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1993, volume 37, articles 12

Gender differences in occupational mobility and structure of employment in the British Civil Service pp. 1415-1425

Ron Roberts, Eric Brunner, Ian White and Michael Marmot

Judging clinical research questions: What criteria are used? pp. 1427-1430

H. J. Sutherland, E. M. Meslin, R. da Cunha and J. E. Till

Estimating hospital admission patterns using Medicare data pp. 1431-1439

Margaret Higgins Radany and Harold S. Luft

Applications of O.R. in health in developing countries: A review pp. 1441-1450

S. Datta

Physician uncertainty and the art of persuasion pp. 1451-1459

John Rizzo

Dental care utilization over time pp. 1461-1472

Tryfon Beazoglou, L. Jackson Brown and Dennis Heffley

Formulating selection policies for assisted reproduction pp. 1473-1480

Ken Daniels and Karyn Taylor

Coping with the Gulf war: Subculture differences among ischemic heart disease patients in Israel pp. 1481-1488

Sara Carmel, Ilan Koren and Reuben Ilia

International migration and control of communicable diseases pp. 1489-1499

George A. Gellert

Accessibility of dental services according to family income in a non-insured population pp. 1501-1508

Jostein Grytten, Dorthe Holst and Petter Laake

A comparison of social support and social networks of black parents and white parents with chronically ill children pp. 1509-1520

Holly Ann Williams

The Ray Alexander workers clinic--A model for worker-based health services in South Africa? pp. 1521-1527

L. London

Development and consequences of group living in Sweden: A new mode of care for the demented elderly pp. 1529-1538

Lena Annerstedt

Evaluation of aids prevention among homosexual and bisexual men in Switzerland pp. 1539-1544

F. Dubois-Arber, J. -B. Masur, D. Hausser, E. Zimmermann and F. Paccaud

Life events, chronic difficulties and vulnerability factors preceding breast cancer pp. 1545-1555

Siegfried Geyer

Not worth the risk? Attitudes of adults with learning difficulties, and their informal and formal carers to the hazards of everyday life pp. 1557-1564

Bob Heyman and Sarah Huckle

Growth monitoring and the promotion of breastfeeding pp. 1565-1578

Dominique Behague

Primary mental health care in Nicaragua five years later pp. 1585-1586

Pau Pérez Sales

Letters to the editor pp. 1585-1585

Russell V. Luepker

1993, volume 37, articles 11

Introduction pp. 1283-1284

Rita S. Gallin and Pavalavalli Govindasamy

Health-seeking behavior of Rwandan women pp. 1285-1292

Joanne Csete

Children's nutritional status in female-headed households in the Dominican Republic pp. 1293-1301

F. Catherine Johnson and Beatrice Lorge Rogers

Influences of mothers' and fathers' income on children's nutritional status in Guatemala pp. 1303-1312

Patrice L. Engle

Agricultural productivity, seasonality and gender bias in rural nutrition: Empirical evidence from South India pp. 1313-1319

Suresh Babu, Susheela Thirumaran and T. C. Mohanam

Midwives in the Mexican health system pp. 1321-1329

Pilar Alicia Parra

The education and contribution of women health care professionals in Saudi Arabia: The case of nursing pp. 1331-1343

Nagat El-Sanabary

Rural origin as a risk factor for maternal and child health in periurban Bolivia pp. 1345-1349

Deborah E. Bender, Tirsa Rivera and Donna Madonna

The health status of women in Oaxaca: Determinants and consequences pp. 1351-1358

Mary Winter, Earl W. Morris and Arthur D. Murphy

Prenatal diagnosis and sex selection in 19 nations pp. 1359-1366

Dorothy C. Wertz and John C. Fletcher

Family composition strategies in rural north India pp. 1367-1376

Susan S. Wadley

When more means less: Assessing the impact of dairy 'development' on the lives and health of women in rural Rajasthan (India) pp. 1377-1389

Miriam Sharma and Urmila Vanjani

Child and maternal health and international economic policies pp. 1391-1400

Linda M. Whiteford

AIDS action-research with women in Kinshasa, Zaire pp. 1401-1413

Brooke Grundfest Schoepf

1993, volume 37, articles 10

Medically unnecessary cesarean section births: Introduction to a symposium pp. 1177-1198

Carol Sakala

Caesarean section in Britain and the United States 12% or 24%: Is either the right rate? pp. 1199-1218

Colin Francome and Wendy Savage

The Mount Sinai cesarean section reduction program: An update after 6 years pp. 1219-1222

