Social Science & Medicine

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2016, volume 169, articles C

Crowding out or no crowding out? A Self-Determination Theory approach to health worker motivation in performance-based financing pp. 1-8

Julia Lohmann, Nathalie Houlfort and Manuela De Allegri

Social mobility and subclinical atherosclerosis in a middle-income country: Association of intra- and inter-generational social mobility with carotid intima-media thickness in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) pp. 9-17

Joanna M.N. Guimarães, Philippa Clarke, Denise Tate, Claudia Medina Coeli, Rosane Harter Griep, Maria de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca, Itamar S. Santos, Enirtes Caetano Prates Melo and Dora Chor

Vulnerability to unintentional injuries associated with land-use activities and search and rescue in Nunavut, Canada pp. 18-26

Dylan G. Clark, James D. Ford, Tristan Pearce and Lea Berrang-Ford

Fund my treatment!: A call for ethics-focused social science research into the use of crowdfunding for medical care pp. 27-30

Jeremy Snyder, Annalise Mathers and Valorie A. Crooks

“Benches become like porches”: Built and social environment influences on older adults’ experiences of mobility and well-being pp. 33-41

Callista A. Ottoni, Joanie Sims-Gould, Meghan Winters, Myrthe Heijnen and Heather A. McKay

Delivering risk information in a dynamic information environment: Framing and authoritative voice in Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and primetime broadcast news media communications during the 2014 Ebola outbreak pp. 42-49

Anne Kott and Rupali J. Limaye

Fear, vulnerability and sacrifice: Drivers of emergency department use and implications for policy pp. 50-57

Anastasia Hudgins and Kristin L. Rising

A social network analysis of substance use among immigrant adolescents in six European cities pp. 58-65

Vincent Lorant, Victoria Soto Rojas, Laia Bécares, Jaana M. Kinnunen, Mirte A.G. Kuipers, Irene Moor, Gaetano Roscillo, Joana Alves, Adeline Grard, Arja Rimpelä, Bruno Federico, Matthias Richter, Julian Perelman and Anton E. Kunst

Financing the HIV response in sub-Saharan Africa from domestic sources: Moving beyond a normative approach pp. 66-76

Michelle Remme, Mariana Siapka, Olivier Sterck, Mthuli Ncube, Charlotte Watts and Anna Vassall

Promoting physical activity interventions in communities with poor health and socio-economic profiles: A process evaluation of the implementation of a new walking group scheme pp. 77-85

Sarah Hanson, Jane Cross and Andy Jones

Comparing the validity of the payment card and structured haggling willingness to pay methods: The case of a diabetes prevention program in rural Kenya pp. 86-96

Anne Kangethe, Duska M. Franic and Phaedra S. Corso

How much are built environments changing, and where?: Patterns of change by neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics across seven U.S. metropolitan areas pp. 97-105

Jana A. Hirsch, Joe Grengs, Amy Schulz, Sara D. Adar, Daniel A. Rodriguez, Shannon J. Brines and Ana V. Diez Roux

The use of specialty training to retain doctors in Malawi: A discrete choice experiment pp. 109-118

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

Associations between quantitative measures of women's empowerment and access to care and health status for mothers and their children: A systematic review of evidence from the developing world pp. 119-131

Pierre Pratley

Music and health communication in The Gambia: A social capital approach pp. 132-140

Bonnie B. McConnell

Economic evaluation of integrated new technologies for health and social care: Suggestions for policy makers, users and evaluators pp. 141-148

John Wildman, Peter McMeekin, Eleanor Grieve and Andrew Briggs

‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity pp. 149-156

Paul Downward and Simona Rasciute

Disrespectful intrapartum care during facility-based delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: A qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis of women's perceptions and experiences pp. 157-170

Susan Bradley, Christine McCourt, Juliet Rayment and Divya Parmar

Influences of race and breast density on related cognitive and emotion outcomes before mandated breast density notification pp. 171-179

Mark Manning, Terrance L. Albrecht, Zeynep Yilmaz-Saab, Julie Shultz and Kristen Purrington

The impact of civil union legislation on minority stress, depression, and hazardous drinking in a diverse sample of sexual-minority women: A quasi-natural experiment pp. 180-190

Bethany G. Everett, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler and Tonda L. Hughes

2016, volume 168, articles C

Empty rituals? A qualitative study of users’ experience of monitoring & evaluation systems in HIV interventions in western India pp. 7-15

Anuprita Shukla, Paul Teedon and Flora Cornish

Research on neighborhood effects on health in the United States: A systematic review of study characteristics pp. 16-29

Mariana C. Arcaya, Reginald D. Tucker-Seeley, Rockli Kim, Alina Schnake-Mahl, Marvin So and S.V. Subramanian

Does heightened fear of crime lead to poorer mental health in new suburbs, or vice versa? pp. 30-34

Sarah Foster, Paula Hooper, Matthew Knuiman and Billie Giles-Corti

The association between overweight and internalizing and externalizing behavior in early childhood pp. 35-42

