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1993, volume 36, articles 12

Delay versus help seeking for breast cancer symptoms: A critical review of the literature on patient and provider delay pp. 1521-1534

Noreen C. Facione

Sexual behaviour in the general population of Sweden pp. 1535-1540

Claes Herlitz

Drug marketing in french-speaking African countries pp. 1541-1543

P. Chirac, A. Pikon, Y. Poinsignon and A. Vitry

Evaluating treatment efficacy by triangulation pp. 1545-1554

Margarita Kay, Jill Guernsey de Zapien, Carmen Altamirano Wilson and Marianne Yoder

The impact of war on the physical and mental health of the family: The Lebanese experience pp. 1555-1567

Laila Farhood, Huda Zurayk, Monique Chaya, Fadia Saadeh, Garbis Meshefedjian and Thuraya Sidani

Community types, socio-economic structure and IHD mortality--A contextual analysis based on Swedish aggregate data pp. 1569-1578

Bengt Starrin, Curt Hagquist, Gerry Larsson and Per-Gunnar Svensson

Predicting dentists' perceived occupational risk for HIV infection pp. 1579-1586

Carol Kunzel and Donald Sadowsky

A typology of care episodes experienced by people with schizophrenia in an english town pp. 1587-1595

Lesley Cotterill and Richard Thomas

Verbal exchanges in medical interviews: Implications and innovations pp. 1597-1604

Samuel M. Putnam and William B. Stiles

Intra-household food distribution among Guatemalan families in a supplementary feeding program: Behavior patterns pp. 1605-1612

Patrice L. Engle and Isabel Nieves

The cultural construction of childhood diarrhoea in rural Nicaragua: Relevance for epidemiology and health promotion pp. 1613-1624

George Davey Smith, Anna Gorter, Joost Hoppenbrouwer, Annemarie Sweep, Rosa Maria Perez, Carmen Gonzales, Patricia Morales, Josefina Pauw and Peter Sandiford

Satisfaction and change: A survey of volunteers in a hospice organisation pp. 1625-1633

David Field and Ian Johnson

A meta-analysis of condom effectiveness in reducing sexually transmitted HIV pp. 1635-1644

Susan C. Weller

How many people actually use condoms? An investigation of motel clients in Managua pp. 1645-1647

Anna Gorter, Esperanza Miranda, George Davey Smith, Pascual Ortells and Nicola Low

1993, volume 36, articles 11

Community financing of health care in Africa: An evaluation of the Bamako initiative pp. 1383-1395

Barbara McPake, Kara Hanson and Anne Mills

User charges for health services in developing countries: A review of the economic literature pp. 1397-1405

Barbara McPake

Nutrition and the commercialization of agriculture: Ten years later pp. 1407-1416

Kathleen M. DeWalt

Housing, stress, and physical well-being: Evidence from Thailand pp. 1417-1428

Theodore D. Fuller, John N. Edwards, Santhat Sermsri and Sairudee Vorakitphokatorn

Stress and exercise among the Japanese elderly pp. 1429-1441

Neal Krause, Linda Goldenhar, Jersey Liang, Gina Jay and Daisaku Maeda

Costs and resource utilization for the treatment of incomplete abortion in Kenya and Mexico pp. 1443-1453

Brooke R. Johnson, Janie Benson, Janet Bradley and Aurora Rábago Ordoñez

Border crossing for hospital care and its implications for the use of statewide data pp. 1455-1465

Winnie Yip and Harold S. Luft

Covert suicide among elderly Japanese females: Questioning unintensional drownings pp. 1467-1472

Ian R.H. Rockett and Gordon S. Smith

Physician prescribing decisions: The effects of situational involvement and task complexity on information acquisition and decision making pp. 1473-1482

Vijit Chinburapa, Lon N. Larson, Merrie Brucks, JoLaine Draugalis, J.Lyle Bootman and Christopher P. Puto

A retrospective analysis of the cost-effectiveness of dental sealants in a children's health center pp. 1483-1493

Jane A. Weintraub, Sally C. Stearns, Brian A. Burt, Eugenio Beltran and Stephen A. Eklund

Tobit, fixed effects, and cohort analyses of the relationship between severity and duration of rheumatoid arthritis pp. 1495-1502

