIMBY syndrome pp. 903-914

Lois M. Takahashi

The physical costs of AIDS caregiving pp. 915-923

Allen J. Leblanc, Andrew S. London and Carol S. Aneshensel

Choosing a birth attendant: The influence of a woman's childbirth definition pp. 925-936

Sandra Howell-White

Unplanned pregnancies in Harare: What are the social and sexual determinants? pp. 937-942

M. T. Mbizvo, M. M. J. Bonduelle, S. Chadzuka, G. Lindmark and L. Nystrom

Age- and sex-differentials in morbidity at the start of an epidemiological transition: Returns from the 1880 U.S. Census pp. 943-956

Cheryl Elman and George Myers

AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviour among South African street youth: Reflections on power, sexuality and the autonomous self pp. 957-966

Jill Swart-Kruger and Linda M. Richter

How marginal is a "marginalised group"? pp. 967-970

Mary Crewe

1997, volume 45, articles 5

Space, sterility and surgery: Circuits of hygiene in the operating theatre pp. 649-657

Nick J. Fox

Household cost of seeking malaria care. A retrospective study of two districts in Ghana pp. 659-667

Kwadwo Asenso-okyere and Janet Dzator

A qualitative study of sexual harassment of female doctors by patients pp. 669-676

Margaret Schneider and Susan P. Phillips

Social network associations with contraceptive use among Cameroonian women in voluntary associations pp. 677-687

Thomas W. Valente, Susan C. Watkins, Miriam N. Jato, Ariane Van Der Straten and Louis-Philippe M. Tsitsol

The conceptual basis of ethnic group terminology and classifications pp. 689-698

Peter J. Aspinall

Patients' and professionals' understandings of the causes of chronic pain: Blame, responsibility and identity protection pp. 699-709

Chris Eccleston, Amanda C. De C. Williams and Wendy Stainton Rogers

Gender differences in medical treatment: The case of physician-prescribed activity restrictions pp. 711-722

Dana Gelb Safran, William H. Rogers, Alvin R. Tarlov, Colleen A. McHorney and John E. Ware

Salary inequality and primary care integration in South Africa pp. 723-729

Max O. Bachmann and Bupendra Makan

Quality of sleep during economic recession in Finland: A longitudinal cohort study pp. 731-738

Markku T. Hyyppä, Erkki Kronholm and Erkki Alanen

Explaining disablement in modern times: Hand-injured workers' accounts of their injuries in Hong Kong pp. 739-750

Y. H. Cheng

Climacteric hormone therapy in medical and lay texts in Finland from 1955 to 1992 pp. 751-760

Päivi Topo

Comparing measures of health inequality pp. 761-771

Orly Manor, Sharon Matthews and Chris Power

Social support as conversation: Analysing breast cancer patients' interactions with their partners pp. 773-782

Nancy Pistrang, Chris Barker and Christine Rutter

Psychosocial study of epilepsy in Africa pp. 783-795

Louise Jilek-Aall, Martica Jilek, John Kaaya, Lilian Mkombachepa and Kalister Hillary

Letter to the editor pp. 797-797

Rudi Pittroff

Response to letter to the editor by Dr Rudi Pittroff pp. 799-799

Jane S. Norbeck and Jeanne F. Dejoseph

1997, volume 45, articles 4

Introduction and overview pp. 505-510

Frank A. Sloan and Henry G. Grabowski

Managed care pharmacy, socioeconomic assessments and drug adoption decisions pp. 511-521

Alan Lyles, Bryan R. Luce and Anne M. Rentz

Hospital pharmacy decisions, cost containment, and the use of cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 523-533

Frank A. Sloan, Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein and Alicia Wilson

Pharmacy benefit management, cost-effectiveness analysis and drug formulary decisions pp. 535-544

Henry Grabowski and C. Daniel Mullins

The Oregon experiment: The role of cost-benefit analysis in the allocation of Medicaid funds pp. 545-554

James F. Blumstein

Making economic evaluations respectable pp. 555-562

Uwe E. Reinhardt

Australian economic evaluation and government decisions on pharmaceuticals, compared to assessment of other health technologies pp. 563-581

David Hailey

Economic evaluation under managed competition: Evidence from the U.K pp. 583-595

Michael Drummond, Jonathan Cooke and Tom Walley

Economic evaluation of medical technologies in Sweden pp. 597-604

Bengt Jönsson

Economic evaluation in support of national health policy: The case of the Netherlands pp. 605-620

Einte Elsinga and Frans F. H. Rutten

Economic evaluation of medical technologies: From theory to practice--The German perspective pp. 621-633

J. -Matthias Graf Von Der Schulenburg

Pharmaceutical economy and the economic assessment of drugs in France pp. 635-643

Claude Le Pen

Conclusions and implications pp. 645-647

Frank A. Sloan and Henry G. Grabowski

1997, volume 45, articles 3

Staying single in the 1990s: Single-handed practitioners in the new National Health Service pp. 341-349

Neil Lunt, Karl Atkin and Michael Hirst

Health sector reform: Lessons from China pp. 351-360

Gerald Bloom and Gu Xingyuan

From lineage to conjugality: The social context of fertility decisions among the Pare of Northern Tanzania pp. 361-372

Marida Hollos and Ulla Larsen

Consumerism, reflexivity and the medical encounter pp. 373-381

Deborah Lupton

Age-specific education and income gradients in morbidity and mortality in a Canadian province pp. 383-397

Cameron A. Mustard, Shelley Derksen, Jean-marie Berthelot, Michael Wolfson and Leslie L. Roos

Socioeconomic inequality and psychopathology: Are socioeconomic status and social class interchangeable? pp. 399-410

