Social Science & Medicine

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1986, volume 22, articles 12

The impact of the family and lay others on care-seeking during life-threatening episodes of suspected coronary artery disease pp. 1297-1311

Angelo A. Alonzo

For better and worse: The technological imperative in health care pp. 1313-1320

M. Janet Burger-Lux and Robert P. Heaney

The geography of health in South-East Mexico: A research study and agenda pp. 1321-1327

R. Mansell Prothero and Jeffrey M. P. Davenport

Socioeconomic determinants of continuing functional disablement from chronic disease episodes pp. 1329-1335

Thomas N. Chirikos and Jennie T. Nickel

Children's return to school after treatment for solid tumours pp. 1337-1346

A. Charlton, D. Pearson and P. H. Morris-Jones

Psychosocial support and change in the health status of physically disabled people pp. 1347-1354

Donald L. Patrick, Myfanwy Morgan and John R. H. Charlton

Race, heart disease worry and health protective behavior pp. 1355-1362

H. Edward Ransford

Duties, fears and physicians pp. 1363-1366

Erich H. Loewy

1986, volume 22, articles 11

Opening address: The art of the possible pp. 1097-1102

V. Ramalingaswami

Comments pp. 1102-1102

E. H. O. Parry

Comments pp. 1102-1103

Alfred Gellhorn

Comments pp. 1103-1103

T. A. Lambo

Unemployment-related lifestyle changes and health disturbances in adolescents and children in the western countries pp. 1105-1113

Olafur Olafsson and Per-Gunnar Svensson

The spatial distribution of health resources within countries and communities: Examples from India and Zambia pp. 1115-1129

Rais Akhtar and Nilofar Izhar

The economics and evaluation of dental care and treatment pp. 1131-1139

Brian F. Yule, Barbara M. van Amerongen and Michael C. M. van Schaik

The pharmaceutical industry and health in the third world pp. 1141-1149

David Taylor

The proper contributions of social workers in health practice pp. 1151-1160

June Huntington

Public and private sector interactions: An economic perspective pp. 1161-1166

Alan Maynard

Ethics and resource allocation: An economist's view pp. 1167-1174

A. McGuire

Codes of medical ethics: Traditional foundations and contemporary practice pp. 1175-1179

P. Sohl and H. A. Bassford

The child as a focus for health promotion in the developing world pp. 1181-1186

Prabha Ramalingaswami

The social sciences in health policy and practice pp. 1187-1194

Geert van Etten and Frans Rutten

From sneezes to adieux: Stages of health for American men and women pp. 1195-1212

Lois M. Verbrugge

Labour relations in health services management pp. 1213-1228

Keith Barnard and Stephen Harrison

The place of primary health care in a comprehensive health system pp. 1229-1234

Mikio Yamamoto

Cultural components of behavioural epidemiology: Implications for primary health care pp. 1235-1245

H. K. Heggenhougen and L. Shore

Rural development and primary health care in less developed countries pp. 1247-1256

E. P. Y. Muhondwa

Socio-economic status differences in health pp. 1257-1262

Louis Lemkow

Symptoms, social stratification and self-responsibility for health in the United States and West Germany pp. 1263-1271

William C. Cockerham, Gerhard Kunz, Guenther Leuschen and Joe L. Spaeth

Traditional and modern medicine in South Africa: A research study pp. 1273-1276

S. D. Edwards

Ethnicity and illness experience: Ideological structures and the health care delivery system pp. 1277-1283

Joan M. Anderson

Menopause research: The Korpilampi workshop pp. 1285-1289

Patricia Kaufert, Margaret Lock, Sonja McKinlay, Yewoubdar Beyenne, Jean Coope, Donna Davis, Mona Eliasson, Maryvonne Gognalons-Nicolet, Madeleine Goodman and Arne Holte

1986, volume 22, articles 10

Health status and medical expenditures: Is there a link? pp. 993-999

Barbara Wolfe

Selective primary health care: A critical review of methods and results pp. 1001-1013

