Social Science & Medicine

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2026, volume 407, articles C

The glass half full? Proportional rationing and well-being in disability care

Veerle Van Loon, Stef Dielen and Koen Decancq

Retrospectively appraised life changes since the German reunification and health: gender-differentiated indirect associations via psychosocial resources

Stefanie Hahm, Laura Altweck, Johanna Bick, Annika Büll, Silke Schmidt, Hannah D. Nussmann, Thomas McLaren, Sven Speerforck, Georg Schomerus, Manfred E. Beutel, Elmar Brähler and Holger Muehlan

Associations between student social position, training, and plans to care for underserved populations over the course of medical school

Lauren D. Olsen, Laura A. Orrico and Lin Zhu

Intersecting vulnerabilities, diverging pathways: an intersectional analysis of PrEP access disparities among migrant populations in Belgium

Ella Van Landeghem, Bernadette Hensen, Milena Belloni and Christiana Nöstlinger

Disentangling the associations between women's decision-making power dynamics and maternal and child health outcomes in 35 sub-Saharan African countries

Yun-Jung Eom, Hyejun Chi, Hwa-Young Lee, S.V. Subramanian and Rockli Kim

Changes in health inequalities before and after a major urban greenway intervention: Evidence from a 6-year follow-up in the UK

Duyen Nguyen, Ciaran O'Neill, Selin Akaraci, Christopher Tate, Ruoyu Wang, Leandro Garcia, Frank Kee and Ruth F. Hunter

Saving money, costing women: the gendered price of hospital-at-home

Marie-Eve Laporte, Clotilde Coron and Patrick Gilbert

Interpreters as epistemic brokers in cross-cultural primary care consultations in Ireland: A discourse analysis

Anne Cronin, Mary Phelan, Patrick O'Donnell, Tim Rapley, Kathleen Markey, Ahmed Hassan, Tonya Myles, Aileen Kitching, Kateryna Kachurets and Anne MacFarlane

HIV disclosure in Ugandan schools: A qualitative study of how educators navigate the institutional ecology of information, HIV stigma, and care

Massy Mutumba, Jennifer Nattabi, Proscovia Nabunya, Francis Matovu and Fred M. Ssewamala

The lasting association between interrupted medical care during US immigration detention and mental health outcomes

Paola Langer, Caitlin Patler and Altaf Saadi

When uncertainty becomes guilt: The moralisation of home urinary stoma care after bladder cancer surgery in China

Han Xu, Xiaojuan Han, Yuqi Zhang, Xiaoyan Liu, Kaixia Gao, Xiaoxia Liu, Xiaojing Wang, Yawen Li, Panpan Guan, Jinrong Zhang, Lu Wang and Linping Shang

Conundrums and paradoxes in the pre-death grief experiences of dementia caregivers: A causal loop analysis

Yong Hao Ng, Joy Juan Wang and Amy Y.M. Chow

Gamete selection in gay male surrogacy: Procreative labor beyond gestation

Margot Lherbet

Socioeconomic adversity and child health following the COVID-19 pandemic: A convergent integrated mixed-methods review of household and neighbourhood inequalities

Christine Wilson, Sarah Hanson, Lauren Flannery, Katie Warncken and Nicholas Steel

Multi-year contracts between Dutch hospitals and health insurers: Exploring contract function and frame

Peter J.G. Dohmen, Daniëlle Cattel, Chandeni S. Gajadien and Erik M. van Raaij

Labor pain relief and women's evaluations of childbearing: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in China

Fangqi Wen, Rui Cao, Xueqian Chen and Fei Xie

Understanding school-related gender-based violence from the perspectives of children with disabilities and community stakeholders in Sierra Leone

Steven Kaindaneh, Rosanna Kamara, Abu Bakarr Bangura, Sapana Basnet, Alexandre Chailloux, Julia De Kadt and Elena Schmidt

The impact of fiscal food policies on the macro-economy: The case of the UK soft drinks industry levy

Henning Tarp Jensen, Marcus R. Keogh-Brown, Linda J. Cobiac, Cherry Law, Nina T. Rogers, Harry Rutter, Martin White and Richard D. Smith

Early career health shocks and long-run labour market outcomes

Amalie Wiben, Christian Volmar Skovsgaard, Karen Søgaard, Berit Schiøttz-Christensen and Kim Rose Olsen

Impact of housing improvements on childhood hospitalization rates in a large cohort of low-income families in New Zealand

Ellie Johnson, Nevil Pierse, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Gaylene Leabourn, Melissa West, Cheryl Davies, Michael G. Baker and Elinor Chisholm

