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1991, volume 32, articles 12

Guineaworm control case study: Planning a multi-strategy approach pp. 1319-1326

William R. Brieger, Jayashree Ramakrishna, Joshua D. Adeniyi, M. K. C. Sridhar and Oladele O. Kale

Primary health services in Ecuador: Comparative costs, quality, and equity of care in ministry of health and rural social security facilities pp. 1327-1336

Robert L. Robertson, Carlos E. Castro, Luis Carlos Gomez, Gretchen Gwynne, Ciro Luis Tinajero Baca and Dieter K. Zschock

The quality of life of cancer patients who refuse chemotherapy pp. 1337-1340

Ora Gilbar

Culture, biomedicine and child mortality in Cameroon pp. 1341-1349

Mario J. Azevedo, Gwendolyn S. Prater and Daniel N. Lantum

Rural health and labour supplies: Empirical evidence from the World Bank assisted agricultural development project in the Kwara State of Nigeria pp. 1351-1360

J. Chinedu Umeh

Cree Indian healing practices and western health care: A comparative analysis pp. 1361-1366

Janice M. Morse, David E. Young and Lise Swartz

Prostitution, AIDS, and preventive health behavior pp. 1367-1378

Carole A. Campbell

Response of parents to five killer diseases among children in a Yoruba community, Nigeria pp. 1379-1387

Jacob Ayodele Adetunji

Informed consent: A study of experiences and opinion of utilizers of health services from India pp. 1389-1392

T. G. Sriram, K. V. Kishore Kumar, M. R. Jayaprakash, Radhika Sriram and V. Shanmugham

Diffusion and physiological responses to the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 in Nigeria pp. 1393-1399

Don C. Ohadike

Relative costs and cost-effectiveness of extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy versus percutaneous nephrolithotomy in the treatment of renal and ureteric stones pp. 1401-1412

Nicholas Mays

Why are we weighting? A critical examination of the use of item weights in a health status measure pp. 1413-1416

Crispin Jenkinson

User's responses to assistive devices for physical disability pp. 1417-1424

Nancy A. Brooks

Maternal role of clerical workers: A feminist analysis pp. 1425-1433

Patricia E. Stevens and Afaf Ibrahim Meleis

1991, volume 32, articles 11

Supply and use of essential drugs in sub-Saharan Africa: Some issues and possible solutions pp. 1201-1218

Susan Foster

La sante des populations d'origine etrangere en France pp. 1219-1227

F. Bourdillon, P. Lombrail, M. Antoni, J. Benrekassa, R. Bennegadi, M. Leloup, C. Huraux-Rendu and J. C. Scotto

Social and dietary predictors of serum lipids: A Brazilian example pp. 1229-1235

William W. Dressler, Jose Ernesto Dos Santos, Fernando E. Viteri and Philip N. Gallagher

Stress, support, psychological states and sleep pp. 1237-1243

Virginia M. Paulsen and Joan L. Shaver

Measuring knowledge of cancer pp. 1245-1255

Steven H. Berman and Abraham Wandersman

Religion and psychological distress in a community sample pp. 1257-1262

David R. Williams, David B. Larson, Robert E. Buckler, Richard C. Heckmann and Caroline M. Pyle

Relationships among and demographic predictors of dentists' self-reported adherence to national guidelines pp. 1263-1268

Maureen Dorsey, Pamela Overman, William J. Hayden, William Mayberry, Barbara Requa-Clark and Kimberly Krust

Community health screening programs for African-Americans and the medical anthropologist pp. 1269-1274

Eric J. Bailey

Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions (KAP) of onchocerciasis: A survey among residents in an endemic area in Guatemala targeted for mass chemotherapy with ivermectin pp. 1275-1281

Frank Richards, Robert E. Klein, Carlos Gonzales-Peralta, Rodolfo Zea Flores, Guillermo Zea Flores and Julio Castro Ramirez

Obstetrical attitudes and practices before and after the Canadian consensus conference statement on cesarean birth pp. 1283-1289

