Social Science & Medicine

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2019, volume 231, articles C

‘Hopeful adaptation’ in health geographies: Seeking health and wellbeing in times of adversity pp. 1-5

Andrew Power, Sarah L. Bell, Richard G. Kyle and Gavin J. Andrews

Thinking critically about health and human-animal relations: Therapeutic affect within spaces of care farming pp. 6-12

Richard Gorman

Spinning, hurting, still, afraid: Living life spaces with Type I Chiari Malformation pp. 13-21

Gavin J. Andrews

Re-engaging with places: Understanding bio-geo-graphical disruption and flow in adult brain injury survivors pp. 22-30

Louise Meijering, Nicky Theunissen and Ant T. Lettinga

The (un)habitual geographies of Social Anxiety Disorder pp. 31-37

Louise E. Boyle

Walking groups for women with breast cancer: Mobilising therapeutic assemblages of walk, talk and place pp. 38-46

Aileen V. Ireland, Jennifer Finnegan-John, Gill Hubbard, Karen Scanlon and Richard G. Kyle

Beyond “Move More”: Feeling the Rhythms of physical activity in mid and later-life pp. 47-54

Cassandra Phoenix and Sarah L. Bell

Ageing with a learning disability: Care and support in the context of austerity pp. 55-61

Andrew Power and Ruth Bartlett

Turning over a new leaf: The health-enabling capacities of nature contact in prison pp. 62-69

Dominique Moran and Jennifer Turner

2019, volume 230, articles C

Working the 'wise’ in speech and language therapy: Evidence-based practice, biopolitics and ‘pastoral labour’ pp. 1-8

Clare Butler

Effects of a voter initiative on disparities in punishment severity for drug offenses across California counties pp. 9-19

Alyssa C. Mooney, Torsten B. Neilands, Eric Giannella, Meghan D. Morris, Jacqueline Tulsky and M. Maria Glymour

“You have to believe in something”: Risk of psychosis and psychiatrists’ beliefs in the self-fulfilling prophecy pp. 20-29

Laelia Benoit, Thomas Russo, Caroline Barry, Bruno Falissard and Nicolas Henckes

Impacts of regulatory processes on the experiences of carers of people in LGBTQ communities living with mental illness or experiencing a mental health crisis pp. 30-36

Jennifer Martin, Meredith Butler, Anne Muldowney and Gabriel Aleksandrs

Intergenerational income mobility and health in Japan: A quasi-experimental approach pp. 37-48

Shohei Okamoto, Mauricio Avendano and Ichiro Kawachi

Family planning, Islam and sin: Understandings of moral actions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan pp. 49-56

Anushka Ataullahjan, Zubia Mumtaz and Helen Vallianatos

Health, faith and therapeutic landscapes: Places of worship as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) public health settings in the United Kingdom pp. 57-65

Emma Tomalin, Joanna Sadgrove and Roxana Summers

Unravelling subjectivity, embodied experience and (taking) psychotropic medication pp. 66-73

Jacinthe Flore, Renata Kokanović, Felicity Callard, Alex Broom and Cameron Duff

Biological pathways for historical trauma to affect health: A conceptual model focusing on epigenetic modifications pp. 74-82

Andie Kealohi Sato Conching and Zaneta Thayer

The biographical gaze: Psychotherapeutic practice in psychosomatic hospitals in Germany pp. 83-90

Sabine Flick

Mapping inequality: Childhood asthma and environmental injustice, a case study of St. Louis, Missouri pp. 91-110

Kelly M. Harris

Biopolitics, space and hospital reconfiguration pp. 111-121

Alec Fraser, Juan Baeza, Annette Boaz and Ewan Ferlie

Re-imagining miyo-wicehtowin: Human-nature relations, land-making, and wellness among Indigenous youth in a Canadian urban context pp. 122-130

Andrew R. Hatala, Darrien Morton, Chinyere Njeze, Kelley Bird-Naytowhow and Tamara Pearl

Reciprocity of social support is associated with psychological distress and suicidal ideation in older Japanese people: A population-based study pp. 131-137

Yuki Mizuno, Hiroyuki Hikichi, Masayuki Noguchi, Ichiro Kawachi and Soshi Takao

Psychosocial distress among unpaid community health workers in rural Ethiopia: Comparing leaders in Ethiopia's Women's Development Army to their peers pp. 138-146

Kenneth Maes, Svea Closser, Yihenew Tesfaye and Roza Abesha

The increasing lifespan variation gradient by area-level deprivation: A decomposition analysis of Scotland 1981–2011 pp. 147-157

Rosie Seaman, Tim Riffe, Alastair H. Leyland, Frank Popham and Alyson van Raalte

Family planning in Pakistan: A site of resistance pp. 158-165

Anushka Ataullahjan, Zubia Mumtaz and Helen Vallianatos

Moral discourse in general practitioners’ accounts of obesity communication pp. 166-173

Maxine Blackburn and Afroditi Stathi

Health care inequality in free access health systems: The impact of non-pecuniary incentives on diabetic patients in Danish general practices pp. 174-183

Kim Rose Olsen and Mauro Laudicella

Understanding health behaviour changes in response to outbreaks: Findings from a longitudinal study of a large epidemic of mosquito-borne disease pp. 184-193

