Social Science & Medicine

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2015, volume 135, articles C

Exploring the use of social network analysis to measure communication between disease programme and district managers at sub-national level in South Africa pp. 1-14

Mary Kawonga, Duane Blaauw and Sharon Fonn

Doubt, defiance, and identity: Understanding resistance to male circumcision for HIV prevention in Malawi pp. 15-22

Justin O. Parkhurst, David Chilongozi and Eleanor Hutchinson

Neighbourhood vitality and physical activity among the elderly: The role of walkable environments on active ageing in Barcelona, Spain pp. 24-30

Oriol Marquet and Carme Miralles-Guasch

Inclusive public participation in health: Policy, practice and theoretical contributions to promote the involvement of marginalised groups in healthcare pp. 31-39

Cláudia de Freitas and Graham Martin

Increased incidence of coronary heart disease associated with “double burden” in a cohort of Italian women pp. 40-46

Fabrizio D'Ovidio, Angelo d'Errico, Cecilia Scarinzi and Giuseppe Costa

Gender, coping strategies, homelessness stressors, and income generation among homeless young adults in three cities pp. 47-55

Kristin M. Ferguson, Kimberly Bender and Sanna J. Thompson

“Right tool,” wrong “job”: Manual vacuum aspiration, post-abortion care and transnational population politics in Senegal pp. 56-66

Siri Suh

Educational trajectories after childhood cancer: When illness experience matters pp. 67-74

A. Dumas, I. Cailbault, C. Perrey, O. Oberlin, F. De Vathaire and P. Amiel

Access to critical medicines: When are compulsory licenses effective in price negotiations? pp. 75-83

Shyama V. Ramani and Eduardo Urias

Power relations and contrasting conceptions of evidence in patient-involvement processes used to inform health funding decisions in Australia pp. 84-91

Edilene Lopes, Drew Carter and Jackie Street

Coping with breast cancer and relapse: Stability of coping and long-term outcomes in an observational study over 10 years pp. 92-98

Siegfried Geyer, Heike Koch-Giesselmann and Dorothee Noeres

Longitudinal association of neighborhood variables with Body Mass Index in Dutch school-age children: The KOALA Birth Cohort Study pp. 99-108

Swantje C. Schmidt, Ester F.C. Sleddens, Sanne I. de Vries, Jessica Gubbels and Carel Thijs

Rationalising prescribing: Evidence, marketing and practice-relevant knowledge pp. 109-116

Sarah Wadmann and Lia E. Bang

Who benefits from removing user fees for facility-based delivery services? Evidence on socioeconomic differences from Ghana, Senegal and Sierra Leone pp. 117-123

Britt McKinnon, Sam Harper and Jay S. Kaufman

Water systems, sanitation, and public health risks in remote communities: Inuit resident perspectives from the Canadian Arctic pp. 124-132

Kiley Daley, Heather Castleden, Rob Jamieson, Chris Furgal and Lorna Ell

Moderators, mediators, and bidirectional relationships in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework: An empirical investigation using a longitudinal design and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) pp. 133-142

Alexandra Rouquette, Elizabeth M. Badley, Bruno Falissard, Timothée Dub, Alain Leplege and Joël Coste

Tracing shadows: How gendered power relations shape the impacts of maternal death on living children in sub Saharan Africa pp. 143-150

Alicia Ely Yamin, Junior Bazile, Lucia Knight, Mitike Molla, Emily Maistrellis and Jennifer Leaning

2015, volume 134, articles C

Separating boys and girls and increasing weight? Assessing the impacts of single-sex schools through random assignment in Seoul pp. 1-11

Jaesung Choi, Hyunjoon Park and Jere Behrman

Doubling up: A gift or a shame? Intergenerational households and parental depression of older Europeans pp. 12-22

Luis Aranda

Longitudinal interplay between posttraumatic stress symptoms and coping self-efficacy: A four-wave prospective study pp. 23-29

Mark W.G. Bosmans and Peter G. van der Velden

In fatal pursuit of immortal fame: Peer competition and early mortality of music composers pp. 30-42

Karol Borowiecki and Georgios Kavetsos

Stress resilience in adolescence and subsequent antidepressant and anxiolytic medication in middle aged men: Swedish cohort study pp. 43-49

Ayako Hiyoshi, Ruzan Udumyan, Walter Osika, Erik Bihagen, Katja Fall and Scott Montgomery

Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis pp. 50-58

Chris Dawson, Michail Veliziotis, Gail Pacheco and Don Webber

The architecture of support: The activation of preexisting ties and formation of new ties for tailored support pp. 59-65

Elizabeth A. Gage-Bouchard, Susan LaValley, Christina Panagakis and Rachel C. Shelton

