Social Science & Medicine

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2017, volume 189, articles C

Assessing income redistributive effect of health financing in Zambia pp. 1-10

Arnold Mulenga and John Ataguba

Did the Great Recession affect mortality rates in the metropolitan United States? Effects on mortality by age, gender and cause of death pp. 11-16

Erin Strumpf, Thomas J. Charters, Sam Harper and Arijit Nandi

Young adults' experiences of neighbourhood smoking-related norms and practices: A qualitative study exploring place-based social inequalities in smoking pp. 17-24

Nicole M. Glenn, Josée Lapalme, Geneviève McCready and Katherine L. Frohlich

Does social trust increase willingness to pay taxes to improve public healthcare? Cross-sectional cross-country instrumental variable analysis pp. 25-34

Nazim Habibov, Alex Cheung and Alena Auchynnikava

Academic advocacy in public health: Disciplinary ‘duty’ or political ‘propaganda’? pp. 35-43

K.E. Smith and E.A. Stewart

Ethnic density, immigrant enclaves, and Latino health risks: A propensity score matching approach pp. 44-52

Kelin Li, Ming Wen and Kevin A. Henry

Which characteristics of planning matter? Individual and dyadic physical activity plans and their effects on plan enactment pp. 53-62

Jan Keller, Lena Fleig, Diana Hilda Hohl, Amelie U. Wiedemann, Silke Burkert, Aleksandra Luszczynska and Nina Knoll

Rapid qualitative research methods during complex health emergencies: A systematic review of the literature pp. 63-75

Ginger A. Johnson and Cecilia Vindrola-Padros

Association between housing type and γ-GTP increase after the Great East Japan Earthquake pp. 76-85

Aya Murakami, Yumi Sugawara, Yasutake Tomata, Kemmyo Sugiyama, Yu Kaiho, Fumiya Tanji and Ichiro Tsuji

Informal cash payments for birth in Hungary: Are women paying to secure a known provider, respect, or quality of care? pp. 86-95

Petra Baji, Nicholas Rubashkin, Imre Szebik, Kathrin Stoll and Saraswathi Vedam

Cultural values and the prevalence of mental disorders in 25 countries: A secondary data analysis pp. 96-104

Eva Heim, Iris Wegmann and Andreas Maercker

Informal assistance to urban families and the risk of household food insecurity pp. 105-113

Christian King

Values for the ICECAP-Supportive Care Measure (ICECAP-SCM) for use in economic evaluation at end of life pp. 114-128

Elisabeth Huynh, Joanna Coast, John Rose, Philip Kinghorn and Terry Flynn

Status inconsistency and mental health: A random effects and instrumental variables analysis using 14 annual waves of cohort data pp. 129-137

Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh, Anthony D. LaMontagne and Dennis Petrie

Associations of relative deprivation and income rank with depressive symptoms among older adults in Japan pp. 138-144

Krisztina Gero, Katsunori Kondo, Naoki Kondo, Kokoro Shirai and Ichiro Kawachi

Violence exposure and adolescents' same-day obesogenic behaviors: New findings and a replication pp. 145-151

Joy Rayanne Piontak, Michael A. Russell, Andrea Danese, William E. Copeland, Rick H. Hoyle and Candice L. Odgers

Tweeting celebrity suicides: Users' reaction to prominent suicide deaths on Twitter and subsequent increases in actual suicides pp. 158-166

Michiko Ueda, Kota Mori, Tetsuya Matsubayashi and Yasuyuki Sawada

2017, volume 188, articles C

Contextualizing educational differences in “vaccination uptake”: A thirty nation survey pp. 1-10

Kirils Makarovs and Peter Achterberg

Intergenerational social mobility and subjective wellbeing in later life pp. 11-20

Matthew H. Iveson and Ian J. Deary

Same medicine, different reasons: Comparing women's bodily experiences of producing eggs for pregnancy or for profit pp. 21-29

Rene Almeling and Iris L. Willey

Meta-analysis and systematic review of studies on the effectiveness of HIV stigma reduction programs pp. 30-40

Winnie W.S. Mak, Phoenix K.H. Mo, Gloria Y.K. Ma and Maggie Y.Y. Lam

Switching to sanitation: Understanding latrine adoption in a representative panel of rural Indian households pp. 41-50