Jocelyn Raude, Kathleen MCColl, Claude Flamand and Themis Apostolidis

Grandparental childcare, health and well-being in Europe: A within-individual investigation of longitudinal data pp. 194-203

Mirkka Danielsbacka, Antti O. Tanskanen, David A. Coall and Markus Jokela

“Moving like birds”: A qualitative study of population mobility and health implications in the Bijagós Islands, Guinea Bissau pp. 204-213

Sophie Durrans, Anna Last, Hamadou Boiro, Adriana Goncalves, David Mabey and Katie Greenland

A qualitative approach to examining health care access in rural South Africa pp. 214-221

Abigail H. Neely and Arunsrinivasan Ponshunmugam

Parting ways: Sex-based differences in premedical attrition pp. 222-233

Matthew K. Grace

The association of hospital competition with inpatient costs of stroke: Evidence from China pp. 234-245

Liyong Lu and Jay Pan

Health trajectories of immigrants in the United States: Does income inequality of country of origin matter? pp. 246-255

Dina Maskileyson

Lobbying by association: The case of autism and the controversy over packing therapy in France pp. 256-263

Brigitte Chamak

Siblings caring for siblings with Intellectual Disabilities: Naming and negotiating emotional tensions pp. 264-270

Máire Leane

Residential neighborhood greenery and children's cognitive development pp. 271-279

Aaron Reuben, Louise Arseneault, Daniel W. Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, Helen L. Fisher, Renate M. Houts, Terrie E. Moffitt and Candice Odgers

HIV-related care for transgender people: A systematic review of studies from around the world pp. 280-294

Anna Martha Vaitses Fontanari, Gabriel Ibarra Zanella, Marina Feijó, Siobhan Churchill, Maria Inês Rodrigues Lobato and Angelo Brandelli Costa

Appropriated racial oppression: Implications for mental health in Whites and Blacks pp. 295-302

H. Shellae Versey, Courtney C. Cogburn, Clara L. Wilkins and Nakita Joseph

Mental health of children held at a United States immigration detention center pp. 303-308

Sarah A. MacLean, Priscilla O. Agyeman, Joshua Walther, Elizabeth K. Singer, Kim A. Baranowski and Craig L. Katz

Effects of introducing a fee for inpatient overstays on the rate of death and readmissions across municipalities in Norway pp. 309-317

Eliva Atieno Ambugo and Terje P. Hagen

Fat tax or thin subsidy? How price increases and decreases affect the energy and nutrient content of food and beverage purchases in Great Britain pp. 318-327

Laura Cornelsen, Mario Mazzocchi and Richard D. Smith

2019, volume 229, articles C

Productive aging of Korean older people based on time use pp. 6-13

Ju Hyun Kim

Productive aging in India pp. 14-21

Abhijit Visaria and Premchand Dommaraju

Social engagement and the elderly in rural Indonesia pp. 22-31

Ariane Utomo, Peter Mcdonald, Iwu Utomo, Nur Cahyadi and Robert Sparrow

Productive activities of the older people in Vietnam pp. 32-40

Long Thanh Giang, Tham Hong Thi Pham and Phong Manh Phi

Lifelong learning and productive aging among the baby-boomers in Singapore pp. 41-49

Leng Leng Thang, Emily Lim and Sophie Li-Shan Tan

Living arrangements and older People's labor force participation in Hong Kong, 1986–2016 pp. 50-59

Yuying Tong, Feinian Chen and Wenyang Su

Childhood conditions and productive aging in China pp. 60-69

Pei-Chun Ko and Wei-Jun Jean Yeung

Contributory behaviors and life satisfaction among Chinese older adults: Exploring variations by gender and living arrangements pp. 70-78

Sizhe Liu, Wei Zhang, Li-hsueh Wu and Bei Wu

Culturally-specific productive engagement and self-rated health among Taiwanese older adults pp. 79-86

Wei-Pang Wang, Li-Hsueh Wu, Wei Zhang and Ruey-Ming Tsay

Gender matters: Productive social engagement and the subsequent cognitive changes among older adults pp. 87-95

Yeonjin Lee and Wei-Jun Jean Yeung

Productive activities and cognitive decline among older adults in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study pp. 96-105

Ye Luo, Xi Pan and Zhenmei Zhang

Physical and mental health of Chinese grandparents caring for grandchildren and great-grandparents pp. 106-116

Hongwei Xu

Providing regular care for grandchildren in Thailand: An analysis of the impact on grandparents’ health pp. 117-125

Touchanun Komonpaisarn and Elke Loichinger

Social and productive activities and health among partnered older adults: A couple-level analysis pp. 126-133

Jack Lam and Danilo Bolano

Neighborhood, social cohesion, and the Elderly's depression in Shanghai pp. 134-143

Jia Miao, Xiaogang Wu and Xiulin Sun

Quality of life among older adults in China and India: Does productive engagement help? pp. 144-153

Shu Hu and Dhiman Das

Beyond health care: Volunteer work, social participation, and late-life general cognitive status in Taiwan pp. 154-160

Chi Chiao

Productive aging in developing Southeast Asia: Comparative analyses between Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand pp. 161-171

Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Vipan Prachuabmoh and John Knodel

Well-being and volunteering: Evidence from aging societies in Asia pp. 172-180

Li-Hsuan Huang