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2000, volume 50, articles 12

Chronic illicit drug use, health services utilization and the cost of medical care pp. 1703-1713

Michael T. French, Kerry Anne McGeary, Dale D. Chitwood and Clyde B. McCoy

Scaling back goals and recalibration of the affect system are processes in normal adaptive self-regulation: understanding 'response shift' phenomena pp. 1715-1722

Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier

Participatory diagramming as a means to improve communication about sex in rural Zimbabwe: a pilot study pp. 1723-1741

Mike Kesby

Is travel distance a barrier to veterans' use of VA hospitals for medical surgical care? pp. 1743-1755

Cathleen Mooney, Jack Zwanziger, Ciaran S. Phibbs and Susan Schmitt

Precursors of lethal violence: a death row sample pp. 1757-1770

David Freedman and David Hemenway

Children and medicines: self-treatment of common illnesses among Luo schoolchildren in western Kenya pp. 1771-1783

P. W. Geissler, K. Nokes, R. J. Prince, R. Achieng' Odhiambo, J. Aagaard-Hansen and J. H. Ouma

Deviant insiders: medical acupuncturists in New Zealand pp. 1785-1795

Kevin Dew

The socio-economic determinants of maternal health care utilization in Turkey pp. 1797-1806

Yusuf Celik and David R. Hotchkiss

Women's health in relation with their family and work roles: France in the early 1990s pp. 1807-1825

Myriam Khlat, Catherine Sermet and Annick Le Pape

Parenthood, gender and sickness absence pp. 1827-1842

Arne Mastekaasa

Interpretative repertoires of medication among the oldest-old pp. 1843-1850

Kirsi Lumme-Sandt, Antti Hervonen and Marja Jylhä

Technology, selfhood and physical disability pp. 1851-1862

Deborah Lupton and Wendy Seymour

The power of place: space and time in women's and community health centres in South Australia pp. 1863-1875

Megan Warin, Frances Baum, Elizabeth Kalucy, Charlie Murray and Bronwyn Veale

2000, volume 50, articles 11

Editorial: HIV/AIDS social and behavioural research: past advances and thoughts about the future pp. 1519-1532

Jean-Paul Moatti and Yves Souteyrand

Research on HIV sexual risk: Social relations-based approach in a cross-cultural perspective pp. 1533-1546

Nathalie Bajos and Jacques Marquet

Revisiting the concept of 'vulnerability' pp. 1557-1570

François Delor and Michel Hubert

HIV-positive people, risk and sexual behaviour pp. 1571-1588

M. A. Schiltz and Th. G. M. Sandfort

Everyday life with AIDS/HIV: surveys in the social sciences pp. 1589-1598

Janine Pierret

The normalization of AIDS in Western European countries pp. 1607-1629

Rolf Rosenbrock, Francoise Dubois-Arber, Martin Moers, Patrice Pinell, Doris Schaeffer and Michel Setbon

Making sense of everyday pain pp. 1631-1641

Sarah Aldrich and Chris Eccleston

Attitudes towards organ donation in Hong Kong pp. 1643-1654

Iris Yeung, S. H. Kong and Janet Lee

Measurement of community beliefs about colorectal cancer pp. 1655-1663

Warren R. Stanton, Kevin P. Balanda, Amaya M. Gillespie, John B. Lowe and Peter D. Baade

Gender comparisons of income expectations in the USA at the beginning of medical school during the past 28 years pp. 1665-1672

Mohammadreza Hojat, Joseph S. Gonnella, James B. Erdmann, Susan L. Rattner, J. Jon Veloski, Karen Glaser and Gang Xu

Marginal impact of psychosocial factors on multimorbidity: results of an explorative nested case-control study pp. 1679-1693

Marjan van den Akker, Frank Buntinx, Job F. M. Metsemakers and J. André Knottnerus

2000, volume 50, articles 10

Fertility, mortality and gender bias among tribal population: an Indian perspective pp. 1333-1351

Arup Maharatna

Gender and the stigma of onchocercal skin disease in Africa pp. 1353-1368

Carol Vlassoff, Mitchell Weiss, E. B. L. Ovuga, Christine Eneanya, P. Titi Nwel, S. Sunday Babalola, A. K. Awedoba, Biri Theophilus, Patience Cofie and Pegah Shetabi

