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1995, volume 41, articles 12

Social differentials in chronic disease: What can sociological knowledge offer to explain and possibly reduce them? pp. 1603-1605

Johannes Siegrist

Medical humanitarianism and human rights: Reflections on Doctors Without Borders and Doctors of the World pp. 1607-1616

Renée C. Fox

Professionals, intellectuals, visible practitioners? The case of 'medical humanitarianism' pp. 1617-1619

Claudine Herzlich

Reaction paper: Medical humanitarianism and human rights; reflections on Doctors Without Borders and Doctors of the World pp. 1621-1622

Hans S. Falck

On providing a truly international perspective pp. 1623-1624

David Wyatt

Rejoinder pp. 1625-1626

Renée C. Fox

The implementation of health promotion: A new structural perspective pp. 1627-1637

Alfred Rütten

Correlates of health care satisfaction in inner-city patients with hypertension and chronic renal insufficiency pp. 1639-1645

Lisa E. Harris, Friedrich C. Luft, David W. Rudy and William M. Tierney

Parental perceptions and attitudes about informed consent in clinical research involving children pp. 1647-1651

S. C. Harth and Y. H. Thong

Introduction pp. 1653-1654

Susan Rifkin

Research and the health services manager in the developing world pp. 1655-1665

Carol Barker

What is participatory research? pp. 1667-1676

Andrea Cornwall and Rachel Jewkes

Ethnographic studies of ARI in Bolivia and their use by the national ARI programme pp. 1677-1683

Patricia Hudelson, Tomas Huanca, Dolores Charaly and Virginia Cirpa

Perception and social consequences of tuberculosis: A focus group study of tuberculosis patients in Sialkot, Pakistan pp. 1685-1692

R. Liefooghe, N. Michiels, S. Habib, M. B. Moran and A. De Muynck

Child sexual abuse in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe pp. 1693-1704

Karla Meursing, Theo Vos, Odette Coutinho, Michael Moyo, Sipho Mpofu, Olola Oneko, Verity Mundy, Simukai Dube, Thembeni Mahlangu and Flora Sibindi

Socio-cultural and behavioural aspects of mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis in Thailand: A qualitative analysis pp. 1705-1713

Oratai Rauyajin, Benjawan Kamthornwachara and Paul Yablo

Learning to listen: Formative research in the development of AIDS education for secondary school students pp. 1715-1724

Catherine Mathews, Katherine Everett, Julia Binedell and Malcolm Steinberg

How do health service managers respond to qualitative research? pp. 1725-1729

Hester Van der Walt and Catherine Mathews

1995, volume 41, articles 11

Welcome? To the brave new world of evidence based medicine pp. 1467-1468

Roy Carr-Hill

The health crisis in the former Soviet Union: A report from the 'post-war' zone pp. 1469-1478

Mark G. Field

Environmental effects on human reproduction: The basis for new efforts in Eastern Europe pp. 1479-1486

Howard E. Kulin and Niels E. Skakkebaek

Culture in treatment, culture as treatment. A critical appraisal of developments in addictions programs for indigenous North Americans and Australians pp. 1487-1498

Maggie Brady

Locus of control and socioeconomic status: Does internal locus of control reflect real resources and opportunities or personal coping abilities? pp. 1499-1505

Ruth Landau

Separate black and white infant mortality models: Differences in the importance of structural variables pp. 1507-1512

Sheryl Thorburn Bird

Psychological factors in the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular morbidity pp. 1513-1516

Ron Roberts, Eric Brunner and Michael Marmot

Public opinion regarding end-of-life decisions: Influence of prognosis, practice and process pp. 1517-1521

Peter A. Singer, Sujit Choudhry, Jane Armstrong, Eric M. Meslin and Frederick H. Lowy

Anthropology, HIV and contingent identities pp. 1523-1533

Philip N. Gatter

Health care workers and HIV/AIDS: A critical review of the literature pp. 1535-1567

Janet M. Horsman and Paschal Sheeran

Eye care knowledge and practices among Malawian traditional healers and the development of collaborative blindness prevention programmes pp. 1569-1575

Paul Courtright

Perceptions of risk during pregnancy amongst urban women in Northeast Brazil pp. 1577-1586

