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1995, volume 40, articles 12

Qualitative and quantitative methods: In-depth or rapid assessment? pp. 1589-1590

F. J. Bennett

Introduction pp. 1591-1596

Lawrence A. Palinkas

A painful purgatory: Grief and the nicaraguan mothers of the disappeared pp. 1597-1610

Sheila R. Tully

Ethnomedical interactions: Health and identity on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast pp. 1611-1621

Bruce Barrett

Refugee stress and folk belief: Hmong sudden deaths pp. 1623-1629

Shelley R. Adler

Vietnamese refugees in Victoria, B.C.: An overview of immigrant and refugee health care in a medium-sized Canadian urban centre pp. 1631-1642

Peter H. Stephenson

Acculturation as a risk factor for chronic disease among Cambodian refugees in the United States pp. 1643-1653

Lawrence A. Palinkas and Sheila M. Pickwell

Medical practice and anthropological bias pp. 1655-1661

Jonathan Bolton

Public health, epidemiology and war pp. 1663-1669

Julius Weinberg and Stephanie Simmonds

Euthanasia: American attitudes toward the physician's role pp. 1671-1681

David P. Caddell and Rae R. Newton

Agency and incentives in the NHS internal market pp. 1683-1690

Carol Propper

Ethical issues in social science research with special reference to sexual behaviour research pp. 1691-1697

Karin Ringheim

Multidisciplinary rehabilitation versus medical care: A meta-analysis pp. 1699-1706

Ron L. Evans, Richard T. Connis, Robert D. Hendricks and Jodie K. Haselkorn

Using administrative databases to evaluate the quality of medical care: A conceptual framework pp. 1707-1715

Nelda P. Wray, Carol M. Ashton, David H. Kuykendall and John C. Hollingsworth

Marital status and health among the elderly pp. 1717-1730

Noreen Goldman, Sanders Korenman and Rachel Weinstein

Recovery of recurrent health service costs through provincial health funds in Cameroon pp. 1731-1739

Rainer Sauerborn, Claude Bodart and Rene Owona Essomba

1995, volume 40, articles 11

Climate change and vector-borne diseases distribution pp. 1437-1440

Susana Isabel Curto De Casas and Rodolfo U. Carcavallo

Introduction pp. 1441-1441

Cheryl Mwaria

Murphy's contributions to disability studies: An inquiry into ourselves pp. 1443-1445

Carol S. Goldin and Jessica Scheer

The process of self-report of impairment in clinical research pp. 1447-1459

Mark R. Luborsky

Mother father deaf: The heritage of difference pp. 1461-1467

Paul Preston

Hearing Impaired families: The social ecology of hearing loss pp. 1469-1480

William H. Mckellin

'The Elephant Man' as 'self' and 'other': The psycho-social costs of a misdiagnosis pp. 1481-1489

Joan Ablon

Emerging trends in the application of the social sciences to health and medicine pp. 1491-1496

David Mechanic

Human behavior, health education and schistosomiasis control: A review pp. 1497-1511

Helmut Kloos

Social support and stressful events in two dimensions: Life events and illness as an event pp. 1513-1526

M. A. R. Tijhuis, H. D. Flap, M. Foets and P. P. Groenewegen

Quality of services and demand for health care in Nigeria: A multinomial probit estimation pp. 1527-1537

John Akin, David K. Guilkey and Hazel?Denton, E.

Factors associated with pregnancy and pregnancy resolution in HIV seropositive women pp. 1539-1547

Anna Kline, Jennifer Strickler and Judith Kempf

Genetic information and life insurance: A proposal for an ethical European policy pp. 1549-1559

Per Sandberg

Race, religious involvement and depressive symptomatology in a southeastern U.S. community pp. 1561-1572

Christopher G. Ellison

Parental perceptions and attitudes about informed consent in clinical research involving children pp. 1573-1577

S. C. Harth and Y. H. Thong

Life fulfilment in an epilepsy sample from the United States pp. 1579-1584

John A. Collings

1995, volume 40, articles 10

The effect of a national control of diarrheal diseases program on mortality: The case of Egypt pp. S1-S30

