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1994, volume 39, articles 12

Place, space and health pp. 1589-1590

Henri E. Picheral

Firm behavior in the U.S. market for factor VIII: A need for policy? pp. 1591-1603

Eric Nauenberg and Sean D. Sullivan

Social status and the health of families: A model pp. 1605-1613

William W. Dressler

Sense of coherence, coping and caregiver role overload pp. 1615-1622

Timothy J. Gallagher, Morton O. Wagenfeld, Franz Baro and Kristien Haepers

QALYs, HYEs and individual preferences-- A graphical illustration pp. 1623-1632

Magnus Johannesson

Household headship and child nutrition: A case study in Western Kenya pp. 1633-1639

Adelheid Onyango, Katherine Tucker and Thomas Eisemon

Self-medication among Hong Kong Chinese pp. 1641-1647

Cindy L. K. Lam, Martine G. Catarivas, Clarke Munro and Ian J. Lauder

Sexual behaviour in Kenya: Implications for sexually transmitted disease transmission and control pp. 1649-1656

Stephen Moses, Esther Muia, Janet E. Bradley, Nico J. D. Nagelkerke, Elizabeth N. Ngugi, Erastus K. Njeru, Gloria Eldridge, Joyce Olenja, Kay Wotton, Francis A. Plummer and Robert C. Brunham

Changes in active life expectancy in Taiwan: Compression or expansion? pp. 1657-1665

Edward Jow-Ching Tu and Kuanjeng Chen

Psychotropic drugs: Long-term use, dependency and the gender factor pp. 1667-1673

Elizabeth Ettorre, Timo Klaukka and Elianne Riska

Stress disorders of families of the disappeared: A controlled study in Honduras pp. 1675-1679

Gregory J. Quirk and Leonel Casco

1994, volume 39, articles 11

The role of the European union in promoting healthy ageing pp. 1497-1499

Anne Jamieson

The institutionalization of the good death pp. 1501-1508

Beverley McNamara, Charles Waddell and Margaret Colvin

Agenda for an anthropology of pharmaceutical practice pp. 1509-1525

Mark Nichter and Nancy Vuckovic

The relationship of alcohol use to sexual activity in a U.S. national sample pp. 1527-1535

Barbara C. Leigh, Mark T. Temple and Karen F. Trocki

Test-retest reliability of health state valuations collected with the EuroQol questionnaire pp. 1537-1544

Heleen M. E. van Agt, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Paul F. M. Krabbe and Gouke J. Bonsel

Perceptions of menopause in northeast Thailand: Contested meaning and practice pp. 1545-1554

Siriporn Chirawatkul and Lenore Manderson

Psychological well-being of gay men with AIDS: Contribution of positve and negative illness-related network interactions to depressive mood pp. 1555-1563

Karolynn Siegel, Victoria H. Raveis and Daniel Karus

HIV prevention education for lesbians and bisexual women: A cultural analysis of a community intervention pp. 1565-1578

Patricia E. Stevens

A Dutch view of medical anthropology: Criticisms and suggestions pp. 1579-1584

Thomas W. Maretzki

Behavioural change amongst drug injectors in Scottish prisons pp. 1585-1586

D. Shewan, M. Gemmell and J. B. Davies

1994, volume 39, articles 10

Forming and reforming the market for third-party purchasing of health care pp. 1405-1412

Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven, Frederik T. Schut and Frans F.H. Rutten

On the ideal market structure for third-party purchasing of health care pp. 1413-1424

Alain C. Enthoven

Forming the system of health insurance in the Russian Federation pp. 1425-1432

Igor Sheiman

Can competition enhance efficiency in health care? Lessons from the reform of the U.K. National Health Service pp. 1433-1445

Alan Maynard

Reforming the Israeli health care market pp. 1447-1457

David P. Chinitz

Should catastrophic risks be included in a regulated competitive health insurance market? pp. 1459-1472

Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven and Frederik T. Schut

Forming and reforming the market for third-party purchasing of health care: A German perspective pp. 1473-1481

J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg

The role of the sickness funds in the Belgian health care market pp. 1483-1495

Walter Nonneman and Eddy Van Doorslaer

1994, volume 39, articles 9

Beyond the orthodox: Heresy in medicine and social science pp. 1125-1131

Grant Gillett

The dynamics of heresy in a profession pp. 1133-1148

Paul Root Wolpe

The cultural and philosophical foundations of normative medical ethics pp. 1149-1154