J.Paul Leigh and James F. Fries

Traditional birth attendants and maternal mortality in Ghana pp. 1503-1507

Carol A. Eades, Christopher Brace, Lawrence Osei and Katherine D. LaGuardia

A critical appraisal of the demand/control model of the psychosocial work environment: Epistemological, social, behavioral and class considerations pp. 1509-1517

Carles Muntaner and Patricia J. O'Campo

1993, volume 36, articles 10

The geographical inequalities in mortality in Africa pp. 1243-1245

B.Folasade Iyun

Les inegalites geographiques de l'infection a vih et du sida en Afrique sud-saharienne pp. 1247-1256

Jeanne-Marie Amat-Roze

Evolution comparee de la mortalite en Afrique du nord de 1960 a nos jours pp. 1257-1265

Dominique Tabutin

Spatial distribution of mortality from leading notifiable diseases in Nigeria pp. 1267-1272

Layi Egunjobi

The inequalities of morbidity and mortality in Mauritius--Its ethic and geographic dimension pp. 1273-1283

Abdool Cader Kalla

Les inegalites geographiques de la mortalite au Cameroun pp. 1285-1290

Richard Dackam Ngatchou, Patrick Gubry and Emmanuel Ngwe

Differences de mortalite chez les Dogon de Boni pp. 1291-1296

E. Brown and M.H. Cazes

Geographie de la mortalite et de la natalite a pikine (senegal): Interets et limites des donnees d'etat civil dans les villes africaines pp. 1297-1311

Gérard Salem

L'inegalite geographique devant la mort en Asie du Sud, du Sud-Est et de l'Est pp. 1313-1317

Jacques Veron

The geographical inequalities of mortality in China pp. 1319-1323

Fang Ru-Kang

Spatial patterns of mortality in Bangladesh pp. 1325-1330

A.H.M. Raihan Sharif, Sheikh Md. Monzurul Huq and Mesbah-us-Saleheen

Regional inequalities of child mortality in Peninsular Malaysia with special reference to the differentials between Perlis and Kuala Terengganu pp. 1331-1334

Uwe Brehm

The geo-systemic model and mortality in Ubon-Ratchathani pp. 1335-1338

Luc Loslier

Aspects geographiques de la mortalite en Polynesie Francaise pp. 1339-1348

Emmanuel Vigneron

Geographical inequalities in mortality in Latin America pp. 1349-1355

Susana Isabel Curto de Casas

Disparites regionales et socio-economiques de la mortalite en Amerique Latine pp. 1357-1365

Emilio Fernando Orihuela-Egoavil

The problem of fuzzy cause-specific death rates in mortality context analysis: The case of Panama City pp. 1367-1371

S. Bock and P. Gans

Life expectancy and infant mortality in Latin America pp. 1373-1382

Jürgen Bähr and Rainer Wehrhahn

1993, volume 36, articles 9

Demographic variables in fetal and child mortality: Hmong in Thailand pp. 1109-1120

Peter Kunstadter, Sally Lennington Kunstadter, Chai Podhisita and Prasit Leepreecha

Processing narratives of self-destructive behavior in routine medical encounters: Health promotion, disease prevention, and the discourse of health care pp. 1121-1136

Howard Waitzkin and Theron Britt

Factors associated with health behaviour among mothers of lower socio-economic status: A British example pp. 1137-1144

Roisin Pill, T.J. Peters and M.R. Robling

Community participation in disease control pp. 1145-1150

Alvaro Bermejo and Amenuve Bekui

Communication between patients and physicians about terminal care: A survey in Japan pp. 1151-1159

Ichiro Kai, Gen Ohi, Eiji Yano, Yasuki Kobayashi, Tomoyo Miyama, Naoakira Niino and Koh-Ichi Naka

Social relationships of men at risk for AIDS pp. 1161-1167

Kerth O'Brien, Camille B. Wortman, Ronald C. Kessler and Jill G. Joseph

Acculturation and symptoms: A comparative study of reported health symptoms in three Samoan communities pp. 1169-1180

Joel M. Hanna and Maureen H. Fitzgerald

Re-adjustment of Japanese returnee children from an overseas sojourn pp. 1181-1186