Peter Miller and Norbert Hirschhorn

The social course of epilepsy: Chronic illness as social experience in interior China pp. 1319-1330

Arthur Kleinman, Wen-Zhi Wang, Shi-Chuo Li, Xue-Ming Cheng, Xiu-Ying Dai, Kun-Tun Li and Joan Kleinman

Paradise lost: An introduction to the geography of water pollution in Puerto Rico pp. 1331-1355

John M. Hunter and Sonia I. Arbona

A longitudinal examination of the cherniss model of psychological burnout pp. 1357-1363

Ronald J. Burke and Esther R. Greenglass

Dealing with uncertainty: Will science solve the problems of resource allocation in the U.K. NHS? pp. 1365-1370

Nick Freemantle

Child survival in big cities: The disadvantages of migrants pp. 1371-1383

Martin Brockerhoff

The validity of using health state indexes in measuring the consequences of traffic injury for public health pp. 1385-1398

Rune Elvik

The influence of socioeconomic status on change in health status after hospitalization pp. 1399-1406

Edward Guadagnoli, Paul D. Cleary and Barbara J. Mcneil

The effects of caring on health: A community-based longitudinal study pp. 1407-1415

Rex Taylor, Graeme Ford and Martin Dunbar

Menstrual cycle symptom reporting in three British ethnic groups pp. 1417-1423

O. B. A. Van Den Akker, F. F. Eves, S. Service and B. Lennon

Health, just world beliefs and coping style preferences in patients of complementary and orthodox medicine pp. 1425-1432

Adrian Furnham and Rachael Beard

The patient's charter: A survey of hospital out-patients views of their rights and ability to exercise them pp. 1433-1434

H. Tailor and J. F. Mayberry

1995, volume 40, articles 9

The plague in India, 1994 pp. 1167-1168

T. N. Madan

Improving human welfare through appropriate technology: Government responsibility, citizen duty or customer choice pp. 1169-1179

Morag Bell and Richard Franceys

Equity in health care: Methodological contributions to the analysis of hospital utilization within Canada pp. 1181-1192

Bruce Newbold, John Eyles and Stephen Birch

Contracting for palliative care pp. 1193-1202

David Clark, Brenda Neale and Pauline Heather

An economic evaluation of alternative programme designs for tuberculosis control in rural Uganda pp. 1203-1212

Paul R. Saunderson

Telling donor insemination offspring about their conception: The nature of couples' decision-making pp. 1213-1220

Ken R. Daniels, Gillian M. Lewis and Wayne Gillett

The measurement of social support in the 'European research on incapacitating diseases and social support': The development of the Social Support Questionnaire for Transactions (SSQT) pp. 1221-1229

Theo P. B. M. Suurmeijer, Dirk M. Doeglas, Serge Briançon, Wim P. Krijnen, Boudien Krol, Robbert Sanderman, Torbjørn Moum, Anders Bjelle and Wim J. A. Van Den Heuvel

The effect of social change on causal beliefs of mental disorders and treatment preferences in Ghana pp. 1231-1242

A. M. Lamensdorf Ofori-Atta and W. Linden

Making the biopolitical subject: Cambodian immigrants, refugee medicine and cultural citizenship in California pp. 1243-1257

Aihwa Ong

Sex differences in infant and child mortality in three provinces in China pp. 1259-1269

Xinhua Steve Ren

Child malaria treatment practices among mothers in Kenya pp. 1271-1277

Halima Mwenesi, Trudy Harpham and Robert W. Snow

Responding to cough: Boholano illness classification and resort to care in response to childhood ARI pp. 1279-1289

Andrew McNee, Neelam Khan, Susan Dawson, Joachim Gunsalam, Veronica L. Tallo, Lenore Manderson and Ian Riley

Explanatory models of mental illness in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1291-1298

Vikram Patel

Reactions to repeated STD infections: Psychosocial aspects and gender issues in Zimbabwe pp. 1299-1304

Marian Pitts, Margaret Bowman and John McMaster

Social inequalities and health among children aged 10-11 in The Netherlands: Causes and consequences pp. 1305-1311