Concussion under-reporting and pressure from coaches, teammates, fans, and parents pp. 66-75

Emily Kroshus, Bernice Garnett, Matt Hawrilenko, Christine M. Baugh and Jerel P. Calzo

Decomposing socio-economic inequality in colorectal cancer screening uptake in England pp. 76-86

Francesca Solmi, Christian Von Wagner, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Rosalind Raine, Jane Wardle and Stephen Morris

Living in “survival mode:” Intergenerational transmission of trauma from the Holodomor genocide of 1932–1933 in Ukraine pp. 87-94

Brent Bezo and Stefania Maggi

Ethnic differences in children's socioemotional difficulties: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study pp. 95-106

Afshin Zilanawala, Amanda Sacker, James Nazroo and Yvonne Kelly

2015, volume 133, articles C

Intimate partner violence, modern contraceptive use and conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo pp. 2-10

Rachel Kidman, Tia Palermo and Jane Bertrand

Effectiveness of public deliberation methods for gathering input on issues in healthcare: Results from a randomized trial pp. 11-20

Kristin L. Carman, Coretta Mallery, Maureen Maurer, Grace Wang, Steve Garfinkel, Manshu Yang, Dierdre Gilmore, Amy Windham, Marjorie Ginsburg, Shoshanna Sofaer, Marthe Gold, Ela Pathak-Sen, Todd Davies, Joanna Siegel, Rikki Mangrum, Jessica Fernandez, Jennifer Richmond, James Fishkin and Alice Siu Chao

Patient access to health care and medicines across low-income countries pp. 21-27

Divya Srivastava and Alistair McGuire

The influence of institutional pressures on hospital electronic health record presence pp. 28-35

Naleef Fareed, Gloria J. Bazzoli, Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick and David W. Harless

Challenges to successful implementation of HIV and AIDS-related health policies in Cartagena, Colombia pp. 36-44

Nehla Djellouli and María Cristina Quevedo-Gómez

Exploring the practice of patient centered care: The role of ethnography and reflexivity pp. 45-52

Elisa Giulia Liberati, Mara Gorli, Lorenzo Moja, Laura Galuppo, Silvio Ripamonti and Giuseppe Scaratti

Characteristics and patterns of elective admissions to for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals in France in 2009 and 2010 pp. 53-58

William B. Weeks, Marie Jardin and Alain Paraponaris

The traditional healer in obstetric care: A persistent wasted opportunity in maternal health pp. 59-66

Raymond Akawire Aborigo, Pascale Allotey and Daniel D. Reidpath

The impact of economic, political and social globalization on overweight and obesity in the 56 low and middle income countries pp. 67-76

Yevgeniy Goryakin, Tim Lobstein, W. Philip T. James and Marc Suhrcke

Visualizing harm reduction: Methodological and ethical considerations pp. 77-84

S. Switzer, A. Guta, K. de Prinse, S. Chan Carusone and C. Strike

Best of enemies: Using social network analysis to explore a policy network in European smoke-free policy pp. 85-92

Heide Weishaar, Amanda Amos and Jeff Collin

Living arrangements as determinants of myocardial infarction incidence and survival: A prospective register study of over 300,000 Finnish men and women pp. 93-100

Fanny Kilpi, Hanna Konttinen, Karri Silventoinen and Pekka Martikainen

Comparison communities in a cluster randomised trial innovate in response to ‘being controlled’ pp. 102-110

Penelope Hawe, Therese Riley, Alexandra Gartrell, Karen Turner, Claudia Canales and Darlene Omstead

Multiple early victimization experiences as a pathway to explain physical health disparities among sexual minority and heterosexual individuals pp. 111-119

Judith P. Andersen, Christopher Zou and John Blosnich

Competing conceptualizations of decent work at the intersection of health, social and economic discourses pp. 120-127

Erica Di Ruggiero, Joanna E. Cohen, Donald C. Cole and Lisa Forman

‘It's like having a physician in your pocket!’ A critical analysis of self-diagnosis smartphone apps pp. 128-135

Deborah Lupton and Annemarie Jutel

Participation and diffusion effects of a peer-intervention for HIV prevention among adults in rural Malawi pp. 136-144

Kathleen S. Crittenden, Chrissie P.N. Kaponda, Diana L. Jere, Linda L. McCreary and Kathleen F. Norr

Cultural Health Capital on the margins: Cultural resources for navigating healthcare in communities with limited access pp. 145-152

Erin Fanning Madden

Paying people to eat or not to eat? Carryover effects of monetary incentives on eating behaviour pp. 153-158

Paul Dolan, Matteo Galizzi and Daniel Navarro-Martinez

Anchoring contextual analysis in health policy and systems research: A narrative review of contextual factors influencing health committees in low and middle income countries pp. 159-167

