Showing papers in "Social Science & Medicine in 1983"

TL;DR: The main point of this review is to show that a combination of those two approaches is highly desirable: the different methods currently available should be combined in order to consider all the factors intervening in the use of health care.

TL;DR: The impact of distance on the utilization of health care facilities in the Hadejia area of Kano State, Nigeria was examined and per capita utilization was found to decline exponentially with distance.

TL;DR: This study describes the level of symptom distress, current concerns and mood disturbance in persons with a diagnosis of one of two life-threatening diseases at two occasions and suggests that the plight of newly diagnosed lung cancer patients appears to be bleaker than that of heart attack patients.

TL;DR: An analysis of the concept of 'disease' and its causes, held by one group of middle-aged women brought up in poor social circumstances, suggests that these are common human traits, which have implications for the interaction between doctors and patients.

TL;DR: The Family Routines Inventory, which measures the extent and importance of routinization within a given family, appears to be a reliable and valid measure of family cohesion, solidarity, order and overall satisfaction with family life.

TL;DR: There does not appear to be a consistent sex difference in propensity to take risks or to engage in preventive behavior, and rather sex differences in risk-taking and preventive behavior vary depending on the specific behavior and the culture considered.

TL;DR: Evidence concerning genetic factors that influence sex differences in human mortality is reviewed, with attention to the interactions between genetic and environmental factors.

TL;DR: Social science literatures associating health indicators with each of the following: economic growth, socioeconomic status, sociocultural change, economic instability, the status of being unemployed, social stress and work stress are identified.

TL;DR: It is suggested that more attention should be given to the impact of the cultural patterning of the post-partum period, e.g. the structure, organization of the family group and role expectations.

TL;DR: While females are more likely to perceive symptoms than males, there is no apparent sex difference in a tendency to adopt the sick role when ill, and results indicate that gender role factors are related to female though not male symptom reports.

TL;DR: The pattern of significant bivariate relationships between a person's supportiveness and breastfeeding varied across ethnic and maritial status groups, suggesting that social support may be an important interventive variable, but the potentially supportive individual to be reached by an intervention program varies by ethnic group.

TL;DR: It is argued that the social processes that affect the association between networks and health involve a larger social unit than the small core networks that have generally been the focus of study, and it should be possible to integrate findings from network studies with more traditional epidemiological findings relating such macro-variables as social class to illness.

TL;DR: The conceptual foundation underlying the development of the Family Routines Inventory, a new instrument designed to measure the extent of predictability or routinization in the daily life of a family, is described.

TL;DR: This article reviews a broad range of clinical and research material investigating the coping processes of individuals and families, particularly in response to a serious illness or handicapping condition in a child family member.

TL;DR: This first attempt to test for the direct and indirect effects of education on an individual's health indicates that the indirect dominate the direct effects.

TL;DR: Examination of attitudes and procedures which de-construct the identities of a mother and baby when loss occurs through late miscarriage, stillbirth and perinatal loss suggests that both roles may be lost simultaneously.

TL;DR: A remarkably few of the allegations regarding the direct effects of qat-use on health by Western visitors to Yemen were supported by this study.

TL;DR: The impact of smoking on medical care expenditure is analyzed, challenging the widespread belief that smoking imposes a large cost burden on health services systems and suggesting that reducing smoking is unlikely to decrease it.

TL;DR: This paper argues that until about 10 years ago the caring role of the nurse was restricted primarily to the biological functioning of the patient, and suggests that nursing has succeeded in constituting a new identity for the patient.

TL;DR: Several research recommendations suggest ways social support could be studied as a clear and strong independent variable, such as utilizing measures of compliance with the social support manipulation and considering several different variates of social support.

TL;DR: This paper argues that the debate over vertical health programmes can be made rather more informed by a consideration of the technologies available to improve health and the methods of delivery to which they are most suited, and by investigation of the total costs and cost-effectiveness of different delivery systems.

TL;DR: Four groups of foreign students from different parts of the world were compared with two British groups on a self-report measure of mental health and, with the exception of Malaysian students, the British subjects were significantly more satisfied with their social lives than the other groups.

TL;DR: An ethnographic study of factors contributing to adolescent stress and suicide in one Micronesian community is being undertaken, finding that intergenerational domestic discord and suicides appear the primary social triggers for adolescent suicide.

TL;DR: The results of spatial studies may be suggestive, but they have been definitive only rarely and it is important to address these problems as one step in answering the basic issues concerning the role of spatial analysis in the detection of disease causation.

TL;DR: This paper attempts to identify forms of traditional medicine which have the greatest potential for advancing primary health care goals, by differentiating traditional medical systems into types, according to the kinds of medical knowledge which they depend on for preventing, diagnosing, and treating sickness.

TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to outline characteristics of communication in clinical settings and to provide a literature review of patient and practitioner interaction studies in order to reflect on why information exchange is problematic inclinical settings.

TL;DR: It is shown that a sample attending for headaches experienced considerable improvement in symptoms when followed up 1 year after attendance, most of this improvement appeared not to be due to any intended treatments received at the clinics but could be attributed to the quality of patients' immediate responses to clinic attendance.

TL;DR: The information sought by pregnant women from their obstetricians is used to provide a case study of one conceptualization and test of the utility of the concept of power.