Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2026

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2026, volume 392, articles C

From Clinic to Grave: Women's experiences of ‘pregnancy remains’ disposal following an early miscarriage in England, UK

Susie Kilshaw

Why is the pharmaceutical industry investing in targeted therapies? The emergence of “premium pharma”

Paul Martin, Jin Ding and Matthew Hanchard

Long-term consequences of early-life exposure to Famine: Evidence from the 1943 Bengal Famine

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

“What's wrong with me?”: Women's perceptions of gendered infertility stigma

Marta Bornstein, Anna C. Church, Kaleb Masterson, Jessica D. Gipson and Alison H. Norris

When health meets politics: Selective gatekeeping of health experts in Chinese media during COVID-19

Kaiping Zhang and Bingyan Wang

‘It's very hard, it's very very difficult ….’ Exploring the lived experiences of managing diabetes among young people living with type 1 diabetes in underserved communities in Ghana

Joseph Kangmennaang, Alhassan Siiba, Prince Ofori-Boateng, Nana Ama Barnes Amoa, Yacoba Atiase and Elizabeth Bankah

Mortgage affordability and mental healthcare use: Evidence from Finnish population registers

Joan Damiens, Michael Berger, Liina Junna and Pekka Martikainen

Diffusion of responsibility: Patient moral judgments of generative AI-informed clinical decisions

Wei Zhang, Jicheng Li, Fuxiang Guo, Chengyan Zhu, Magdalena Kludacz-Alessandri and Richard Evans

Financial epidemiology: Linking financialization to population health

Joseph Dov Bruch and Chloe Thurston

Serious psychological distress, unmet mental health treatment needs, and help-seeking among Asian American adults in New York City: A population-based study

Thinh Toan Vu, Zi Lian, Victoria Khanh Ngo, Rachel Suss, Jo-Anne Caton and Christina Norman

Born in the USA? A scoping review of deaths of despair research beyond the United States

Eurwen H. Williams and Christopher W.N. Saville

Polygyny and help-seeking for intimate partner violence in Afghanistan: The mediating role of women's autonomy and the moderating effects of education and fear of the husband

Mohammad Fazel Akbary, Mohammad Baqir Marefat, Rashed Nawaz and Quanbao Jiang

‘When you go to bed, and you cannot sleep … ’: smallholder farmers' experiences and perceptions of climate change events and their impacts on health in northern Ghana

Alhassan Siiba, Joseph Kangmennaang, Leonard Baatiema and Isaac Luginaah

Coping with stigma and choosing silence: Discrimination and concealment among public housing residents

Gum-Ryeong Park, Jean Choi and Haitao Du

A study on user satisfaction with medical devices for the elderly: The case of blood pressure monitors

Yuanwu Shi and Jiuye Sun

Incidence of dementia diagnosis in Denmark, 1986–2023: an age-period-cohort analysis

Julia Callaway, Cosmo Strozza and Óskar Daði Jóhannsson

Pharma-cology 101: Educating future prescribers on drug reps, dead drugs, and the hidden scripts of pharmaceutical industry relationships

Michael J. Oldani

‘The cycle must stop here’: Patterns of intergenerational transmission of traumatizing WWII experiences in three generations

Bart Nauta, Huibertha Bastiaantje Mitima-Verloop, Rosa-Lena Van der Maat, Anne Marthe Van der Bles and Trudy T.M. Mooren

“I'm not moving from here until you resolve this for me”: mothers of disabled children overcoming barriers to health care

Rosamund Greiner

‘For us, we call it resistance’- conceptualizing resilience and its pathways among Arab Canadians: The CAN-HEAL study

Sarah Elshahat, Tina Moffat, K. Bruce Newbold, Asil Samhat, Mafaz Gehani, Yumnah Jafri, Zena Shamli Oghli, Nour Kanaa, Bisma Shafiq, Amna Zaidi, Aniqa Chaudhry, Janna Elshakankiri, Mariam Rahman and Momina Ahmad

“I can't take in every stray puppy”: How U.S. pain specialists purify pain management through opioid-related gatekeeping

Camille Kroll

The importance of values in a community-based response to malaria in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: results from a longitudinal, mixed-methods study

Hunter Keys, Keyla Ureña, Kevin Bardosh, Diana Taveras, Luccene Desir and Gregory Noland

My family member's health and my mental health: A longitudinal matched cohort study

Clifford Afoakwah, Isaac Koomson, David Brain, Steven McPhail and John Paul Kuwornu

How do counties’ industrial structures shape geographic disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality?

