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1990, volume 31, articles 12

Economic appraisal of new technology in the absence of survival data--The case of total hip replacement pp. 1287-1293

H. G. Daellenbach, W. J. Gillespie, P. Crosbie and U. S. Daellenbach

Cultural consultation for cancer: Astrocytoma in a Cambodian adolescent pp. 1295-1299

Maurice Eisenbruch and Lauren Handelman

The structure of a factory closure: Individual responses to job-loss and unemployment in a 10-year controlled follow-up study pp. 1301-1311

Steinar Westin

Adverse effects of acculturation: Psychological distress among Mexican American young adults pp. 1313-1319

Mark S. Kaplan and Gary Marks

A test of the relationship between race, socioeconomic status, and psychological distress pp. 1321-1326

William C. Cockerham

Practice guidelines and professional autonomy in a universal health insurance system: The case of tissue plasminogen activator in Ontario pp. 1327-1336

C. David Naylor and A. Andrew Hollenberg

Sensitivity to patient's psychosocial concerns: Relationships among ratings by primary care and traditional internal medicine house officers and patient self-assessments pp. 1337-1345

Patricia B. Mullan and Jeoffrey K. Stross

Producing health, consuming health care pp. 1347-1363

Robert G. Evans and Gregory L. Stoddart

Changes in breast-feeding in the Philippines, 1973-1983 pp. 1365-1375

David K. Guilkey, Barry M. Popkin, Wilhelm Flieger and John Akin

Perceptions and behaviour among elderly hospital patients: Description and explanation of age differences in satisfaction, knowledge, emotions and behaviour pp. 1377-1385

B. Breemhaar, A. Ph. Visser and J. G. V. M. Kleijnen

1990, volume 31, articles 11

Apartheid, stress and illness: The demographic context of distress reported by South African Africans pp. 1191-1200

Raistrick William Turton and Beverly E. Chalmers

Valuation of health states by the general public: Feasibility of a standardized measurement procedure pp. 1201-1206

Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Gouke J. Bonsel and Paul J. van der Maas

Cost and output of mobile clinics in a commercial farming area in Zimbabwe pp. 1207-1211

J. Vos, M. W. Borgdorff and E. G. Kachidza

Winter-summer differences in the effects of emotion, posture and place of measurement on blood pressure pp. 1213-1217

Gary D. James, Lily S. Yee and Thomas G. Pickering

Roots of increased health care inequality in New York pp. 1219-1227

Deborah Wallace

Correlates of willingness to consider organ donation among blacks pp. 1229-1232

Robert F. Creecy and Roosevelt Wright

Changing water-use patterns in a water-poor area: Lessons for a trachoma intervention project pp. 1233-1238

Ann P. McCauley, Matthew Lynch, Moses B. Pounds and Sheila West

The evolution of antihypertensive therapy pp. 1239-1243

Ichiro Kawachi and Nicholas Wilson

Determinants of mothers' treatment of diarrhea in rural Ethiopia pp. 1245-1249

Petros Olango and Frances Aboud

Estimates of psychological distress among Vietnamese refugees: Adolescents, unaccompanied minors and young adults pp. 1251-1256

J. Kirk Felsman, Frederick T. L. Leong, Mark C. Johnson and Irene Crabtree Felsman

Drug makers and drug regulators: Too close for comfort. A study of the Canadian situation pp. 1257-1263

Joel Lexchin

Childhood vaccination in a squatter area of Manila: Coverage and providers pp. 1265-1270

Christian Auer and Marcel Tanner

Smoking behaviour among pregnant women prior to antenatal care registration pp. 1271-1275

Sven Cnattingius and Mats Thorslund

Pharmaceutical service delivery by community pharmacies in areas of contrasting medical provision pp. 1277-1280

D. Mukerjee and D. B. Blane

Evaluating health related quality of life: An indifference curve interpretation for the time trade-off technique pp. 1281-1283

Abraham Mehrez and Amiram Gafni

1990, volume 31, articles 10

State violence and health in Nigeria pp. 1075-1084

S.Ogoh Alubo

Ambulatory medical care for the elderly in Switzerland pp. 1085-1092

Claudine Jeangros, Dominique Hausser and Jean Martin

Within and without: Images of community and implications for South African psychology pp. 1093-1102

Alex Butchart and Mohamed Seedat

Regulation, retrenchment-- The DRG experience: Problems from changing reimbursemwnt practice pp. 1103-1118

