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1983, volume 17, articles 24

Health and development in Africa pp. 1945-1946

Peter Oberender, Hans Jochen Diesfeld and Hans Jochen Diesfeld

Planning and politics of resource allocation for primary health care: Promotion of meaningful national policy pp. 1947-1960

Malcolm Segall

Some observations about health development in three African socialist countries: Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania pp. 1961-1969

Oscar Gish

Vertical vs horizontal health programmes in Africa: Idealism, pragmatism, resources and efficiency pp. 1971-1981

Anne Mills

Jamaica: A case study in health development pp. 1983-1993

G. E. Cumper

Planning priorities and health care delivery in Nigeria pp. 1995-2002

Folorunso Abudu

The state of health as a reflection of the level of development of a nation pp. 2003-2006

P. O. Agbonifo

Health care in the developing world: The role of economists and economics pp. 2007-2015

Kenneth Lee

Health care financing: Recent experience in Africa pp. 2017-2025

David W. Dunlop

Economic issues in disease control and eradication pp. 2027-2032

Ralph Andreano

Religiosity and health behaviour in Africa pp. 2033-2036

Joshua W. Sempebwa

Making medical education relevant to health care systems pp. 2037-2039

E. H. O. Parry

Health and culture in an African society pp. 2041-2043

Josephine M. Namboze

1983, volume 17, articles 23

Scientism vs humanism in medical education pp. 1831-1835

Gregory A. Doran

Aspects of living conditions among groups of disabled children and their families in Norway: Family situation, mothers' health, financial assistance pp. 1837-1845

Kari Storhaug

Family planning and female sterilization in the United States pp. 1847-1855

Thomas M. Shapiro, William Fisher and Augusto Diana

Perceived risk and choice of childbirth service pp. 1857-1865

Carol Shepherd McClain

Breast-feeding among female employees at a major health institution in Lagos, Nigeria pp. 1867-1871

A. Bamisaiye and M. A. Oyediran

Attitudes of medical students in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, toward preventive medicine and epidemiology pp. 1873-1875

Zoran Radovanovic and Zorana Djordjevic-Gledovic

Income and dietary adequacy in an agricultural community pp. 1877-1886

Kathleen M. DeWalt

The use of private health care providers in rural Bangladesh: A response to Claquin pp. 1887-1896

Shelley Feldman

How nursing homes behave: A multi-equation model of nursing home behavior pp. 1897-1906

A. James Lee, Howard Birnbaum and Christine Bishop

Does smoking increase medical care expenditure? pp. 1907-1914

Robert E. Leu and Thomas Schaub

Killing and letting die: Hidden value assumptions pp. 1915-1925

Gary Atkinson

1983, volume 17, articles 22

Introduction pp. 1683-1685

F.M. Mburu and Paul G. Steinkuller

Ocular needs in Africa: Increasing priorities and shrinking resources pp. 1687-1691

F.M. Mburu and Paul G. Steinkuller

Cataract: The leading cause of blindness and vision loss in Africa pp. 1693-1702

Paul G. Steinkuller

Onchocerciasis: A major social problem in West Africa pp. 1703-1707

C.O. Quarcoopome

The epidemiology of trachoma blindness in Southern Africa pp. 1709-1713

Peter W. Kok

Nutritional blindness in Africa pp. 1715-1721

Paul G. Steinkuller

Surgical treatment of open angle glaucoma is preferable to medical management in Africa pp. 1723-1727

Larry Schwab and Paul G. Steinkuller

Ocular injuries in Africa pp. 1729-1735

H.S. Adala

Ocular leprosy in Africa pp. 1737-1742

G.K. Kagame

Ocular tumors in Africa pp. 1743-1750

Volker Klauss and Harjinder S. Chana

Visual disability and blindness secondary to refractive errors in Africa pp. 1751-1754