Stephen A. Myers and Norbert Gleicher

Cesarean section: Medical benefits and costs pp. 1223-1231

Elizabeth L. Shearer

Midwifery care and out-of-hospital birth settings: How do they reduce unnecessary cesarean section births? pp. 1233-1250

Carol Sakala

The effect of physician characteristics on clinical behavior: Cesarean section in New York State pp. 1251-1260

A. Dale Tussing and Martha A. Wojtowycz

Explaining excessive rates of cesareans and other childbirth interventions: Contributions from contemporary theories of gender and psychosocial development pp. 1261-1269

Alice Katherine LoCicero

Psychosocial impact of cesarean section on the family: A literature review pp. 1271-1281

Cynthia S. Mutryn

1993, volume 37, articles 9

Economic and demographic research on malaria: A review of the evidence pp. 1093-1108

Melba Gomes

Determining malaria effects in rural Colombia pp. 1109-1114

Elssy Bonilla and A. Rodriguez

The impact of malaria on labour use and efficiency in the Sudan pp. 1115-1119

El Tahir Mohamed Nur

Agricultural land use patterns and malaria conditions in Kenya pp. 1121-1130

Joseph K. Wang'Ombe and Germano M. Mwabu

Economic and social consequences of malaria in new colonization projects in Brazil pp. 1131-1136

Donald Sawyer

Malaria rates and fate: A socioeconomic study of malaria in Brazil pp. 1137-1145

Rogelio E. Fernandez Castilla and Diana Oya Sawyer

Malaria and mobility in Thailand pp. 1147-1154

Anchalee Singhanetra-Renard

Human mobility and malaria risk in the Naya river basin of Colombia pp. 1155-1167

Elías Sevilla-Casas

Illness perception: Social cost and coping-strategies of malaria cases pp. 1169-1176

Ruwani Jayawardene

1993, volume 37, articles 8

Complexity, conflict, chaos, coherence, coercion and civility pp. 969-974

Aaron Antonovsky

On conflict resolution and change pp. 974-976

F. M. Mburu

A good word for the "Young man [or woman] with a gun": Whose violence? Whose "Salutogenesis"? pp. 977-978

Howard Waitzkin

Sense of coherence and sociology of emotions pp. 978-979

Johannes Siegrist

Rejoinder pp. 980-981

Aaron Antonovsky

Alternative or additional medicine? An exploratory study in general practice pp. 983-988

Joanna Murray and Simon Shepherd

Dry and tight: Sexual practices and potential AIDS risk in Zaire pp. 989-994

Judith E. Brown, Okako Bibi Ayowa and Richard C. Brown

Programmes de nutrition en milieu rural aux Philippines pp. 995-1003

Emilio Fernando Orihuela-Egoavil

The impact of a child death on marital adjustment pp. 1005-1010

Jake M. Najman, John C. Vance, Fran Boyle, Gary Embleton, Bill Foster and John Thearle

Social class gradients in years of potential life lost in Switzerland pp. 1011-1018

Valeria Beer, Brigitte Bisig and Felix Gutzwiller

Health behavior: Issues, contradictions and dilemmas pp. 1019-1034

Angelo A. Alonzo

Variation in hemodialysis patient compliance according to demographic characteristics pp. 1035-1043

Sherry I. Bame, Nancy Petersen and Nelda P. Wray

The hoarding habit, countertransference, and consultation anthropology in a Peruvian psychiatric hospital pp. 1045-1054

William W. Stein

Inequalities in women's and men's ill-health: Britain and Finland compared pp. 1055-1068

Sara Arber and Eero Lahelma

Determinants of lactation performance across time in an urban population from Mexico pp. 1069-1078

Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Sofia Segura-Millán, Ernesto Pollitt and Kathryn G. Dewey

Working with community organizations to evaluate potential disease clusters pp. 1079-1085

David R. Graber and Tim E. Aldrich

1993, volume 37, articles 7

State authority, medical dominance, and trends in the regulation of the health professions: The Ontario case pp. 841-850

David Coburn

Explorations in consultation of the public and health professionals on priority setting in an inner London health district pp. 851-857

Ann Bowling, Bobbie Jacobson and Lesley Southgate

African women's control over their sexuality in an era of AIDS: A study of the Yoruba of Nigeria pp. 859-872

I. O. Orubuloye, John C. Caldwell and Pat Caldwell

Ante-natal screening: What constitutes 'benefit'? pp. 873-878

Gavin Mooney and Mette Lange

MMPI profiles of male and female migraine sufferers pp. 879-882

B. D. Kirkcaldy, E. Kobylinska and A. F. Furnham

The effect of a warning about putative adverse events on drug prescribing in general practice pp. 883-886