Fons van der Lucht and Johan Groothoff

On the social sciences and preventive medicine pp. 1315-1316

Zoran Radovanovic

1995, volume 40, articles 8

A plea for ignoring race and including insured status in American research reports on social science and medicine pp. 1017-1019

Christopher Bagley

The measurement of meaning in illness pp. 1021-1028

Betsy L. Fife

Women's orientation toward help-seeking for mental disorders pp. 1029-1040

Gabriel B. Fosu

Plan de paiement anticipe des soins de sante de Bwamanda (Zaire) comment a-t-il ete mis en place? pp. 1041-1052

Tshinko B. Ilunga, Andre-Pierre Contandriopoulos and Pierre Fournier

Empowerment and the psychiatric consumer/ex-patient movement in the United States: Contradictions, crisis and change pp. 1053-1071

Athena McLean

Psychological responses to war and atrocity: The limitations of current concepts pp. 1073-1082

Patrick J. Bracken, Joan E. Giller and Derek Summerfield

Psychological distress, social support and social support seeking: A prospective study among primary mental health care patients pp. 1083-1089

Elisabeth H. M. Eurelings-Bontekoe, RenéF. W. Diekstra and Margot Verschuur

Decentralization of health services in Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea: An attempt to administer health service at the subdistrict level pp. 1091-1098

Doug Campos-Outcalt, Kelly Kewa and Jane Thomason

Psychosocial adaptation to disability and its investigation among persons with multiple sclerosis pp. 1099-1108

Richard F. Antonak and Hanoch Livneh

Usefulness of a nondashexperimental study design in the evaluation of service developments for infant feeding in a general hospital pp. 1109-1116

Nigel Bruce and Anja Griffioen

Improving skills and utilization of Community Health Volunteers in Nepal pp. 1117-1125

Filippo Curtale, Bhola Siwakoti, Cecilia Lagrosa, Massimo LaRaja and Ranieri Guerra

Attributions for disability: The influence of genetic screening pp. 1127-1132

Theresa M. Marteau and Harriet Drake

The Solomuna Orphanage: A historical survey pp. 1133-1139

Peter H. Wolff, Yemani Dawit and Berhane Zere

Home remedies and doctors' remedies in Feira (Brazil) pp. 1141-1153

Ndolamb Ngokwey

Predictive factors of enrollment and adherence in a breast cancer screening program in Barcelona (Spain) pp. 1155-1160

Carmen Rodriguez, Antoni Plasencia and Dirk G. Schroeder

In search of a contemporary theory for understanding mortality change pp. 1165-1165

Marc Bulterys

1995, volume 40, articles 7

Overcoming ethnocentrism: How social science and medicine relate and should relate to one another pp. 869-872

Sjaak van der Geest

The effect of third-party payers on the clinical decision making of physical therapists pp. 873-879

Robin Moremen Uili and Rosemary Wood

Adolescent Psychiatry as a product of contemporary Anglo-American society pp. 881-894

Horacio Fabrega and Barbara Miller

An economic analysis of the resettlement of people with mild learning disabilities and challenging behaviour pp. 895-901

Julie E. Dockrell, George D. Gaskell, Charles Normand and Hamid Rehman

Doctor-patient communication: A review of the literature pp. 903-918

L. M. L. Ong, J. C. J. M. de Haes, A. M. Hoos and F. B. Lammes

A prepayment scheme for hospital care in the Masisi district in Zaire: A critical evaluation pp. 919-930

Jean-Pierre Noterman, Bart Criel, Guy Kegels and Katulanya Isu

Transforming AIDS prevention to meet women's needs: A focus on developing countries pp. 931-943

Lori L. Heise and Christopher Elias

'A bothersome death'--Narrative accounts of infant mortality in Cape Town, South Africa pp. 945-953

Leonard B. Lerer, Alexander Butchart and Martin Terre Blanche

The psychosocial problems of sickle cell disease sufferers and their methods of coping pp. 955-960

Jude U. Ohaeri, Wuraola A. Shokunbi, Kehinde S. Akinlade and Lola O. Dare

Occupational life course and lung cancer risk in men. Findings from a socio-epidemiological analysis of job-changing histories in a case-control study pp. 961-975

