Social Science & Medicine

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2017, volume 195, articles C

Power structure among the actors of financial support to the poor to access health services: Social network analysis approach pp. 1-11

Manal Etemadi, Hasan Abolghasem Gorji, Hannaneh Mohammadi Kangarani and Kioomars Ashtarian

Gene-environment interactions between education and body mass: Evidence from the UK and Finland pp. 12-16

Vikesh Amin, Petri Böckerman, Jutta Viinikainen, Melissa C. Smart, Yanchun Bao, Meena Kumari, Niina Pitkänen, Terho Lehtimäki, Olli Raitakari and Jaakko Pehkonen

The joint effects of family risk of obesity and neighborhood environment on obesity among women pp. 17-24

Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Barbara B. Brown, Jessie X. Fan, Heidi A. Hanson, Ken R. Smith and Cathleen D. Zick

Medical egg freezing and cancer patients’ hopes: Fertility preservation at the intersection of life and death pp. 25-33

Marcia C. Inhorn, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Pasquale Patrizio

Conditions for addressing environmental determinants of health behavior in intersectoral policy networks: A fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis pp. 34-41

D.T.J.M. Peters, S. Verweij, K. Grêaux, K. Stronks and J. Harting

The relationship between physical and mental health: A mediation analysis pp. 42-49

Julius Ohrnberger, Eleonora Fichera and Matt Sutton

Developing a scale to assess health regulatory focus pp. 50-60

Rebecca A. Ferrer, Isaac M. Lipkus, Jennifer L. Cerully, Colleen M. McBride, James A. Shepperd and William M.P. Klein

Female labour force participation and suicide rates in the world pp. 61-67

Ying-Yeh Chen, Mengni Chen, Carrie S.M. Lui and Paul S.F. Yip

Impact of ill-health on household consumption in Sri Lanka: Evidence from household survey data pp. 68-76

Ajantha Sisira Kumara and Ramanie Samaratunge

The symbolic violence of ‘outbreak’: A mixed methods, quasi-experimental impact evaluation of social protection on Ebola survivor wellbeing pp. 77-82

Eugene T. Richardson, J. Daniel Kelly, Osman Sesay, Michael D. Drasher, Ishaan K. Desai, Raphael Frankfurter, Paul E. Farmer and Mohamed Bailor Barrie

Changing experience of adverse medical events in the National Health Service: Comparison of two population surveys in 2001 and 2013 pp. 83-89

Alastair Gray, Paul Fenn, Neil Rickman and Dev Vencappa

Fear, family and the placing of emotion: Black women's responses to a breast cancer awareness intervention pp. 90-96

Tim Brown, Isabel Dyck, Beth Greenhough, Menah Raven-Ellison, Melanie Dembinsky, Mark Ornstein and Stephen W. Duffy

Reconciling ethical and economic conceptions of value in health policy using the capabilities approach: A qualitative investigation of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing pp. 97-104

Mia Kibel and Meredith Vanstone

Unhealthy assimilation or persistent health advantage? A longitudinal analysis of immigrant health in the United States pp. 105-114

Yao Lu, Nicole Denier, Julia Shu-Huah Wang and Neeraj Kaushal

‘Pastoral practices’ for quality improvement in a Kenyan clinical network pp. 115-122

Gerry McGivern, Jacinta Nzinga and Mike English

What if the baby doesn't survive? Health-care decision making for ill newborns in Ethiopia pp. 123-130

Kristine Husøy Onarheim, Mitike Molla Sisay, Muluken Gizaw, Karen Marie Moland and Ingrid Miljeteig

Risky movies, risky behaviors, and ethnic identity among Black adolescents pp. 131-137

Amy Bleakley, Morgan E. Ellithorpe, Michael Hennessy, Patrick E. Jamieson, Atika Khurana and Ilana Weitz

Applying the reasoned action approach to understanding health protection and health risk behaviors pp. 140-148

Mark Conner, Rosemary McEachan, Rebecca Lawton and Peter Gardner

Explaining between-race differences in African-American and European-American women's responses to breast density notification pp. 149-158

Mark Manning, Terrance L. Albrecht, Zeynep Yilmaz-Saab, Louis Penner, Andria Norman and Kristen Purrington

Improving correctional healthcare providers' ability to care for transgender patients: Development and evaluation of a theory-driven cultural and clinical competence intervention pp. 159-169

Jaclyn M. White Hughto, Kirsty A. Clark, Frederick L. Altice, Sari L. Reisner, Trace S. Kershaw and John E. Pachankis

2017, volume 194, articles C

The ‘over-researched community’: An ethics analysis of stakeholder views at two South African HIV prevention research sites pp. 1-9

Jennifer Koen, Douglas Wassenaar and Nicole Mamotte

Democracy and health: Evidence from within-country heterogeneity in the Congo pp. 10-16

Peter Van der Windt and Sotiris Vandoros

“People try and label me as someone I'm not”: The social ecology of Indigenous people living with HIV, stigma, and discrimination in Manitoba, Canada pp. 17-24

Roberta L. Woodgate, Melanie Zurba, Pauline Tennent, Carla Cochrane, Mike Payne and Javier Mignone

Justification and authority in institutional review board decision letters pp. 25-33

Justin T. Clapp, Katharine A. Gleason and Steven Joffe

Coping strategies of internally displaced women in Georgia: A qualitative study pp. 34-41

Maureen Seguin, Ruth Lewis, Mariam Razmadze, Tinatin Amirejibi and Bayard Roberts

Parents' transitions into and out of work-family conflict and children's mental health: Longitudinal influence via family functioning pp. 42-50

