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1994, volume 38, articles 12

Introduction pp. 1591-1592

Michael Drummond, Linda Davies and Frans Rutten

Evaluation of health technology: Economic issues for health policy and policy issues for economic appraisal pp. 1593-1600

Michael Drummond

Current status of economic appraisal of health technology in the European community: Report of the network pp. 1601-1607

Linda Davies, Douglas Coyle, Michael Drummond and The EC Network on the Methodology of Economic Appraisal of Health Technology

Intergration of economic appraisal and health care policy in a health insurance system; The Dutch case pp. 1609-1614

Frans Rutten and Jan-Willem van der Linden

Economic appraisal in the British national health service: Implications of recent developments pp. 1615-1623

Christopher Henshall and Michael Drummond

Researcher-driven versus policy-driven economic appraisal of health technologies: The case of France pp. 1625-1633

J. P. Moatti, C. Chanut and J. M. Benech

Centralised versus decentralised funding of evaluative research: Impact on medical technology policy in Italy pp. 1635-1641

George France

Technology assessment in Catalonia: Integrating economic appraisal pp. 1643-1646

Alicia Granados and Josep M. Borràs

The role of economic appraisal in Denmark pp. 1647-1652

Anita Alban

The role of economic appraisal in health technology assessment: The Australian case pp. 1653-1662

Chris Selby Smith, David Hailey and Michael Drummond

Strategies for successful evaluation and policy-making toward health care technology on the move: The case of medical lasers pp. 1663-1674

H. David Banta and Hindrik Vondeling

Standardizing economic appraisal of health technology in the European community pp. 1675-1678

Joan Rovira

Interests in Health Care Technology Assessment (HCTA) and HCTA training needs in eight European countries: Comett-assess pp. 1679-1688

A. Szczepura and J. Kankaanpää

1994, volume 38, articles 11

Hospice and the holistic alternative pp. vii-ix

Carol MacCormack

Religion and health: Is there an association, is it valid, and is it causal? pp. 1475-1482

Jeffrey S. Levin

The role of caregiver social networks in Alzheimer's disease pp. 1483-1490

Carl Cohen, Jeanne Teresi and Cynthia Blum

Coping with disabilities: The perspective of young adults from different ethnic backgrounds in inner London pp. 1491-1498

Yvonne Doyle, Paula Moffatt and Sarah Corlett

Aprendiendo a prevenir la deshidratacion en comunidades Alejadas y Mercados Mexicanos pp. 1499-1507

Selene Alvarez Larrauri, Claudia Alvarez Larrauri and Jorge Jufresa Carreras

Characteristics of work and life predicting coronary heart disease: Finnish research project on aging workers pp. 1509-1519

Kaija Tuomi

Health insurance coverage among the elderly pp. 1521-1529

Virginia Wilcox-Gök and Jeffrey Rubin

Measuring oral health status: Theoretical and methodological challenges pp. 1531-1541

I. D. Coulter, M. Marcus and K. A. Atchison

The prevalence of informal caregiving to persons with aids in the United States: Caregiver characteristics and their implications pp. 1543-1552

Heather A. Turner, Joseph A. Catania and John Gagnon

A cohort study of unemployment as a cause of psychological disturbance in Australian youth pp. 1553-1564

S. Morrell, R. Taylor, S. Quine, C. Kerr and J. Western

Teenage alcohol drinking and non-standard family background pp. 1565-1574

Matti Isohanni, Hannu Oja, Irma Moilanen and Markku Koiranen

A community study of child spacing, fertility and contraception in West Pokot District, Kenya pp. 1575-1584

Nicola R. Dean

1994, volume 38, articles 10

Does epidemiological transition have utility for health planners? pp. vii-x

David R. Phillips

The politics of AIDS: Introduction pp. 1321-1324

Merrill Singer

The impact of HIV/AIDS on concepts relating to risk and culture within British community epidemiology: Candidates or targets for prevention pp. 1325-1335

Ronald J. Frankenberg

Risky business: The cultural construction of AIDS risk groups pp. 1337-1346

Nina Glick Schiller, Stephen Crystal and Denver Lewellen

The boundaries of the self and the unhealthy other: Reflections on health, culture and AIDS pp. 1347-1365