Sexually transmitted diseases in Morocco: gender influences on prevention and health care seeking behavior pp. 1369-1383

Lisa E. Manhart, Abdessamad Dialmy, Caroline A. Ryan and Jaouad Mahjour

Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health pp. 1385-1401

Will H. Courtenay

Workforce diversity: implications for the effectiveness of health care delivery teams pp. 1403-1414

Janice L. Dreachslin, Portia L. Hunt and Elaine Sprainer

Work stress among six professional groups: the Singapore experience pp. 1415-1432

Kwok Bun Chan, Gina Lai, Yiu Chung Ko and Kam Weng Boey

Professional commitment among US physician executives in managed care pp. 1433-1444

Timothy J. Hoff

Family self-medication and antibiotics abuse for children and juveniles in a Chinese city pp. 1445-1450

Peng Bi, Shilu Tong and Kevin A. Parton

Community-perceived benefits of ivermectin treatment in Northeastern Nigeria pp. 1451-1456

O. B. Akogun, M. K. Akogun and Z. Audu

Low-income mothers' views on breastfeeding pp. 1457-1473

Nurit Guttman and Deena R. Zimmerman

The experience of chronic illness and post-traumatic stress disorder: the consequences of cumulative adversity pp. 1475-1484

Angelo A. Alonzo

The many meanings of deinsuring a health service: the case of in vitro fertilization in Ontario pp. 1485-1500

M. Giacomini, Jeremiah Hurley and G. Stoddart

Addicts' narratives of recovery from drug use: constructing a non-addict identity pp. 1501-1510

James McIntosh and Neil McKeganey

2000, volume 50, articles 9

More than just "interesting!": Anthropology, health and human rights pp. 1171-1175

H. K. Heggenhougen

Physical access to primary health care in Andean Bolivia pp. 1177-1188

Baker Perry and Wil Gesler

The influence of maternal intergenerational education on health behaviors of women in peri-urban Bolivia pp. 1189-1196

Deborah E. Bender and Margaret F. McCann

Distance and health care utilization among the rural elderly pp. 1197-1208

Gregory Nemet and Adrian J. Bailey

Socioeconomic status and infant mortality in Australia: a national study of small urban areas, 1985-89 pp. 1209-1225

Gavin Turrell and Kerrie Mengersen

Women's perceptions of caesarean section: reflections from a Turkish teaching hospital pp. 1227-1233

Mehtap Tatar, Serdar Günalp, Sinem Somunoglu and Aygül Demirol

Career preferences and the work-family balance in medicine: gender differences among medical specialists pp. 1235-1246

Phil J. M. Heiligers and L. Hingstman

Interpretation of nonvocal behavior and the meaning of voicelessness in critical care pp. 1247-1255

Mary Beth Happ

Reinventing fatherhood in Japan and Canada pp. 1257-1272

Susanne Steinberg, Laurence Kruckman and Stephanie Steinberg

AIDS, risk and social governance pp. 1273-1284

Tim Brown

Life course accumulation of disadvantage: childhood health and hazard exposure during adulthood pp. 1285-1295

P. Holland, L. Berney, D. Blane, G. Davey Smith, D. J. Gunnell and S. M. Montgomery

Racial differences in Norplant use in the United States pp. 1297-1308

Jennifer Malat

Treatment seeking for malaria in Morong, Bataan, The Philippines pp. 1309-1316

Fe Espino and Lenore Manderson

Job strain, effort-reward imbalance and employee well-being: a large-scale cross-sectional study pp. 1317-1327

Jan de Jonge, Hans Bosma, Richard Peter and Johannes Siegrist

2000, volume 50, articles 7-8

Geographic research at the end of the century: papers from the Eighth International Symposium on Medical Geography pp. 911-913

Robert Earickson

Finke's 1792 map of human diseases: the first world disease map? pp. 915-921

Frank A. Barrett

Our sense of Snow: the myth of John Snow in medical geography pp. 923-935

Kari S. McLeod

Geography, ecology and emerging infectious diseases pp. 937-952

Jonathan D. Mayer

Ecological and cultural barriers to treatment of childhood diarrhea in riverine areas of Ondo State, Nigeria pp. 953-964