Karin Domnick Pierre, Eugene Vayda, Jonathan Lomas, Murray W. Enkin, Walter J. Hannah and Geoff M. Anderson

Loneliness and social support of mothers of chronically ill children pp. 1291-1296

Victor Florian and Tamar Krulik

Confounding of occupation and smoking: Its magnitude and consequences pp. 1297-1300

George Davey Smith and Martin J. Shipley

Doctor-patient communication and the quality of care pp. 1301-1310

Jozien Bensing

Note on 'suicide and increased availability of handguns in the United States': The influence of firearm ownership on accidental deaths pp. 1311-1313

David Lester and Ronald V. Clarke

Letter to the editor pp. 1317-1318

Ernest H. Friedman

1991, volume 32, articles 10

Editorial pp. i-i

Peter J. M. McEwan

Challenges to equity in health and health care: A Zimbabwean case study pp. 1079-1088

Rene Loewenson, David Sanders and Rob Davies

Life events, sense of coherence and health: Gender differences on the kibbutz pp. 1089-1096

Sara Carmel, Ofra Anson, Arie Levenson, Dan Y. Bonneh and Benjamin Maoz

The health care of poor persons living in wealthy areas pp. 1097-1103

Marc L. Berk, Peter Cunningham and Karen Beauregard

Women's lung cancer mortality, socio-economic status and changing smoking patterns pp. 1105-1110

Helena Pugh, Christine Power, Peter Goldblatt and Sara Arber

Workload and job satisfaction among general practitioners: A review of the literature pp. 1111-1119

Peter P. Groenewegen and Jank B. F. Hutten

The politics of psychiatric self-help: Political factions, interactional support, and group longevity in a social movement pp. 1121-1128

Robert E. Emerick

Results of two methods to determine health expectancy in The Netherlands in 1981-1985 pp. 1129-1136

J. K. S. van Ginneken, A. G. Dissevelt, H. P. A. van de Water and J. L. A. van Sonsbeek

Hostility to people with aids: Risk perception and demographic factors pp. 1137-1142

Delfi Mondragón, Bradford Kirkman-Life and Eugene S. Schneller

Verbal analysis of doctor-patient communication pp. 1143-1150

Ludwien Meeuwesen, Cas Schaap and Cees van der Staak

Life expectancies of cigarette smokers and nonsmokers in the United States pp. 1151-1159

Richard G. Rogers and Eve Powell-Griner

Determinants of subject compliance within an experimental anti-HIV drug protocol pp. 1161-1167

Edward V. Morse, Patricia M. Simon, Mary Coburn, Newton Hyslop, Debra Greenspan and Paul M. Balson

Gender differences in Israeli physicians' career patterns, productivity and family structure pp. 1169-1181

Diana Shye

Compliance in acute and chronic patients receiving a health belief model intervention in the emergency department pp. 1183-1189

Susan L. Jones, Paul K. Jones and Janet Katz

Regulating teratogenicity as a health risk pp. 1191-1198

Nanda Gilden and Henk Bodewitz

1991, volume 32, articles 9

AIDS and the social side of health pp. 967-980

E.Maxine Ankrah

Underreporting by cancer patients: The case of response-shift pp. 981-987

I.S. Breetvelt and F.S.A.M. Van Dam

Patterns and causes of gender differences in smoking pp. 989-1005

Ingrid Waldron

The patient's right to information in Japan--Legal rules and doctor's opinions pp. 1007-1016

Hiroyuki Hattori, Stephan M. Salzberg, Winston P. Kiang, Tatsuya Fujimiya, Yutaka Tejima and Junji Furuno

Depression and acute myocardial infarction: A review and reinterpretation pp. 1017-1027

Richard Fielding

Treating psychiatric disorders among Mien refugees from highland Laos pp. 1029-1036

Laurie J. Moore and James K. Boehnlein

HIV, heroin and heterosexual relations pp. 1037-1050

Stephanie Kane

Interpersonal conflicts at work and psychosocial characteristics of employees pp. 1051-1056

Kirsi Appelberg, Kalle Romanov, Marja-Liisa Honkasalo and Markku Koskenvuo

The effect of a household partner and home urine monitoring on adherence to a sodium restricted diet pp. 1057-1061