Yue Sun and Michael H. Esposito

Can equalizing education weaken the link between parental education and cognitive function? Evidence from a non-parametric decomposition analysis

Fabian Kratz and Matthias Klee

The privilege to heal? Mapping patients’ unequal mobilisation of health capital in a Nordic welfare context

Kristian Larsen, Ina Koch Røpke, Mette Rørth and Anette Lykke Hindhede

Curative justice: Epistemic contestations of health in the case of type 1 diabetes and hepatitis C in Austria

Magdalena Eitenberger and Lisa Lehner

Associations of total daily working hours encompassing unpaid care and domestic work with nonrestorative sleep and mental health in middle-aged Japanese men and women: A cross-sectional study

Akiko Morimoto, Hideaki Furuki, Naho Sugita, Risako Hayashi and Nao Sonoda

Trends in adults body mass index related to changes in socioeconomic status of 201 large Latin American cities

Mónica Serena Perner, Kari Moore, Andrés Trotta, Hal Chen, Mariana Lazo, Olga L. Sarmiento, Daniel Rodriguez, Marcio Alazraqui and Ana V. Diez Roux

Postpartum severe maternal morbidity: A longitudinal analysis of the association with economic segregation and neighborhood deprivation in Georgia, USA 2016–2022

Michael R. Kramer, Kaitlyn K. Stanhope, Peter J. Joski, Marissa Coloske, Anne L. Dunlop and E. Kathleen Adams

Impact of booster breaks and computer prompts on sedentary time, body composition, stress perception, and occupational pain in desk-based workers: A quasi-experimental study – The UP project

Ricardo Martínez-Flores, Caroline Brand, Gerson Ferrari, Kabir P. Sadarangani, Jorge Cancino-López, Jaime Leppe-Zamora and Carlos Cristi-Montero

Accountability as Self-Determination: Abolitionist conceptions of health, wellbeing, and safety

Cameron W. Rasmussen and Mimi E. Kim

Cognability across adulthood: A qualitative investigation of neighborhoods and cognitive health behaviors

Jessica Finlay, Grace Savard, Desiree Alvarez-McNelis, Mallory Sagehorn, Grace Bowman, Yue Sun and Michael Esposito

Medicalizing the social determinants of health and the inadvertent reproduction of inequities through social-care program implementation in the United States

Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer and Sara Mendez

Sociocultural identification of migrant forensic psychiatric inpatients facing mandatory repatriation – a hospital ethnography

Charlotte Clous, Hannah Jongsma, Anniek van Weeghel, Ria Reis and Wim Veling

Dialogues of obstetric risk in the first trimester of pregnancy: Insights from a hospital ethnography

Ana Cerezuela González, Carolina Remorini and Diana Marre

Empowerment or responsibilisation: Articulation work in English primary care coordination from the perspectives of patients and clinicians

Mhorag Goff, Patrick Burch, Jonathan Hammond, Kath Checkland and Sally Jacobs

Area-socioeconomic disadvantage and cognitive function among Chinese older adults: the mediating role of healthcare resources and the moderating role of individual socioeconomic status

Xiaqing Jiang, Yuying Zhang and Jiamin Gao

Following the power: social-class inequities in mortality from accidental poisonings, suicide, and chronic liver disease in the United States

Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot, Candace M. Cosgrove, Alex Azan, Samuel R. Friedman, Seth J. Prins and Audrey Renson

Nature, gender, trauma: The role of nature in recovering from intimate partner violence

Kimberley Kinder

The impact of media coverage of a celebrity suicide on suicide and attempted suicide rates in Taiwan

Ying-Yeh Chen, Vera Yu Men, Cheuk Yui Yeung, Kevin Chien-Chang Wu, Ying-Chen Chi and Paul SF. Yip

Engaging patients in blood systems: A qualitative study on immune globulin recipient perspectives

Umair Majid, Quinn Grundy, Stephanie Kelly and Kelly Holloway

Contraceptive autonomy of adolescents and young adults in the U.S. South: The influence of healthcare providers, partners, and parents

Kathleen Broussard, Laura D. Lindberg and Emily S. Mann

‘They're big and I is small’: The precarious identity reconstruction process of a low-status occupational group

Marieke van Wieringen

Prison healthcare and other paradoxes

Harley Pomper and Manu S. Sundaresan

2026, volume 391, articles C

Competitive interdependence: A critical political economy of regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ipek Eren Vural, Matthew Herder and Janice E. Graham

Interventions aiming to change multiple healthcare professional behaviors: A systematic review