A. N. Thomson and P. M. Barham

Social disintegration and the spread of AIDS--II: Meltdown of sociogeographic structure in urban minority neighborhoods pp. 887-896

Rodrick Wallace

Essential and non-essential drugs marketed by the 20 largest European pharmaceutical companies in developing countries pp. 897-904

Robert Hartog

Physical health status at 36 years in a British national birth cohort pp. 905-916

D. J. L. Kuh and M. E. J. Wadsworth

Hispanic Americans and the state mental hospitals in Texas: Ethnic parity as a latent function of a fiscal incentive policy pp. 917-926

Jeffrey W. Swanson, Charles E. Holzer and Vijay K. Ganju

Problems and prospects for health sector links in the Southern African region: The role of South Africa pp. 927-935

Allison Beattie, Laetitia Rispel and Michelle Booysen

Reasoning about childhood nutritional deficiencies by mothers in rural India: A cognitive analysis pp. 937-952

Malathi Sivaramakrishnan and Vimla L. Patel

1993, volume 37, articles 6

Foreword pp. vii-vii

Robert Earickson

A medical geographical anniversary pp. 701-710

Frank A. Barrett

Space in its place: Developing the link in medical geography pp. 711-717

Robin A. Kearns and Alun E. Joseph

On the validity of language: Speaking, knowing and understanding in medical geography pp. 719-724

Joseph L. Scarpaci

Do places matter? A multi-level analysis of regional variations in health-related behaviour in Britain pp. 725-733

Craig Duncan, Kelvyn Jones and Graham Moon

Ambiocontrol as a primary factor of health pp. 735-743

Luc Loslier

Maternal mortality in Africa: 1980-87 pp. 745-752

Bimal Kanti Paul

Cancer clusters: The importance of monitoring multiple geographic scales pp. 753-759

Dona Schneider, Michael R. Greenberg, Milton H. Donaldson and Daiwoo Choi

(Over)eating success: The health consequences of the restoration of capitalism in rural China pp. 761-770

Christopher J. Smith

Lymphoma, multiple myeloma and leukaemia among French farmers in relation to pesticide exposure pp. 771-777

Jean-François Viel and Sylvia T. Richardson

Epidemiological transition and geographical discontinuities: The case of cardiovascular mortality in French Polynesia pp. 779-790

Emmanuel Vigneron

Modelling psychosocial effects of exposure to solid waste facilities pp. 791-804

Susan J. Elliott, S.Martin Taylor, Stephen Walter, David Stieb, John Frank and John Eyles

Worrying about waste: Living close to solid waste disposal facilities in Southern Ontario pp. 805-812

John Eyles, S.Martin Taylor, Nancy Johnson and Jamie Baxter

On the use of socio-demographic indicators in local health planning: A Canadian non-metropolitan perspective pp. 813-822

Alun E. Joseph and R.Grant Hollett

Avoidable mortality in Québec and its regions pp. 823-831

Robert Pampalon

Variation in duration of hospital stay between hospitals and between doctors within hospitals pp. 833-839

Gert P. Westert, Anna P. Nieboer and Peter P. Groenewegen

1993, volume 37, articles 5

Identifying distress among general practitioners: Predictors of psychological ill-health and job dissatisfaction pp. 575-581

V.J. Sutherland and C.L. Cooper

The relationship between the cost of community care and the dependency of old people pp. 583-590

Eamon O'Shea and John Blackwell

Patient satisfaction with communication in general surgery: Problems of measurement and improvement pp. 591-602

Philip Meredith

Housing stressors, social support and psychological distress pp. 603-612

Carolyn A. Smith, Christopher J. Smith, Robin A. Kearns and Max W. Abbott

Renal disease and black Americans: Selected issues pp. 613-621

Ivor Lensworth Livingston

Determinants of regional differences in lung cancer mortality in the Netherlands pp. 623-631

A.E. Kunst, C.W.N. Looman and J.P. Mackenbach

Women's satisfaction with maternity health care services in Finland pp. 633-638

Hellevi Kojo-Austin, Maili Malin and Elina Hemminki

The use of preventive health care services: Carrier testing for the genetic disorder haemophilia pp. 639-648

I. Varekamp, Th.P.B.M. Suurmeijer, F.R. Rosendaal and A.H.J.T. Bröcker-Vriends

Maternal perceptions of pneumonia and pneumonia signs in Pakistani children pp. 649-660