Stuart J. Cohen, Myron H. Weinberger, Naomi S. Fineberg, Judy Z. Miller, Clarence E. Grim and Friedrich C. Luft

Ethnic differences in the experience of pain pp. 1063-1066

V.J. Thomas and F.D. Rose

Adult leukemia and farm practices: An alternative approach for assessing geographical pesticide exposure pp. 1067-1073

Jean-François Viel and Sylvia T. Richardson

1991, volume 32, articles 8

Bringing social structure back into clinical decision making pp. 853-866

Jack A. Clark, Deborah A. Potter and John B. McKinlay

The decontextualization of mental illness: The portrayal of work in psychiatric drug advertisements pp. 867-874

Daniel Lee Kleinman and Lawrence Jack Cohen

Ambiguous responsibility in the doctor-patient relationship: The case of infertility pp. 875-885

Gay Becker and Robert D. Nachtigall

The use of national sample surveys for nutritional surveillance: Lessons from Malawi's national sample survey of agriculture pp. 887-898

David L. Pelletier and Louis A. H. Msukwa

Measuring health lifestyles in a comparative analysis: Theoretical issues and empirical findings pp. 899-908

Thomas Abel

Rapid appraisal in an urban setting, an example from the developed world pp. 909-915

Bie Nio Ong, Gerry Humphris, Hugh Annett and Susan Rifkin

Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about HIV infection and AIDS among healthy factory workers and their wives, Kinshasa, Zaire pp. 917-930

Kathleen Irwin, Jane Bertrand, Ndilu Mibandumba, Kashama Mbuyi, Chirezi Muremeri, Makolo Mukoka, Kamenga Munkolenkole, Nzila Nzilambi, Ngaly Bosenge, Robert Ryder, Herbert Peterson, Nancy C. Lee, Phyllis Wingo, Kevin O'Reilly and Kathy Rufo

A structural analysis of physician-midwife interaction in an obstetrical training program pp. 931-942

Susan Brandt Graham

Communication and awareness about death: A study of a random sample of dying people pp. 943-952

Clive Seale

A survey of the cervical screening service in a London district, including reasons for non-attendance, ethnic responses and views on the quality of the service pp. 953-957

Yvonne Doyle

Women's health education in rural Bangladesh pp. 959-961

Laura J. Sloss and Ahmed Munier

1991, volume 32, articles 7

Politics, power and poverty: Health for all in 2000 in the Third World? pp. 745-755

Reginald Herbold Green

Narrative analysis: A method of psychosocial research for AIDS-affected people pp. 757-765

Linda L. Viney and Lynne Bousfield

Age and the operationalization of social support pp. 767-771

Ole Olsen, Lars Iversen and Svend Sabroe

The role of public values in setting health care priorities pp. 773-781

David C. Hadorn

AIDS prevention and sexual liberalization in Great Britain pp. 783-791

Helga Mittag

Why is health relatively poor on Sri Lanka's tea estates? pp. 793-804

Indra Gajanayake, John C. Caldwell and Pat Caldwell

Effect of domestic and occupational roles on morbidity and mortality pp. 805-811

Judith H. Hibbard and Clyde R. Pope

Factors affecting treatment decisions for a life-threatening illness: The case of medical treatment of breast cancer pp. 813-818

L. A. Siminoff and J. H. Fetting

The social context of occupational stress in a caring profession pp. 819-830

Jocelyn A. Handy

Racial inequalities in childhood asthma pp. 831-836

E. A. Mitchell

Smoking and sedentary behavior as related to work organization pp. 837-846

Gunn Johansson, Jeffrey V. Johnson and Ellen M. Hall

Traveling waves of HIV infection on a low dimensional 'socio-geographic' network pp. 847-852

Rodrick Wallace

1991, volume 32, articles 6

Satisfaction with communication, medical knowledge, and coping style in patients with metastatic cancer pp. 627-632

