Social Science & Medicine

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2016, volume 167, articles C

Understanding ‘energy insecurity’ and why it matters to health pp. 1-10

Diana Hernández

Social capital and health in Kenya: A multilevel analysis pp. 11-19

John Musalia

To your health!: Re-examining the health benefits of moderate alcohol use pp. 20-28

Bisma Ali Sayed and Michael T. French

Contextualising the social capital of Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal men in prison pp. 29-36

Lise Lafferty, Carla Treloar, Georgina M. Chambers, Tony Butler and Jill Guthrie

Decomposing trends in adult body mass index, obesity, and morbid obesity, 1971–2012 pp. 37-44

Ashley Wendell Kranjac and Robert L. Wagmiller

Social class, employment status and inequality in psychological well-being in the UK: Cross-sectional and fixed effects analyses over two decades pp. 45-53

Lindsay Richards and Marii Paskov

Debt trajectories and mental health pp. 54-62

Daniel A. Hojman, Álvaro Miranda and Jaime Ruiz-Tagle

‘You have all those emotions inside that you cannot show because of what they will cause’: Disclosing the absence of one's uterus and vagina pp. 63-70

Lisa Guntram and Kristin Zeiler

“They are looking just the same”: Antiretroviral treatment as social danger in rural Malawi pp. 71-78

Amy Kaler, Nicole Angotti and Astha Ramaiya

‘The one with the purse makes policy’: Power, problem definition, framing and maternal health policies and programmes evolution in national level institutionalised policy making processes in Ghana pp. 79-87

Augustina Koduah, Irene Akua Agyepong and Han van Dijk

Priorities for action on the social determinants of health: Empirical evidence on the strongest associations with life expectancy in 54 low-income countries, 1990–2012 pp. 88-98

K. Hauck, Stephen Martin and P.C. Smith

Motivation in caring labor: Implications for the well-being and employment outcomes of nurses pp. 99-106

Janette Dill, Rebecca J. Erickson and James M. Diefendorff

The impact of limiting long term illness on internal migration in England and Wales: New evidence from census microdata pp. 107-115

Sam Wilding, David Martin and Graham Moon

What are GPs' preferences for financial and non-financial incentives in cancer screening? Evidence for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers pp. 116-127

Jonathan Sicsic, Nicolas Krucien and Carine Franc

Crime victimization and the implications for individual health and wellbeing: A Sheffield case study pp. 128-139

Su-Yin Tan and Robert Haining

Leishmaniasis, conflict, and political terror: A spatio-temporal analysis pp. 140-149

Isha Berry and Lea Berrang-Ford

2016, volume 166, articles C

When life gives you lemons: The effectiveness of culinary group intervention among cancer patients pp. 1-8

Ayelet Barak-Nahum, Limor Ben Haim and Karni Ginzburg

Pregnancy is more dangerous than the pill: A critical analysis of professional responses to the Yaz/Yasmin controversy pp. 9-16

Alina Geampana

Parental intentions to enroll children in a voluntary expanded newborn screening program pp. 17-24

Ryan S. Paquin, Holly L. Peay, Lisa M. Gehtland, Megan A. Lewis and Donald B. Bailey

‘Keep complaining til someone listens’: Exchanges of tacit healthcare knowledge in online illness communities pp. 25-32

Drew Foster

Measuring mental disorders: The failed commensuration project of DSM-5 pp. 33-40

Owen Whooley

The development of the nursing profession in a globalised context: A qualitative case study in Kerala, India pp. 41-48

Stephen Timmons, Catrin Evans and Sreelekha Nair

Confidentiality considerations for use of social-spatial data on the social determinants of health: Sexual and reproductive health case study pp. 49-56

Danielle F. Haley, Stephen A. Matthews, Hannah L.F. Cooper, Regine Haardörfer, Adaora A. Adimora, Gina M. Wingood and Michael R. Kramer

Health care reform and Diagnosis Related Groups in Germany: The mediating role of Hospital Liaison Committees for Jehovah's Witnesses pp. 57-65

Małgorzata Rajtar

Building capacity for water, sanitation, and hygiene programming: Training evaluation theory applied to CLTS management training in Kenya pp. 66-76

Jonny Crocker, Katherine F. Shields, Vidya Venkataramanan, Darren Saywell and Jamie Bartram

Early life socioeconomic position and immune response to persistent infections among elderly Latinos pp. 77-85

Helen C.S. Meier, Mary N. Haan, Carlos F. Mendes de Leon, Amanda M. Simanek, Jennifer B. Dowd and Allison E. Aiello

