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2016, volume 152, articles C

“I'm running my depression:” Self-management of depression in neoliberal Australia pp. 1-8

Bianca Brijnath and Josefine Antoniades

The relationship between international trade and non-nutritional health outcomes: A systematic review of quantitative studies pp. 9-17

Darren K. Burns, Andrew P. Jones and Marc Suhrcke

The effects of relocation and level of affectedness on mood and anxiety symptom treatments after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake pp. 18-26

Daniel Hogg, Simon Kingham, Thomas M. Wilson and Michael Ardagh

‘Signposts on the journey’; medication adherence and the lived body in men with Parkinson's disease pp. 27-34

Grant Gibson

Food policy in the Canadian North: Is there a role for country food markets? pp. 35-40

James D. Ford, Joanna Petrasek Macdonald, Catherine Huet, Sara Statham and Allison MacRury

Proportionate universalism in practice? A quasi-experimental study (GoWell) of a UK neighbourhood renewal programme's impact on health inequalities pp. 41-49

Matt Egan, Ade Kearns, Srinivasa V. Katikireddi, Angela Curl, Kenny Lawson and Carol Tannahill

A scoping review of female disadvantage in health care use among very young children of immigrant families pp. 50-60

Ariel Pulver, Chantel Ramraj, Joel G. Ray, Patricia O'Campo and Marcelo L. Urquia

The effect of peers on HIV infection expectations among Malawian adolescents: Using an instrumental variables/school fixed effect approach pp. 61-69

Jinho Kim

Introducing smoking cessation to Indonesian males treated for tuberculosis: The challenges of low–moderate level smoking pp. 70-79

Mark Nichter, Siwi Padmawati and Nawi Ng

Do stress, health behavior, and sleep mediate the association between loneliness and adverse health conditions among older people? pp. 80-86

Julie Christiansen, Finn Breinholt Larsen and Mathias Lasgaard

The impact of a conditional cash transfer program on the utilization of non-targeted services: Evidence from Afghanistan pp. 87-95

Nopphol Witvorapong and Abo Ismael Foshanji

Longitudinal association between time-varying social isolation and psychological distress after the Great East Japan Earthquake pp. 96-101

Toshimasa Sone, Naoki Nakaya, Yumi Sugawara, Yasutake Tomata, Takashi Watanabe and Ichiro Tsuji

Obstacles to “race equality” in the English National Health Service: Insights from the healthcare commissioning arena pp. 102-110

Sarah Salway, Ghazala Mir, Daniel Turner, George T.H. Ellison, Lynne Carter and Kate Gerrish

Relative deprivation and risk factors for obesity in Canadian adolescents pp. 111-118

Frank J. Elgar, Annie Xie, Timo-Kolja Pförtner, James White and Kate E. Pickett

Effect of corruption on healthcare satisfaction in post-soviet nations: A cross-country instrumental variable analysis of twelve countries pp. 119-124

Nazim Habibov

Violence against children in humanitarian settings: A literature review of population-based approaches pp. 125-137

Lindsay Stark and Debbie Landis

Scarcity discourses and their impacts on renal care policy, practices, and everyday experiences in rural British Columbia pp. 138-146

Julia Brassolotto and Tamara Daly

Life course SES and cardiovascular risk: Heterogeneity across race/ethnicity and gender pp. 147-155

Katrina M. Walsemann, Bridget J. Goosby and Deeonna Farr

How does dementia onset in parents influence unmarried adult children's wealth pp. 156-165

Kanika Arora

The impact of caring for grandchildren on the health of grandparents in Europe: A lifecourse approach pp. 166-175

Giorgio Di Gessa, Karen Glaser and Anthea Tinker

The relative importance of health, income and social relations for subjective well-being: An integrative analysis pp. 176-185

Admassu N. Lamu and Jan Abel Olsen

2016, volume 151, articles C

Medical Savings Account balance and outpatient utilization: Evidence from Guangzhou, China pp. 1-10

Hui Zhang and Peter P. Yuen

Pragmatic prevention, permanent solution: Women's experiences with hysterectomy in rural India pp. 11-18

Sapna Desai

Does retirement (really) lead to worse health among European men and women across all educational levels? pp. 19-26

Philipp Hessel

Place-based perceptions of the impacts of fracking along the Marcellus Shale pp. 27-37

Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Amelia M. Jamison, Meleah D. Boyle, Devon C. Payne-Sturges, Amir Sapkota, Donald K. Milton and Sacoby M. Wilson

Participants' use of enacted scenes in research interviews: A method for reflexive analysis in health and social care pp. 38-45

Deborah Michelle James, Alison Pilnick, Alex Hall and Luke Collins

Effects of reduced cost-sharing on children's health: Evidence from Japan pp. 46-55

