Social Science & Medicine

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2015, volume 124, articles C

Shards of sorrow: Older men's accounts of their depression experience pp. 1-8

Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano, Judith C. Barker and Ladson Hinton

Childhood psychological distress and youth unemployment: Evidence from two British cohort studies pp. 11-17

Mark Egan, Michael Daly and Liam Delaney

Paying for primary care: A cross-sectional analysis of cost and morbidity distributions across primary care payment models in Ontario Canada pp. 18-28

David Rudoler, Audrey Laporte, Janet Barnsley, Richard H. Glazier and Raisa B. Deber

Does informal care impact utilization of healthcare services? Evidence from a longitudinal study of stroke patients pp. 29-38

Aleksandra Torbica, Stefano Calciolari and Giovanni Fattore

Dealing with uncertainty and high prices of new medicines: A comparative analysis of the use of managed entry agreements in Belgium, England, the Netherlands and Sweden pp. 39-47

Alessandra Ferrario and Panos Kanavos

Valuing health at the end of life: A stated preference discrete choice experiment pp. 48-56

Koonal K. Shah, Aki Tsuchiya and Allan J. Wailoo

Exploring the feasibility of theory synthesis: A worked example in the field of health related risk-taking pp. 57-65

Pandora Pound and Rona Campbell

The physical and social determinants of mortality in the 3.11 tsunami pp. 66-75

Daniel P. Aldrich and Yasuyuki Sawada

The determinants of dentists' productivity and the measurement of output pp. 76-84

Nils Gutacker, Anthony Harris, David Brennan and Bruce Hollingsworth

Sick of our loans: Student borrowing and the mental health of young adults in the United States pp. 85-93

Katrina M. Walsemann, Gilbert C. Gee and Danielle Gentile

Willingness to pay for telecare programmes to support independent living: Results from a contingent valuation study pp. 94-102

Aoife Callan and Eamon O'Shea

Changing handwashing behaviour in southern Ethiopia: A longitudinal study on infrastructural and commitment interventions pp. 103-114

Nadja Contzen, Iara Helena Meili and Hans-Joachim Mosler

Cost sharing and hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions pp. 115-120

Alejandro Arrieta and Ariadna García-Prado

Is temporary employment damaging to health? A longitudinal study on Italian workers pp. 121-131

Elena Pirani and Silvana Salvini

Racial/ethnic differences in use of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana: Is there a cross-over from adolescence to adulthood? pp. 132-141

Katherine M. Keyes, Thomas Vo, Melanie M. Wall, Raul Caetano, Shakira F. Suglia, Silvia S. Martins, Sandro Galea and Deborah Hasin

Mental health inequalities in 9 former Soviet Union countries: Evidence from the previous decade pp. 142-151

Yevgeniy Goryakin, Marc Suhrcke, Bayard Roberts and Martin McKee

Environmental disorder and functional decline among older adults: A layered context approach pp. 152-161

Markus H. Schafer and Laura Upenieks

Mental health and general wellness in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike pp. 162-170

Sarah R. Lowe, Spruha Joshi, Robert H. Pietrzak, Sandro Galea and Magdalena Cerdá

Are neighborhood bonding and bridging social capital protective against depressive mood in old age? A multilevel analysis in Japan pp. 171-179

Hiroshi Murayama, Yu Nofuji, Eri Matsuo, Mariko Nishi, Yu Taniguchi, Yoshinori Fujiwara and Shoji Shinkai

Prestige rankings of chronic diseases and disabilities. A survey among professionals in the disability field pp. 180-186

Jan Grue, Lars E.F. Johannessen and Erik Fossan Rasmussen

Social norms and its correlates as a pathway to smoking among young Latino adults pp. 187-195

Sandra E. Echeverría, Daniel A. Gundersen, Michelle T.B. Manderski and Cristine D. Delnevo

Framing in policy processes: A case study from hospital planning in the National Health Service in England pp. 196-204

Lorelei Jones and Mark Exworthy

Developing empirically supported theories of change for housing investment and health pp. 205-214

Hilary Thomson and Sian Thomas

When does marketisation lead to privatisation? Profit-making in English health services after the 2012 Health and Social Care Act pp. 215-223

Nick Krachler and Ian Greer

Hybridity as a process of technology's ‘translation’: Customizing a national Electronic Patient Record pp. 224-231

Dimitra Petrakaki and Ela Klecun

Do community health workers perceive mechanisms associated with the success of community case management of malaria? A qualitative study from Burkina Faso pp. 232-240

Thomas Druetz, Kadidiatou Kadio, Slim Haddad, Seni Kouanda and Valéry Ridde

Implementation of effective cigarette health warning labels among low and middle income countries: State capacity, path-dependency and tobacco industry activity pp. 241-245