B. Folasade Iyun and E. Adewale Oke

Health and disease in southern Africa: a comparative and vulnerability perspective pp. 965-983

Ezekiel Kalipeni

Using survival analysis to study spatial point patterns in geographical epidemiology pp. 985-1000

Steven Reader

Approaches to sampling and case selection in qualitative research: examples in the geography of health pp. 1001-1014

Sarah Curtis, Wil Gesler, Glenn Smith and Sarah Washburn

Regional assessment of elderly disability in the U.S pp. 1015-1024

Ge Lin

Ageing in Portugal: regional iniquities in health and health care pp. 1025-1036

Paula Santana

Long-term care restructuring in rural Ontario: retrieving community service user and provider narratives pp. 1037-1045

Denise Cloutier-Fisher and Alun E. Joseph

Widening inequality in mortality between 160 regions of 15 European countries in the early 1990s pp. 1047-1058

Mary Shaw, Scott Orford, Nicola Brimblecombe and Daniel Dorling

Death and deprivation: an exploratory analysis of deaths in the Health and Lifestyle survey pp. 1059-1079

Kelvyn Jones, Myles I. Gould and Craig Duncan

Problems of providing health care in British island communities pp. 1081-1090

Myles I. Gould and Graham Moon

Etiology of limited transmission diseases among drug users: does recent migration magnify the risk of sharing injection equipment? pp. 1091-1097

David M. Paschane and Dennis G. Fisher

The geography of survival after surgery for colo-rectal cancer in southern England pp. 1099-1107

Yo-Eun Kim, Anthony C. Gatrell and Brian J. Francis

Predicting small-area health-related behaviour: a comparison of smoking and drinking indicators pp. 1109-1120

Liz Twigg, Graham Moon and Kelvyn Jones

Modelling exposure opportunities: estimating relative risk for motor neurone disease in Finland pp. 1121-1137

Clive E. Sabel, Anthony C. Gatrell, Markku Löytönen, Paula Maasilta and Matti Jokelainen

Environmental risk perception and well-being: effects of the landfill siting process in two southern Ontario communities pp. 1139-1154

Sarah Wakefield and Susan J. Elliott

A longitudinal study of the health impacts of a petroleum refinery pp. 1155-1166

Isaac N. Luginaah, S. Martin Taylor, Susan J. Elliott and John D. Eyles

2000, volume 50, articles 6

The illusion of paradox: commentary on Albrecht, G.L. and Devlieger, P.J. (1998). The disability paradox: high quality of life against all odds. Social Science & Medicine 48, 977-988 pp. 757-759

Tom Koch

Disability assumptions, concepts and theory: reply to Tom Koch pp. 761-762

Gary L. Albrecht and Patrick J. Devlieger

Trends in and determinants of mortality in the elderly population of Matlab, Bangladesh pp. 763-771

Golam Mostafa and Jeroen K. van Ginneken

Economic development and women's blood pressure: field evidence from rural Mashonaland, Zimbabwe pp. 773-795

John M. Hunter, Barbara T. Sparks, Jacob Mufunda, Cephas T. Musabayane, Harvey V. Sparks and Kassam Mahomed

Thinking differently about thinking positive: a discursive approach to cancer patients' talk pp. 797-811

Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger

The effect of patient race and socio-economic status on physicians' perceptions of patients pp. 813-828

Michelle van Ryn and Jane Burke

Doctor-patient communication about drugs: the evidence for shared decision making pp. 829-840

Fiona A. Stevenson, Christine A. Barry, Nicky Britten, Nick Barber and Colin P. Bradley

Family planning KAP survey in Gaza pp. 841-849

Serena Donati, Rawia Hamam and Emanuela Medda

A council of elders: creating a multi-voiced dialogue in a community of care pp. 851-860

Arlene M. Katz, Loring Conant, Thomas S. Inui, David Baron and David Bor

Migration and geographical inequalities in health in Britain pp. 861-878

Nic Brimblecombe, Danny Dorling and Mary Shaw

A village treatment center for malaria: community response in Sri Lanka pp. 879-889

