Social Science & Medicine

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2016, volume 158, articles C

Long-term health implications of school quality pp. 1-7

Rebecca N. Dudovitz, Bergen B. Nelson, Tumaini R. Coker, Christopher Biely, Ning Li, Lynne C. Wu and Paul J. Chung

Birth order and mortality in two ethno-linguistic groups: Register-based evidence from Finland pp. 8-13

Jan Saarela, Agneta Cederström and Mikael Rostila

The acceptability of physical activity interventions to older adults: A systematic review and meta-synthesis pp. 14-23

Angela Devereux-Fitzgerald, Rachael Powell, Anne Dewhurst and David P. French

The feminine ideal and transactional sex: Navigating respectability and risk in Swaziland pp. 24-33

Rebecca Fielding-Miller, Kristin L. Dunkle, Nwabisa Jama-Shai, Michael Windle, Craig Hadley and Hannah L.F. Cooper

Patient education as a status passage in life – An ethnographic study exploring participation in a Danish group based patient education programme pp. 34-42

Tine Mechlenborg Kristiansen and Rasmus Antoft

Ethnic health inequalities in Europe. The moderating and amplifying role of healthcare system characteristics pp. 43-51

Niels Blom, Tim Huijts and Gerbert Kraaykamp

The uncertainty of treatment: Women's use of HIV treatment as prevention in Malawi pp. 52-60

Amy Zhou

Neighbourhood effects on body constitution–A case study of Hong Kong pp. 61-74

Chien Tat Low, Poh Chin Lai, Han Dong Li, Wai Kit Ho, Paulina Wong, Si Chen and Wing Cheung Wong

Exploring the relationship between time preference, body fatness, and educational attainment pp. 75-85

Heather Brown and Olga Biosca

The impact of precarious employment on mental health: The case of Italy pp. 86-95

F. Moscone, Elisa Tosetti and Giorgio Vittadini

Fostering reflective trust between mothers and community health nurses to improve the effectiveness of health and nutrition efforts: An ethnographic study in Ghana, West Africa pp. 96-104

Nana M. Ackatia-Armah, Nii Antiaye Addy, Shibani Ghosh and Laurette Dubé

Do minimum wages improve early life health? Evidence from developing countries pp. 105-113

Muhammad Farhan Majid, José M. Mendoza Rodríguez, Sam Harper, John Frank and Arijit Nandi

An examination of health selection among U.S. immigrants using multi-national data pp. 114-121

Annie Ro, Nancy L. Fleischer and Bridgette Blebu

Neighborhood and home food environment and children's diet and obesity: Evidence from military personnel's installation assignment pp. 122-131

Victoria Shier, Nancy Nicosia and Ashlesha Datar

How does employment quality relate to health and job satisfaction in Europe? A typological approach pp. 132-140

Karen Van Aerden, Vanessa Puig-Barrachina, Kim Bosmans and Christophe Vanroelen

Anticipated stigma and blameless guilt: Mothers' evaluation of life with the sex-linked disorder, hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (XHED) pp. 141-148

Angus Clarke

Health as a predictor of early retirement before and after introduction of a flexible statutory pension age in Finland pp. 149-157

Taina Leinonen, Mikko Laaksonen, Tarani Chandola and Pekka Martikainen

Nutrient intake: A cross-national analysis of trends and economic correlates pp. 158-167

Dhaval Dave, Nadia Doytch and Inas Kelly

2016, volume 157, articles C

“Black folk don't get no severe depression”: Meanings and expressions of depression in a predominantly black urban neighborhood in Midwestern United States pp. 1-8

Sirry M. Alang

Young maternal age at first birth and mental health later in life: Does the association vary by birth cohort? pp. 9-17

Zoe Aitken, Belinda Hewitt, Louise Keogh, Anthony D. LaMontagne, Rebecca Bentley and Anne M. Kavanagh