Heikki Hiilamo and Stanton A. Glantz

The impact of interventions to promote physical activity in urban green space: A systematic review and recommendations for future research pp. 246-256

Ruth F. Hunter, Hayley Christian, Jenny Veitch, Thomas Astell-Burt, J.Aaron Hipp and Jasper Schipperijn

The effect of traffic lights and regulatory statements on the choice between complementary and conventional medicines in Australia: Results from a discrete choice experiment pp. 257-265

Jean Spinks and Duncan Mortimer

Exploring complex causal pathways between urban renewal, health and health inequality using a theory-driven realist approach pp. 266-274

Roshanak Mehdipanah, Ana Manzano, Carme Borrell, Davide Malmusi, Maica Rodriguez-Sanz, Joanne Greenhalgh, Carles Muntaner and Ray Pawson

Increase in frailty of older workers and retirees predicted by negative psychosocial working conditions on the job pp. 275-283

Lucie Kalousova and Carlos Mendes de Leon

Perceptions of an ‘international hospital’ in Thailand by medical travel patients: Cross-cultural tensions in a transnational space pp. 290-297

Andrea Whittaker and Heng Leng Chee

Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism pp. 298-304

Ruth Holliday, David Bell, Olive Cheung, Meredith Jones and Elspeth Probyn

Solidarity by demand? Exit and voice in international medical travel – The case of Indonesia pp. 305-312

Meghann Ormond

South–South medical tourism and the quest for health in Southern Africa pp. 313-320

Jonathan Crush and Abel Chikanda

Health region development from the perspective of system theory – An empirical cross-regional case study pp. 321-330

Michael Volgger, Tomas Mainil, Harald Pechlaner and Ondrej Mitas

Reprint of: Dream vs. reality: Seven case-studies on the desirability and feasibility of cross-border hospital collaboration in Europe pp. 331-337

Irene A. Glinos and Rita Baeten

International patients within the NHS: A case of public sector entrepreneurialism pp. 338-345

Neil Lunt, Mark Exworthy, Johanna Hanefeld and Richard D. Smith

Transnational healthcare practices of Romanian migrants in Ireland: Inequalities of access and the privatisation of healthcare services in Europe pp. 346-355

Sabina Stan

Why do medical tourists travel to where they do? The role of networks in determining medical travel pp. 356-363

J. Hanefeld, N. Lunt, R. Smith and D. Horsfall

Cross-border mobility and social networks: Laotians seeking medical treatment along the Thai border pp. 364-373

Audrey Bochaton

International migration of health professionals and the marketization and privatization of health education in India: From push–pull to global political economy pp. 374-382

Margaret Walton-Roberts

Transnational surrogacy: Canada's contradictions pp. 383-390

Kristin Lozanski

Cross-border reproductive care for law evasion: A qualitative study into the experiences and moral perspectives of French women who go to Belgium for treatment with donor sperm pp. 391-397

Wannes Van Hoof, Guido Pennings and Petra De Sutter

2014, volume 123, articles C

Inequalities in institutional delivery uptake and maternal mortality reduction in the context of cash incentive program, Janani Suraksha Yojana: Results from nine states in India pp. 1-6

Bharat Randive, Miguel San Sebastian, Ayesha De Costa and Lars Lindholm

Exploring stigmatisation among people diagnosed with either bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder: A critical realist analysis pp. 7-17

Oliver Bonnington and Diana Rose

Effects of infant health on family food insecurity: Evidence from two U.S. birth cohort studies pp. 18-25

Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman

Pathways between acculturation and health behaviors among residents of low-income housing: The mediating role of social and contextual factors pp. 26-36

Jennifer Dacey Allen, Caitlin Caspi, May Yang, Bryan Leyva, Anne M. Stoddard, Sara Tamers, Reginald D. Tucker-Seeley and Glorian C. Sorensen

Applying the contact hypothesis to anti-fat attitudes: Contact with overweight people is related to how we interact with our bodies and those of others pp. 37-44

Anandi Alperin, Matthew J. Hornsey, Lydia E. Hayward, Phillippa C. Diedrichs and Fiona Kate Barlow

A retrospective health policy analysis of the development and implementation of the voluntary health insurance system in Lebanon: Learning from failure pp. 45-54

Fadi El-Jardali, Lama Bou-Karroum, Nour Ataya, Hana Addam El-Ghali and Rawan Hammoud

The socioeconomic gradient in physical inactivity: Evidence from one million adults in England pp. 55-63

