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2019, volume 228, articles C

Multiple inequity in health care: An example from Brazil pp. 1-8

Estela Capelas Barbosa and Richard Cookson

Understanding the nourishment of bodies at the centre of food and health systems – systemic, bodily and new materialist perspectives on nutritional inequity pp. 9-16

Nicholas Nisbett

Poverty, economic strengthening, and mental health among AIDS orphaned children in Uganda: Mediation model in a randomized clinical trial pp. 17-24

Leyla Karimli, Fred M. Ssewamala, Torsten B. Neilands, Christine R. Wells and Laura Gauer Bermudez

Active coping shields against negative aging self-stereotypes contributing to psychiatric conditions pp. 25-29

Becca R. Levy, Pil H. Chung, Martin D. Slade, Peter H. Van Ness and Robert H. Pietrzak

Using photovoice methods as a community-based participatory research tool to advance uptake of clean cooking and improve health: The LPG adoption in Cameroon evaluation studies pp. 30-40

Sara Ronzi, Elisa Puzzolo, Lirije Hyseni, James Higgerson, Debbi Stanistreet, MBatchou Ngahane Bertrand Hugo, Nigel Bruce and Daniel Pope

Is the story about sensitive women and stoical men true? Gender differences in health after adjustment for reporting behavior pp. 41-50

Anna Oksuzyan, Maciej J. Dańko, Jennifer Caputo, Domantas Jasilionis and Vladimir M. Shkolnikov

“For how long are we going to take the tablets?” Kenyan stakeholders’ views on priority investments to sustainably tackle soil-transmitted helminths pp. 51-59

Mishal S. Khan, Rachel Pullan, George Okello, Mary Nyikuri, Martin McKee and Dina Balabanova

Towards Universal Health Coverage in Ethiopia's ‘developmental state’? The political drivers of health insurance pp. 60-67

Tom Lavers

Degree of reasoned action predicts increased intentional control and reduced habitual control over health behaviors pp. 68-74

Paschal Sheeran and Mark Conner

Procedural justice and the individual participant in priority setting: Doctors' experiences pp. 75-84

Siun Gallagher and Miles Little

Sex work-related stigma: Experiential, symbolic and structural forms in the health systems of Delhi, India pp. 85-92

Martha S. Ryan, Devaki Nambiar and Laura Ferguson

Family environment, children's acculturation and mothers' dietary intake and behaviors among Latinas: An autoregressive cross-lagged study pp. 93-102

Sandra H. Soto, Elva M. Arredondo, Holly B. Shakya, Scott Roesch, Bess Marcus, Humberto Parada and Guadalupe X. Ayala

Channeling hope: An ethnographic study of how research encounters become meaningful for families suffering from genetic disease in Pakistan pp. 103-110

Zainab Afshan Sheikh and Anja M.B. Jensen

Food portion at ages 8–11 and obesogeny: The amount of food given to children varies with the mother's education and the child's appetite arousal pp. 111-116

Natalie Rigal, Camille Champel, Pascale Hébel and Saadi Lahlou

Don't look at it as a miracle cure: Contested notions of success and failure in family narratives of pediatric cochlear implantation pp. 117-125

Laura Mauldin

Academic disparities and health: How gender-based disparities in schools relate to boys' and girls’ health pp. 126-134

Cynthia S. Levine, Gregory E. Miller, Madeleine U. Shalowitz, Rachel E. Story, Erika M. Manczak, Robin Hayen, Lauren C. Hoffer, Van Le, Katherine J. Vause and Edith Chen

Secondary effects of myPlaybook on college athletes’ avoidance of drinking games or pregaming as a protective behavior strategy: A multisite randomized controlled study pp. 135-141

Byron L. Zamboanga, Jennifer E. Merrill, Janine V. Olthuis, Jeffrey J. Milroy, Alexander W. Sokolovsky and David L. Wyrick

Valuing the health states associated with breast cancer screening programmes: A systematic review of economic measures pp. 142-154

Hannah L. Bromley, Dennis Petrie, G.Bruce Mann, Carolyn Nickson, Daniel Rea and Tracy E. Roberts

“Wasting away”: Diabetes, food insecurity, and medical insecurity in the Somali Region of Ethiopia pp. 155-163

Lauren Carruth and Emily Mendenhall

Public preferences for One Health approaches to emerging infectious diseases: A discrete choice experiment pp. 164-171

Jane Johnson, Kirsten Howard, Andrew Wilson, Michael Ward, Gwendolyn L. Gilbert and Chris Degeling

A comparative ethnography of nutrition interventions: Structural violence and the industrialisation of agrifood systems in the Caribbean and the Pacific pp. 172-180

Marisa Wilson and Amy McLennan

Quantifying the public's view on social value judgments in vaccine decision-making: A discrete choice experiment pp. 181-193