Andrew Steptoe, Ian Sutcliffe, Bryony Allen and Charles Coombes

Community oriented primary care: Origins, evolution, applications pp. 633-642

Stephen Tollman

The constitution of physicians' power: A theoretical framework for comparative analysis pp. 643-648

Luis Duran-Arenas and Michael Kennedy

Aging and disability in China: Cultural issues in measurement and interpretation pp. 649-665

Charlotte Ikels

Is growth monitoring worthwhile? An evaluation of its use in three child health programmes in Zaire pp. 667-675

Nancy M. Gerein and David A. Ross

The impact of who you know and where you live on opinions about aids and health care pp. 677-681

Barbara Gerbert, John Sumser and Bryan T. Maguire

The HIV test and sexual behaviour in a sample of homosexually active men pp. 683-688

Jill Dawson, Ray Fitzpatrick, John McLean, Graham Hart and Mary Boulton

Patterns of diet related self-care in diabetes pp. 689-696

Heather M. Maclean

Role retention and quality of life of bone marrow transplant survivors pp. 697-704

Frank Baker, Barbara Curbow and John R. Wingard

The MOS social support survey pp. 705-714

Cathy Donald Sherbourne and Anita L. Stewart

Delayed antenatal care: Does it effect pregnancy outcome? pp. 715-723

Peter Thomas, Jean Golding and Tim J. Peters

Communicating probabilistic information to cancer patients: Is there 'noise' on the line? pp. 725-731

H. J. Sutherland, G. A. Lockwood, D. L. Tritchler, F. Sem, L. Brooks and J. E. Till

A test of an expanded theory of reasoned action to predict mammography participation pp. 733-741

Daniel E. Montano and Stephen H. Taplin

1991, volume 32, articles 5

Performance and state changes during the menstrual cycle, conceptualised within a broad band testing framework pp. 525-534

J. M. Ussher and J. M. Wilding

The male street prostitute: A vector for transmission of HIV infection into the heterosexual world pp. 535-539

Edward V. Morse, Patricia M. Simon, Howard J. Osofsky, Paul M. Balson and H. Richard Gaumer

Information-giving in medical consultations: The influence of patients' communicative styles and personal characteristics pp. 541-548

Richard L. Street

A dialogue between practitioners of alternative (traditional) medicine and modern (western) medicine in Norway pp. 549-552

Vigdis Moe Christie

Nurse appraisal systems: Characteristics and effectiveness pp. 553-558

Robert L. Cardy and Cathy Korodi

Ethics and the care of persons with Bell's palsy pp. 559-563

Edmund L. Erde and Avrim R. Eden

Health care provision and distributive justice: End stage renal disease and the elderly in Britain and America pp. 565-577

Derek G. Gill, Stanley R. Ingman and James Campbell

Gender differences in health related behaviour: Some unanswered questions pp. 579-590

Mary-Anne Kandrack, Karen R. Grant and Alexander Segall

Whose side are we on now? Ethical issues in social research and medical practice pp. 591-599

Annette Lawson

Pilgrimage of pain: The illness experiences of women with repetition strain injury and the search for credibility pp. 601-612

Janice Reid, Christine Ewan and Eva Lowy

An alternative to unattended delivery--A training programme for village midwives in Papua New Guinea pp. 613-618

William A. Alto, Ruth E. Albu and Garabinu Irabo

Who stopped smoking?--Results from a panel survey of living conditions in Sweden pp. 619-622

O. Lundberg, B. Rosén and M. Rosén

1991, volume 32, articles 4

Guest editorial pp. v-vii

Denny Vågerö and David J. Hunter

Contextual variations in the meaning of health inequality pp. 359-365

Raymond Illsley and Deborah Baker

Inequality in health--Some theoretical and empirical problems pp. 367-371

Denny Vågerö

Rethinking the health selection explanation for health inequalities pp. 373-384

Patrick West

Causal explanations for class inequality in health--An empirical analysis pp. 385-393

Olle Lundberg

Lack of class variation in health in adolescence: An artefact of an occupational measure of social class? pp. 395-402

Sally Macintyre and Patrick West

Socio-economic differences in mortality among children. Do they persist into adulthood? pp. 403-410

