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2015, volume 130, articles C

Changes in self-perceived economic satisfaction and mortality at old ages: Evidence from a survey of middle-aged and elderly adults in Taiwan pp. 1-8

Miaw-Chwen Lee and Nicole Huang

Felt stigma and obesity: Introducing the generalized other pp. 9-15

Eva Barlösius and Axel Philipps

Childhood and later life stressors and increased inflammatory gene expression at older ages pp. 16-22

M.E. Levine, S.W. Cole, D.R. Weir and E.M. Crimmins

Socioeconomic status and children's health: Evidence from a low-income country pp. 23-31

Ardeshir Sepehri and Harminder Guliani

The maternal health outcomes of paid maternity leave: A systematic review pp. 32-41

Zoe Aitken, Cameryn C. Garrett, Belinda Hewitt, Louise Keogh, Jane S. Hocking and Anne M. Kavanagh

The economic burden of TB diagnosis and treatment in South Africa pp. 42-50

Nicola Foster, Anna Vassall, Susan Cleary, Lucy Cunnama, Gavin Churchyard and Edina Sinanovic

Does debt affect health? Cross country evidence on the debt-health nexus pp. 51-58

Maya Clayton, José Liñares-Zegarra and John Wilson

Social network types and the health of older adults: Exploring reciprocal associations pp. 59-68

Ting Li and Yanlong Zhang

What is a good life? Selecting capabilities to assess women's quality of life in rural Malawi pp. 69-78

Giulia Greco, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Bryan Mkandawire and Anne Mills

The role of neighborhood characteristics in racial/ethnic disparities in type 2 diabetes: Results from the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey pp. 79-90

Rebecca S. Piccolo, Dustin T. Duncan, Neil Pearce and John B. McKinlay

Mister Sandman, bring me good marks! On the relationship between sleep quality and academic achievement pp. 91-98

Stijn Baert, Eddy Omey, Dieter Verhaest and Aurélie Vermeir

Health policy for the poor: An exploration on the take-up of means-tested health benefits in Turkey pp. 99-106

Burcay Erus, Burcu Yakut-Cakar, Sanda Cali and Fikret Adaman

How family members manage risk around functional decline: The autonomy management process in households facing dementia pp. 107-114

Brandon Berry, Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano and Yarin Gomez

Unemployment in Scandinavia during an economic crisis: Cross-national differences in health selection pp. 115-124

Kristian Heggebø

Mental health service use by cleanup workers in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill pp. 125-134

Sarah R. Lowe, Richard K. Kwok, Julianne Payne, Lawrence S. Engel, Sandro Galea and Dale P. Sandler

Geographical accessibility to healthcare and malnutrition in Rwanda pp. 135-145

Nael Aoun, Hirotaka Matsuda and Makiko Sekiyama

Flexible positions, managed hopes: The promissory bioeconomy of a whole genome sequencing cancer study pp. 146-153

Rachel Haase, Marsha Michie and Debra Skinner

A tale of two cities: Stigma and health outcomes among people with HIV who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia pp. 154-161

Sara E. Burke, Sarah K. Calabrese, John F. Dovidio, Olga S. Levina, Anneli Uusküla, Linda M. Niccolai, Katri Abel-Ollo and Robert Heimer

The impact of recent chemotherapy innovation on the longevity of myeloma patients: US and international evidence pp. 162-171

Gisela Hostenkamp and Frank Lichtenberg

The impact of neighborhood quality, perceived stress, and social support on depressive symptoms during pregnancy in African American women pp. 172-180

Carmen Giurgescu, Dawn P. Misra, Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, Cleopatra H. Caldwell, Thomas N. Templin, Jaime C. Slaughter- Acey and Theresa L. Osypuk

An exploratory discrete-time multilevel analysis of the effect of social support on the survival of elderly people in China pp. 181-189

