Health Transition Review : the Cultural, Social, and Behavioural Determinants of Health
Overview
Health Transition Review : the Cultural, Social, and Behavioural Determinants of Health is a scientific journal, published since 1991 in English. The journal's country of origin is Australia and its primary focus areas are psychology, health services and social sciences.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Health Transit Rev
Start
1991
End
1997
Frequency
Two no. a year
p-ISSN
1036-4005
Country
Australia
Language
English
Specialties
Psychology
Health Services
Social Sciences
Health Services
Social Sciences
Recent Articles
1.
Feyisetan B, Asa S, Ebigbola J
Health Transit Rev
. 1997 Sep;
7(2):221-34.
PMID: 10176379
Several studies have noted that, besides inadequate availability of health care services in many areas, especially the less developed countries, certain disease-specific and non-disease-specific cultural beliefs may influence people's health...
2.
Berman P, Zeitlin J, Roy P, Khumtakar S
Health Transit Rev
. 1997 Sep;
7(2):187-204.
PMID: 10176378
Evidence that women's employment and earnings foster increased allocations of household resources to children's well-being have led to advocacy of investment in women's employment as a method for targeting the...
3.
Stuebing K
Health Transit Rev
. 1997 Sep;
7(2):151-71.
PMID: 10176377
This paper examines the relationship between literacy skills and comprehension of health information by studying mothers of young children in a high-density urban area in Zambia. Both decontextualized language and...
4.
van Poppel F, van der Heijden C
Health Transit Rev
. 1997 Sep;
7(2):113-48.
PMID: 10176376
The provision of clean water is mentioned as an important factor in many studies dealing with the decline of mortality in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
5.
Findley S, Zayan A, Kere M, Kone Y, Sogbo G
Health Transit Rev
. 1997 Mar;
7(1):95-107.
PMID: 10168582
No abstract available.
6.
Warren K
Health Transit Rev
. 1997 Mar;
7(1):61-71.
PMID: 10168581
The World Development Report 1993 announced that global life expectancy was then 65. Experience in the developed world suggests that the World Health Organization's dictum, 'health is a state of...
7.
London A, VanLandingham M, Grandjean N
Health Transit Rev
. 1997 Mar;
7(1):33-60.
PMID: 10168580
We use data from an anonymous self-administered 1991 survey of military personnel in northern Thailand to estimate overall levels of and socio-demographic differentials in same-sex sexual behaviour in this population....
8.
Pickering H, Okongo M, Bwanika K, Nnalusiba B, Whitworth J
Health Transit Rev
. 1997 Mar;
7(1):13-20.
PMID: 10168579
This study describes the sexual behaviour of men and women in a fishing village on the shores of Lake Victoria in southwest Uganda. The village is near a well known...
9.
Konde-Lule J, Sewankambo N, Morris M
Health Transit Rev
. 1996 Dec;
7 Suppl:89-100.
PMID: 10184747
Information on 861 adolescents shows that in 1991 36 per cent reported having been sexually active in the previous 12 months, but only 6.2 per cent had ever used a...
10.
Pickering H, Nunn A
Health Transit Rev
. 1996 Dec;
7 Suppl:41-7.
PMID: 10184746
A 1991 serosurvey in a Ugandan trading town on the trans-African highway reported a 40 per cent HIV-1 prevalence in adults. Three years later in a repeat survey of the...