T. Patrick Hill

The forms and limits of medical ethics pp. 1155-1164

Barry Hoffmaster

Violence against women: A neglected public health issue in less developed countries pp. 1165-1179

Lori L. Heise, Alanagh Raikes, Charlotte H. Watts and Anthony B. Zwi

Domestic violence--An emerging health issue pp. 1181-1188

Ana Lia Kornblit

Efficiency and equity implications of the health care reforms pp. 1189-1201

Roy A. Carr-Hill

Equity and efficiency in health reform. A European view pp. 1203-1210

Denny VÅgerö

The sociology of entrenchment: A cystic fibrosis test for everyone? pp. 1211-1220

Lene Koch and Dirk Stemerding

Mapping the human genome--Friend or foe? pp. 1221-1227

Sheila A. M. McLean

Ethnological studies of medical sciences pp. 1229-1235

Carol MacCormack

Gender inequalities of health in the third world pp. 1237-1247

Christiana E. E. Okojie

Gender inequalities in health in the third world: Uncharted ground pp. 1249-1259

Carol Vlassoff

Health and human rights: The challenge for developing countries pp. 1261-1274

Bruno Dujardin

Drugs, sex and social science: Social science research and health policy in Australia pp. 1275-1286

Lenore Manderson

The impact of social science research on health policy pp. 1287-1293

Eva Orosz

Policy implications of differential health status in East and West Europe. The case of Hungary pp. 1295-1302

Peter Makara

From population control to reproductive health: An emerging policy agenda pp. 1303-1314

Sandra D. Lane

The role of the state in health systems pp. 1315-1321

Susana Belmartino

The social impact of aging populations: Some major issues pp. 1323-1338

Helena E. Restrepo and Manuel Rozental

Stigmatization, scapegoating and discrimination in sexually transmitted diseases: Overcoming 'them' and 'us' pp. 1339-1358

Norbert Gilmore and Margaret A. Somerville

Stigmatization and AIDS: Critical issues in public health pp. 1359-1366

Carol S. Goldin

Social science education as a component of medical training pp. 1367-1373

S. M. MacLeod and H. N. McCullough

Health delivery standards: Vested interests in health planning pp. 1375-1384

F. M. Mburu

Planning in the health sector: For whom, by whom? pp. 1385-1393

S. Akbar Zaidi

What is needed to claim adequacy in health services? pp. 1395-1403

Hans S. Falck

1994, volume 39, articles 8

Experimental treatment, values and rationing pp. 1011-1014

Reidar K. Lie

Contradictions in women's health care provision: A case study of attendance for breast cancer screening pp. 1015-1025

Nancy A. Ross, Mark W. Rosenberg, Diane C. Pross and Brenda Bass

Primary health care in Zimbabwe: Can it survive?: An exploration of the political and historical developments affecting the implementation of PHC pp. 1027-1035

Godfrey B. Woelk

Patterns of class inequality in health through the lifespan: Class gradients at 15, 35 and 55 years in the west of Scotland pp. 1037-1050

Graeme Ford, Russell Ecob, Kate Hunt, Sally Macintyre and Patrick West

Will AIDS be contained within U.S. minority urban populations? pp. 1051-1062

Rodrick Wallace, Mindy Fullilove, Robert Fullilove, Peter Gould and Deborah Wallace

Perceptions and treatment of intestinal worms in rural Bangladesh: Local differences in knowledge and behaviour pp. 1063-1068

E.K. Rousham

A comparative study of patient satisfaction with health care in Japan and the United States pp. 1069-1076

John H. Kurata, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Christine McBride, Keiichi Kawai and Ronald Andersen

Traditional uvulectomy in Niger: A public health problem? pp. 1077-1082

Alain Prual, Youssouf Gamatie, Mariama Djakounda and Dominique Huguet

Health or healthy: Why people are not sick in a Southern Ontarian town pp. 1083-1091

Andrea Litva and John Eyles

Psychosocial effects of PCB contamination and remediation: The case of Smithville, Ontario pp. 1093-1104

James R. Dunn, S.Martin Taylor, Susan J. Elliott and Stephen D. Walter

User charges for rural health services in Papua New Guinea pp. 1105-1115

Jane Thomason, Navy Mulou and Caroline Bass

Letter to the editor pp. 1121-1121

Sabu M. George

1994, volume 39, articles 7

Whither community health workers in the age of structural adjustment? pp. 883-885

F.M. Mburu

Epidemiology and the web of causation: Has anyone seen the spider? pp. 887-903

Nancy Krieger

The social impact of HIV/AIDS in developing countries pp. 905-917

Renee Danziger

AIDS and women in Brazil: The emerging problem pp. 919-929

Donna M. Goldstein

Aids and the health crisis of the U.S. urban poor; the perspective of critical medical anthropology pp. 931-948

