Social Science & Medicine

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2015, volume 139, articles C

Room for Death – International museum-visitors’ preferences regarding the end of their life pp. 1-8

Olav Lindqvist and Carol Tishelman

Unplanned reaction or something else? The role of subjective cultures in hazardous and harmful drinking pp. 9-17

Claudia Venuleo, Sara Calogiuri and Simone Rollo

‘Healthy anorexia’: The complexity of care in disordered eating pp. 18-25

Connie Musolino, Megan Warin, Tracey Wade and Peter Gilchrist

Syndemics of psychosocial problems and HIV risk: A systematic review of empirical tests of the disease interaction concept pp. 26-35

Alexander C. Tsai and Bridget F.O. Burns

Motivations of women with sickle cell disease for asking their partners to undergo genetic testing pp. 36-43

Paula Thompson Ross

Planning parenthood: Health care providers' perspectives on pregnancy intention, readiness, and family planning pp. 44-52

Lindsay M. Stevens

Energy expenditure on recreational visits to different natural environments pp. 53-60

Lewis R. Elliott, Mathew P. White, Adrian H. Taylor and Stephen Herbert

Gender, stress in childhood and adulthood, and trajectories of change in body mass pp. 61-69

Hui Liu and Debra Umberson

Assessing sufficient capability: A new approach to economic evaluation pp. 71-79

Paul Mark Mitchell, Tracy E. Roberts, Pelham M. Barton and Joanna Coast

Sanitation-related psychosocial stress: A grounded theory study of women across the life-course in Odisha, India pp. 80-89

Krushna Chandra Sahoo, Kristyna R.S. Hulland, Bethany A. Caruso, Rojalin Swain, Matthew C. Freeman, Pinaki Panigrahi and Robert Dreibelbis

The influence of HOPE VI neighborhood revitalization on neighborhood-based physical activity: A mixed-methods approach pp. 90-99

Akilah Dulin-Keita, Olivio Clay, Shannon Whittaker, Lonnie Hannon, Ingrid K. Adams, Michelle Rogers and Kim Gans

Sickness presenteeism determines job satisfaction via affective-motivational states pp. 100-106

Maria Karanika-Murray, Halley M. Pontes, Mark D. Griffiths and Caroline Biron

“If you do nothing about stress, the next thing you know, you're shattered”: Perspectives on African American men's stress, coping and health from African American men and key women in their lives pp. 107-114

Katrina R. Ellis, Derek M. Griffith, Julie Ober Allen, Roland J. Thorpe and Marino A. Bruce

Comparing the health and social protection effects of measles vaccination strategies in Ethiopia: An extended cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 115-122

Julia Driessen, Zachary D. Olson, Dean T. Jamison and Stéphane Verguet

Recalibrating the spirit level: An analysis of the interaction of income inequality and poverty and its effect on health pp. 123-131

Simone Rambotti

2015, volume 138, articles C

Improving health worker performance: The patient-perspective from a PBF program in Rwanda pp. 1-11

Laurence Lannes

Conceptualizing the use of public involvement in health policy decision-making pp. 14-21

Kathy K. Li, Julia Abelson, Mita Giacomini and Damien Contandriopoulos

Association of proximity and density of parks and objectively measured physical activity in the United States: A systematic review pp. 22-30

Carolyn Bancroft, Spruha Joshi, Andrew Rundle, Malo Hutson, Catherine Chong, Christopher C. Weiss, Jeanine Genkinger, Kathryn Neckerman and Gina Lovasi

Are public subsidies effective to reduce emergency care? Evidence from the PLASA study pp. 31-37

Thomas Rapp, Pauline Chauvin and Nicolas Sirven

The contribution of pre- and postdisaster social support to short- and long-term mental health after Hurricanes Katrina: A longitudinal study of low-income survivors pp. 38-43

Christian S. Chan, Sarah R. Lowe, Elyssa Weber and Jean E. Rhodes

Justifying medication decisions in mental health care: Psychiatrists' accounts for treatment recommendations pp. 44-56

Beth Angell and Galina B. Bolden

Family legal status and health: Measurement dilemmas in studies of Mexican-origin children pp. 57-67

