Social Science & Medicine

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2015, volume 144, articles C

Exploring ecological, emotional and social levers of self-rated health for urban gardeners and non-gardeners: A path analysis pp. 1-8

J.S. Litt, S.J. Schmiege, J.W. Hale, M. Buchenau and F. Sancar

Dental attendance among low-income women and their children following a brief motivational counseling intervention: A community randomized trial pp. 9-18

Christine A. Riedy, Philip Weinstein, Lloyd Mancl, Gayle Garson, Colleen E. Huebner, Peter Milgrom, David Grembowski, Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Darlene Smolen and Marilynn Sutherland

Breastfeeding motivation and Self-Determination Theory pp. 19-27

Miri Kestler-Peleg, Merav Shamir-Dardikman, Doron Hermoni and Karni Ginzburg

How reliable are self-reports of HIV status disclosure? Evidence from couples in Malawi pp. 28-37

Amy A. Conroy and Lauren H. Wong

Duration of U.S. stay and body mass index among Latino and Asian immigrants: A test of theoretical pathways pp. 39-47

Annie Ro and Georgiana Bostean

Are bad health and pain making us grumpy? An empirical evaluation of reporting heterogeneity in rating health system responsiveness pp. 48-58

Gianluca Fiorentini, Giovanni Ragazzi and Silvana Robone

Using ambulatory care sensitive hospitalisations to analyse the effectiveness of primary care services in Mexico pp. 59-68

David G. Lugo-Palacios and John Cairns

Psychological and cognitive determinants of mortality: Evidence from a nationally representative sample followed over thirty-five years pp. 69-78

Amelia Karraker, Robert F. Schoeni and Jennifer C. Cornman

Toward a multidimensional understanding of culture for health interventions pp. 79-87

Asad L. Asad and Tamara Kay

Household income and adolescent blood pressure in a Chinese birth cohort: “Children of 1997” pp. 88-95

Man Ki Kwok, S.V. Subramanian, Gabriel M. Leung and C. Mary Schooling

The indirect effects of subsidised healthcare in rural Ghana pp. 96-103

Timothy Powell-Jackson and Evelyn K. Ansah

Does disability status modify the association between psychosocial job quality and mental health? A longitudinal fixed-effects analysis pp. 104-111

A. Milner, L. Krnjacki, P. Butterworth, A. Kavanagh and Anthony D. LaMontagne

Who is on the medical team?: Shifting the boundaries of belonging on the ICU pp. 112-118

Jason Rodriquez

The Israeli Medical Association's discourse on health inequity pp. 119-126

Shlomit Avni, Dani Filc and Nadav Davidovitch

Unpaid work in health economic evaluations pp. 127-137

Marieke Krol and Werner Brouwer

Early-life characteristics and educational disparities in smoking pp. 138-147

Matthew A. Andersson and Vida Maralani

2015, volume 143, articles C

Differential associations of job control components with both waist circumference and body mass index pp. 1-8

Christopher G. Bean, Helen R. Winefield, Charli Sargent and Amanda D. Hutchinson

Microaggressions and the reproduction of social inequalities in medical encounters in Mexico pp. 9-16

Vania Smith-Oka

Social support in the practices of informal providers: The case of patent and proprietary medicine vendors in Nigeria pp. 17-25

Maia Sieverding, Jenny Liu and Naomi Beyeler

Investigating the effects of temporal and interpersonal relative deprivation on health in China pp. 26-35

Lei Jin and Tony Tam

Unemployment and substance use problems among young adults: Does childhood low socioeconomic status exacerbate the effect? pp. 36-44

Jungeun Olivia Lee, Karl G. Hill, Lacey A. Hartigan, Joseph M. Boden, Katarina Guttmannova, Rick Kosterman, Jennifer A. Bailey and Richard F. Catalano

What motivates maternal and child nutrition peer educators? Experiences of fathers and grandmothers in western Kenya pp. 45-53

Stephanie L. Martin, Teresia Muhomah, Faith Thuita, Allison Bingham and Altrena G. Mukuria

Sliding down the U-shape? A dynamic panel investigation of the age-well-being relationship, focusing on young adults pp. 54-61

Alan Piper

Japanese and American public health approaches to preventing population weight gain: A role for paternalism? pp. 62-70

Amy Borovoy and Christina A. Roberto

Gender, male-typicality, and social norms predicting adolescent alcohol intoxication and marijuana use pp. 71-80

James R. Mahalik, Caitlin McPherran Lombardi, Jacqueline Sims, Rebekah Levine Coley and Alicia Doyle Lynch

Medicine ‘misuse’: Implications for health and environmental sustainability pp. 81-87

Felicity Thomas and Michael Depledge

Conceptualising the ‘community’ as a recipient of money – A critical literature review, and implications for health and inequalities pp. 88-97

Joanna Reynolds, Matt Egan, Alicia Renedo and Mark Petticrew

Tu Salud, ¡Si Cuenta!: Exposure to a community-wide campaign and its associations with physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption among individuals of Mexican descent pp. 98-106