Diane Coffey, Dean Spears and Sangita Vyas

Medication takeovers: Covert druggings and behavioral control in Alzheimer's pp. 51-59

Brandon Berry and Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano

Neighborhood SES is particularly important to the cardiovascular health of low SES individuals pp. 60-68

Jennifer Morozink Boylan and Stephanie A. Robert

Decentralization of health care systems and health outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 69-81

Dolores Jiménez-Rubio and Pilar Garcia-Gomez

Community Action for Health in India’s National Rural Health Mission: One policy, many paths pp. 82-90

Rakhal Gaitonde, Miguel San Sebastian, V.R. Muraleedharan and Anna-Karin Hurtig

Removing user fees for health services: A multi-epistemological perspective on access inequities in Senegal pp. 91-99

Philipa Mladovsky and Maymouna Ba

“What kept me going”: A qualitative study of avoidant responses to war-related adversity and perpetration of violence by former forcibly recruited children and youth in the Acholi region of northern Uganda pp. 100-108

Helle Harnisch and Edith Montgomery

The application of Signalling Theory to health-related trust problems: The example of herbal clinics in Ghana and Tanzania pp. 109-118

Kate Hampshire, Heather Hamill, Simon Mariwah, Joseph Mwanga and Daniel Amoako-Sakyi

Healing and/or breaking? The mental health implications of repeated economic insecurity pp. 119-127

Barry Watson and Lars Osberg

The impact of education on the probability of receiving periodontal treatment. Causal effects measured by using the introduction of a school reform in Norway pp. 128-136

Jostein Grytten and Irene Skau

Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) for evaluating new medicines in Health Technology Assessment and beyond: The Advance Value Framework pp. 137-156

Aris Angelis and Panos Kanavos

Is structural stigma's effect on the mortality of sexual minorities robust? A failure to replicate the results of a published study pp. 157-165

Mark Regnerus

Pathways between childhood/adolescent adversity, adolescent socioeconomic status, and long-term cardiovascular disease risk in young adulthood pp. 166-175

Jenalee R. Doom, Susan M. Mason, Shakira F. Suglia and Cari Jo Clark

The proliferation of sexual health: Diverse social problems and the legitimation of sexuality pp. 176-190

Steven Epstein and Laura Mamo

Genetic endowments, parental resources and adult health: Evidence from the Young Finns Study pp. 191-200

Jaakko Pehkonen, Jutta Viinikainen, Petri Böckerman, Terho Lehtimäki, Niina Pitkänen and Olli Raitakari

2017, volume 187, articles C

Fundamental causes of accelerated declines in colorectal cancer mortality: Modeling multiple ways that disadvantage influences mortality risk pp. 1-10

Sean A.P. Clouston, Marcie S. Rubin, David H. Chae, Jeremy Freese, Barbara Nemesure and Bruce G. Link

Longitudinal effects of religious involvement on religious coping and health behaviors in a national sample of African Americans pp. 11-19

Cheryl L. Holt, David L. Roth, Jin Huang, Crystal L. Park and Eddie M. Clark

A model of how targeted and universal welfare entitlements impact on material, psycho-social and structural determinants of health in older adults pp. 20-28

Judith Green, Stefanie Buckner, Sarah Milton, Katie Powell, Sarah Salway and Suzanne Moffatt

Cognitive functioning among Dutch older adults: Do neighborhood socioeconomic status and urbanity matter? pp. 29-38

Jonathan Wörn, Lea Ellwardt, Marja Aartsen and Martijn Huisman

How seasonality and weather affect perinatal health: Comparing the experiences of indigenous and non-indigenous mothers in Kanungu District, Uganda pp. 39-48

Sarah MacVicar, Lea Berrang-Ford, Sherilee Harper, Vivienne Steele, Shuaib Lwasa, Didacus Namanya Bambaiha, Sabastien Twesigomwe, Grace Asaasira and Nancy Ross

Table talk: How mothers and adolescents across socioeconomic status discuss food pp. 49-57

Priya Fielding-Singh and Jennifer Wang

Gender and the structure of self-rated health across the adult life span pp. 58-66

Anna Zajacova, Snehalata Huzurbazar and Megan Todd

Supporting the role of community members employed as research staff: Perspectives of community researchers working in addiction research pp. 67-75

