Social Science & Medicine

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2015, volume 127, articles C

Trends and group differences in the association between educational attainment and U.S. adult mortality: Implications for understanding education's causal influence pp. 8-18

Mark D. Hayward, Robert A. Hummer and Isaac Sasson

Trends in education gradients of ‘preventable’ mortality: A test of fundamental cause theory pp. 19-28

Ryan K. Masters, Bruce G. Link and Jo C. Phelan

A meta-analysis of education effects on chronic disease: The causal dynamics of the Population Education Transition Curve pp. 29-40

William C. Smith, Emily Anderson, Daniel Salinas, Renata Horvatek and David P. Baker

Cohort changes in educational disparities in smoking: France, Germany and the United States pp. 41-50

Fred Pampel, Stephane Legleye, Céline Goffette, Daniela Piontek, Ludwig Kraus and Myriam Khlat

Variations in the relation between education and cause-specific mortality in 19 European populations: A test of the “fundamental causes” theory of social inequalities in health pp. 51-62

Johan P. Mackenbach, Ivana Kulhánová, Matthias Bopp, Patrick Deboosere, Terje A. Eikemo, Rasmus Hoffmann, Margarete C. Kulik, Mall Leinsalu, Pekka Martikainen, Gwenn Menvielle, Enrique Regidor, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Olof Östergren and Olle Lundberg

When does education matter? The protective effect of education for cohorts graduating in bad times pp. 63-73

David M. Cutler, Wei Huang and Adriana Lleras-Muney

Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe pp. 74-82

Christina Gathmann, Hendrik Jürges and Steffen Reinhold

Does more education lead to better health habits? Evidence from the school reforms in Australia pp. 83-91

Jinhu Li and Nattavudh Powdthavee

Education and health knowledge: Evidence from UK compulsory schooling reform pp. 92-100

David Johnston, Grace Lordan, Michael Shields and Agne Suziedelyte

New evidence of the effects of education on health in the US: Compulsory schooling laws revisited pp. 101-107

Jason Fletcher

The effect of increased primary schooling on adult women's HIV status in Malawi and Uganda: Universal Primary Education as a natural experiment pp. 108-115

Julia Andrea Behrman

Can universal pre-kindergarten programs improve population health and longevity? Mechanisms, evidence, and policy implications pp. 116-123

Peter Muennig

Are literacy skills associated with young adults' health in Africa? Evidence from Malawi pp. 124-133

Emily Smith-Greenaway

Education and mortality among older adults in China pp. 134-142

Ye Luo, Zhenmei Zhang and Danan Gu

A blunted diurnal cortisol response in the lower educated does not explain educational differences in coronary heart disease: Findings from the AGES-Reykjavik Study pp. 143-149

Daniëlle A.I. Groffen, Hans Bosma, Annemarie Koster, Mikaela B. von Bonsdorff, Thor Aspelund, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Gertrudis I.J.M. Kempen, Clemens Kirschbaum, Vilmundur Gudnason and Tamara B. Harris

Genetic vulnerability to diabetes and obesity: Does education offset the risk? pp. 150-158

S.Y. Liu, S. Walter, J. Marden, D.H. Rehkopf, L.D. Kubzansky, T. Nguyen and M.M. Glymour

Can education rescue genetic liability for cognitive decline? pp. 159-170

Justin Cook and Jason Fletcher

What can genes tell us about the relationship between education and health? pp. 171-180

Jason D. Boardman, Benjamin W. Domingue and Jonathan Daw

Schooling has smaller or insignificant effects on adult health in the US than suggested by cross-sectional associations: New estimates using relatively large samples of identical twins pp. 181-189

Vikesh Amin, Jere Behrman and Hans-Peter Kohler

Cross-sectional schooling-health associations misrepresented causal schooling effects on adult health and health-related behaviors: Evidence from the Chinese Adults Twins Survey pp. 190-197

Jere Behrman, Yanyan Xiong and Junsen Zhang

Educational attainment and life expectancy: A perspective from the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research pp. 203-205

Michael L. Spittel, William T. Riley and Robert M. Kaplan

2015, volume 126, articles C

What binds biosociality? The collective effervescence of the parent-led conference pp. 1-8

Rebecca Dimond, Andrew Bartlett and Jamie Lewis

Latent and manifest empiricism in Q'eqchi' Maya healing: A case study of HIV/AIDS pp. 9-16

James B. Waldram and Andrew R. Hatala

Interdisciplinary promises versus practices in medicine: The decoupled experiences of social sciences and humanities scholars pp. 17-25

Mathieu Albert, Elise Paradis and Ayelet Kuper

Inequalities in social capital and health between people with and without disabilities pp. 26-35

Johanna Mithen, Zoe Aitken, Anne Ziersch and Anne M. Kavanagh

The impact of using computer decision-support software in primary care nurse-led telephone triage: Interactional dilemmas and conversational consequences pp. 36-47

Jamie Murdoch, Rebecca Barnes, Jillian Pooler, Valerie Lattimer, Emily Fletcher and John L. Campbell

Practices used for recommending sickness certification by general practitioners: A conversation analytic study of UK primary care consultations pp. 48-58