E. Greer Gay and Jennie J. Kronenfeld

Injections: A fatal attraction? pp. 1119-1125

Anne Vibeke Reeler

Low status control, high effort at work and ischemic heart disease: Prospective evidence from blue-collar men pp. 1127-1134

Johannes Siegrist, Richard Peter, Astrid Junge, Peter Cremer and Dieter Seidel

Knowledge and attitude change as predictors of metabolic improvement in diabetes education pp. 1135-1141

Stewart M. Dunn, Linda J. Beeney, Penny L. Hoskins and John R. Turtle

Professional interface with mutual-aid self-help groups: A review pp. 1143-1158

Miriam J. Stewart

Determinants of health-promoting lifestyle in ambulatory cancer patients pp. 1159-1168

Marilyn Frank-Stromborg, Nola J. Pender, Susan Noble Walker and Karen R. Sechrist

Social learning correlates of exercise self-efficacy: Early experiences with physical activity pp. 1169-1176

C.R. Hofstetter, M.F. Hovell and J.F. Sallis

The psychological profile of women attending breast-screening tests pp. 1177-1185

Shulamith Kreitler, Samario Chaitchik and Hans Kreitler

1990, volume 31, articles 9

International behavioral responses to a health hazard: AIDS pp. 951-962

Robert J. Earickson

Self-perceived health among sports participants and non-sports participants pp. 963-969

K. L. Lamb, K. Roberts and D. A. Brodie

Gender, employment and medication use pp. 971-978

Maria Zadoroznyj and Bonnie L. Svarstad

Oral rehydration therapy and social marketing in rural Kenya pp. 979-987

P. R. Kenya, S. Gatiti, L. N. Muthami, R. Agwanda, H. A. Mwenesi, M. N. Katsivo, Omondi-Odhiambo, A. Surrow, R. Juma, R. H. Ellison, G. Cooper and F. G. van Andel

An orientation toward help-seeking for emotional problems pp. 989-995

M. A. R. Tijhuis, L. Peters and M. Foets

Do attitudes predict uptake of smoking in teenagers? Case not proven pp. 997-1000

Martin J. Jarvis, Eileen Goddard and Ann McNeill

A reply to Jarvis, Goddard and McNeill by Charlton, Blair and Tranmer pp. 1000-1000

A. Charlton, V. Blair and M. Tranmer

Reply to Dr Charlton et al pp. 1001-1001

Martin J. Jarvis, Eileen Goddard and Ann McNeill

Associations with life satisfaction among very elderly people living in a deprived part of inner London pp. 1003-1011

Ann Bowling

Stress experienced by physicians and nurses in the cancer ward pp. 1013-1022

Andreas Ullrich and Peter FitzGerald

Condoms and cosmology: The 'fractal' person and sexual risk in Rwanda pp. 1023-1028

Christopher C. Taylor

Health, attitudes and beliefs of working women pp. 1029-1033

K. Mubarak, S. Shafqat, U. Malik, R. Pirzada and A. F. Qureshi

Patterns of psychosocial performance in the doctor-patient encounter: A study of family practice residents pp. 1035-1041

Johanna Shapiro

Towards rational medicine use: Is there a role for children? pp. 1043-1050

Patricia J. Bush and Anita P. Hardon

Some health dimensions of self-efficacy: Analysis of theoretical specificity pp. 1051-1056

C. R. Hofstetter, J. F. Sallis and M. F. Hovell

Expanding theoretical conceptualizations of self-help groups pp. 1057-1066

Miriam J. Stewart

Cooperation in mental health: An Italian project in Nicaragua pp. 1067-1071

Benedetto Saraceno, Roberto Aguilar Briceno, Fabrizio Asioli, Alessandro Liberati and Gianni Tognoni

1990, volume 31, articles 8

Preface pp. 831-831

Raymond Illsley

Introduction pp. 833-836

Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski and Raymond Illsley

The Bulgarian country profile: The dynamics of some inequalities in health pp. 837-846

Duchomir Minev, Bogdana Dermendjieva and Natasha Mileva

The Hungarian country profile: Inequalities in health and health care in Hungary pp. 847-857

Eva Orosz

The Polish country profile: Economic crisis and inequalities in health pp. 859-866

Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski

The Soviet country profile: Health of the U.S.S.R. population in the 70s and 80s--An approach to a comprehensive analysis pp. 867-877

