Social Science & Medicine

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2015, volume 142, articles C

A multilevel cross-lagged structural equation analysis for reciprocal relationship between social capital and health pp. 1-8

Ge Yu, John G. Sessions, Yu Fu and Martin Wall

Socioeconomic inequalities in prostate cancer survival: A review of the evidence and explanatory factors pp. 9-18

Jens Klein and Olaf von dem Knesebeck

Beyond metrics? Utilizing ‘soft intelligence’ for healthcare quality and safety pp. 19-26

Graham P. Martin, Lorna McKee and Mary Dixon-Woods

“So, is that your ‘relative’ or mine?” A political-ecological critique of census-based area deprivation indices pp. 27-36

Mengzhu Fu, Daniel J. Exeter and Anneka Anderson

The causal effect of education on HIV stigma in Uganda: Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 37-46

Alexander C. Tsai and Atheendar S. Venkataramani

The neoliberal diet and inequality in the United States pp. 47-55

Gerardo Otero, Gabriela Pechlaner, Giselle Liberman and Efe Gürcan

Seeking everyday wellbeing: The coast as a therapeutic landscape pp. 56-67

Sarah L. Bell, Cassandra Phoenix, Rebecca Lovell and Benedict W. Wheeler

Operationalising the capability approach as an outcome measure in public health: The development of the OCAP-18 pp. 68-81

Paula Lorgelly, Karen Lorimer, Elisabeth A.L. Fenwick, Andrew H. Briggs and Paul Anand

Does “difficult patient” status contribute to de facto demedicalization? The case of borderline personality disorder pp. 82-89

Sandra H. Sulzer

Informal m-health: How are young people using mobile phones to bridge healthcare gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa? pp. 90-99

Kate Hampshire, Gina Porter, Samuel Asiedu Owusu, Simon Mariwah, Albert Abane, Elsbeth Robson, Alister Munthali, Ariane DeLannoy, Andisiwe Bango, Nwabisa Gunguluza and James Milner

Individual and contextual correlates of physical activity among a clinical sample of United States Veterans pp. 100-108

Katherine D. Hoerster, Rachel A. Millstein, Katherine S. Hall, Kristen E. Gray, Gayle E. Reiber, Karin M. Nelson and Brian E. Saelens

Cumulative exposure to childhood stressors and subsequent psychological distress. An analysis of US panel data pp. 109-117

Emma Björkenstam, Bo Burström, Lars Brännström, Bo Vinnerljung, Charlotte Björkenstam and Anne R. Pebley

Anticipated regret to increase uptake of colorectal cancer screening (ARTICS): A randomised controlled trial pp. 118-127

Ronan E. O'Carroll, Julie A. Chambers, Linda Brownlee, Gillian Libby and Robert J.C. Steele

A longitudinal examination of maternal, family, and area-level experiences of racism on children's socioemotional development: Patterns and possible explanations pp. 128-135

Laia Bécares, James Nazroo and Yvonne Kelly

Does the hand that controls the cigarette packet rule the smoker? Findings from ethnographic interviews with smokers in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the USA pp. 136-144

Kirsten Bell, Simone Dennis, Jude Robinson and Roland Moore

Early physical health conditions and school readiness skills in a prospective birth cohort of U.S. children pp. 145-153

Melissa A. Kull and Rebekah Levine Coley

Children's self reported discomforts as participants in clinical research pp. 154-162

Mira S. Staphorst, Joke A.M. Hunfeld, Suzanne van de Vathorst, Jan Passchier and Johannes B. van Goudoever

The persistence of predictors of wellbeing among refugee youth eight years after resettlement in Melbourne, Australia pp. 163-168

Ignacio Correa-Velez, Sandra M. Gifford and Celia McMichael

Which part of community social capital is related to life satisfaction and self-rated health? A multilevel analysis based on a nationwide mail survey in Japan pp. 169-182

Yoji Inaba, Yuri Wada, Yukinobu Ichida and Masashi Nishikawa

The age profile of the location decision of Australian general practitioners pp. 183-193

Chunzhou Mu

Race, law, and health: Examination of ‘Stand Your Ground’ and defendant convictions in Florida pp. 194-201

