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1997, volume 44, articles 12

Some conceptual considerations on the sense of coherence pp. 1771-1779

Siegfried Geyer

The poor pay more: Health-related inequality in Thailand pp. 1781-1790

Supasit Pannarunothai and Anne Mills

Health-seeking strategies and sexual health among female sex workers in urban India: Implications for research and service provision pp. 1791-1803

Catrin Evans and Helen Lambert

Costs and benefits of improving tuberculosis control: The case of Thailand pp. 1805-1816

Holger Sawert, Sukhontha Kongsin, Vallop Payanandan, Pasakorn Akarasewi, Paul P. Nunn and Mario C. Raviglione

Women's perceptions of the complications of pregnancy and childbirth in two Esan communities, Edo State, Nigeria pp. 1817-1824

Francisca Isibhakhome Asowa-Omorodion

Women physicians in Quebec pp. 1825-1832

Maria De Koninck, Pierre Bergeron and Renée Bourbonnais

Women's hidden transcripts about abortion in Brazil pp. 1833-1845

Marilyn K. Nations, Chizuru Misago, Walter Fonseca, Luciano L. Correia and Oona M. R. Campbell

Female labor force participation and suicide pp. 1847-1859

Jeffrey A. Burr, Patricia L. McCall and Eve Powell-Griner

Girls, pecking order and smoking pp. 1861-1869

Lynn Michell and Amanda Amos

Long-term benzodiazepine use: Factors of importance and the development of individual use patterns over time--A 13-year follow-up in a Swedish community pp. 1871-1880

Dag Isacson

Socioeconomic status and adolescent injuries pp. 1881-1891

J. M. Williams, C. E. Currie, P. Wright, R. A. Elton and T. F. Beattie

Dispersion index: Measuring trend assessment of geographical inequality in health--The example of under-five mortality in the Middle East/North African region, 1980-1994 pp. 1893-1902

Osman M. Galal and Azhar K. Qureshi

The Gambian National Impregnated Bednet Programme: Evaluation of the 1994 cost recovery trial pp. 1903-1909

Olaf Müller, Kabbir Cham, Shabbar Jaffar and Brian Greenwood

Willingness to pay for antihypertensive care: Evidence from a staff-model HMO pp. 1911-1917

Scott D. Ramsey, Sean D. Sullivan, Bruce M. Psaty and Donald L. Patrick

Are there social correlates to suicide? pp. 1919-1929

Ilkka Mäkinen

A call for consistency in definition of breastfeeding behaviors pp. 1931-1932

Miriam H. Labbok and C. Jared Coffin

1997, volume 44, articles 11

Patients' acceptance of waiting for cataract surgery: What makes a wait too long? pp. 1603-1610

Elaine Dunn, Charlyn Black, Jordi Alonso, Jens Christian Norregaard and Gerard F. Anderson

Meanings in policy: A textual analysis of Canada's "Achieving Health for All" document pp. 1611-1621

Adele Iannantuono and John Eyles

Health status and risk factors of seminomadic pastoralists in Mongolia: A geographical approach pp. 1623-1647

Peter M. Foggin, Otto Farkas, S. Shiirev-Adiya and B. Chinbat

Urban ecological structure and perceived child and adolescent psychological disorder pp. 1649-1659

James A. Leclair and Frank C. Innes

Community and self: Concepts for rural physician integration and retention pp. 1661-1674

Malcolm P. Cutchin

Intra-household allocation of food and health care: Current findings and understandings--Introduction pp. 1675-1684

Ellen Messer

Social class, gender and intrahousehold food allocations to children in South Asia pp. 1685-1695

Barbara D. Miller

Food allocation in rural Peruvian households: Concepts and behavior regarding children pp. 1697-1709

Margaret A. Graham

Health care allocation and selective neglect in rural Peru pp. 1711-1723

Anne C. Larme

Why are boys so small? Child growth, diet and gender near Ranomafana, Madagascar pp. 1725-1738

Sabrina H. B. Hardenbergh

Cultural factors, caloric intake and micronutrient sufficiency in rural Nepali households pp. 1739-1749

Joel Gittelsohn, Meera Thapa and Laura T. Landman

Examining the gender gap in nutrition: An example from rural Mexico pp. 1751-1759

Jeffrey R. Backstrand, Lindsay H. Allen, Gretel H. Pelto and Adolfo Chávez

Physician location survey: Self-reported and census-defined rural/urban locations pp. 1761-1766

