Social Science & Medicine

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2014, volume 122, articles C

Vital places: Facilitators of behavioral and social health mechanisms in low-income neighborhoods pp. 1-12

Emily Walton

The social dynamics of healthy food shopping and store choice in an urban environment pp. 13-20

Carolyn C. Cannuscio, Amy Hillier, Allison Karpyn and Karen Glanz

Newborn care practices in rural Bangladesh: Implications for the adaptation of kangaroo mother care for community-based interventions pp. 21-30

Erin C. Hunter, Jennifer A. Callaghan-Koru, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Rashed Shah, Azadeh Farzin, Elizabeth A. Cristofalo, Sadika Akhter and Abdullah H. Baqui

The impending globalization of ADHD: Notes on the expansion and growth of a medicalized disorder pp. 31-43

Peter Conrad and Meredith R. Bergey

‘Every bone of my body:’ Domestic violence and the diagnostic body pp. 44-52

Paige L. Sweet

Leadership networks in Catholic parishes: Implications for implementation research in health pp. 53-62

Rosalyn Negrón, Bryan Leyva, Jennifer Allen, Hosffman Ospino, Laura Tom and Sarah Rustan

Healthcare organization–education partnerships and career ladder programs for health care workers pp. 63-71

Janette S. Dill, Emmeline Chuang and Jennifer C. Morgan

Standardization as situation-specific achievement: Regulatory diversity and the production of value in intercontinental collaborations in stem cell medicine pp. 72-80

Achim Rosemann

Do institutional logics predict interpretation of contract rules at the dental chair-side? pp. 81-89

Rebecca Harris, Stephen Brown, Robin Holt and Elizabeth Perkins

Politics drives human functioning, dignity, and quality of life pp. 90-102

Brian K. Barber, Carolyn Spellings, Clea McNeely, Paul D. Page, Rita Giacaman, Cairo Arafat, Mahmoud Daher, Eyad El Sarraj and Mohammed Abu Mallouh

The National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana's Upper West Region: A gendered perspective of insurance acquisition in a resource-poor setting pp. 103-112

Jenna Dixon, Isaac Luginaah and Paul Mkandawire

How do dual practitioners divide their time? The cases of three African capital cities pp. 113-121

Barbara McPake, Giuliano Russo and Fu-Min Tseng

Racial/ethnic residential segregation, neighborhood poverty and urinary biomarkers of diet in New York City adults pp. 122-129

Stella S. Yi, Ryan R. Ruff, Molly Jung and Elizabeth Needham Waddell

Public engagement in priority-setting: Results from a pan-Canadian survey of decision-makers in cancer control pp. 130-139

Dean A. Regier, Colene Bentley, Craig Mitton, Stirling Bryan, Michael M. Burgess, Ellen Chesney, Andy Coldman, Jennifer Gibson, Jeffrey Hoch, Syed Rahman, Mona Sabharwal, Carol Sawka, Victoria Schuckel and Stuart J. Peacock

Contextualizing online human milk sharing: Structural factors and lactation disparity among middle income women in the U.S pp. 140-147

Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist and Kirsten Doehler

Adult children's socioeconomic positions and their parents' mortality: A comparison of education, occupational class, and income pp. 148-156

Jenny Torssander

2014, volume 121, articles C

In search of links between social capital, mental health and sociotherapy: A longitudinal study in Rwanda pp. 1-9

Femke Verduin, Geert E. Smid, Tim R. Wind and Willem F. Scholte

The effects of marriage and separation on the psychotropic medication use of non-married cohabiters: A register-based longitudinal study among adult Finns pp. 10-20

Niina Metsä-Simola and Pekka Martikainen

Self-assessed health: What does it mean and what does it hide? pp. 21-28

Nicole Au and David Johnston

‘Scaling-up is a craft not a science’: Catalysing scale-up of health innovations in Ethiopia, India and Nigeria pp. 30-38

Neil Spicer, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Ritgak Dimka, Feleke Fanta, Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies, Joanna Schellenberg, Addis Tamire-Woldemariam, Gill Walt and Deepthi Wickremasinghe

Adolescent socio-economic and school-based social status, health and well-being pp. 39-47

Helen Sweeting and Kate Hunt

Right to health, essential medicines, and lawsuits for access to medicines – A scoping study pp. 48-55

Claudia Marcela Vargas-Peláez, Marina Raijche Mattozo Rover, Silvana Nair Leite, Francisco Rossi Buenaventura and Mareni Rocha Farias

Retaining rural doctors: Doctors' preferences for rural medical workforce incentives pp. 56-64

Jinhu Li, Anthony Scott, Matthew McGrail, John Humphreys and Julia Witt

The effect of chronic pain on life satisfaction: Evidence from Australian data pp. 65-73