Robert Crawford

Ethical dilemmas and professional roles in occupational medicine pp. 1367-1374

Sue Gena Lurie

Child health: Equity in the non-industrialized countries pp. 1375-1383

Bonita Stanton

Why are socioeconomic mortality differences smaller among women than among men? pp. 1385-1396

Seppo Koskinen and Tuija Martelin

A decade beyond medical school: A longitudinal study of physicians' attitudes toward death and terminally-ill patients pp. 1397-1400

George E. Dickinson and Robert E. Tournier

Differences in health and welfare between homeless and homed welfare applicants in Los Angeles county pp. 1401-1413

Lois M. Takahashi and Jennifer R. Wolch

"I wouldn't have minded a wee one running about": Miscarriage and the family pp. 1415-1422

Rosanne Cecil

Nurses' views of the coping of patients pp. 1423-1430

David L. Kahn, Richard H. Steeves and Jeanne Q. Benoliel

Chronic job insecurity among automobile workers: Effects on job satisfaction and health pp. 1431-1437

Catherine A. Heaney, Barbara A. Israel and James S. House

Social trajectories and diversity of careers: Two aspects of the evolution of the medical profession in France (1925-1989) pp. 1439-1447

Martine Bungener and Geneviève Paicheler

Social class and adolescent smoking behaviour pp. 1449-1460

Anthony Glendinning, Janet Shucksmith and Leo Hendry

Blood donor behaviour in Greece: Implications for health policy pp. 1461-1467

Joannes Chliaoutakis, Deanna J. Trakas, Fotini Socrataki, Chrysoula Lemonidou and Dimitris Papaioannou

1994, volume 38, articles 9

Depressive disorder pp. v-viii

A. Venkoba Rao

Cholera diffusion in Russia, 1823-1923 pp. 1171-1191

K. David Patterson

The effects of pregnancy loss on women's health pp. 1193-1200

Philip G. Ney, Tak Fung, Adele Rose Wickett and Carol Beaman-Dodd

The experience of cancer pp. 1201-1208

L.J. Muzzin, N.J. Anderson, A.T. Figueredo and S.O. Gudelis

Childhood morbidity and health services utilization: Cross-national comparisons of user-related factors from DHS data pp. 1209-1220

Gabriel B. Fosu

Quality of home use of oral rehydration solutions: Results from seven healthcom sites pp. 1221-1234

Judith A. McDivitt, Robert C. Hornik and C.Dara Carr

Can social class differentials in hypertension be explained by the general susceptibility hypothesis? pp. 1235-1242

Peter Nilsson, Per-Olof Östergren, Lars Lindholm and Bengt Scherstén

Using gini-style indices to evaluate the spatial patterns of health practitioners: Theoretical considerations and an application based on Alberta data pp. 1243-1256

Malcolm C. Brown

Mortality by indicators of socioeconomic status among the finnish elderly pp. 1257-1278

Tuija Martelin

Older patient satisfaction with communication during an initial medical encounter pp. 1279-1288

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

Measures of socioeconomic status for child health research: Comparative results from Bangladesh and Pakistan pp. 1289-1297

M.S. Durkin, S. Islam, Z.M. Hasan and S.S. Zaman

Concordance of parental and adolescent health behaviors pp. 1299-1305

Ingeborg Rossow and Jostein Rise

Self-management of cystic fibrosis: A structural model for educational and behavioral variables pp. 1307-1315

Guy S. Parcel, Paul R. Swank, Marco J. Mariotto, L.Kay Bartholomew, Danita I. Czyzewski, Marianna M. Sockrider and Dan K. Seilheimer

1994, volume 38, articles 8

Public health education in Australia: Nobody's child? pp. v-ix

Janice Reid

Dissent in science: Styles of scientific practice and the controversy over the cause of AIDS pp. 1017-1036

Joan H. Fujimura and Danny Y. Chou

Alzheimer's disease afflicted spouses who remain at home: Can human dialectics explain the findings? pp. 1037-1046