Ecologies of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) transmission across One Health interfaces: Waste, food and changing metabolic relations in rural China

Binjuan Liu and Helen Lambert

Adult temporal mobility (2002-2010) in material wealth and physical health, self-perceived health, sociality, and use of addictive substances: Insights from an observational exploratory panel study among Tsimane’ Indigenous People in the Bolivian Amazon

Jonathan Bauchet, Ricardo Godoy, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Asher Y. Rosinger and Eduardo A. Undurraga

Paternalism, parsed. Presenting empirical insights into the actions of physicians under the Austrian law on assisted dying

Julia Fischer, Klara Doppler, Tamina-Laetitia Vielgrader, Gerhard Aigner and Karl Stöger

The environmental racism index: Estimating the strength of association among environmental risk/benefit, mortgage lending disinvestment, and racial/ethnic density across US geographies

Kirsten M.M. Beyer, Wei Xu, Yuhong Zhou, Kai Yang, Jaime Madrigano and Anita Chandra

Temporal aspects of walking in the neighbourhood for people living with dementia

Habib Chaudhury, Shawna Hopper, Joey Oi Yee Wong, Kishore Seetharaman, Lillian Hung, Cari Randa-Beaulieu and Ji Young Cho

Targeting therapies: Analysing the social and normative dimensions of ‘targeted’ approaches to biomedicine and public health

Sone Erikainen, Ilaria Galasso, Susi Geiger and Martyn Pickersgill

Artificial intelligence in population breast cancer screening: A two-year cost-effectiveness analysis

Joanne Scarfe, M. Luke Marinovich, Nehmat Houssami and Alison Pearce

How is family functioning associated with depressive symptoms among women living with HIV in China? Findings from a 4-year longitudinal study

Luyao Xie, Xin Wang, Yanli Cao, Jiahan Zou, Chenxi Zhu, Arianna Ghasemi, Qian Wang and Phoenix Kit Han Mo

Compounding stigma: An experimental study comparing perceptions of an individual using Ozempic, bariatric surgery, or behavior modification

Madelyn H. Rosenthal and Mary S. Himmelstein

The biopolitics of “previving”: Femininity, labor, and reproduction

Teodora Brnovic and Alyson K. Spurgas

HIV medication adherence in the migration and settlement journey: Experiences and perspectives of migrant women living with HIV

Naomi Maldonado-Rodriguez, Patience Magagula, Kerry Marshall, Erica Bennett, Vicky Bungay and Eli Puterman

Mandated supporting, not reporting: Reimagining maternal health care for women who use drugs

Katrina Ciraldo, Marina Plesons, Griffin Sansbury, Krystle Culbertson, Harshitha Kakani, Julia Finster, Edward Suarez, Hansel E. Tookes and Kathryn M. Nowotny

Treading a fine line in equitable breastfeeding support: balancing breastfeeding promotion while avoiding pressure to breastfeed – a realist evaluation

Anne Kristine Gadeberg, Ingrid Maria Susanne Nilsson, Anne Bærug, Henriette Knold Rossau, Ulla Christensen and Sarah Fredsted Villadsen

Structural stigma and intersectional inequality in schizophrenia: A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis

Nathaël Naïs Jambon and Yankuba B. Manga

Silence beneath the surface: Examining intersectional sexual violence among Asian immigrant women

May Sudhinaraset, Lisa Parvin, Jung Ha Kim and Jessica D. Gipson

What is (not) distinct about asylum seekers’ violence exposures? New insights from a novel network-based survey

Abigail Weitzman, Ana Lucía Fernández Fernández and Gustavo Gatica López

Navigating a syndemic: Caregiving, dual identities, and child-headed households in rural Lesotho

Litsoanelo Setaka and Nokwanda Yoliswa Nzuza

Association between early-life food insecurity and depressive symptom trajectories in middle-aged and older adults: The mediating role of educational attainment

Qinyi Guan, Qinglan Chen and Kaisheng Teng

Physical and sensory disabilities and displacement: A systematic review

Micah Trautmann, Rashmina J. Sayeeda, Yanina Nahum, Muhammad Zaman and Carrie Preston

Normative values for paid and unpaid work productivity for estimating productivity-adjusted life expectancy in Finland

Piia Lavikainen, Jari Heiskanen, Zanfina Ademi, Yeji Baek, Tomi Mäki-Opas and Janne Martikainen

Causal effect of mandatory elementary education textbooks on literacy and cognition of low socioeconomic status older adults

Emma Aguila and Rodrigo Aranda

Neighborhood amenities, health services, and built infrastructure and epigenetic aging