Harsh parenting, physical health, and the protective role of positive parent-adolescent relationships pp. 18-26

Thomas J. Schofield, Rand D. Conger, Joseph E. Gonzales and Melissa T. Merrick

Intimate partner violence against women and the Nordic paradox pp. 27-30

Enrique Gracia and Juan Merlo

The power of (Mis)perception: Rethinking suicide contagion in youth friendship networks pp. 31-38

Gregory M. Zimmerman, Carter Rees, Chad Posick and Lori A. Zimmerman

Income inequality and health in China: A panel data analysis pp. 39-47

Nan Zou Bakkeli

Valuing the Child Health Utility 9D: Using profile case best worst scaling methods to develop a new adolescent specific scoring algorithm pp. 48-59

Julie Ratcliffe, Elisabeth Huynh, Gang Chen, Katherine Stevens, Joffre Swait, John Brazier, Michael Sawyer, Rachel Roberts and Terry Flynn

Marital disruption is associated with shorter salivary telomere length in a probability sample of older adults pp. 60-67

Mark A. Whisman, Briana L. Robustelli and David A. Sbarra

Turning point or selection? The effect of rustication on subsequent health for the Chinese Cultural Revolution cohort pp. 68-77

Wen Fan

Types of integration and depressive symptoms: A latent class analysis on the resettled population for the Three Gorges dam project, China pp. 78-86

Juan Xi

An evaluation of the healthy immigrant effect with adolescents in Canada: Examinations of gender and length of residence pp. 87-95

Kyunghwa Kwak

Measuring needs for priority setting in healthcare planning and policy pp. 96-102

Anders Herlitz and David Horan

Of natural bodies and antibodies: Parents' vaccine refusal and the dichotomies of natural and artificial pp. 103-110

Jennifer A. Reich

Supporting employees' work-family needs improves health care quality: Longitudinal evidence from long-term care pp. 111-119

Cassandra A. Okechukwu, Erin L. Kelly, Janine Bacic, Nicole DePasquale, David Hurtado, Ellen Kossek and Grace Sembajwe

Marital transitions and associated changes in fruit and vegetable intake: Findings from the population-based prospective EPIC-Norfolk cohort, UK pp. 120-126

Johan L. Vinther, Annalijn I. Conklin, Nicholas J. Wareham and Pablo Monsivais

Development, validation, and performance of a scale to measure community mobilization pp. 127-137

Sheri A. Lippman, Torsten B. Neilands, Hannah H. Leslie, Suzanne Maman, Catherine MacPhail, Rhian Twine, Dean Peacock, Kathleen Kahn and Audrey Pettifor

Why are well-educated Muscovites more likely to survive? Understanding the biological pathways pp. 138-147

Megan A. Todd, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov and Noreen Goldman

Social support as a mediator between job control and psychological strain pp. 148-155

Angel Blanch

Analysis of policy towards improvement of perinatal mortality in the Netherlands (2004–2011) pp. 156-164

Amber A. Vos, Sabine F. van Voorst, Eric A.P. Steegers and Semiha Denktaş

Risk factors for chronic undernutrition among children in India: Estimating relative importance, population attributable risk and fractions pp. 165-185

Daniel J. Corsi, Iván Mejía-Guevara and S.V. Subramanian

2016, volume 156, articles C

Unpaid caregiving and paid work over life-courses: Different pathways, diverging outcomes pp. 1-11

Fiona Carmichael and Marco Ercolani

Distinct age and self-rated health crossover mortality effects for African Americans: Evidence from a national cohort study pp. 12-20

David L. Roth, Kimberly A. Skarupski, Deidra C. Crews, Virginia J. Howard and Julie L. Locher

Increasing illness among people out of labor market – A Danish register-based study pp. 21-28

Ingelise Andersen, Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Margit Kriegbaum, Charlotte Ørsted Hougaard, Finn Kenneth Hansen and Finn Diderichsen