Takeshi Tamura and Adrian Furnham

Highland-lowland contrasts in the impact of old world diseases in early colonial Ecuador pp. 1187-1195

Linda A. Newson

Maternal mortality in rural and urban Zimbabwe: Social and reproductive factors in an incident case-referent study pp. 1197-1205

Michael T Mbizvo, Susan Fawcus, Gunilla Lindmark and Lennarth Nyström

Maternal education and child survival: A comparative study of survey data from 17 countries pp. 1207-1227

George T. Bicego and J. Ties Boerma

The perception of AIDS in the Bété and Baoulé of the Ivory Coast pp. 1229-1235

Andrea Caprara, Dedy Seri, Giulio C. De Gregorio, Alessandro Parenzi, Carlos M. Salazar and Tapé Gozé

Letter to the editor pp. 1237-1237

Michael Nelson, Barrie M. Margetts and Alison E. Black

1993, volume 36, articles 8

Medical slang and its functions pp. 987-998

Robert H. Coombs, Sangeeta Chopra, Debra R. Schenk and Elaine Yutan

Health needs, demand for health services and expenditure across social groups in Italy: An empirical investigation pp. 999-1009

Vittorio Mapelli

Interpoint squared distance as a measure of spatial clustering pp. 1011-1016

S. Selvin, J. Schulman and D.W. Merrill

Reporting by parents of longstanding illness in their adolescent children pp. 1017-1022

Russell Ecob, Sally Macintyre and Patrick West

Enhancing appropriate drug use: The contribution of herbal medicine promotion: A case study in rural Thailand pp. 1023-1035

Amanda le Grand, Luechai Sri-ngernyuang and Pieter H. Streefland

Negotiating autism: Relations between parents and treatment staff pp. 1037-1046

David E. Gray

The impact of childhood living conditions on illness and mortality in adulthood pp. 1047-1052

Olle Lundberg

Socioeconomic disadvantage and child morbidity: An Australian longitudinal study pp. 1053-1061

W. Bor, J.M. Najman, M. Andersen, J. Morrison and G. Williams

Breastfeeding and weaning in a poor urban neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt: Maternal beliefs and perceptions pp. 1063-1069

Gail G. Harrison, Zahar S. Zaghloul, Osman M. Galal and Azza Gabr

Property rights and payment to patients for cell lines derived from human tissues: An economic analysis pp. 1071-1076

Warren Greenberg and Deborah Kamin

Social inequality in health--The role of the healthy worker effect pp. 1077-1086

Espen Dahl

Construction of a socio-economic index to facilitate analysis of health data in developing countries pp. 1087-1097

I. Cortinovis, V. Vella and J. Ndiku

Health effects of discontinuities in female employment and marital status pp. 1099-1104

Judith H. Hibbard and Clyde R. Pope

1993, volume 36, articles 7

The impact of war on children's health in Mozambique pp. 843-848

Julie Cliff and Abdul Razak Noormahomed

Obstacles to medical audit: British doctors speak pp. 849-856

Nick Black and Elizabeth Thompson

The body: From an immateriality to another pp. 857-865

Jean Benoist and Pascal Cathebras

Child health and the social environment of white and black children pp. 867-874

Peggy J. McGauhey and Barbara Starfield

Societal and ecological determinants of urban health: A case study of pre-reproductive mortality in 19th century Gibraltar pp. 875-892

L.A. Sawchuk

Anti-permissive attitudes to lifestyles associated with AIDS pp. 893-901

L.A. Nisbet and D.V. McQueen

Health related response to natural disasters: The case of the Bangladesh cyclone of 1991 pp. 903-914

M.Omar Rahman and Michael Bennish

Towards understanding treatment preferences of hospital physicians pp. 915-924

P. Denig, F.M. Haaijer-Ruskamp, H. Wesseling and A. Versluis

Maternal education and child feeding practices in rural Bangladesh pp. 925-935

Georgia S. Guldan, Marian F. Zeitlin, Alexa S. Beiser, Charles M. Super, Stanley N. Gershoff and Sabita Datta