Ingeborg Jahn, Ute Becker, Karl-Heinz Jöckel and Hermann Pohlabeln

Talking about the pain: A patient-centered study of low back pain in primary care pp. 977-988

Jeffrey Borkan, Shmuel Reis, Doron Hermoni and Aya Biderman

Treatment of childhood diarrhea in rural Egypt pp. 989-1001

Ray Langsten and Kenneth Hill

Under-users of antenatal care: A comparison of non-attenders and late attenders for antenatal care, with early attenders pp. 1003-1012

Affette McCaw-Binns, Janet La Grenade and Deanna Ashley

Letter to the editor pp. 1015-1015

Lynn M. Morgan and Carole Browner

1995, volume 40, articles 6

Need: The idea won't do--But we still need it pp. 727-730

Anthony Culyer

An organizational analysis of the World Health Organization: Narrowing the gap between promise and performance pp. 731-742

John W. Peabody

Quality, cost and utilization of health services in developing countries. A longitudinal study in Zaïre pp. 743-753

Slim Haddad and Pierre Fournier

Health care reforms in Russia: The example of St Petersburg pp. 755-765

Sarah Curtis, Natasha Petukhova and Ann Taket

Preferences for outcomes in economic evaluation: An economic approach to addressing economic problems pp. 767-776

Amiram Gafni and Stephen Birch

Ethnicity, social class and health. A population-based study on the influence of social factors on self-reported illness in 223 Latin American refugees, 333 Finnish and 126 South European labour migrants and 841 Swedish controls pp. 777-787

Jan Sundquist

The partner relationship in psychological response to breast cancer pp. 789-797

Nancy Pistrang and Chris Barker

The extent of support for ordinary living provided in staffed housing: The relationship between staffing levels, resident characteristics, staff:resident interactions and resident activity patterns pp. 799-810

David Felce and Jonathan Perry

Social support, marital status and living arrangement correlates of cardiovascular disease risk factors in the elderly pp. 811-814

M. D. Gliksman, R. Lazarus, A. Wilson and S. R. Leeder

The practice of Primary Health Care: A case study pp. 815-824

Liz Walker

The interaction effect of bereavement and sex on the risk of suicide in the elderly: An historical cohort study pp. 825-828

Guohua Li

Previous stress and acute psychological defence as predictors of perinatal grief--An exploratory study pp. 829-835

J. A. M. Hunfeld, J. W. Wladimiroff, F. Verhage and J. Passchier

Relationship of caregiver reactions and depression to cancer patients' symptoms, functional states and depression--A longitudinal view pp. 837-846

Margot E. Kurtz, J. C. Kurtz, Charles W. Given and Barbara Given

Neurodegenerative diseases and risk factors: A literature review pp. 847-858

Jean-François Emard, Jean-Pierre Thouez and Denis Gauvreau

Reports of the experience of epilepsy in a rural South African village pp. 859-865

Alison H. McQueen and Leslie Swartz

1995, volume 40, articles 5

De-institutionalization of psychiatric patients: Progress or abandonment? pp. 577-579

J. Krupinski

Euthanasia: The role of good care pp. 581-587

Clive Seale and Julia Addington-Hall

Dying at the best time pp. 589-595

Clive Seale and Julia Addington-Hall

Male and female health problems in general practice: The differential impact of social position and social roles pp. 597-611

Cecile M. T. Gijsbers van Wijk, Annemarie M. Kolk, Wil J. H. M. van den Bosch and Henk J. M. van den Hoogen

From headloading to the iron horse: The unequal health consequences of railway construction and expansion in the Gold Coast, 1898-1929 pp. 613-621

Komla Tsey and Stephanie D. Short

Maternal factors and child's health care use pp. 623-628

Jennifer M. Watson and Kathi J. Kemper

Lifecourse and lifestyle: The social and cultural location of health behaviours pp. 629-638

Kathryn C. Backett and Charlie Davison

How do economic status and social support influence survival after initial recovery from acute myocardial infarction? pp. 639-647