Paul McNamee and Silvia Mendolia

The contribution of lifestyle and work factors to social inequalities in self-rated health among the employed population in Switzerland pp. 74-84

Oliver Hämmig, Felix Gutzwiller and Ichiro Kawachi

Food as people: Teenagers' perspectives on food personalities and implications for healthy eating pp. 85-90

Charlene Elliott

The association between a living wage and subjective social status and self-rated health: A quasi-experimental study in the Dominican Republic pp. 91-97

John C. Landefeld, Katharine B. Burmaster, David H. Rehkopf, S. Leonard Syme, Maureen Lahiff, Sarah Adler-Milstein and Lia C.H. Fernald

Do employment protection policies reduce the relative disadvantage in the labour market experienced by unhealthy people? A natural experiment created by the Great Recession in Europe pp. 98-108

Aaron Reeves, Marina Karanikolos, Johan Mackenbach, Martin McKee and David Stuckler

2014, volume 120, articles C

Effects of comparative claims in prescription drug direct-to-consumer advertising on consumer perceptions and recall pp. 1-11

Amie C. O'Donoghue, Pamela A. Williams, Helen W. Sullivan, Vanessa Boudewyns, Claudia Squire and Jessica Fitts Willoughby

Measuring quality of life in mental health: Are we asking the right questions? pp. 12-20

Janice Connell, Alicia O'Cathain and John Brazier

Life-course and cohort trajectories of mental health in the UK, 1991–2008 – A multilevel age–period–cohort analysis pp. 21-30

Andrew Bell

Neighborhood racial composition and trajectories of child self-rated health: An application of longitudinal propensity scores pp. 31-39

Elisabeth Dowling Root and Jamie L. Humphrey

Is the prescribing behavior of Chinese physicians driven by financial incentives? pp. 40-48

Chun Chen, Weizhen Dong, Jay J. Shen, Christopher Cochran, Ying Wang and Mo Hao

Impact of the gap between socioeconomic stratum and subjective social class on depressive symptoms: Unique insights from a longitudinal analysis pp. 49-56

Jae-Hyun Kim, Sang Gyu Lee, Jaeyong Shin and Eun-Cheol Park

“The we's have it”: Evidence for the distinctive benefits of group engagement in enhancing cognitive health in aging pp. 57-66

Catherine Haslam, Tegan Cruwys and S. Alexander Haslam

Adolescents' health identities: A qualitative and theoretical study of health education courses pp. 67-75

D. Grabowski and K.K. Rasmussen

The unfinished body: The medical and social reshaping of disabled young bodies pp. 76-84

Janice McLaughlin and Edmund Coleman-Fountain

The narrative (re)production of prestige: How neurosurgeons teach medical students to valorise diseases pp. 85-91

Lars E.F. Johannessen

Health benefits of religion among Black and White older adults? Race, religiosity, and C-reactive protein pp. 92-99

Kenneth F. Ferraro and Seoyoun Kim

Low immigrant mortality in England and Wales: A data artefact? pp. 100-109

Matthew Wallace and Hill Kulu

Variation in the costs of dying and the role of different health services, socio-demographic characteristics, and preceding health care expenses pp. 110-117

Herbert J.A. Rolden, David van Bodegom and Rudi G.J. Westendorp

A different look at the epidemiological paradox: Self-rated health, perceived social cohesion, and neighborhood immigrant context pp. 118-125

Eileen E.S. Bjornstrom and Danielle C. Kuhl

No time for the gym? Housework and other non-labor market time use patterns are associated with meeting physical activity recommendations among adults in full-time, sedentary jobs pp. 126-134

Lindsey P. Smith, Shu Wen Ng and Barry M. Popkin

How theory is used and articulated in qualitative research: Development of a new typology pp. 135-141

Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Julie Taylor and Oliver Herber

Accessibility patterns and community integration among previously homeless adults: A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach pp. 142-152

Dara V. Chan, Sucharita Gopal and Christine A. Helfrich

Are tuition-free primary education policies associated with lower infant and neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries? pp. 153-159

Amm Quamruzzaman, José M. Mendoza Rodríguez, Jody Heymann, Jay S. Kaufman and Arijit Nandi

Eliciting community preferences for complementary micro health insurance: A discrete choice experiment in rural Malawi pp. 160-168

Gilbert Abotisem Abiiro, Aleksandra Torbica, Kassim Kwalamasa and Manuela De Allegri

Seeds of prevention: The impact on health behaviors of young adolescent girls in Uttar Pradesh, India, a cluster randomized control trial pp. 169-179

Nandita Kapadia-Kundu, Douglas Storey, Basil Safi, Geetali Trivedi, Rama Tupe and G. Narayana

Ethnic enclaves and gestational diabetes among immigrant women in New York City pp. 180-189

