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2019, volume 221, articles C

Medical populism pp. 1-8

Gideon Lasco and Nicole Curato

Demarcating the dirty work: Canadian Fertility professionals’ use of boundary-work in contentious egg donation pp. 19-26

Skye A. Miner

The short-term effects of retirement on health within couples: Evidence from France pp. 27-39

Pierre-Jean Messe and François-Charles Wolff

Emigration and alcohol consumption among migrant household members staying behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan pp. 40-48

Sara Paulone and Artjoms Ivlevs

Tough decisions in medical specialty camps: Relationships between camp dosage, outcomes, and camper attendance pp. 49-57

Ryan J. Gagnon, Barry A. Garst and Jasmine A. Townsend

The role of neighborhoods in household food insufficiency: Considering interactions between physical disorder, low social capital, violence, and perceptions of danger pp. 58-67

Dylan B. Jackson, Kecia R. Johnson, Michael G. Vaughn and Marissa E. Hinton

Gendered mortality differentials over the rural-urban continuum: The analysis of census linked longitudinal data from England and Wales pp. 68-78

Rebecca Allan, Paul Williamson and Hill Kulu

Protection and well-being of adolescent refugees in the context of a humanitarian crisis: Perceptions from South Sudanese refugees in Uganda pp. 79-86

Sarah R. Meyer, Elizabeth Meyer, Clare Bangirana, Patrick Onyango Mangen and Lindsay Stark

“You don't trust a government vaccine”: Narratives of institutional trust and influenza vaccination among African American and white adults pp. 87-94

Amelia M. Jamison, Sandra Crouse Quinn and Vicki S. Freimuth

Adding interactions to models of intersectional health inequalities: Comparing multilevel and conventional methods pp. 95-105

Clare R. Evans

Conscientious objection to abortion: Zambian healthcare practitioners' beliefs and practices pp. 106-114

Emily Freeman and Ernestina Coast

Does sleep partially mediate the effect of everyday discrimination on future mental and physical health? pp. 115-123

Garrett C. Hisler and Rachel E. Brenner

Association between exposure to health information and mortality: Reduced mortality among women exposed to information via TV programs pp. 124-131

Koryu Sato, Kasisomayajula Viswanath, Hana Hayashi, Yoshiki Ishikawa, Katsunori Kondo, Kokoro Shirai, Naoki Kondo, Keisuke Nakagawa and Ichiro Kawachi

2019, volume 220, articles C

Intersectionality and depression in adolescence and early adulthood: A MAIHDA analysis of the national longitudinal study of adolescent to adult health, 1995–2008 pp. 1-11

Clare R. Evans and Natasha Erickson

Community hygiene norm violators are consistently stigmatized: Evidence from four global sites and implications for sanitation interventions pp. 12-21

Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich, Margaret V. du Bray, Jonathan Maupin, Roseanne C. Schuster and Matthew M. Gervais

Resilience capacities of health systems: Accommodating the needs of Palestinian refugees from Syria pp. 22-30

M. Alameddine, Fouad M. Fouad, K. Diaconu, Z. Jamal, G. Lough, S. Witter and A. Ager

Advocacy coalition impacts on healthy public policy-oriented learning in Alberta, Canada (2009–2016): A difference-in-differences analysis pp. 31-40

Candace I.J. Nykiforuk, Jennifer Ann McGetrick, Kim D. Raine and T. Cameron Wild

You're worth what you eat: Adolescent beliefs about healthy eating, morality and socioeconomic status pp. 41-48

Priya Fielding-Singh

Stratified citizenship, stratified health: Examining latinx legal status in the U.S. healthcare safety net pp. 49-55

Meredith Van Natta, Nancy J. Burke, Irene H. Yen, Mark D. Fleming, Christoph L. Hanssmann, Maryani Palupy Rasidjan and Janet K. Shim

Male infants and birth complications are associated with increased incidence of postnatal depression pp. 56-64

Sarah Myers and Sarah E. Johns

Parental warmth and flourishing in mid-life pp. 65-72

Ying Chen, Laura D. Kubzansky and Tyler J. VanderWeele

France's citizen consultation on vaccination and the challenges of participatory democracy in health pp. 73-80