Huong Dinh, Amanda R. Cooklin, Liana S. Leach, Elizabeth M. Westrupp, Jan M. Nicholson and Lyndall Strazdins

Understanding the patient experience of cost-related non-adherence to prescription medications through typology development and application pp. 51-59

Laurie J. Goldsmith, Ashra Kolhatkar, Dominic Popowich, Anne M. Holbrook, Steven G. Morgan and Michael R. Law

The oughtness of care: Fear, stress, and caregiving during the 2000–2001 Ebola outbreak in Gulu, Uganda pp. 60-66

Sung-Joon Park and Grace Akello

Effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit laws in the U.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes pp. 67-75

Sara Markowitz, Kelli A. Komro, Melvin D. Livingston, Otto Lenhart and Alexander C. Wagenaar

Parental preferences and allocations of investments in children's learning and health within families pp. 76-86

Alejandra Abufhele, Jere Behrman and David Bravo

Specialty training for the retention of Malawian doctors: A cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 87-95

Kate L. Mandeville, Kara Hanson, Adamson S. Muula, Titha Dzowela, Godwin Ulaya and Mylène Lagarde

Determining geographic accessibility of family physician and nurse practitioner services in relation to the distribution of seniors within two Canadian Prairie Provinces pp. 96-104

Tayyab Ikram Shah, Stephan Milosavljevic and Brenna Bath

The dark side of social capital: A systematic review of the negative health effects of social capital pp. 105-127

E. Villalonga-Olives and I. Kawachi

Sanitation marketing: A systematic review and theoretical critique using the capability approach pp. 128-134

D.J. Barrington, S. Sridharan, K.F. Shields, S.G. Saunders, R.T. Souter and J. Bartram

Associations between race, discrimination and risk for chronic disease in a population-based sample from Canada pp. 135-141

Arjumand Siddiqi, Faraz Vahid Shahidi, Chantel Ramraj and David R. Williams

Unemployment and subsequent depression: A mediation analysis using the parametric G-formula pp. 142-150

Maarten J. Bijlsma, Lasse Tarkiainen, Mikko Myrskylä and Pekka Martikainen

Avoiding selection bias without random assignment? The effect of breastfeeding on cognitive outcomes in China pp. 151-159

Héctor Cebolla-Boado, María Jiménez-Buedo and Leire Salazar

Dynamic modeling approaches to characterize the functioning of health systems: A systematic review of the literature pp. 160-167

Angela Y. Chang, Osondu Ogbuoji, Rifat Atun and Stéphane Verguet

Low birthweight among immigrants in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States pp. 168-176

Melissa L. Martinson, Marta Tienda and Julien O. Teitler

2017, volume 193, articles C

Assessment of spatial variation in breast cancer-specific mortality using Louisiana SEER data pp. 1-7

Rachel Carroll, Andrew B. Lawson, Chandra L. Jackson and Shanshan Zhao

A qualitative study of speaking out about patient safety concerns in intensive care units pp. 8-15

Carolyn Tarrant, Myles Leslie, Julian Bion and Mary Dixon-Woods

What is not, but might be: The disnarrated in parents' stories of their child's cancer treatment pp. 16-22

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros and Eugenia Brage

Health lifestyles across the transition to adulthood: Implications for health pp. 23-32

Elizabeth M. Lawrence, Stefanie Mollborn and Robert A. Hummer

Cross-lagged associations between posttraumatic stress symptoms and coping self-efficacy in long-term recovery: A four-wave comparative study pp. 33-40

Mark W.G. Bosmans and Peter G. van der Velden

Kids in space: Measuring children's residential neighborhoods and other destinations using activity space GPS and wearable camera data pp. 41-50

T. Chambers, A.L. Pearson, I. Kawachi, Z. Rzotkiewicz, J. Stanley, M. Smith, M. Barr, C. Ni Mhurchu and L. Signal

Pastoral power in HIV prevention: Converging rationalities of care in Christian and medical practices in Papua New Guinea pp. 51-58

P. Shih, H. Worth, J. Travaglia and A. Kelly-Hanku

A grounded visualization approach to explore sociospatial and temporal complexities of older adults' mobility pp. 59-69

Thea Franke, Meghan Winters, Heather McKay, Habib Chaudhury and Joanie Sims-Gould

Determinants of trust in the flu vaccine for African Americans and Whites pp. 70-79

Vicki S. Freimuth, Amelia M. Jamison, Ji An, Gregory R. Hancock and Sandra Crouse Quinn

“What's the right thing to do?” Correctional healthcare providers' knowledge, attitudes and experiences caring for transgender inmates pp. 80-89

Kirsty A. Clark, Jaclyn M. White Hughto and John E. Pachankis

Racial discrimination and cortisol output: A meta-analysis pp. 90-100

Kevin M. Korous, José M. Causadias and Deborah M. Casper

Understanding the association between stunting and child development in low- and middle-income countries: Next steps for research and intervention pp. 101-109

Jessica M. Perkins, Rockli Kim, Aditi Krishna, Mark McGovern, Victor M. Aguayo and S.V. Subramanian

Building addiction recovery capital through online participation in a recovery community pp. 110-117

Ana-Maria Bliuc, David Best, Muhammad Iqbal and Katie Upton

The impact of Medicare Part D on cognitive functioning at older ages pp. 118-126

Tae-Young Pak and GwanSeon Kim

Childhood/Adolescent stressors and allostatic load in adulthood: Support for a calibration model pp. 130-139

Mark T. Berg, Ronald L. Simons, Ashley Barr, Steven R.H. Beach and Robert A. Philibert