Larry Schwab and Paul G. Steinkuller

Trachoma in South Africa pp. 1755-1765

R.C. Ballard, H.G. Fehler, P. Fotheringham, E.E. Sutter and J.D. Treharne

Eye diseases and services in Tanzania pp. 1767-1772

Nicholas Kinabo

Ocular disease and ophthalmic services in Malawi pp. 1773-1780

Moses C. Chirambo and Tefera Tizazu

Eye diseases and control of blindness in Zambia pp. 1781-1783

S.M. Shukla

Prevalence and causes of vision loss in Southern Sudan pp. 1785-1788

Tefera Tizazu and F.M. Mburu

The International Eye Foundation/Kenya Rural Blindness Prevention Project pp. 1789-1792

R.Douglass Arbuckle

Field methodology for ocular surveys in rural Africa pp. 1793-1796

Dennis Ross-Degnan, Larry Schwab and F.M. Mburu

Training for primary and preventive eye care pp. 1797-1808

Victoria M. Sheffield

Training of eye care workers and their integration in Gazankulu's comprehensive health services pp. 1809-1812

E.E. Sutter

Community participation in the control of trachoma in Gazankulu pp. 1813-1817

E.E. Sutter and R.C. Ballard

Training health workers: What needs to be taught and who should teach it pp. 1819-1825

Peter Godwin

The role of traditional medicine of ophthalmology in Kenya pp. 1827-1830

V. Kimani and Volker Klauss

1983, volume 17, articles 21

The development of medical sociology in Europe pp. 1591-1597

Lisbeth M. Claus

Social support, social influence, ethnicity and the breastfeeding decision pp. 1599-1611

Tom Baranowski, David E. Bee, David K. Rassin, C. Joan Richardson, Judy P. Brown, Nancy Guenther and Philip R. Nader

From teams to hierarchy: A short-lived innovation in a hospital for the elderly pp. 1613-1618

Grace de Santis

Loss, stress and readjustment: The structure of coping with bereavement and disability pp. 1619-1632

Zeev Ben-Sira

Infantile autism and childhood schizophrenia: Review of the issues from the sociocultural point of view pp. 1633-1651

Victor D. Sanua

The dysmenorrhea personality: Actuality or statistical artifact? pp. 1653-1655

Carmine U. Iacono and Sam J. Roberts

Informed consent and patient decision making: Two decades of research pp. 1657-1664

Caroline L. Kaufmann

The scientific ethos debate: A meta-theoretical view pp. 1665-1672

Nina Toren

1983, volume 17, articles 20

Job characteristics of occupations and myocardial infarction risk: Effect of possible confounding factors pp. 1497-1503

Lars Alfredsson and Töres Theorell

Health education and the primary care physician: The practitioner's perspective pp. 1505-1512

Ann S. Ford and W. Scott Ford

The state of medical sociology in the United States, Great Britain, West Germany and Austria: Applied vs pure theory pp. 1513-1527

William C. Cockerham

Maternal and child nutritional status: Its association with the risk of pregnancy pp. 1529-1540

Sandra L. Huffman

Podiatry: A medical care specialty in quest of full professional status and recognition pp. 1541-1548

James K. Skipper and James E. Hughes

The views of clients to a general practice attachment scheme and to local authority social work intake team pp. 1549-1558

Roslyn H. Corney

Salted fish and nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Malaysia pp. 1559-1567

R. W. Armstrong and Alice Chan Siew Eng

The A type behaviour pattern, mental health and health locus of control beliefs pp. 1569-1572

Adrian Furnham

Changing hospitals: The role of hospital accreditation pp. 1573-1579

S. J. Duckett

1983, volume 17, articles 19

Introduction pp. 1409-1410

Susan B. Rifkin

Primary Health Care in rural China: Post-1978 development pp. 1411-1417

Pi-Chao Chen and Chi-Hsien Tuan

Primary health care and health education in Japan pp. 1419-1431

Mikio Yamamoto

Problems of primary health care in a newly developed society: Reflections on the Hong Kong experience pp. 1433-1439