Hannah C. Wheat, Rebecca K. Barnes and Richard Byng

A not so happy day after all: Excess death rates on birthdays in the U.S pp. 59-66

Pablo Peña

Addressing the unemployment–mortality conundrum: Non-linearity is the answer pp. 67-72

Giorgio Bonamore, Fabrizio Carmignani and Emilio Colombo

Portraying mental illness and drug addiction as treatable health conditions: Effects of a randomized experiment on stigma and discrimination pp. 73-85

Emma E. McGinty, Howard H. Goldman, Bernice Pescosolido and Colleen L. Barry

Lived experience of acute gastrointestinal illness in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut: “Just suffer through it” pp. 86-98

Sherilee L. Harper, Victoria L. Edge, James Ford, M. Kate Thomas and Scott A. McEwen

Constrained choices? Linking employees' and spouses' work time to health behaviors pp. 99-109

Wen Fan, Jack Lam, Phyllis Moen, Erin Kelly, Rosalind King and Susan McHale

“I used to be as fit as a linnet” – Beliefs, attitudes, and environmental supportiveness for physical activity in former mining areas in the North-East of England pp. 110-118

Esther Rind and Andy Jones

Scaling up nutrition in fragile and conflict-affected states: The pivotal role of governance pp. 119-127

Sebastian A.J. Taylor, Carolina Perez-Ferrer, Andrew Griffiths and Eric Brunner

Public views on principles for health care priority setting: Findings of a European cross-country study using Q methodology pp. 128-137

Job van Exel, Rachel Baker, Helen Mason, Cam Donaldson and Werner Brouwer

Do time-invariant confounders explain away the association between job stress and workers' mental health?: Evidence from Japanese occupational panel data pp. 138-144

Takashi Oshio, Akizumi Tsutsumi and Akiomi Inoue

Early childhood WIC participation, cognitive development and academic achievement pp. 145-153

Margot I. Jackson

Inequities in health care utilization by people aged 50+: Evidence from 12 European countries pp. 154-163

Marco Terraneo

Racial resentment and smoking pp. 164-168

Frank L. Samson

Structural adjustment and public spending on health: Evidence from IMF programs in low-income countries pp. 169-176

Alexander E. Kentikelenis, Thomas H. Stubbs and Lawrence P. King

2015, volume 125, articles C

The front line of social capital creation – A natural experiment in symbolic interaction pp. 8-18

Roger Patulny, Peter Siminski and Silvia Mendolia

Choosing your network: Social preferences in an online health community pp. 19-31

Damon Centola and Arnout van de Rijt

Siblings, friends, course-mates, club-mates: How adolescent health behavior homophily varies by race, class, gender, and health status pp. 32-39

Jonathan Daw, Rachel Margolis and Ashton M. Verdery

Mental health and social networks in early adolescence: A dynamic study of objectively-measured social interaction behaviors pp. 40-50

Mark C. Pachucki, Emily J. Ozer, Alain Barrat and Ciro Cattuto

Reprint of: Results from using a new dyadic-dependence model to analyze sociocentric physician networks pp. 51-59

Sudeshna Paul, Nancy L. Keating, Bruce E. Landon and O’Malley, A. James

Social networks and health: A systematic review of sociocentric network studies in low- and middle-income countries pp. 60-78

Jessica M. Perkins, S.V. Subramanian and Nicholas A. Christakis

Challenges to recruiting population representative samples of female sex workers in China using Respondent Driven Sampling pp. 79-93

M. Giovanna Merli, James Moody, Jeffrey Smith, Jing Li, Sharon Weir and Xiangsheng Chen

The health benefits of network growth: New evidence from a national survey of older adults pp. 94-106

Benjamin Cornwell and Edward O. Laumann

The mix matters: Complex personal networks relate to higher cognitive functioning in old age pp. 107-115

Lea Ellwardt, Theo G. Van Tilburg and Marja J. Aartsen

Social network predictors of latrine ownership pp. 129-138

Holly B. Shakya, Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler

Tragic, but not random: The social contagion of nonfatal gunshot injuries pp. 139-150

Andrew V. Papachristos, Christopher Wildeman and Elizabeth Roberto

Reprint of: The myth of conformity: Adolescents and abstention from unhealthy drinking behaviors pp. 151-162

Carter Rees and Danielle Wallace

Neighborhoods and adolescent health-risk behavior: An ecological network approach pp. 163-172

Christopher R. Browning, Brian Soller and Aubrey L. Jackson

Multiplex congruity: Friendship networks and perceived popularity as correlates of adolescent alcohol use pp. 173-181

Kayo Fujimoto and Thomas W. Valente

Reprint of: “This is the medicine:” A Kenyan community responds to a sexual concurrency reduction intervention pp. 182-191

Amelia Knopf, Kawango Agot, John Sidle, Violet Naanyu and Martina Morris

A new HIV prevention network approach: Sociometric peer change agent selection pp. 192-202

John A. Schneider, A. Ning Zhou and Edward O. Laumann

Leveraging social influence to address overweight and obesity using agent-based models: The role of adolescent social networks pp. 203-213

J. Zhang, L. Tong, Pj Lamberson, R.A. Durazo-Arvizu, A. Luke and D.A. Shoham