Nicole Ackermann, Melody S. Goodman, Keon Gilbert, Cassandra Arroyo-Johnson and Marcello Pagano

Food deserts or food swamps?: A mixed-methods study of local food environments in a Mexican city pp. 202-213

Susan Bridle-Fitzpatrick

Citing conduct, individualizing symptoms: Accomplishing autism diagnosis in clinical case conferences pp. 214-222

Jason Turowetz

The value of frameworks as knowledge translation mechanisms to guide community participation practice in Ontario CHCs pp. 223-231

Stephanie Rose Montesanti, Julia Abelson, John N. Lavis and James R. Dunn

The Biobehavioral Family Model: Close relationships and allostatic load pp. 232-240

Jacob B. Priest, Sarah B. Woods, Candice A. Maier, Elizabeth Oshrin Parker, Jenna A. Benoit and Tara R. Roush

Social mobility and health in European countries: Does welfare regime type matter? pp. 241-248

Inês Campos-Matos and Ichiro Kawachi

Trust, reciprocity and collective action to fight antibiotic resistance. An experimental approach pp. 249-255

Björn Rönnerstrand and Karolina Andersson Sundell

The impact of overtly listing eligibility requirements on MTurk: An investigation involving organ donation, recruitment scripts, and feelings of elevation pp. 256-260

Jason T. Siegel, Mario A. Navarro and Andrew L. Thomson

2015, volume 141, articles C

The precariousness of the franchise state: Voluntary sector health services and international NGOs in Tanzania, 1960s – mid-1980s pp. 1-8

Michael Jennings

‘High profile health facilities can add to your trouble’: Women, stigma and un/safe abortion in Kenya pp. 9-18

Chimaraoke O. Izugbara, Carolyne Egesa and Rispah Okelo

Prenatal diagnosis: From policy to practice. Two distinct ways of managing prognostic uncertainty and anticipating disability in Brazil and in France pp. 19-26

Isabelle Ville and Véronique Mirlesse

The relationship between narrative classification of obesity and support for public policy interventions pp. 27-35

Paul H. Thibodeau, Victoria L. Perko and Stephen J. Flusberg

Impact of the Kenya Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children on early pregnancy and marriage of adolescent girls pp. 36-45

Sudhanshu Handa, Amber Peterman, Carolyn Huang, Carolyn Halpern, Audrey Pettifor and Harsha Thirumurthy

Smoke-free air laws and quit attempts: Evidence for a moderating role of spontaneous self-affirmation pp. 46-55

Alexander Persoskie, Rebecca A. Ferrer, Jennifer M. Taber, William M.P. Klein, Mark Parascandola and Peter R. Harris

An exploration of the political economy dynamics shaping health worker incentives in three districts in Sierra Leone pp. 56-63

Maria Paola Bertone and Sophie Witter

An exploration of the longer-term impacts of community participation in rural health services design pp. 64-71

Jane Farmer, Margaret Currie, Amanda Kenny and Sarah-Anne Munoz

Disability prevalence and disability-related employment gaps in the UK 1998–2012: Different trends in different surveys? pp. 72-81

Ben Baumberg Geiger, Melanie Jones and Victoria Wass

Are older adults living in more equal counties healthier than older adults living in more unequal counties? A propensity score matching approach pp. 82-90

HwaJung Choi, Sarah Burgard, Irma T. Elo and Michele Heisler

Associations of life course socioeconomic position and job stress with carotid intima-media thickness. The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) pp. 91-99

Lidyane V. Camelo, Luana Giatti, Dóra Chor, Rosane Härter Griep, Isabela M. Benseñor, Itamar S. Santos, Ichiro Kawachi and Sandhi Maria Barreto

Research on health inequalities: A bibliometric analysis (1966–2014) pp. 100-108

Louise Bouchard, Marcelo Albertini, Ricardo Batista and Joanne de Montigny

Remarriage after divorce and depression risk pp. 109-114

A. Hiyoshi, K. Fall, G. Netuveli and S. Montgomery

Sales promotion strategies and youth drinking in Australia pp. 115-122

Simone Pettigrew, Nicole Biagioni, Sandra C. Jones, Mike Daube, Gary Kirby, Julia Stafford and Tanya Chikritzhs

