Social Science & Medicine

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2017, volume 179, articles C

Tinkering toward departure: The limits of improvisation in rural Ethiopian biomedical practices pp. 1-8

Stephanie Rieder

The impact of healthcare spending on health outcomes: A meta-regression analysis pp. 9-17

Craig A. Gallet and Chris Doucouliagos

Fetal health stagnation: Have health conditions in utero improved in the United States and Western and Northern Europe over the past 150 years? pp. 18-26

Eric Schneider

Immediate and sustained effects of user fee exemption on healthcare utilization among children under five in Burkina Faso: A controlled interrupted time-series analysis pp. 27-35

David Zombré, Manuela De Allegri and Valéry Ridde

The effect of race and birth cohort on the veteran mortality differential pp. 36-44

Scott D. Landes, JeffriAnne Wilder and Desiree Williams

Multi-scalar influences on mortality change over time in 274 European cities pp. 45-51

Elizabeth A. Richardson, Graham Moon, Jamie Pearce, Niamh K. Shortt and Richard Mitchell

Water insecurity in a syndemic context: Understanding the psycho-emotional stress of water insecurity in Lesotho, Africa pp. 52-60

Cassandra L. Workman and Heather Ureksoy

Effects of Payment for Performance on accountability mechanisms: Evidence from Pwani, Tanzania pp. 61-73

Iddy Mayumana, Jo Borghi, Laura Anselmi, Masuma Mamdani and Siri Lange

Does autonomy for public hospitals in developing countries increase performance? Evidence-based case studies pp. 74-80

Willy De Geyndt

Growth recovery and faltering through early adolescence in low- and middle-income countries: Determinants and implications for cognitive development pp. 81-90

Andreas Georgiadis, Liza Benny, Le Thuc Duc, Sheikh Galab, Prudhvikar Reddy and Tassew Woldehanna

New Zealand Healthline call data used to measure the effect of travel time on the use of the emergency department pp. 91-96

Edward Griffin, John P. McCarthy, Fiona Thomas and Simon Kingham

Longitudinal associations of intimate partner violence attitudes and perpetration: Dyadic couples data from a randomized controlled trial in rural India pp. 97-105

Holly B. Shakya, Paul Fleming, Niranjan Saggurti, Balaiah Donta, Jay Silverman and Anita Raj

Epidemiological placism in public health emergencies: Ebola in two Dallas neighborhoods pp. 106-114

Carolyn Smith-Morris

HIV risk behaviours among immigrant and ethnic minority gay and bisexual men in North America and Europe: A systematic review pp. 115-128

Nathaniel M. Lewis and Kathi Wilson

Feeding premature neonates: Kinship and species in translational neonatology pp. 129-136

Mie S. Dam, Sandra M. Juhl, Per T. Sangild and Svendsen,, Mette N.

The quasi-market for adult residential care in the UK: Do for-profit, not-for-profit or public sector residential care and nursing homes provide better quality care? pp. 137-146

David N. Barron and Elizabeth West

Physicians’ responses to financial and social incentives: A medically framed real effort experiment pp. 147-159

Mylène Lagarde and Duane Blaauw

Cumulative receipt of an anti-poverty tax credit for families did not impact tobacco smoking among parents pp. 160-165

Frank Pega, Paola Gilsanz, Ichiro Kawachi, Nick Wilson and Tony Blakely

Influencing health policy through public deliberation: Lessons learned from two decades of Citizens'/community juries pp. 166-171

Chris Degeling, Lucie Rychetnik, Jackie Street, Rae Thomas and Stacy M. Carter

The impact of community context on children's health and nutritional status in China pp. 172-181

Lei Lei

Attributing a monetary value to patients' time: A contingent valuation approach pp. 182-190

Bernard van den Berg, Amiram Gafni and France Portrait

Social capital, deprivation and self-rated health: Does reporting heterogeneity play a role? Results from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing pp. 191-200

M.G. O'Doherty, Declan French, A. Steptoe and F. Kee

Anticipated support from children and later-life health in the United States and China pp. 201-209

Cheng Cheng

The policy work of piloting: Mobilising and managing conflict and ambiguity in the English NHS pp. 210-217

Simon Bailey, Kath Checkland, Damian Hodgson, Anne McBride, Rebecca Elvey, Stephen Parkin, Katy Rothwell and Dean Pierides

2017, volume 178, articles C

Labor market consequences of growing up with a sibling with type 1-diabetes pp. 1-10

Ida Lovén

Sensitivity of measuring the progress in financial risk protection to survey design and its socioeconomic and demographic determinants: A case study in Rwanda pp. 11-18

Chunling Lu, Kai Liu, Lingling Li and Yuhong Yang

The Patient Feedback Response Framework – Understanding why UK hospital staff find it difficult to make improvements based on patient feedback: A qualitative study pp. 19-27

Laura Sheard, Claire Marsh, Jane O'Hara, Gerry Armitage, John Wright and Rebecca Lawton