Jeroen Luyten, Roselinde Kessels, Katherine E. Atkins, Mark Jit and Albert Jan van Hoek

Traumatic landscapes: Two geographies of addiction pp. 194-201

Jesse Proudfoot

The politics of institutionalizing preventive health pp. 202-210

John Boswell, Paul Cairney and Emily St Denny

Structuring times and activities in the oncology visit pp. 211-222

Laura Sterponi, Cristina Zucchermaglio, Marilena Fatigante and Francesca Alby

Intersectional cohort change: Disparities in mobility limitations among older Singaporeans pp. 223-231

Shannon Ang

Emergent coordination and situated learning in a Hybrid OR: The mixed blessing of using radiation pp. 232-239

Kajsa Lindberg, Bjørn Erik Mørk and Lars Walter

Words hurt: Political rhetoric, emotions/affect, and psychological well-being among Mexican-origin youth pp. 240-251

Leo R. Chavez, Belinda Campos, Karina Corona, Daina Sanchez and Catherine Belyeu Ruiz

Mental health care and the cultural toolboxes of the present-day Japanese population: Examining suggested patterns of care and their correlates pp. 252-261

Saeko Kikuzawa, Bernice Pescosolido, Mami Kasahara-Kiritani, Tomoko Matoba, Chikako Yamaki and Katsumi Sugiyama

The diagnostic moment: A study in US primary care pp. 262-271

John Heritage and Amanda McArthur

Broken (windows) theory: A meta-analysis of the evidence for the pathways from neighborhood disorder to resident health outcomes and behaviors pp. 272-292

Daniel T. O'Brien, Chelsea Farrell and Brandon C. Welsh

2019, volume 227, articles C

Changing labour market conditions during the ‘great recession’ and mental health in Scotland 2007–2011: an example using the Scottish Longitudinal Study and data for local areas in Scotland pp. 1-9

Sarah Curtis, Jamie Pearce, Mark Cherrie, Christopher Dibben, Niall Cunningham and Clare Bambra

Therapeutic spaces of care farming: Transformative or ameliorating? pp. 10-20

Alexandra Kaley, Chris Hatton and Christine Milligan

Place identity, autobiographical memory and life path trajectories: The development of a place-time-identity model pp. 21-37

Charis Lengen, Christian Timm and Thomas Kistemann

New Zealand children's health stamps: Ideological artefacts linking health and place pp. 38-46

Robin A. Kearns, Tara M. Coleman and Jonathan Edmeades

The utility of geodemographic indicators in small area estimates of limiting long-term illness pp. 47-55

Graham Moon, Liz Twigg, Kelvyn Jones, Grant Aitken and Joanna Taylor

Occupied with classification: Which occupational classification scheme better predicts health outcomes? pp. 56-62

Emily Eyles, David Manley and Kelvyn Jones

Community-engaged development of a GIS-based healthfulness index to shape health equity solutions pp. 63-75

Richard C. Sadler, Christopher Hippensteel, Victoria Nelson, Ella Greene-Moton and C. Debra Furr-Holden

Examining longitudinal associations between the recreational physical activity environment, change in body mass index, and obesity by age in 8864 Yorkshire Health Study participants pp. 76-83

M. Hobbs, C. Griffiths, M.A. Green, A. Christensen and J. McKenna

Ageing, loneliness, and the geographic distribution of New Zealand's interRAI-HC cohort pp. 84-92

Paul Beere, Sally Keeling and Hamish Jamieson

The development of an index of rural deprivation: A case study of Norfolk, England pp. 93-103

Amanda Burke and Andy Jones

Challenged but not threatened: Managing health in advanced age pp. 104-110

Janine Wiles, Philippa Miskelly, Oneroa Stewart, Ngaire Kerse, Anna Rolleston and Merryn Gott

Homeless crack cocaine users: Territories and territorialities in the constitution of social support networks for health pp. 111-118

Paulo Peiter, Pilar Belmonte, Mirna Teixeira, Geny Cobra and Alda Lacerda

A unified ecological framework for studying effects of digital places on well-being pp. 119-127

Ketan Shankardass, Colin Robertson, Krystelle Shaughnessy, Martin Sykora and Rob Feick

Global environmental change in an aging world: The role of space, place and scale pp. 128-136

Andrea Rishworth and Susan J. Elliott

2019, volume 226, articles C

Health literacy as a social practice: Social and empirical dimensions of knowledge on health and healthcare pp. 1-8

Silja Samerski

Parents' healthcare-seeking behavior for their children among the climate-related displaced population of rural Bangladesh pp. 9-20

Md Rabiul Haque, Nick Parr and Salut Muhidin

Professional identity in community care: The case of specialist physicians in outpatient services in Italy pp. 21-28

Giovanni Bertin and Marta Pantalone

Interpreter assemblages: Caring for immigrant and refugee patients in US hospitals pp. 29-36