Ge Lin, Thomas C. Rosenthal and Mary Horwitz

1997, volume 44, articles 10

Disclosure practices and cultural narratives: Understanding concealment and silence around cancer in Tuscany, Italy pp. 1433-1452

Deborah R. Gordon and Eugenio Paci

Designing educational messages to improve weaning food hygiene practices of families living in proverty pp. 1453-1464

Cristina M. G. Monte, Ann Ashworth, Marilyn K. Nations, A. A. Lima, A. Barreto and Sharon R. A. Huttly

A change of heart and a change of mind? Technology and the redefinition of death in 1968 pp. 1465-1482

Mita Giacomini

Age, adjustment, and costs: A study of chronic illnesses pp. 1483-1490

Susan Watt, Jacqueline Roberts, Gina Browne and Amiram Gafni

Surrogate assessment of coronary artery disease patients' functional capacity pp. 1491-1502

Dean D. Von Dras, Ilene C. Siegler, Redford B. Williams, Nancy Clapp-Channing, Thomas L. Haney and Daniel B. Mark

Beyond single indicators of social networks: A LISREL analysis of social ties among the elderly pp. 1503-1517

Thomas A. Glass, Carlos F. Mendes de Leon, Teresa E. Seeman and Lisa F. Berkman

Mapping visual analogue scale health state valuations onto standard gamble and time trade-off values pp. 1519-1530

Paul Dolan and Matthew Sutton

Patient preference for genders of health professionals pp. 1531-1540

Jan J. Kerssens, Jozien M. Bensing and Margriet G. Andela

Women's health care: For whom and why? pp. 1541-1551

A. van den Brink-Muinen

Patterns of sexual behaviour in a rural population in north-western Tanzania pp. 1553-1561

Katua Munguti, Heiner Grosskurth, James Newell, Kesheni Senkoro, Frank Mosha, James Todd, Philippe Mayaud, Awena Gavyole, Maria Quigley and Richard Hayes

Introduction to symposium: On-going studies in critical medical anthropology pp. 1563-1563

Hans A. Baer

The misconstruction of critical medical anthropology: A response to a cultural constructivist critique pp. 1565-1573

Hans A. Baer

Constructing a complex of contagion: The perceptions of AIDS among working prostitutes in Costa Rica pp. 1575-1583

Pamela J. Downe

Hard lives and evil winds: Illness aetiology and the search for healing amongst Ciskeian villagers pp. 1585-1600

Julia Segar

1997, volume 44, articles 9

Studying the quality of life after organ transplantation: Research problems and solutions pp. 1259-1269

Donald Joralemon and Kim Mika Fujinaga

Kidney failure and transplantation in China pp. 1271-1283

Charlotte Ikels

Changing patterns of pharmaceutical practice in the United States pp. 1285-1302

Nancy Vuckovic and Mark Nichter

Effectiveness of condoms in preventing HIV transmission pp. 1303-1312

Steven D. Pinkerton and Paul R. Abramson

After unification: Gender and subjective health status in East and West Germany pp. 1313-1323

Günther Lüschen, Olga Geling, Christian Janßen, Gerhard Kunz and Olaf Von Dem Knesebeck

Understanding the variability in the effectiveness of community heart health programs: A meta-analysis pp. 1325-1339

Deborah E. Sellers, Sybil L. Crawford, Karen Bullock and John B. Mckinlay

Nonconventional medicine in Israel: Consultation patterns of the Israeli population and attitudes of primary care physicians pp. 1341-1348

Judith H. Bernstein and Judith T. Shuval

The socio-economic distribution of heart diseases: Changing gradients in the Netherlands pp. 1349-1356

Ferdy W. J. Otten and Hans H. A. Bosma

The impact of anomia as a factor in a demand resource model of health pp. 1357-1365

W. Freidl

Policy, praxis, and medical anthropology: Introduction: Health policy and health praxis in the United States--A symposium pp. 1367-1369

Mary K. Anglin

Pregnancy and addiction: Translating research into practice pp. 1371-1380

Linda M. Whiteford and Judi Vitucci

Anthropological research and the politics of HIV prevention: Towards a critique of policy and priorities in the age of AIDS pp. 1381-1391

Alisse Waterston

Clearing the air: Challenges to introducing smoking restrictions in West Virginia pp. 1393-1401

Kenyon R. Stebbins

Working from the inside out: Implications of breast cancer activism for biomedical policies and practices pp. 1403-1415

Mary K. Anglin

Politicizing abortion: Personal morality and professional responsibility of residents training in the United States pp. 1417-1425

