Social Science & Medicine

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2015, volume 132, articles C

Applying Health Locus of Control and Latent Class Modelling to food and physical activity choices affecting CVD risk pp. 1-10

José M. Grisolía, Alberto Longo, George Hutchinson and Frank Kee

Exploring the limitations of age-based models for health care planning pp. 11-19

Thomas Mason, Matt Sutton, William Whittaker and Stephen Birch

“Surviving is not the same as living”: Cancer and Sobrevivencia in Puerto Rico pp. 20-29

Karen E. Dyer

Providing primary health care through integrated microfinance and health services in Latin America pp. 30-37

Kimberley H. Geissler and Sheila Leatherman

Food for thought: An ethnographic study of negotiating ill health and food insecurity in a UK foodbank pp. 38-44

K.A. Garthwaite, P.J. Collins and C. Bambra

The long-run effect of maternity leave benefits on mental health: Evidence from European countries pp. 45-53

Mauricio Avendano, Lisa F. Berkman, Agar Brugiavini and Giacomo Pasini

Targeting brains, producing responsibilities: The use of neuroscience within British social policy pp. 54-61

Tineke Broer and Martyn Pickersgill

Survival of the project: A case study of ICT innovation in health care pp. 62-69

Hege K. Andreassen, Lars Erik Kjekshus and Aksel Tjora

Examining the broader psychosocial effects of mass conflict on PTSD symptoms and functional impairment amongst West Papuan refugees resettled in Papua New Guinea (PNG) pp. 70-78

Alvin Kuowei Tay, Susan Rees, Jack Chan, Moses Kareth and Derrick Silove

Bioidentical hormones, menopausal women, and the lure of the “natural” in U.S. anti-aging medicine pp. 79-87

Jennifer R. Fishman, Michael A. Flatt and Richard A. Settersten

Social welfare matters: A realist review of when, how, and why unemployment insurance impacts poverty and health pp. 88-94

Patricia O'Campo, Agnes Molnar, Edwin Ng, Emilie Renahy, Christiane Mitchell, Ketan Shankardass, Alexander St. John, Clare Bambra and Carles Muntaner

Sickness and sickness absence of remaining employees in a time of economic crisis: A study among employees of municipalities in Iceland pp. 95-102

Hjördís Sigursteinsdóttir and Gudbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir

Puberty and perimenopause: Reproductive transitions and their implications for women's health pp. 103-112

Lindsay Till Hoyt and April M. Falconi

Effect of hospital referral networks on patient readmissions pp. 113-121

Daniele Mascia, Federica Angeli and Fausto Di Vincenzo

Does neighborhood deprivation modify the effect of preterm birth on children's first grade academic performance? pp. 122-131

Jennifer L. Richards, Theresa Chapple-McGruder, Bryan L. Williams and Michael R. Kramer

‘It's time she stopped torturing herself’: Structural constraints to decision-making about life-sustaining treatment by medical trainees pp. 132-140

Tania M. Jenkins

Genetically at-risk status and individual agency. A qualitative study on asymptomatic women living with genetic risk of breast/ovarian cancer pp. 141-148

Maria Caiata-Zufferey

A blessing I can't afford: Factors underlying the paradox of happiness about unintended pregnancy pp. 149-155

Abigail R.A. Aiken, Chloe Dillaway and Natasha Mevs-Korff

Cream skimming and hospital transfers in a mixed public-private system pp. 156-164

Terence Cheng, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Jongsay Yong

The changing donor landscape of health sector aid to Vietnam: A qualitative case study pp. 165-172

Sarah Wood Pallas, Thi Hai Oanh Khuat, Quang Duong Le and Jennifer Prah Ruger

Trends and structural shifts in health tourism: Evidence from seasonal time-series data on health-related travel spending by Canada during 1970–2010 pp. 173-180

Chung-Ping A. Loh

The role of perceived impact on relationship quality in pharmacists' willingness to influence indication-based off-label prescribing decisions pp. 181-189

Ramsankar Basak, John P. Bentley, David J. McCaffrey, Alicia S. Bouldin and Benjamin F. Banahan

Social networks and health policy: The case of misoprostol and the WHO model essential medicine list pp. 190-196