Jean-Pierre Unger and James R. Killingsworth

Triggers or aggravators of symptoms? pp. 1015-1018

Arthur A. Stone, Lina Jandorf and John M. Neale

International comparison of drug consumption: Impact of prices pp. 1019-1025

Tadeusz J. Szuba

Frames and heuristics in doctor-patient discourse pp. 1027-1034

David Andreoff Evans, Marian R. Block, Erwin R. Steinberg and Ann M. Penrose

Limits to medical dominance: The case of chiropractic pp. 1035-1046

David Coburn and C.Lesley Biggs

Marketing 'mind mechanics': Decoding antidepressant drug advertisements pp. 1047-1058

Robert Goldman and Michael Montage

Rural tranquillity?: Urban-rural differences in tranquilliser prescribing pp. 1059-1066

Jonathan Gabe and Paul Williams

Family life and cardiovascular risk: Implications for the prevention of chronic disease pp. 1067-1074

Maurine H Venters

Increasing kidney transplantation in Britain: The importance of donor cards, public opinion and medical practice pp. 1075-1080

Alan Lewis and Martin Snell

Determinants of perceived mental health status and help-seeking behavior: Preliminary testing of a conceptual model pp. 1081-1086

Laurel Lockwood Hourani and Myriam Khlat

Poverty, disability and use of services by the elderly: Analysis of the 1980 general household survey pp. 1087-1091

Christina R. Victor and Norman J. Vetter

1986, volume 22, articles 9

Health and human rights in a South African bantustan pp. 887-892

Meredeth Turshen

The health status of the 'old-old': A reconsideration pp. 893-899

Burton P. Halpert and Mary K. Zimmerman

Ischemic heart disease and regional variations of socio-cultural characteristics in Belgium pp. 901-913

Raphaël Lagasse, France Kittel, Michèle Dramaix, Hubert Gheyssens, Guy de Backer and Marcel Kornitzer

The relative influence of health beliefs, parental and peer behaviors and exercise program participation on smoking, alcohol use and physical activity pp. 915-927

Nell H. Gottlieb and Judith A. Baker

Sex ratio at birth in a Cape Coloured population pp. 929-930

I. MacGillivray, D.A. Davey and C. Lawley

The anthropological study of the American medical system: Center and periphery pp. 931-932

Margaret Lock

Media images of physicians and nurses in the United States pp. 933-952

Nora J. Krantzler

Models of clinical expertise in American nursing practice pp. 953-961

Deborah R. Gordon

Medical education and practice on the periphery: Consultation psychiatry and the psychosocial tradition in American medicine pp. 963-971

Thomas M. Johnson

Out of the clinic into the home: Control and patient-physician communication pp. 973-982

Andrea Sankar

Stroke: Health care on the periphery pp. 983-989

Sharon Kaufman and Gay Becker

1986, volume 22, articles 8

Resurgent malaria and the social sciences pp. III-IV

Albert F. Wessen

Marital context and post-infarction quality of life: Is it social support or something more? pp. 791-805

Millard Waltz

Sex differences in depression and satisfaction with self: Findings from a United States national survey pp. 807-812

Jay R. Meddin

Validation of a decision model for triaging hypertensive patients to alternate health education interventions pp. 813-819

Myron E. Hatcher, Lawrence W. Green, David M. Levine and Charles E. Flagle

Migration and biocultural adaptation: Samoans in California pp. 821-834

Craig R. Janes and Ivan G. Pawson

Malaria resurgence in India: A critical study pp. 835-845

V.P. Sharma and K.N. Mehrotra

Socioeconomic and demographic effects of malaria eradication: A comparison of Sri Lanka and Sardinia pp. 847-859

Peter J. Brown

Agricultural development, migrant labor and the resurgence of malaria in Swaziland pp. 861-867