Asha George, Kerry Scott, Surekha Garimella, Shinjini Mondal, Rajani Ved and Kabir Sheikh

Negotiating structural vulnerability following regulatory changes to a provincial methadone program in vancouver, canada: A qualitative study pp. 168-176

Ryan McNeil, Thomas Kerr, Solanna Anderson, Lisa Maher, Chereece Keewatin, M.J. Milloy, Evan Wood and Will Small

Women's entrepreneurship and intimate partner violence: A cluster randomized trial of microenterprise assistance and partner participation in post-conflict Uganda (SSM-D-14-01580R1) pp. 177-188

Eric P. Green, Christopher Blattman, Julian Jamison and Jeannie Annan

Towards explaining the health impacts of residential energy efficiency interventions – A realist review. Part 1: Pathways pp. 191-201

Nicola Willand, Ian Ridley and Cecily Maller

Diet and obesity in Los Angeles County 2007–2012: Is there a measurable effect of the 2008 “Fast-Food Ban”? pp. 205-211

Roland Sturm and Aiko Hattori

Conceptualizing violence for health and medical geography pp. 216-222

Geoffrey DeVerteuil

The politics of relative deprivation: A transdisciplinary social justice perspective pp. 223-232

Mengzhu Fu, Daniel J. Exeter and Anneka Anderson

The geography of malaria genetics in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A complex and fragmented landscape pp. 233-241

Margaret Carrel, Jaymin Patel, Steve M. Taylor, Mark Janko, Melchior Kashamuka Mwandagalirwa, Antoinette K. Tshefu, Ananias A. Escalante, Andrea McCollum, Md Tauqeer Alam, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Steven Meshnick and Michael Emch

A scalable climate health justice assessment model pp. 242-252

Yolanda J. McDonald, Sara E. Grineski, Timothy W. Collins and Young-An Kim

Development and validation of the attitudes toward outdoor play scales for children pp. 253-260

Kirsten Beyer, Jessica Bizub, Aniko Szabo, Beth Heller, Amy Kistner, Erin Shawgo and Corey Zetts

Developing and validating a measure of community capacity: Why volunteers make the best neighbours pp. 261-268

Sarah A. Lovell, Andrew R. Gray and Sara E. Boucher

The key role of socio-demographic and socio-environmental factors in urban malaria occurrence and control – An illustration using the city of Yaoundé pp. 269-279

Roland Ngom and Alexander Siegmund

Therapeutic micro-environments in the Edgelands: A thematic analysis of Richard Mabey's The Unofficial Countryside pp. 280-286

Frank Houghton and Sharon Houghton

The place of receptionists in access to primary care: Challenges in the space between community and consultation pp. 287-295

Pat M. Neuwelt, Robin A. Kearns and Annette J. Browne

HIV/AIDS in mid-sized cities in Senegal: From individual to place-based vulnerability pp. 296-303

Fatou Maria Drame and Ellen E. Foley

Where do they go and how do they get there? Older adults' travel behaviour in a highly walkable environment pp. 304-312

Meghan Winters, Christine Voss, Maureen C. Ashe, Kaitlyn Gutteridge, Heather McKay and Joanie Sims-Gould

What shape is your neighbourhood? Investigating the micro geographies of physical activity pp. 313-321

Vivienne C. Ivory, Marie Russell, Karen Witten, Carolyn M. Hooper, Jamie Pearce and Tony Blakely

Measuring food availability and accessibility among adolescents: Moving beyond the neighbourhood boundary pp. 322-330

Cindy Shearer, Daniel Rainham, Chris Blanchard, Trevor Dummer, Renee Lyons and Sara Kirk

Movers and stayers: The geography of residential mobility and CVD hospitalisations in Auckland, New Zealand pp. 331-339

Daniel J. Exeter, Clive E. Sabel, Grant Hanham, Arier C. Lee and Susan Wells

Immigration, barriers to healthcare and transnational ties: A case study of South Korean immigrants in Toronto, Canada pp. 340-348

Lu Wang and Min-Jung Kwak

Urban inclusion as wellbeing: Exploring children's accounts of confronting diversity on inner city streets pp. 349-357

Karen Witten, Robin Kearns and Penelope Carroll

Adding insult to injury: The development of psychosocial stress in Ontario wind turbine communities pp. 358-365

Chad Walker, Jamie Baxter and Danielle Ouellette

Social change or business as usual at city hall? Examining an urban municipal government's response to neighbourhood-level health inequities pp. 366-373

Madelaine C. Cahuas, Sarah Wakefield and Yun Peng

Making the Blue Zones: Neoliberalism and nudges in public health promotion pp. 374-382

Eric D. Carter