Gala True, Leslie B. Alexander and Celia B. Fisher

Investigating tangible and mental resources as predictors of perceived household food insecurity during pregnancy among women in a South African birth cohort study pp. 76-84

Jennifer A. Pellowski, Whitney Barnett, Caroline C. Kuo, Nastassja Koen, Heather J. Zar and Dan J. Stein

Black-white metropolitan segregation and self-rated health: Investigating the role of neighborhood poverty pp. 85-92

D. Phuong Do, Reanne Frank and John Iceland

Prudence, pleasure, and cognitive ageing: Configurations of the uses and users of brain training games within UK media, 2005–2015 pp. 93-100

Martyn Pickersgill, Tineke Broer, Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Ian Deary

Maternal breastfeeding and children's cognitive development pp. 101-108

Kanghyock Koh

A prospective study of associations among helping, health, and longevity pp. 109-117

Sonja Hilbrand, David A. Coall, Andrea H. Meyer, Denis Gerstorf and Ralph Hertwig

Work-related illness, work-related accidents, and lack of social security in Colombia pp. 118-125

María Teresa Buitrago Echeverri, César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero and Consuelo Granja Palacios

Dog-bites, rabies and One Health: Towards improved coordination in research, policy and practice pp. 126-133

Melanie J. Rock, Dawn Rault and Chris Degeling

Long-term health consequences of recessions during working years pp. 134-143

Liudmila Antonova, Tabea Bucher-Koenen and Fabrizio Mazzonna

Relative importance of 13 correlates of child stunting in South Asia: Insights from nationally representative data from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan pp. 144-154

Rockli Kim, Iván Mejía-Guevara, Daniel J. Corsi, Víctor M. Aguayo and S.V. Subramanian

A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators in treating drug use among Israeli mothers: An intersectional perspective pp. 155-163

Keren Gueta

Social and emotional wellbeing assessment instruments for use with Indigenous Australians: A critical review pp. 164-173

M. Le Grande, C.F. Ski, D.R. Thompson, P. Scuffham, S. Kularatna, A.C. Jackson and A. Brown

Developing culturally sensitive affect scales for global mental health research and practice: Emotional balance, not named syndromes, in Indian Adivasi subjective well-being pp. 174-183

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G. Lacy and Chakrapani Upadhyay

Long-term physical health consequences of perceived inequality: Results from a twin comparison design pp. 184-192

Joseph A. Schwartz

Causal effects of transitions to adult roles on early adult smoking and drinking: Evidence from three cohorts pp. 193-202

Michael J. Green, Alastair H. Leyland, Helen Sweeting and Michaela Benzeval

Austerity and the “sector-wide approach” to health: The Mozambique experience pp. 208-216

James Pfeiffer, Sarah Gimbel, Baltazar Chilundo, Stephen Gloyd, Rachel Chapman and Kenneth Sherr

Working in scarcity: Effects on social interactions and biomedical care in a Tanzanian hospital pp. 217-224

Adrienne E. Strong

Narrating health and scarcity: Guyanese healthcare workers, development reformers, and sacrifice as solution from socialist to neoliberal governance pp. 225-232

Alexis Walker

Producing a worthy illness: Personal crowdfunding amidst financial crisis pp. 233-242

Lauren S. Berliner and Nora J. Kenworthy

Rationing hepatitis C treatment in the context of austerity policies in France and Cameroon: A transnational perspective on the pharmaceuticalization of healthcare systems pp. 243-250

Fanny Chabrol, Pierre-Marie David and Gaëlle Krikorian

“Sharing One's Destiny”: Effects of austerity on migrant health provisioning in the Mediterranean borderlands pp. 251-258

Megan A. Carney

Austerity and its implications for immigrant health in France pp. 259-267

Carolyn Sargent and Laurence Kotobi

“How the other half live”: Lay perspectives on health inequalities in an age of austerity pp. 268-275

Kayleigh Garthwaite and Clare Bambra

Financialisation in health care: An analysis of private equity fund investments in Turkey pp. 276-286

Ipek Eren Vural

Austerity and the embodiment of neoliberalism as ill-health: Towards a theory of biological sub-citizenship pp. 287-295

Matthew Sparke

Structural adjustment and health: A conceptual framework and evidence on pathways pp. 296-305

Alexander E. Kentikelenis