Randall M. Packard

Health education and community participation in mass drug administration for malaria in Nicaragua pp. 869-877

Richard M. Garfield and Sten H. Vermund

Population movement and malaria persistence in Rameswaram Island: Foreword pp. 879-886

P.K. Rajagopalan, P. Jambulingam, S. Sabesan, K. Krishnamoorthy, S. Rajendran, K. Gunasekaran, N.Pradeep Kumar and R.Mansell Prothero

1986, volume 22, articles 7

The plight of primary medical care: The problematics of 'committedness' to the practice pp. 699-712

Zeev Ben-Sira

Effects of rapid urbanization on child behaviour and health in a part of Khartoum, Sudan--I. Socio-economic changes 1965-1980 pp. 713-721

Marianne Cederblad and Sheikh Idris A. Rahim

Effects of rapid urbanization on child behaviour and health in a part of Khartoum, Sudan--II. Psycho-social influences on behaviour pp. 723-730

Sheikh Idris A. Rahim and Marianne Cederblad

The effects of Quebec home aid services on the utilization profile of sociosanitory resources: A substitution study pp. 731-736

André-Pierre Contandriopoulos, Geneviève Tessier and Danielle Larouche

Health revolution in Africa? pp. 737-740

F. J. Bennett

Image--Reality cleavage in development goals pp. 741-744

F. M. Mburu

Ideological framework and health development in Tanzania 1961-2000 pp. 745-753

Urban Jonsson

Uganda--rehabilitation, or redefinition of health services? pp. 755-761

Cole P. Dodge

Health care financing in Kenya: A simulation of welfare effects of user fees pp. 763-767

Germano M. Mwabu and Wilfred M. Mwangi

Politics and policies of food self-sufficiency in Tanzania pp. 769-774

C. K. Omari

Economics of health and nutrition in Kenya pp. 775-780

Wilfred M. Mwangi and Germano M. Mwabu

Cluster sampling for immunization coverage pp. 781-783

Peter W. Kok

The African social periphery pp. 785-790

F. M. Mburu

1986, volume 22, articles 6

Cost structures in a large hospital for the mentally handicapped pp. 605-610

Geraint Johnes and Alan Haycox

Relations geographiques entre la mortalite par cancer de l'oesophage, la cirrhose du foie, l'alcool et le tabac: Le cas de la province de Quebec pp. 611-618

J.p Thouez and O Ghadirian

The Italian health services: Slow revolution or permanent crisis? pp. 619-627

J.H. Robb

Consumer attitudes about advertisements for medicinal drugs pp. 629-638

Louis A. Morris, David Brinberg, Ronald Klimberg, Lloyd Millstein and Carole Rivera

Performance of supply-oriented family planning policy in Bangladesh: An examination pp. 639-644

Bimal Kanti Paul

Depressive symptoms and their correlates among immigrant Mexican women in the United States pp. 645-652

William A. Vega, Bohdan Kolody, Ramon Valle and Richard Hough

Utilization of pharmacies and pharmaceutical drugs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia pp. 653-672

Helmut Kloos, Tsegaye Chama, Dawit Abemo, Kefalo Gebre Tsadik and Solomon Belay

Do health beliefs predict health behaviour? An analysis of breast self-examination pp. 673-678

Michael Calnan and D.R. Rutter

Health and illness of Moroccan immigrants in the city of Antwerp, Belgium pp. 679-685

Rudolf F. Peeters

Social class and survival on the S.S. Titanic pp. 687-690

Wayne Hall

Rivalry and diversity among Thai curer-magicians pp. 691-697

Louis Golomb

1986, volume 22, articles 5

Professionals and professions: A philosophical examination of an ideal pp. 501-508

Jon N. Moline

Unemployment stress: Loss of control, reactance and learned helplessness pp. 509-516