Belinda M. Reininger, Lisa Mitchell-Bennett, MinJae Lee, Rose Z. Gowen, Cristina S. Barroso, Jennifer L. Gay and Mayra Vanessa Saldana

Demand response to improved walking infrastructure: A study into the economics of walking and health behaviour change pp. 107-116

Alberto Longo, W. George Hutchinson, Ruth F. Hunter, Mark A. Tully and Frank Kee

The relative contributions of disease label and disease prognosis to Alzheimer's stigma: A vignette-based experiment pp. 117-127

Rebecca Johnson, Kristin Harkins, Mark Cary, Pamela Sankar and Jason Karlawish

Evaluative language in physiotherapy practice: How does it contribute to the therapeutic relationship? pp. 128-136

Iréne Josephson, Robyn Woodward-Kron, Clare Delany and Amy Hiller

Democracy and self-rated health across 67 countries: A multilevel analysis pp. 137-144

Patrick M. Krueger, Kathryn Dovel and Justin T. Denney

Patient dissatisfaction in China: What matters pp. 145-153

Jay Pan, Dan Liu and Shehzad Ali

Food insecurity, chronic illness, and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area: An example of structural violence in United States public policy pp. 154-161

Henry J. Whittle, Kartika Palar, Lee Lemus Hufstedler, Hilary K. Seligman, Edward A. Frongillo and Sheri D. Weiser

Conceptualising quality of life outcomes for women participating in testing for sexually transmitted infections: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research pp. 162-170

Louise J. Jackson and Tracy E. Roberts

Unemployment transitions and self-rated health in Europe: A longitudinal analysis of EU-SILC from 2008 to 2011 pp. 171-178

Anne Grete Tøge and Morten Blekesaune

The development of a new condom use expectancy scale for at-risk adults pp. 179-184

Liesl A. Nydegger, Susan L. Ames and Alan W. Stacy

Towards an understanding of the relationship of functional literacy and numeracy to geographical health inequalities pp. 185-193

Graham Moon, Grant Aitken, Paul Roderick, Simon Fraser and Gill Rowlands

Impact of hospital delivery on child mortality: An analysis of adolescent mothers in Bangladesh pp. 194-203

Sarmistha Pal

HIV after 40 in rural South Africa: A life course approach to HIV vulnerability among middle aged and older adults pp. 204-212

Sanyu A. Mojola, Jill Williams, Nicole Angotti and F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé

Health in police officers: Role of risk factor clusters and police divisions pp. 213-222

Stephanie A. Habersaat, Ashley M. Geiger, Sid Abdellaoui and Jutta M. Wolf

Job-loss and weight gain in British adults: Evidence from two longitudinal studies pp. 223-231

Pablo Monsivais, Adam Martin, Marc Suhrcke, Nita G. Forouhi and Nicholas J. Wareham

Fear, blame and transparency: Obstetric caregivers' rationales for high caesarean section rates in a low-resource setting pp. 232-240

Helena Litorp, Andrew Mgaya, Columba K. Mbekenga, Hussein L. Kidanto, Sara Johnsdotter and Birgitta Essén

The association of daily physical symptoms with future health pp. 241-248

Kate A. Leger, Susan T. Charles, John Z. Ayanian and David M. Almeida

Fertile bodies, immature brains?: A genealogical critique of neuroscientific claims regarding the adolescent brain and of the global fight against adolescent motherhood pp. 255-261

Ofra Koffman

Developing gender: The medical treatment of transgender young people pp. 262-270

Claudia Castañeda

Developmental logics: Brain science, child welfare, and the ethics of engagement in Japan pp. 271-278

Kathryn E. Goldfarb

Infancy, autism, and the emergence of a socially disordered body pp. 279-286

Gregory J.S. Hollin and Alison Pilnick

Risky, early, controversial. Puberty in medical discourses pp. 287-296

Donatella Cozzi and Virginie Vinel

How and why should children eat fruit and vegetables? Ethnographic insights into diverse body pedagogies pp. 297-303

Michalis Kontopodis

Neural imaginaries and clinical epistemology: Rhetorically mapping the adolescent brain in the clinical encounter pp. 304-310

Mara Buchbinder

“Learning how to deal with feelings differently”: Psychotropic medications as vehicles of socialization in adolescence pp. 311-319

Suparna Choudhury, Kelly A. McKinney and Laurence J. Kirmayer

Taking pills for developmental ails in Southern Brazil: The biologization of adolescence? pp. 320-328

Dominique P. Béhague

Physical constraint as psychological holding: Mental-health treatment for difficult and violent adolescents in France pp. 329-335

Yannis Gansel and Samuel Lézé

“What is strange is that we don't have more children coming to us”: A habitography of child psychiatrists and scholastic pressure in Kolkata, India pp. 336-342

Stefan Ecks and Christine Kupfer