Sarah J. Atkinson and Monica Façanha Farias

Balancing hot and cold--Balancing power and weakness: Social and cultural aspects of Malay jamu in Singapore pp. 1587-1595

Christine Tuschinsky

1995, volume 41, articles 10

Introduction pp. 1337-1338

Ann Bowling and John Brazier

Developing outcome measures for ambulatory care--An application to asthma and diabetes pp. 1339-1348

E. Mccoll, I. N. Steen, K. A. Meadows, A. Hutchinson, M. P. Eccles, J. Hewison, P. Fowler and S. M. Blades

The Swedish SF-36 Health Survey--I. Evaluation of data quality, scaling assumptions, reliability and construct validity across general populations in Sweden pp. 1349-1358

Marianne Sullivan, Jan Karlsson and John E. Ware

German translation and psychometric testing of the SF-36 Health Survey: Preliminary results from the IQOLA project pp. 1359-1366

Monika Bullinger

Quality of life in chronic fatigue syndrome pp. 1367-1372

Robert Schweitzer, Brian Kelly, Amanda Foran, Deborah Terry and John Whiting

Environmental and health-related quality of life: Conceptual and methodological similarities pp. 1373-1382

Robert J. Rogerson

Clinical and public health perspectives and applications of health-related quality of life measurement pp. 1383-1394

Shah Ebrahim

Evaluating the efficacy of medical treatment: Possibilities and limitations pp. 1395-1401

Crispin Jenkinson

Health-related quality of life between naturalism and hermeneutics pp. 1411-1415

Raben Rosenberg

A QALY-based societal health statistic for Canada, 1985 pp. 1417-1427

Ann M. Holmes

Maximizing health benefits vs egalitarianism: An Australian survey of health issues pp. 1429-1437

Erik Nord, Jeff Richardson, Andrew Street, Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer

Elderly people's definitions of quality of life pp. 1439-1446

Morag Farquhar

What things are important in people's lives? A survey of the public's judgements to inform scales of health related quality of life pp. 1447-1462

Ann Bowling

Quality of life assessment in pediatric oncology: A retrospective review of phase III reports pp. 1463-1465

Andrew S. Bradlyn, Carole V. Harris and Leslie E. Spieth

1995, volume 41, articles 9

A better way of approaching adolescent pregnancy pp. 1203-1205

M. P. Battin

Sociological dimensions of illness behavior pp. 1207-1216

David Mechanic

The tooth as a marker of developing world quality of life: A field study in Guatemala pp. 1217-1240

John M. Hunter and Sonia I. Arbona

Health promotion in primary care: Physician-patient communication and decision making about prescription medications pp. 1241-1254

Gregory Makoul, Paul Arntson and Theo Schofield

Confiding in crisis: Gender differences in pattern of confiding among cancer patients pp. 1255-1260

Judy Harrison, Peter Maguire and Carolyn Pitceathly

The cultural production of Bioterapia: Psychic healing and the natural medicine movement in Slovakia pp. 1261-1271

Donna Rubens, Darina Gyurkovics and Karol Hornacek

Reliability-adjusted disease maps pp. 1273-1287

Susan Kennedy-Kalafatis

The ethics of discharge planning for older adults: An ethnographic analysis pp. 1289-1299

Ann E. P. Dill

Pre-marital genetic counselling to consanguineous couples: Attitudes, beliefs and decisions among counselled, noncounselled and unrelated couples in Israel pp. 1301-1310

Shoshana Shiloh, Haike Reznik, Mariassa Bat-Miriam-Katznelson and Boleslav Goldman

Sexual communication in the age of AIDS: The construction of risk and trust among young adults pp. 1311-1323

Dana Lear

The role of pharmaceuticals in the privatization process in Vietnam's health-care system pp. 1325-1332

Ivan Wolffers

1995, volume 41, articles 8

Editorial pp. 1041-1041

P. J. M. McEwan

Flourishing health work in China pp. 1043-1045

Wenbo Xu

The Chinese health care system: Lessons for other nations pp. 1047-1055

William C. L. Hsiao

The reforms of the Chinese health care system: County level changes: The Jiangxi study pp. 1057-1064

