Social Science & Medicine

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2017, volume 185, articles C

Can inequality be tamed through boundary work? A qualitative study of health promotion aimed at reducing health inequalities pp. 1-8

Pia Vivian Pedersen, Ulf Hjelmar, Mette Terp Høybye and Morten Hulvej Rod

Uneasy encounters: Youth, social (dis)comfort and the autistic self pp. 9-16

Edmund Coleman-Fountain

The clinical communication and information challenges associated with the psychosexual aspects of prostate cancer treatment pp. 17-26

Susan A. Speer, Samantha R. Tucker, Rebecca McPhillips and Sarah Peters

Attachment to place in advanced age: A study of the LiLACS NZ cohort pp. 27-37

Janine L. Wiles, Anna Rolleston, Avinesh Pillai, Joanna Broad, Ruth Teh, Merryn Gott and Ngaire Kerse

Does neighbourhood deprivation affect the genetic influence on body mass? pp. 38-45

Gwilym Owen, Kelvyn Jones and Richard Harris

Effect of interrupting free healthcare for children: Drawing lessons at the critical moment of national scale-up in Burkina Faso pp. 46-53

Thomas Druetz, Abel Bicaba, Telesphore Some, Seni Kouanda, Antarou Ly and Slim Haddad

Health system responsiveness and chronic disease care – What is the role of disease management programs? An analysis based on cross-sectional survey and administrative claims data pp. 54-62

Julia Röttger, Miriam Blümel, Roland Linder and Reinhard Busse

Applying economic incentives to increase effectiveness of an outpatient weight loss program (TRIO) – A randomized controlled trial pp. 63-70

Eric A. Finkelstein, Kwang-Wei Tham, Benjamin A. Haaland and Aarti Sahasranaman

Asian Americans and disproportionate exposure to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants: A national study pp. 71-80

Sara E. Grineski, Timothy W. Collins and Danielle X. Morales

Social causation and neighborhood selection underlie associations of neighborhood factors with illicit drug-using social networks and illicit drug use among adults relocated from public housing pp. 81-90

Sabriya L. Linton, Danielle F. Haley, Josalin Hunter-Jones, Zev Ross and Hannah L.F. Cooper

Girl child marriage as a risk factor for early childhood development and stunting pp. 91-101

Yvette Efevbera, Jacqueline Bhabha, Paul E. Farmer and Günther Fink

Predictive utility and measurement properties of the Strength of Implementation Intentions Scale (SIIS) for condom use pp. 102-109

Liesl A. Nydegger, Susan L. Ames and Alan W. Stacy

Re-working biographies: Women's narratives of pregnancy whilst living with epilepsy pp. 110-117

Annalise Weckesser and Elaine Denny

A method for understanding generic procurement of HIV medicines by developing countries with patent protection pp. 118-126

Reed F. Beall and Amir Attaran

Public attitudes toward child undervaccination: A randomized experiment on evaluations, stigmatizing orientations, and support for policies pp. 127-136

Richard M. Carpiano and Nicholas S. Fitz

Confined to a tokenistic status: Social scientists in leadership roles in a national health research funding agency pp. 137-146

Mathieu Albert and Suzanne Laberge

Contributions of risk preference, time orientation and perceptions to breast cancer screening regularity pp. 147-157

Léontine Goldzahl

An index of the ratio of inflammatory to antiviral cell types mediates the effects of social adversity and age on chronic illness pp. 158-165

Ronald L. Simons, Man-Kit Lei, Steven R.H. Beach, Ashley B. Barr, Carolyn E. Cutrona, Frederick X. Gibbons and Robert A. Philibert

Effect of political decentralization and female leadership on institutional births and child mortality in rural Bihar, India pp. 171-178

Santosh Kumar and Nishith Prakash

2017, volume 184, articles C

Counting the time lived, the time left or illness? Age, proximity to death, morbidity and prescribing expenditures pp. 1-14