Ellen S. Lazarus

Firearm suicide among older women in the U.S pp. 1427-1430

Mark S. Kaplan, Margaret E. Adamek, Olga Geling and Alvin Calderon

1997, volume 44, articles 8

Valedictory editorial pp. v-vii

Peter J. M. McEwan

Problems and promises of the protocol pp. 1081-1088

Marc Berg

Hostility, cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption in the general population pp. 1089-1096

M. C. Whiteman, F. G. R. Fowkes, I. J. Deary and A. J. Lee

High functioning autistic children and the construction of "normal family life" pp. 1097-1106

David E. Gray

Prenatal biopsychosocial risk assessment and low birthweight pp. 1107-1114

Julian A. Herrera, Bertha Salmerón and Hugo Hurtado

The influence of culture and context on the pre- and post-migration experience of school-aged refugees from Central America and Southeast Asia in Canada pp. 1115-1127

Cecile Rousseau, Aline Drapeau and Ellen Corin

Coping with loss of ability: "Good grief" or episodic stress responses? pp. 1129-1139

Daphne Hewson

Local and institutional interpretations of IUDs in southwestern Nigeria pp. 1141-1148

Elisha P. Renne

Interpreting silence, documenting experience: An anthropological approach to the study of health service users' experience with HIV/AIDS care in Lothian, Scotland pp. 1149-1160

Guro Huby

Socio-economic differences in general practitioner and outpatient specialist care in the Netherlands: A matter of health insurance? pp. 1161-1168

Inge M. B. Bongers, Joost B. W. Van Der Meer, Johannes Van Den Bos and Johan P. Mackenbach

Wife-beating in rural South India: A qualitative and econometric analysis pp. 1169-1180

Vijayendra Rao

Male and female circumcision in Africa from a regional to a specific Nigerian examination pp. 1181-1193

John C. Caldwell, I. O. Orubuloye and Pat Caldwell

Perceived male sexual needs and male sexual behaviour in southwest Nigeria pp. 1195-1207

I. O. Orubuloye, John C. Caldwell and Pat Caldwell

Interdisciplinary health research--A symposium pp. 1209-1210

Lisbeth Sachs and Ingela Krantz

The difficulties of compiling a glossary of diseases associated with sexual intercourse in Chiawa, Rural Zambia pp. 1211-1220

Virginia Bond and Phillimon Ndubani

Practice-knowledge-attitudes-practice: An explorative study of information in primary care pp. 1221-1228

Vinod K. Diwan, Lisbeth Sachs and Rolf Wahlström

North-South health research collaboration: Challenges in institutional interaction pp. 1229-1238

Beth Maina-Ahlberg, Erik Nordberg and Göran Tomson

Partner notification in context: Swedish and Zambian experiences pp. 1239-1243

Elisabeth A. Faxelid and Kristina M. Ramstedt

Lessons for life--Past and present modes of sexuality education in Tanzanian society pp. 1245-1254

Minou Fuglesang

1997, volume 44, articles 7

Isihlambezo: Utilization patterns and potential health effects of pregnancy-related traditional herbal medicine pp. 911-924

C. A. Varga and D. J. H. Veale

Duration of general practice consultations: Association with patient occupational and educational status pp. 925-934

John H. Wiggers and Rob Sanson-Fisher

The hierarchical diffusion of AIDS and violent crime among U.S. metropolitan regions: Inner-city decay, stochastic resonance and reversal of the mortality transition pp. 935-947

Rodrick Wallace, Yi-Shan Huang, Peter Gould and Deborah Wallace

Spatial patterns of human water contact and Schistosoma mansoni transmission and infection in four rural areas in Machakos District, Kenya pp. 949-968

H. Kloos, A. J. C. Fulford, A. E. Butterworth, R. F. Sturrock, J. H. Ouma, H. C. Kariuki, F. W. Thiongo, P. R. Dalton and R. K. Klumpp

The accuracy of self-reported Pap smear utilisation pp. 969-976

Jennifer Ann Bowman, Rob Sanson-Fisher and Sally Redman

Clinical guidelines and the fate of medical autonomy in Ontario pp. 977-987

Susan G. Rappolt

What explains rural-urban differentials in child mortality in Brazil? pp. 989-1002

Narayan Sastry

The role of access in explaining state abortion rates pp. 1003-1016

Patricia Gober

Doctors' perceptions of the links between stress and lowered clinical care pp. 1017-1022