Lisa Farrell, Bruce Hollingsworth, Carol Propper and Michael Shields

The doctor–patient relationship, defensive medicine and overprescription in Chinese public hospitals: Evidence from a cross-sectional survey in Shenzhen city pp. 64-71

Alex Jingwei He

Nutritional strategies of Latino farmworker families with preschool children: Identifying leverage points for obesity prevention pp. 72-81

Sara A. Quandt, Joseph G. Grzywacz, Grisel Trejo and Thomas A. Arcury

When ‘breast’ is no longer ‘best’: Post-partum constructions of infant-feeding in the hospital pp. 82-89

Jessica Braimoh and Lorraine Davies

Social network analysis of public health programs to measure partnership pp. 90-95

Martin W. Schoen, Sarah Moreland-Russell, Kim Prewitt and Bobbi J. Carothers

The effects of performance incentives on the utilization and quality of maternal and child care in Burundi pp. 96-104

Igna Bonfrer, Ellen Van de Poel and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Adherence to anti-depressant medication: A medicine-taking career pp. 105-113

Niels Buus

Changes in health selection of obesity among Mexican immigrants: A binational examination pp. 114-124

Annie Ro and Nancy Fleischer

Moving beyond the historical quagmire of measuring infant mortality for the First Nations population in Canada pp. 125-132

Brenda Elias

Long-term psychiatric consequences of exposure to trauma in Cambodia: A regional household survey pp. 133-140

Elizabeth Cantor-Graae, Thida Chak, Ka Sunbaunat, Johan Jarl and Charlotte A. Larsson

Birth order and physical fitness in early adulthood: Evidence from Swedish military conscription data pp. 141-148

Kieron Barclay and Mikko Myrskylä

Experiences of stigma and discrimination of people with schizophrenia in India pp. 149-159

Mirja Koschorke, R. Padmavati, Shuba Kumar, Alex Cohen, Helen A. Weiss, Sudipto Chatterjee, Jesina Pereira, Smita Naik, Sujit John, Hamid Dabholkar, Madhumitha Balaji, Animish Chavan, Mathew Varghese, R. Thara, Graham Thornicroft and Vikram Patel

The role of civil society in health care reforms: An arena for hegemonic struggles pp. 168-173

Dani Filc

Public or private? The role of the state and civil society in health and health inequalities across nations pp. 174-181

Sigrun Olafsdottir, Elyas Bakhtiari and Emily Barman

The potential of social enterprise to enhance health and well-being: A model and systematic review pp. 182-193

Michael J. Roy, Cam Donaldson, Rachel Baker and Susan Kerr

Taking part: Engaging knowledge on health in clinical encounters pp. 194-201

João Arriscado Nunes, Patrícia Ferreira and Filipa Queirós

The voluntary sector and health policy: The role of national level health consumer and patients' organisations in the UK pp. 202-209

Rob Baggott and Kathryn Jones

Civil society and the Health and Social Care Act in England and Wales: Theory and praxis for the twenty-first century pp. 210-216

Graham Scambler, Sasha Scambler and Ewen Speed

Self-help friendliness: A German approach for strengthening the cooperation between self-help groups and health care professionals pp. 217-225

Christopher Kofahl, Alf Trojan, Olaf von dem Knesebeck and Stefan Nickel

Citizen participation and discontent in three Southern European health systems pp. 226-233

Mauro Serapioni and Ana Raquel Matos

Civil society, third sector, and healthcare: The case of social cooperatives in Italy pp. 234-241

Carlo Borzaga and Luca Fazzi

Self-help/mutual aid as active citizenship associations: A case-study of the chronically ill in Italy pp. 242-249

Guido Giarelli and Elena Spina

Governing through community-based research: Lessons from the Canadian HIV research sector pp. 250-261

Adrian Guta, Carol Strike, Sarah Flicker, Stuart J. Murray, Ross Upshur and Ted Myers

Engaging civil society through deliberative dialogue to create the first Mental Health Strategy for Canada: Changing Directions, Changing Lives pp. 262-268

Gillian Mulvale, Howard Chodos, Mary Bartram, Mary Pat MacKinnon and Manon Abud

To whom do bureaucrats need to respond? Two faces of civil society in health policy pp. 269-277

Seunghoo Lim, Keon-Hyung Lee, Hae Sun Suh and Kwi-Hee Bae

Does more equitable governance lead to more equitable health care? A case study based on the implementation of health reform in Aboriginal health Australia pp. 278-286

Margaret Kelaher, Hana Sabanovic, Camille La Brooy, Mark Lock, Dean Lusher and Larry Brown

The role of civil society organizations in the institutionalization of indigenous medicine in Bolivia pp. 287-294

Deby Babis