Jeremy K. Ward, Florian Cafiero, Raphael Fretigny, James Colgrove and Valerie Seror

Use of social network analysis in the development, dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of health behavior interventions for adults: A systematic review pp. 81-101

Rachel C. Shelton, Matthew Lee, Laura E. Brotzman, Danielle M. Crookes, Lina Jandorf, Deborah Erwin and Elizabeth A. Gage-Bouchard

Can information increase the understanding and uptake of insurance? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Burkina Faso pp. 102-111

Fadima Bocoum, Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig and Nathalie Zongo

The impact of Ethiopia's pilot community based health insurance scheme on healthcare utilization and cost of care pp. 112-119

Anagaw D. Mebratie, Robert Sparrow, Zelalem Yilma, Degnet Abebaw Ejigie, Getnet Alemu and Arjun Bedi

The effect of school sports facilities on physical activity, health and socioeconomic status in adulthood pp. 120-128

Nicole Black, David Johnston, Carol Propper and Michael Shields

Testosterone, risk, and socioeconomic position in British men: Exploring causal directionality pp. 129-140

Amanda Hughes and Meena Kumari

How can we evaluate the cost-effectiveness of health system strengthening? A typology and illustrations pp. 141-149

K. Hauck, A. Morton, K. Chalkidou, Y-Ling Chi, Anthony Culyer, C. Levin, R. Meacock, M. Over, Ranjeeta Thomas, A. Vassall, S. Verguet and P.C. Smith

Cancer risk in socially marginalised women: An exploratory study pp. 150-158

Sarah Hanson, Duncan Gilbert, Rebecca Landy, Grace Okoli and Cornelia Guell

Education system stratification and health complaints among school-aged children pp. 159-166

Björn Högberg, Mattias Strandh, Solveig Petersen and Klara Johansson

The effect of group involvement on post-disaster mental health: A longitudinal multilevel analysis pp. 167-175

H. Colin Gallagher, Karen Block, Lisa Gibbs, David Forbes, Dean Lusher, Robyn Molyneaux, John Richardson, Philippa Pattison, Colin MacDougall and Richard A. Bryant

The application of ‘valence’ to the idea of household food insecurity in Canada pp. 176-183

Lynn McIntyre, Patrick B. Patterson and Catherine L. Mah

Online comments about psychiatric neurosurgery and psychopharmacological interventions: Public perceptions and concerns pp. 184-192

Laura Y. Cabrera, Marisa Brandt, Rachel McKenzie and Robyn Bluhm

Self-reported versus GPS-derived indicators of daily mobility in a sample of healthy older adults pp. 193-202

Michelle Pasquale Fillekes, Christina Röcke, Marko Katana and Robert Weibel

SNAP benefits and childhood asthma pp. 203-211

Colleen Heflin, Irma Arteaga, Leslie Hodges, Jean Felix Ndashiyme and Matthew Rabbitt

Revisiting ‘awareness contexts’ in the 21st century hospital: How fragmented and specialized care shape patients' Awareness of Dying pp. 212-218

Clare L. Stacey, Manacy Pai, Meghan A. Novisky and Steven M. Radwany

Hearing loss, family status and mortality – Findings from the HUNT study, Norway pp. 219-225

Bo Engdahl, Mariann Idstad and Vegard Skirbekk

How neighborhoods matter in fatal interactions between police and men of color pp. 226-235

Odis Johnson, Christopher St. Vil, Keon L. Gilbert, Melody Goodman and Cassandra Arroyo Johnson

Enabling local public health adaptation to climate change pp. 236-244

Stephanie E. Austin, James D. Ford, Lea Berrang-Ford, Robbert Biesbroek and Nancy A. Ross

Aging well in an aging world: The impact of material conditions, culture, and societal disruptions pp. 245-253

Lindsey Peterson and Margaret Ralston

An investigation of the effect of accessibility to General Practitioner services on healthcare utilisation among older people pp. 254-263