Xiang Zheng and Sheila Hillier

Market reforms and China's health care system pp. 1065-1072

Lok Sang Ho

Urban economic reform and access to health care coverage in the People's Republic of China pp. 1073-1084

Colleen M. Grogan

Transformation of China's rural health care financing pp. 1085-1093

Yuanli Liu, William C. L. Hsiao, Qing Li, Xingzhu Liu and Minghui Ren

The cost escalation of social health insurance plans in China: Its implication for public policy pp. 1095-1101

Xingzhu Liu and William C. L. Hsiao

Health care utilization as a function of subjective health status, job satisfaction and gender among health care workers in Guangzhou, Southern China pp. 1103-1110

R. Fielding, J. Li and Y. E. Tang

Cooperative medical schemes in contemporary rural China pp. 1111-1118

Feng Xueshan, Tang Shenglan, Gerald Bloom, Malcolm Segall and Gu Xingyuan

Distribution of medical insurance in China pp. 1119-1130

Gail Henderson, Jin Shuigao, John Akin, Li Zhiming, Wang Jianmin, Ma Haijiang, He Yunan, Zhang Xiping, Chang Ying and Ge Keyou

Urban stress in China pp. 1131-1145

Nan Lin and Gina Lai

Seeking women's voices: Setting the context for women's health interventions in two rural counties in Yunnan, China pp. 1147-1157

Glenn C. Wong, Virginia C. Li, Mary Ann Burris and Yueping Xiang

Goods on which one loses: Women and mental health in China pp. 1159-1173

Veronica Pearson

Flows of social support and health status among older persons in China pp. 1175-1184

Xian Liu, Jersey Liang and Shengzu Gu

Some aspects of diabetes care in Chengdu pp. 1185-1190

Xiu J. Li and Shang P. Deng

Outline of control practice of endemic fluorosis in China pp. 1191-1195

Wang Lian-Fang and Huang Jian-Zhong

The rise and prospects of medical aesthetics pp. 1197-1201

Peng Qingxing, Wang Xue and Zhao Jiaye

1995, volume 41, articles 7

Epidemiology's role in the creation of a humane world: Convergences and divergences among the schools pp. 911-914

Jaime Breilh

Psychosocial and behavioral factors associated with serum lipids in university students pp. 915-922

Anna-Lena Undén, Ingvar Krakau, Margita Högbom and Isolde Romanus-Egerborg

Explaining rising mortality among men in Eastern Europe pp. 923-934

Peggy Watson

Gender differences in the relationship between social network support and mortality: A longitudinal study of an elderly cohort pp. 935-947

Diana Shye, John P. Mullooly, Donald K. Freeborn and Clyde R. Pope

Homogénéité de la distribution spatiale des cancers du système reproducteur féminin au Québec pp. 949-955

Aline Drapeau, Jean-Pierre Thouez and Parviz Ghadirian

Sewers and scapegoats: Spatial metaphors of smallpox in nineteenth century San Francisco pp. 957-968

Susan Craddock

Process and outcomes in general practice consultations: Problems in defining high quality care pp. 969-975

Helen R. Winefield, Timothy G. Murrell and Julie Clifford

Public health problems of urbanization pp. 977-981

R. K. Mutatkar

Elderly mental health in the developing world pp. 983-1003

Sue E. Levkoff, Ian W. Macarthur and Julia Bucknall

The subjective experience of health and illness in Ocuituco: A case study pp. 1005-1021

Roberto Castro

Ethnic differences in contraceptive use in Kuwait: A clinic-based study pp. 1023-1031

Khalida Al-Gallaf, Hanan Al-Wazzan, Hind Al-Namash, Nasra M. Shah and Jaafar Behbehani

The impact of the Gulf armed conflict on the health and behaviour of Kuwaiti children pp. 1033-1037

Youssef A. Al-Eissa

1995, volume 41, articles 6

What is this news on the menstrual cycle and premenstrual syndrome?: Introduction pp. 759-760

Precilla Y. L. Choi

The premenstrual syndrome: A brief history pp. 761-767

John T. E. Richardson

Stress responsivity in exercisers and non-exercisers during different phases of the menstrual cycle pp. 769-777

