Social Science & Medicine

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2025, volume 371, articles C

Early-life nutrition and schooling

Florencia Borrescio-Higa, Carlos Guillermo Bozzoli and Federico Droller

Midlife financial stress and cognitive and physical impairments in older age: The role of potentially modifying factors

Ingemar Kåreholt, Charlotta Nilsen, Miia Kivipelto, Deborah Finkel and Shireen Sindi

Disputes over the agenda to promote adequate and healthy eating - How the agri-food sector interfered in the Brazilian Tax Reform

Bruna Kulik Hassan, Vitória Lucia Silva de Moraes, Laís Amaral Mais, Ana Maria Thomaz Maya Martins, Marcello Fragano Baird, Marília Sobral Albiero, Paula Johns and Camila Maranha Paes de Carvalho

Dimensions of cisheteronormativity that influence healthcare utilization practices in LGBTQ+ populations: A systematic review

Mik S. Bartels, Caroline Ng Tseung-Wong, Dimity A. Crisp and Patricia M. Brown

Catastrophic health expenditure during healthcare financing reform: Evidence from Kazakhstan

Aigerim Sarsenbayeva and Dinara Alpysbayeva

Childhood adversity trajectories and not being in education, employment, or training during early adulthood: The Danish life course cohort (DANLIFE)

Leonie K. Elsenburg, Bertina Kreshpaj, Signe Hald Andersen, Tjeerd Rudmer de Vries, Karsten Thielen and Naja Hulvej Rod

AI in medical diagnosis: A contextualised study of patient motivations and concerns

Nastaran Hajiheydari, Mohammad Soltani Delgosha and Tahereh Saheb

Strategies of containment: Financialization and Latinx immigrants' health care exclusion in Colorado's mountain resort region

Sarah B. Horton

Not/belonging as health promotion: The affective potentialities of human and non-human relationalities in mother-baby-assemblages

Eva Neely and Michaela Pettie

Labor market disadvantages and mental health among the second-generation children of immigrants in Sweden. A population cohort study

Wooseong Kim, Sol P. Juárez, Andrea Dunlavy, Sven Drefahl and Siddartha Aradhya

Explaining subjective social status and health: Beyond education, occupation and income

Matthew Robson, Gang Chen and Jan Abel Olsen

Comprehensive assessment of the impact of mandatory community-based health insurance in Burkina Faso

Delphine Boutin, Laurène Petitfour, Yvonne Allard, Souleymane Kountoubré and Valéry Ridde

The long-term health effects of welfare reform

Emily C. Dore, Rita Hamad, Kelli A. Komro and Melvin D. Livingston

Testing “the science”: A comparative analysis of COVID-19 testing policy across four Canadian provinces

Katherine Fierlbeck, Lara Gautier, Susan Usher, Sara Allin, Veena Sriram and Peter Berman

How many doctors does a health system need? Histories of workforce planning in the NHS

Clare Herrick and David Armstrong

The power paradox of patient-centred care in Chinese community health: Towards a conceptualisation

Bo Li

A political economy of hope: Materialisations of social class and inequity in women's imaginings of alcohol (free) futures

Paul R Ward, Kristen Foley, Megan Warin and Belinda Lunnay

Disputed and disfavored: Pain, mental illness, and invisible conditions in disability discrimination cases

Rachel Kahn Best, Yan Fang, Catherine Fisk, Linda Hamilton Krieger and Diana Reddy

“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces

Henriette List, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen and Ole Graumann

When the invisible becomes the impossible: Direct care workers’ experience of organizational change

Jane S. VanHeuvelen, Tom VanHeuvelen and Janette S. Dill

Natural disaster-induced dementia and cognitive decline: A meta-analysis and systematic review

Jacob Thompson and Maryam Vasefi

Associations of parental internal migration with child growth and nutritional status in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

Emeline Rougeaux, Adriana Vázquez-Vázquez, Laura Busert-Sebela, Mary Fewtrell and Jonathan C.K. Wells

Evolution of intimate partner violence impacts from cash transfers, food transfers, and behaviour change communication: Mixed-method experimental evidence from a nine-year post-programme follow-up in Bangladesh