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

Sexual practices and attitudes of street youth in Belo Horizonte, Brazil pp. 661-670

Marcela Raffaelli, Regina Campos, Alice Payne Merritt, Eliana Siqueira, Carlos Mauricio Antunes, Richard Parker, Marilia Greco, Dirceu Greco, Neal Halsey and The Street Youth Study Group

Me' winik: Discovery of the biomedical equivalence for a Maya ethnomedical syndrome pp. 671-678

E.A. Berlin, V.M. Jara A., B. Berlin, D.E. Breedlove, T.O. Duncan and R.M. Laughlin

Focus group interviews about AIDS in Rakai district of Uganda pp. 679-684

Joseph K. Konde-Lule, M. Musagara and S. Musgrave

Family planning practice in Central Sudan pp. 685-689

Taha El Tahir Taha

Letter to the editor: Constructing generaliseable socio-economic indices pp. 695-695

Roy Carr-Hill

1993, volume 37, articles 4

Women and tropical diseases: Introduction pp. 441-443

Lenore Manderson, Jennifer Jenkins and Marcel Tanner

Leprosy in women: Characteristics and repercussions pp. 445-456

Marian Ulrich, Ana Maria Zulueta, Gisela Cáceres-Dittmar, Celsa Sampson, Maria Eugenia Pinardi, Elsa Maria Rada and Nacarid Aranzazu

An historical and clinical review of the interaction of leprosy and pregnancy: A cycle to be broken pp. 457-472

M.E. Duncan

Women and malaria--special risks and appropriate control strategy pp. 473-480

Rachel Reuben

Bilharzia and the boys: Questioning common assumptions pp. 481-492

Melissa Parker

Adam's rib awry? Women and schistosomiasis pp. 493-501

Edward H. Michelson

Women and congenital Chagas' disease in Santa Cruz, Bolivia: Epidemiological and sociocultural aspects pp. 503-511

Esperanza Azogue

Gender and tropical diseases: A new research focus pp. 513-520

Eva M. Rathgeber and Carol Vlassoff

Strategies of influence in medical authorship pp. 521-530

Judy Z. Segal

Factors influencing self-diagnosis and treatment of perceived helminthic infection in a rural Guatemalan community pp. 531-539

S. Booth, T. Johns and C.Y. Lopez-Palacios

Cost-effectiveness of neonatal screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy--How does this compare to existing neonatal screening for metabolic disorders? pp. 541-547

T. Rosenberg, H.K. Jacobs, R. Thompson and J.M. Horne

Organizational predictors of outcomes of long-stay nursing home residents pp. 549-554

James E. Rohrer, Elizabeth T. Momany and Wei Chang

The work patterns of lactating women in Madura pp. 555-563

Lenore J. Launer

Consensus in medical communication pp. 565-569

F.J. Dodd, H.A. Donegan, W.G. Kernohan, R.V. Geary and R.A.B. Mollan

1993, volume 37, articles 3

Anthropological perspectives on chronic illness: Introduction pp. 281-283

Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts and Gay Becker

'High-pertension'--The uses of a chronic folk illness for personal adaptation pp. 285-294

Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts

Redefining health: Living with cancer pp. 295-304

Marjorie Kagawa-Singer

The dilemma of seeking urgent care: Asthma episodes and emergency service use pp. 305-313

Gay Becker, Susan Janson-Bjerklie, Patricia Benner, Kathleen Slobin and Sandra Ferketich

Self-care and multiple sclerosis: A view from two cultures pp. 315-329

Judith McLaughlin and Ib Zeeberg

Life stress, social support and clinical depression: A reanalysis of the literature pp. 331-342

Runar Vilhjalmsson

Health care financing for the elderly in Japan pp. 343-353

Yasuki Kobayashi and Michael R. Reich

Health care behavior on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast pp. 355-368

Bruce Barrett

User fees plus quality equals improved access to health care: Results of a field experiment in Cameroon pp. 369-383

Jennie I. Litvack and Claude Bodart

Ways of coping with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Development of an illness management questionnaire pp. 385-391

Colette Ray, William Weir, David Stewart, Patricia Miller and Geoffrey Hyde

The general practitioner's use of time: Is it influenced by the remuneration system? pp. 393-399

Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen and Gavin Mooney

Sexual behaviors relevant to HIV transmission in a rural African population: How much can a KAP survey tell us? pp. 401-412

Doris Schopper, Serge Doussantousse and John Orav

Assessment of trends in geographical inequalities in infant mortality pp. 413-417

F. Vásquez-Vizoso, J. Castilla, M. Pollán and G. López-Abente

Motorcycling safety research: A review of the social and behavioural literature pp. 419-429