Rance P. L. Lee

Primary health care in the Pacific pp. 1441-1447

Kenneth W. Newell

Can people move bureaucratic mountains? Developing primary health care in rural Indonesia pp. 1449-1455

Arif Haliman and Glen Williams

Training doctors for family practice in primary health care work in Sri Lanka pp. 1457-1461

Joel Fernando

PHC in Bangladesh--Too much to ask? pp. 1463-1466

Kamal Islam and Sally Bachman

A legacy without heirs: Korean indigenous medicine and primary health care pp. 1467-1476

Soon Young Yoon

The community health volunteer scheme in India: An evaluation pp. 1477-1483

Rushikesh M. Maru

Buddhist monks as community health workers in Thailand pp. 1485-1487

Sant Hathirat

Primary health care in Southeast Asia: Attitudes about community participation in community health programmes pp. 1489-1496

Susan B. Rifkin

1983, volume 17, articles 18

A Durkheimian hypothesis on stress pp. 1315-1327

Stjepan Mestrovic and Barry Glassner

Social support and compliance: A selective review and critique of treatment integrity and outcome measurement pp. 1329-1338

Rona L. Levy

Patterns of diagnostic testing in the academic setting: The influence of medical attendings' subspeciality training pp. 1339-1342

Peter Manu and Sheldon E. Schwartz

Is self-care a social movement? pp. 1343-1352

Preston L. Schiller and Jeffrey S. Levin

Patient satisfaction and visiting the doctor: A self-regulating system pp. 1353-1361

John Mirowsky and Catherine E. Ross

Social science research on medical technology: Utility and limitations pp. 1363-1369

H. David Banta

The communication process in clinical settings pp. 1371-1378

Joan J. Mathews

Factors in the utilization of the small non-metropolitan hospital in Alberta, Canada pp. 1379-1387

Herbert C. Northcott and Randolph W. Rall

Cognitive maturity and the experience of fear and pain in hospital pp. 1389-1395

Nadja Reissland

1983, volume 17, articles 17

Childhood disadvantage and the planning of pregnancy pp. 1223-1227

D. M. Fergusson and L. J. Horwood

An Amerindian derivation for Latin American creole illnesses and their treatment pp. 1229-1248

Audrey Butt Colson and Cesareo de Armellada

Traditional medicine in Ecuador: The structure of the non-formal health systems pp. 1249-1255

Duncan Pedersen and Carlos Coloma

Beliefs regarding the etiology and treatment of infantile diarrhea in Lima, Peru pp. 1257-1269

Gabriel J. Escobar, Eduardo Salazar and Mario Chuy

The survival of traditional medicine in a Peruvian Barriada pp. 1271-1280

Judith Davidson

Grass roots, herbs, promotors and preventions: A re-evaluation of contemporary international health care planning. The Bolivian case pp. 1281-1289

Libbet Crandon

Experience and expectation: Conflict and change in traditional family health care among the Quichua of Saraguro pp. 1291-1298

Ruthbeth D. Finerman

The diffusion of influenza in sub-Saharan Africa during the 1918-1919 pandemic pp. 1299-1307

K. David Patterson and Gerald F. Pyle

Self concepts in medical outpatient and normal Nigerian undergraduates pp. 1309-1313

Bernice N. Ezeilo

1983, volume 17, articles 16

Psycho-social factors and the technologies of work pp. 1075-1084

Rina Alcalay and R. J. Pasick

Justice and health for all pp. 1085-1095

Gaspard A. de Jong and Frans F. H. Rutten

Effects of material deprivation on neurological functioning pp. 1097-1105

Gonzalo Alvarez

Sex differences in illness incidence, prognosis and mortality: Issues and evidence pp. 1107-1123

Ingrid Waldron

Unemployment and health in the context of economic change pp. 1125-1138

M. Harvey Brenner and Anne Mooney

Health services as a defence against the consequences of poverty in industrialised societies pp. 1139-1148

Mildred Blaxter

Health systems as defences against the consequences of poverty: equity in health as social justice pp. 1149-1157