Patrick V. Moore, Kathleen Bennett and Charles Normand

Ethnic-group socioeconomic status as an indicator of community-level disadvantage: A study of overweight/obesity in Asian American adolescents pp. 15-22

Won Kim Cook, Winston Tseng, Christina Tam, Iyanrick John and Camillia Lui

Geographic mobility and potential bridging for sexually transmitted infections in Agbogbloshie, Ghana pp. 27-39

Susan Cassels, Samuel M. Jenness, Adriana A.E. Biney and F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo

Towards a feminist understanding of intersecting violence against women and children in the family pp. 40-48

Sophie Namy, Catherine Carlson, Kathleen O'Hara, Janet Nakuti, Paul Bukuluki, Julius Lwanyaaga, Sylvia Namakula, Barbrah Nanyunja, Milton L. Wainberg, Dipak Naker and Lori Michau

Educational gains in cause-specific mortality: Accounting for cognitive ability and family-level confounders using propensity score weighting pp. 49-56

Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä, Per Tynelius and Finn Rasmussen

Expectant futures and an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: Knowing and its consequences pp. 57-64

Julia Swallow

New challenges for verbal autopsy: Considering the ethical and social implications of verbal autopsy methods in routine health information systems pp. 65-74

Hebe N. Gouda, Abraham D. Flaxman, Claire E. Brolan, Rohina Joshi, Ian D. Riley, Carla AbouZahr, Sonja Firth, Rasika Rampatige and Alan D. Lopez

Dangertalk: Voices of abortion providers pp. 75-83

Lisa A. Martin, Jane A. Hassinger, Michelle Debbink and Lisa H. Harris

Subjective social status and premedical students' attitudes towards medical school pp. 84-98

Matthew K. Grace

Professional midwifery in Guatemala: A qualitative exploration of perceptions, attitudes and expectations among stakeholders pp. 99-107

Anna Summer, Sylvia Guendelman, Edgar Kestler and Dilys Walker

Age of despair or age of hope? Palestinian women's perspectives on midlife health pp. 108-115

Doaa Hammoudeh, Ernestina Coast, David Lewis, Yoke van der Meulen, Tiziana Leone and Rita Giacaman

Resisting decay: On disposal, valuation, and care in a dementia nursing home in Denmark pp. 116-123

Iben M. Gjødsbøl, Lene Koch and Mette N. Svendsen

Sleep waves and recovery from drug and alcohol dependence: Towards a rhythm analysis of sleep in residential treatment pp. 124-133

Robert Meadows, Sarah Nettleton and Joanne Neale

The performativity of numbers in illness management: The case of Swedish Rheumatology pp. 134-143

Anna Essén and Eivor Oborn

Dreams deferred: Contextualizing the health and psychosocial needs of undocumented Asian and Pacific Islander young adults in Northern California pp. 144-152

May Sudhinaraset, Irving Ling, Tu My To, Jason Melo and Thu Quach

“I don’t believe it.” Acceptance and skepticism of genetic health information among African-American and White smokers pp. 153-160

Erika A. Waters, Linda Ball and Sarah Gehlert

Talking about sunbed tanning: Social representations and identity-work pp. 161-168

Jennifer Taylor, Michael Murray and Alexandra Lamont

Discourse in Action: Parents’ use of medical and social models to resist disability stigma pp. 169-177

Bianca Manago, Jenny L. Davis and Carla Goar

Effects of maternal traumatic distress on family functioning and child mental health: An examination of Southeast Asian refugee families in the U.S pp. 178-186

Cindy C. Sangalang, Justin Jager and Tracy W. Harachi

2017, volume 183, articles C

A health intervention or a kitchen appliance? Household costs and benefits of a cleaner burning biomass-fuelled cookstove in Malawi pp. 1-10

Katie Cundale, Ranjeeta Thomas, Jullita Kenala Malava, Deborah Havens, Kevin Mortimer and Lesong Conteh