Merrill Singer

Subject, project or self? Thoughts on ethical dilemmas for social and medical researchers pp. 949-954

Jane A. Batchelor and Catherine M. Briggs

Multi-dimensional interaction analysis: A collaborative approach to the study of medical discourse pp. 955-965

Rita Charon, Michele G. Greene and Ronald D. Adelman

The end of the second most expensive health care system in the world: Some geographical implications pp. 967-981

Mark W. Rosenberg and Amanda James

Self-rated health revisited: Exploring survey interview episodes with elderly respondents pp. 983-990

Marja Jylhä

An essay:: AIDS and the social body pp. 991-1003

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Letter to the editor pp. 1009-1009

Ernest H. Fieldman

1994, volume 39, articles 6

The social responsibility of social scientists pp. 755-756

R.K. Mutatkar

Poisoned landscapes: The epidemiology of environmental lead exposure in Massachusetts children 1990-1991 pp. 757-766

Adrian J. Bailey, James D. Sargent, David C. Goodman, Jean Freeman and Mary Jean Brown

Community satisfaction with primary health care services: An evaluation undertaken in the Morogoro region of Tanzania pp. 767-780

Lucy Gilson, Martin Alilio and Kris Heggenhougen

Interpersonal conflict and physical violence during the childbearing year pp. 781-787

Andrea Carlson Gielen, Patricia J. O'Campo, Ruth R. Faden, Nancy E. Kass and Xiaonan Xue

Consequences of mental distress recognition in general practice in Italy: A follow-up study pp. 789-796

Benedetto Saraceno, Franca Laviola, Elena Sternai, Emanuela Terzian and Gianni Tognoni

Reported and actual prescription of oral rehydration therapy for childhood diarrhoeas by retail pharmacists in Nigeria pp. 797-806

U.A. Igun

Endemic fluorosis: An analysis of needs and possibilities based on case studies in Kenya pp. 807-813

D.L. Mwaniki, J.M. Courtney and J.D. Gaylor

Urban-rural and regional differences in infant mortality in Taiwan pp. 815-822

Harald H. Knöbel, Wen-Shan Yang and Mei-Shang Ho

Indirect estimates of 'hidden' populations: Capture-recapture methods to estimate the numbers of heroin users in the Australian capital territory pp. 823-831

Ann Larson, Adele Stevens and Grant Wardlaw

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down? Perspectives on the use of sugar in children's medicines pp. 833-840

M.C.G. Manley, M. Calnan and A. Sheiham

A survey of physician beliefs and self-reported practices concerning screening for early detection of cancer pp. 841-849

Carla M. Clasen, Sally W. Vernon, Patricia D. Mullen and Gilchrist L. Jackson

The relationship between infants' preceding appetite, illness, and growth performance and mothers' subsequent feeding practice decisions pp. 851-860

Ellen G. Piwoz, Robert E. Black, Guillermo Lopez de Romaña, Hilary Creed de Kanashiro and Kenneth H. Brown

The health card insurance scheme in Burundi: A social asset or a non-viable venture? pp. 861-870

Dyna C. Arhin

Beyond the anglophone world: Regular and alternative medicine: The state of affairs in the Netherlands pp. 871-873

Louwrens J. Menges

Letter to the editor pp. 881-881

Ernest H. Friedman

1994, volume 39, articles 5

Interrogating the Human Diversity Genome Project pp. 603-606

Margaret Lock

The Italian fight against world hunger. A critical analysis of Italian aid for development in the 1980s pp. 607-620

Paola Bollini and Michael R. Reich

Agency relationships in psychotherapy: An economic analysis pp. 621-628

Peter Zweifel

Control, culture and chronic pain pp. 629-645

Maryann S. Bates and Lesley Rankin-Hill

Euthanasia: Why people want to die earlier pp. 647-654

Clive Seale and Julia Addington-Hall

Patient views on quality care in general practice: Literature review pp. 655-670

J.Rees Lewis

Ethnography, epidemiology and infertility in Egypt pp. 671-686

Marcia C. Inhorn and Kimberly A. Buss

Equity and the utilization of health services: Report of an eight-province survey in China pp. 687-699

Gail Henderson, John Akin, Li Zhiming, Jin Shuigao, Ma Haijiang and Ge Keyou

Profession and life: Separate worlds pp. 701-713

Eline Thornquist

Explaining health and illness: Lay perceptions on current and future health, the causes of illness, and the nature of recovery pp. 715-725