Flemming Konradsen, Priyanie H. Amerasinghe, Devika Perera, Wim Van der Hoek and Felix P. Amerasinghe

Social factors influencing the acquisition of antibiotics without prescription in Kerala State, south India pp. 891-903

Rema Devi Saradamma, Nick Higginbotham and Mark Nichter

2000, volume 50, articles 5

Book reviews: expectations and parameters pp. 603-604

Gerard F. Pyle

Illness narratives: time, hope and HIV pp. 605-617

Douglas Ezzy

Social capital, SES and health: an individual-level analysis pp. 619-629

Gerry Veenstra

Well being, work environment and work accidents pp. 631-639

Alan Kirschenbaum, Ludmilla Oigenblick and Albert I. Goldberg

Social class differences in mortality using the new UK National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification pp. 641-649

Tarani Chandola

Menorrhagia in general practice -- disease or illness pp. 651-661

Norma O'Flynn and Nicky Britten

Income-related health inequality in Canada pp. 663-671

Karin H. Humphries and Eddy Van Doorslaer

A multilevel analysis of income inequality and cardiovascular disease risk factors pp. 673-687

Ana V. Diez-Roux, Bruce G. Link and Mary E. Northridge

Between fear and relief: how rural pregnant women experience foetal ultrasound in a Botswana district hospital pp. 689-701

Siegrid Tautz, Albrecht Jahn, Imelda Molokomme and Regina Görgen

Injections and the fear of death: an essay on the limits of biomedicine among the Dagomba of northern Ghana pp. 703-713

Bernhard Bierlich

Factor and subscale structure of a parental health locus of control instrument (Parental Health Beliefs Scales) for use in a mainland United States Puerto Rican community pp. 715-721

Lee M. Pachter, Joseph Sheehan and Michelle M. Cloutier

The sexual behavior of married Mexican immigrant men in North Carolina pp. 723-735

Claire I. Viadro and Jo Anne L. Earp

Highway cowboys, old hands, and Christian truckers: risk behavior for human immunodeficiency virus infection among long-haul truckers in Florida pp. 737-749

Dale Stratford, Tedd V. Ellerbrock, J. Keith Akins and Heather L. Hall

2000, volume 50, articles 4

The intersections of HIV and violence: directions for future research and interventions pp. 459-478

Suzanne Maman, Jacquelyn Campbell, Michael D. Sweat and Andrea C. Gielen

Selling sex in the time of AIDS: the psycho-social context of condom use by sex workers on a Southern African mine pp. 479-494

Catherine Campbell

The production of health and the valuation of medical inputs in wage-amenity models pp. 507-515

Edward J. Schumacher and John Whitehead

Over the limit: the association among health, race and debt pp. 517-529

Patricia Drentea and Paul J. Lavrakas

Gender, family structure and cardiovascular activity during the working day and evening pp. 531-539

Andrew Steptoe, Karen Lundwall and Mark Cropley

Cadaveric donotransplantation: nurses' attitudes, knowledge and behaviour pp. 541-552

Magi Sque, Sheila Payne and Ioannis Vlachonikolis

The Medical Interaction Process System (MIPS): an instrument for analysing interviews of oncologists and patients with cancer pp. 553-566

Sarah Ford, Angela Hall, Denise Ratcliffe and Lesley Fallowfield

Continuity and change in women's weight orientations and lifestyle practices through pregnancy and the postpartum period: the influence of life course trajectories and transitional events pp. 567-582

Carol M. Devine, Caron F. Bove and Christine M. Olson

Sense of coherence and health: evidence from two cross-lagged longitudinal samples pp. 583-597

Mika Kivimäki, Taru Feldt, Jussi Vahtera and Jari-Erik Nurmi

2000, volume 50, articles 3

Task and socioemotional behaviors of physicians: a test of reciprocity and social interaction theories in analogue physician-patient encounters pp. 309-315

Carlos A. Roberts and Mara S. Aruguete

The wineglass model: tracking the locational histories of health professionals pp. 317-329