Yanping Jiang, Leslie Zhen, Eun Young Choi, Adolfo Cuevas and Fengyan Tang

From exposure to composition: Market and household adjustments under Singapore's mandatory nutri-grade labeling policy

Soye Shin and Linh Ngoc Nguyen

Using a fire-horse cohort to estimate mortality associated with dual inheritance stress

Ralph Catalano, Tim A. Bruckner and Ichiro Kawachi

Between-school socioeconomic segregation and adolescent bullying: A cross-national multilevel study

Armen A. Torchyan, Inge Houkes, Satenik L. Papikyan, Leena R. Baghdadi and Hans Bosma

Wrong kind of queer: 2SLGBTQ+ black, indigenous and people of colour family expansion and strategic navigations of fertility clinics

Michelle W.Y. Tam, Lori E. Ross and Amaya-Perez Brumer

Miles apart: Collective inequities in medical communication and decision-making

Katrina E. Hauschildt

Incomplete implementation of substance use treatment referrals in U.S. hospitals: What can be learned through a lens of decoupling?

Aryn Z. Phillips and Hector P. Rodriguez

“I want to worry about it:” How the drive to optimize health turns people away from their doctors

Rachel Kahn Best

Living the work: Internal and identity challenges of adolescent peer navigators living with HIV

Ashley Chory, Ava Boal, Jack Nyagaya, Janet Lidweye, Josephine Aluoch, Sakshi Sawarkar, Lonnie Embleton, Mary Ott, Rachel Vreeman and Edith Apondi

Living with persistent illness and uncertainty: Patient narratives on Lyme disease in Nova Scotia, Canada

Marilyn Cox and Mario Levesque

Epistemic injustice in healthcare: How doctor gender and speciality shape patient voice in women's thyroid care

Catia Montagna, Tapio Räsänen and Alexandros Zangelidis

“I want what the white lady gets…”: Deconstructing racial disparities in gynecological cancer

Tiffany N. Younger, Diana Melendez, Tatyahna C. Costello and Onyinye D. Balogun

Selective visibility in datafied states: Examining the absence and presence of the European Health Data Space

Joseph Donia, Klaus Hoeyer, Thomas Reintjes and Luca Marelli

The crowded consulting room: Shame as an accumulated life course process in primary care

Mary Breheny, Christina Severinsen and Angelique Reweti

Livelihood pragmatism: Economic precarity and informal animal health management in rural Cambodia

Meriem M'zoughi, Ranny Rith and Vincent Herbreteau

DIY global health: Informality, privilege and ideologies that drive short-term medical missions

Nicole S. Berry

The Algorithm's Boundary: When AI enhances and fails to strengthen pharmaceutical supply chain resilience

Fangzhou Song, Siqi Li and Pu Jian

Embodied scarcity: An interpretative phenomenological inquiry into food insecurity and mental health wellness among women residing in environmentally vulnerable southwest coastal Bangladesh

Md. Ashfikur Rahman and Judy Yuen-man Siu

Lived sanitation experiences in informal and formal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: A comparative study through the lens of the Human Right to Sanitation

Julia Foellmer, Dennis Musyoka, Sarah Lebu, Dancan Owaga, Musa Manga, Paula Janeka, Caroline Kabaria and Carmen Anthonj

Corrigendum to ‘Temporal aspects of walking in the neighbourhood for people living with dementia’ [Soc. Sci. Med. 407 (2026) 119700]

Habib Chaudhury, Shawna Hopper, Joey Oi Yee Wong, Kishore Seetharaman, Lillian Hung, Cari Randa-Beaulieu and Ji Young Cho

Stigma of mental illness in China: Exploring the intersectional effects of gender, ethnicity and disorder at the start of national mental health care reform

Guangquan Shen and Bernice A. Pescosolido

Change in the association between financial hardship and mental health before and during the cost-of-living crisis in Australia

Lay San Too, Yamna Taouk, Phillip Cheuk Fung Law, Mei Dong, Liana Leach and Peter Butterworth

Corrigendum to “How is family functioning associated with depressive symptoms among women living with HIV in China? Findings from a 4-year longitudinal study” [Soc. Sci. Med. 407 (2026) 119705]

Luyao Xie, Xin Wang, Yanli Cao, Jiahan Zou, Chenxi Zhu, Arianna Ghasemi, Qian Wang and Phoenix Kit Han Mo

Retraction notice to “Beyond preferences: Rethinking shared decision-making through the lens of care’ [Soc. Sci. Med. 390 (2026) 118801]

Mauro Turrini, Roberta Valenti, Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox, Aarón Zau NKosi Rio, Mette N. Svendsen and Catherine Bourgain