Zhixin Feng, Kelvyn Jones and Wenfei Winnie Wang

Geography of suicide in Hong Kong: Spatial patterning, and socioeconomic correlates and inequalities pp. 190-203

Chia-Yueh Hsu, Shu-Sen Chang, Esther S.T. Lee and Paul S.F. Yip

Determinants of generic vs. brand drug choice: Evidence from population-wide Danish data pp. 204-215

Niels Skipper and Rune Vejlin

Going beyond horizontal equity: An analysis of health expenditure allocation across geographic areas in Mozambique pp. 216-224

Laura Anselmi, Mylène Lagarde and Kara Hanson

The role of boundary maintenance and blurring in a UK collaborative research project: How researchers and health service managers made sense of new ways of working pp. 225-233

Simon Smith and Vicky Ward

The impact of diminished housing wealth on health in the United States: Evidence from the Great Recession pp. 234-241

Tansel Yilmazer, Patryk Babiarz and Fen Liu

Civil Society Organizations and medicines policy change: A case study of registration, procurement, distribution and use of misoprostol in Uganda pp. 242-249

Esther Cathyln Atukunda, Petra Brhlikova, Amon Ganafa Agaba and Allyson M. Pollock

Changes in access to structural social capital and its influence on self-rated health over time for middle-aged men and women: A longitudinal study from northern Sweden pp. 250-258

Malin Eriksson and Nawi Ng

Pain and self-assessed health: Does the association vary by age? pp. 259-267

Sara Rubin and Zachary Zimmer

Mobility and health sector development in China and India pp. 268-276

Jennifer Holdaway, Peggy Levitt, Jing Fang and Narasimhan Rajaram

Are the differences in adulthood ill-health across the north-south divide and between Scotland and England also evident in early childhood health indicators? pp. 277-283

Sharon Mary Cruise and Dermot O'Reilly

Testing a cycle of family violence model in conflict-affected, low-income countries: A qualitative study from Timor-Leste pp. 284-291

Susan Rees, Rosamund Thorpe, Wietse Tol, Mira Fonseca and Derrick Silove

2015, volume 129, articles C

Is there really such a thing as “one health”? Thinking about a more than human world from the perspective of cultural anthropology pp. 5-11

Meike Wolf

One World-One Health and neglected zoonotic disease: Elimination, emergence and emergency in Uganda pp. 12-19

James Smith, Emma Michelle Taylor and Pete Kingsley

The puzzle of Buruli ulcer transmission, ethno-ecological history and the end of “love” in the Akonolinga district, Cameroon pp. 20-27

Tamara Giles-Vernick, Joseph Owona-Ntsama, Jordi Landier and Sara Eyangoh

More than one world, more than one health: Re-configuring interspecies health pp. 28-35

Steve Hinchliffe

Precarious connections: Making therapeutic production happen for malaria and tuberculosis pp. 36-43

Susan Craddock

A One Health, participatory epidemiology assessment of anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) management in Western Uganda pp. 44-50

Jeanne L. Coffin, Fred Monje, Grace Asiimwe-Karimu, Hellen Janetrix Amuguni and Terence Odoch

Recommendations for the role of social science research in One Health pp. 51-60

Maria Knight Lapinski, Julie A. Funk and Lauren T. Moccia

Public health ethics and more-than-human solidarity pp. 61-67

Melanie J. Rock and Chris Degeling

The dawn of Structural One Health: A new science tracking disease emergence along circuits of capital pp. 68-77

Robert G. Wallace, Luke Bergmann, Richard Kock, Marius Gilbert, Lenny Hogerwerf, Rodrick Wallace and Mollie Holmberg

Uncovering zoonoses awareness in an emerging disease ‘hotspot’ pp. 78-86

Sarah B. Paige, Carly Malavé, Edith Mbabazi, Jonathan Mayer and Tony L. Goldberg

An expanded One Health model: Integrating social science and One Health to inform study of the human-animal interface pp. 87-95

