Social Science & Medicine

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1985, volume 21, articles 12

Historical perspectives on the development of health systems modeling in medical anthropology pp. 1297-1307

Susan S. Hunter

A longitudinal study of work loss related to dental diseases pp. 1309-1314

Susan Reisine and Julia Miller

Residents' functioning and staff perceptions of 'ease of management' in two types of old peoples' homes pp. 1315-1318

Linda Powell Proctor, Peter Brook, Nicola Blandford and Brian Billington

A rehabilitation of health outcome in quality assessment pp. 1319-1328

D. P. Doessel and J. V. Marshall

The production and effects of uncertainty with special reference to diabetes mellitus pp. 1329-1334

Christine Mason

The advance to biopsychosocial medicine pp. 1335-1335

Stacey B. Day

The emergence of the biopsychosocial approach. A model for third world health care systems pp. 1337-1337

Fernando Lolas

Essential teaching philosophy should be that of the biopsychosocial method pp. 1339-1339

Amador R. Neghme

Health as situational adaption: A social psychological perspective pp. 1341-1344

Angelo A. Alonzo

Traditional medicine and biopsychosocial fulfilment in African health pp. 1345-1347

E. S. Ataudo

Teaming up for better health pp. 1349-1353

Jibril Aminu

The psychosomatic approach and the problem of diagnosis pp. 1355-1361

Fernando Lolas

The stress concept as a problem for a 'theoretical pathology' pp. 1363-1365

Paul Christian and Fernando Lolas

State of health and stress factors in occupation: The mass media profession pp. 1367-1371

Heinz-Dietrich Fischer

Biopsychosocial imperatives from the rural perspective pp. 1373-1379

Sam M. Cordes

The Czechoslovak approach to biopsychosocial health pp. 1381-1382

Zdenek Votava

Clinical biopsychosocial practice and primary health care in Eastern Nigeria pp. 1383-1389

Stacey B. Day

The Hannover consultation liaison model: Some empirical findings pp. 1391-1404

Hellmuth Freyberger, Hans-Werner Künsebeck, Wolfgang Lempa, Hans-Jurgen Avenarius, Reinhard Liedtke, Reinhard Plassman and Jutta Nordmeyer

Holistic medicine and technology: A modern dialectic pp. 1405-1409

Paul J. Rosch and Helen M. Kearney

1985, volume 21, articles 11

Social networks and the spread of infectious diseases: The AIDS example pp. 1203-1216

Alden S. Klovdahl

Research issues in child abuse pp. 1217-1228

Philip Graham, Robert Dingwall and Stephen Wolkind

Mental health professionals' knowledge in the field of caring for chronic mental disorders pp. 1229-1233

Gordon E. Barnes and John Toews

Medecins generalistes et troubles mentaux pp. 1235-1241

Pierre Aiach and Dominique Cebe

Satisfaction with hospitalization: A comparative analysis of three types of services pp. 1243-1249

Sara Carmel

Depressive symptomatology among Namibian adolescent refugees pp. 1251-1257

Olive Shisana and David D. Celentano

Social support in pregnancy: The 'soft' way to increase birthweight? pp. 1259-1268

Ann Oakley

Landholding, wealth and risk of blinding malnutrition in rural Bangladeshi households pp. 1269-1272

N. Cohen, M. A. Jalil, H. Rahman, M. A. Matin, J. Sprague, J. Islam, J. Davison, E. Leemhuis de Regt and M. Mitra

Food safety and the behavioural sciences pp. 1273-1277

George M. Foster and F. K. Käferstein

Permanence and change: Psychosocial factors in the outcome of adolescent pregnancy pp. 1279-1287

W. Thomas Boyce, Catherine Schaefer and Chris Uitti

Alternative systems in Malaysian drug rehabilitation: Organization and control in comparative perspective pp. 1289-1296

Raymond L. M. Lee

1985, volume 21, articles 10

Introduction pp. 1061-1062

J. C. Sailly

The demand for prescription drugs as a function of cost-sharing pp. 1063-1069

Arleen Leibowitz, Willard Manning and Joseph Newhouse

The effects of patient characteristics on ambulatory test ordering pp. 1071-1075

Arnold M. Epstein and Barbara J. McNeil

The social drug lag: An examination of pharmaceutical approval delays in medicaid formularies pp. 1077-1082