Elena Mezentseva and Natalia Rimachevskaya

International comparative analysis: Main findings and conclusions pp. 879-889

Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski and Raymond Illsey

Scientific racism: Reflections on peer review, science and ideology pp. 891-905

Charles Leslie

Comments pp. 905-909

J. Philippe Rushton

Comments pp. 909-910

C. Owen Lovejoy

Comments pp. 910-911

Glenn D. Wilson

Comments pp. 911-912

Peter J. M. McEwan

Rejoinder pp. 912-912

Charles Leslie

The holistic heresy: Strategies of ideological challenge in the medical profession pp. 913-923

Paul Root Wolpe

The measurement of health-related quality of life: Major dimensions identified by factor analysis pp. 925-931

C. David Jenkins, Robert T. Jono, Babette-Ann Stanton and Christine A. Stroup-Benham

The near-death experience as status passage pp. 933-939

Allan Kellehear

A comparative study of feelings, attitudes and behaviors of patients with fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis pp. 941-947

Fannie Gaston-Johansson, Marianne Gustafsson, Ruth Felldin and Harold Sanne

1990, volume 31, articles 7

Community health care and hospital attendance: A case study in rural Ghana pp. 711-718

Sjoerd Zwart and Henk W. A. Voorhoeve

Patient initiatives and physician-challenging behaviors: The views of Israeli health professionals pp. 719-727

Diana Shye, Rachel Javetz and Judith T. Shuval

Modernization and catecholamine excretion of young Samoan adults pp. 729-736

Jay D. Pearson, Joel M. Hanna, Maureen H. Fitzgerald and Paul T. Baker

'Codes' and practice: Information in drug advertisements--An example from Sri Lanka pp. 737-741

Göran Tomson and Kris Weerasuriya

Preferences for health care involvement, perceived control and surgical recovery: A prospective study pp. 743-751

Heike I. M. Mahler and James A. Kulik

Health status and the housing system pp. 753-762

Susan J. Smith

Caring for the elderly: The partnership issue pp. 763-771

Sylvie Jutras

Spatial patterns of attendance at general practitioner services pp. 773-781

Susan M. Hays, Robin A. Kearns and Warren Moran

Female autonomy and child nutritional status: The extended-family residential unit in Amman, Jordan pp. 783-789

Rebecca Miles Doan and Leila Bisharat

Knowledge regarding organ donation: Identifying and overcoming barriers to organ donation pp. 791-800

Raymond L. Horton and Patricia J. Horton

Urban desertification, public health and public order: 'Planned shrinkage', violent death, substance abuse and AIDS in the Bronx pp. 801-813

Rodrick Wallace

Patterns of care for chronic patients after the Italian psychiatric reform. A longitudinal case register study pp. 815-822

Lori Viscogliosi Calabrese, Rocco Micciolo and Michele Tansella

Evaluation of rational drug prescribing in democratic yemen pp. 823-828

Godfrey J. A. Walker, Hans V. Hogerzeil, Ali O. Sallami, Ala'din A. S. Alwan, George Fernando and Fahdl A. Kassem

1990, volume 31, articles 6

International migration of health manpower in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 631-637

Kenneth Olayinka Ojo

Debt crisis, health and health services in Africa pp. 639-648

S.Ogoh Alubo

Economic development strategies: Maternal and child health pp. 649-659

Joseph Uyanga

Health services for the aged in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 661-665

J.O. Oshomuvwe

Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 667-669

C.G. Nevill

Impact of HIV/AIDS on African children pp. 671-680

Elizabeth A. Preble

Orphans as a window on the AIDS epidemic in sub-saharan Africa: Initial results and implications of a study in Uganda pp. 681-690

Susan S. Hunter

Health implications of war in Uganda and Sudan pp. 691-698

Cole P. Dodge

Substance abuse, health and social welfare in Africa: An analysis of the Nigerian experience pp. 699-704

Isidore S. Obot

Psychology and health in Africa pp. 705-710

Bernice N. Ezeilo

1990, volume 31, articles 5

Psychological distress and mortality: Evidence from the Alameda county study pp. 527-536

Robert E. Roberts, George A. Kaplan and Terry C. Camacho

Sociodemographic and health factors in the well-being of homeless men in Sydney, Australia pp. 537-544

Ian Darnton-Hill, John A. Mandryk, Philip A. Mock, June Lewis and Charles B. Kerr

Modeling heart disease mortality with census tract rates and social class mixtures pp. 545-550

Everett E. Logue and David Jarjoura

Sport participation and perceived health status: A study of adolescents pp. 551-556

Thorolfur Thorlindsson, Runar Vilhjalmsson and Gunnar Valgeirsson

Emergency department utilization by two subcultures in the same geographical region pp. 557-563