R.S. Oropesa, Nancy S. Landale and Marianne M. Hillemeier

Does rising crime lead to increasing distress? Longitudinal analysis of a natural experiment with dynamic objective neighbourhood measures pp. 68-73

Thomas Astell-Burt, Xiaoqi Feng, Gregory S. Kolt and Bin Jalaludin

Depressive symptoms and self-reported adherence to medical recommendations to prevent cardiovascular disease: NHANES 2005–2010 pp. 74-81

Jessica Berntson, Kendra Ray Stewart, Elizabeth Vrany, Tasneem Khambaty and Jesse C. Stewart

Smokeless tobacco use in India: Role of prices and advertising pp. 82-90

Deliana Kostova and Dhaval Dave

Beyond cultural factors to understand immigrant mental health: Neighborhood ethnic density and the moderating role of pre-migration and post-migration factors pp. 91-100

Sandra P. Arévalo, Katherine L. Tucker and Luis M. Falcón

Reproductive habitus, psychosocial health, and birth weight variation in Mexican immigrant and Mexican American women in south Texas pp. 102-109

K. Jill Fleuriet and T.S. Sunil

Losing jobs and lighting up: Employment experiences and smoking in the Great Recession pp. 110-118

Shelley D. Golden and Krista M. Perreira

Higher body mass index, less exercise, but healthier eating in married adults: Nine representative surveys across Europe pp. 119-127

Jutta Mata, Ronald Frank and Ralph Hertwig

Multidimensional religious involvement and tobacco smoking patterns over 9–10 years: A prospective study of middle-aged adults in the United States pp. 128-135

Zinzi D. Bailey, Natalie Slopen, Michelle Albert and David R. Williams

Framing choice: The origins and impact of consumer rhetoric in US health care debates pp. 136-143

Nancy S. Lee

Dissonant roles: The experience of Māori in cancer care pp. 144-151

Kevin Dew, Louise Signal, Cheryl Davies, Huia Tavite, Carolyn Hooper, Diana Sarfati, Jeannine Stairmand and Chris Cunningham

Health systems' responsiveness and reporting behaviour: Multilevel analysis of the influence of individual-level factors in 64 countries pp. 152-160

Nicole Valentine, Emese Verdes-Tennant and Gouke Bonsel

Overweight and obesity prevalence among Indian women by place of residence and socio-economic status: Contrasting patterns from ‘underweight states’ and ‘overweight states’ of India pp. 161-169

Angan Sengupta, Federica Angeli, Thelakkat S. Syamala, Pieter C. Dagnelie and C.P. van Schayck

A situational construal approach to healthcare experiences pp. 170-178

Patrick Morse, Kate Sweeny and Angela M. Legg

One little, too little: Counting Canada's indigenous people for improved health reporting pp. 179-186

Brenda Elias, Karen Busby and Pat Martens

An empirical assessment of the “healthy prisoner hypothesis” pp. 187-191

Valerio Baćak and Christopher Wildeman

Translational networks in healthcare? Evidence on the design and initiation of organizational networks for knowledge mobilization pp. 192-200

Louise Fitzgerald and Gill Harvey

Can you party your way to better health? A propensity score analysis of block parties and health pp. 201-209

Lorraine T. Dean, Amy Hillier, Hang Chau-Glendinning, S.V. Subramanian, David R. Williams and Ichiro Kawachi

The impact of poor psychosocial work environment on non-work-related sickness absence pp. 210-216

C. Catalina-Romero, J.C. Sainz, J.I. Pastrana-Jiménez, N. García-Diéguez, I. Irízar-Muñoz, J.L. Aleixandre-Chiva, A. Gonzalez-Quintela and E. Calvo-Bonacho

Divergence and convergence of commercial and scientific priorities in drug development: The case of Zelmid, the first SSRI antidepressant pp. 217-224

Shai Mulinari

The effects of utility evaluations, biomedical knowledge and modernization on intention to exclusively use biomedical health facilities among rural households in Mozambique pp. 225-233

Abraham Mukolo, Bruce Cooil and Bart Victor

Migrants' and professionals' views on culturally sensitive pre-hospital emergency care pp. 234-240

Diana Kietzmann, Christian Hannig and Silke Schmidt

Impact of the policy of expanding benefit coverage for cancer patients on catastrophic health expenditure across different income groups in South Korea pp. 241-247

