Social Science & Medicine

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2016, volume 155, articles C

Driving through the Great Recession: Why does motor vehicle fatality decrease when the economy slows down? pp. 1-11

Monica M. He

The roles of specialisation and evidence-based practice in inter-professional jurisdictions: A qualitative study of stroke services in England, Sweden and Poland pp. 15-23

Juan I. Baeza, Annette Boaz and Alec Fraser

Change and stability in work–family conflict and mothers' and fathers' mental health: Longitudinal evidence from an Australian cohort pp. 24-34

A.R. Cooklin, H. Dinh, L. Strazdins, E. Westrupp, L.S. Leach and J.M. Nicholson

“Drop dead … I need your job”: An exploratory study of intra-professional conflict amongst nurses in two Ontario cities pp. 35-42

Godfred O. Boateng and Tracey L. Adams

Understanding kidney transplant patients' treatment choices: The interaction of emotion with medical and social influences on risk preferences pp. 43-50

Jean Harrington and Myfanwy Morgan

Enacting the molecular imperative: How gene-environment interaction research links bodies and environments in the post-genomic age pp. 51-60

Katherine Weatherford Darling, Sara L. Ackerman, Robert H. Hiatt, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee and Janet K. Shim

Global health diplomacy: A critical review of the literature pp. 61-72

Arne Ruckert, Ronald Labonté, Raphael Lencucha, Vivien Runnels and Michelle Gagnon

CAM within a field force of countervailing powers: The case of Portugal pp. 73-81

Joana Almeida and Jonathan Gabe

Reproductive history and post-reproductive mortality: A sibling comparison analysis using Swedish register data pp. 82-92

Kieron Barclay, Katherine Keenan, Emily Grundy, Martin Kolk and Mikko Myrskylä

Cross-border ties and Arab American mental health pp. 93-101

Goleen Samari

2016, volume 154, articles C

Socio-economic divergence in public opinions about preventive obesity regulations: Is the purpose to ‘make some things cheaper, more affordable’ or to ‘help them get over their own ignorance’? pp. 1-8

Lucy C. Farrell, Megan J. Warin, Vivienne M. Moore and Jackie M. Street

Gender balance and its impact on male and female smoking rates in Chinese cities pp. 9-17

Tingzhong Yang, Ross Barnett, Shuhan Jiang, Lingwei Yu, Hong Xian, Jun Ying and Weijun Zheng

An education gradient in health, a health gradient in education, or a confounded gradient in both? pp. 18-27

Jamie L. Lynch and Paul von Hippel

A question of balance: Explaining differences between parental and grandparental perspectives on preschoolers' feeding and physical activity pp. 28-35

Karin Eli, Kyndal Howell, Philip A. Fisher and Paulina Nowicka

Educational mismatch and health status among foreign-born workers in Sweden pp. 36-44

A.C. Dunlavy, A.M. Garcy and M. Rostila

Deciding to tell: Qualitative configurational analysis of decisions to disclose experience of intimate partner violence in antenatal care pp. 45-53

Jo Spangaro, Jane Koziol-McLain, Anthony Zwi, Alison Rutherford, Mary-Anne Frail and Jennifer Ruane

Living an everyday life with head and neck cancer 2–2.5 years post-diagnosis – A qualitative prospective study of 56 patients pp. 54-61

Joakim Isaksson, Pär Salander, Sara Lilliehorn and Göran Laurell

When can parents most influence their child's development? Expert knowledge and perceived local realities pp. 62-69

Carol M. Worthman, Mark Tomlinson and Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus

Simultaneous effect of disabling conditions on primary health care use through a capability approach pp. 70-84

Clémence Bussière, Jonathan Sicsic and Nathalie Pelletier-Fleury

‘I knew before I was told’: Breaches, cues and clues in the diagnostic assemblage pp. 85-92

Louise Locock, Sarah Nettleton, Susan Kirkpatrick, Sara Ryan and Sue Ziebland

Are major behavioral and sociodemographic risk factors for mortality additive or multiplicative in their effects? pp. 93-99

Neil Mehta and Samuel Preston

“Have no regrets:” Parents' experiences and developmental tasks in pregnancy with a lethal fetal diagnosis pp. 100-109

Denise Côté-Arsenault and Erin Denney-Koelsch

2016, volume 153, articles C

Power and the association with relationship quality in South African couples: Implications for HIV/AIDS interventions pp. 1-11

Amy A. Conroy, Nuala McGrath, Heidi van Rooyen, Victoria Hosegood, Mallory O. Johnson, Katherine Fritz, Alexander Marr, Thulani Ngubane and Lynae A. Darbes

Taming the fear of voice: Dilemmas in maintaining a high vaccination rate in the Netherlands pp. 12-19

Els Geelen, Hans van Vliet, Pieter de Hoogh and Klasien Horstman

The role of social support in protecting mental health when employed and unemployed: A longitudinal fixed-effects analysis using 12 annual waves of the HILDA cohort pp. 20-26

Allison Milner, Lauren Krnjacki, Peter Butterworth and Anthony D. LaMontagne

Perceived discrimination and poor health: Accounting for self-blame complicates a well-established relationship pp. 27-34

Alison Blodorn, Brenda Major and Cheryl Kaiser

Evidence of social network influence on multiple HIV risk behaviors and normative beliefs among young Tanzanian men pp. 35-43

