Social Science & Medicine

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2016, volume 161, articles C

Gender inequality and the ‘East-West’ divide in contraception: An analysis at the individual, the couple, and the country level pp. 1-12

Rozemarijn Dereuddre, Sarah Van de Velde and Piet Bracke

Forced removals embodied as tuberculosis pp. 13-18

Eugene T. Richardson, Carl D. Morrow, Theodore Ho, Nicole Fürst, Rebekkah Cohelia, Khai Hoan Tram, Paul E. Farmer and Robin Wood

Equally inequitable? A cross-national comparative study of racial health inequalities in the United States and Canada pp. 19-26

Chantel Ramraj, Faraz Vahid Shahidi, William Darity, Ichiro Kawachi, Daniyal Zuberi and Arjumand Siddiqi

Living with sickle cell disease and depression in Lagos, Nigeria: A mixed methods study pp. 27-36

Bolanle A. Ola, Scott J. Yates and Simon M. Dyson

A psychosocial resilience curriculum provides the “missing piece” to boost adolescent physical health: A randomized controlled trial of Girls First in India pp. 37-46

Katherine Sachs Leventhal, Lisa M. DeMaria, Jane E. Gillham, Gracy Andrew, John Peabody and Steve M. Leventhal

Predictors of depressive symptoms following the Great East Japan earthquake: A prospective study pp. 47-54

Toru Tsuboya, Jun Aida, Hiroyuki Hikichi, S.V. Subramanian, Katsunori Kondo, Ken Osaka and Ichiro Kawachi

Weight-related stigma is a significant psychosocial stressor in developing countries: Evidence from Guatemala pp. 55-60

Joseph Hackman, Jonathan Maupin and Alexandra A. Brewis

The influence of patients’ immigration background and residence permit status on treatment decisions in health care. Results of a factorial survey among general practitioners in Switzerland pp. 64-73

Daniel Drewniak, Tanja Krones, Carsten Sauer and Verina Wild

The effect of metropolitan-area mortgage delinquency on health behaviors, access to health services, and self-rated health in the United States, 2003–2010 pp. 74-82

Thomas J. Charters, Sam Harper, Erin Strumpf, S.V. Subramanian, Mariana Arcaya and Arijit Nandi

Identifying components in consent information needed to support informed decision making about trial participation: An interview study with women managing cancer pp. 83-91

Purva Abhyankar, Galina Velikova, Barbara Summers and Hilary L. Bekker

Regional inequalities in self-rated health in Russia: What is the role of social and economic capital? pp. 92-99

Laura Lyytikäinen and Teemu Kemppainen

The social life of the dead: The role of post-mortem examinations in medical student socialisation pp. 100-108

Dawn Goodwin, Laura Machin and Adam Taylor

Culture as a mediator of gene-environment interaction: Cultural consonance, childhood adversity, a 2A serotonin receptor polymorphism, and depression in urban Brazil pp. 109-117

William W. Dressler, Mauro C. Balieiro, Luiza Ferreira de Araújo, Wilson A. Silva and José Ernesto dos Santos

Self-reported morbidity and health service utilization in rural Tamil Nadu, India pp. 118-125

Warren Dodd, Nia King, Sally Humphries, Matthew Little and Cate Dewey

Lower parental numeracy is associated with children being under- and overweight pp. 126-133

Mattea Dallacker, Ralph Hertwig, Ellen Peters and Jutta Mata

Using global positioning systems to study health-related mobility and participation pp. 134-142

Eugene Brusilovskiy, Louis A. Klein and Mark S. Salzer

Sexual stigma and symbolic violence experienced, enacted, and counteracted in young Africans’ writing about same-sex attraction pp. 143-150

Kate Winskell and Gaëlle Sabben

Do waiting times affect health outcomes? Evidence from coronary bypass pp. 151-159

Giuseppe Moscelli, Luigi Siciliani and Valentina Tonei

ADHD in context: Young adults’ reports of the impact of occupational environment on the manifestation of ADHD pp. 160-168

Arielle K. Lasky, Thomas S. Weisner, Peter S. Jensen, Stephen P. Hinshaw, Lily Hechtman, L. Eugene Arnold, Desiree W. Murray and James M. Swanson

The consequences of sickness presenteeism on health and wellbeing over time: A systematic review pp. 169-177

Kristian Skagen and Alison M. Collins

Discrimination and drinking: A systematic review of the evidence pp. 178-194

Paul A. Gilbert and Sarah E. Zemore

Effects of a settings-based intervention to promote student wellbeing and reduce smoking in vocational schools: A non-randomized controlled study pp. 195-203

Susan Andersen, Morten Hulvej Rod, Annette Kjær Ersbøll, Christiane Stock, Christoffer Johansen, Teresa Holmberg, Line Zinckernagel, Liselotte Ingholt, Betina Bang Sørensen and Janne Schurmann Tolstrup

2016, volume 160, articles C

Embodying health identities: A study of young people with asthma pp. 1-8

Lee F. Monaghan and Jonathan Gabe

Geographies of medicalized welfare: Spatial analysis of supplemental security income in the U.S., 2000–2010 pp. 9-19

Sandy Wong

Health, employment and relationships: Correlates of personal wellbeing in young adults with and without a history of childhood language impairment pp. 20-28

Gina Conti-Ramsden, Kevin Durkin, Pearl L.H. Mok, Umar Toseeb and Nicola Botting

Has the Spanish economic crisis affected the duration of sickness absence episodes? pp. 29-34