Sara Carmel, Ofra Anson and Mordechai Levin

Primary care practitioners' likelihood to engage in a bio-psychosocial approach: An additional perspective on the doctor-patient relationship pp. 565-576

Zeev Ben-Sira

The mortality of first and second generation Irish immigrants in the U.K pp. 577-584

James Raftery, David R. Jones and Michael Rosato

Application of the verbal autopsy during a clinical trial pp. 585-591

Sara Pacqué-Margolis, Michel Pacqué, Zwannah Dukuly, John Boateng and Hugh R. Taylor

Blood pressure studies among Amazonian native populations: A review from an epidemiological perspective pp. 593-601

Millicent Fleming-Moran and Carlos E. A. Coimbra

Community pharmacy: A method of assessing quality of care pp. 603-607

Felicity J. Smith, M. R. Salkind and Brian C. Jolly

A pilot study for an HIV prevention programme among commercial sex workers in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe pp. 609-618

David Wilson, Babusi Sibanda, Lilian Mboyi, Sheila Msimanga and Godwin Dube

Tolerance for ambiguity among medical students: Implications for their selection, training and practice pp. 619-624

Gail Geller, Ruth R. Faden and David M. Levine

Belief in the efficacy of alternative medicine among general practitioners in the Netherlands pp. 625-626

Paul Knipschild, Jos Kleijnen and Gerben ter Riet

1990, volume 31, articles 4

Questioning the status quo: Sickness absence research so far claims more than it should! pp. 421-432

Angela Reidy

Levels of health development: A new tool for comparative research and policy formulation pp. 433-444

Susan S. Hunter

Characteristics of women having abortion in China pp. 445-453

Virginia C. Li, Glenn C. Wong, Shu-hua Qui, Fu-ming Cao, Pu-quan Li and Jing-hua Sun

Reported versus recorded health service utilization in Grenada, West Indies pp. 455-460

Michael V. Hayes, S. Martin Taylor, Lillian R. Bayne and Blake D. Poland

Length of unemployment and psychological distress: Longitudinal and cross-sectional data pp. 461-465

Anthony H. Winefield and Marika Tiggemann

Patterns of preference for information sources in the adoption of new drugs by specialists pp. 467-476

Marilyn Y. Peay and Edmund R. Peay

The influence of social support on AIDS-related grief reaction among gay men pp. 477-484

Mary Clare Lennon, John L. Martin and Laura Dean

Falls and subjective health rating among the elderly: Evidence from two Israeli samples pp. 485-490

Julie Cwikel, Giora Kaplan and Vita Barell

An assessment of survey data on birthweight pp. 491-500

Lorenzo Moreno and Noreen Goldman

Psychology, mental health care and the future: Is appropriate transformation in post-apartheid South Africa possible? pp. 501-505

Lloyd Vogelman

Urbanisation and health: Methodological difficulties in undertaking epidemiological research in developing countries pp. 507-514

Derek Yach, Catherine Mathews and Eric Buch

The blood transfusion taboo of Jehovah's Witnesses: Origin, development and function of a controversial doctrine pp. 515-523

Richard Singelenberg

1990, volume 31, articles 3

Foreword pp. 223-223

Jo E. Asvall

Introduction pp. 225-227

Per-Gunnar Svensson

Comparative review of sources, methodology and knowledge pp. 229-236

Raymond Illsley

Health and social inequities in Belgium pp. 237-248

Raphael Lagasse, Perrine C. Humblet, Ann Lenaerts, Isabelle Godin and Guido F.G. Moens

Health and social inequities in the Federal Republic of Germany pp. 249-256

K.-U. Kirchgässler

Health and social inequities in Finland and elsewhere pp. 257-265

Eero Lahelma and Tapani Valkonen

Social inequalities in self-reported morbidity: Interpretation and comparison of data from Britain and France pp. 267-274

Pierre Aiach and Sarah Curtis

Interpreting inequalities in the Hungarian health system pp. 275-284

Lajos Csaszi

Health and social inequities in Ireland pp. 285-290

Geoffrey Cook

Health in Israel: Patterns of equality and inequality pp. 291-303

Judith T. Shuval

Social differences in health and utilization of health services in Italy pp. 305-312

