Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2026

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2026, volume 409, articles C

A quiet endurance: pragmatic family resilience in Chinese dementia care

Dian Jiang, Yu Du, Xi Chen, Liting Zeng, Yishi Chen, Lina Wu and Hui Feng

Heightened trait and state-level Fatigue and Fatigability in patients with post COVID across cognitive, motor, and emotional domains

M. Tempfli, R.J. Gaertner, C. Mlynski, M.S. Gölz, L. Altfreder, S. Detzner, L. Greis, S. Schweßinger, S. Weber, J. Weis, D. Meindl, L.H.O. Roth, M. Fischer, P.H. Wirtz, V. Job, J.C. Pruessner, C. Weich, C. Dettmers, M. Jöbges and J. Randerath

Obesity and employment: Causal evidence from Genetic Instruments in the UK Biobank

Aharon Katz

Embodied harm, normalised suffering: experiences of unpaid care and domestic work among women across the life course in sub-Saharan Africa

Cynthia Itbo Musah and Susan J. Elliott

Unbundling social protection: Sex-specific pathways between social grant receipt and adolescent sexual violence in South Africa

Nontokozo Langwenya, Lucie Cluver, Siyanai Zhou, Heidi Stöckl and Elona Toska

Labour, capital, and the Nordic health paradox

Elias Nosrati and Torkild Hovde Lyngstad

Pragmatic sensemaking: Mapping the cultural work of people living with dementia and their care-partners

Corey M. Abramson, Kieran L. Turner, Ignacia Arteaga, Alma Hernández de Jesús, Brandi Ginn, Yuhan Nian and Daniel Dohan

Mediating hospital attendance: Invisible administrative work and structural vulnerability in outpatient care

Luna Richardt, Karin Yde Waidtløw, Jette Ammentorp, Connie Timmermann, Bente Mertz Nørgård, Maria Iachina, Ken Lund, Morten Sodemann and Daria Morgounova Schwalbe

“If I want to tap into a cord blood bank later, I felt that I should do my part and donate”: Mutualism in women's accounts of umbilical cord blood donation

Jennie Haw and Jessica Polzer

Experiencing medical desertification: A care-seeker-centered qualitative comparison across rural and urban sites in France and Slovenia

Benedetta Lana, Ursula Lipovec Čebron and Tamara Giles-Vernick

Rethinking health in later life: A six-dimensional model based on the European SHARE survey

Tayzar Tun, Amparo Oliver, Jose M. Tomas, Yukiko Honda, Daisuke Takagi, Paul Pereyra and Naoki Kondo

Home as workplace: Employment conditions, employer relationships, and mental health among migrant domestic workers in Macao, China

Timothy S. Sumerlin, Immanuel Yosua and Brian J. Hall

Measuring the biological embedding of chronic stress: Allostatic load algorithms and cancer risk in a prospective cohort

Daniel Redondo-Sánchez, José María Gálvez-Navas, Encarnación González Flores, Maria del Señor López Vélez, Yahya Mahamat-Saleh, Javier Garcia-Pérez, Camino Trobajo-Sanmartín, Sandra M. Colorado-Yohar, Eunate Abilleira, Maria José Sánchez and Dafina Petrova

Surveillance, violence, and assistance: Distinct typologies of police contact and prospective health outcomes among people who use drugs

Saba Rouhani, Mehrdad Khezri, Kristin E. Schneider, Catherine A. Tomko, Laura N. Sisson, Emily M. Martin, Danielle F. Nestadt and Susan G. Sherman

Growing up with ADHD: How diagnosis shapes socioeconomic trajectories

Maëlle Tholimet

Treating the incumbent patient in triage: An analysis of “first come, first served” as a procedural rule

Iván Aranzales, Ho Fai Chan, David Stadelmann and Benno Torgler

Keeping the distance: An ethnographic study of professional autonomy and boundary work among hospital surgeons

Peter Forde Hougaard and Kristian Larsen

Pregnancy termination outside the formal healthcare system before Dobbs: Consideration and attempts among abortion seekers in Mississippi

Kimberly Kelly and Katrina Kimport

Competing institutional logics in public-private hospital arrangements in England

Gemma Stringer, Jane Ferguson, Kieran Walshe, Thomas Allen, Michael Anderson, Karen Bloor, Eleanor Gee, Christos Grigoroglou, Nils Gutacker and Michael Molete