Adrian Furnham

Christ as a pharmacist: Medical symbols in German devotion pp. 727-732

Sjaak van der Geest

Self-care and mastery among primary health care patients pp. 733-741

Raija-Leena Punamäki and Hanna Aschan

1994, volume 39, articles 4

Primary health care and the hospital: Incompatible organisational concepts? pp. 455-458

Laurence Malcolm

Interpreting infertility: Medical anthropological perspectives: Introduction pp. 459-461

Marcia C. Inhorn

Plundered kitchens and empty wombs: Fear of infertility in the Cameroonian Grassfields pp. 463-474

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg

The social construction of infertility: The case of the matrilineal Nayars in South India pp. 475-485

Deborah L. Neff

Kabsa (a.k.a. mushahara) and threatened fertility in Egypt pp. 487-505

Marcia C. Inhorn

'Born to be a mother': The cultural construction of risk in infertility treatment in the U.S pp. 507-518

Gay Becker and Robert D. Nachtigall

Explanatory models for cancer among African-American women at two Atlanta neighborhood health centers: The implications for a cancer screening program pp. 519-526

Jessica Gregg and Robert H. Curry

Immunization programs and their costs pp. 527-536

Logan Brenzel and Pierre Claquin

Socio-cultural dimensions of leprosy in North-Western Botswana pp. 537-541

J. A. Kumaresan and E. T. Maganu

The psychosocial impact of implementing a mammography screening campaign in an Australian community pp. 543-551

Deborah Turnbull, Les Irwig, Judy M. Simpson and Neil Donnelly

The importance of childhood socio-economic group for adult health pp. 553-562

Maria Nyström Peck

Social-psychological factors affecting help-seeking for emotional problems pp. 563-572

D. J. Rickwood and V. A. Braithwaite

Prediction of handicap and emotional distress in patients with recurrent vertigo: Symptoms, coping strategies, control beliefs and reciprocal causation pp. 573-581

Lucy Yardley

Negative affectivity and intellectual ability: A study of their relation to self-reported physical symptoms, perceived daily stress and mood, and disciplinary problems in military recruits pp. 583-590

Olav Vassend, Reidulf Watten, Trond Myhrer and Jon Lars Syvertsen

What is a chronic disease? The effects of a re-definition in HIV and AIDS pp. 591-597

Aileen Clarke

1994, volume 39, articles 3

Pharmaceutical health promotion: A new concept in therapeutics pp. 305-306

Andrea Mant

Integrating traditional medicine into modern health care systems: Examining the role of Chinese medicine in Taiwan pp. 307-321

Chunhuei Chi

A socioeconomic, clinical and serological study in an African City of prostitutes and women still married to their first husband pp. 323-333

M. E. Duncan, G. Tibaux, A. Pelzer, L. Mehari, J. Peutherer, H. Young, Y. Jamil, S. Darougar, P. Piot and E. Roggen

Community and participation for general practice: Perceptions of general practitioners and community nurses pp. 335-344

Ian Brown

The influence of reproductive status on rural Kenyan women's time use pp. 345-354

Michael Baksh, Charlotte G. Neumann, Michael Paolisso, Richard M. Trostle and A. A. J. Jansen

Women's health and the privatization of fertility control in Brazil pp. 355-360

Karen Giffin

Social patterning of medical mortality in youth and early adulthood pp. 361-366

D. Blane, M. Bartley, G. Davey Smith, H. Filakti, A. Bethune and S. Harding

Accounting for medical variation: The case of prescribing activity in a New Zealand general practice sample pp. 367-374

Peter B. Davis, Roy Lay Yee and John Millar

Symptoms, health and illness behaviour in cystic fibrosis pp. 375-379

C. Brown, S. Rowley and P. Helms

Determinants of compliance with iron supplementation: Supplies, side effects, or psychology? pp. 381-390

Rae Galloway and Judith McGuire

Living a responsible life: The impact of AIDS on the social indentity of intravenous drug users pp. 391-400

Jeanette Hassin

A comparison of chamba (marijuana) abusers and general psychiatric admissions in Malawi pp. 401-406

Stuart Carr, Alastair Ager, Clifford Nyando, Kamwadi Moyo, Annette Titeca and Maureen Wilkinson

Disadvantage in physically disabled adults: An assessment of the causation and selection hypotheses pp. 407-413

