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January 1984, Volume 18, Issue 3
January 1984, Volume 18, Issue 2
- 103-110 Professional and business role orientations among practicing pharmacists
by Chappell, Neena L. & Barnes, Gordon E.
- 111-115 The curer as cultural intermediary in Southern Thailand
by Golomb, Louis
- 117-128 The practice of 'DR' Paep: Continuity and change in indegenous healing in northern Thailand
by Weisberg, Daniel H.
- 129-137 Curing and commerce: Changes in an indigenous medical practice in a highland Philippine town
by Russell, Susan D.
- 139-146 'Mother needles': Lessons on inter-ethnic psychiatry in Malaysian society
by Provencher, Ronald
- 147-157 Black magic and illness in a Malaysian Chinese community
by Mo, Bertha
- 159-166 Malay midwives and witches
by Karim, Wazir-Jahan
- 167-172 Healing as a sign of power and status in Bali
by McCauley, Ann P.
- 173-182 Drugs and adverse reactions: An economic view of a medical problem
by Pedroni, Gabriella
- 183-187 Sleeping sickness in Kenya Maasailand
by Sindiga, Isaac
January 1984, Volume 18, Issue 1
- 1-9 How physicians treat mentally distressed men and women
by Verbrugge, Lois M.
- 11-19 Power and visibility: The invention of teenage pregnancy
by Arney, William Ray & Bergen, Bernard J.
- 21-26 Trends in adolescent development in the People's Republic of China
by Goldfield, Norbert
- 27-40 Choice and change in health care in Britain
by Russell, Elizabeth M.
- 41-45 Determinants of receipt of assistance benefit and welfare services in a group of disabled adults in Norway
by Storhaug, Kari
- 47-57 'These are modern times': Infant feeding practice in Peninsular Malaysia
by Manderson, Lenore
- 59-62 Some aspects of the geographical mortality pattern of the Brussels population in 1970
by Moens, Guido F. G.
- 63-72 Geographical patterns of heart disease in the Northeastern United States
by Ziegenfus, Robert C. & Gesler, Wilbert M.
- 73-81 La mortalite differentielle par cancer suivant le milieu social: Le cas de la region metropolitaine de Montreal, 1971
by Thouez, Jean-Pierre
- 83-85 Projecting physician requirements in a two-county region in Ohio
by Monroe, Charles B. & Dutt, Ashok K. & Santora, Andrew
- 87-93 Acculturation and mental health: A study of Hmong refugees at 1.5 and 3.5 years postmigration
by Westermeyer, Joseph & Neider, John & Vang, Tou Fu
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 24
- 1945-1946 Health and development in Africa
by Oberender, Peter & Diesfeld, Hans Jochen & Diesfeld, Hans Jochen
- 1947-1960 Planning and politics of resource allocation for primary health care: Promotion of meaningful national policy
by Segall, Malcolm
- 1961-1969 Some observations about health development in three African socialist countries: Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania
by Gish, Oscar
- 1971-1981 Vertical vs horizontal health programmes in Africa: Idealism, pragmatism, resources and efficiency
by Mills, Anne
- 1983-1993 Jamaica: A case study in health development
by Cumper, G. E.
- 1995-2002 Planning priorities and health care delivery in Nigeria
by Abudu, Folorunso
- 2003-2006 The state of health as a reflection of the level of development of a nation
by Agbonifo, P. O.
- 2007-2015 Health care in the developing world: The role of economists and economics
by Lee, Kenneth
- 2017-2025 Health care financing: Recent experience in Africa
by Dunlop, David W.
- 2027-2032 Economic issues in disease control and eradication
by Andreano, Ralph
- 2033-2036 Religiosity and health behaviour in Africa
by Sempebwa, Joshua W.
- 2037-2039 Making medical education relevant to health care systems
by Parry, E. H. O.
- 2041-2043 Health and culture in an African society
by Namboze, Josephine M.
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 23
- 1831-1835 Scientism vs humanism in medical education
by Doran, Gregory A.
- 1837-1845 Aspects of living conditions among groups of disabled children and their families in Norway: Family situation, mothers' health, financial assistance
by Storhaug, Kari
- 1847-1855 Family planning and female sterilization in the United States
by Shapiro, Thomas M. & Fisher, William & Diana, Augusto
- 1857-1865 Perceived risk and choice of childbirth service
by McClain, Carol Shepherd
- 1867-1871 Breast-feeding among female employees at a major health institution in Lagos, Nigeria
by Bamisaiye, A. & Oyediran, M. A.