Setting the global health agenda: The influence of advocates and ideas on political priority for maternal and newborn survival pp. 86-93

Stephanie L. Smith and Jeremy Shiffman

Reproducing stigma: Interpreting “overweight” and “obese” women's experiences of weight-based discrimination in reproductive healthcare pp. 94-101

Andrea E. Bombak, Deborah McPhail and Pamela Ward

Region of origin diversity in immigrant health: Moving beyond the Mexican case pp. 102-109

Megan M. Reynolds, Alla Chernenko and Jen'nan Ghazal Read

“I can sit on the beach and punt through my mobile phone”: The influence of physical and online environments on the gambling risk behaviours of young men pp. 110-119

Emily G. Deans, Samantha L. Thomas, Mike Daube and Jeffrey Derevensky

Interventions to improve child-parent-medical provider communication: A systematic review pp. 120-127

Gergana Damianova Kodjebacheva, Tina Sabo and Janet Xiong

Breastfeeding duration and offspring conduct problems: The moderating role of genetic risk pp. 128-136

Dylan B. Jackson

All in the family: The link between kin network bridging and cardiovascular risk among older adults pp. 137-149

Alyssa W. Goldman

Morals, morale and motivations in data fabrication: Medical research fieldworkers views and practices in two Sub-Saharan African contexts pp. 150-159

Patricia Kingori and René Gerrets

Gendered depression: Vulnerability or exposure to work and family stressors? pp. 160-168

Alain Marchand, Jaunathan Bilodeau, Andrée Demers, Nancy Beauregard, Pierre Durand and Victor Y. Haines

Expanding the relationship context for couple-based HIV prevention: Elucidating women's perspectives on non-traditional sexual partnerships pp. 169-176

T.L. Crankshaw, A. Voce, L.M. Butler and L. Darbes

Ménière's disease and biographical disruption: Where family transitions collide pp. 177-185

Sarah L. Bell, Jessica Tyrrell and Cassandra Phoenix

Professional identity in nursing: UK students' explanations for poor standards of care pp. 186-194

Michael Traynor and Niels Buus

‘If I go with him, I can't talk with other women’: Understanding women's resistance to, and acceptance of, men's involvement in maternal and child healthcare in northern Ghana pp. 195-204

John Kuumuori Ganle, Isaac Dery, Abubakar A. Manu and Bernard Obeng

From representing views to representativeness of views: Illustrating a new (Q2S) approach in the context of health care priority setting in nine European countries pp. 205-213

Helen Mason, Job van Exel, Rachel Baker, Werner Brouwer and Cam Donaldson

“Getting the water-carrier to light the lamps”: Discrepant role perceptions of traditional, complementary, and alternative medical practitioners in government health facilities in India pp. 214-222

K. Lakshmi Josyula, Kabir Sheikh, Devaki Nambiar, Venkatesh V. Narayan, T.N. Sathyanarayana and John D.H. Porter

Alternative measures to BMI: Exploring income-related inequalities in adiposity in Great Britain pp. 223-232

Apostolos Davillas and Michaela Benzeval

Local descriptive norms for overweight/obesity and physical inactivity, features of the built environment, and 10-year change in glycosylated haemoglobin in an Australian population-based biomedical cohort pp. 233-243

Suzanne J. Carroll, Catherine Paquet, Natasha J. Howard, Neil T. Coffee, Anne W. Taylor, Theo Niyonsenga and Mark Daniel

2016, volume 165, articles C

Theory-based modifications of an advanced notification letter improves screening for bowel cancer in men: A randomised controlled trial pp. 1-9

Ian T. Zajac, Amy C. Duncan, Ingrid Flight, Gary A. Wittert, Stephen R. Cole, Graeme P. Young, Carlene J. Wilson and Deborah A. Turnbull

What health plans do people prefer? The trade-off between premium and provider choice pp. 10-18

Domino Determann, Mattijs S. Lambooij, Esther W. de Bekker-Grob, Arthur P. Hayen, Marco Varkevisser, Frederik T. Schut and G. Ardine de Wit

Mediating pathways between parental socio-economic position and allostatic load in mid-life: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort pp. 19-27

Cristina Barboza Solís, Romain Fantin, Raphaële Castagné, Thierry Lang, Cyrille Delpierre and Michelle Kelly-Irving

Affective health bias in older adults: Considering positive and negative affect in a general health context pp. 28-35