Child feeding practices in a rural area of Zimbabwe pp. 937-947

Sheila Cosminsky, Marvellous Mhloyi and Douglas Ewbank

HIV transmission through social and geographical networks in Uganda pp. 949-955

Christine Obbo

Interfacing anthropology and epidemiology: The Bedouin Arab infant feeding study pp. 957-964

G.A. Lewando Hundt and M.R. Forman

Prostitution and the military: Planning AIDS intervention in Belize pp. 965-979

Stephanie C. Kane

1993, volume 36, articles 6

Health consequences of employment and unemployment: Longitudinal evidence for young men and women pp. 715-724

Brian Graetz

The structure and properties of the sense of coherence scale pp. 725-733

Aaron Antonovsky

Increasing reliance on user fees as a response to public health financing crises: A case study of El Salvador pp. 735-747

John L. Fiedler

Suicide and unemployment in Australia 1907-1990 pp. 749-756

Stephen Morrell, Richard Taylor, Susan Quine and Charles Kerr

Patient control over dying: Responses of health care professionals pp. 757-765

Merrijoy J. Kelner and Ivy L. Bourgeault

The attitudes of patients and physicians towards placebo treatment--A comparative study pp. 767-774

Niels Lynöe, Bengt Mattsson and Mikael Sandlund

Primary health workers in North East Brazil pp. 775-782

Christel Stock-Iwamoto and Rolf Korte

Social science and the study of pain since Zborowski: A need for a new agenda pp. 783-791

John A. Encandela

Witchcraft-explained childhood tragedies in Tlaxcala, and their medical sequelae pp. 793-805

Horacio Fabrega and Hugo Nutini

Socioeconomic, environmental, demographic and behavioral factors associated with occurrence of diarrhea in young children in the Republic of Congo pp. 807-816

Nancy B. Mock, Thomas A. Sellers, Ahmed A. Abdoh and Robert R. Franklin

Prevalence of smoking in physicians and medical students, and the generation effect in the Netherlands pp. 817-822

Heleen M. Dekker, Caspar W. N. Looman, Hans P. Adriaanse and Paul J. van der Maas

What do students find attractive about the practice of medicine?: A pattern of stability over time pp. 823-833

Janet M. Simpson

Letter to the editor pp. 841-841

Michael Nelson, Barrie M. Margetts and Alison E. Black

1993, volume 36, articles 5

Developing a primary health care management information system that supports the pursuit of equity, effectiveness and affordability pp. 585-596

Khatidja Husein, Olusoji Adeyi, John Bryant and Noorddin B. Cara

Minorities and mental health pp. 597-607

David Halpern

White liver: A cultural disorder resembling aids pp. 609-614

Harry D. Kerr

Attitudes towards disabilities in a multicultural society pp. 615-623

Mary T. Westbrook, Varoe Legge and Mark Pennay

Primary mental health care in Nicaragua pp. 625-629

Richard Byng

Predictors of psychological distress among southeast Asian refugees pp. 631-639

Rita Chi-Ying Chung and Marjorie Kagawa-Singer

Changes in life satisfaction over a two and a half year period among very elderly people living in London pp. 641-655

Ann Bowling, Morag Farquhar, Emily Grundy and Juliet Formby

Professional constructions of a 'lay' illness: 'Nerves' in a rural 'coloured' community in South Africa pp. 657-663

John Reynolds and Leslie Swartz

Evaluation of a face-to-face weaning food intervention in Kwara state, Nigeria: Knowledge, trial, and adoption of a home-prepared weaning food pp. 665-672

Katharine S. Guptill, Steven A. Esrey, Gbolahan A. Oni and Kenneth H. Brown

Blood is hotter than water: Popular use of hot and cold in Kel Tamasheq illness management pp. 673-681

Sara C. Randall

Comparing nurses' and patients' pain evaluations: A study of hospitalized patients in Kuwait pp. 683-692

Ann Harrison

Validity and reliability testing of the FAMCARE scale: Measuring family satisfaction with advanced cancer care pp. 693-701

Linda J. Kristjanson

The impact of induced abortions on fertility in Israel pp. 703-707

Eitan F. Sabatello

Letter to the editor pp. 713-714

Kaining Zhang

1993, volume 36, articles 4

Financing health care in rural China: Preliminary report of a nationwide study pp. 385-391