Lore K. Wright

The social impact of HIV infection on women in Kigali, Rwanda: A prospective study pp. 1047-1053

P. Keogh, S. Allen, C. Almedal and B. Temahagili

Psychological distress in survivors of residential fires pp. 1055-1060

Anne Keane, Mary Pickett, Christopher Jepson, Ruth McCorkle and Barbara J. Lowery

Alternative medicine in the United States pp. 1061-1068

Walter I. Wardwell

Midwives in Niger: An uncomfortable position between social behaviours and health care constraints pp. 1069-1073

Yannick Jaffre and Alain Prual

Health cards, maternal reports and the measurement of immunization coverage: The example of Guatemala pp. 1075-1089

Noreen Goldman and Anne R. Pebley

Too far to walk: Maternal mortality in context pp. 1091-1110

Sereen Thaddeus and Deborah Maine

One person's 'spoiling' is another's freedom to become: Overcoming ethnocentric views about parental control pp. 1111-1124

Julie E. Sprott

The technocratic body: American childbirth as cultural expression pp. 1125-1140

Robbie E. Davis-Floyd

Attitudes toward organ donation and transplantation: A model for understanding reactions to medical procedures after death pp. 1141-1152

Margareta Sanner

Using STD occurrence to monitor AIDS prevention pp. 1153-1165

Adrian M. Renton and Luke Whitaker

A meta-analysis of condom effectiveness in reducing sexually transmitted HIV pp. 1169-1170

David Lee Warner and Robert A. Hatcher

1994, volume 38, articles 7

Frailty and its consequences: Introduction pp. 863-865

Sharon L. Tennstedt and John B. McKinlay

Stress and strategies in care systems: the Scandinavian experience pp. 867-874

Svein Olav Daatland

Pathways to care for the elderly in Greece pp. 875-882

Judith Triantafillou and Elizabeth Mestheneos

British home and community care: Research-based critiques and the challenge of the new policy pp. 883-903

Bleddyn Davies

Longitudinal patterns of formal and informal social support in an urban elderly population pp. 905-914

Howard R. Kelman, Cynthia Thomas and Jeefrey S. Tanaka

Unmet need among disabled elders: A problem in access to community long term care? pp. 915-924

Sharon Tennstedt, John McKinlay and Linda Kasten

Dynamics of functional impairment in late adulthood pp. 925-936

George L. Maddox, Daniel O. Clark and Karen Steinhauser

How measurement techniques influence estimates of disability in older populations pp. 937-942

Alan M. Jette

Does intergenerational social support influence the psychological well-being of older parents? The contingencies of declining health and widowhood pp. 943-957

Merril Silverstein and Vern L. Bengtson

Tolerating reality: The experience of parents of HIV positive sons pp. 959-971

Dyan Siegl and Janice M. Morse

Mothers' perceptions of severe pneumonia in their own children: A controlled study in Pakistan pp. 973-987

Dorothy S. Mull, J.Dennis Mull, M.Z.Malik Kundi and Muhammad Anjum

Susto and the career path of the victim of an industrial accident: A sociological case study pp. 989-997

Geoff Holloway

The social significance of routine health behavior in Tamang daily life pp. 999-1010

J.Carey Jackson and Leslie Jackson-Carroll

1994, volume 38, articles 6

Introduction pp. 771-774

Cheryl Mattingly and Linda C. Garro

Narrative representations of chronic illness experience: cultural models of illness, mind, and body in stories concerning the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) pp. 775-788

Linda C. Garro

Coming to terms with advanced breast cancer: Black women's narratives from Eastern North Carolina pp. 789-800

Holly F. Mathews, Donald R. Lannin and James P. Mitchell

AIDS-talk and the constitution of cultural models pp. 801-809

Paul Farmer

The concept of therapeutic 'emplotment' pp. 811-822

Cheryl Mattingly

The Rashomon approach to dealing with chronic pain pp. 823-833

Jean E. Jackson

In the subjenctive mode: Epilepsy narratives in Turkey pp. 835-842

Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Isenbike Togan, Zafer Ilbars, A. Güvener and Ilker Gelisen

