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1992, volume 34, articles 12

Introduction pp. 1303-1303

Bethel Ann Powers

Feeling old versus being old: Views of troubled aging pp. 1305-1315

Mary Christine Cremin

"It's like you're down on a bed of affliction": Aging and diabetes among black Americans pp. 1317-1323

Barbara V. Reid

Intimacy, domesticity and pet therapy with the elderly: Expectation and experience among nursing home volunteers pp. 1325-1334

Joel S. Savishinsky

The roles staff play in the social networks of elderly institutionalized people pp. 1335-1343

Bethel Ann Powers

Health and illness behavior and patient-practitioner relationships pp. 1345-1350

David Mechanic

The experience of asthma pp. 1351-1361

David Snadden and Judith Belle Brown

The routinization of hospice: Charisma and bureaucratization pp. 1363-1375

Nicky James and David Field

Effects of occupational stress on the physical and psychological health of women in a microelectronics plant pp. 1377-1383

Evelyn J. Bromet, Mary Amanda Dew, David K. Parkinson, Shelly Cohen and Joseph E. Schwartz

Health-seeking behavior and the meaning of medications in Balochistan, Pakistan pp. 1385-1397

Pamela A. Hunte and Farhat Sultana

Compensation for harm: The implications for medical research pp. 1399-1404

Ian Harvey and Ruth Chadwick

Pregnant dreaming: Search for a typology of a proposed dream genre pp. 1405-1411

Susan Sered and Henry Abramovitch

The effect of the social organization of work on the voluntary turnover rate of hospital nurses in the United States pp. 1413-1424

Joan R. Bloom, Jeffrey A. Alexander and Beverly A. Nichols

1992, volume 34, articles 11

Underreaction to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1169-1182

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

Planning health care in South Africa--Is there a role for traditional healers? pp. 1183-1190

M. Freeman and M. Motsei

Suicide and unemployment in Italy: Description, analysis and interpretation of recent trends pp. 1191-1201

Stephen Platt, Rocco Micciolo and Michele Tansella

Methodological issues and research strategies in the study of coping with cancer pp. 1203-1216

Mark Somerfield and Barbara Curbow

Patients' choices and perceptions after an invitation to participate in treatment decisions pp. 1217-1225

Stephanie Legg England and Jeremy Evans

Perceived morbidity and health behaviour in a Dogon community pp. 1227-1235

Copp[combining acute accent]o, P., L. Pisani and A. Keita

Access to ambulatory care among noninstitutionalized, activity-limited persons 65 and over pp. 1237-1247

Robert H. Miller

The quality and quantity of social support: Stroke recovery as psycho-social transition pp. 1249-1261

Thomas A. Glass and George L. Maddox

Genetic counselor attitudes towards fetal sex identification and selective abortion pp. 1263-1269

B.Meredith Burke

Provision of food and fluids in terminal care: A sociological analysis pp. 1271-1276

Fran McInerney

Mother's milk and pseudoscientific breastmilk testing in Pakistan pp. 1277-1290

Dorothy S. Mull

Prevalence of smoking in secondary schools in the greater Accra region of Ghana pp. 1291-1293

R. Amonoo-Lartson and Matilda E. Pappoe

Beri-beri: Age-gender bias in the Gambia pp. 1295-1297

Hazel R. Barrett and Angela W. Browne

1992, volume 34, articles 10

The cultural logic of Indian medicine: Prognosis and etiology in Rajasthani popular therapeutics pp. 1069-1076

Helen Lambert

What can information systems do for primary health care? An international perspective pp. 1077-1087

Peter Sandiford, Hugh Annett and Richard Cibulskis

Community-based HIV/AIDS research--Whither community participation? Unsolved problems in a research programme in rural Uganda pp. 1089-1095

Janet A. Seeley, Jane F. Kengeya-Kayondo and Daan W. Mulder

Quantitative and qualitative approaches to the evaluation of the medical dialogue pp. 1097-1103