Colin Millard, Petra Brhlikova and Allyson Pollock

Interpreter-mediated dentistry pp. 197-207

Susan Bridges, Paul Drew, Olga Zayts, Colman McGrath, Cynthia K.Y. Yiu, H.M. Wong and T.K.F. Au

International parental migration and the psychological well-being of children in Ghana, Nigeria, and Angola pp. 215-224

Valentina Mazzucato, Victor Cebotari, Angela Veale, Allen White, Marzia Grassi and Jeanne Vivet

Parental migration and the mental health of those who stay behind to care for children in South-East Asia pp. 225-235

Elspeth Graham, Lucy P. Jordan and Brenda S.A. Yeoh

After spouses depart: Emotional wellbeing among nonmigrant Mexican mothers pp. 236-244

Jenna Nobles, Luis Rubalcava and Graciela Teruel

U.S. immigration policy and family separation: The consequences for children's well-being pp. 245-251

Joanna Dreby

‘Left behind’ but not left alone: Parental migration & the psychosocial health of children in Moldova pp. 252-260

Michaella Vanore, Valentina Mazzucato and Melissa Siegel

Positive youth development in rural China: The role of parental migration pp. 261-269

Ming Wen, Shaobing Su, Xiaoming Li and Danhua Lin

Social capital and the mental health of children in rural China with different experiences of parental migration pp. 270-277

Qiaobing Wu, Deping Lu and Mi Kang

The mixed effects of migration: Community-level migration and birthweight in Mexico pp. 278-286

Erin R. Hamilton and Kate H. Choi

2015, volume 131, articles C

Is education the best contraception: The case of teenage pregnancy in England? pp. 1-9

Sourafel Girma and David Paton

Challenging logics of complex intervention trials: Community perspectives of a health care improvement intervention in rural Uganda pp. 10-17

Ferdinand M. Okwaro, Clare I.R. Chandler, Eleanor Hutchinson, Christine Nabirye, Lilian Taaka, Miriam Kayendeke, Susan Nayiga and Sarah G. Staedke

Urban environment interventions linked to the promotion of physical activity: A mixed methods study applied to the urban context of Latin America pp. 18-30

Luis F. Gomez, Rodrigo Sarmiento, Maria Fernanda Ordoñez, Carlos Felipe Pardo, Thiago Hérick de Sá, Christina H. Mallarino, J. Jaime Miranda, Janeth Mosquera, Diana C. Parra, Rodrigo Reis and D. Alex Quistberg

Non-disclosure of chronic kidney disease in primary care and the limits of instrumental rationality in chronic illness self-management pp. 31-39

Gavin Daker-White, Anne Rogers, Anne Kennedy, Thomas Blakeman, Christian Blickem and Carolyn Chew-Graham

Seeking and receiving social support on Facebook for surgery pp. 40-47

Matthew A. Davis, Denise L. Anthony and Scott D. Pauls

Adverse childhood experiences and intimate partner aggression in the US: Sex differences and similarities in psychosocial mediation pp. 48-57

Monique J. Brown, Robert A. Perera, Saba W. Masho, Briana Mezuk and Steven A. Cohen

The mediating effect of effort-reward imbalance in household and family work on the relationship between education and women's health pp. 58-65

Stefanie Sperlich and Siegfried Geyer

The stories we tell: Qualitative research interviews, talking technologies and the ‘normalisation’ of life with HIV pp. 66-73

Fadhila Mazanderani and Sara Paparini

Professional integration as a process of professional resocialization: Internationally educated health professionals in Canada pp. 74-81

Elena Neiterman and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

Does higher income inequality adversely influence infant mortality rates? Reconciling descriptive patterns and recent research findings pp. 82-88

Arjumand Siddiqi, Marcella K. Jones and Paul Campbell Erwin

Increase of perceived frequency of neighborhood domestic violence is associated with increase of women's depression symptoms in a nationally representative longitudinal study in South Africa pp. 89-97

Susan M. Meffert, Charles E. McCulloch, Thomas C. Neylan, Monica Gandhi and Crick Lund

Moving beyond local practice: Reconfiguring the adoption of a breast cancer diagnostic technology pp. 98-106

Gregory Maniatopoulos, Rob Procter, Sue Llewellyn, Gill Harvey and Alan Boyd

Correlates of depressive symptoms among North Korean refugees adapting to South Korean society: The moderating role of perceived discrimination pp. 107-113