Stuart O. Schweitzer, Hossein Salehi and Nancy Boling

The determinants of biological prescription in French hospitals pp. 1083-1087

Th. Lebrun, J. C. Sailly, Louis Eeckhoudt and J. Samaille

Subsidizing pharmaceutical prescriptions: The experience of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden pp. 1089-1096

Björn Lindgren and Raymunda Silverberg

The cost of prescribing in general practice pp. 1097-1105

Freda Fitton, Bogusia Temple and H. W. K. Acheson

The problems raised by the use of cost as an efficiency indicator in a biochemical laboratory pp. 1107-1112

Pierre Mevellec

On the choice of an organization for a pathology laboratory pp. 1113-1118

J. P. Auray, C. Collombel, G. Duru and L. Richard-Couturier

The diffusion of a vanguard technique: The case of nuclear medicine in Belgium pp. 1119-1124

A. Bouckaert and X. Leroy

The impact of the laboratory's multiparametric analyzer on the medical technology and health expenditure in Japan pp. 1125-1129

Shigenobu Kambayashi

The wide distribution of CT scanners in Japan pp. 1131-1137

Ryu Niki

Technology in ambulatory medical care: Cost increasing or cost saving? pp. 1139-1151

Peter Zweifel

Economic evaluation of new drug therapies in terms of improved life quality pp. 1153-1161

Robert E. Leu

The medical and economic consequences of automation in bacteriology: A case study in a French University Hospital pp. 1163-1166

J. C. Sailly, Th. Lebrun, P. Vincent, Louis Eeckhoudt, D. Izard, H. Leclerc, G. Arbon and A. Hassoun

Toward a global approach of biochemistry in hospitals pp. 1167-1176

J. M. Boigne, J. C. Moisdon and D. Tonneau

Evaluation of the interest in ordering the leucocyte differential count pp. 1177-1179

S. Chantereau and C. Sultan

The informative content of radiography and scintigraphy in the diagnosis of bone metastases after breast cancer pp. 1181-1185

C. Sulman, J. C. Sailly, M. C. Demaille, Louis Eeckhoudt, P. Carpentier, P. Vennin and Th. Lebrun

Limited information, medical entitlements and distributive justice pp. 1187-1192

Brian W. Semkow

Physicians and medical innovation pp. 1193-1198

C. E. B. Frost

Ethics and economic appraisals in health care pp. 1199-1202

Jean Sabatini

1985, volume 21, articles 9

Global perspective on health service financing pp. 957-963

Brian Abel-Smith

Use of information resources by health professionals: A review of the literature pp. 965-973

Stephen A. Osiobe

Preventive procedures and practices among working class women: New data and fresh insights pp. 975-983

Roisin Pill and Nigel C.H. Stott

Time series analysis of the relationship between unemployment and mortality: A survey of econometric critiques and replications of Brenner's studies pp. 985-996

Adam Wagstaff

Stamina in later life pp. 997-1006

Elizabeth J. Colerick

Healing and morality: A Javanese example pp. 1007-1021

Mark R. Woodward

Field testing along a disease gradient: Some geographical dimensions of tuberculosis in Puerto Rico pp. 1023-1042

John M. Hunter and Sonia Arbona

Teaching medical students the effects of values and stereotyping on the doctor/patient relationship pp. 1043-1047

Margot E. Kurtz, Shirley M. Johnson, Thomas Tomlinson and Nicholas J. Fiel

Standing tall against Nicaragua pp. 1049-1050

Alfred Gellhorn

Letter to the editor pp. 1051-1051

Donald Light

1985, volume 21, articles 8

A sociological conceptualization of trauma pp. 835-848

Stjepan G. Mestrovic

Reforming health care in Hungary pp. 849-855

Lajos Császi and Patricia Kullberg

Coping with a handicapped child: Differences between mothers and fathers pp. 857-863

Robert F. Schilling, Steven Paul Schinke and Maura A. Kirkham

Time budget analysis as a tool for PHC planning (with examples from Ethiopia) pp. 865-872

Solomon Ayalew

The health of clients referred to social workers in an intake team pp. 873-878

Roslyn H. Corney

Studies on the traditional herbal anthelmintic chenopodium ambrosioides L.: Ethnopharmacological evaluation and clinical field trials pp. 879-886