Debra Roter and Richard Frankel

Yolmo aesthetics of body, health and 'soul loss' pp. 1105-1117

Robert R. Desjarlais

Sexual behaviour related to psycho-social factors in a population of Danish homosexual and bisexual men pp. 1119-1127

Kirsten W. Schmidt, Jan R. Fouchard, Allan Krasnik, Henrik Zoffmann, Henrik L. Jacobsen and Svend Kreiner

Development and validation of the PCQ: A questionnaire to measure the psychological consequences of screening mammography pp. 1129-1134

Jill Cockburn, Trudy De Luise, Susan Hurley and Kerrie Clover

The impact of road construction on the spatial characteristics of hospital utilization in the Meru district of Kenya pp. 1135-1146

Tony Airey

Determinants of perceived health status of medical outpatients pp. 1147-1154

Arthur J. Barsky, Paul D. Cleary and Gerald L. Klerman

Communicative styles and adaptations in physician-parent consultations pp. 1155-1163

Richard L. Street

1992, volume 34, articles 9

Preface pp. 945-945

Morris L. Barer, Anthony Culyer and Gavin Mooney

Econometric critique of the economic change model of mortality pp. 947-957

Jes Søgaard

To prescribe or not to prescribe: On the regulation of pharmaceuticals in less developed countries pp. 959-964

Jeffrey S. Hammer

The economic evaluation of malaria control technologies: The case of Nepal pp. 965-972

Anne Mills

Assessing the costs and benefits of medical research: The diabetic retinopathy study pp. 973-981

Michael F. Drummond, Linda M. Davies and Frederick L. Ferris

The impact of recombinant human erythropoietin on medical care costs for hemodialysis patients in Canada pp. 983-991

Steven Sheingold, David Churchill, Norman Muirhead, Andreas Laupacis, Roberta Labelle and Ronald Goeree

A cost utility analysis of mammography screening in Australia pp. 993-1004

Jane Hall, Karen Gerard, Glenn Salkeld and Jeff Richardson

Towards a new approach for estimating indirect costs of disease pp. 1005-1010

Marc A. Koopmanschap and B. Martin van Ineveld

Quality competition in local hospital markets: Some econometric evidence from the period 1982-1988 pp. 1011-1021

Thomas N. Chirikos

Consumer information and biased selection in the demand for coverage supplementing medicare pp. 1023-1034

Bruce N. Davidson, Shoshanna Sofaer and Paul Gertler

Towards a capitation formula for competing health insurers. An empirical analysis pp. 1035-1048

RenéC. J. A. van Vliet and Wynand P. M. M. van de Ven

The collectivisation of health insurance pp. 1049-1055

W. J. F. I. Nuijens

International health spending forecasts: Concepts and evaluation pp. 1057-1068

Thomas E. Getzen and Jean-Pierre Poullier

1992, volume 34, articles 8

Child developmental delay and socio-economic disadvantage in Australia: A longitudinal study pp. 829-835

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

More resources better health? A cross-national perspective pp. 837-842

Kwangkee Kim and Philip M. Moody

Behavioral risk factors for sexually transmitted disease in american households pp. 843-853

Karen Paige Ericksen and Karen F. Trocki

Yellow fever epidemics and mortality in the United States, 1693-1905 pp. 855-865

K. David Patterson

'Culture' in culture-bound syndromes: The case of anorexia nervosa pp. 867-884

Caroline Giles Banks

Shades of blue: The negotiation of limited codes by medical residents pp. 885-898

Jessica H. Muller

Maternal education in relation to early and late child health outcomes: Findings from a Brazilian cohort study pp. 899-905

Cesar G. Victoria, Sharon R. A. Huttly, Fernando C. Barros, Cintia Lombardi and J. Patrick Vaughan

Gender, marital status and the social control of health behavior pp. 907-917

Debra Umberson

A comparison of social support variables between women who intend to breast or bottle feed pp. 919-927