Precilla Y. L. Choi and Peter Salmon

The menstrual cycle, science and femininity: Assumptions underlying menstrual cycle research pp. 779-784

Paula Nicolson

The menstrual cycle and the well being of women pp. 785-791

John Bancroft

Theory and methodology in premenstrual syndrome research pp. 793-800

Anne Walker

Increased socioeconomic differences in mortality in eight Spanish provinces pp. 801-807

Enrique Regidor, Juan L. Gutiérrez-Fisac and Carmen Rodríguez

Health of migrants and migrant health policy, the Netherlands as an example pp. 809-818

H. P. Uniken Venema, H. F. L. Garretsen and P. J. Van Der Maas

No real progress towards equity: Health of migrants and ethnic minorities on the eve of the year 2000 pp. 819-828

Paola Bollini and Harald Siem

Impact of user charges on vulnerable groups: The case of Kibwezi in rural Kenya pp. 829-835

J. Karanja Mbugua, Gerald H. Bloom and Malcolm M. Segall

The social life of bonding theory pp. 837-844

Mira Crouch and Lenore Manderson

Research on lifestyles and health: Searching for meaning pp. 845-855

Kathryn Dean, Concha Colomer and Santiago Pérez-Hoyos

Public health crises of cities in developing countries pp. 857-862

Joseph K. Wang'ombe

Distribution spatiale de sieges anatomiques choisis de cancer au Quebec pp. 863-872

A. R. Gbary, P. Philippe, S. Ducic and F. Beland

Interruptive patterns in medical visits: The effects of role, status and gender pp. 873-881

Julie T. Irish and Judith A. Hall

'If this is what it's doing to our washing, what is it doing to our lungs?' Industrial pollution and public understanding in North-East England pp. 883-891

Suzanne Moffatt, Peter Phillimore, Raj Bhopal and Christopher Foy

Setting the agenda: Does the medical literature set the agenda for articles about medicines in the newspapers? pp. 893-899

Anke M. Van Trigt, Lolkje T. W. De Jong-Van Den Berg, Linda M. Voogt, Jaap Willems, F. J. T.Dirk Tromp and Flora M. Haaijer-Ruskamp

The social network of patients with schizoaffective disorder as compared to patients with diabetes and to healthy individuals pp. 901-907

Per Nettelbladt, Carina Svensson, Ulrika Serin and Agneta Öjehagen

1995, volume 41, articles 5

The 'permanent project syndrome': A counter productive consequence of philanthropy pp. 603-604

J. K. Wang'ombe

Introduction pp. 605-607

Paul Greenough

Global immunization--A medical perspective pp. 609-616

Peter F. Wright

Vaccinations in the third world: A consideration of community demand pp. 617-632

Mark Nichter

Intimidation, coercion and resistance in the final stages of the South Asian Smallpox Eradication Campaign, 1973-1975 pp. 633-645

Paul Greenough

Enhancing coverage and sustainability of vaccination programs: An explanatory framework with special reference to India pp. 647-656

Pieter H. Streefland

Immunization to regulate fertility: Biological and cultural frameworks pp. 657-671

Angeline Faye Schrater

Assumptions and contradictions in measles and measles immunization research: Is measles good for something? pp. 673-686

Peter Aaby

Socioeconomic and spatial differentials in mortality and means of committing suicide in New South Wales, Australia, 1985-1991 pp. 687-698

I. H. Burnley

Aids and injecting drug use in the United Kingdom, 1987-1993: The policy response and the prevention of the epidemic pp. 699-716

Gerry V. Stimson

Psychosocial work characteristics and cardiovascular disease risk factors in young adults: The CARDIA study pp. 717-723

Kurt J. Greenlund, Kiang Liu, Sarah Knox, Heather McCreath, Alan R. Dyer and Julius Gardin

Nutrition, maternal responsiveness and mental development of Ethiopian children pp. 725-732

Frances E. Aboud and Tadesse Alemu

Short stature as an effect of economic and social conditions in childhood pp. 733-738

Maria Nyström Peck and Olle Lundberg

Anticipated response to three common injuries by rural and remote area residents pp. 739-745