Revisiting informal payments in 29 transitional countries: The scale and socio-economic correlates pp. 28-37

Nazim Habibov and Alex Cheung

Accepted monitoring or endured quarantine? Ebola contacts' perceptions in Senegal pp. 38-45

Alice Desclaux, Dioumel Badji, Albert Gautier Ndione and Khoudia Sow

Changing the navigator's course: How the increasing rationalization of healthcare influences access for undocumented immigrants under the Affordable Care Act pp. 46-54

Laura López-Sanders

A qualitative study of factors impacting accessing of institutional delivery care in the context of India's cash incentive program pp. 55-65

Sukumar Vellakkal, Hanimi Reddy, Adyya Gupta, Anil Chandran, Jasmine Fledderjohann and David Stuckler

Experiences of stigma and discrimination faced by family caregivers of people with schizophrenia in India pp. 66-77

Mirja Koschorke, R. Padmavati, Shuba Kumar, Alex Cohen, Helen A. Weiss, Sudipto Chatterjee, Jesina Pereira, Smita Naik, Sujit John, Hamid Dabholkar, Madhumitha Balaji, Animish Chavan, Mathew Varghese, R. Thara, Vikram Patel and Graham Thornicroft

Mental retirement and health selection: Analyses from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study pp. 78-86

Sean A.P. Clouston and Nicole Denier

“They treated me like crap and I know it was because I was Native”: The healthcare experiences of Aboriginal peoples living in Vancouver's inner city pp. 87-94

Ashley Goodman, Kim Fleming, Nicole Markwick, Tracey Morrison, Louise Lagimodiere and Thomas Kerr

Job satisfaction developmental trajectories and health: A life course perspective pp. 95-103

Jonathan Dirlam and Hui Zheng

When high pressure, system constraints, and a social justice mission collide: A socio-structural analysis of emergency department social work services pp. 104-114

Megan Moore, Margaret Cristofalo, Danae Dotolo, Nicole Torres, Alexandra Lahdya, Leyna Ho, Mia Vogel, Mollie Forrester, Bonnie Conley and Susan Fouts

Do U.S. states' socioeconomic and policy contexts shape adult disability? pp. 115-126

Jennifer Karas Montez, Mark D. Hayward and Douglas A. Wolf

How financial strain affects health: Evidence from the Dutch National Bank Household Survey pp. 127-135

Carla Prentice, Donal McKillop and Declan French

Where biomedicalisation and magic meet: Therapeutic innovations of elite sports injury in British professional football and cycling pp. 136-143

Alex Faulkner, Michael McNamee, Catherine Coveney and Jonathan Gabe

Child mortality, commodity price volatility and the resource curse pp. 144-156

Yousef Makhlouf, Neil Kellard and Dmitri Vinogradov

The influence of welfare systems on pay-for-performance programs for general practitioners: A critical review pp. 157-166

Mehdi Ammi and Grant Fortier

Towards a theoretical model on medicines as a health need pp. 167-174

Claudia Marcela Vargas-Peláez, Luciano Soares, Marina Raijche Mattozo Rover, Carine Raquel Blatt, Aukje Mantel-Teeuwisse, Francisco Augusto Rossi Buenaventura, Luis Guillermo Restrepo, María Cristina Latorre, José Julián López, María Teresa Bürgin, Consuelo Silva, Silvana Nair Leite and Farias Mareni Rocha

Disability, poverty, and role of the basic livelihood security system on health services utilization among the elderly in South Korea pp. 175-183

Boyoung Jeon, Haruko Noguchi, Soonman Kwon, Tomoko Ito and Nanako Tamiya

Structural violence and chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka pp. 184-195

M.W. Amarasiri de Silva, Steven M. Albert and J.M.K.B. Jayasekara

Profiles in health: Multiple roles and health lifestyles in early adulthood pp. 196-205

Trenton D. Mize

Depressive symptomatology and fall risk among community-dwelling older adults pp. 206-213

Geoffrey J. Hoffman, Ron D. Hays, Steven P. Wallace, Martin F. Shapiro and Susan L. Ettner

2017, volume 177, articles C

Barriers to accessing adequate maternal care in Central and Eastern European countries: A systematic literature review pp. 1-8

Elina Miteniece, Milena Pavlova, Bernd Rechel and Wim Groot

Street-level diplomacy? Communicative and adaptive work at the front line of implementing public health policies in primary care pp. 9-18

Nicola Gale, George Dowswell, Sheila Greenfield and Tom Marshall

Untangling the disaster-depression knot: The role of social ties after Deepwater Horizon pp. 19-26

Ariane L. Rung, Symielle Gaston, William T. Robinson, Edward J. Trapido and Edward S. Peters

“I don't know how I'm still standing” a Bakhtinian analysis of social housing and health narratives in East London pp. 27-34

