Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2026

Current editor(s): Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian

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2026, volume 406, articles C

Local community identification improves wellbeing by reducing loneliness: Longitudinal evidence from two studies

Clifford Stevenson, Niamh McNamara, Ragin John and Stephen Gallagher

Who cares? Exploring the socio-economic dynamics of informal caregiving trajectories in England

Maria Petrillo, Jingwen Zhang, Gwilym Pryce and Matt Bennett

The political economy of universal health coverage reform in Kenya: executive dominance, elite alignment, and populist strategy (2004-2023)

Zilper Audi-Poquillon

Leaving no one behind: Assessing declines in early neonatal, late neonatal, post neonatal, and child mortality for the richest and poorest children in 38 low-and-middle-income countries

Anoop Jain, Rockli Kim and S.V. Subramanian

Between 'liquids' and 'Poisons': Sensory-Practical rationality within the social representations of pesticide risk among chilean farmworkers

Boris Lucero, Grettel Navas, María Teresa Muñoz-Quezada, Rafael Junqueira Buralli and Paula Ceballos

Economic uncertainty shocks and cause-specific mortality

Jung Hyun Kim, Sotiris Vandoros and Ichiro Kawachi

The effect of internal migration on blood pressure among a cohort of young adults in South Africa

Chantel F. Pheiffer, Stephen T. McGarvey, Carren Ginsburg, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé and Michael J. White

Optimizing health, financial risk protection, and equity in health benefits package design toward universal health coverage

Boshen Jiao, Sophia Houhamdi, Fentabil Getnet, Mengyao Wang, Kathrin Durizzo, Richmond Owusu, David A. Watkins, Solomon Tessema Memirie and Stéphane Verguet

Emotional labour in therapeutic work – the case of physiotherapists and psychotherapists in Poland

Bartosz Mika and Justyna Zielińska

Beyond the visible: Centering adolescent voices in conceptualising violence in conflict settings

Yvonne Agengo, Alexandra Blackwell, Gad Mwamba, Sabine Rakotomalala, Lucie Cluver and Nontokozo Langwenya

Are public preferences over health distributions guided by principles of distribution? A social choice experiment

Maartje Tromm, Vivian Reckers-Droog and Matthew Robson

The feminist care work in abortion funds

Ophra Leyser-Whalen, Briana Trejo and Kari White

Empowerment or exclusion? Exploring perspectives on health data sharing through the lens of marginalisation and inequality

Stephanie Gillibrand, Kelly Howells, Dan Bleksley, Jo Brown and Caroline Sanders

The management of daily topics in conversations with individuals with Alzheimer's disease in Chinese residential care

Hao Zhao, Tailun Zhang, Lili Liu, Shuai Zhang and Wen Ma

Climate change experiences among women with psychiatric illness – a qualitative exploration of lived experiences and service needs

Siqi Xue, Leanne M. Lacap, Lisa D. Hawke, Charlotte Munro, M. Ishrat Husain, Samantha Wells, Madeha Umer, Suvercha Pasricha and Sean A. Kidd

Immigration enforcement as structural exposure: Provider moral distress in U.S. health and social care—An integrative review

Nancy Blanco Arroyo, Martha Brown and Whitney Thurman

Financial incentives and social messaging for repeat SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing among the underserved: A randomized trial

Jason N. Doctor, Tara K. Knight, Emily P. Stewart, Mika Kadono, Rajan Sonik, Michael Hochman and Neeraj Sood

Trust strategies in healthcare: A cross-disciplinary scoping review of quantitatively studied approaches to building, maintaining, and repairing trust

Cole Etherington, Samantha B. Meyer, Amira Brehaut, Jenny L. Olson, Amelia Palumbo, Megan Bennett, Emily Gibson, Risa Shorr, Elisabeth Vesnaver, Guillaume Fontaine and Justin Presseau

Indicator menus: Intentional reorientation in global maternal and neonatal health measurement

Jil Molenaar, Aliki Christou, Lenka Beňová, Andrea B. Pembe, Isabelle L. Lange and Josefien van Olmen

Pesticide suicide as a relational structural event: linked lives, gendered kinship and reputational governance in rural China

Yong Yu, Wenzhao Huang, Keke Qin and Zheng Ren

Trends in sleep duration among U.S. population aged 15 Years and older, 2003–2024: A sociodemographic analysis of ATUS data