Tamar Wohlfarth

Prediction of psychological adjustment to multiple sclerosis pp. 411-418

Alison M. Barnwell and David J. Kavanagh

Anxiety and patient participation in clinical decision-making: The case of patients with ureteral calculi pp. 419-427

Ilana Margalith and Amos Shapiro

Back pain claim rates and the business cycle pp. 429-439

Ann-Sylvia Brooker, John W. Frank and Valerie S. Tarasuk

The modern mental health system in Nepal: Organizational persistence in the absence of legitimating myths pp. 441-447

Mark Tausig and Sree Subedi

An unruly mélange? Coordinating external resources to the health sector: A review pp. 449-463

Kent Buse and Gill Walt

Disadvantage and male cancer incidence and mortality in New South Wales 1985-1993 pp. 465-476

I. H. Burnley

Awareness of dying: Prevalence, causes and consequences pp. 477-484

Clive Seale, Julia Addington-Hall and Mark McCarthy

Ethnicity, equity and the use of health services in the British NHS pp. 485-496

Chris Smaje and Julian Le Grand

Problem-based learning in medicine: New curriculum, old stereotypes pp. 497-499

Susan P. Phillips

1997, volume 45, articles 2

Is nondashmetropolitan residence a risk factor for poor birth outcome in the U.S.? pp. 171-188

Eric H. Larson, L. Gary Hart and Roger A. Rosenblatt

Medication, chronic illness and identity: The perspective of people with asthma pp. 189-201

Stephanie Adams, Roisin Pill and Alan Jones

Health care and consumer choice: Medical and alternative therapies pp. 203-212

Merrijoy Kelner and Beverly Wellman

Socioeconomic inequity in health care: A study of services utilization in Curaçao pp. 213-220

Jantina F. Alberts, Robbert Sanderman, J. Marietta Eimers and Wim J. A. Van Den Heuvel

Quality of life: A dynamic construct pp. 221-230

P. J. Allison, D. Locker and J. S. Feine

Sex differences in physical symptoms: The contribution of symptom perception theory pp. 231-246

Cécile M. T. Gijsbers van Wijk and Annemarie M. Kolk

Population growth, poverty and health pp. 247-259

Joachim S. Kibirige

Appropriateness in health care: Application to prescribing pp. 261-271

Stephen A. Buetow, Bonnie Sibbald, Judith A. Cantrill and Shirley Halliwell

Migrancy, masculine identities and AIDS: The psychosocial context of HIV transmission on the South African gold mines pp. 273-281

Catherine Campbell

Cleaning the womb: Constructions of cervical screening and womb cancer among rural Black women in South Africa pp. 283-294

Katharine Wood, Rachel Jewkes and Naeemah Abrahams

Head injury rehabilitation in the U.K.: An economic perspective pp. 295-303

K. McGregor and B. Pentland

Female life expectancy, gender stratification, health status, and level of economic development: A cross-national study of less developed countries pp. 305-317

John B. Williamson and Ulrike Boehmer

Communicating with the people about HIV infection risk as a basis for planning interventions: Lessons from the Kagera region of Tanzania pp. 319-329

J. Killewo, A. Sandström, L. Dahlgren and S. Wall

The effect of spatial definition on the allocation of clients to screening clinics pp. 331-340

Jilda Hyndman, C. D'Arcy, J. Holman and K. Jamrozik

1997, volume 45, articles 1

Conventions, ethics and laws in journal publishing pp. 1-2

Sally Macintyre

Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain: An ethnic and religious minority 150 years on pp. 3-14

Joanne Abbotts, Rory Williams, Graeme Ford, Kate Hunt and Patrick West

HIV-infected women: Barriers to AZT use pp. 15-22

Karolynn Siegel and Eileen Gorey

Negotiating spaces in home environments: Older women living with arthritis pp. 23-33

Pamela Moss

Young doctors' health--I. How do working conditions affect attitudes, health and performance? pp. 35-40

P. J. Baldwin, M. Dodd and R. W. Wrate

Young doctors' health--II. Health and health behaviour pp. 41-44

P. J. Baldwin, M. Dodd and R. M. Wrate

The status of genetic material and genetic information in The Netherlands pp. 45-49

Joke I. de Witte and Jos V. M. Welie

Ownership of genetic material and information pp. 51-60

Joke I. de Witte and Henk Ten Have

World War I origins of the syphilis epidemic among 20th century black Americans: A biohistorical analysis pp. 61-69

Toni P. Miles and David McBride

Bore holes and the vanishing of guinea worm disease in Ghana's Upper Region pp. 71-89

John M. Hunter

Lay injection practices among migrant farmworkers in the age of AIDS: Evolution of a biomedical folk practice pp. 91-98

Kristine L. S. P. McVea

Life stories and shared experience pp. 99-111

Vibeke Steffen

Sociocultural factors and the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in rural Yoruba communities of Osun State, Nigeria pp. 113-125

Anita A. Davies-Adetugbo

Gender differences in correlates of disablement among the elderly in Egypt pp. 127-136

Vicki L. Lamb

Understanding donors' motivations: A study of unrelated bone marrow donors pp. 137-147

Galen E. Switzer, Mary Amanda Dew, Victoria A. Butterworth, Roberta G. Simmons and Mindy Schimmel

Women's health status and use of health services in a rapidly growing peri-urban area of South Africa pp. 149-157

M. Hoffman, W. M. Pick, D. Cooper and J. E. Myers

Dietary and lifestyle correlates of passive smoking in Hong Kong, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S.A pp. 159-169

Linda C. Koo, Geoffrey C. Kabat, Ragnar Rylander, Suketami Tominaga, Ikuko Kato and John H-C. Ho