Adjudicating medical uncertainty in public settings: How police officers, health workers, and people who use drugs exercise discretion when assessing overdose risk

Andrew Chelius

Conceptual ambiguities, systemic barriers and emotional labour: Healthcare professionals’ perspectives on navigating ethnicity in genomic medicine

Nishtha Bharti, Susie Weller and Anneke Lucassen

Health system barriers to care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex populations in Nepal: A qualitative multi-stakeholder study

Kamal Gautam, Kiran Paudel, Bandana Bhandari, Kevin Le, Sandesh Bhusal, Md Safaet Hossain Sujan, Manisha Dhakal, Meghnath Dhimal, Laura Dean, Keshab Deuba, Jeffrey A. Wickersham, Roman Shrestha and Sally Theobald

Commercial opposition and the politics of proof: Institutional design for regulatory durability in food and nutrition policy

A. Susana Ramírez

The influence of disease label, disease signs and levels of contact on the stigmatization of inflammatory bowel disease: A vignette experiment

Elia-Jade Edwards, Jared Walters and Megan Oaten

War comes home: Conflict exposure and intimate partner violence in Ethiopia

Workineh Ayenew, Andreas Kotsadam, Charlotte Ringdal and Espen Villanger

The Intersectional Discrimination Index – Revised: Refinement and further psychometric assessment

Ayden I. Scheim, Kelly A. Courts, Daniel Vader, Ana María del Río-González, Greta R. Bauer, Sannisha K. Dale, Tonia Poteat, Roxana Bolden, Valerie A. Earnshaw and João Luiz Bastos

Loneliness in migrants: Are there differences compared to non-migrants? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Natalia Martín-María, Andrés Pemau, Laura Alejandra Rico-Uribe, Alejandro De la Torre-Luque, Andrés Losada-Baltar and Elvira Lara

Workplace discrimination in relation to mental well-being and suicidal ideation

Tobias Weinmann, Britta Herbig and Philipp Sischka

Community social environment in relation to opioid use disorder across an urban-rural spectrum

Melissa N. Poulsen, Cara M. Nordberg, Joseph DeWalle and Brian S. Schwartz

Exploring the therapeutic benefits of a community garden and nature-based project designed for people experiencing homelessness: A qualitative study

Jennifer E. van Bekkum, Stephen Malden, Craig W. McDougall, Katie Hawkins, Andrew J. Williams and Catharine Ward Thompson

Insurance is not enough: Access barriers, usual source of care, and reliance on the emergency department

Alyson Ma and Alison Sanchez

Biodiversity and well-being: A systematic review and meta-analytic structural equation modeling analysis

Junpeng Chen, Bo Hu, Liuna Geng and Martin Dallimer

The long-term health consequence of the 1958-61 Great Leap Forward and famine in China: Life-stage exposure and later-life frailty

Zongpu Yue, Stephen Jivraj and Emily Murray

Bridging divides: The role of social science in operationalising transdisciplinarity for epidemic preparedness in sub-Saharan Africa, 2012–2023

Catherine Grant, Santiago Ripoll and Linda Waldman

Help-seeking behavior and its determinants among gender-based violence survivor women in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Getasew Kibralew, Yilkal Abebaw Wassie, Mulualem Kelebie, Gidey Rtbey, Fantahun Andualem, Betelhem Mulugeta Worku, Setegn Fentahun, Girum Nakie, Gebresilassie Tadesse Gizaw, Mekidem Aderaw and Tesfaye Segon

Violence exposure across the life-course and allostatic load: Applying the structural life course modeling approach to examine violence temporal patterns and the promotive and protective role of adolescent social connectedness

Ariana Burga and Shanting Chen

Which good practice exists for policymaking under uncertainty? An interdisciplinary review with relevance for health technology assessment (HTA)

Siobhan Botwright, Itamar Megiddo, Yot Teerawattananon, Tanainan Chuanchaiyakul, John Quigley and Abigail Colson

Overcoming the corporate playbook in international treaty negotiations: Insights from the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Leah Shipton

Stress in context: Social determinants, coping, and policy implications in a quota-matched Austrian sample

Jonas P. Nitschke, Nida Ali and Claus Lamm

Tragedy normalised through inevitability: A culture of indifference in rural Malawi's maternity services

Imre Papp and Zubia Mumtaz

Sailing between fate and control: Health systems resilience in the Caribbean Netherlands

R.A.J. Borst, M.B. de Graaff, F. Greving, D. van Leerdam, G.J.M. Frans and R. Bal