Jenny Firth-Cozens and Joanne Greenhalgh

Effects of socioeconomic disadvantage and women's status on women's health in Cameroon pp. 1023-1042

Barthélémy Kuate Defo

Cardiac disease construction on the borderland pp. 1043-1049

Jeanne Daly and Ian Mcdonald

Integration lay and nurse-midwifery into the U.S. and Canadian health care systems pp. 1051-1063

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Mary Fynes

Potential use of traditional fermented foods for weaning in Zimbabwe pp. 1065-1068

Clifford Simango

Integrating behavioral and social sciences research at the National Institutes of Health, U.S.A pp. 1069-1071

Norman B. Anderson

Sectoral investment in health: Prescription or principles? pp. 1073-1076

Andrew Cassels and Katja Janovsky

1997, volume 44, articles 6

Introduction pp. 721-722

Eero Lahelma and Ossi Rahkonen

The black report and beyond what are the issues? pp. 723-745

Sally Macintyre

Whose fault is it? People's own conceptions of the reasons for health inequalities pp. 747-756

Mildred Blaxter

Measuring the magnitude of socio-economic inequalities in health: An overview of available measures illustrated with two examples from Europe pp. 757-771

Johan P. Mackenbach and Anton E. Kunst

Comparing inequalities in women's and men's health: Britain in the 1990s pp. 773-787

Sara Arber

Changes in the social patterning of health? The case of Finland 1986-1994 pp. 789-799

Eero Lahelma, Ossi Rahkonen and Minna Huuhka

Health expectancy by level of education in Finland pp. 801-808

Tapani Valkonen, Ari-Pekka Sihvonen and Eero Lahelma

Why do poor people behave poorly? Variation in adult health behaviours and psychosocial characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse pp. 809-819

J. W. Lynch, G. A. Kaplan and J. T. Salonen

Childhood conditions, sense of coherence, social class and adult ill health: Exploring their theoretical and empirical relations pp. 821-831

Olle Lundberg

Health inequalities in the early years: Is there equalisation in youth? pp. 833-858

Patrick West

Health inequalities in the life course perspective pp. 859-869

M. E. J. Wadsworth

Health inequalities in later life in a social democratic welfare state pp. 871-881

Espen Dahl and Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund

The integration of two health systems: Social stratification, work and health in East and West Germany pp. 883-899

Günther Lüschen, Steffen Niemann and Peter Apelt

Social inequalities in health: Next questions and converging evidence pp. 901-910

Michael Marmot, Carol D. Ryff, Larry L. Bumpass, Martin Shipley and Nadine F. Marks

1997, volume 44, articles 5

Beliefs on coping with illness: A consumer's perspective pp. 553-559

Denise De Ridder, Marja Depla, Peter Severens and Marijke Malsch

Shattered assumptions: Time and the experience of long-term HIV positivity pp. 561-571

Michele L. Davies

Effects of a randomized health education intervention on aspects of peproductive health knowledge and reported behaviour among adolescents in Zimbabwe pp. 573-577

M. T. Mbizvo, J. Kasule, V. Gupta, S. Rusakaniko, S. N. Kinoti, W. Mpanju-Shumbushu, A. J. Sebina-Zziwa, R. Mwateba and J. Padayachy

Identity, ideology and inequality: Methodologies in medical anthropology, Guatemala 1950-1995 pp. 579-587

Bruce Barrett

"Ruling in" and "ruling out": Two approaches to the micro-rationing of health care pp. 589-599

David Hughes and Lesley Griffiths

Conceptualizing oral health and oral health-related quality of life pp. 601-608

Helen C. Gift, Kathryn A. Atchison and C. Mitchell Dayton

Refocusing the lens: Epidemiologic transition theory, mortality differentials, and the AIDS pandemic pp. 609-621

Daniel S. Gaylin and Jennifer Kates

Prior hospitalization and age as predictors of mental health resource utilization in Israel pp. 623-633

Gary Ginsberg, Yakov Lerner, Mordechai Mark and Miriam Popper

"Popular" health and the state: Dialectics of the peace process in El Salvador pp. 635-645

Sandy Smith-Nonini

The role of decision analysis in informed consent: Choosing between intuition and systematicity pp. 647-656

P. A. Ubel and George Loewenstein

Disease ecology and a reformist alternative: The case of infant mortality pp. 657-671