- 1873-1875 Attitudes of medical students in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, toward preventive medicine and epidemiology
by Radovanovic, Zoran & Djordjevic-Gledovic, Zorana
- 1877-1886 Income and dietary adequacy in an agricultural community
by DeWalt, Kathleen M.
- 1887-1896 The use of private health care providers in rural Bangladesh: A response to Claquin
by Feldman, Shelley
- 1897-1906 How nursing homes behave: A multi-equation model of nursing home behavior
by Lee, A. James & Birnbaum, Howard & Bishop, Christine
- 1907-1914 Does smoking increase medical care expenditure?
by Leu, Robert E. & Schaub, Thomas
- 1915-1925 Killing and letting die: Hidden value assumptions
by Atkinson, Gary
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 22
- 1683-1685 Introduction
by Mburu, F.M. & Steinkuller, Paul G.
- 1687-1691 Ocular needs in Africa: Increasing priorities and shrinking resources
by Mburu, F.M. & Steinkuller, Paul G.
- 1693-1702 Cataract: The leading cause of blindness and vision loss in Africa
by Steinkuller, Paul G.
- 1703-1707 Onchocerciasis: A major social problem in West Africa
by Quarcoopome, C.O.
- 1709-1713 The epidemiology of trachoma blindness in Southern Africa
by Kok, Peter W.
- 1715-1721 Nutritional blindness in Africa
by Steinkuller, Paul G.
- 1723-1727 Surgical treatment of open angle glaucoma is preferable to medical management in Africa
by Schwab, Larry & Steinkuller, Paul G.
- 1729-1735 Ocular injuries in Africa
by Adala, H.S.
- 1737-1742 Ocular leprosy in Africa
by Kagame, G.K.
- 1743-1750 Ocular tumors in Africa
by Klauss, Volker & Chana, Harjinder S.
- 1751-1754 Visual disability and blindness secondary to refractive errors in Africa
by Schwab, Larry & Steinkuller, Paul G.
- 1755-1765 Trachoma in South Africa
by Ballard, R.C. & Fehler, H.G. & Fotheringham, P. & Sutter, E.E. & Treharne, J.D.
- 1767-1772 Eye diseases and services in Tanzania
by Kinabo, Nicholas
- 1773-1780 Ocular disease and ophthalmic services in Malawi
by Chirambo, Moses C. & Tizazu, Tefera
- 1781-1783 Eye diseases and control of blindness in Zambia
by Shukla, S.M.
- 1785-1788 Prevalence and causes of vision loss in Southern Sudan
by Tizazu, Tefera & Mburu, F.M.
- 1789-1792 The International Eye Foundation/Kenya Rural Blindness Prevention Project
by Arbuckle, R.Douglass
- 1793-1796 Field methodology for ocular surveys in rural Africa
by Ross-Degnan, Dennis & Schwab, Larry & Mburu, F.M.
- 1797-1808 Training for primary and preventive eye care
by Sheffield, Victoria M.
- 1809-1812 Training of eye care workers and their integration in Gazankulu's comprehensive health services
by Sutter, E.E.
- 1813-1817 Community participation in the control of trachoma in Gazankulu
by Sutter, E.E. & Ballard, R.C.
- 1819-1825 Training health workers: What needs to be taught and who should teach it
by Godwin, Peter
- 1827-1830 The role of traditional medicine of ophthalmology in Kenya
by Kimani, V. & Klauss, Volker
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 21
- 1591-1597 The development of medical sociology in Europe
by Claus, Lisbeth M.
- 1599-1611 Social support, social influence, ethnicity and the breastfeeding decision
by Baranowski, Tom & Bee, David E. & Rassin, David K. & Richardson, C. Joan & Brown, Judy P. & Guenther, Nancy & Nader, Philip R.
- 1613-1618 From teams to hierarchy: A short-lived innovation in a hospital for the elderly
by de Santis, Grace
- 1619-1632 Loss, stress and readjustment: The structure of coping with bereavement and disability
by Ben-Sira, Zeev
- 1633-1651 Infantile autism and childhood schizophrenia: Review of the issues from the sociocultural point of view
by Sanua, Victor D.
- 1653-1655 The dysmenorrhea personality: Actuality or statistical artifact?
by Iacono, Carmine U. & Roberts, Sam J.
- 1657-1664 Informed consent and patient decision making: Two decades of research
by Kaufmann, Caroline L.