Michelle Lokot, Nasrin Sultana, Melissa Hidrobo, Akhter Ahmed, John Hoddinott, Deboleena Rakshit, Shalini Roy and Meghna Ranganathan

Emotional or informational? Understanding cancer patients’ multifaceted help-seeking behaviors in online health communities

Xiandong Feng, Yinhuan Hu, Holger Pfaff, Sha Liu, Hui Wang and Yangfan Wang

Sources of well-being and cardiovascular health: A mixed methods investigation from the MIDUS study

Julia K. Boehm, Monica Adams and Jennifer Morozink Boylan

Bracing for impact: An intensive longitudinal investigation of weight stigma, vigilant coping, and maladaptive eating

Karen E. Wetzel, Mary S. Himmelstein and Jeffrey A. Ciesla

Changes in marital and health status as risk factors for a subsequent negative wealth shock: A population-based longitudinal study in the United States, 1995–2020

Tsai-Chin Cho, Xuexin Yu, Sara D. Adar, HwaJung Choi, Kenneth M. Langa and Lindsay C. Kobayashi

Employment quality and mental health in Germany: The mismatch of low employment quality with work and family values by gender

Deborah De Moortel, Rebeka Balogh, Miriam Engels and Julie Vanderleyden

Stressors faced by forcibly displaced Ukrainians in England within 6 months of arrival: A qualitative study

J. Whitehead, O. Fokaf, T. Deinekhovska, M. Egan and M. Seguin

Is time a gift for health and life satisfaction? Exploring the relationship between time allocation and adaptation to a breast cancer diagnosis

Ni Gao, Mark Harris, Mandy Ryan, Suzanne Robinson and Richard Norman

Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach

Le Khanh Ngan Nguyen, Holly McCabe, Susan Howick, Itamar Megiddo, Soumen Sengupta and Alec Morton

Health disparity among older adults in urban China: Does labor migration matter

Zehan Pan, Feiyang Yang, Nan Yang and Riming Nie

Moving away from volunteerism in community health? Motivations and wellbeing among urban and rural Ethiopian volunteers

Kenneth Maes, Svea Closser, Yihenew Tesfaye and Roza Abesha

Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity

Jasmin A. Darville, Katherine Campbell, Kaitlyn K. Stanhope, Alexis Kendall, Sierra Carter, Michael R. Kramer, Ran Zhang and Sheree L. Boulet

Suicide rates in South Korea and internationally following release of the Netflix series ‘Squid Game’

Mark Sinyor, Sangsoo Shin, Jiyun Lee, Steven Stack, Vera Yu Men and Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

Methodologies and estimates of social costs of gambling: A scoping review

Sari Hautamäki, Virve Marionneau, Sari Castrén, Jussi Palomäki, Susanna Raisamo, Tomi Lintonen, Pia Pörtfors and Tiina Latvala

Relatively independent and complementary roles of family history and polygenic risk score in age at onset and incident cases of 12 common diseases

Wenyan Hou, Yuxin Liu, Xingjie Hao, Jike Qi, Yuchen Jiang, Shuiping Huang and Ping Zeng

2025, volume 370, articles C

Corrigendum to ‘Does the UK-public's aversion to inequalities in health differ by group-labelling and health-gain type? A choice-experiment’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 269, January 2021, 113573]

Simon McNamara, Aki Tsuchiya and John Holmes

Corrigendum to “Examining the perception, frequency, and intensity of domestic violence inflicted by Palestinian wives against their husbands” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 358, October 2024, 117269]

Oqab Jabali

Ethical and legal implications of health monitoring wearable devices: A scoping review

Emma Capulli, Ylenia Druda, Francesco Palmese, Abdul Haleem Butt, Marco Domenicali, Anna Giulia Macchiarelli, Alessandro Silvani, Giorgio Bedogni and Francesca Ingravallo

Intracommunity intersectional discrimination and its impact on psychological distress and smoking behavior among sexual minority men from minority ethnic backgrounds

Randolph C.H. Chan, Marcus Shengkai Lam, Limin Mao, Sujith Kumar Prankumar and Horas Wong

Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography

Alix Boirot, Geraldine Cazorla, Patrizia Carrieri and Marta Lotto

Childhood adversity, early school leaving and long-term social benefit use: A longitudinal mediation analysis of a population-wide study