Michael M. Kliks

Social effects of diazepam use: A longitudinal field study pp. 887-898

Robert D. Caplan, Frank M. Andrews, Terry L. Conway, Antonia Abbey, David J. Abramis and John R. P. French

Predictors of dentists' level of knowledge regarding the recommended prophylactic regimen for patients with rheumatic heart disease pp. 899-907

Donald Sadowsky, Carol Kunzel and Martin Frankel

The impact of reading on physicians' nonadherence to recommended standards of medical care pp. 909-914

Stuart J. Cohen, Morris Weinberger, Siu L. Hui, William M. Tierney and Clement J. McDonald

Improving the efficiency of patients' comprehension monitoring: A way of increasing patients' participation in general practice consultations pp. 915-919

E. J. Robinson and M. J. Whitfield

Introduction pp. 921-921

Charles Leslie

What caused India's massive community health workers scheme: A sociology of knowledge pp. 923-930

Charles Leslie

China's impact on American medicine in the seventies: A limited and preliminary inquiry pp. 931-936

David V. McQueen

From China to Africa: The same impossible synthesis between traditional and Western medicines pp. 937-943

Gilles Bibeau

The impact of the Chinese medical model on Japan or, how the younger brother comes of age pp. 945-950

Margaret Lock

1985, volume 21, articles 7

Whither the state in Yugoslav health care? pp. 719-728

Donna E. Parmelee

Whither or wither the state in Yugoslav health care?: Some comparative reflections pp. 728-730

Mark G. Field

The prescription for Yugoslav medicine pp. 730-732

Vladimir Milanovic and Vuk Stambolovic

Time trends and key factors in the choice of one-step or two-step biopsy and surgery for breast cancer pp. 733-740

Lincoln Polissar and Mary Lou Finley

The paperless medical record pp. 741-746

Steven Shea and David Margulies

Mental health and satisfaction among tax officers pp. 747-751

Cary L. Cooper and Jim Roden

The demand for dental care: An assessment pp. 753-760

Brian Yule and David Parkin

Heavy users of an emergency department: Psycho-social and medical characteristics, other health care contacts and the effect of a hospital social worker intervention pp. 761-770

Kjerstin Genell Andrén and Urban Rosenqvist

Reasons for the disagreements on the impact of smoking on medical care expenditures: A proposal for a uniform approach pp. 771-773

M. E. Thompson and W. F. Forbes

Maternal sociomedical characteristics and birth weights of firstborns pp. 775-783

Charles Hoff, Wladimir Wertelecki, Elena Reyes, Shelley Zansky, James Dutt, Alfred Stumpe, Derel Till and Rose Mary Butler

Children's perceptions of advertisements for cigarettes pp. 785-797

P. P. Aitken, D. S. Leathar and F. J. O'Hagan

Changes in mortality among the elderly Finnish population 1951-1979 pp. 799-805

Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä

How to get well in tzintzuntzan pp. 807-818

George M. Foster

Smoking among urban Malaysian school children pp. 819-823

Vimala Thambypillai

More on the impact of smoking on medical care expenditures pp. 825-827

Robert E. Leu and Thomas Schaub

1985, volume 21, articles 6

Health policy and the emerging tobacco reality pp. 603-613

Nancy Milio

Patient rating of doctors using computers pp. 615-622

P. J. Cruickshank

Some problems with pro-competition reforms pp. 623-630

George J. Agich and Charles E. Begley

A longitudinal study of the reporting of emotional and somatic symptoms during and after pregnancy pp. 631-640

Hilary M. Lips

Low country fevers: Cultural adaptations to malaria in antebellum South Carolina pp. 641-649

Jill Dubisch

Preference of hospital employees for work-related outcomes pp. 651-653

Jonathan Nnadozie and Reuben Eldar

Female labor force participation and female mortality in Wisconsin 1974-1978 pp. 655-665

Marian R. Passannante and Constance A. Nathanson

Drink boiled water: A cultural analysis of a health education message pp. 667-669

Mark Nichter

Menstruation as medicine pp. 671-683

Chris Knight

Women heal women: Spirit possession and sexual segregation in a Muslim society pp. 685-692

Pamela Constantinides

Polluting and healing among the Northern Yaka of Zaire pp. 693-700

Renaat Devisch

The power to pollute and the power to preserve: Perceptions of female power in a Hindu village pp. 701-711