- 1665-1672 The scientific ethos debate: A meta-theoretical view
by Toren, Nina
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 20
- 1497-1503 Job characteristics of occupations and myocardial infarction risk: Effect of possible confounding factors
by Alfredsson, Lars & Theorell, Töres
- 1505-1512 Health education and the primary care physician: The practitioner's perspective
by Ford, Ann S. & Ford, W. Scott
- 1513-1527 The state of medical sociology in the United States, Great Britain, West Germany and Austria: Applied vs pure theory
by Cockerham, William C.
- 1529-1540 Maternal and child nutritional status: Its association with the risk of pregnancy
by Huffman, Sandra L.
- 1541-1548 Podiatry: A medical care specialty in quest of full professional status and recognition
by Skipper, James K. & Hughes, James E.
- 1549-1558 The views of clients to a general practice attachment scheme and to local authority social work intake team
by Corney, Roslyn H.
- 1559-1567 Salted fish and nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Malaysia
by Armstrong, R. W. & Chan Siew Eng, Alice
- 1569-1572 The A type behaviour pattern, mental health and health locus of control beliefs
by Furnham, Adrian
- 1573-1579 Changing hospitals: The role of hospital accreditation
by Duckett, S. J.
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 19
- 1409-1410 Introduction
by Rifkin, Susan B.
- 1411-1417 Primary Health Care in rural China: Post-1978 development
by Chen, Pi-Chao & Tuan, Chi-Hsien
- 1419-1431 Primary health care and health education in Japan
by Yamamoto, Mikio
- 1433-1439 Problems of primary health care in a newly developed society: Reflections on the Hong Kong experience
by Lee, Rance P. L.
- 1441-1447 Primary health care in the Pacific
by Newell, Kenneth W.
- 1449-1455 Can people move bureaucratic mountains? Developing primary health care in rural Indonesia
by Haliman, Arif & Williams, Glen
- 1457-1461 Training doctors for family practice in primary health care work in Sri Lanka
by Fernando, Joel
- 1463-1466 PHC in Bangladesh--Too much to ask?
by Islam, Kamal & Bachman, Sally
- 1467-1476 A legacy without heirs: Korean indigenous medicine and primary health care
by Yoon, Soon Young
- 1477-1483 The community health volunteer scheme in India: An evaluation
by Maru, Rushikesh M.
- 1485-1487 Buddhist monks as community health workers in Thailand
by Hathirat, Sant
- 1489-1496 Primary health care in Southeast Asia: Attitudes about community participation in community health programmes
by Rifkin, Susan B.
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 18
- 1315-1327 A Durkheimian hypothesis on stress
by Mestrovic, Stjepan & Glassner, Barry
- 1329-1338 Social support and compliance: A selective review and critique of treatment integrity and outcome measurement
by Levy, Rona L.
- 1339-1342 Patterns of diagnostic testing in the academic setting: The influence of medical attendings' subspeciality training
by Manu, Peter & Schwartz, Sheldon E.
- 1343-1352 Is self-care a social movement?
by Schiller, Preston L. & Levin, Jeffrey S.
- 1353-1361 Patient satisfaction and visiting the doctor: A self-regulating system
by Mirowsky, John & Ross, Catherine E.
- 1363-1369 Social science research on medical technology: Utility and limitations
by Banta, H. David
- 1371-1378 The communication process in clinical settings
by Mathews, Joan J.
- 1379-1387 Factors in the utilization of the small non-metropolitan hospital in Alberta, Canada
by Northcott, Herbert C. & Rall, Randolph W.
- 1389-1395 Cognitive maturity and the experience of fear and pain in hospital
by Reissland, Nadja
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 17
- 1223-1227 Childhood disadvantage and the planning of pregnancy
by Fergusson, D. M. & Horwood, L. J.
- 1229-1248 An Amerindian derivation for Latin American creole illnesses and their treatment
by Colson, Audrey Butt & de Armellada, Cesareo
- 1249-1255 Traditional medicine in Ecuador: The structure of the non-formal health systems
by Pedersen, Duncan & Coloma, Carlos
- 1257-1269 Beliefs regarding the etiology and treatment of infantile diarrhea in Lima, Peru
by Escobar, Gabriel J. & Salazar, Eduardo & Chuy, Mario
- 1271-1280 The survival of traditional medicine in a Peruvian Barriada
by Davidson, Judith
- 1281-1289 Grass roots, herbs, promotors and preventions: A re-evaluation of contemporary international health care planning. The Bolivian case
by Crandon, Libbet
- 1291-1298 Experience and expectation: Conflict and change in traditional family health care among the Quichua of Saraguro
by Finerman, Ruthbeth D.