Mee Young Um, Iris Chi, Hee Jin Kim, Lawrence A. Palinkas and Jae Yop Kim

Which public and why deliberate? – A scoping review of public deliberation in public health and health policy research pp. 114-121

Chris Degeling, Stacy M. Carter and Lucie Rychetnik

The signs of stress: Embodiments of biosocial stress among type 2 diabetic women in New Delhi, India pp. 122-130

Lesley Jo Weaver, Carol M. Worthman, Jason A. DeCaro and S.V. Madhu

How economic crises affect alcohol consumption and alcohol-related health problems: A realist systematic review pp. 131-146

Moniek C.M. de Goeij, Marc Suhrcke, Veronica Toffolutti, Dike van de Mheen, Tim M. Schoenmakers and Anton E. Kunst

A causal loop analysis of the sustainability of integrated community case management in Rwanda pp. 147-155

Eric Sarriot, Melanie Morrow, Anne Langston, Jennifer Weiss, Justine Landegger and Laban Tsuma

Hegemony in the marketplace of biomedical innovation: Consumer demand and stem cell science pp. 156-163

Brian Salter, Yinhua Zhou and Saheli Datta

Estimating unbiased economies of scale of HIV prevention projects: A case study of Avahan pp. 164-172

Aurélia Lépine, Anna Vassall, Sudha Chandrashekar, Elodie Blanc and Alexis Le Nestour

Traditional acupuncturists and higher education in Britain: The dual, paradoxical impact of biomedical alignment on the holistic view pp. 173-180

Assaf Givati and Kieron Hatton

Life and death in the family: Early parental death, parental remarriage, and offspring suicide risk in adulthood pp. 181-189

Michael S. Hollingshaus and Ken R. Smith

Assessing the overuse of medicines pp. 199-206

Joan Busfield

Drugs, cancer and end-of-life care: A case study of pharmaceuticalization? pp. 207-214

Courtney Davis

Coronary artery disease and the contours of pharmaceuticalization pp. 221-227

Anne Pollock and David S. Jones

Resistance and mutations of non-specificity in the field of anxiety-depressive disorders in Canadian medical journals, 1950–1990 pp. 228-238

Johanne Collin and Marcelo Otero

Big-pharmaceuticalisation: Clinical trials and Contract Research Organisations in India pp. 239-246

Salla Sariola, Deapica Ravindran, Anand Kumar and Roger Jeffery

Pharmaceuticalisation and ethical review in South Asia: Issues of scope and authority for practitioners and policy makers pp. 247-254

Bob Simpson, Rekha Khatri, Deapica Ravindran and Tharindi Udalagama

Neoliberal technocracy: Explaining how and why the US Food and Drug Administration has championed pharmacogenomics pp. 255-262

Stuart Hogarth

Medical countermeasures for national security: A new government role in the pharmaceuticalization of society pp. 263-271

Stefan Elbe, Anne Roemer-Mahler and Christopher Long

Moral discourses and pharmaceuticalised governance in households pp. 272-279

Kevin Dew, Pauline Norris, Jonathan Gabe, Kerry Chamberlain and Darrin Hodgetts

The drugs don't sell: DIY heart health and the over-the-counter statin experience pp. 280-288

Catherine M. Will and Kate Weiner

Patient involvement in drug licensing: A case study pp. 289-296

Nicky Britten, Sarah Denford, Faith Harris-Golesworthy, Steph Jibson, Nigel Pyart and Ken Stein

Everyday drug diversions: A qualitative study of the illicit exchange and non-medical use of prescription stimulants on a university campus pp. 297-304

Scott Vrecko

Growth hormone, enhancement and the pharmaceuticalisation of short stature pp. 305-312

Michael Morrison

The interweaving of pharmaceutical and medical expectations as dynamics of micro-pharmaceuticalisation: Advanced-stage cancer patients' hope in medicines alongside trust in professionals pp. 313-321

Patrick Brown, Sabine de Graaf, Marij Hillen, Ellen Smets and Hanneke van Laarhoven

Peering into the pharmaceutical “pipeline”: Investigational drugs, clinical trials, and industry priorities pp. 322-330

Jill A. Fisher, Marci D. Cottingham and Corey A. Kalbaugh