Practicing oncology in provincial Mexico: A narrative analysis pp. 843-853

Linda M. Hunt

Oncology and narrative time pp. 855-862

Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Tseunetsugu Munakata, Yasuki Kobayashi, Cheryl Mattingly and Byron J. Good

1994, volume 38, articles 5

Illness semantics and international health: The weak lungs/TB complex in the Philippines pp. 649-663

Mark Nichter

Medical risk: Implicating poor pregnant women pp. 665-675

Lisa Handwerker

Coronary heart disease: Trends in spatial inequalities and implications for health care planning in England pp. 677-690

Carol Bryce, Sarah Curtis and John Mohan

Gender and class as dimensions of smoking behaviour in Britain: Insights from a survey of mothers pp. 691-698

Hilary Graham

Health consequences of youth unemployment--review from a gender perspective pp. 699-709

Anne Hammarström

General practitioner utilisation in Ireland: The role of socio-economic factors pp. 711-716

Brian Nolan

The use of antimicrobial drugs in Nagpur, India. A window on medical care in a developing country pp. 717-724

Vikram Dua, Calvin M. Kunin and Laura VanArsdale White

A measure of family disruption for use in chickenpox and other childhood illnesses pp. 725-731

Stephen P. McKenna and Sonja M. Hunt

Practitioner productivity and the product content of medical care in publicly supported health centers pp. 733-748

Michael J. Camasso and Anne E. Camasso

Blaming children for child pedestrian injuries pp. 749-753

Ian Roberts and Carolyn Coggan

Breastfeeding practices and lactation mastitis pp. 755-761

Betsy Foxman, Kendra Schwartz and Sophia J. Looman

Letter to the editor pp. 769-769

Julius A. Roth

1994, volume 38, articles 4

Primary health care in Japan and the United States pp. 489-495

Toshihide Tsuda, Hideyasu Aoyama and Jack Froom

Danger and safety in medicines pp. 497-507

Arthur O'Neill

Patient satisfaction: A valid concept? pp. 509-516

Brian Williams

Comparisons of inequalities in health: Evidence from national surveys in Finland, Norway and Sweden pp. 517-524

Eero Lahelma, Kristiina Manderbacka, Ossi Rahkonen and Antti Karisto

Exorcists, psychiatrists, and the problems of possession in northwest Madagascar pp. 525-542

Lesley A. Sharp

Terror, silencing and children: International, multidisciplinary collaboration with Guatemalan Maya communities pp. 543-552

M. Brinton Lykes

Are bereaved family members a valid proxy for a patient's assessment of dying? pp. 553-557

Irene Higginson, Patricia Priest and Mark McCarthy

Marital relationships and somatic and psychological symptoms in pregnancy pp. 559-564

Christa Zimmermann-Tansella, Paolo Bertagni, Roberta Siani and Rocco Micciolo

Prospects for reform of hospital fees in sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of Niamey National Hospital in Niger pp. 565-574

Marcia Weaver, Holly Wong, Amadou Sekou Sako, Robert Simon and Felix Lee

Correlations between education and arthritis in the 1971-1975 NHANES I pp. 575-583

J. Paul Leigh and James F. Fries

Patients' intentions in primary care: Relationship to physical and psychological symptoms, and their perception by general practitioners pp. 585-592

Peter Salmon, Narinder Sharma, Roland Valori and Nicholas Bellenger

Vitality and growth in HIV-infected gay men pp. 593-602

Steven S. Schwartzberg

Gender differences in tobacco use and the commodification of tobacco in Central Borneo pp. 603-608

Jennifer Alexander and Paul Alexander

Infant and child survival in Shaanxi, China pp. 609-621

Xinhua Steve Ren

Results from a community intervention project in the Nicaraguan mining community El Limon. An overview pp. 623-629

Rodolfo Peña, Åke Thörn and Aurora Aragón

Spiritual and religious beliefs in acute illness--Is this a feasible area for study? pp. 631-636

Michael King, Peter Speck and Angela Thomas

Journalists and their sources of ideas and information on medicines pp. 637-643

Anke M. van Trigt, Lolkje T. W. de Jong-van den Berg, Flora M. Haaijer-Ruskamp, Jaap Willems and Theo F. J. Tromp