Sujin Kim and Soonman Kwon

Drug use and social control: The negotiation of moral ambivalence pp. 248-256

Michael Shiner and Adam Winstock

Ready to give up on life: The lived experience of elderly people who feel life is completed and no longer worth living pp. 257-264

Els van Wijngaarden, Carlo Leget and Anne Goossensen

2015, volume 136-137

Birth-cohort trends in older-age functional disability and their relationship with socio-economic status: Evidence from a pooling of repeated cross-sectional population-based studies for the UK pp. 1-9

Marcello Morciano, Ruth M. Hancock and Stephen Pudney

Neighborhood effects in depressive symptoms, social support, and mistrust: Longitudinal analysis with repeated measurements pp. 10-16

Jaakko Airaksinen, Christian Hakulinen, Marko Elovainio, Terho Lehtimäki, Olli T. Raitakari, Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen and Markus Jokela

Climate change influences on environment as a determinant of Indigenous health: Relationships to place, sea ice, and health in an Inuit community pp. 17-26

Agata Durkalec, Chris Furgal, Mark W. Skinner and Tom Sheldon

Internal migration, area effects and health: Does where you move to impact upon your health? pp. 27-34

Mark A. Green, S.V. Subramanian, Daniel Vickers and Danny Dorling

A systematic approach to implementing and evaluating clinical guidelines: The results of fifteen years of Preventive Child Health Care guidelines in the Netherlands pp. 35-43

Margot A.H. Fleuren, Paula van Dommelen and Trudy Dunnink

The effect of a severe health shock on work behavior: Evidence from different health care regimes pp. 44-51

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Kristin Kleinjans and Mona Larsen

Globalization, democracy, and child health in developing countries pp. 52-63

Anna Welander, Carl Hampus Lyttkens and Therese Nilsson

Human activities and microbial geographies. An anthropological approach to the risk of infections in West African hospitals pp. 64-72

Eugénie d'Alessandro

Epidemics in Ming and Qing China: Impacts of changes of climate and economic well-being pp. 73-80

Qing Pei, David D. Zhang, Guodong Li, Bruce Winterhalder and Harry F. Lee

Occupational closure in nursing work reconsidered: UK health care support workers and assistant practitioners: A focus group study pp. 81-88

Michael Traynor, Nina Nissen, Carol Lincoln and Niels Buus

From substance use to homelessness or vice versa? pp. 89-98

Duncan McVicar, Julie Moschion and Jan C. van Ours

Choice and compassion at the end of life: A critical analysis of recent English policy discourse pp. 99-105

Erica Borgstrom and Tony Walter

How do living arrangements and intergenerational support matter for psychological health of elderly parents? Evidence from Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand pp. 106-116

Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Wiraporn Pothisiri and Long Giang

Does who you know in the positional hierarchy protect or hurt? Social capital, comparative reference group, and depression in two societies pp. 117-127

Lijun Song

Sovereigns under Siege. How the medical profession is changing in Italy pp. 128-134

Federico Toth

Self-reported health and socio-economic inequalities in England, 1996–2009: Repeated national cross-sectional study pp. 135-146

Hendramoorthy Maheswaran, Emil Kupek and Stavros Petrou

The SPIRIT Action Framework: A structured approach to selecting and testing strategies to increase the use of research in policy pp. 147-155

Sally Redman, Tari Turner, Huw Davies, Anna Williamson, Abby Haynes, Sue Brennan, Andrew Milat, Denise O'Connor, Fiona Blyth, Louisa Jorm and Sally Green

“It's safer to …” parent consulting and clinician antibiotic prescribing decisions for children with respiratory tract infections: An analysis across four qualitative studies pp. 156-164

Christie Cabral, Patricia J. Lucas, Jenny Ingram, Alastair D. Hay and Jeremy Horwood

Causal effects of socioeconomic status on central adiposity risks: Evidence using panel data from urban Mexico pp. 165-174

Pierre Levasseur

Taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages: Linkages and lessons learned pp. 175-179

Evan Blecher

Playing doctor: Simulation in medical school as affective practice pp. 180-188

Kelly Underman

Black lives matter: Differential mortality and the racial composition of the U.S. electorate, 1970–2004 pp. 193-199

Javier M. Rodriguez, Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound and Danny Dorling