Sara Woldehanna and Susan Zimicki

Containment and competition: Transgenic animals in the One Health agenda pp. 96-105

Javier Lezaun and Natalie Porter

The world in a box? Food security, edible insects, and “One World, One Health” collaboration pp. 106-112

Emily Yates-Doerr

The global condition of epidemics: Panoramas in A (H1N1) influenza and their consequences for One World One Health programme pp. 113-122

Francisco Tirado, Andrés Gómez and Verónica Rocamora

One-health approach as counter-measure against “autoimmune” responses in biosecurity pp. 123-130

Inge Mutsaers

2015, volume 128, articles C

The impact of pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives for attracting young doctors to rural general practice pp. 1-9

Jon Helgheim Holte, Trine Kjaer, Birgit Abelsen and Jan Abel Olsen

Incentives for breastfeeding and for smoking cessation in pregnancy: An exploration of types and meanings pp. 10-17

Nicola Crossland, Gill Thomson, Heather Morgan, Stephan U. Dombrowski and Pat Hoddinott

Boundary objects in complementary and alternative medicine: Acupuncture vs. Christian Science pp. 18-24

Kellie Owens

The association of BMI and social distance towards obese individuals is mediated by sympathy and understanding pp. 25-30

Claudia Sikorski, Melanie Luppa, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Georg Schomerus, Bruce Link and Steffi G. Riedel-Heller

Monetizing illness: The influence of disability assistance priming on how we evaluate the health symptoms of others pp. 31-35

Rourke L. O'Brien

Ethnic discrimination predicts poor self-rated health and cortisol in pregnancy: Insights from New Zealand pp. 36-42

Zaneta M. Thayer and Christopher W. Kuzawa

The effect of unemployment on self-reported health and mental health in Greece from 2008 to 2013: A longitudinal study before and during the financial crisis pp. 43-51

Nick Drydakis

Attitudes towards legalising physician provided euthanasia in Britain: The role of religion over time pp. 52-56

Andriy Danyliv and Ciaran O'Neill

Examining individual and school characteristics associated with child obesity using a multilevel growth model pp. 57-66

Yasuo Miyazaki and Maria Stack

Household and neighborhood conditions partially account for associations between education and physical capacity in the National Health and Aging Trends Study pp. 67-75

Laura J. Samuel, Thomas A. Glass, Roland J. Thorpe, Sarah L. Szanton and David L. Roth

Social contact frequency and all-cause mortality: A meta-analysis and meta-regression pp. 76-86

Eran Shor and David J. Roelfs

The roles of culture and gender in the relationship between divorce and suicide risk: A meta-analysis pp. 87-94

Paul S.F. Yip, Saman Yousuf, Chee Hon Chan, Tiffany Yung and Kevin C.-C. Wu

Measurement of social capital in relation to health in low and middle income countries (LMIC): A systematic review pp. 95-104

Thilini Chanchala Agampodi, Suneth Buddhika Agampodi, Nicholas Glozier and Sisira Siribaddana

Grandparental help in Indonesia is directed preferentially towards needier descendants: A potential confounder when exploring grandparental influences on child health pp. 105-114

Kristin Snopkowski and Rebecca Sear

Seeking fluid possibility and solid ground: Space and movement in mental health service users' experiences of ‘crisis’ pp. 115-125

Laura McGrath and Paula Reavey

Exploring opportunities for healthy aging among older persons with a history of homelessness in Toronto, Canada pp. 126-133

Natalie Waldbrook

Action on the social determinants of health: Views from inside the policy process pp. 134-141

Gemma Carey and Brad Crammond

Does regulatory fit lead to more effective health communication? A systematic review pp. 142-150

Ramona Ludolph and Peter J. Schulz

Gaps in knowledge: Tracking and explaining gender differences in health information seeking pp. 151-158

Matthew J. Manierre

Resilience in the face of post-election violence in Kenya: The mediating role of social networks on wellbeing among older people in the Korogocho informal settlement, Nairobi pp. 159-167