Andrew Baum, Raymond Fleming and Diane M. Reddy

The effect of workplace health services on sex-specific morbidity rates: A note of warning about a possible artefact in apparent female excess morbidity pp. 517-520

Stephen J. Watkins

Cues of disability and treatment continuation of chronic schizophrenics pp. 521-526

Rosalind J. Dworkin, George L. Adams and Ruth L. Telschow

Why medical students will not practice in rural areas: Evidence from a survey pp. 527-533

S. Akbar Zaidi

Health professionals' factual knowledge and changing attitudes toward transsexuals pp. 535-539

Louis R. Franzini and Denise L. Casinelli

Doors and thresholds: Jeddi's approach to psychiatric disorders pp. 541-551

Renaat Devisch and Bart Vervaeck

Parental knowledge and misconceptions about asthma: A controlled study pp. 553-558

J. E. Spykerboer, W. J. Donnelly and Y. H. Thong

Cardiovascular mortality as it relates to the geographic distribution of employment in non-metropolitan Quebec pp. 559-569

Peter Foggin and Daniel Godon

Assessing surgical risks in a population: Patient histories before and after cholecystectomy pp. 571-578

Noralou P. Roos and Rudy Danzinger

Psychosocial wellness among spiritual healing participants pp. 579-586

Deborah Carrow Glik

An interview study of pregnant women's attitudes to ultrasound scanning pp. 587-592

Beverley Hyde

Health protective behaviors in first year medical students pp. 593-598

Jeffery Sobal

Letter to the editor pp. 599-599

Edward R. Friedlander

1986, volume 22, articles 4

Guidelines for the clinical and economic evaluation of health care technologies pp. 393-408

Gordon Guyatt, Michael Drummond, David Feeny, Peter Tugwell, Greg Stoddart, R. Brian Haynes, Kathryn Bennett and Roberta Labelle

Unemployment, health and health services in German-speaking countries pp. 409-430

Detlef Schwefel

Work in pregnancy: Its evolving relationship with perinatal outcome (a review) pp. 431-442

M. J. Saurel-Cubizolles and M. Kaminski

Economic aspects of health education pp. 443-458

Stephen R. Engleman and John F. Forbes

Social integration of the physically disabled in Barbados pp. 459-466

Ann Goerdt

The political economy of doctors' strikes in Nigeria: A Marxist interpretation pp. 467-477

S. Ogoh Alubo

A framework for evaluating community-based heart disease prevention programs pp. 479-487

David G. Altman

Consensual norms regarding patient involvement pp. 489-496

Sandra J. Weiss

1986, volume 22, articles 3

Sex differences in factors associated with use of medical care and alternative illness behaviors pp. 285-292

Janet C. Meininger

Primary health care for whom? Village perspectives from Nepal pp. 293-302

Linda Stone

Organizational growth, survival and death in the U.S. hospital industry: A population ecology perspective pp. 303-308

Jeffrey A. Alexander, Arnold D. Kaluzny and Suann C. Middleton

Agreement among judges on the severity of different morbidity states pp. 309-312

Gerrit K. Janssens

Financing health services in developing countries pp. 313-314

Dayl S. Donaldson and David W. Dunlop

Health care decisions at the household level: Results of a rural health survey in Kenya pp. 315-319

Germano M. Mwabu

The demand for adult outpatient services in the Bicol region of the Philippines pp. 321-328

John Akin, Charles C. Griffin, David K. Guilkey and Barry M. Popkin

What should consumers in poor countries pay for publicly-provided health services? pp. 329-333

Philip Musgrove

Revolving drug funds: Conducting business in the public sector pp. 335-343

Peter N. Cross, Maggie A. Huff, Jonathan D. Quick and James A. Bates

Financing health development projects: Some macro-economic considerations pp. 345-349

Alan L. Sorkin

The effect of scale on cost projections for a primary health care program in a developing country pp. 351-360

A. Over

State-sponsored primary health care in Africa: The recurrent cost of performing miracles pp. 361-368