J. Renee Matich and Laura S. Sims

Correlates of hysterectomy in Australia pp. 929-942

Gigi Santow and Michael Bracher

1992, volume 34, articles 7

Militarism and world health pp. 719-724

Christie W. Kiefer

Time prices and the demand for GP services pp. 725-733

Richard Janssen

Therapeutic landscapes: Medical issues in light of the new cultural geography pp. 735-746

Wilbert M. Gesler

Work-health relationships in middle-aged and elderly residents of a Jerusalem community pp. 747-755

J. H. Abramsom, Michal Ritter, J. Gofin and J. D. Kark

Status incongruence and serum cholesterol in an english general practice pp. 757-762

William W. Dressler, Philip Evans and Denis J. Pereira Gray

Life events and daily hassles and uplifts as predictors of hospitalization and outpatient visitation pp. 763-768

Robert Williams, Stephen J. Zyzanski and Anne L. Wright

Distance and risk measures for the analysis of spatial data: A study of childhood cancers pp. 769-777

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

Social relationships and health: The relative roles of family functioning and social support pp. 779-788

Peter Franks, Thomas L. Campbell and Cleveland G. Shields

Female labour participation in agricultural production and the implications for nutrition and health in rural Africa pp. 789-807

Cleophas Lado

Judgements by health professionals of personal characteristics of people with a visible physical disability pp. 809-815

Lindsay Gething

Household decisions among the Gogo people of Tanzania: Determining the roles of men, women and the community in implementing a trachoma prevention program pp. 817-824

Ann P. McCauley, Sheila West and Matthew Lynch

1992, volume 34, articles 6

Risk perception, risk taking and risk management among intravenous drug users: Implications for AIDS prevention pp. 591-601

Margaret M. Connors

Participatory research on workers' health pp. 603-613

Asa Cristina Laurell, Mariano Noriega, Susana Martínez and Jorge Villegas

Public expenditures and health care in Africa pp. 615-624

Osita Ogbu and Mark Gallagher

Sociomedical aspects of malaria control in Colombia pp. 625-637

Renate Lipowsky, Axel Kroeger and María Luisa Vazquez

Impact of a community health promotion program on existing organizations: The Minnesota Heart Health Program pp. 639-648

Rita R. Weisbrod, Phyllis L. Pirie and Neil F. Bracht

Gender, social class and illness among young people pp. 649-656

Ossi Rahkonen and Eero Lahelma

Epilepsy and the quality of everyday life: Findings from a study of people with well-controlled epilepsy pp. 657-666

Ann Jacoby

Is paying for health care culturally acceptable in sub-Sahara Africa? Money and tradition pp. 667-673

Sjaak van der Geest

The limits of lifestyle: Re-assessing 'fatalism' in the popular culture of illness prevention pp. 675-685

Charlie Davison, Stephen Frankel and George Davey Smith

Management and treatment of diarrhea in Honduran children: Factors associated with mothers' health care behaviors pp. 687-695

Julia DeClerque, Patricia Bailey, Barbara Janowitz, Rosalie Dominik and Carlos Fiallos

HIV in the U.K.: Problems of prevalence, sociological response and health education pp. 697-707

Sandra Winn and Robert Skelton

Palestinian martyr widowhood--Emotional needs in conflict with role expectations? pp. 709-717

Hans Sande

1992, volume 34, articles 5

Allocating medical resources in rural America: Alternative perceptions of justice pp. 467-474

Nancy S. Jecker and Alfred O. Berg

AIDS: Conceptual and methodological issues in researching sexual behaviour in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 475-483

Hilary Standing

Cultural change and the reproductive cycle pp. 485-489

Robert Dennis

Why do the O'Sheas consult so often? An exploration of complex family illness behaviour pp. 491-497

Christopher Dowrick

Identity, ideology and medicine: Health attitudes and behavior among Hindu religious renunciates pp. 499-505