1994, volume 38, articles 3

Editorial/introduction pp. 399-400

Ian O'Donnell, Richard Farmer and Troy Tranah

Railway suicide in England and Wales, 1850-1949 pp. 401-407

M. Clarke

The epidemiology of suicide on the London underground pp. 409-418

I. O'Donnell and E.D.T. Farmer

Suicidal behaviour on railways in the FRG pp. 419-426

A. Schmidtke

Suicide in the Hong Kong subway pp. 427-430

Mark S. Gaylord and David Lester

Psychiatric and preventative aspects of rail fatalities pp. 431-435

R.L. Symonds

A follow-up study of attempted railway suicides pp. 437-442

I. O'Donnell, A.J. Arthur and R.D.J. Farmer

Preventing suicide on the London underground pp. 443-446

R.V. Clarke and B. Poyner

National suicide prevention programme and railway suicide pp. 447-451

J. Beskow, J. Thorson and M. Öström

Imitative suicide on the Viennese subway pp. 453-457

G. Sonneck, E. Etzersdorfer and S. Nagel-Kuess

Psychological reactions of drivers to railway suicide pp. 459-469

T. Tranah and R.D.T. Farmer

'Person under train' incidents from the subway driver's point of view--A prospective 1-year follow-up study: The design, and medical and psychiatric data pp. 471-475

Tores Theorell, Heinz Leymann, Margareta Jodko, Kristoffer Konarski and Hans Erik Norbeck

Psychotherapy for train drivers after railway suicide pp. 477-478

D. Tang

Mental first aid pp. 479-482

Ø.T. Foss

A strategy for trauma debriefing after railway suicides pp. 483-487

Chris Williams, Joe Miller, Gilli Watson and Nigel Hunt

1994, volume 38, articles 2

The household production of health: Introduction pp. 201-204

Debra A. Schumann and W.Henry Mosley

The household production of health: Integrating social science perspectives on micro-level health determinants pp. 205-215

Peter Berman, Carl Kendall and Karabi Bhattacharyya

The developmental niche: A theoretical framework for analyzing the household production of health pp. 217-226

Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super

Child care and infectious respiratory disease during the first two years of life in a rural Kenyan community pp. 227-229

Charles M. Super, Constance H. Keefer and Sara Harkness

Social and psychological costs of preventive child health services in Haiti pp. 231-238

Jeannine Coreil, Antoine Augustin, Neal A. Halsey and Elizabeth Holt

Socio-economic causes and cultural explanations of childhood malnutrition among the Chagga of Tanzania pp. 239-251

Mary Howard

A causal model of high rates of child mortality pp. 253-268

Ann V. Millard

Felt versus enacted stigma: A concept revisited: Evidence from a study of people with epilepsy in remission pp. 269-274

Ann Jacoby

Alternative forms of ambulatory care: Implications for patients and physicians pp. 275-283

Elizabeth G. Lowell-Smith

Double burden or double blessing? Employment, motherhood and mortality in the longitudinal study of England and Wales pp. 285-297

Rosamund Weatherall, Heather Joshi and Susan Macran

A prospective cohort study investigating the explanation of socio-economic inequalities in health in the Netherlands pp. 299-308

J.P. Mackenbach, H. van de Mheen and K. Stronks

The conceptualization of meaning in illness pp. 309-316

Betsy L. Fife

Epidemiology as an investigative paradigm: The College of General Practitioners in the 1950s pp. 317-326

Thomas Osborne

A new perspective on threatened autonomy in elderly persons: The disempowering process pp. 327-338

Carol L. McWilliam, Judith Belle Brown, Janet L. Carmichael and Jocelyn M. Lehman

Fears of aids in Nigerian students: Dimensions of the Fear of Aids Scale (FAIDSS) in West Africa pp. 339-342

Adebowale Akande and Michael W. Ross

Association between maternal education and infant diarrhea in different household and community environments of Cebu, Philippines pp. 343-350