Viveca Östberg and Denny Vågerö

Social and economic background and class inequalities in health among young adults pp. 411-417

Chris Power

Long-term unemployment and mortality in Sweden, 1980-1986 pp. 419-423

Claes-Göran Stefansson

Class, paid employment and family roles: Making sense of structural disadvantage, gender and health status pp. 425-436

Sara Arber

Mortality among the elderly in Sweden by social class pp. 437-440

Petra Otterblad Olausson

Managing medicine: A response to the 'crisis' pp. 441-448

David J. Hunter

Tranquillisers and health care in crisis pp. 449-454

Jonathan Gabe and Michael Bury

The increasing number of very old people will change the Swedish model of the welfare state pp. 455-464

Mats Thorslund

Advertising for psychotropic drugs in the Nordic countries: Metaphors, gender and life situations pp. 465-471

Elianne Riska and Ulrica Hägglund

Towards a Swedish health policy for the 1990s: Planned markets and public firms pp. 473-481

Casten von Otter and Richard B. Saltman

Community versus hospital care: The crisis in psychiatric provision pp. 483-489

Lindsay Prior

The service system at the crossroad of demography and policy making-- Implications for the elderly pp. 491-497

Lars Andersson

A 'crisis' of closure and openness: The present state of the Swedish mental health system in the light of a policy of sectorisation pp. 499-506

Nigel Goldie and Lars Fredén

The informal sector of welfare: A crisis in caring? pp. 507-515

Hilary Graham

Disablement and the ideological crisis in health care pp. 517-524

Gareth H. Williams

1991, volume 32, articles 3

The mental health of women 6 months after they give birth to an unwanted baby: A longitudinal study pp. 241-247

J. M. Najman, J. Morrison, G. Williams, M. Andersen and J. D. Keeping

Can intensive campaigns dynamize front line health services? The evaluation of an immunization campaign in thiès health district, Senegal pp. 249-259

J. -P. Unger

The persistence of Chinese medicine: Adjustment and diversity pp. 261-266

G. L. Ooi

Handicaps physiques, pratiques economiques et strategies matrimoniales au Senegal pp. 267-272

Didier Fassin

Screening couples for parenthood by donor insemination pp. 273-278

Michael Humphrey, Heather Humphrey and Ian Ainsworth-Smith

Confidentiality for whom? pp. 279-286

Ian Robinson

Dental decisionmaking and variation in dentist service rates pp. 287-294

David Grembowski, Peter Milgrom and Louis Fiset

Grief resolution among the bereaved in hospice and hospital wards pp. 295-304

H. Edward Ransford and M. Lorraine Smith

Morbidity in Swedish farmers, 1978-1983, according to national hospital records pp. 305-309

Anders Thelin

Prediction of motivation and behavior change following health promotion: Role of health beliefs, social support, and self-efficacy pp. 311-320

Robert B. Kelly, Stephen J. Zyzanski and Sonia A. Alemagno

The public prestige of medical specialties: Overviews and undercurrents pp. 321-326

Stephen M. Rosoff and Matthew C. Leone

The influence of medical school clinical experiences on career preferences: A multidimensional perspective pp. 327-332

Charles H. Brooks

The research imperative and bureaucratic control: The case of clinical research pp. 333-342

David Hall

Duration and correlates of post-partum abstinence in four sites in Zaire pp. 343-347

Susan E. Hassig, Jane T. Bertrand, Balowa Djunghu, Minuku Kinzoni and Nlandu Mangani

Sociocultural aspects of menstrual attitudes and premenstrual experiences in India pp. 349-351

Santosh K. Chaturvedi and Prabha S. Chandra

The beginning of the pain centres in France pp. 353-354

G. B. Hekster

1991, volume 32, articles 2

The quest for wholeness: Health care strategies among the residents of council-built hostels in cape town pp. 117-126

Marion Heap and Mamphela Ramphele

Women and depression: A Durkheimian perspective pp. 127-140

Sharon Schwartz

The Tromsø study: Predictors of self-evaluated health--Has society adopted the expanded health concept? pp. 141-146