Leonard D. Baer, Wilbert M. Gesler and Thomas R. Konrad

Perceptions of injury causes and solutions in a Johannesburg township: implications for prevention pp. 331-344

Alexander Butchart, Johan Kruger and Royal Lekoba

A description of child illness and treatment behavior in Guatemala pp. 345-364

Patrick Heuveline and Noreen Goldman

Gender, ethnicity and self-reported health: the case of African-Caribbean populations in London pp. 365-385

Sarah Curtis and Kim Lawson

Doing health, doing gender: teenagers, diabetes and asthma pp. 387-396

Clare Williams

Researching limiting long-term illness pp. 397-405

Kelvin Jordan, Bie Nio Ong and Peter Croft

The "supply hypothesis" and medical practice variation in primary care: testing economic and clinical models of inter-practitioner variation pp. 407-418

Peter Davis, Barry Gribben, Alastair Scott and Roy Lay-Yee

The influence of weather on human mortality in Hong Kong pp. 419-427

Yuk Yee Yan

"It's just part of being a woman": cervical screening, the body and femininity pp. 429-444

Judith Bush

2000, volume 50, articles 2

The role of the World Bank in international health: renewed commitment and partnership pp. 169-176

Joy A. de Beyer, Alexander S. Preker and Richard G. A. Feachem

Variations in geographical distribution of foreign and domestically trained physicians in the United States: 'safety nets' or 'surplus exacerbation'? pp. 185-202

Stephen S. Mick, Shoou-Yih D. Lee and Walter P. Wodchis

Factors influencing choice of delivery sites in Rakai district of Uganda pp. 203-213

B. Amooti-Kaguna and F. Nuwaha

Social networks, ideation, and contraceptive behavior in Bangladesh: a longitudinal analysis pp. 215-231

D. Lawrence Kincaid

'The last resort would be to go to the GP'. Understanding the perceptions and use of general practitioner services among people with HIV/AIDS pp. 233-245

Roland Petchey, Bill Farnsworth and Jacky Williams

Tuberculosis in Pakistan: socio-cultural constraints and opportunities in treatment pp. 247-254

Amir Khan, John Walley, James Newell and Naghma Imdad

Social policies and the pathways to inequalities in health: a comparative analysis of lone mothers in Britain and Sweden pp. 255-270

Margaret Whitehead, Bo Burström and Finn Diderichsen

Couples' patterns of adjustment to colon cancer pp. 271-284

Laurel L. Northouse, Darlene Mood, Thomas Templin, Suzanne Mellon and Tamara George

'In the safety of your own home': results from a national survey on gun use at home pp. 285-291

Deborah Azrael and David Hemenway

Three lay mental models of disease inheritance pp. 293-301

Bethan J. Henderson and Bryan T. Maguire

2000, volume 50, articles 1

Health services accessibility among Spanish elderly pp. 17-26

Gloria Fernández-Mayoralas, Vicente Rodríguez and Fermina Rojo

Locality and habitus: the origins of sickness absence practices pp. 27-39

Pekka Virtanen, Risto Nakari, Hanna Ahonen, Jussi Vahtera and Jaana Pentti

Social impacts of technological diffusion: prenatal diagnosis and induced abortion in Brazil pp. 41-51

Hillegonda Maria Dutilh Novaes

Rethinking patient satisfaction: patient experiences of an open access flexible sigmoidoscopy service pp. 53-62

Audrey Dougall, Andrew Russell, Greg Rubin and Jane Ling

Using discrete choice modelling in priority setting: an application to clinical service developments pp. 63-75

Shelley Farrar, Mandy Ryan, Donald Ross and Anne Ludbrook

Hospital credentialing and quality of care pp. 77-88

Frank Sloan, Christopher J Conover and Dawn Provenzale

"Jesus will fix it after awhile": meanings and health pp. 89-105

Mary Abrums

Wellness activities address inequities pp. 107-121

Roy Dobson and Rein Lepnurm

Traditional medicine, professional monopoly and structural interests: a Korean case pp. 123-135

Hyo-Je Cho

"Requested death": a new social movement pp. 137-154

Fran McInerney