P. C. Veitch

The development of a method for measuring anticipated illness behaviour in three common injuries pp. 747-751

P. C. Veitch

1995, volume 41, articles 4

Health care reform in the United States: On the road to nowhere (again)? pp. 453-460

Morris L. Barer, Theodore R. Marmor and Ellen M. Morrison

Cultural studies of biomedicine: An agenda for research pp. 461-473

Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good

Equity of health care in Australia pp. 475-482

David R. Lairson, Paul Hindson and Alan Hauquitz

The relationship between cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis pp. 483-489

Magnus Johannesson

The social and political meaning of the silent epidemic of miners' phthisis, Bendigo 1860-1960 pp. 491-499

Sandra Kippen

Notions and treatment of guinea worm in Northern Ghana pp. 501-509

Bernhard Bierlich

General practitioners' assessment of and interest in alternative medicine in Canada pp. 511-515

Marja J. Verhoef and Lloyd R. Sutherland

Powerlessness, health and mortality: A longitudinal study of older men and mature women pp. 517-525

Melvin Seeman and Susan Lewis

Maternal activity budgets: Feasibility of exclusive breastfeeding for six months among urban women in Honduras pp. 527-536

Roberta J. Cohen, Kimber Haddix, Elena Hurtado and Kathryn G. Dewey

Activists and delegators: Elderly patients' preferences about control at the end of life pp. 537-545

Merrijoy Kelner

Predictors of emergency room use by homeless adults in New York City: The influence of predisposing, enabling and need factors pp. 547-556

Deborah K. Padgett, Elmer L. Struening, Howard Andrews and John Pittman

Attitudes towards people with HIV: Are they as stigmatizing as people with HIV perceive them to be? pp. 557-568

Gill Green

Family planning practices and attitudes among former Soviet new immigrant women in Israel pp. 569-577

Larissa I. Remennick, Delila Amir, Yuval Elimelech and Yliya Novikov

An assessment of research on breastfeeding promotion strategies in developing countries pp. 579-594

Teresa A. Wilmoth and John P. Elder

Letter to the editor pp. 595-596

Murat Z. Akalin and Deborah Maine

1995, volume 41, articles 3

Understanding the AIDS epidemic and reacting sensibly to it pp. 299-302

John C. Caldwell

Stigma, HIV and AIDS: An exploration and elaboration of a stigma trajectory pp. 303-315

Angelo A. Alonzo and Nancy R. Reynolds

Exploring the iceberg of morbidity: A comparison of different survey methods for assessing the occurrence of everyday illness pp. 317-332

S. E. Kooiker

U.S. Apartheid and the spread of AIDS to the suburbs: A multi-city analysis of the political economy of spatial epidemic threshold pp. 333-345

Rodrick Wallace and Deborah Wallace

Decisional conflict in general practice: Strategies of patient management pp. 347-353

Antonietta Di Caccavo and Fraser Reid

Physician participation in Medicaid managed care pp. 355-363

Gail Silverstein and Bradford Kirkman-Liff

Determinants of persistent compliance with screening for colorectal cancer pp. 365-374

Aileen R. Neilson and David K. Whynes

Nemawashi essential for conducting research in Japan pp. 375-381

Michael D. Fetters

Potties, pits and pipes: Explaining hygiene behaviour in Burkina Faso pp. 383-393

Valerie Curtis, Bernadette Kanki, Thierry Mertens, Etienne Traore, Ibrahim Diallo, François Tall and Simon Cousens

Structural relationships between social support and coping pp. 395-407

Mary Ann Mccoll, Hau Lei and Harvey Skinner

AIDS knowledge and risk behaviors among domestic clients of female sex workers in Bali, Indonesia pp. 409-417

Peter Fajans, Kathleen Ford and Dewa Nyoman Wirawan

Socio-economic differences in smoking: Dutch adolescents' beliefs and behaviour pp. 419-424

Hein De Vries

Socioeconomic equity in finnish hospital care in relation to need pp. 425-431

Ilmo Keskimäki, Marjo Salinto and Seppo Aro

Acceptability of prenatal diagnosis of sickle cell anaemia (SCA) by female patients and parents of SCA patients in Nigeria pp. 433-436