D. J. Chesham, D. R. Rutter and Lyn Quine

Concurrent utilization of chiropractic, prescription medicines, nonprescription medicines and alternative health care pp. 431-435

Herbert C. Northcott and John A. Bachynsky

1993, volume 37, articles 2

Letter to the editor pp. I-II

T. Patrick Hill

State authority, medical dominance, and trends in the regulation of the health professions: The Ontario case pp. 129-138

David Coburn

Des enfants pour la vieillesse: Forme de la Fratrie et soutien aux parents âgés dans le sud-ouest rural français pp. 139-151

Serge Clément

The utility of health at different stages in life: A quantitative approach pp. 153-158

Jan J. V. Busschbach, Dick J. Hessing and Frank Th. De Charro

A longitudinal study of the impact of behavioural change intervention on cleanliness, diarrhoeal morbidity and growth of children in rural Bangladesh pp. 159-171

Nasar U. Ahmed, Marian F. Zeitlin, Alexa S. Beiser, Charles M. Super and Stanley N. Gershoff

Cost-effectiveness analysis of prenatal screening and vaccination against hepatitis B virus--The case of Belgium pp. 173-181

G. Tormans, P. Van Damme, G. Carrin, R. Clara and W. Eylenbosch

Determinants of infant mortality in Malawi: A spatial perspective pp. 183-198

Ezekiel Kalipeni

Determinants of pregnancy outcomes and targeting of maternal health services in Jamaica pp. 199-211

Paul Gertler, Omar Rahman, Chris Feifer and Deanna Ashley

Disease and mortality among gold miners of Ghana: Colonial government and mining company attitudes and policies, 1900-1938 pp. 213-232

Raymond Dumett

Social determinants of child health in Yemen pp. 233-240

Cynthia Myntti

La maison du MBOMBO: Rite therapeutique pour les enfants a hauts risques dans le Zaire rural pp. 241-252

Véronique Goblet-Vanormelingen

An application of Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour to predict mothers' intention to use oral rehydration therapy in a rural area of Benin pp. 253-261

Assomption MahougbéHounsa, Gaston Godin, Eusébe Alihonou, Pierre Valois and Jacques Girard

Vasectomy as a reason for donor insemination pp. 263-266

Michael Humphrey and Heather Humphrey

The relationship between parenting stress and social support in mothers of children with learning disabilities: A Chinese experience pp. 267-274

Veronica Pearson and Tim W. L. Chan

1993, volume 37, articles 1

Editorial note pp. I-I

Peter J. M. McEwan

Anthropology in a multidisciplinary field: Substance abuse: Introduction pp. 1-3

M. Jean Gilbert

Integration and exchange in multidisciplinary alcohol research pp. 5-13

William Delaney and Genevieve Ames

Knowledge for use: Anthropology and community-centered substance abuse research pp. 15-25

Merrill Singer

The value of ethnographic alcohol studies: A psychologist's perspective pp. 27-30

Patrick B. Johnson

Cost-effectiveness league tables: More harm than good? pp. 33-40

Michael Drummond, George Torrance and James Mason

Unemployment and mental health: A critical review pp. 41-52

Douglas Ezzy

Predicting the uptake of health checks in general practice: Invitation methods and patients' health beliefs pp. 53-59

Paul Norman

Queueing for coronary surgery during severe supply-demand mismatch in a Canadian referral centre: A case study of implicit rationing pp. 61-67

C. David Naylor, Carey M. Levinton, Susan Wheeler and Linda Hunter

Tacit models of disability underlying health status instruments pp. 69-75

Sue Ziebland, Ray Fitzpatrick and Crispin Jenkinson

Knowledge and attitudes about AIDS of residents of greater Athens pp. 77-83

Joannes Chliaoutakis, Fotini Socrataki, Christina Darviri, Nikos Gousgounis and Deanne Trakas

Organizational and environmental determinants of the performance of public health units pp. 85-95

François Champagne, Nicole Leduc, Jean-Louis Denis and Raynald Pineault

Ors and the treatment of childhood diarrhea in Managua, Nicaragua pp. 97-103

Patricia M. Hudelson

Attitudes of medical professionals toward euthanasia pp. 105-114

James G. Anderson and David P. Caddell

Criterion validation of the Nottingham health profile: Patient views of surgery for benign prostatic hypertrophy pp. 115-122

H. A. Doll, N. A. Black, A. B. Flood and K. McPherson

Letter to the editor pp. 127-127

Ernest H. Friedman