Susan E. Bell

Coresidence with mother-in-law and maternal anemia in rural India pp. 37-46

Rekha Varghese and Manan Roy

Preventing adverse information effects on health outcomes: A self-affirmation intervention reduced information-induced cognitive decline in gastrointestinal cancer patients pp. 47-55

Wendy Jacobs, Sanne B. Schagen, Mart Thijssen and Enny Das

Historical roots of hospital centrism in China (1835–1949): A path dependence analysis pp. 56-62

Jin Xu, Martin Gorsky and Anne Mills

The food security and nutrition crisis in Venezuela pp. 63-68

Shannon Doocy, Mija-Tesse Ververs, Paul Spiegel and Chris Beyrer

Residential mobility and long-term exposure to neighborhood poverty among children born in poor families: A U.S. longitudinal cohort study pp. 69-76

Mengying Li, Sara B. Johnson, Sandra Newman and Anne W. Riley

Prolongation of working life and its effect on mortality and health in older adults: Propensity score matching pp. 77-86

H.S. Eyjólfsdóttir, I. Baumann, N. Agahi, J. Fritzell and C. Lennartsson

Social learning, influence, and ethnomedicine: Individual, neighborhood and social network influences on attachment to an ethnomedical cultural model in rural Senegal pp. 87-95

John Sandberg, Chulwoo Park, Steven Rytina, Valerie Delaunay, Laetitia Douillot, Yacine Boujija, Sadio Ba Gning, Simona Bignami, Cheikh Sokhna, Loubna Belaid, Insa Diouf, Babak Fotouhi and Abdourahmane Senghor

“I do my best to eat while I'm using”: Mapping the foodscapes of people living with HIV/AIDS who use drugs pp. 96-103

Christiana Miewald, Eugene McCann, Cristina Temenos and Alison McIntosh

Armed conflict and maternal health care utilization: Evidence from the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria pp. 104-112

Adanna Chukwuma and Uche Eseosa Ekhator-Mobayode

Linking local labour market conditions across the life course to retirement age: Pathways of health, employment status, occupational class and educational achievement, using 60 years of the 1946 British Birth Cohort pp. 113-122

Emily T. Murray, Paola Zaninotto, Maria Fleischmann, Mai Stafford, Ewan Carr, Nicola Shelton, Stephen Stansfeld, Diana Kuh and Jenny Head

Matter beginning to matter: On posthumanist understandings of the vital emergence of health pp. 123-134

Gavin J. Andrews and Cameron Duff

Agenda setting for maternal survival in Ghana and Tanzania against the backdrop of the MDGs pp. 135-142

Stephanie L. Smith and Moritz Hunsmann

Operational efficiency, patient composition and regional context of U.S. health centers: Associations with access to early prenatal care and low birth weight pp. 143-152

Maggie L. Thorsen, Andreas Thorsen and Ronald McGarvey

Psycho-socio-cultural factors and global occupational safety: Integrating micro- and macro-systems pp. 153-163

Stacy A. Stoffregen, Frank B. Giordano and Jin Lee

Spatio-temporal disparities in maternal health service utilization in Rwanda: What next for SDGs? pp. 164-175

Daniel Kpienbaareh, Kilian N. Atuoye, Anaclet Ngabonzima, Patrick G. Bagambe, Stephen Rulisa, Isaac Luginaah and David F. Cechetto

Hurricane Harvey and people with disabilities: Disproportionate exposure to flooding in Houston, Texas pp. 176-181

Jayajit Chakraborty, Sara E. Grineski and Timothy W. Collins

The dynamics of the gradient between child's health and family income: Evidence from Canada pp. 182-189

Lan Wei and David Feeny

Performing informed consent in transgender medicine pp. 190-197

Stef M. Shuster

The effect of unemployment benefits on health: A propensity score analysis pp. 198-206

Faraz Vahid Shahidi, Carles Muntaner, Ketan Shankardass, Carlos Quiñonez and Arjumand Siddiqi

Internalising and externalising behaviour profiles across childhood: The consequences of changes in the family environment pp. 207-216

Afshin Zilanawala, Amanda Sacker and Yvonne Kelly

Patient choice and provider competition – Quality enhancing drivers in primary care? pp. 217-224

Sofie Vengberg, Mio Fredriksson and Ulrika Winblad

The Intersectional Discrimination Index: Development and validation of measures of self-reported enacted and anticipated discrimination for intercategorical analysis pp. 225-235

Ayden I. Scheim and Greta R. Bauer

Methods for analytic intercategorical intersectionality in quantitative research: Discrimination as a mediator of health inequalities pp. 236-245

Greta R. Bauer and Ayden I. Scheim

Are urban landscapes associated with reported life satisfaction and inequalities in life satisfaction at the city level? A cross-sectional study of 66 European cities pp. 263-274

Jonathan R. Olsen, Natalie Nicholls and Richard Mitchell