Yusong Zeng and Samuel Ken-En Gan

“We all agree” – or do we? Strategic participation in health echo chambers among mothers on Facebook

Darryn DiFrancesco

Income inequalities in cardiovascular health among children and adolescents, young adults, and middle-aged adults in Canada: A nationwide trend analysis, 2007-2019

Nicholas Grubic, Sarah Carsley, Arjumand Siddiqi, Cristian Carmeli and Katerina Maximova

Patient trust in community-based interventions versus health-facility care: an economic experiment in Cameroon

Justin Komguep Nono, Mireille Kameni, Gervais Kouam, Vanessa Ornella Alactio Tangueu, Simplice Notoum Kaptue, Irenée Domkam Kammogne, Giselle Larissa Medeme Mbezele, Valerie Makoge, Yannick Aimee Yonta Nana, Cyrille Bruno Mogo, Leonel Javeres Mbah Ntepe, Poppy HL Lamberton, Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté and Sergi Alonso

Decentralising health management: Heterogenous effects on health behaviours and health outcomes

Yao Wei, Laura Anselmi, Luke Munford and Matt Sutton

Driven toward care, avoiding the end: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between death anxiety and healthcare utilisation

Rachel E. Menzies, Bianca Kotoulas, Alysha Rae and Claudia Lyndon

Residential context and epigenetic age acceleration among older-age black and white Americans: Findings from the health and retirement study, 2010-2016

Reed T. DeAngelis, Nita Kanney and Margaret T. Hicken

Structural and social determinants of health shape the impact of neurodegeneration and cerebrovascular pathology on cognitive functioning in black adults

Yiqi Zhu, Alexis I.B. Walker, Semere Bekena, Ramkrishna K. Singh, Jeremy F. Strain, Chia-Ling Phuah, Peter R. Millar, Pete Canfield, Carl V. Hill, Darrell L. Hudson, Monique M. Williams, Essa A. Mohamed, Jonathan P. Williams, Kimystian Harrison, Osvaldo J. Laurido-Soto, Jin-Moo Lee, Beau M. Ances, Jean-François Trani and Ganesh M. Babulal

Power as equal ability, knowledge and resistance: Systematic review of experiences of adults with noncommunicable diseases

Silja-Elisa Eskolin, Saija Inkeroinen, Mervi Siekkinen and Heli Virtanen

Platformed care, platformed harm: how social media function as conditional informal infrastructure across eating disorder trajectories among young people in China

Wei Zhou and Yuxin Zuo

Uncertainty and luck discourses in intersex/VSC reproduction and family-building journeys

Limor Meoded Danon, Marcy Brink and Daniela Crocetti

Qualitative analysis of Asian American college women's sexual socialization and experiences with sexual relationships, sexual consent, and sexual assault: Advancing an intersectional conceptual framework

Jiepin Cao, Nicola Forbes, Dana Cernigliaro, May Sudhinaraset, Ji-Young Lee, Sarah Peitzmeier and Sahnah Lim

Diets, politics, and camel economies: a qualitative One Health study of zoonotic disease risk in pastoralist regions of eastern Ethiopia

Lauren Carruth, Chirotaw Ayele, Ayantu Habtamu Nemera, Sadikshya Thapa, Simenew Keskes Melaku, Yerosan Mesfin Tefera, John M. Drake, Marcel A. Müller, Michael Mann, Mona Atia and Amira Roess

Hybrid medical professionals and the selective intelligibility of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in Cameroon

Anatole Daka and Yang Der-Ruey

Challenges of genomic testing for patients and clinicians in Latin America: Foundations of a qualitative multi-country study

Lorraine Cowley and Liliana Arias-Urueña

Constructing the settler colonial determination of health: Causality by other means

Bram Wispelwey, Lana Ray, Dina Hamideh, Steven De La Torre, Nadine Bahour, Artair Rogers, David Mills and Eric Hekler

Understanding cognitive ageing: individuals, institutions, and inequalities

Ariane Bertogg, Giulia Tattarini and Damiano Uccheddu

Who cares when governments spend more? Regional aged care funding and informal care provision

Anam Bilgrami, Henry Cutler, Yuanyuan Gu, Dandan Yu and Rong Zhu

From inequality gradients to priority bands: Translating preterm birth inequalities into targeted universalist policy in England