- 1299-1307 The diffusion of influenza in sub-Saharan Africa during the 1918-1919 pandemic
by Patterson, K. David & Pyle, Gerald F.
- 1309-1313 Self concepts in medical outpatient and normal Nigerian undergraduates
by Ezeilo, Bernice N.
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 16
- 1075-1084 Psycho-social factors and the technologies of work
by Alcalay, Rina & Pasick, R. J.
- 1085-1095 Justice and health for all
by de Jong, Gaspard A. & Rutten, Frans F. H.
- 1097-1105 Effects of material deprivation on neurological functioning
by Alvarez, Gonzalo
- 1107-1123 Sex differences in illness incidence, prognosis and mortality: Issues and evidence
by Waldron, Ingrid
- 1125-1138 Unemployment and health in the context of economic change
by Brenner, M. Harvey & Mooney, Anne
- 1139-1148 Health services as a defence against the consequences of poverty in industrialised societies
by Blaxter, Mildred
- 1149-1157 Health systems as defences against the consequences of poverty: equity in health as social justice
by Mburu, F. M.
- 1159-1170 Hospital organisation and structure and its effect on inter-professional behaviour and the delivery of care
by Kinston, Warren
- 1171-1180 Indigenous and multinational pharmaceutical companies
by Lilja, John
- 1181-1190 Issues in the accessibility and confidentiality of patient records
by Gevers, J. K. M.
- 1191-1197 Processes in the formulation and legitimisation of professional ethics in a changing world
by Bassford, H. A.
- 1199-1203 War, peace and professional responsibility
by Cassel, Christine K.
- 1205-1211 The relevance of traditional medical cultures to modern primary health care
by Young, Allan
- 1213-1221 The role of spatial analysis and geographic data in the detection of disease causation
by Mayer, Jonathan D.
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 15
- 993-1002 Sex differences in reports of illness and disability: A further test of the fixed role hypothesis
by Marcus, Alfred C. & Seeman, Teresa E. & Telesky, Carol W.
- 1003-1010 The movement for independent living: An evaluation and critique
by Williams, Gareth H.
- 1011-1014 Societal integration of the disabled: Power struggle or enhancement of individual coping capacities
by Ben-Sira, Zeev
- 1014-1014 From Dr Mildred Blaxter
by Blaxter, Mildred
- 1014-1016 Rejoinder
by Williams, Gareth W.
- 1017-1026 Sex-stereotyping and sex-congruency: Components in the sex role definition of medical specialities in India
by Bhargava, Gura
- 1027-1041 Multi-disciplinary perspectives on post-partum depression: An anthropological critique
by Stern, Gwen & Kruckman, Laurence
- 1043-1046 The use and misuse of cost-effectiveness analysis
by Gaspari, K. Celeste
- 1047-1053 Cost-effectiveness of foam elastomer and gauze dressings in the management of open perineal wounds
by Culyer, A. J. & MacFie, John & Wagstaff, Adam
- 1055-1059 Community hospital characteristics associated with RN and LPN vacancy rates
by Mullner, Ross & Beyers, Majorie & Levy, Paul & Byre, Calvin & Mallin, Katherin
- 1061-1074 Justice and the justification of a social policy: The distribution of primary care physicians
by Schrag, Brian
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 14
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 13
- 845-851 Patterns of psychotropic drug use
by Williams, P.
- 853-859 Gender aspects of illness and practitioner use among Filipinos
by Lieban, Richard W.
- 861-869 The feasibility of economic evaluation of diagnostic procedures
by Wagner, Judith L.
- 871-883 Measuring hospital output: A review of the service mix and case mix approaches
by Tatchell, Michael
- 885-888 Sudden infant deaths and seasonality in Tasmania, 1970-1976
by McGlashan, Neil D. & Grice, Alan C.
- 889-896 Recruitment of institutional psychiatrists for the 50 states
by Koran, Lorrin M. & Chinn, Francesca & Flores, Sylvia
- 897-901 The place of the ideal observer in medical ethics
by Churchill, Larry R.
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 12
- 773-782 Psychosocial factors influence control of moderate and severe hypertension
by Caldwell, John R. & Theisen, Velma & Kaunisto, Catherine A. & Reddy, Patrick J. & Smythe, Peter S. & Smith, David W.