F. M. Mburu

Hospital organisation and structure and its effect on inter-professional behaviour and the delivery of care pp. 1159-1170

Warren Kinston

Indigenous and multinational pharmaceutical companies pp. 1171-1180

John Lilja

Issues in the accessibility and confidentiality of patient records pp. 1181-1190

J. K. M. Gevers

Processes in the formulation and legitimisation of professional ethics in a changing world pp. 1191-1197

H. A. Bassford

War, peace and professional responsibility pp. 1199-1203

Christine K. Cassel

The relevance of traditional medical cultures to modern primary health care pp. 1205-1211

Allan Young

The role of spatial analysis and geographic data in the detection of disease causation pp. 1213-1221

Jonathan D. Mayer

1983, volume 17, articles 15

Sex differences in reports of illness and disability: A further test of the fixed role hypothesis pp. 993-1002

Alfred C. Marcus, Teresa E. Seeman and Carol W. Telesky

The movement for independent living: An evaluation and critique pp. 1003-1010

Gareth H. Williams

Societal integration of the disabled: Power struggle or enhancement of individual coping capacities pp. 1011-1014

Zeev Ben-Sira

Rejoinder pp. 1014-1016

Gareth W. Williams

From Dr Mildred Blaxter pp. 1014-1014

Mildred Blaxter

Sex-stereotyping and sex-congruency: Components in the sex role definition of medical specialities in India pp. 1017-1026

Gura Bhargava

Multi-disciplinary perspectives on post-partum depression: An anthropological critique pp. 1027-1041

Gwen Stern and Laurence Kruckman

The use and misuse of cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 1043-1046

K. Celeste Gaspari

Cost-effectiveness of foam elastomer and gauze dressings in the management of open perineal wounds pp. 1047-1053

Anthony Culyer, John MacFie and Adam Wagstaff

Community hospital characteristics associated with RN and LPN vacancy rates pp. 1055-1059

Ross Mullner, Majorie Beyers, Paul Levy, Calvin Byre and Katherin Mallin

Justice and the justification of a social policy: The distribution of primary care physicians pp. 1061-1074

Brian Schrag

1983, volume 17, articles 14

Family reactions and coping strategies in response to the physically ill or handicapped child: A review pp. 913-931

Johanna Shapiro

New research on traditional medicine in South Asia pp. 933-933

Charles Leslie

Death and nurturance in Indian systems of healing pp. 935-945

Margaret Trawick Egnor

Psychiatric pluralism in Bengal, India pp. 947-956

Deborah P. Bhattacharyya

Paying for what ails you: Sociocultural issues influencing the ways and means of therapy payment in South India pp. 957-965

Mark Nichter

The invisible worker: The role of the peon in Nepal's health service pp. 967-970

Judithanne Justice

Hierarchy and food in Nepalese healing rituals pp. 971-978

Linda Stone

Laughter and suffering: Sinhalese interpretations of the use of ritual humor pp. 979-984

Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes

1983, volume 17, articles 13

Patterns of psychotropic drug use pp. 845-851

P. Williams

Gender aspects of illness and practitioner use among Filipinos pp. 853-859

Richard W. Lieban

The feasibility of economic evaluation of diagnostic procedures pp. 861-869

Judith L. Wagner

Measuring hospital output: A review of the service mix and case mix approaches pp. 871-883

Michael Tatchell

Sudden infant deaths and seasonality in Tasmania, 1970-1976 pp. 885-888

Neil D. McGlashan and Alan C. Grice

Recruitment of institutional psychiatrists for the 50 states pp. 889-896

Lorrin M. Koran, Francesca Chinn and Sylvia Flores

The place of the ideal observer in medical ethics pp. 897-901

Larry R. Churchill

1983, volume 17, articles 12

Psychosocial factors influence control of moderate and severe hypertension pp. 773-782

John R. Caldwell, Velma Theisen, Catherine A. Kaunisto, Patrick J. Reddy, Peter S. Smythe and David W. Smith