Carolina C. Silva, Marta M. Marques, Zack van Allen, Márcia Carvalho, John Dinsmore and Justin Presseau

Socioeconomic advantage as protection from genetic mental health risks

Nicolau Martin-Bassols, John de New, Sonja C. de New and Clement C. Wong

Social capital and uptake of primary healthcare during protracted displacement: Evidence from four refugee settlements in northern Uganda

Nancy Vollmer, Robert Anguyo, Anjali Sharma and Joseph J. Valadez

Racialized heteropatriarchy, sexual minority status, and cardiometabolic risk among Black and White young adult women

Sylvie Tuder

Higher educational attainment and later-life cognition: Twentieth-century linkages by gender and race in the United States

Matthew A. Andersson, Max E. Coleman, Catherine E. Harnois and Markus H. Schafer

Individual and environmental stressors in life course cognitive health disparities: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study

Mariana Soares, Jochen O. Mierau, Stefan Pichler and Laura Viluma

Memory trajectories by migration status and gender: A life-course intersectional perspective

Silvia Loi, Giulia Tattarini and Jo Mhairi Hale

Educational and gender gaps in cognitive health expectancy across Europe: A prevalence-based analysis using SHARE

Donata Stonkute, Angelo Lorenti and Jo Mhairi Hale

Utilizing perceptions of public health officials in Cali, Colombia to support the surveillance of co-circulating vector-borne diseases

M.R. Desjardins, I. Casas, A.M. Victoria-Castro, C. Hammelman, D.M. Dávalos, A. Varela and E.M. Delmelle

The effect of welfare receipt on unmet health care needs: Evidence from Dibao program in rural China

Yaping Luo, Qian Liu and Huawei Han

Miracle cures, wonder drugs, and unproven treatments for COVID-19: A global database

Gideon Lasco, Arianna Maever Loreche, Michelle Ann D. Aguilar and Vincen Gregory Yu

Investigating attributes of stigma towards individuals who did not receive a COVID-19 vaccine: An analysis of user comment threads on Reddit conducted by the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN)

Bobbi Rotolo, Natasha Janak Sanghadia, Ève Dubé, James R. Wallace, Janice E. Graham, Christine Huel, Shannon E. MacDonald, Terra Manca and Samantha B. Meyer

Sleep science, the cultural authority of medicine, and school start times

Judson G. Everitt, Dana Garbarski and Dana La Vergne

Parental education disparities in childhood vaccination in Denmark: A test of two explanations for the role of misinformation

Vibeke Tornhøj Christensen, Andrea N. Polonijo and Richard M. Carpiano

Trends and associations between preferred institutional influence, expectations and emotional outcomes among adolescents in the US: Results from monitoring the future

Katherine M. Keyes, Noah T. Kreski and Seth J. Prins

Fair and effective vaccine allocation during pandemics: A system dynamics model for prioritization of socioeconomically vulnerable populations

Nezihe Nazli Gul, Saeed Taheri, Sander de Leeuw and Ramez Kian

Macro-level indicators of household and ambient air pollution mortality risk: Global evidence

Scott Mark Romeo Mahadeo and Avidesh Seenath

Worthy of thinness: Moral reasoning and bureaucratic care in a state-funded bariatric surgery committee

Hilla Nehushtan

Striving and thriving: Gender differences in the effects of climbing the socioeconomic ladder on stress and discrimination

Mitchell D. Wong, Benjamin P.L. Meza, Bridget Callaghan, Jennifer A. Silvers, A. Janet Tomiyama, Kimberly Narain and Rebecca N. Dudovitz

Maternal education and the intergenerational transmission of birthweight: Evidence from Japan

Chisako Yamane and Yoshiro Tsutsui

An ethnographic study of diagnosis of physical illness in people with mental health conditions in the emergency department

Elisa Liberati, Archana Jayaprakash, Rosie Lindsay, Janet Willars, John Gibson, Zoe Fritz, Annabel Price, Thea Hatfield, Natalie Richards, Mary Dixon-Woods and Graham Martin

Between epistemic empowerment and moral anxiety: Chinese patients’ ambivalence toward AI-assisted diagnosis

Ronghui Yang

Low socioeconomic status as a major risk factor for early-onset type 2 diabetes with limited lifestyle mediation: Cross-Sectional evidence from US and South Korean populations

Siying Liu, Tingting Liu, Yanli Cao, Cihang Lu, Jiahui Guo, Jie Li, Qiqiang Guo, Jing Zhang and Yongze Li