Darren Greenwood, Christopher Packham, Kenneth Muir and Richard Madeley

Concepts of disability: The activity space model pp. 649-656

Jacek A. Kopec

Situation analyses of emergency obstetric care: Examples from eleven operations research projects in West Africa pp. 657-667

The Prevention of Maternal Mortality Network

Does affordability affect mental health utilization? A United States-Israel comparison of older adults pp. 669-678

Marjorie Chary Feinson and Miriam Popper

Child fostering and children's nutritional outcomes in rural Mali: The role of female status in directing child transfers pp. 679-693

Sarah E. Castle

Management and health care reform in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 695-710

Lucy Gilson

Prediction of attitudes towards restrictive aids policies: A structural equation modelling approach pp. 711-718

Pål Kraft and Jostein Rise

Explaining regional differences in suicide rates pp. 719-721

David Lester

1995, volume 40, articles 4

Incentives can lower the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Africa pp. 419-424

Charles M. Good

Introduction pp. 425-429

Ruud Peeters, Tudor Silva and Judy Lewis

Protective measure use and symptoms among agropesticide applicators in Sri Lanka pp. 431-436

C. Sivayoganathan, S. Gnanachandran, J. Lewis and M. Fernando

Health and social status of an elderly urban population in Sri Lanka pp. 437-442

D. B. Nugegoda and S. Balasuriya

First trimester feeding in a rural Sri Lankan population pp. 443-449

Ananda S. B. Wijekoon, Raphael O. Thattil and Stephen L. Schensul

Heart specialists' art of care pp. 451-457

Joan D. Specight and Sonya L. Blixt

Researching public health: Behind the qualitative-quantitative methodological debate pp. 459-468

Frances Baum

Heavy users of emergency services: Social construction of a policy problem pp. 469-477

Ruth E. Malone

Quality of life of 125 adults surviving 6-18 years after bone marrow transplantation pp. 479-490

Nigel E. Bush, Mel Haberman, Gary Donaldson and Keith M. Sullivan

Why do women report 'sick building symptoms' more often than men? pp. 491-502

Berndt Stenberg and Stig Wall

The experience of an AIDS prevention program focused on South African traditional healers pp. 503-515

Edward C. Green, Bongi Zokwe and John David Dupree

A problem solving intervention for caregivers of cancer patients pp. 517-528

Ronald W. Toseland, Christina G. Blanchard and Philip McCallion

The strategy of risk approach in antenatal care: Evaluation of the referral compliance pp. 529-535

B. Dujardin, G. Clarysse, B. Criel, V. De Brouwere and N. Wangata

Appearance-based information about coping with pain: Valid or biased? pp. 537-543

Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D. Hadjistavropoulos and Kenneth D. Craig

Directiness and deference in pharmacy students' messages to physicians pp. 545-555

Bruce L. Lambert

Role orientation and community pharmacists' participation in a project to improve patient care pp. 557-565

Jane F. Pendergast, Carole L. Kimberlin, Donna H. Berardo and Lynda C. McKenzie

Psychosocial and medical factors in pregnancy outcomes: A case study of Israeli women pp. 567-571

Lea Hagoel, Riki Van-Raalte, Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Galia Shifroni, Leon Epstein and Yoram Sorokin

1995, volume 40, articles 3

The epidemiology of functional apartheid and human rights abuses pp. 281-284

H. K. Heggenhougen

Medical anthropology and epidemiology: Divergences or convergences? pp. 285-290

Marcia C. Inhorn

The risk epidemic in medical journals pp. 291-305

John-Arne Skolbekken

Hidden geographies: The changing lifeworlds of women with multiple sclerosis pp. 307-320

Isabel Dyck

Ecology and ethnomedicine: Exploring links between current environmental crisis and indigenous medical practices pp. 321-329

Charles Anyinam

Health policy making: The Dutch experience pp. 331-338

Evelyne de Leeuw and Loes Polman

Lifestyle in primary health care discourse pp. 339-348

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

The influence of supply-related characteristics on general practitioners' workload pp. 349-358

Peter P. Groenewegen and Jack B. F. Hutten

Who says yes? Identifying selection biases in a psychosocial intervention study of multiple sclerosis pp. 359-370