Aldo Piperno and Ferdinando Di Orio

Health and social inequities in Malta pp. 313-318

Francis Agius

Health and social inequities in The Netherlands pp. 319-329

Ingeborg P. Spruit

Health and social inequity in Norway pp. 331-342

Per Måseide

Health inequalities in Poland pp. 343-350

Danuta Duch and Magdalena Sokooâwska

Health and social inequities in Spain pp. 351-358

Josep A. Rodríguez and Louis Lemkow

Health and social inequities in Sweden pp. 359-367

Finn Diderichsen

Health and social inequities in Switzerland pp. 369-386

Philippe Lehmann, Catherine Mamboury and Christoph E. Minder

Health and social inequalities in Turkey pp. 387-392

Necati Dedeoglu

The measurement of inequities in health: Lessons from the British experience pp. 393-404

Roy Carr-Hill

Health and social inequities in Yugoslavia pp. 405-412

Miroslav Mastilica

The economics of inequality in health: A bibliography pp. 413-420

João Pereira

1990, volume 31, articles 2

Utilization of selected hospitals, health centres and health stations in Central, Southern and Western Ethiopia pp. 101-114

Helmut Kloos

Self-concept and cancer in adults: Theoretical and methodological issues pp. 115-128

Barbara Curbow, Mark Somerfield, Marcia Legro and John Sonnega

Geographical distribution of diabetes among the native population of Canada: A national survey pp. 129-139

T.Kue Young, Emöke J.E. Szathmary, Susan Evers and Brian Wheatley

Socio-economic mortality differences in the Netherlands in 1950-1984: A regional study of cause-specific mortality pp. 141-152

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

Responsiveness to physicians' requests for information concerning drug interactions: A comparison of brand and generic companies pp. 153-157

Martin Thomas and Joel Lexchin

The impact of family functioning on health changes in children with cystic fibrosis pp. 159-164

Joan M. Patterson, Hamilton I. McCubbin and Warren J. Warwick

Epilepsy and well-being pp. 165-170

John A. Collings

Childbirth and postpartum care: Biomedical constraints on lay practice: Introduction pp. 171-173

Barbara Rylko-Bauer

The role of obstetrical rituals in the resolution of cultural anomaly pp. 175-189

Robbie E. Davis-Floyd

A comparison of attitudes and practices of episiotomy among obstetrical practitioners in New Mexico pp. 191-201

Susan Brandt Graham, Valerian Catanzarite, Judith Bernstein and Frances Varela-Gittings

The making of a medical tradition: Vaginal birth after cesarean pp. 203-210

Carol Shepherd McClain

The place of the clock in pediatric advice: Rationales, cultural themes, and impediments to breastfeeding pp. 211-221

Ann V. Millard

1990, volume 31, articles 1

Introduction pp. 1-4

Hans S. Falck

Social work and the management of severe head injury pp. 5-11

Thomas Owen Carlton and M. Darlene Gillikin Stephenson

Social work practice theory: A trans-cultural resource for health care pp. 13-17

Francis J. Turner

Social work in health care: Directions in practice pp. 19-26

Barbara Berkman, Evelyn Bonander, Irene Rutchick, Phyllis Silverman, Beth Kemler, Leonard Marcus and Molly-Jane Isaacson-Rubinger

Person/environment construct: Positivist versus naturalist, dilemma or opportunity for health social work research and practice? pp. 27-34

Mary K. Rodwell

Between social and somatic disorders: The promotion of health as part of general social work practice pp. 35-42

Wolf Rainer Wendt

The national health care system in the welfare state pp. 43-50

Hubert Oppl and Ernst von Kardorff

Pain, somatic focus, and emotional adjustment in children of chronic headache sufferers and controls pp. 51-59

Samuel F. Mikail and Carl L. von Baeyer

Cash cropping, subsistence agriculture, and nutritional status among mothers and children in lowland Papua New Guinea pp. 61-68

Kathryn W. Shack, Louis E. Grivetti and Kathryn G. Dewey

Are physicians' ratings of pain affected by patients' physical attractiveness? pp. 69-72

Heather D. Hadjistavropoulos, Michael A. Ross and Carl L. Von Baeyer

Self- and other-awareness of the risk of HIV/AIDS in people with haemophilia and implications for behavioural change pp. 73-79

I. Markova, P. A. Wilkie, S. A. Naji and C. D. Forbes

Fear of cancer and knowledge of cancer: A review and proposed relevance to hazardous waste sites pp. 81-90

Steven H. Berman and Abraham Wandersman

Equity objectives in Portuguese health policy pp. 91-94

Anne Jamieson, Sjaak van der Geest and João Pereira

Informal contacts in Poland's health care services pp. 95-96

Iza Lignowska