Signe K. Bennetsen, Bertina Kreshpaj, Signe Hald Andersen, Tjeerd Rudmer de Vries, Karsten Thielen, Theis Lange, Naja Hulvej Rod and Leonie K. Elsenburg

Understanding the experience of employees in assisted living facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative case study

Yaqi Yuan

(Mis)Informed decision-making: How U.S. healthcare providers use science to influence pregnancy options counseling

Lucy Tu

Whose assets? Individual and household income and savings and mental health in a longitudinal cohort

Catherine K. Ettman, Emma Dewhurst, Rajesh Satpathy-Horton, C. Ross Hatton, Ben Thornburg, Brian C. Castrucci and Sandro Galea

Individual- and community-level women's empowerment and complete use of maternal healthcare services: A multilevel analysis of 34 sub-Saharan African countries

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

Heteronormativity and cisgenderism in medical training: A scoping review of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and plus (LGBTQ+) issues in medical training in Asia

Yiu Tung Suen, Eliz Miu Yin Wong, Randolph C.H. Chan, Suchon Tepjan and Peter A. Newman

How hospitals’ goal setting, feedback, and process standardization capacity impact provider payment reforms

Sian Hsiang-Te Tsuei and Winnie Chi-Man Yip

Characteristics of geographic environments that support the health and wellbeing of young people with disability: A scoping review

Amanda Alderton, Zoe Aitken, Belinda Hewitt, Elroy Dearn and Hannah Badland

Retirement and health plan choice

Tobias Müller, Mujaheed Shaikh and Lukas Kauer

Self-management of everyday female health: The role of self-care agency, patient-centered communication, and technology features in the intention to adopt period-tracking apps

Qiwei Luna Wu and Elizabeth Babin Pask

Social media influencers and the Papageno effect: Experimental evidence for the suicide-preventive impact of social media posts on hope, healing, and recovery

Florian Arendt, Benedikt Till, Armin Gutsch and Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

Children's access to mental healthcare: Parental perceptions and resource constraints

Nicole Black, David W. Johnston and Jemimah Ride

Perceived discrimination among migrants in Germany: Does social capital moderate harmful effects on mental health?

Louise Biddle, Barbara Stacherl and Ellen Heidinger

Trading-off outcomes and policy characteristics of a Universal Basic Income and a Minimum Income Guarantee: Evidence from an exploratory mixed-method preference-based study

Neil McHugh, David Bomark, Rachel Baker, Verity Watson, Neil Craig and Cam Donaldson

Exposure to behaviour change techniques and self-management tasks in a nationally-implemented digital intervention for type 2 diabetes self-management: Analysis of usage data

Rhiannon E. Hawkes, Antonia M. Marsden, Sarah Cotterill, Jack S. Benton and David P. French

Expanding contexts of medicalization: The role of policy legacies, race, and class in the prevalence of treatment courts

Meagan Rainock

Adverse childhood experiences and loneliness: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Aisling Curtis, Martina Luchetti, Cian Prendergast, Elayne Ahern, Ann-Marie Creaven, Emma M. Kirwan, Eileen K. Graham and O’Súilleabháin, Páraic S.

Causal mediation of the association between educational attainment and late-life cognitive function by trajectories of social participation

Yu-Tien Hsu, Francine Grodstein, Tzu-Hung Liu, Chia-Rui Chang, Ichiro Kawachi and Jarvis T. Chen

Diminished returns of maternal education on children's vaccination status for indigenous women in Peru

Ali Al-kassab-Córdova, Edward Mezones-Holguin and Jay S. Kaufman

Causally-informative analyses of the effect of job displacement on all-cause and specific-cause mortality from the 1990s Finnish recession until 2020: A population registry study of private sector employees

Stephanie Zellers, Elissar Azzi, Antti Latvala, Jaakko Kaprio and Terhi Maczulskij

Effects of emotional expression and platform prompts on patient selection: A multi-method study on online question and answer platforms

Jiaxin Xue, Zhaohua Deng and Bin Wang

“The system's not getting my grandchild”: A qualitative study of caregiver relationship formation for children born to incarcerated mothers

Bethany Kotlar, Aisha Yousafzai, Carolyn Sufrin, Monik Jimenez and Henning Tiemeier