Carolyn E. Schwartz and Bernard H. Fox

Deviation from the carrying capacity for physicians and growth rate of physician supply: The Taiwan case pp. 371-377

Tung-liang Chiang

Causes of delay in seeking treatment for heart attack symptoms pp. 379-392

Kathleen Dracup, Debra K. Moser, Mickey Eisenberg, Hendrika Meischke, Angelo A. Alonzo and Allan Braslow

Access to ambulatory care for American Indians and Alaska Natives; the relative importance of personal and community resources pp. 393-407

Peter J. Cunningham and Llewellyn J. Cornelius

Psychosocial theory and the creation of the risky self pp. 409-415

Jane Ogden

1995, volume 40, articles 2

Letters to Dr Frankenstein? Ethics and the new reproductive technologies pp. 141-146

Henk ten Have

Social roles and physical health: The case of female disadvantage in poor countries pp. 147-161

Gigi Santow

Family life and health in adolescence: A role for culture in the health inequalities debate pp. 163-175

Helen Sweeting and Patrick West

Variations in poverty and health between slum settlements: Contradictory findings from Visakhapatnam, India pp. 177-188

Sheena Asthana

Sickness absence for psychiatric illness: The Whitehall II study pp. 189-197

Stephen Stansfeld, Amanda Feeney, Jenny Head, Robert Canner, Fiona North and Michael Marmot

Women's employment, marriage, motherhood and mortality: A test of the multiple role and role accumulation hypotheses pp. 199-212

Pekka Martikainen

What do general practitioners and their patients want from general practice and are they receiving it? A framework pp. 213-221

Stephen A. Buetow

The spring peak in suicides: A cross-national analysis pp. 223-230

Kenneth S. Y. Chew and Richard McCleary

Content and predictors of consultation experiences among finnish primary care patients pp. 231-243

Raija-Leena Punamäki and Simo J. Kokko

Influences on sick building syndrome symptoms in three buildings pp. 245-251

Max O. Bachmann and Jonathan E. Myers

Infant mortality and mother's education in Ondo State, Nigeria pp. 253-263

Jacob Ayo Adetunji

Suntanning and sun protection: A review of the psychological literature pp. 265-274

Stephen Arthey and Valerie A. Clarke

Letter to the editor pp. 279-280

Eskinder Tafesse

1995, volume 40, articles 1

Overview: Guilt, blame and shame in sickness pp. 1-3

Ruthbeth Finerman and Linda A. Bennett

'Parental incompetence' and 'selective neglect': Blaming the victim in child survival pp. 5-13

Ruthbeth Finerman

Accountability for alcoholism in American families pp. 15-25

Linda A. Bennett

Stigma: The hidden burden of infertility pp. 27-36

Linda M. Whiteford and Lois Gonzalez

Individual or societal responsibility? Explanations of diabetes in an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) community pp. 37-46

Linda C. Garro

The political economy of responsibility in health and illness pp. 47-53

John M. Donahue and Meredith B. McGuire

Meeting the changing health needs of women in developing countries pp. 55-65

Michael Paolisso and Joanne Leslie

Medical students' first-person narratives of a patient's story of AIDS pp. 67-76

Patricia A. Marshall and J. Paul O'Keefe

Reversals of fortune? Sex differences in health in childhood and adolescence pp. 77-90

Helen Sweeting

Psychosocial correlates of drug use among Puerto Rican youth: Generational status differences pp. 91-103

Carmen Noemi Velez and Jane A. Ungemack

Psychosocial stress, women and heart health: A critical review pp. 105-115

Susan J. Elliott

Continuity and change in reproductive and abortion patterns of Soviet immigrants in Israel pp. 117-124

Eitan F. Sabatello

Positive life orientation and recovery from myocardial infarction pp. 125-130

Manju Agarwal, A. K. Dalal, D. K. Agarwal and R. K. Agarwal

Factors affecting non-response to cervical cytology screening in Norfolk, England pp. 131-135

Graham Bentham, Jackie Hinton, Robin Haynes, Andrew Lovett and Chris Bestwick