A medical evaluation of the use of qat in North Yemen pp. 783-793

John G. Kennedy, James Teague, William Rokaw and Elizabeth Cooney

Competition's flawed perspective on the health care market and an alternative approach pp. 795-801

Bernard J. Reilly and Joseph P. Fuhr

Structural analysis of a set of socioeconomic indexes as an aid in defining the socioeconomic level of a family: Results from an Italian multicentric survey pp. 803-818

S. Milani, I. Cortinovis, M. Rainisio, G. Fognini and E. Marubini

The distance behavior of hospital patients: A disaggregated analysis pp. 819-827

Jonathan D. Mayer

Some socio-geographic aspects of renal transplant cases in Saskatchewan pp. 829-835

A. K. Chakravarti and S. Shahim Ahmad

Women physicians during residency years: Workload, work satisfaction and self concept pp. 837-841

Sara Yogev and Sharon Harris

1983, volume 17, articles 11

Career preferences and perceptions of the medical labor market among Mexican interns pp. 693-704

Julio Frenk and Rashid Bashshur

Comparison of suicide rates and methods in English, Scots and Irish migrants in Australia pp. 705-708

P. W. Burvill, M. G. McCall, T. Woodings and N. S. Stenhouse

Allocation of family resources for health care in rural Haiti pp. 709-719

Jeannine Coreil

Cost-effectiveness and user characteristics of clinic based services for the treatment of diarrhea: A case study in Bangladesh pp. 721-729

Susan Horton and Pierre Claquin

Highway fatal accidents and accessibility of emergency medical services pp. 731-740

Harold Brodsky and A. Shalom Hakkert

Experiments to increase return in a medical screening drive: Two futile attempts to apply theory to practice pp. 741-746

Michael C. Roberts, Sandy K. Wurtele and James D. Leeper

Chronic low back pain: A medical-psychological report pp. 747-753

Louwrens J. Menges

Some questions of identity: Late miscarriage, stillbirth and perinatal loss pp. 755-761

Alice Lovell

Influence des parents sur le tabagisme de leurs enfants pp. 763-769

F. Neukirch and J. Cooreman

1983, volume 17, articles 10

Psychiatric hospitalization in Poland pp. 617-623

Louis Frydman

Selected organizational features of certain polish health care institutions pp. 625-630

Cezary WLodarczyk and Henryk Pluciennik

Elements of the health culture of polish society pp. 631-636

Antonina Ostrowska

Illness behaviour and action: The patient-role pp. 637-646

Anna Titkow

Risk groups and selective case finding in an elderly population pp. 647-655

Graeme Ford and Rex Taylor

Epidemic suicide among micronesian adolescents pp. 657-665

Donald H. Rubinstein

A partial test of a hospital behavioral model pp. 667-680

Mark C. Hornbrook and Marsha Goldfarb

Perceptions of death, belief systems and the process of coping with chronic pain pp. 681-689

Joseph A. Kotarba

1983, volume 17, articles 9

An approach to effective health care delivery in a developing nation: A case for Nigeria pp. 525-529

B. A. Fajewonyomi

A reassessment of the expected development consequences of tsetse control efforts in Africa pp. 531-537

Gordon Matzke

Malnutrition and pregnancy wastage in Zambia pp. 539-543

Kwamie Kwofie, Ekow Brew-Graves and G. H. Adika

Water contact behavior and schistosomiasis in an upper Egyptian village pp. 545-562

Helmut Kloos, Gene I. Higashi, Jacqueline A. Cattani, Vernon D. Schlinski, Noshy S. Mansour and K. Darwin Murrell

Distance and the utilization of health facilities in rural Nigeria pp. 563-570

Robert Stock

A categorical data analysis of contacts with the family health clinic, Calabar, Nigeria pp. 571-578

Daniel H. Freeman, Wilbert M. Gesler, Barbara J. Mieras and Maria Schymura

Rural-urban migration and sickness/health care behaviour: A study of Eastern Nigeria pp. 579-583