Gu Xingyuan, Gerald Bloom, Tang Shenglan, Zhu Yingya, Zhou Shouqi and Chen Xingbao

Stress, anxiety and depression: Women's accounts of their health problems pp. 393-402

Vivienne Walters

Malaria chemoprophylaxis compliance in pregnant women: A cost-effectiveness analysis of alternative interventions pp. 403-407

Deborah L. Helitzer-Allen, Deborah A. McFarland, Jack J. Wirima and Allen P. Macheso

Problems in the measurement and international comparison of socio-economic differences in mortality pp. 409-418

Tapani Valkonen

Gender differences in health perceptions and their predictors pp. 419-427

Ofra Anson, Esther Paran, Lily Neumann and Dov Chernichovsky

Anthropology and AIDS: The cultural context of sexual risk behavior among urban Baganda women in Kampala, Uganda pp. 429-439

Janet W. McGrath, Charles B. Rwabukwali, Debra A. Schumann, Jonnie Pearson-Marks, Sylvia Nakayiwa, Barbara Namande, Lucy Nakyobe and Rebecca Mukasa

Socioeconomic status and physical health, how are they related? An empirical study based on twins reared apart and twins reared together pp. 441-450

Paul Lichtenstein, Jennifer R. Harris, Nancy L. Pedersen and G.E. McClearn

Recent trends in sex mortality ratios for adults in developed countries pp. 451-462

Ingrid Waldron

Social and epidemiological aspects of Guinea worm control pp. 463-474

Martine Audibert, D. Coulibaly, O. Doumbo, B. Kodio, G. Soula and S. Traore

Experiences of Australian mothers who gave birth either at home, at a birth centre, or in hospital labour wards pp. 475-483

John D. Cunningham

Ensuring access to health care with the introduction of user fees: A Kenyan example pp. 485-494

Joyce H. Huber

The Latin American trial of psychosocial support during pregnancy: A social intervention evaluated through an experimental design pp. 495-507

Ana Langer, Cesar Victoria, Magda Victoria, Fernando Barros, Ubaldo Farnot, Jose Belizan and Jose Villar

Correlates of AIDS knowledge in samples of the general population pp. 509-524

Armando Peruga and David D. Celentano

Oral rehydration therapy--Qualitative studies of balance between pragmatism and scientific rigour in managing diarrhoea pp. 525-531

Bollag Ueli

Excess mortality among the unmarried: A case study of Japan pp. 533-546

Noreen Goldman and Yuanreng Hu

Life satisfaction and health in cancer patients, orthopedic patients and healthy individuals pp. 547-556

Shulamith Kreitler, Samario Chaitchik, Yoram Rapoport, Hans Kreitler and Rahel Algor

Geographic patterns of low birth weight in Hawaii pp. 557-564

Edith C. Kieffer, Greg R. Alexander, Nancy D Lewis and Joanne Mor

Public Attitudes to charging for some national health service services pp. 565-568

P. Gooder, M. Charny and S. Farrow

Patterns of dentist location: Lansing, Michigan 1950-1991 pp. 569-573

Elizabeth G. Lowell-Smith

Letter to the editor pp. 583-583

Ernest H. Friedman

1993, volume 36, articles 3

Why changing the U.S. health care system is so difficult pp. iii-vi

Barbara Wolfe

The competing discourses of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: Discourses of rights and empowerment vs discourses of control and exclusion pp. 175-194

Gill Seidel

Descriptive and normative ethics: Class, context and confidentiality for mothers with HIV pp. 195-202

Kate H. Brown

Individual rights vs the public health: The problem of the Asian hepatitis B carriers in America pp. 203-216

William Muraskin

The quality of social roles as predictors of morbidity and mortality pp. 217-225

Judith H. Hibbard and Clyde R. Pope

Managerial style and health promotion programs pp. 227-235

Kim Witte

The Islamic dialogue with African traditional religion: Divination and health care pp. 237-247

Jon P. Kirby

The power of compassion: Truth-telling among American doctors in the care of dying patients pp. 249-264

Naoko T. Miyaji

Post-empiricism and psychiatry: Meaning and methodology in cross-cultural research pp. 265-272