Reo Takaku

Capability deprivation of people with Alzheimer's disease: An empirical analysis using a national survey pp. 56-68

Juan Tellez, Jaya Krishnakumar, Martine Bungener and Catherine Le Galès

Food insufficiency, depression, and the modifying role of social support: Evidence from a population-based, prospective cohort of pregnant women in peri-urban South Africa pp. 69-77

Alexander C. Tsai, Mark Tomlinson, W. Scott Comulada and Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus

Are natural disasters in early childhood associated with mental health and substance use disorders as an adult? pp. 78-91

Johanna Maclean, Ioana Popovici and Michael T. French

Doing your own time: Peer integration, aggression and mental health in Dutch male detainment facilities pp. 92-99

Derek A. Kreager, Hanneke Palmen, Anja J.E. Dirkzwager and Paul Nieuwbeerta

Are status inconsistency, work stress and work-family conflict associated with depressive symptoms? Testing prospective evidence in the lidA study pp. 100-109

Richard Peter, Stefanie March and Jean-Baptist du Prel

Therapeutic substitutions in the midst of new technology diffusion: The case of treatment for localized prostate cancer pp. 110-120

Chan Shen and Ya-Chen Tina Shih

A new normal?: Women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer pp. 121-129

Diane Trusson, Alison Pilnick and Srila Roy

Life course socioeconomic status and the decline in information processing speed in late life pp. 130-138

R.T. Staff, D. Chapko, M.J. Hogan and L.J. Whalley

Nuancing stigma through ethnography: the case of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Suriname pp. 139-146

Sahienshadebie Ramdas, Sjaak van der Geest and Henk D.F.H. Schallig

Does integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health services improve technical efficiency in Kenya and Swaziland? An application of a two-stage semi parametric approach incorporating quality measures pp. 147-156

Carol Dayo Obure, Rowena Jacobs, Lorna Guinness, Susannah Mayhew and Anna Vassall

Endorsement of universal health coverage financial principles in Burkina Faso pp. 157-166

Isabelle Agier, Antarou Ly, Kadidiatou Kadio, Seni Kouanda and Valéry Ridde

Systems, not pills: The options market for antibiotics seeks to rejuvenate the antibiotic pipeline pp. 167-172

David M. Brogan and Elias Mossialos

Socioeconomic inequalities in informal payments for health care: An assessment of the ‘Robin Hood’ hypothesis in 33 African countries pp. 173-186

Hyacinthe Kankeu Tchewonpi and Bruno Ventelou

Do community- and individual-level social relationships contribute to the mental health of disaster survivors?: A multilevel prospective study after the Great East Japan Earthquake pp. 187-195

Yusuke Matsuyama, Jun Aida, Akihiro Hase, Yukihiro Sato, Shihoko Koyama, Toru Tsuboya and Ken Osaka

Psychological pathways from social integration to health: An examination of different demographic groups in Canada pp. 196-205

Ling Na and Dale Hample

Maternal distress and child neuroendocrine and immune regulation pp. 206-214

Jenna L. Riis, Douglas A. Granger, Cynthia S. Minkovitz, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Janet A. DiPietro and Sara B. Johnson

Towards deep inclusion for equity-oriented health research priority-setting: A working model pp. 215-224

Bridget Pratt, Maria Merritt and Adnan A. Hyder

Housing tenure and affordability and mental health following disability acquisition in adulthood pp. 225-232

Anne M. Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken, Emma Baker, Anthony D. LaMontagne, Allison Milner and Rebecca Bentley

The value of reducing HIV stigma pp. 233-240

Robert Brent

“When the honeymoon is over, the real work begins:” Gastric bypass patients' weight loss trajectories and dietary change experiences pp. 241-249

Amanda Lynch

The effect of economic insecurity on mental health: Recent evidence from Australian panel data pp. 250-258

Nicholas Rohde, Kam Ki Tang, Lars Osberg and Prasada Rao

2016, volume 150, articles C

Null association between workplace social capital and body mass index. Results from a four-wave panel survey among employees in Japan (J-HOPE study) pp. 1-7

Toru Tsuboya, Akizumi Tsutsumi and Ichiro Kawachi

Low-income Children's participation in the National School Lunch Program and household food insufficiency pp. 8-14

Jin Huang and Ellen Barnidge

Education, individual time preferences, and asymptomatic disease detection pp. 15-22

Younoh Kim and Vlad Radoias

Women's autonomy and cervical cancer screening in the Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey 2009 pp. 23-30

Laura J. Viens, Sean Clouston and Catherine R. Messina

Invisible walls within multidisciplinary teams: Disciplinary boundaries and their effects on integrated care pp. 31-39

Elisa Giulia Liberati, Mara Gorli and Giuseppe Scaratti

How you ask is what you get: Framing effects in willingness-to-pay for a QALY pp. 40-48