Joseph Uyanga

Factors influencing choice of hospitals: A case study of the Northern part of Oyo State, Nigeria pp. 585-589

Layi Egunjobi

Factors affecting the frequency of hospital trips among a predominantly rural population pp. 591-595

S. I. Okafor

Population in health planning pp. 597-600

J. F. Olorunfemi

Hospital service areas in Ibadan city pp. 601-616

Folasade Iyun

1983, volume 17, articles 8

Psychological, sociological and health behaviour aspects of a long term activation programme for institutionalized elderly people pp. 449-456

Bengt B. Arnetz, Töres Theorell and Bengt B. Arnetz

The fabrication of nurse-patient relationships pp. 457-460

David Armstrong

To love them and to leave them? A review of a Samoan community and health service research project in New Zealand pp. 461-470

Patricia J. Kinloch

Tratamiento de enfermedades en una poblacion rural: ¿vigencia de elementos hispanicos? pp. 471-474

M. de la Luz Alvarez, M. Teresa Araneda, Elisa Figueroa, Soledad Osorio, M. Teresa Araneda, Elisa Figueroa and Soledad Osorio

A caste and outcaste system in medicine pp. 475-479

Diane M. Wiesner

Mental illness, family and networks in a London Borough: Two cases studied by an anthropologist pp. 481-491

Rosine Josef Perelberg

Location-allocation models, social science and health service planning: An example from North East England pp. 493-499

John Mohan

Social dimensions of healing: A longitudinal study of outcomes of medical management of headaches pp. 501-510

Ray M. Fitzpatrick, Anthony P. Hopkins, Olivia Harvard-Watts, Ray M. Fitzpatrick, Anthony P. Hopkins and Olivia Harvard-Watts

Marketing and primary health care: An approach to planning in a Tongan village pp. 511-516

Sitaleki A. Finau

1983, volume 17, articles 7

Health professionals as stigmatizers and destigmatizers of diseases: Alcoholism and leprosy as examples pp. 385-393

Ilse J. Volinn

The family-illness intermesh: Theoretical aspects and their application pp. 395-398

Rosalie F. Young

Tips, status and sacrifice: Gift giving in the doctor-patient relationship pp. 399-404

Jennifer Drew, John D. Stoeckle and J. Andrew Billings

'Core' and 'extended' social networks in relation to health and illness pp. 405-411

Muriel Hammer

Intra-professional marriage: Mate choices of medical students in India pp. 413-417

Gura Bhargava

Women and health care in rural Pakistan pp. 419-420

Ruth Laila Schmidt

Modeling consumer choices of health plans: A comparison of two techniques pp. 421-429

Michael D. Rosko and William McKenna

Symptom distress, current concerns and mood disturbance after diagnosis of life-threatening disease pp. 431-438

Ruth McCorkle and Jeanne Quint-Benoliel

The effects of compensation on psychiatric disability pp. 439-443

Joseph L. Perl and Marvin W. Kahn

1983, volume 17, articles 6

Sex differences in human mortality: The role of genetic factors pp. 321-333

Ingrid Waldron

Factors affecting list size of general practitioners and number of drugs prescribed: Findings of a recent study pp. 335-341

Alberto Renieri and Aldo Piperno

Pregnancy, social status and health in Sweden pp. 343-347

R. A. Carr-Hill, Michael Tahlin and S. Johansson

Gains in life expectancies if heart disease and stroke were eliminated among Caucasians, Filipinos and Japanese in Hawaii pp. 349-353

Linda M. Gerber

The geographical distribution of mortality by cause in Chile pp. 355-364

Robin Haynes

The mental health of foreign students pp. 365-370

Adrian Furnham and Lorna Trezise

The problem of truth in psychotherapy: A phenomenological approach to treatment pp. 371-378

John H. Draeger

The ecology of health care in Greece: Hopes and resignations pp. 379-381

E. John Rizos

1983, volume 17, articles 5

Are traditional healers the solution to the failures of primary health care in rural Nepal? pp. 255-257