Catherine Thompson

Vicarious menstruation pp. 713-714

Videa S. Skultans

1985, volume 21, articles 5

Urbanization and health in the developing world pp. 483-483

Yola Verhasselt

Primary medical care and coping with stress and disease: The inclination of primary care practitioners to demonstrate affective behavior pp. 485-498

Zeev Ben-Sira

The social and cultural context of coping: Action, gender and symptoms in a southern black community pp. 499-506

William W. Dressler

The treatment strategies of arthritis sufferers pp. 507-515

Dennis Gray

Socio-economic conditions in childhood and mortality and morbidity caused by coronary heart disease in adulthood in rural Finland pp. 517-523

V. Notkola, S. Punsar, M. J. Karvonen and J. Haapakoski

The relation of social support and working environment to medical variables associated with elevated blood pressure in young males: A structural model pp. 525-531

Sarah S. Knox, Töres Theorell, Jan Ch. Svensson and Dick Waller

Sociocultural correlates of childhood sporting activities: Their implications for heart health pp. 533-539

Nell H. Gottlieb and Meei-Shia Chen

The influence of the family on control of diabetes pp. 541-544

Jacqueline Edelstein and Margarette W. Linn

Gender differences in life expectancy among Kibbutz members pp. 545-551

Uri Leviatan and Jiska Cohen

Using social epidemiology to understand who stays blind and who gets operated for cataract in a rural setting pp. 553-558

Girija E. Brilliant and Lawrence B. Brilliant

La deficience visuelle congenitale: Chances et difficultes d'amenagement pp. 559-570

A. Harrison-Covello and G. C. Lairy

Pandemic and epidemic influenza, 1830-1848 pp. 571-580

K. David Patterson

Circumcision: Its nature and practice among some ethnic groups in Southern Nigeria pp. 581-588

Robert A. Myers, Francisca I. Omorodion, Anthony E. Isenalumhe and Gregory I. Akenzua

Content analysis of speech of schizophrenic and control adoptees and their relatives: preliminary results pp. 589-593

Dennis K. Kinney, Bjorn Jacobsen, Birgitte Bechgaard, Lennart Jansson, Britta Faber, Eva Kasell and Regina L. Uliana

1985, volume 21, articles 4

The evaluation of health care pp. 367-375

Roy A. Carr-Hill

Mental health in health planning agencies pp. 377-381

Elayne S. Kornblatt

Chiropractic and the clinical art pp. 383-390

John L. Coulehan

The social and psychological consequences of secrecy in artificial insemination by donor (AID) programmes pp. 391-396

Robyn Rowland

Potency: A stress-buffering link in the coping-stress-disease relationship pp. 397-406

Zeev Ben-Sira

The evaluations of drug information programs pp. 407-414

John Lilja

Restructuring health care financing in Chile pp. 415-431

Joseph L. Scarpaci

The monthly and weekly distribution of suicide pp. 433-441

Walter Massing and Matthias C. Angermeyer

Anthropology and the study of chronic disease: Adolescent blood pressure in corpus Christi, Texas pp. 443-450

Timothy Ready

Health services utilization and cost in Ismailia, Egypt pp. 451-461

Hassan A. H. Abu-Zeid and William M. Dann

Curing and sociocultural separatism in south Thailand pp. 463-468

Louis Golomb

Concepts of illness and the utilization of health-care services in a rural Malian village pp. 469-481

Sibylle Hielscher and Johannes Sommerfeld

1985, volume 21, articles 3

The proprietary hospital industry: A financial analysis 1972-1982 pp. 235-242

Allen Michel, Israel Shaked and John Daley

Unsung questions of medical ethics pp. 243-249

David Barnard

Health services and the political culture of Saudi Arabia pp. 251-262

Eugene B. Gallagher and C. Maureen Searle

Patient compliance behavior: The effects of time on patients' values of treatment regimens pp. 263-273

Jay J.J. Christensen-Szalanski and Gregory B. Northcraft

The reinterpretation of Western pharmaceuticals among the Mende of Sierra Leone pp. 275-282

Caroline H. Bledsoe and Monica F. Goubaud

Traditional infant feeding practices: Right or wrong? pp. 283-286

Jane A. Kusin, Sri Kardjati and Wil van Steenbergen

Prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease amongst Mormons in Britain and Ireland pp. 287-290