Patient engagement at the margins: Health care providers' assessments of engagement and the structural determinants of health in the safety-net pp. 11-18

Mark D. Fleming, Janet K. Shim, Irene H. Yen, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Sara Rubin, Meredith Van Natta and Nancy J. Burke

Understanding the impact of school tobacco policies on adolescent smoking behaviour: A realist review pp. 19-27

Michael Schreuders, Paulien A.W. Nuyts, Bas van den Putte and Anton E. Kunst

Sadness or depression: Making sense of low mood and the medicalization of everyday life pp. 28-36

Christian Bröer and Broos Besseling

Community-directed mass drug administration is undermined by status seeking in friendship networks and inadequate trust in health advice networks pp. 37-47

Goylette F. Chami, Andreas Kontoleon, Erwin Bulte, Alan Fenwick, Narcis B. Kabatereine, Edridah M. Tukahebwa and David W. Dunne

Controversies about cervical cancer screening: A qualitative study of Roma women's (non)participation in cervical cancer screening in Romania pp. 48-55

Trude Andreassen, Elisabete Weiderpass, Florian Nicula, Ofelia Suteu, Andreea Itu, Minodora Bumbu, Aida Tincu, Giske Ursin and Kåre Moen

Spillovers between siblings and from offspring to parents are understudied: A review and future directions for research pp. 56-61

Jan-Walter De Neve and Ichiro Kawachi

“How can anybody be representative for those kind of people?” Forms of patient representation in health research, and why it is always contestable pp. 62-69

Kath Maguire and Nicky Britten

Transnationalism and health: A systematic literature review on the use of transnationalism in the study of the health practices and behaviors of migrants pp. 70-79

Laura Villa-Torres, Tonatiuh González-Vázquez, Paul J. Fleming, Edgar Leonel González-González, César Infante-Xibille, Rebecca Chavez and Clare Barrington

Longitudinal associations of experiences of adversity and socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood with labour force participation and exit in later adulthood pp. 80-87

A.E. Fahy, S.A. Stansfeld, M. Smuk, D. Lain, M. van der Horst, S. Vickerstaff and C. Clark

Finding joy in poor health: The leisure-scapes of chronic illness pp. 88-96

Julia McQuoid

Perceived mHealth barriers and benefits for home-based HIV testing and counseling and other care: Qualitative findings from health officials, community health workers, and persons living with HIV in South Africa pp. 97-105

Alastair van Heerden, Danielle M. Harris, Heidi van Rooyen, Ruanne V. Barnabas, Nithya Ramanathan, Nkosinathi Ngcobo, Zukiswa Mpiyakhe and W. Scott Comulada

Medicalized addiction, self-medication, or nonmedical prescription drug use? How trust figures into incarcerated women's conceptualization of illicit prescription drug use pp. 106-115

Michelle Smirnova and Jennifer Gatewood Owens

The costs of acute readmissions to a different hospital – Does the effect vary across provider types? pp. 116-125

Christian Møller Dahl and Line Planck Kongstad

Neighborhood disorder and glycemic control in late adolescents with Type 1 diabetes pp. 126-129

Tara L. Queen, Katherine J.W. Baucom, Ashley C. Baker, Daniel Mello, Cynthia A. Berg and Deborah J. Wiebe

Native-immigrant occupational segregation and worker health in the United States, 2004–2014 pp. 130-141

Wen Fan and Yue Qian

Contextualising renal patient routines: Everyday space-time contexts, health service access, and wellbeing pp. 142-150

Julia McQuoid, Tanisha Jowsey and Girish Talaulikar

How is depression experienced around the world? A systematic review of qualitative literature pp. 151-162

E.E. Haroz, M. Ritchey, J.K. Bass, B.A. Kohrt, J. Augustinavicius, L. Michalopoulos, M.D. Burkey and P. Bolton