Clive S. Gray

Cost-effectiveness of the expanded programme of immunization in the Ivory Coast: A preliminary assessment pp. 369-377

Donald S. Shepard, Layes Sanoh and Emmou Coffi

Changes in health financing: The Chilean experience pp. 379-385

Anamaria Viveros-Long

1986, volume 22, articles 2

Foreword pp. 113-113

Jo E. Asvali

Introduction pp. 115-116

Peter J. M. McEwan

Life-styles and health pp. 117-124

Health Education Unit

Qui veut, en France, d'un mode de vie plus sain? pp. 125-133

Alain Letourmy

Inequalities in access to health care in Hungary pp. 135-140

Julia Szalai

Inequalities in health and gender pp. 141-149

Elina Haavio-Mannila

Inequalities in health: Strategies pp. 151-160

Peter C. Hexel and Helmut Wintersberger

Nouveaux concepts en sante mentale pp. 161-171

Robert Castel

Psychiatric cases in community studies: How important an issue? pp. 173-183

George W. Brown and T. K. J. Craig

Mental health care and the opposition movement in the Netherlands pp. 185-192

J. Haafkens, G. Nijhof and E. Van der Poel

A new-modelled medicine? Comments on the WHO's regional strategy for Europe pp. 193-199

P. M. Strong

Health professions: The origin of species pp. 201-209

Dag Hofoss

The state and health in France pp. 211-221

François Steudler

Health sector structures: The case of Belgium pp. 223-232

Yvo Nuyens

Health sector structures: The case of Spain pp. 233-246

Jesús M. de Miguel

Sociological concepts in the etiology of chronic disease: The case of ischemic heart disease pp. 247-253

Johannes Siegrist, Karin Siegrist and Ingbert Weber

Health indicators pp. 255-263

Marijke Mootz

Concepts in alternative medicine pp. 265-273

C. W. Aakster

Lay care in illness pp. 275-284

Kathryn Dean

1986, volume 22, articles 1

Detecting and preventing adverse drug interactions: The potential contribution of computers in pharmacies pp. 1-8

Duane M. Kirking, J. William Thomas, Frank J. Ascione and Eddie L. Boyd

Managing medical supply logistics among health workers in Ecuador pp. 9-14

Richard A. Reid, Karen L. Ruffing and Howard L. Smith

Sex differences in childhood mortality in rural Bangladesh pp. 15-22

Michael A. Koenig and Stan D'Souza

Health care expenditures in a rural Indian community pp. 23-27

Robert L. Parker

Informed consent to elective surgery: The 'therapeutic' value? pp. 29-33

Louise M. Wallace

Pathways to patienthood: Sick role and labeling perspectives pp. 35-40

Richard L. Meile

Correlates of mothers' use of medications for their children pp. 41-51

Lois A. Maiman, Marshall H. Becker and Anne W. Katlic

First diagnosis of severe mental handicap: Characteristics of unsatisfactory encounters between doctors and parents pp. 53-62

Lyn Quine and Jan Pahl

Why has hospital length of stay declined? An evaluation of alternative theories pp. 63-73

Frank A. Sloan and Joseph Valvona

Biomedical resistance to ethnomedicine in Botswana pp. 75-80

Evelyn L. Barbee

Roles, careers and femininity in biomedicine: Women physicians and nurses in Japan pp. 81-90

Susan Orpett Long

Agreement between laboratory tests and self-reports of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, marijuana and other drug use in post-partum women pp. 91-98

Ruth E. Little, Charles N. Uhl, Robert F. Labbe, Janis L. Abkowitz and Louise R. Phillips

The inter-relationship of folk, traditional and western medicine within an Asian community in Britain pp. 99-105

Rajinder Singh Bhopal

Alcohol consumption among laid-off workers before and after closure of a Danish ship-yard: A 2-year follow-up study pp. 107-109

Lars Iversen and Hans Klausen