C. Thompson, D.J. Lewis, T. Greenhalgh, N.R. Smith, A.E. Fahy and S. Cummins

Early adolescence behavior problems and timing of poverty during childhood: A comparison of lifecourse models pp. 35-42

Julia Rachel S.E. Mazza, Jean Lambert, Maria Victoria Zunzunegui, Richard E. Tremblay, Michel Boivin and Sylvana M. Côté

Identity in a medicine cabinet: Discursive positions of Andean migrants towards their use of herbal remedies in the United Kingdom pp. 43-51

Melissa Ceuterick and Ina Vandebroek

International synthesis and case study examination of promising caregiver-friendly workplaces pp. 52-60

Shruti Ramesh, Rachelle Ireson and Allison Williams

Finger Pricks and Blood Vials: How doctors medicalize ‘cultural’ solutions to demedicalize the ‘broken’ hymen in the Netherlands pp. 61-68

Sherria Ayuandini

Adapting public policy theory for public health research: A framework to understand the development of national policies on global health pp. 69-77

Catherine M. Jones, Carole Clavier and Louise Potvin

Advocacy coalitions involved in California's menu labeling policy debate: Exploring coalition structure, policy beliefs, resources, and strategies pp. 78-86

Denise D. Payán, LaVonna B. Lewis, Michael R. Cousineau and Michael Nichol

Understanding seasonal mobilities, health and wellbeing to Sanya, China pp. 87-99

Lirong Kou, Honggang Xu and Kevin Hannam

Early-life and adult socioeconomic determinants of myocardial infarction incidence and fatality pp. 100-109

Fanny Kilpi, Karri Silventoinen, Hanna Konttinen and Pekka Martikainen

Poverty and perceived stress: Evidence from two unconditional cash transfer programs in Zambia pp. 110-117

Lisa Hjelm, Sudhanshu Handa, Jacobus de Hoop and Tia Palermo

Impact of health financing policies in Cambodia: A 20 year experience pp. 118-126

Tim Ensor, Chhim Chhun, Ton Kimsun, Barbara McPake and Ijeoma Edoka

Addressing care-seeking as well as insurance-seeking selection biases in estimating the impact of health insurance on out-of-pocket expenditure pp. 127-140

Shehzad Ali, Richard Cookson and Mark Dusheiko

Generating political priority for regulatory interventions targeting obesity prevention: an Australian case study pp. 141-149

Phillip Baker, Timothy Gill, Sharon Friel, Gemma Carey and Adrian Kay

Knowledge and power in policy-making for child survival in Niger pp. 150-157

Sarah L. Dalglish, Daniela C. Rodríguez, Abdoutan Harouna and Pamela J. Surkan

Positive welfare state dynamics? Sickness benefits and sickness absence in Europe 1997–2011 pp. 158-168

Ola Sjöberg

The “Western disease”: Autism and Somali parents' embodied health movements pp. 169-176

Claire Laurier Decoteau

Public attitudes towards alcohol control policies in Scotland and England: Results from a mixed-methods study pp. 177-189

Jessica Li, Melanie Lovatt, Douglas Eadie, Fiona Dobbie, Petra Meier, John Holmes, Gerard Hastings and Anne Marie MacKintosh

Similarities and differences in the meanings children and their parents attach to epilepsy medications pp. 190-197

Michelle Webster

Perceived discrimination and low back pain among 28,532 workers in South Korea: Effect modification by labor union status pp. 198-204

Nagyeong Lee, Hyoju Sung, Ji-Hwan Kim, Laura Punnett and Seung-Sup Kim

Medicaid's lasting impressions: Population health and insurance at birth pp. 205-212

Heeju Sohn

Intersectionality and risk for ischemic heart disease in Sweden: Categorical and anti-categorical approaches pp. 213-222

Maria Wemrell, Shai Mulinari and Juan Merlo

Urban and non-urban differences in community living and participation among individuals with serious mental illnesses pp. 223-230

Greg Townley, Eugene Brusilovskiy and Mark S. Salzer

Personal and political histories in the designing of health reform policy in Bolivia pp. 231-238

Alissa Bernstein

Illuminating the lifecourse of place in the longitudinal study of neighbourhoods and health pp. 239-247

Peter Lekkas, Catherine Paquet, Natasha J. Howard and Mark Daniel

Reporting bias inflates the reputation of medical treatments: A comparison of outcomes in clinical trials and online product reviews pp. 248-255

Mícheál de Barra

Enacted abortion stigma in the United States pp. 259-268

Sarah K. Cowan

Interrupting pathways to sepsis: Effectiveness of an intervention to reduce delays in timely care for sick children in rural Bangladesh pp. 269-277

Frances E. Aboud, Ehsanur Rahman, Rosemin Kassam, Jasmin Khan, Nabeel Ashraf Ali and Fahmida Taleb

Do Hospital Boards matter for better, safer, patient care? pp. 278-287

Russell Mannion, H.T.O. Davies, R. Jacobs, P. Kasteridis, R. Millar and T. Freeman