Patricia Dargent-Molina, Sherman A. James, David S. Strogatz and David A. Savitz

Mothering on crack cocaine: A grounded theory analysis pp. 351-361

Margaret H. Kearney, Sheigla Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum

Service attributes and the choice for STD health services in persons seeking a medical examination for an STD pp. 363-371

P.E.M. Leenaars, R. Rombouts and G. Kok

Social stress and state-to-state differences in smoking and smoking related mortality in the United States pp. 373-381

John P. Colby , Arnold S. Linsky and Murray A. Straus

Hot and cold in transformation: Is Iban medicine humoral? pp. 383-393

Robert J. Barrett and Rodney H. Lucas

1994, volume 38, articles 1

The disablement process pp. 1-14

Lois M. Verbrugge and Alan M. Jette

Disability, stigma and deviance pp. 15-22

Joan Susman

Perception of risks and benefits of in vitro fertilization, genetic engineering and biotechnology pp. 23-33

Darryl R.J. Macer

Government participation in physician negotiations in German economic policy as applied to universal health care coverage in the United States pp. 35-43

Francis D. Powell

Quality judgements by patients on general practice care: A literature analysis pp. 45-53

Michel Wensing, Richard Grol and Anton Smits

Equity in authorship: A strategy for assigning credit when publishing pp. 55-58

Erol Digiusto

Explanatory models of diabetes: Patient practitioner variation pp. 59-66

Marlene Zichi Cohen, Toni Tripp-Reimer, Christopher Smith, Bernard Sorofman and Sonja Lively

The relevance of drug injectors' social and risk networks for understanding and preventing HIV infection pp. 67-78

Alan Neaigus, Samuel R. Friedman, Richard Curtis, Don C. Des Jarlais, R. Terry Furst, Benny Jose, Patrice Mota, Bruce Stepherson, Meryl Sufian, Thomas Ward and Jerome W. Wright

Social networks and infectious disease: The Colorado Springs study pp. 79-88

A.S. Klovdahl, J.J. Potterat, D.E. Woodhouse, J.B. Muth, S.Q. Muth and W.W. Darrow

Preterm birth, low birthweight and the stressfulness of the household role for pregnant women pp. 89-96

C.W. Pritchard and P.Y.K. Teo Mfphm

Death for sale: A study of drug poisoning and deaths in Nigeria pp. 97-103

S.Ogoh Alubo

Making a killing south of the border: Transnational cigarette companies in Mexico and Guatemala pp. 105-115

Kenyon R. Stebbins

A follow-up of second generation Afro-Caribbeans and white British with a first admission diagnosis of schizophrenia: Attitudes to mental illness and psychiatric services of patients and relatives pp. 117-127

Dermot McGovern and Patricia Hemmings

Socio-geographical patterns of HIV-1 transmission in Kagera region, Tanzania pp. 129-134

J. Killewo, L. Dahlgren and A. Sandström

Knowledge and meaning: The AIDS education campaign in rural Northeast Thailand pp. 135-146

Chris Lyttleton

Change of occupation and retirement among Swedish farmers and farm workers in relation to those in other occupations: A study of "elimination" from farming during the period 1970-1988 pp. 147-151

Anders Thelin and Sverker Höglund

Reliability of the Spanish version of the Nottingham health profile in patients with stable end-stage renal disease pp. 153-158

Xavier Badia, Jordi Alonso, Max Brosa and Penny Lock

Quality of life and maladjustment associated with hair loss in women with alopecia androgenetica pp. 159-163

J. van der Donk, J.A.M. Hunfeld, J. Passchier, K.J. Knegt-Junk and C. Nieboer

A study of the relationship of rice cultivation and annual parasite incidence of malaria in India pp. 165-178

V.P. Sharma, Aruna Srivastava and B.N. Nagpal

Growth models and the HIV epidemic in Finland pp. 179-185

Markku Löytönen

Depression and the development of cancer: A meta-analysis pp. 187-192

Rob McGee, Sheila Williams and Mark Elwood

Height and the risk of acute myocardial infarction in Italian women pp. 193-196

Barbara D'Avanzo, Carlo La Vecchia and Eva Negri