Brenda R. Whitehead and C.S. Bergeman

“Quitting like a Turk:” How political priority developed for tobacco control in Turkey pp. 36-45

Connie Hoe, Daniela C. Rodriguez, Yeşim Üzümcüoğlu and Adnan A. Hyder

Spread of health behaviors in young couples: How relationship power shapes relational influence pp. 46-55

Talea Cornelius, Alethea Desrosiers and Trace Kershaw

The emotional cost of distance: Geographic social network dispersion and post-traumatic stress among survivors of Hurricane Katrina pp. 56-65

Katherine Ann Morris and Nicole M. Deterding

Patient and general public preferences for health states: A call to reconsider current guidelines pp. 66-74

M.M. Versteegh and Werner Brouwer

Measuring physicians' trust: A scoping review with implications for public policy pp. 75-81

Adam S. Wilk and Jodyn E. Platt

“Whether something cool is good enough”: The role of evidence, sales representatives and nurses' expertise in hospital purchasing decisions pp. 82-91

Quinn Grundy

Truth and lies: Disclosure and the power of diagnosis pp. 92-98

Annemarie Jutel

Gender and genetic contributions to weight identity among adolescents and young adults in the U.S pp. 99-107

Robbee Wedow, Daniel A. Briley, Susan E. Short and Jason D. Boardman

Do early life cognitive ability and self-regulation skills explain socio-economic inequalities in academic achievement? An effect decomposition analysis in UK and Australian cohorts pp. 108-118

Anna Pearce, Alyssa C.P. Sawyer, Catherine R. Chittleborough, Murthy N. Mittinty, Catherine Law and John W. Lynch

Marital quality, marital dissolution, and mortality risk during the later life course pp. 119-127

Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, J. Scott Brown and Takashi Yamashita

To move or not to move? Exploring the relationship between residential mobility, risk of cardiovascular disease and ethnicity in New Zealand pp. 128-140

Frances Darlington-Pollock, Paul Norman, Arier C. Lee, Corina Grey, Suneela Mehta and Daniel J. Exeter

“I have to constantly prove to myself, to people, that I fit the bill”: Perspectives on weight and shape control behaviors among low-income, ethnically diverse young transgender women pp. 141-149

Allegra R. Gordon, S. Bryn Austin, Nancy Krieger, Jaclyn M. White Hughto and Sari L. Reisner

Young people's use of medicines: Pharmaceuticalised governance and illness management within household and school settings pp. 150-158

Felicity Thomas

“Symptoms of something all around us”: Mental health, Inuit culture, and criminal justice in Arctic communities in Nunavut, Canada pp. 159-167

Priscilla Ferrazzi and Terry Krupa

Barriers and facilitators to health screening in men: A systematic review pp. 168-176

Chin Hai Teo, Chirk Jenn Ng, Andrew Booth and Alan White

Neighborhood safety factors associated with older adults' health-related outcomes: A systematic literature review pp. 177-186

Jaewoong Won, Chanam Lee, Samuel N. Forjuoh and Marcia G. Ory

What is herd immunity, and how does it relate to pediatric vaccination uptake? US parent perspectives pp. 187-195

Elisa J. Sobo

Building a culture of health: A new framework and measures for health and health care in America pp. 206-213

Matthew D. Trujillo and Alonzo Plough

Cultures of engagement: The organizational foundations of advancing health in immigrant and low-income communities of color pp. 214-222

Irene Bloemraad and Veronica Terriquez

Destigmatization and health: Cultural constructions and the long-term reduction of stigma pp. 223-232

Matthew Clair, Caitlin Daniel and Michèle Lamont

Risk is for the rich? Childhood vaccination resistance and a Culture of Health pp. 233-245

Mabel Berezin and Alicia Eads

The politics of health mobilization in the United States: The promise and pitfalls of “disease constituencies” pp. 246-254

Steven Epstein

How a housing advocacy coalition adds health: A culture of claims-making pp. 255-262

Kushan Dasgupta and Paul Lichterman

How health navigators legitimize the Affordable Care Act to the uninsured poor pp. 263-270

Robert Vargas

Culture, health, and bigotry: How exposure to cultural accounts of fatness shape attitudes about health risk, health policies, and weight-based prejudice pp. 271-279

David A. Frederick, Abigail C. Saguy and Kjerstin Gruys

Cultural carrying capacity: Organ donation advocacy, discursive framing, and social media engagement pp. 280-288

Christopher A. Bail

How does a culture of health change? Lessons from the war on cigarettes pp. 289-296

Michael Schudson and Burcu Baykurt