Empowered yet accountable? Digitalisation and the shifting boundaries of responsibility in healthcare; A qualitative investigation with patients and healthcare professionals

Mette Rørth, Maria Cecilie Schumann, Kristian Larsen and Anette Lykke Hindhede

Paraprofessionals as liminal professionals: The case of physician associates / assistants in the UK NHS hospitals

Yingxi Zhao, Rhys Swainston, Tricia Tooman, Reece Williams, Stephanie Nzekwu, Shobhana Nagraj and Gerry McGivern

The impact of social safety net policies on mental health and suicide outcomes in the United States: A scoping review

Anna E. Austin, Laura C. Hergenrother, Sara J. Honaker, Meghan E. Shanahan and Caroline E. Chandler

Positive emotions and credibility: Understanding how a community-engaged online campaign featuring clinician testimonials improved rural vaccine promotion

Ran Tao, Liwei Shen, Mahima Bhattar, Malia Jones, Andy Garbacz, Sijia Yang and Susan Racine Passmore

“It was so easy, it didn't feel real:” Positive abortion experiences post-Dobbs

Cynthia Beavin, Hillary J. Gyuras, Jessica A. Sinclair, Autumn Kirkendall, Danielle Bessett and Michelle L. McGowan

2026, volume 408, articles C

Effects of primary care visits on preventing chronic conditions and avoiding hospital care in the context of China's health system reform: a nationwide panel study

Yuqi Zhang, Laura Anselmi, Jonathan Stokes, Peter Bower and Jin Xu

Political and organizational influences in the side effects of FDA approved drugs

Jason Schnittker

Understanding how green space accessibility and utilisation relate to common mental health difficulties: A cross-sectional study in North West England

Xianghui Zhang, Mark A Green, Anna Head, Iain Buchan, Rebecca S Geary, Tom Clemens, Tao Cheng, Ellen Schwaller, Rukun Khalaf, Hannah Burnett, Roberto Villegas-Diaz and Sarah E Rodgers

Getting fit by doing good: Exercise, volunteering, and mental health at scale

Maria Cotofan, Christian Krekel and Ekaterina Oparina

Pull-forward and induced vaccination under time-limited mandates: Evidence from a low-coercion mandate

Fabio I. Martinenghi, Mesfin Genie, Katie Attwell, Huong Le, Hannah Moore, Aregawi G. Gebremariam, Bette Liu, Francesco Paolucci and Christopher C. Blyth

Are female-dominated cancers underfunded?

Lidia Farre, Ha Luong and Judit Vall

Double jeopardy: Health-protective effects of educational attainment are stronger in deprived neighbourhoods

Franz Fuerst and Gabriel Hollis

From crisis to cuffs: The impacts of police involvement in mental health emergencies among racialized children, youth, and families in Toronto

Mushfika Chowdhury, Jeffrey Paul Ansloos and Rosalind Hampton

Does stress produce racialized patterns in clinical decisions? - A vignette study among physicians in Germany

Dana Abdel-Fatah, Laura Hertner, Ulrike Kluge and Marion C. Aichberger

“This didn't exist back then”: A focus group study on adolescents' account of mental illness perceptions in the context of family, peers, and social media

Dora Weubel, Hannah Bauer, Kathrin Karsay, Ruth Wendt and Anne-Linda Camerini

Impact of prenatal sex selection on intimate partner violence against women: Evidence from India

Shampa Bhattacharjee, Shanu Jain and Arka Roy Chaudhuri

The associations between household food insecurity and cancer: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies among adults

Faramarz Jalili, Catherine L. Mah, Michael Lebenbaum, Sanaz Mehrabani, Parasto Yousefi Tanha, Seyed Mojtaba Ghoreishy, Shirley Hodder and Mohammad Hajizadeh

Revisiting cultural theory in the era of biomedical HIV prevention: Risk, sexual practice, and belonging among MSM in Amsterdam

Kevin Singh

Beyond regulatory recognition: Capacity building outcomes in traditional medicine South-South cooperation

Jia Wang

Transforming health systems to embrace human migration: From crisis mode to diversity-sensitive inclusive systems

Kayvan Bozorgmehr and Philipa Mladovsky

Socioeconomic status, stress, and actigraphy-derived measures of sleep among middle-aged to older African American adults

Kristin M. Davis, Margeaux M. Schade, Sofia H. Carfagno, Katherine Knauft, Orfeu M. Buxton and Samuele Zilioli