K. H. Shaar, M. McCarthy and G. Meshefedjian

The use of depth interviewing with vulnerable subjects: Lessons from a research study of parents with learning difficulties pp. 415-424

Tim Booth and Wendy Booth

An analysis of home-cased oral rehydration therapy in the Kingdom of Lesotho pp. 425-432

Paul Touchette, Edward Douglass, Judith Graeff, Ivy Monoang, Mannuku Mathe and Lisa Ware Deke

The questionable wisdom of a low-fat diet and cholesterol reduction pp. 433-447

Dale M. Atrens

Letter to the editor pp. 453-454

Beth Troutman and Jerome Bubrick

1994, volume 39, articles 2

Editorial: What else do we want from our health services? pp. 151-154

Gavin Mooney

Effects of illness attribution and depression on the quality of life among persons with serious mental illness pp. 155-164

David Mechanic, Donna McAlpine, Sarah Rosenfield and Diane Davis

The evangelical uses of leprosy pp. 165-178

Rita Smith Kipp

Violence in American cities: Young black males in the answer, but what was the question? pp. 179-187

Michael Greenberg and Dona Schneider

Britain's regional mortality: A legacy from disaster in the celtic periphery? pp. 189-199

Rory Williams

Donated blood--Gift or commodity?: Some economic and ethical considerations on voluntary vs commercial donation of blood pp. 201-206

Hartwig von Schubert

When topical hydrocortisone became an OTC drug in Sweden--A study of the users and their information sources pp. 207-212

Jan-Olof Brånstad, Ismail Kamil, John Lilja and Magnus Sjöblom

Multidimensional health locus of control beliefs and psychological health for a sample of mothers pp. 213-220

Shyamala Nada Raja, Sheila Williams and Rob McGee

The impact of working with people with HIV/AIDS: A review of the literature pp. 221-232

Rosaline S. Barbour

Urbanization and mental health in developing countries: A research role for social scientists, public health professionals and social psychiatrists pp. 233-245

Trudy Harpham

A model for community involvement in health (CIH) program development pp. 247-254

Eugenie Hildebrandt

Attributional analysis of interprofessional role conflict pp. 255-263

Kathleen A. Curtis

Elderly support in rural and suburban villages: Implications for future support system in China pp. 265-277

Leiyu Shi

Relationship between preferences for decisional control and illness information among women with breast cancer: A quantitative and qualitative analysis pp. 279-289

Thomas F. Hack, Lesley F. Degner and Dennis G. Dyck

The choice of dental care sector by young adults before and after subsidisation reform in Finland pp. 291-297

Sirkka-Sisko Arinen and Harri Sintonen

1994, volume 39, articles 1

Medical praxis: An interface between ethics, politics, and technology pp. 1-5

Fernando Lolas

Cost utility analysis: What should be measured? pp. 7-21

Jeff Richardson

General practitioner distribution and population dynamics: Munich, 1950-1990 pp. 23-38

Gary W. Shannon and Malcolm P. Cutchin

Innovation in high risk drug therapy pp. 39-52

Marilyn Y. Peay and Edmund R. Peay

Community social change and mortality pp. 53-62

Judith N. Lasker, Brenda P. Egolf and Stewart Wolf

Seasonal variation in the perceived risk of malaria: Implications for the promotion of insecticide-impregnated bed nets pp. 63-75

P. J. Winch, A. M. Makemba, S. R. Kamazima, G. K. Lwihula, P. Lubega, J. N. Minjas and C. J. Shiff

Self-rated health: Biological continuum or social discontinuity? pp. 77-83

Anthony M. A. Smith, Julia M. Shelley and Lorraine Dennerstein

The social organization of transvestite prostitution and AIDS pp. 85-93

Jacqueline Boles and Kirk W. Elifson

The effect of distance to VA facilities on the choice and level of utilization of VA outpatient services pp. 95-104

James F. Burgess and Donna Avery DeFiore

Social and environmental factors and life expectancy, infant mortality, and maternal mortality rates: Results of a cross-national comparison pp. 105-114

Erica Hertz, James R. Hebert and Joan Landon

Consistency and variation in unhealthy behaviour among Finnish men, 1982-1990 pp. 115-122

R. Prättälä, A. Karisto and M-A. Berg

Qualities of an ideal volunteer community malaria worker: A comparison of the opinions of community residents and national malaria service staff pp. 123-131

Trenton K. Ruebush, Susan C. Weller and Robert E. Klein

Patients, chaperons and healers: Enlarging the therapeutic encounter pp. 133-143

Samuel C. Heilman and Eliezer Witztum