T. Janevic, L.N. Borrell, D.A. Savitz, S.E. Echeverria and A. Rundle

Stressors and common mental disorder in informal carers – An analysis of the English Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007 pp. 190-198

Stephen Stansfeld, Melanie Smuk, Juliana Onwumere, Charlotte Clark, Cleo Pike, Sally McManus, Jenny Harris and Paul Bebbington

The impact of parental educational trajectories on their adult offspring's overweight/obesity status: A study of three generations of Swedish men and women pp. 199-207

M.P. Chaparro and Ilona Koupil

Doing diagnosis: Whether and how clinicians use a diagnostic tool of uncertain clinical utility pp. 208-214

Natalie Armstrong and Paul Hilton

Controlling parasites, understanding practices: The biosocial complexity of a One Health intervention for neglected zoonotic helminths in northern Lao PDR pp. 215-223

Kevin Bardosh, Phouth Inthavong, Sivilai Xayaheuang and Anna L. Okello

Depressive symptoms and SES among the mid-aged and elderly in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study national baseline pp. 224-232

Xiaoyan Lei, Xiaoting Sun, John Strauss, Peng Zhang and Yaohui Zhao

The habitus of ‘rescue’ and its significance for implementation of rapid response systems in acute health care pp. 233-242

Nicola Mackintosh, Charlotte Humphrey and Jane Sandall

Hospital admissions for severe mental illness in England: Changes in equity of utilisation at the small area level between 2006 and 2010 pp. 243-251

Jonathan White, Nils Gutacker, Rowena Jacobs and Anne Mason

Seeing risk and allocating responsibility: Talk of culture and its consequences on the work of patient safety pp. 252-259

Julia E. Szymczak

Wage differences according to health status in France pp. 260-268

Mohamed Ali Ben Halima and Emeline Rococo

State-level social capital and suicide mortality in the 50 U.S. states pp. 269-277

Nathan Daniel Lucia Smith and Ichiro Kawachi

Living with autism spectrum disorder in Hanoi, Vietnam pp. 278-285

Vu Song Ha, Andrea Whittaker, Maxine Whittaker and Sylvia Rodger

Personality disorders, alcohol use, and alcohol misuse pp. 286-300

Johanna Maclean and Michael T. French

Life events trajectories, allostatic load, and the moderating role of age at arrival from Puerto Rico to the US mainland pp. 301-310

Sandra P. Arévalo, Katherine L. Tucker and Luis M. Falcón

Disaster medicine: Genealogy of a concept pp. 317-324

Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger and Svenja Goltermann

Theorizing the relationship between NGOs and the state in medical humanitarian development projects pp. 325-333

Asad L. Asad and Tamara Kay

Rapid response: Email, immediacy, and medical humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia pp. 334-343

Jesse Hession Grayman

Did we do good? NGOs, conflicts of interest and the evaluation of short-term medical missions in Sololá, Guatemala pp. 344-351

Nicole S. Berry

Performing deservingness. Humanitarian health care provision for migrants in Germany pp. 352-359

Susann Huschke

Medical humanitarianism in the United States: Alternative healthcare, spirituality and political advocacy in the case of Our Lady Guadalupe Free Clinic pp. 360-367

Kristina Tiedje and David J. Plevak

The epidemiology of lethal violence in Darfur: Using micro-data to explore complex patterns of ongoing armed conflict pp. 368-377

Alex de Waal, Chad Hazlett, Christian Davenport and Joshua Kennedy

On the frontline of eastern Burma's chronic conflict – Listening to the voices of local health workers pp. 378-386

Katherine H.A. Footer, Sarah Meyer, Susan G. Sherman and Leonard Rubenstein

Bounded agency in humanitarian settings: A qualitative study of adherence to antiretroviral therapy among refugees situated in Kenya and Malaysia pp. 387-395

Joshua B. Mendelsohn, Tim Rhodes, Paul Spiegel, Marian Schilperoord, John Wagacha Burton, Susheela Balasundaram, Chunting Wong and David A. Ross

Changing landscapes, changing practice: Negotiating access to sleeping sickness services in a post-conflict society pp. 396-404

Jennifer J. Palmer, Ann H. Kelly, Elizeous I. Surur, Francesco Checchi and Caroline Jones

Camel milk, amoxicillin, and a prayer: Medical pluralism and medical humanitarian aid in the Somali Region of Ethiopia pp. 405-412

Lauren Carruth

Everyday suffering outside prison walls: A legacy of community justice in post-genocide Rwanda pp. 413-420

Théoneste Rutayisire and Annemiek Richters

The military physician and contested medical humanitarianism: A dueling identity? pp. 421-429

Stuart Gordon

The co-construction of medical humanitarianism: Analysis of personal, organizationally condoned narratives from an agency website pp. 430-438

Alastair Ager and Melina Iacovou