Patrick J. Bracken

Living longer but doing worse: Assessing health status in elderly persons at two points in time in Manitoba, Canada, 1971 and 1983 pp. 273-282

Noralou P. Roos, Betty Havens and Charlyn Black

Colostrum and ideas about bad milk: A case study from Guinea-Bissau pp. 283-288

Geir Gunnlaugsson and Jónína Einarsdóttir

Type A behavior: Contextual effects within a Southern black community pp. 289-295

William W. Dressler

Women's work and infant care in the Philippines pp. 297-304

Rebecca Miles Doan and Barry M. Popkin

Intrahousehold allocation of resources in larger and smaller Mexican households pp. 305-310

Roberta D. Baer and Lorena Madrigal

Women's views of ultrasonography: A comparison of women's experiences of antenatal ultrasound screening with cerebral ultrasound of their newborn infant pp. 311-315

Karen Thorpe, Lisa Harker, Alison Pike and Neil Marlow

Socio-cultural determinants of child mortality in Southern Peru: Including some methodological considerations pp. 317-331

Kees De Meer, Roland Bergman and John S. Kusner

Pregnancy and childbirth among the amish pp. 333-342

Karla Campanella, Jill E. Korbin and Louise Acheson

Factors associated with high-quantity prescriptions of benzodiazepines in Sweden pp. 343-351

Dag Isacson, Kerstin Bingefors, Mats Wennberg and Monica Dahlström

Parental social support and child behaviour problems in different populations and socioeconomic groups: A methodological study pp. 353-360

Gunilla M. Thernlund and Margarita A. K. Samuelsson

Dental care use by U.S. veterans eligible for VA care pp. 361-370

Gregg H. Gilbert, Laurence G. Branch and Jeffrey Longmate

Mothers brought dead: An enquiry into causes of delay pp. 371-372

Sadiqua N. Jafarey and Razia Korejo

Perception of diarrhoeal diseases among mothers and mothers-to-be implications for health education in Saudi Arabia pp. 373-377

Parveen Rasheed

Letter to the editor pp. 383-383

Ernest H. Friedman

1993, volume 36, articles 2

Editorial pp. vii-vii

Peter J. M. McEwan

Social research in health and the American sociopolitical context: The changing fortunes of medical sociology pp. 95-102

David Mechanic

Health research, a key to equity in health development pp. 103-108

V. Ramalingaswami

The promotion of health through planned sociopolitical change: Challenges for research and policy pp. 109-117

John B. McKinlay

Geography of health: Some trends and perspectives pp. 119-123

Yola Verhasselt

Health transition: The cultural, social and behavioural determinants of health in the Third World pp. 125-135

John C. Caldwell

Reflections on the economist and health economics in an international setting pp. 137-141

Ralph Andreano

In search of a contemporary theory for understanding mortality change pp. 143-155

Christopher J. L. Murray and Lincoln C. Chen

Health and poverty: Past, present and prospects for the future pp. 157-166

Jake M. Najman

Self, identity and the naming question: Reflections on the language of disability pp. 167-173

Irving Kenneth Zola

1993, volume 36, articles 1

On the relationship between knowledge and action in health policy pp. v-vii

Peter J. M. McEwan

Introduction pp. 1-5

Margaret Stacey and Virginia Olesen

Healthy bodies, social bodies: Men's and women's concepts and practices of health in everyday life pp. 7-14

Robin Saltonstall

Gender differences in the perceptions of common cold symptoms pp. 15-20

Sally Macintyre

Gender inequalities in health: Social position, affective disorders and minor physical morbidity pp. 21-32

Jennie Popay, Mel Bartley and Charlie Owen

Gender and inequalities in health in later life pp. 33-46

Sara Arber and Jay Ginn

Prostitutes and chimney sweeps both have problems: Towards full integration of both sexes in the study of occupational health pp. 47-55

Karen Messing, Lucie Dumais and Patrizia Romito

Reconceptualizing gender in physician-patient relationships pp. 57-66

Candace West

Structure and struggle: Implementing a social model of a well woman clinic in Glasgow pp. 67-76

Carole Craddock and Margaret Reid

Keeping children healthy--The intermediate domain pp. 77-83

Berry Mayall

Issues of gender in gamete donation pp. 85-93

Erica Haimes