Guillermo Murcia López, Jordi Delclós Clanchet, Mònica Ubalde López, Eva Calvo Bonacho and Fernando G. Benavides

Receiving care for intimate partner violence in primary care: Barriers and enablers for women participating in the weave randomised controlled trial pp. 35-42

O’Doherty, Lorna, Ann Taket, Jodie Valpied and Kelsey Hegarty

“I just couldn’t step out of the circle. I was trapped”: Patterns of endurance and distress in Chinese-Canadian women with a history of suicidal behaviour pp. 43-53

Juveria Zaheer, Wes Shera, A. Ka Tat Tsang, Samuel Law, Wai Lun Alan Fung, Rahel Eynan, June Lam, Xiaoqian Zheng, Liu Pozi and Paul S. Links

Gender, education and Russia’s tobacco epidemic: A life-course approach pp. 54-66

Diana Quirmbach and Christopher Gerry

Interpreting suffering from illness: The role of culture and repressive suffering construal pp. 67-74

Qian Yang, Shi Liu, Daniel Sullivan and Shengdong Pan

Timing and utilization of antenatal care services in Liberia: Understanding the pre-Ebola epidemic context pp. 75-86

Isaac N. Luginaah, Joseph Kangmennaang, Mosoka Fallah, Bernice Dahn, Francis Kateh and Tolbert Nyenswah

Lifestyle behaviors and ethnic identity among diverse women at high risk for type 2 diabetes pp. 87-93

Susan D. Brown, Samantha F. Ehrlich, Ai Kubo, Ai-Lin Tsai, Monique M. Hedderson, Charles P. Quesenberry and Assiamira Ferrara

Detached concern?: Emotional socialization in twenty-first century medical education pp. 94-101

Kelly Underman and Laura E. Hirshfield

First-time parents’ shared representation of postpartum depressive symptoms: A qualitative analysis pp. 102-110

Erin J. Henshaw, Kristine M. Durkin and Rita J. Snell

A longitudinal analysis of cross-border ties and depression for Latino adults pp. 111-119

Jacqueline M. Torres, Anne Lee, Hector M. González, Lorena Garcia and Mary N. Haan

Prevention of frailty through narrative intervention pp. 120-127

S. Freitag and S. Schmidt

2016, volume 159, articles C

Living under surveillance: Gender, psychological distress, and stop-question-and-frisk policing in New York City pp. 1-13

Abigail A. Sewell, Kevin A. Jefferson and Hedwig Lee

The discordant pleasures of everyday eating: Reflections on the social gradient in obesity under neo-liberalism pp. 14-21

Paul Bissell, Marian Peacock, Joanna Blackburn and Christine Smith

Understanding global health and development partnerships: Perspectives from African and global health system professionals pp. 22-29

Amy Barnes, Garrett W. Brown and Sophie Harman

Stress contagion in the classroom? The link between classroom teacher burnout and morning cortisol in elementary school students pp. 30-37

Eva Oberle and Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl

Latino residential segregation and self-rated health among Latinos: Washington State Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2012–2014 pp. 38-47

Jesse J. Plascak, Yamile Molina, Samantha Wu-Georges, Ayah Idris and Beti Thompson

Rethinking the antivaccine movement concept: A case study of public criticism of the swine flu vaccine’s safety in France pp. 48-57

Jeremy K. Ward

Suicides and accidents on birthdays: Evidence from Japan pp. 61-72

Tetsuya Matsubayashi and Michiko Ueda

The ecocultural context and child behavior problems: A qualitative analysis in rural Nepal pp. 73-82

Matthew D. Burkey, Lajina Ghimire, Ramesh Prasad Adhikari, Lawrence S. Wissow, Mark J.D. Jordans and Brandon A. Kohrt

Economic evaluation of price discounts and skill-building strategies on purchase and consumption of healthy food and beverages: The SHELf randomized controlled trial pp. 83-91

Ha N.D. Le, Lisa Gold, Gavin Abbott, David Crawford, Sarah A. McNaughton, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Christina Pollard and Kylie Ball

Social protection for all ages? Impacts of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program on child nutrition pp. 92-99

Catherine Porter and Radhika Goyal

Collaborative patient-provider communication and uptake of adolescent vaccines pp. 100-107

Jennifer L. Moss, Paul L. Reiter, Barbara K. Rimer and Noel T. Brewer

The doctor-patient relationship as a toolkit for uncertain clinical decisions pp. 108-115

Lauren Diamond-Brown

Parental acceptance and uptake of the HPV vaccine among African-Americans and Latinos in the United States: A literature review pp. 116-126

Kayoll V. Galbraith, Julia Lechuga, Coretta M. Jenerette, LTC Angelo D. Moore, Mary H. Palmer and Jill B. Hamilton

A sign of the times: To have or to be? Social capital or social cohesion? pp. 127-131

Maria A. Carrasco and Usama Bilal

After geneticization pp. 132-139

Michael Arribas-Ayllon

Waiting time prioritisation: Evidence from England pp. 140-151

Nils Gutacker, Luigi Siciliani and Richard Cookson

Marital status and mortality: Does family structure in childhood matter? pp. 152-160

Jeong-han Kang, Jibum Kim and Min-Ah Lee

Is Development Assistance for Health fungible? Findings from a mixed methods case study in Tanzania pp. 161-169

Melisa Martínez Álvarez, Josephine Borghi, Arnab Acharya and Anna Vassall

How do individuals’ health behaviours respond to an increase in the supply of health care? Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 170-179

Eleonora Fichera, Ewan Gray and Matt Sutton