- 783-793 A medical evaluation of the use of qat in North Yemen
by Kennedy, John G. & Teague, James & Rokaw, William & Cooney, Elizabeth
- 795-801 Competition's flawed perspective on the health care market and an alternative approach
by Reilly, Bernard J. & Fuhr, Joseph P.
- 803-818 Structural analysis of a set of socioeconomic indexes as an aid in defining the socioeconomic level of a family: Results from an Italian multicentric survey
by Milani, S. & Cortinovis, I. & Rainisio, M. & Fognini, G. & Marubini, E.
- 819-827 The distance behavior of hospital patients: A disaggregated analysis
by Mayer, Jonathan D.
- 829-835 Some socio-geographic aspects of renal transplant cases in Saskatchewan
by Chakravarti, A. K. & Ahmad, S. Shahim
- 837-841 Women physicians during residency years: Workload, work satisfaction and self concept
by Yogev, Sara & Harris, Sharon
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 11
- 693-704 Career preferences and perceptions of the medical labor market among Mexican interns
by Frenk, Julio & Bashshur, Rashid
- 705-708 Comparison of suicide rates and methods in English, Scots and Irish migrants in Australia
by Burvill, P. W. & McCall, M. G. & Woodings, T. & Stenhouse, N. S.
- 709-719 Allocation of family resources for health care in rural Haiti
by Coreil, Jeannine
- 721-729 Cost-effectiveness and user characteristics of clinic based services for the treatment of diarrhea: A case study in Bangladesh
by Horton, Susan & Claquin, Pierre
- 731-740 Highway fatal accidents and accessibility of emergency medical services
by Brodsky, Harold & Hakkert, A. Shalom
- 741-746 Experiments to increase return in a medical screening drive: Two futile attempts to apply theory to practice
by Roberts, Michael C. & Wurtele, Sandy K. & Leeper, James D.
- 747-753 Chronic low back pain: A medical-psychological report
by Menges, Louwrens J.
- 755-761 Some questions of identity: Late miscarriage, stillbirth and perinatal loss
by Lovell, Alice
- 763-769 Influence des parents sur le tabagisme de leurs enfants
by Neukirch, F. & Cooreman, J.
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 10
- 617-623 Psychiatric hospitalization in Poland
by Frydman, Louis
- 625-630 Selected organizational features of certain polish health care institutions
by WLodarczyk, Cezary & Pluciennik, Henryk
- 631-636 Elements of the health culture of polish society
by Ostrowska, Antonina
- 637-646 Illness behaviour and action: The patient-role
by Titkow, Anna
- 647-655 Risk groups and selective case finding in an elderly population
by Ford, Graeme & Taylor, Rex
- 657-665 Epidemic suicide among micronesian adolescents
by Rubinstein, Donald H.
- 667-680 A partial test of a hospital behavioral model
by Hornbrook, Mark C. & Goldfarb, Marsha G.
- 681-689 Perceptions of death, belief systems and the process of coping with chronic pain
by Kotarba, Joseph A.
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 9
- 525-529 An approach to effective health care delivery in a developing nation: A case for Nigeria
by Fajewonyomi, B. A.
- 531-537 A reassessment of the expected development consequences of tsetse control efforts in Africa
by Matzke, Gordon
- 539-543 Malnutrition and pregnancy wastage in Zambia
by Kwofie, Kwamie & Brew-Graves, Ekow & Adika, G. H.
- 545-562 Water contact behavior and schistosomiasis in an upper Egyptian village
by Kloos, Helmut & Higashi, Gene I. & Cattani, Jacqueline A. & Schlinski, Vernon D. & Mansour, Noshy S. & Murrell, K. Darwin
- 563-570 Distance and the utilization of health facilities in rural Nigeria
by Stock, Robert
- 571-578 A categorical data analysis of contacts with the family health clinic, Calabar, Nigeria
by Freeman, Daniel H. & Gesler, Wilbert M. & Mieras, Barbara J. & Schymura, Maria
- 579-583 Rural-urban migration and sickness/health care behaviour: A study of Eastern Nigeria
by Uyanga, Joseph
- 585-589 Factors influencing choice of hospitals: A case study of the Northern part of Oyo State, Nigeria
by Egunjobi, Layi
- 591-595 Factors affecting the frequency of hospital trips among a predominantly rural population
by Okafor, S. I.
- 597-600 Population in health planning
by Olorunfemi, J. F.
- 601-616 Hospital service areas in Ibadan city
by Iyun, Folasade
January 1983, Volume 17, Issue 8