L. Eugene Thomas

Patient non-compliance: Deviance or reasoned decision-making? pp. 507-513

Jenny L. Donovan and David R. Blake

An appraisal of the current status of communication skills training in British medical schools pp. 515-522

Lesley Frederikson and Peter Bull

Competing explanations for associations between marital status and health pp. 523-532

Sally Wyke and Graeme Ford

Guatemalan Indian children and the sociocultural effects of government-sponsored terrorisms pp. 533-548

Margarita B. Melville and M. Brinton Lykes

Does the current use of junior doctors in the United Kingdom affect the quality of medical care? pp. 549-558

Martin McKee and Nick Black

Methods for quality adjustment of life years pp. 559-569

Erik Nord

Going public as an AIDS family caregiver pp. 571-580

Gail M. Powell-Cope and Marie Annette Brown

Constructing a canon? pp. 581-583

Susan E. Bell and Irving Kenneth Zola

Letter to the editor pp. 589-590

Nicholas A. Christakis

1992, volume 34, articles 4

Health effects of unemployment--I. Long-term unemployed men in a rural and an urban setting pp. 341-350

R. L. I. Leeflang, D. J. Klein-Hesselink and I. P. Spruit

Health effects of unemployment--II. men and women pp. 351-363

R. L. I. Leeflang, D. J. Klein-Hesselink and I. P. Spruit

Status inequality in the social worker-nurse collaboration in hospitals pp. 365-374

Zeev Ben-Sira and Miriam Szyf

Community nurses and the care of the dying pp. 375-382

Clive Seale

Ends of the line: Diversity among chronic pain centers pp. 383-393

Thomas J. Csordas and Jack A. Clark

Disability and depression: Some etiological considerations pp. 395-403

Judith Friedland and MaryAnn McColl

Loneliness and alcohol abuse: A review of evidences of an interplay pp. 405-414

Ingemar Åkerlind and Jan Olof Hörnquist

Dental state and needs for episodic care of institutionalized elderly in an Asian community pp. 415-418

G. Soh, Y. H. Chong and G. Ong

Giving birth across the border: The San Diego-Tijuana connection pp. 419-425

Sylvia Guendelman and Monica Jasis

Coping strategies and individual meanings of illness pp. 427-432

Gerhard Schüssler

Social network transactions of psychiatric patients pp. 433-445

Geoffrey Nelson, G. Brent Hall, Denise Squire and Richard T. Walsh-Bowers

Minority women and sexual choice in the age of AIDS pp. 447-457

Anna Kline, Emily Kline and Emily Oken

The attitude of employers to people with inflammatory bowel disease pp. 459-460

G. A. Moody, C. S. J. Probert, V. Jayanthi and J. F. Mayberry

The management of illness by a Filipino psychic surgeon: A western physician's impression pp. 461-464

Simon Dein

1992, volume 34, articles 3

Socio-economic health differences in the Netherlands: A review of recent empirical findings pp. 213-226

J. P. Mackenbach

Social history of a research project: A study on early post-partum discharge pp. 227-235

Patrizia Romito and Cristina Zalateo

The process of discourse: Usages of a Japanese medical term pp. 237-247

Nancy R. Rosenberger

Women and aids in developing countries: The XIIth international conference on the social sciences and medicine pp. 249-262

Maria de Bruyn

List size, composition of practice and general practitioners' workload in the Netherlands pp. 263-270

Peter P. Groenewegen, Jack B. F. Hutten and Koos van der Velden

Some aspects of sexual behaviour and the potential demographic impact of aids in developing countries pp. 271-280

Roy M. Anderson

The abuse of high dose estrogen/progestin combination drugs in delay of menstruation: The assumptions and practices of doctors, midwives and pharmacists in a peruvian city pp. 281-289

Jorien Bonnema and Joanneke A. Dalebout

In search of factors responsible for noncompliance among tuberculosis patients in Wardha District, India pp. 291-306

Florie Barnhoorn and Hans Adriaanse

Medicines and culture--A double perspective on drug utilization in a developing country pp. 307-315