Wilbert M. Gesler, Sheryl Thorburn Bird and Stephen A. Oljeski

Information sharing in semen donation: The views of donors pp. 673-680

Ken R. Daniels, Gillian M. Lewis and Ruth Curson

Shared decision-making in the medical encounter: What does it mean? (or it takes at least two to tango) pp. 681-692

Cathy Charles, Amiram Gafni and Tim Whelan

Long-term care experience in Saudi Arabia pp. 693-697

Sulaiman Al-Shammari, Jamal S. Jarallah and Ferial Felimban

Does "process utility" exist? A case study of willingness to pay for laparoscopic cholecystectomy pp. 699-707

Cam Donaldson and Phil Shackley

Excess female mortality in rural Somalia--Is inequality in the household a risk factor? pp. 709-715

A. S. Aden, M. M. Omar, H. M. Omar, U. Högberg, L. Å. Persson and S. Wall

1997, volume 44, articles 4

The narrative of AIDS among the Tonga of Zambia pp. 431-439

Hanne Overgaard Mogensen

STDs in women attending family planning clinics: A case study in Addis Ababa pp. 441-454

M. Elizabeth Duncan, Gerard Tibaux, Helmut Kloos, Andrée Pelzer, Letebirhan Mehari, Peter L. Perine, John Peutherer, Hugh Young, Yasmin Jamil, Sohrab Darougar, Inga Lind, Karin Reimann, Peter Piot and Erwin Roggen

HIV prevention among Zambian adolescents: Developing a value utilization/norm change model pp. 455-468

Douglas A. Feldman, Peggy O'Hara, K. S. Baboo, N-i W. Chitalu and Ying Lu

HIV testing history among gay/bisexual men recruited in Barcelona: Evidence of high levels of risk behavior among self-reported HIV+ men pp. 469-477

Jen Wang, Anna Rodés, Carles Blanch and Jordi Casabona

The (dis)embodied self in anorexia nervosa pp. 479-489

Rebecca J. Lester

How lay is lay? Chinese students' perceptions of anorexia nervosa in Hong Kong pp. 491-502

Sing Lee

Reperes pour une modélisation systemique des programmes de sante: Approach for a systemic modelling of health programmes pp. 503-517

Denis Fontaine

The communication atmosphere between physician colleagues: Competitive perfectionism or supportive dialogue? A Norwegian study pp. 519-526

Victoria Akre, Erik Falkum, Bjørn O. Hoftvedt and Olaf G. Aasland

Does organization matter? A multilevel analysis of the demand-control model applied to human services pp. 527-534

Björn Söderfeldt, Marie Söderfeldt, Kelvyn Jones, Patricia O'Campo, Carles Muntaner, Carl-Göran Ohlson and Lars-Erik Warg

Efficacy of the Tibetan treatment for arthritis pp. 535-539

Mary Ryan

Physician vs patient initiation of psychotropic prescribing in primary care settings: A content analysis of audiotapes pp. 541-548

Betsy Sleath, Bonnie Svarstad and Debra Roter

1997, volume 44, articles 3

Factors affecting the most recent fertility rates in urban-rural Bangladesh pp. 279-289

H. T. Abdullah Khan and Robert Raeside

The children's sentinels: Mothers and their relationships with health professionals in the context of Japanese health care pp. 291-300

Shigeko Saiki-Craighill

The ellipsis of prognosis in modern medical thought pp. 301-315

Nicholas A. Christakis

Perceived social support, family environment and psychosocial recovery in bone marrow transplant long-term survivors pp. 317-325

A. Molassiotis, O. B. A. Van Den Akker and B. J. Boughton

Past or present? Childhood living conditions and current socioeconomic status as determinants of adult health pp. 327-336

Ossi Rahkonen, Eero Lahelma and Minna Huuhka

Comportements vis à vis des medicaments et representations de soi chez des personnes agées souffrant de maladies chroniques pp. 337-345

Joël Ankri, Béatrice Beaufils, Dominique Ledisert and Jean Claude Henrard

Social scientists and the new tuberculosis pp. 347-358

Paul Farmer

Gender, social pressure, and smoking cessations: The Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) at baseline pp. 359-370

Jacqueline M. Royce, Kitty Corbett, Glorian Sorensen and Judith Ockene

Using willingness to pay to value alternative models of antenatal care pp. 371-380

Mandy Ryan, Julie Ratcliffe and Janet Tucker

Female and male physicians' attitudes toward prenatal diagnosis: A Pan-Canadian survey pp. 381-392

Louise Bouchard and Marc Renaud

Direct and buffer effects of social support and personal coping resources in individuals with arthritis pp. 393-402

Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Theo Van Tilburg, Dorly J. H. Deeg, Didi M. W. Kriegsman, A. Joan P. Boeke and Jacques T. M. Van Eijk

Problems in accurate medical diagnosis of depression in female patients pp. 403-412

Bonnie J. Floyd

Population density and spatial differentials in child mortality in Zimbabwe pp. 413-421

Graham Root

Health behaviour and risk behaviour: Socioeconomic differences in an Austrian rural county pp. 423-426

Willibald-Julius Stronegger, Wolfgang Freidl and Éva Rásky

1997, volume 44, articles 2

Practitioner provision of preventive care in general practice consultations: Association with patient educational and occupational status pp. 137-146

John H. Wiggers and Rob Sanson-Fisher

Nurse staffing patterns and hospital efficiency in the United States pp. 147-155

Joan R. Bloom, Jeffrey A. Alexander and Beverly A. Nuchols

Health expenditures in Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 157-169

Ramesh Govindaraj, Gnanaraj Chellaraj and Christopher J. L. Murray

Traditions and reproductive technology in an urbanizing north Indian village pp. 171-180

Sunil K. Khanna

Suicide among foreign-born minorities and native Swedes: An epidemiological follow-up study of a defined population pp. 181-187

Leena Maria Johansson, Jan Sundquist, Sven-Erik Johansson, B. O. Bergman, Jan Qvist and Lil Träskman-Bendz

Long-term illness among indigenous and foreign-born people in Sweden pp. 189-198

Jan Sundquist and Sven-Erik Johansson

Contexts and patterns of men's commercial sexual partnerships in northeastern Thailand: Implications for AIDS prevention pp. 199-213

Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, David Elkins, Melissa Haswell-Elkins, Darunee Rujkarakorn, Thicumporn Kuyyakanond and Kathryn Stam

White, red and black: Colour classification and illness management in Northern Ghana pp. 215-230

Jon P. Kirby

The development of a training model to improve health professionals' skills, self-efficacy and outcome expectancies when communicating with cancer patients pp. 231-240

Michael Parle, Peter Maguire and Cathy Heaven

Marital status and quality of relationships: The impact on health perception pp. 241-249

Xinhua Steve Ren

Measuring the human cost of a weak economy: Does unemployment lead to alcohol abuse? pp. 251-260

Susan L. Ettner

Alcohol abuse and mortality: A 40-year prospective study of Norwegian conscripts pp. 261-267

Ingeborg Rossow and Arvid Amundsen

Socioeconomic factors and dental caries in developing countries: A cross-national study pp. 269-272

Hiroko Miura, Yoshima Araki, Katsuhiro Haraguchi, Yumiko Arai and Takusei Umenai

1997, volume 44, articles 1

The background of adolescent pregnancies in Nicaragua: A qualitative approach pp. 1-12

Staffan Berglund, Jerker Liljestrand, Flor De María Marín, Norma Salgado and Elmer Zelaya

The contribution of childhood environment to the explanation of socio-economic inequalities in health in adult life: A retrospective study pp. 13-24

H. Van De Mheen, K. Stronks, J. Van Den Bos and J. P. Mackenbach

Sexual risk-taking, socio-sexual biographies and sexual interaction: Elements of the French national survey on sexual behaviour pp. 25-40

Nathalie Bajos, Béatrice Ducot, Brenda Spencer and Alfred Spira

Alone in the crowd: How adults with learning difficulties cope with social networks problems pp. 41-53

Bob Heyman, John Swain, Maureen Gillman, Elizabeth C. Handyside and Wendy Newman

The nature of parasuicide in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania pp. 55-61

N. K. Ndosi and M. C. Waziri

Social inequality and injuries: Do morbidity patterns differ from mortality? pp. 63-70

Susan M. Kelly and Rebecca Miles-Doan

Deinstitutionalization, homelessness, and the myth of psychiatric abandonment: A structural anthropology perspective pp. 71-83

Douglas Mossman

Questioning patient satisfaction: An empirical investigation in two outpatient clinics pp. 85-92

Mark Avis, Meg Bond and Antony Arthur

Family life and smoking in adolescence pp. 93-101

Anthony Glendinning, Janet Shucksmith and Leo Hendry

Geographical patterns of guinea worm infestation in Ghana: An historical contribution pp. 103-122

John M. Hunter

Low mortality from ischaemic heart disease in the Sámi district of Finland pp. 123-131

Simo Näyhä