Rachel Bennett, Gloria Chepngeno-Langat, Maria Evandrou and Jane Falkingham

The moderating effect of self-efficacy on normal-weight, overweight, and obese children's math achievement: A longitudinal analysis pp. 168-177

Ashley Wendell Kranjac

Social determinants and psychological distress among Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander adults in the Australian state of Victoria: A cross-sectional population based study pp. 178-187

Alison Markwick, Zahid Ansari, Mary Sullivan and John McNeil

Neo-Marxian social class inequalities in the mental well-being of employed men and women: The role of European welfare regimes pp. 188-200

Deborah De Moortel, Laia Palència, Lucía Artazcoz, Carme Borrell and Christophe Vanroelen

Determinants and disparities: A simulation approach to the case of child health care pp. 202-211

Roy Lay-Yee, Barry Milne, Peter Davis, Janet Pearson and Jessica McLay

‘Who's the guy in the room?’ Involving fathers in antenatal care screening for sickle cell disorders pp. 212-219

Karl Atkin, Maria Berghs and Simon Dyson

Examining the relationship between social support availability, urban center size, and self-perceived mental health of recent immigrants to Canada: A mixed-methods analysis pp. 220-230

Kathryn A. Chadwick and Patricia A. Collins

A model for common ground development to support collaborative health communities pp. 231-238

Craig E. Kuziemsky and Tracey L. O'Sullivan

Juggling efficiency. An ethnographic study exploring healthcare seeking practices and institutional logics in Danish primary care settings pp. 239-245

Rikke Sand Andersen and Peter Vedsted

One-year reciprocal relationship between community participation and mental wellbeing in Australia: A panel analysis pp. 246-254

Ning Ding, Helen L. Berry and Léan V. O'Brien

International clinical trials, cardiovascular disease and treatment options in the Russian Federation: Research and treatment in practice pp. 255-262

Olga Zvonareva, Nora Engel, Sergey Martsevich, Guido de Wert and Klasien Horstman

Therapeutic landscapes and living with breast cancer: The lived experiences of Thai women pp. 263-271

Pranee Liamputtong and Dusanee Suwankhong

“I won't call it rationing…”: An ethnographic study of healthcare disinvestment in theory and practice pp. 273-281

Leila Rooshenas, Amanda Owen-Smith, William Hollingworth, Padmanabhan Badrinath, Claire Beynon and Jenny L. Donovan

Heat protection behaviors and positive affect about heat during the 2013 heat wave in the United Kingdom pp. 282-289

Carmen E. Lefevre, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Andrea L. Taylor, Suraje Dessai, Sari Kovats and Baruch Fischhoff

Prioritization and the elusive effect on welfare – A Norwegian health care reform revisited pp. 290-300

Arild Aakvik, Tor Helge Holmås and Egil Kjerstad

It takes a giraffe to see the big picture – Citizens' view on decision makers in health care rationing pp. 301-308

Mari Broqvist and Peter Garpenby

Short horizons and obesity futures: Disjunctures between public health interventions and everyday temporalities pp. 309-315

Megan Warin, Tanya Zivkovic, Vivienne Moore, Paul R. Ward and Michelle Jones

Income inequality and health: A causal review pp. 316-326

Kate E. Pickett and Richard G. Wilkinson

Does early-life income inequality predict self-reported health in later life? Evidence from the United States pp. 347-355

Dean R. Lillard, Richard Burkhauser, Markus H. Hahn and Roger Wilkins

Should age-period-cohort studies return to the methodologies of the 1970s? pp. 356-365

Eric N. Reither, Ryan K. Masters, Yang Claire Yang, Daniel Powers, Hui Zheng and Kenneth C. Land

Explaining mental health disparities for non-monosexual women: Abuse history and risky sex, or the burdens of non-disclosure? pp. 366-373

Tonje J. Persson, James G. Pfaus and Andrew G. Ryder