Gretta Mohan, Anne Nolan and Sean Lyons

“So that's why I'm scared of these methods”: Locating contraceptive side effects in embodied life circumstances in Burundi and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo pp. 264-272

Joëlle Schwarz, Mari Dumbaugh, Wyvine Bapolisi, Marie Souavis Ndorere, Marie-Chantale Mwamini, Ghislain Bisimwa and Sonja Merten

Agents and spectres: Life-space on a medium secure forensic psychiatric unit pp. 273-282

P. Reavey, S.D. Brown, A. Kanyeredzi, L. McGrath and I. Tucker

Politics, economics, how about our health? Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on therapeutic spaces and wellbeing in coastal Tanzania pp. 283-291

Kilian Nasung Atuoye, Isaac Luginaah, Herbert Hambati and Gwyn Campbell

Measuring management practices in India's district public health bureaucracy pp. 292-300

Timothy Powell-Jackson, Bhaskar Purohit, Deepak Saxena, Mahaveer Golechha, Camilla Fabbri, Partha Sarthi Ganguly and Kara Hanson

Proximity effects in obesity rates in the US: A Spatial Markov Chains approach pp. 301-311

Massimiliano Agovino, Alessandro Crociata and Pier Luigi Sacco

How a woman's interpersonal relationships can delay care-seeking and access during the maternity period in rural Zambia: An intersection of the Social Ecological Model with the Three Delays Framework pp. 312-321

Jeanette L. Kaiser, Rachel M. Fong, Davidson H. Hamer, Godfrey Biemba, Thandiwe Ngoma, Brittany Tusing and Nancy A. Scott

Mobility and sex work: why, where, when? A typology of female-sex-worker mobility in Zimbabwe pp. 322-330

Calum Davey, Jeffrey Dirawo, Phillis Mushati, Sitholubuhle Magutshwa, James R. Hargreaves and Frances M. Cowan

Perspectives on female genital cutting among immigrant women and men in Boston pp. 331-339

S. Shahawy, H. Amanuel and N.M. Nour

A spatial analysis of health status in Britain, 1991–2011 pp. 340-352

Emily K. Dearden, Christopher D. Lloyd and Gemma Catney

A framework for conducting economic evaluations alongside natural experiments pp. 353-361

Manuela Deidda, Claudia Geue, Noemi Kreif, Ruth Dundas and Emma McIntosh

The impact of pharmaceutical tendering on prices and market concentration in South Africa over a 14-year period pp. 362-370

Olivier J. Wouters, Dale M. Sandberg, Anban Pillay and Panos G. Kanavos

Trajectories of family poverty and children's mental health: Results from the Danish National Birth Cohort pp. 371-378

Laura Pryor, Katrine Strandberg-Larsen, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Naja Hulvej Rod and Maria Melchior

Longer schooling but not better off? A quasi-experimental study of the effect of compulsory schooling on biomarkers in France pp. 379-386

Emilie Courtin, Vahé Nafilyan, Mauricio Avendano, Pierre Meneton, Lisa F. Berkman, Marcel Goldberg, Marie Zins and Jennifer B. Dowd

Economic growth and mental health in 21st century China pp. 387-395

Qing Wang and José Tapia Granados

Australian women's cervical cancer screening attendance as a function of screening barriers and facilitators pp. 396-402

Rhonda Frances Brown, Tanya Rebecca Muller and Anna Olsen

The association between economic uncertainty and suicide in the short-run pp. 403-410

Sotiris Vandoros, Mauricio Avendano and Ichiro Kawachi

Does money relieve depression? Evidence from social pension expansions in China pp. 411-420

Xi Chen, Tianyu Wang and Susan H. Busch

Social capital and having a regular family doctor: Evidence from longitudinal data pp. 421-429

Hana Bataineh, Rose Anne Devlin and Vicky Barham

The role of powerful audiences in health information avoidance pp. 430-439

Nikolette P. Lipsey and James A. Shepperd

Between orchestrated and organic: Accountability for loss and the moral landscape of childbearing in Malawi pp. 441-449

B.C. de Kok