Roxanna Camfferman, Pauline W. Jansen, Ralph C.A. Rippe, Judi Mesman, Ivonne P.M. Derks, Henning Tiemeier, Vincent Jaddoe and Shelley M.C. van der Veek

Comprehensive primary health care under neo-liberalism in Australia pp. 43-52

Fran Baum, Toby Freeman, David Sanders, Ronald Labonté, Angela Lawless and Sara Javanparast

The costs of ‘free’: Experiences of facility-based childbirth after Benin's caesarean section exemption policy pp. 53-62

Isabelle L. Lange, Lydie Kanhonou, Sourou Goufodji, Carine Ronsmans and Véronique Filippi

Transnational ties and the health of sub-Saharan African migrants: The moderating role of gender and family separation pp. 63-71

Patience A. Afulani, Jacqueline M. Torres, May Sudhinaraset and Joseph Asunka

The causal effect of increased primary schooling on child mortality in Malawi: Universal primary education as a natural experiment pp. 72-83

Marshall Makate and Clifton Makate

Building the nation's body: The contested role of abortion and family planning in post-war South Sudan pp. 84-92

Jennifer J. Palmer and Katerini T. Storeng

First-generation Korean immigrants’ barriers to healthcare and their coping strategies in the US pp. 93-100

Sou Hyun Jang

Illness identity as an important component of candidacy: Contrasting experiences of help-seeking and access to care in cancer and heart disease pp. 101-110

Sara Macdonald, David Blane, Susan Browne, Ellie Conway, Una Macleod, Carl May and Frances Mair

Peer influence as a potential magnifier of ADHD diagnosis pp. 111-119

Brian Aronson

Beyond the visual and verbal: Using participant-produced photographs in research on the surroundings for care at the end-of-life pp. 120-129

Carol Tishelman, Olav Lindqvist, Senada Hajdarevic, Birgit H. Rasmussen and Ida Goliath

Mechanisms linking intimate partner violence and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: A qualitative study in South Africa pp. 130-139

A.M. Hatcher, H. Stöckl, N. Christofides, N. Woollett, C.C. Pallitto, C. Garcia-Moreno and J.M. Turan

Under one roof: The effect of co-residing with adult children on depression in later life pp. 140-149

Emilie Courtin and Mauricio Avendano

Ethnoracial inequality and insurance coverage among Latino young adults pp. 150-158

Veronica Terriquez and Tiffany D. Joseph

No one sees the fathers: Israeli fathers' experience of feticide pp. 159-166

Ronit D. Leichtentritt and Galia Weinberg-Kurnik

Sole-parent work schedules and adolescent wellbeing:Evidence from Australia pp. 167-174

Alfred Dockery, Jianghong Li and Garth Kendall

Contested moral landscapes: Negotiating breastfeeding stigma in breastmilk sharing, nighttime breastfeeding, and long-term breastfeeding in the U.S. and the U.K pp. 178-185

Cecilia Tomori, Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist and Sally Dowling

Revisiting the understanding of “transactional sex” in sub-Saharan Africa: A review and synthesis of the literature pp. 186-197

Kirsten Stoebenau, Lori Heise, Joyce Wamoyi and Natalia Bobrova

Numbers and narratives: Developing a mixed-methods approach to understand mobility in later life pp. 200-206

Louise Meijering and Gerd Weitkamp

InterACTIVE Interpreted Interviews (I3): A multi-lingual, mobile method to examine the neighbourhood environment with older adults pp. 207-213

Catherine Tong, Joanie Sims-Gould and Heather McKay

Identification of spatial and cohort clustering of tuberculosis using surveillance data from British Columbia, Canada, 1990–2013 pp. 214-222

David Roth, Michael Otterstatter, Jason Wong, Victoria Cook, James Johnston and Sunny Mak

Place-making with older persons: Establishing sense-of-place through participatory community mapping workshops pp. 223-229

Mei Lan Fang, Ryan Woolrych, Judith Sixsmith, Sarah Canham, Lupin Battersby and Andrew Sixsmith

A spatiotemporal analysis of non-medical exemptions from vaccination: California schools before and after SB277 pp. 230-238

Paul L. Delamater, Timothy F. Leslie and Y. Tony Yang

On the move: Exploring the impact of residential mobility on cannabis use pp. 239-248

Tim Morris, David Manley, Kate Northstone and Clive E. Sabel

Homelessness, bedspace and the case for Housing First in Canada pp. 249-256

Joshua Evans, Damian Collins and Jalene Anderson

Transfusing our lifeblood: Reframing research impact through inter-disciplinary collaboration between health geography and nurse education pp. 257-264

Richard G. Kyle, Iain M. Atherton, Mike Kesby, Matthew Sothern and Gavin Andrews

Taking health geography out of the academy: Measuring academic impact pp. 265-272

Niamh K. Shortt, Jamie Pearce, Richard Mitchell and Katherine E. Smith

Palliating inside the lines: The effects of borders and boundaries on palliative care in rural Canada pp. 273-282

Melissa Giesbrecht, Valorie A. Crooks, Heather Castleden, Nadine Schuurman, Mark Skinner and Allison Williams