Knut Fylkesnes and Olav Helge Førde

A comparison of hospice and conventional care pp. 147-152

Clive Seale

The management of confidentiality in general medical practice: A comparative study in the U.S.A. and the Netherlands pp. 153-157

C.J. Lako and J.J. Lindenthal

Distribution and performance of rural health workers in Papua New Guinea pp. 159-165

Jane A. Thomason and Riitta-Liisa Kolehmainen-Aitken

Overconfidence among physicians and nurses: The 'micro-certainty, macro-uncertainty' phenomenon pp. 167-174

Andrea O. Baumann, Raisa B. Deber and Gail G. Thompson

Traditional perceptions of marasmus in Pakistan pp. 175-191

Dorothy S. Mull

The understanding of common health terms by doctors, nurses and patients pp. 193-196

Jan Hadlow and Marian Pitts

Determinants of mental illness in a rural Ethiopian adult population pp. 197-201

Solomon Tafari, Frances E. Aboud and Charles P. Larson

Attitudes of rural people in central Ethiopia toward epilepsy pp. 203-209

Redda Tekle-Haimanot, Mekonnen Abebe, Lars Forsgren, Ayele Gebre-Mariam, Jan Heijbel, Gösta Holmgren and Jan Ekstedt

Analysing morbidity determination with flawed data: The case of dysentery in regional India pp. 211-219

Michael Beenstock and Patricia Sturdy

Adolescents' perceptions of risk for HIV infection: Implications for future research pp. 221-228

Lee Strunin

Dental students' treatment of anxious patients pp. 229-232

Robert M. O'Shea, Pauline Mendola and Norman L. Corah

Letter to the editor pp. 237-237

J. Philippe Rushton

1991, volume 32, articles 1

Pioneer medical missions in colonial Africa pp. 1-10

Charles M. Good

Imperialism, colonialism and the new science of nutrition: The Tanganyika experience, 1925-1945 pp. 11-14

Marilyn Little

Sickness absence and work strain among Danish slaughterhouse workers: An analysis of absence from work regarded as coping behaviour pp. 15-27

Tage S. Kristensen

Children who cross cultures pp. 29-34

FerkóG. Öry, Marjanne Simons, Frank C. Verhulst, Frans R. H. Leenders and Willem H. G. Wolters

Patients' willingness to enter clinical trials: Measuring the association with perceived benefit and preference for decision participation pp. 35-42

H. A. Llewellyn-Thomas, M. J. McGreal, E. C. Thiel, S. Fine and C. Erlichman

Health service resources as determinants of infant death in rural Bangladesh: An empirical study pp. 43-49

Bimal Kanti Paul

Library services for primary health care pp. 51-57

Rolf Weitzel

Public knowledge of thalassemia in Greece and current concepts of the social status of the thalassemic patients pp. 59-64

Constantina Politis, Clive Richardson and John Yfantopoulos

Multidisciplinary co-operation in primary care for asthmatic children pp. 65-70

Ilse Mesters, Ree Meertens and Neeltje Mosterd

Experience and preparation of community nursing staff for work associated with HIV infection and AIDS pp. 71-76

Senga Bond, Tim Rhodes, Peter Philips, Jo Setters, Chris Foy and John Bond

Factors influencing professional home care utilization among the elderly pp. 77-81

G. I. J. M. Kempen and Th. P. B. M. Suurmeijer

Need satisfaction in terminal care settings pp. 83-87

Norma Jean Dawson

Patient compliance--Whose responsibility? pp. 89-94

Fiona M. Ross

Family relationships in two types of terminal care pp. 95-102

Linda K. Birenbaum and Michaelle Ann Robinson

Epidemiology and the new public health; Implications for training pp. 103-106

N. G. Bruce

Comparative perspectives in biopsychosocial health. Report on a symposium pp. 107-108

Fernando Lolas, Uwe Hentschel and Peter Hahn

Soviet medicine in the era of 'Perestroyka'--Some notes on the Siberian conference on human health as an indicator of social development pp. 109-110

Anna Firkowska-Mankiewicz