Medical errors: Disclosure styles, interpersonal forgiveness, and outcomes pp. 29-38

Annegret F. Hannawa, Yuki Shigemoto and Todd D. Little

The margins of medicalization: Diversity and context through the case of infertility pp. 39-46

Ann V. Bell

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation decisions in the emergency department: An ethnography of tacit knowledge in practice pp. 47-54

Stephen P. Brummell, Jane Seymour and Gina Higginbottom

Influence of neighborhood-level factors on social support in early-stage breast cancer patients and controls pp. 55-63

Tess Thompson, Thomas L. Rodebaugh, Maria Pérez, James Struthers, Julianne A. Sefko, Min Lian, Mario Schootman and Donna B. Jeffe

Bisexuality, poverty and mental health: A mixed methods analysis pp. 64-72

Lori E. Ross, Laurel O'Gorman, Melissa A. MacLeod, Greta R. Bauer, Jenna MacKay and Margaret Robinson

Accessibility and use of primary healthcare for immigrants living in the Niagara Region pp. 73-79

Irene D. Lum, Rebecca H. Swartz and Matthew Y.W. Kwan

Cognitive and neurobehavioral symptoms in patients with non-metastatic prostate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapy or observation: A mixed methods study pp. 80-89

Lisa M. Wu, Molly L. Tanenbaum, Marcel P.J.M. Dijkers, Ali Amidi, Simon J. Hall, Frank J. Penedo and Michael A. Diefenbach

The social management of biomedical novelty: Facilitating translation in regenerative medicine pp. 90-97

John Gardner and Andrew Webster

Adolescent psychological distress, unemployment, and the Great Recession: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997 pp. 98-105

Mark Egan, Michael Daly and Liam Delaney

The role of patient-provider interactions: Using an accounts framework to explain hospital discharges against medical advice pp. 106-113

Helen-Maria Lekas, David Alfandre, Peter Gordon, Katherine Harwood and Michael T. Yin

Childhood adversity and adult health: Evaluating intervening mechanisms pp. 114-124

R. Jay Turner, Courtney S. Thomas and Tyson H. Brown

Stress at work: Differential experiences of high versus low SES workers pp. 125-133

Sarah Damaske, Matthew J. Zawadzki and Joshua M. Smyth

Discrimination and excessive weight gain during pregnancy among Black and Latina young women pp. 134-141

Allecia E. Reid, Lisa Rosenthal, Valerie A. Earnshaw, Tené T. Lewis, Jessica B. Lewis, Emily C. Stasko, Jonathan N. Tobin and Jeannette R. Ickovics

Increasing public support for food-industry related, obesity prevention policies: The role of a taste-engineering frame and contextualized values pp. 142-153

Selena E. Ortiz, Frederick J. Zimmerman and Gary J. Adler

Long-term exposure to political violence: The particular injury of persistent humiliation pp. 154-166

Brian K. Barber, Clea McNeely, Joseph A. Olsen, Robert F. Belli and Samuel Benjamin Doty

Couples living with and around alcohol abuse: A study of a farmworker community in the Cape Winelands, South Africa pp. 167-174

Elmien Lesch and Arlene R. Adams

Where the lay and the technical meet: Using an anthropology of interfaces to explain persistent reproductive health disparities in West Africa pp. 175-183

Yannick Jaffré and Siri Suh

Can alcohol make you happy? A subjective wellbeing approach pp. 184-191

Ben Baumberg Geiger and George MacKerron

Patients' perceptions and experiences of cardiovascular disease and diabetes prevention programmes: A systematic review and framework synthesis using the Theoretical Domains Framework pp. 192-203

Rachel L. Shaw, Carol Holland, Helen M. Pattison and Richard Cooke

Exploring the views of people with mental health problems' on the concept of coercion: Towards a broader socio-ethical perspective pp. 204-211

Reidun Norvoll and Reidar Pedersen