M. A. Durosinmi, A. I. Odebiyi, I. A. Adediran, N. O. Akinola, D. E. Adegorioye and M. A. Okunade

Smoking and absence from work: Australian evidence pp. 437-446

Robert Bush and Mark Wooden

Letter to the editor pp. 451-451

Arthur Kleinman

1995, volume 41, articles 2

General practice 1995--Caught in the fast lane pp. 151-153

J. G. R. Howie

A pay-for-performance system for civil service doctors: The Indonesian experiment pp. 155-161

Dov Chernichovsky and Caroline Bayulken

Health inequalities in early adulthood: A comparison of young men and women in Britain and Finland pp. 163-171

Ossi Rahkonen, Sara Arber and Eero Lahelma

'Doing the right thing': The symbolic meanings and experiences of having an HIV antibody test pp. 173-180

Deborah Lupton, Sophie Mccarthy and Simon Chapman

Living with a chronic illness: Chinese-Canadian and Euro-Canadian women with diabetes--Exploring factors that influence management pp. 181-195

J. M. Anderson, S. Wiggins, R. Rajwani, A. Holbrook, C. Blue and M. Ng

Male gender roles and sexuality: Implications for women's AIDS risk and prevention pp. 197-210

Carole A. Campbell

Bucking the health establishment: Alexander Milne and the fight for a New Zealand hepatitis B immunization program pp. 211-225

William Muraskin

Maternal smoking among blacks and whites pp. 227-233

Patricia Andreski and Naomi Breslau

Lifestyle, health and social class in adolescence pp. 235-248

Anthony Glendinning, Leo Hendry and Janet Shucksmith

The significance of belief and expectancy within the spiritual healing encounter pp. 249-260

Daniel P. Wirth

Unaccompanied status as a risk factor in Vietnamese Amerasians pp. 261-266

Robert S. Mckelvey and John A. Webb

The development of a new methodology to assess perceived needs among indigenous Australians pp. 267-275

J. J. Perkins, R. W. Sanson-Fisher, A. Girgis, S. Blunden and D. Lunnay

AIDS in Namibia pp. 277-284

Ross A. Slotten

1995, volume 41, articles 1

120 years old: Why and at what price? pp. 1-1

Isabelle Baszanger and Martine Bungener

Geographically-decentralized planning and management in health care: Some informational issues and their implications for efficiency pp. 3-11

Jeremiah Hurley, Stephen Birch and John Eyles

Contracting out of clinical services in Zimbabwe pp. 13-24

Barbara Mcpake and Charles Hongoro

Self-starvation in context: Towards a culturally sensitive understanding of anorexia nervosa pp. 25-36

Sing Lee

User fees, demand for children's health care and access across income groups: The Philippine case pp. 37-46

Panfila Ching

Acronyms and effacement: Traditional medical practitioners (TMP) in international health development pp. 47-68

Stacy Leigh Pigg

Factors affecting couples' adjustment to recurrent breast cancer pp. 69-76

Laurel L. Northouse, Geraldine Dorris and Carol Charron-Moore

Cross cultural communication of tetanus vaccinations in Bolivia pp. 77-86

Joseph W. Bastien

Reconsidering the popularity of primary health centers in India: A case study from rural Maharashtra pp. 87-98

Vinay R. Kamat

Critique of reductionistic models of obsessive-compulsive disorder: Toward a new explanatory paradigm pp. 99-112

Susan H. Franzblau, Monique Kanadanian and Elizabeth Rettig

Abstinence in late adolescence--Antecedents to and covariates of a sober lifestyle and its consequences pp. 113-121

H. Leifman, E. Kühlhorn, P. Allebeck, S. Andréasson and A. Romelsjö

Dental anxiety in Danish and Chinese adults--A cross-cultural perspective pp. 123-130

Eli Schwarz and Herluf Birn

Casey House: Interpreting the location of a Toronto AIDS hospice pp. 131-140

Quentin P. Chiotti and Alun E. Joseph

Primary health care reform in Slovenia: First results pp. 141-144

Igor Vab

Transcultural psychiatry at the German Psychiatric Society: Report on a symposium held in Reichenau pp. 145-145

Fernando Lolas