Marta Mulawa, Thespina J. Yamanis, Lauren M. Hill, Peter Balvanz, Lusajo J. Kajula and Suzanne Maman

IMF-lending programs and suicide mortality pp. 44-53

Eleftherios Goulas and Athina Zervoyianni

The myth of the total institution: Written narratives of patients' views of sanatorium care 1908–1959 pp. 54-61

Staffan Bengtsson and Pia H. Bülow

Poverty dynamics in Germany: Evidence on the relationship between persistent poverty and health behavior pp. 62-70

Katja Aue, Jutta Roosen and Helen Jensen

The 2008 financial crisis: Changes in social capital and its association with psychological wellbeing in the United Kingdom – A panel study pp. 71-80

Martin Lindström and Giuseppe N. Giordano

Socioeconomic inequalities in children's accessibility to food retailing: Examining the roles of mobility and time pp. 81-89

Léa Ravensbergen, Ron Buliung, Kathi Wilson and Guy Faulkner

Employment insecurity and mental health during the economic recession: An analysis of the young adult labour force in Italy pp. 90-98

Francesca Fiori, Francesca Rinesi, Daniele Spizzichino and Ginevra Di Giorgio

Polio vaccine hesitancy in the networks and neighborhoods of Malegaon, India pp. 99-106

Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Bruce E. Landon, Anna-Lea Kahn, Danish Ahmed, Harish Verma, A. James O'Malley, Sunil Bahl, Roland W. Sutter and Nicholas A. Christakis

Double-jeopardy: The joint impact of neighborhood disadvantage and low social cohesion on cumulative risk of disease among African American men and women in the Jackson Heart Study pp. 107-115

Sharrelle Barber, DeMarc A. Hickson, Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian and Felton Earls

Educational attainment, time preference, and health-related behaviors: A mediation analysis from the J-SHINE survey pp. 116-122

Daisuke Takagi, Naoki Kondo, Misato Takada and Hideki Hashimoto

Intimate partner violence and HIV-positive women's non-adherence to antiretroviral medication for the purpose of prevention of mother-to-child transmission in Lusaka, Zambia pp. 123-130

Karen M. Hampanda

Residential patterns in older homeless adults: Results of a cluster analysis pp. 131-140

Christopher Thomas Lee, David Guzman, Claudia Ponath, Lina Tieu, Elise Riley and Margot Kushel

Socioeconomic status discrimination is associated with poor sleep in African-Americans, but not Whites pp. 141-147

Miriam E. Van Dyke, Viola Vaccarino, Arshed A. Quyyumi and Tené T. Lewis

The influences of perceived social support and personality on trajectories of subsequent depressive symptoms in Taiwanese youth pp. 148-155

Yin-Ju Lien, Jhih-Ning Hu and Chia-Yi Chen

Association of neighborhood context with offspring risk of preterm birth and low birthweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies pp. 156-164

Collette N. Ncube, Daniel A. Enquobahrie, Steven M. Albert, Amy L. Herrick and Jessica G. Burke

Association of received social support with depressive symptoms among older males and females in Singapore: Is personal mastery an inconsistent mediator? pp. 165-173

Shannon Ang and Rahul Malhotra

Anger, frustration, boredom and the Department of Motor Vehicles: Can negative emotions impede organ donor registration? pp. 174-181

Jason T. Siegel, Cara N. Tan, Benjamin D. Rosenberg, Mario A. Navarro, Andrew L. Thomson, Elena A. Lyrintzis, Eusebio M. Alvaro and Natalie D. Jones

Does helping them benefit me? Examining the emotional cost and benefit of immigrants' pecuniary remittance behaviour in Canada pp. 182-192

Jonathan Anim Amoyaw and Teresa Abada

“Saving lives”: Adapting and adopting Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination in Austria pp. 193-200

Katharina T. Paul

“These things are dangerous”: Understanding induced abortion trajectories in urban Zambia pp. 201-209

Ernestina Coast and Susan F. Murray

The DEP-6D, a new preference-based measure to assess health states of dependency pp. 210-219

E. Rodríguez-Míguez, Jose-Maria Abellan-Perpiñan, X.C. Alvarez, X.M. González and Antonio Sampayo

Self-reported health and gender: The role of social norms pp. 220-229

Eve Caroli and Lexane Weber-Baghdiguian

Does parental migration really benefit left-behind children? Comparative evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam pp. 230-239

Cuong Nguyen

Comparing national home-keeping and the regulation of translational stem cell applications: An international perspective pp. 240-249

Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner, Choon Key Chekar, Alex Faulkner, Carolyn Heitmeyer, Marina Marouda, Achim Rosemann, Nattaka Chaisinthop, Chang, Hung-Chieh (Jessica), Adrian Ely, Masae Kato, Prasanna K. Patra, Yeyang Su, Suli Sui, Wakana Suzuki and Xinqing Zhang

Child injury: Does home matter? pp. 250-257

Jodie M. Osborne, Tamzyn M. Davey, Anneliese B. Spinks, Roderick J. McClure, Neil Sipe and Cate M. Cameron

Stigma of persons with disabilities in Afghanistan: Examining the pathways from stereotyping to mental distress pp. 258-265

Jean-Francois Trani, Ellis Ballard and Juan B. Peña