Lisbeth Sachs and Göran Tomson

Maternal mobility and infant mortality in Greece: A regional analysis pp. 317-323

Manos Matsaganis

Children's physical activity: An exploratory study of psychological correlates pp. 325-331

Stuart Biddle and Neil Armstrong

Sociological and economic theories of suicide: A comparison of the U.S.A. and Taiwan pp. 333-334

Bijou Yang, David Lester and Chung-Hsin Yang

Letter to the editor pp. 339-339

Kathleen M. Neill

1992, volume 34, articles 2

Forensic anthropology and the concept of race: If races don't exist, why are forensic anthropologists so good at identifying them? pp. 107-111

Norman J. Sauer

Forensic archaeology as mortuary anthropology pp. 113-117

William A. Lovis

Racial identification in the context of prehistoric-historic biological continua: Examples from South Asia pp. 119-123

Kenneth A. R. Kennedy and John Chiment

Forensic diagnosis of race--General race vs specific populations pp. 125-128

Alice M. Brues

Physicians and the state in the U.S.A. and Israel pp. 129-139

Yael Yishai

Psychiatric diagnosis and racial bias: Empirical and interpretative approaches pp. 141-149

Roland Littlewood

Ethnicity, morbidity and health service utilization in two labrador communities pp. 151-160

Pat M. Neuwelt, Robin A. Kearns, Duncan J. W. Hunter and Jane Batten

Child health outcomes among central American refugees and immigrants in Belize pp. 161-167

Nancy Moss, Michael C. Stone and Jason B. Smith

Pursuing health for all in Britain--An assessment pp. 169-182

Tom Rathwell

Elasticity of demand for water in Khartoum, Sudan pp. 183-189

Sandy Cairncross and Joanne Kinnear

Preventive health behavior among black and white women in urban and rural areas pp. 191-198

Sonia I. Duelberg

Eosinophilic meningitis beyond the Pacific Basin: The global dispersal of a peridomestic zoonosis caused by angiostrongylus cantonensis, the nematode lungworm of rats pp. 199-212

Michael M. Kliks and Nicholas E. Palumbo

1992, volume 34, articles 1

Financing health services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Options for decision makers during adjustment pp. 1-9

R. Korte, Heide Richter, F. Merkle and H. Görgen

Effect of the Holocaust on coping with cancer pp. 11-15

Lea Baider, Tamar Peretz and Atara Kaplan De-Nour

Time and energy costs of distance in rural life space of Zimbabwe: Case study in the Chiduku Communal Area pp. 17-24

Assefa Mehretu and Chris Mutambirwa

Explanation of vigorous physical activity during two years using social learning variables pp. 25-32

James F. Sallis, Melbourne F. Hovell, C.Richard Hofstetter and Elizabeth Barrington

Is magnitude of co-payment effect related to income? Using census data for health services research pp. 33-41

Daniel C. Cherkin, Louis Grothaus and Edward H. Wagner

Alcohol problems and sense of coherence among older adults pp. 43-48

Lorraine T. Midanik, Krikor Soghikian, Laura J. Ransom and Michael R. Polen

Prevalence of self-reported poor sleep in a healthy population aged 50-65 pp. 49-55

Donald L. Bliwise, Abby C. King, Robin B. Harris and William L. Haskell

Medical specialists' choice of location: The role of geographical attachment in Norway pp. 57-62

Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen and Olav Helge Førde

African women and AIDS: Negotiating behavioral change pp. 63-73

Priscilla R. Ulin

Prostitutes and their clients: A Gambian survey pp. 75-88

H. Pickering, J. Todd, D. Dunn, J. Pepin and A. Wilkins

Older widow mortality in rural Bangladesh pp. 89-96

Omar Rahman, Andrew Foster and Jane Menken

Evaluation of a mobile branch surgery in a rural area pp. 97-102

Graham Bentham and Robin Haynes