I. H. Oswald

Developing a client-focused allocation statistic of inpatient nursing resource use: An alternative to the patient day pp. 259-272

Russell Paul Caterinicchio and Robert H. Davies

Pesticide use and malaria resurgence in Central America and India pp. 273-287

Georganne Chapin and Robert Wasserstrom

Comments pp. 287-288

C. F. Curtis

Comments pp. 288-290

Parm Pal Singh

Styles of living with low back injury: The continuity dimension pp. 291-297

Mary Anne Murphy and Constance T. Fischer

Pluralism in the organisation of health services research pp. 299-313

Warren Kinston

1983, volume 17, articles 4

The family routines inventory: Theoretical origins pp. 193-200

W. Thomas Boyce, Eric W. Jensen, Sherman A. James and James L. Peacock

The family routines inventory: Development and validation pp. 201-211

Eric W. Jensen, Sherman A. James, W. Thomas Boyce and Sue A. Hartnett

Behavioral science training in family practice residency education: A first evaluation pp. 213-217

William T. Merkel and Barry P. Nierenberg

Acculturation and changes in health among Navajo boarding school students pp. 219-226

W. Thomas Boyce and Jill C. Boyce

Direct and indirect effects of education on health pp. 227-234

J. Paul Leigh

Young people's knowledge of the cervical smear test pp. 235-239

Anne Charlton

Diagnosing for administrative purposes: Some ethical problems pp. 241-244

Harvey D. Lomas and Jonathan D. Berman

1983, volume 17, articles 3

Gender roles, illness orientation and use of medical services pp. 129-137

Judith H. Hibbard and Clyde R. Pope

Information control and the exercise of power in the obstetrical encounter pp. 139-146

M. C. Shapiro, J. M. Najman, A. Chang, J. D. Keeping, J. Morrison and J. S. Western

Anthropological and socio-medical health care research in developing countries pp. 147-161

Axel Kroeger

Productivity losses due to illness, disability and premature death in different occupational groups in Finland pp. 163-167

Kari Vinni

An evaluation of demographic differences in the utilization of a cancer information service pp. 169-175

Gregg S. Wilkinson and John Wilson

Movement for medical treatment: A study in contact patterns of a rural population pp. 177-187

H. Ramachandran and G. S. Shastri

A note on the hierarchy of health facilities in Bangladesh pp. 189-191

Bimal Kanti Paul

1983, volume 17, articles 2

The causes of disease: Women talking pp. 59-69

Mildred Blaxter

What is reasonable is true: Life satisfaction and functional disability among day hospital participants pp. 71-78

Karen R. Grant and Neena L. Chappell

Early childhood, the critical stage in human interactions with disease and culture pp. 79-85

Corinne Shear Wood

The impact of mass communication campaigns in the health field pp. 87-94

Rina Alcalay

Separated and divorced women compared with married controls: Selected life satisfaction, stress and health indices from a community survey pp. 95-105

Françoise Tcheng-Laroche and Raymond Prince

Prevalence of obesity among Nigerian school children pp. 107-111

F. A. Akesode and H. A. Ajibode

Infant and child survival and contraceptive use in the closed pregnancy interval pp. 113-118

Barbara Janowitz and Douglas Nichols

Health policy and health services research in the Netherlands pp. 119-126

Geert van Etten and Frans Rutten

1983, volume 17, articles 1

The family as patient in family medicine: Rhetoric or reality? pp. 1-16

Thomas L. Schwenk and Charles C. Hughes

Participation in faecal occult blood screening for colorectal cancer pp. 17-23

Owen F. Dent, Roger Bartrop, Kerry J. Goulston and Pierre H. Chapuis

Social networks and patterns of help-seeking behaviour pp. 25-28

Michael Calnan

Predicting turnover rates among the staff of English and Welsh old people's homes pp. 29-36

Martin Knapp and Spyros Missiakoulis

The urban transition and the evolution of the medical care delivery system in America pp. 37-43

Paul L. Knox, James Bohland and Neil Larry Shumsky