W.J. Penny, E. Penny, J.F. Mayberry and J. Rhodes

Decision to adopt new medical technology: A case study of thrombolytic therapy pp. 291-298

Daniel M. Becker, Dan Sarel and Laurence B. Gardner

Preventive care attitudes of medical students pp. 299-305

Craig S. Scott and William E. Neighbor

The relevance of the social sciences to health care delivery pp. 307-308

Joan M. Anderson

Missionary doctors vs Chinese patients: Credibility of missionary health care in early twentieth century China pp. 309-317

Yuet-Wah Cheung and Peter Kong-Ming New

Trust, talk and touch in Balkan folk healing pp. 319-325

Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern

Support networks developed by immigrant women pp. 327-333

M.Judith Lynam

Social support and learning in preventive health care pp. 335-339

Carl A. Maida

Influences on the antenatal clinic attendance of central province women in Port Moresby, PNG pp. 341-350

Leslie B. Marshall

The health belief model and preventive health behaviour in Singapore pp. 351-363

Stella R. Quah

1985, volume 21, articles 2

Les disparites sociales de consommation medicale pp. 103-113

Renée Serange-Fonterme

Building an effective doctor-patient relationship: From patient satisfaction to patient participation pp. 115-120

Edward J. Speedling and David N. Rose

Social and environmental factors associated with diarrhoea and growth in young children: Child health in urban Africa pp. 121-127

Helen Pickering

Maladie subie, maladie dominee, industrialisation et technologie medicale: Le cas de la tuberculose pp. 129-137

Annie Thebaud and France Lert

Mortality rates for farmers and fishermen in Japan compared with England and Wales pp. 139-143

Yuchi Naruse, Sadanobu Kagamimori, Masao Watanabe, Masumi Minowa and Yasuo Iibuchi

Social epidemiology of the experience of threat of war among finnish youth pp. 145-151

Tytti Solantaus, Matti Rimpelä and Ossi Rahkonen

An analytic typology of disclaimers, excuses and justifications surrounding illness: A situational approach to health and illness pp. 153-162

Angelo A. Alonzo

Culture-bound syndromes unbound pp. 165-171

Robert A. Hahn

Pibloktoq (hysteria) and inuit nutrition: Possible implication of hypervitaminosis A pp. 173-185

David Landy

Culturally interpreted symptoms or culture-bound syndromes: A cross-cultural review of nerves pp. 187-196

Setha M. Low

The concept of culture-bound syndromes: Anorexia Nervosa and brain-fag pp. 197-203

Raymond Prince

The metamorphosis of 'culture-bound' syndromes pp. 205-210

Wolfgang G. Jilek and Louise Jilek-Aall

Sanctified madness: The God-intoxicated saints of Bengal pp. 211-220

Alan Morinis

Deconstructing culture-bound syndromes pp. 221-228

Ivan Karp

1985, volume 21, articles 1

Health and social science in Latin America pp. 1-3

Antonio Ugalde

Health and traditional medicine cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 5-12

Duncan Pedersen and Veronica Baruffati

Health care in Costa Rica: Boom and crisis pp. 13-21

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Assessment of Venezuelan health services from a social development perspective pp. 23-30

Henry Gómez, George Kastner and Cristina V. De Pieretti

Studies of diarrhoea in Quindio (Columbia): Problems related to water treatment pp. 31-39

David Bersh and Margarita M. Osorio

Ideological dimensions of community participation in Latin American health programs pp. 41-53

Antonio Ugalde

Fifteen years of community organization for health in Panama: An assessment of current progress and problems pp. 55-65

Gerard M. La Forgia

Difficulties involved in taking health services to the people: The example of a public health care center in a Caracas barrio pp. 67-75

Cathy A. Rakowski and George Kastner

Coverage and patterns of ambulatory medical care use in Tlalpan, Mexico City pp. 77-86

B. J. Selwyn and M. Ruiz de Chavez

Family medicine: A medical care alternative for Latin America pp. 87-92

Amador Flores Arechiga, Hector Riquelme Heras and Idalia Quintanilla Cantu

Mexican immigrants and the utilization of U.S. health services: The case of San Diego pp. 93-102

Leo R. Chavez, Wayne A. Cornelius and Oliver Williams Jones