Showing papers in "Social Science & Medicine in 1968"

TL;DR: The population of the Collaborative Study (PRB) is described and categorized socioeconomically using the technique recently developed by the Bureau of the Census, which combines scores for education, occupation and family income to derive a composite numerical index.

TL;DR: The conclusion is drawn that the Samaritan schemes are associated with a significant reduction in the suicide rate, compared with the rate in matched control towns.

TL;DR: There is no evidence that the state of possession, as exercised in Ghion, offers an opportunity for abreaction in all cases.

TL;DR: The sixteen item scale, which measures practices adopted in the management of children, who are inmates of residential institutions is presented, has been applied in four establishments and the results tested in two additional institutions.

TL;DR: This paper found that the antecedents and correlates of adult smoking are markedly different for men and women, and there were substantial differences in personality as manifest in adolescence associated with different levels of smoking.

TL;DR: The author suggests that death may be defined physically (both in biological or clinical terms), psychologically, socially, and sociologically, which may be important in determining reactions toward the dying person.

TL;DR: The patients' self-evaluation of their capacities to carry out certain activities of daily living with the evaluations of these activities by their significant others are compared and the consequences of agreement and non-agreement to the patients' rehabilitation are reviewed.

TL;DR: “Preference for planning vacations hour by hour” and “inability to relax after a hard day” in the coronary patients are interpreted as supporting evidence that personality characteristics associated with Protestant and middle-class values may be important in the etiology of this puzzling disease.

TL;DR: The authors examine the recent increase in illegitimacy in Great Britain and how it differs between areas, age groups, and social classes to suggest that the reversal in the respective position of the illegitate ratios between Scotland and England and Wales is accompanied by an urban-rural reversal.

TL;DR: The hypothesis to be considered is that, despite the apparent striking differences between the two medical systems, planned interaction can be of a positive nature with only a limited area of possible culture conflict.

TL;DR: Four central issues are discussed in this paper: (1) the level at which social science should be introduced to students, (2) the content to be taught, (3) the method of presentation, and (4) the organization and support of social scientists in these health professional schools.

TL;DR: Different populations are distinguished in terms of their norms and values towards beverages, alcoholic subjects, and alcoholism as an abstract concept to explore socio-cultural incidence on the pathogenesis of chronic alcoholism.

TL;DR: As psychiatrists move into the community, they enter into another culture where all the familiar cues to recognize pathology and the usual techniques to handle pathology do not seem to work, the psychiatrist experiences the "Culture Shock Syndrome".

TL;DR: In Rabaul, New Guinea a repetition of the experiment does not replicate this result but again shows the apple as the chief exception to the rule that children tend to draw trees that grow locally.

TL;DR: Only inconsistent support was gained for the socio-psychological theory that social class phenomena, including attitudes, are directly related to the patient's course in the hospital.

TL;DR: The story has two themes: a description of how a group of public health nurses tackled the problem of professional identification and a frankly speculative projection of the implication of both these processes for the development ofpublic health nursing as a professional specialty.

TL;DR: Five rural villages at Kasangati in Buganda are analysed for family structure, size and other variables and some of the striking features noted were the large proportion of incomplete families and the frequency of unstable marriage.