Waiting for a baby: Navigating uncertainty in recollections of trying to conceive pp. 123-132

Kate Sweeny, Sara E. Andrews, S. Katherine Nelson and Megan L. Robbins

Protective factors for mental health and well-being in a changing climate: Perspectives from Inuit youth in Nunatsiavut, Labrador pp. 133-141

Joanna Petrasek MacDonald, Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, James D. Ford, Inez Shiwak and Michele Wood

Area-level socioeconomic context, total mortality and cause-specific mortality in Spain: Heterogeneous findings depending on the level of geographic aggregation pp. 142-150

Enrique Regidor, Fernando Vallejo, Laura Reques, Lucía Cea, Estrella Miqueleiz and Gregorio Barrio

2015, volume 140, articles C

Evaluating consumer preferences for healthy eating from Community Kitchens in low-income urban areas: A discrete choice experiment of Comedores Populares in Peru pp. 1-8

Christine Buttorff, Antonio J. Trujillo, Francisco Diez-Canseco, Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz and J. Jaime Miranda

Mapping the urban asthma experience: Using qualitative GIS to understand contextual factors affecting asthma control pp. 9-17

Shimrit Keddem, Frances K. Barg, Karen Glanz, Tara Jackson, Sarah Green and Maureen George

Where there's smoke: Cigarette use, social acceptability, and spatial approaches to multilevel modeling pp. 18-26

Heather A. O'Connell

Family socioeconomic status, family health, and changes in students' math achievement across high school: A mediational model pp. 27-34

Ashley Brooke Barr

Does school social capital modify socioeconomic inequality in mental health? A multi-level analysis in Danish schools pp. 35-43

Line Nielsen, Vibeke Koushede, Mathilde Vinther-Larsen, Pernille Bendtsen, Annette Kjær Ersbøll, Pernille Due and Bjørn E. Holstein

Heroin-related overdose: The unexplored influences of markets, marketing and source-types in the United States pp. 44-53

Sarah G. Mars, Jason N. Fessel, Philippe Bourgois, Fernando Montero, George Karandinos and Daniel Ciccarone

Comparing time and risk preferences across three post-industrial UK cities pp. 54-61

Marjon van der Pol, David Walsh and Gerry McCartney

A closer look at the rural-urban health disparities: Insights from four major diseases in the Commonwealth of Virginia pp. 62-68

Di Zeng, Wen You, Bradford Mills, Jeffrey Alwang, Michael Royster and Rexford Anson-Dwamena

Social network bridging potential and the use of complementary and alternative medicine in later life pp. 69-80

Alyssa W. Goldman and Benjamin Cornwell

Investigating consumers' and informal carers' views and preferences for consumer directed care: A discrete choice experiment pp. 81-94

Billingsley Kaambwa, Emily Lancsar, Nicola McCaffrey, Gang Chen, Liz Gill, Ian D. Cameron, Maria Crotty and Julie Ratcliffe

Racial residential segregation and risky sexual behavior among non-Hispanic blacks, 2006–2010 pp. 95-103

Khaleeq Lutfi, Mary Jo Trepka, Kristopher P. Fennie, Gladys Ibanez and Hugh Gladwin

Paid maternity leave and childhood vaccination uptake: Longitudinal evidence from 20 low-and-middle-income countries pp. 104-117

Mohammad Hajizadeh, Jody Heymann, Erin Strumpf, Sam Harper and Arijit Nandi

Comparison of Social Trust's effect on suicide ideation between urban and non-urban areas: The Case of Japanese Adults in 2006 pp. 118-126

Eiji Yamamura

Comparing the performance of English mental health providers in achieving patient outcomes pp. 127-135

Valerie Moran and Rowena Jacobs

Seven key investments for health equity across the lifecourse: Scotland versus the rest of the UK pp. 136-146

John Frank, Catherine Bromley, Larry Doi, Michelle Estrade, Ruth Jepson, John McAteer, Tony Robertson, Morag Treanor and Andrew Williams