Marlies Ahlert, Friedrich Breyer and Lars Schwettmann

Migrant encounters in the clinic: Bureaucratic, biomedical, and community influences on patient interactions with front-line workers pp. 49-56

Sarah A. Smith

Neoliberalism and indigenous knowledge: Māori health research and the cultural politics of New Zealand's “National Science Challenges” pp. 57-66

Erica Prussing and Elizabeth Newbury

Psychosocial factors and pre-abortion psychological health: The significance of stigma pp. 67-75

Julia R. Steinberg, Jeanne M. Tschann, Dorothy Furgerson and Cynthia C. Harper

Does income relate to health due to psychosocial or material factors? Consistent support for the psychosocial hypothesis requires operationalization with income rank not the Yitzhaki Index pp. 76-84

Hilda Osafo Hounkpatin, Alex M. Wood and Graham Dunn

Analysing collaboration among HIV agencies through combining network theory and relational coordination pp. 85-94

Nidhi Khosla, Jill Ann Marsteller, Yea Jen Hsu and David L. Elliott

The effect of living alone on the costs and benefits of surgery amongst older people pp. 95-103

Alex J. Turner, Silviya Nikolova and Matt Sutton

Better the donor you know? A qualitative study of renal patients' views on ‘altruistic’ live-donor kidney transplantation pp. 104-111

Phillippa K. Bailey, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Isabel de Salis, Charles Tomson and Amanda Owen-Smith

The Education-health Nexus: Fact and fiction pp. 112-116

Petri Böckerman and Terhi Maczulskij

“Doctor my eyes”: A natural experiment on the demand for eye care services pp. 117-127

H. Dickey, D. Ikenwilo, P. Norwood, Verity Watson and Alexandros Zangelidis

Understanding the role of Indigenous community participation in Indigenous prenatal and infant-toddler health promotion programs in Canada: A realist review pp. 128-143

Janet Smylie, Maritt Kirst, Kelly McShane, Michelle Firestone, Sara Wolfe and Patricia O'Campo

Deviance and resistance: Malaria elimination in the greater Mekong subregion pp. 144-152

Chris Lyttleton

The assisted presentations of self in nursing home life pp. 153-159

Anders Næss, Eivind Grip Fjær and Mia Vabø

Situated knowledge of pathogenic landscapes in Ghana: Understanding the emergence of Buruli ulcer through qualitative analysis pp. 160-171

Petra Tschakert, Vincent Ricciardi, Erica Smithwick, Mario Machado, David Ferring, Heidi Hausermann and Leah Bug

Socioeconomic inequality in health in the British household panel: Tests of the social causation, health selection and the indirect selection hypothesis using dynamic fixed effects panel models pp. 172-183

Else Foverskov and Anders Holm

Bananas, pesticides and health in southwestern Ecuador: A scalar narrative approach to targeting public health responses pp. 184-191

Benjamin Brisbois

Economic hardship and biological weathering: The epigenetics of aging in a U.S. sample of black women pp. 192-200

Ronald L. Simons, Man Kit Lei, Steven R.H. Beach, Robert A. Philibert, Carolyn E. Cutrona, Frederick X. Gibbons and Ashley Barr

Care around birth, infant and mother health and maternal health investments – Evidence from a nurse strike pp. 201-211

Hanne Kronborg, Hans Henrik Sievertsen and Miriam Wüst

Generational status, neighborhood context, and mother-child resemblance in dietary quality in Mexican-origin families pp. 212-220

Molly Dondero and Jennifer Van Hook

The physiological impacts of wealth shocks in late life: Evidence from the Great Recession pp. 221-230

Courtney Boen and Y. Claire Yang

As long as you've got your health: Longitudinal relationships between positive affect and functional health in old age pp. 231-238

Kamel Gana, Yaël Saada, Guillaume Broc, Bruno Quintard, Hélène Amieva and Jean-François Dartigues

Our flesh is here but our soul stayed there: A qualitative study on resource loss due to war and displacement among internally-displaced women in the Republic of Georgia pp. 239-247

Maureen Seguin, Ruth Lewis, Tinatin Amirejibi, Mariam Razmadze, Nino Makhashvili and Bayard Roberts

Self-pathologizing, self-condemning, self-liberating: Youths' accounts of their ADHD-related behavior pp. 248-255

Juho Honkasilta, Simo Vehmas and Tanja Vehkakoski

The effect of Medicaid adult vision coverage on the likelihood of appropriate correction of distance vision: Evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey pp. 258-267

Brandy J. Lipton and Sandra L. Decker

More heat, less light! The resource curse & HIV/AIDS: A reply to Olivier Sterck pp. 268-270

Indra de Soysa and Ismene Theodora Gizelis

Natural resources and the spread of HIV/AIDS: Curse or blessing? pp. 271-278

Olivier Sterck