Ejay Nsugbe and Dawn Adams

Heat-protective behavior in pregnancy: Extending Protection Motivation Theory with environmental and social factors

Hannah Lintener, Raenhha Dhami, Katharina Rink, Laura Kudlek, Franziska Geukes, Barbara Filsinger and Falko F. Sniehotta

Designing fiscal policies for health and climate: Trade-offs, co-benefits and distributional effects in Great Britain

Laura Cornelsen, Cherry Law, Daniel Derbyshire, Antonieta Medina-Lara, Michael Clark, Ben Amies-Cull, Hannah Forde, Asha Kaur, Peter Scarborough and Richard D. Smith

How an inter-organizational network hub orchestrates collective leadership to advance population health

Amanda L. Brewster, Aoife M. McDermott, Dani MacVicar, Ishika Sachdeva and Mark D. Fleming

Beyond the smoke screen: A temporal power analysis of JUUL Labs's corporate political activities

Minsu Jang and Jimin Gim

Understanding the misalignment of dental artificial intelligence: An empirical study on clinicians' perceived needs versus technologically-driven development

Ana Bucchi and Cristina Bucchi

‘They (researchers) don't have to justify their presence, why do we have to justify ours?’: The political economy of community advisory boards in tuberculosis research

Duy Trinh-Hoang and Sarah Bernays

A paradigm shift in fertility care? Discourses on AI for IVF in the Netherlands and the UK

Esca van Blarikom and Manuela Perrotta

Advance care planning in the end-of-life phase: coordinating between social worlds

Estella Posthuma, Jitse Schuurmans, Hugo Peeters, Roland Bal and Iris Wallenburg

Beyond legality: Bureaucratic violence and obstacles to abortion care

Ashley McKay and Melanie Heath

Making uncertainty habitable: Ritual and professional formation in anatomical dissection

Veronica Moretti, Annalisa Plava and Jens O. Zinn

“I don't know how to treat you”: Testosterone and gynecological care for transmasculine and gender diverse adults

Diana M. Tordoff, Alic Shook, G. Oscar Anderson, Meg Quint, Annesa Flentje, Mitchell R. Lunn and Juno Obedin-Maliver

Street-level bureaucracy and relational autonomy in HIV status-neutral care implementation: A study of jail staff and incarcerated individuals

Linnea A. Evans, Kaitlyn Jaffe, Amy M. LeClair, Abigail W. Batchelder, Brindet Socrates, Chiteara M. Thomas, Alysse G. Wurcel and Elizabeth A. Evans

Effects of everyday discrimination on sexual minority people's experiences of health care stereotype threat

Sarah M. Groh and Ziding Shen

Capitalizing on change: Habitus transformation and cancer mitigation in the field of firefighting

Justin Huft, Benjamin Fields, Tyler Cohen, Bruce Link and Wei Zhao

From harvest to hunger: Food-for-alcohol exchange as a hidden contributor to food insecurity in rural Tanzania

Luitfred Kissoly and Nelson A. Ochieng

Animated media content and the Papageno effect: Experimental evidence for the suicide-preventive potential of coping-oriented narratives in the series BoJack Horseman

Florian Arendt, Viktoriia Hromova, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Isabelle Wiedemann and Benedikt Till

Nested sovereignty: Necropolitics and the gendered burden of unpaid care and domestic work in sub-Saharan Africa

Cynthia Itbo Musah and Susan J. Elliott

Self-selected goals outperform assigned goals in reducing mobile phone usage: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Ashish Sachdeva, Jeeva Somasundaram and Kamal Kant Sharma

Parental education and children's old-age mortality: Evidence using college expansions

Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher

Lasting effects of redlining: The association of historical redlining and cognitive function in older Black adults

Brittney S. Lange-Maia, Melissa Lamar, Jason LaBrosse, Ana W. Capuano, V. Eloesa McSorley, Francine Grodstein, Bryan D. James and Lisa L. Barnes

Health inequality aversion across multiple equity dimensions: a benefit trade-off experiment in South Korea

Jihyung Hong and Eun-Young Bae

Structural threat as a theoretical driver of trans health inequities

Wesley M. Correll-King and Kristi E. Gamarel

Firearm violence and racial capitalism: A conceptual framework for understanding the persistence and prevalence of gun violence in the United States

Tanya Golash-Boza and Whitney Pirtle

Obituary: Robert J. Earickson (1934 -2026)

Robin Kearns