Age moderates within-person associations between momentary affect and cognitive performance in daily life

Julie Kircher, Christopher G. Engeland, Susan T. Charles, Jee Eun Kang, Eric S. Cerino and Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland

Tree canopy is associated with lower levels of depression, but not for everyone: Findings from a large, nationally representative sample

Kirsten M.M. Beyer, Yuhong Zhou, Bethany Canales and Amber L. Pearson

How common is resilience? A growth mixture modelling analysis of well-being trajectories after disability onset in later life

Thibault Köhler and Bram Vanhoutte

“It changed me, who I am”: How parents with children in the forensic mental health system in Ontario, Canada experience the transformation of their identities

Jean-Laurent Domingue, Etienne Paradis-Gagné, Jennifer Neves, Steven Michel and Genevieve Ankomah

When organisational stability conceals fragility: Sustaining work and compensatory labour in healthcare

Ewa Wikström and Christian Gadolin

Epistemic cultures, knowledge types, and disciplinary tensions in population health research: An international interview study

Taya A. Collyer

Resistance, adaptation, and irreducible paradox. How AI reshapes clinical professional identity: A meta-narrative review

Francesca Guerra, Maartje Schermer, Jacob J. Visser and Yiannis Kyratsis

Does menstrual cycle tracking enhance female athlete health and performance? Evaluating five implicit assumptions of an emerging paradigm

Meredith W. Reiches, Marina DiMarco, Katharine M.N. Lee, Madeleine S. Pape, Sheree Bekker, Marion Boulicault, Ann Caroline Danielsen and Sarah S. Richardson

Choreographing care and restraint: Managing acute distress in recovery-oriented psychiatric inpatient wards

Thorben Peter Høj Simonsen and Claudia Egher

Relational autonomy in the clinical encounter: Female genital cosmetic surgery in Belgium and the Netherlands

Hannelore Van Bavel, Anne-Mette Hermans and Marjolein de Boer

Not what it seems: Distributed agencies and clinical narratives in electronic health records

Sandra Ramirez, Nelson Molina-Valencia and Joel Michael Reynolds

Mapping power through space: The spatial intersectionality health framework and intersectional geographically-explicit ecological momentary assessment

Stephanie H. Cook and Benjamin Pettus

How education gets under the skin: Pathways linking educational advantage to slower biological aging

Max Lisch and Mateo Farina

Age-friendly community environments and depressive symptom trajectories among middle-aged and older adults in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)

Xianrui Wang, Ting On Chan, Fiona Fan Yang, Geng Lin and Zhanyong Chen

Place and brain health: A community-led yarning study with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia

A.J. Clarke, K. Radford, C. Murrup-Stewart, C. Swinton, P. Bates-Canty, J. McGuinness, L. Lavrencic, A. Withall, A. Brodtmann and J. Towney

Understanding inter-city travelers’ weekend daily mobilities, noise, and psycho-physiological stress: Evidence from residents with cross-city work-residence arrangements

Lirong Kou, Yapeng Xue, Miao Luo, Mei-Po Kwan and Honggang Xu

Gender differences in trusted sources of information and preventive health behaviors among Hispanic immigrants: The case of COVID-19

Emily A. Ekl, Melissa J. García, Caroline V. Brooks, Nicholas C. Smith, Denise Ambriz, Brea L. Perry and Gerardo Maupomé

Adverse birth outcomes and intergenerational exposure to multiple dimensions of structural racism among Black families in the U.S. South

Nancy L. Fleischer, Woo Jung Lee, Yanmei Xie, Kristi L. Allgood, Andrea K. Henderson, Claire Margerison, Belinda L. Needham, Anton M. Palma, Michael G. Smith and Annie Ro

Reckoning with statistics’ eugenicist origins: Intersectional MAIHDA and the queering of quantitative methods

W. Jamie Yang and Clare R. Evans

The challenged conscience: Moral predicaments of hospital frontline administrators in China's medical disputes

Long Zhang and Ling Meng

Swallowed silence, strategic silence, and safe disclosure: A multi-level framework for understanding non-disclosure among internally displaced women experiencing gender-based violence

Patrice Ngangue, Souleymane Bayoulou and Fanny Nadia Dissak-Delon

Racially motivated hate crime exposure and birth outcomes: Analysis of US vital statistics data 1995-2020

Yingyue Jiang and Emily Rauscher

Genetic risk of depression predicts negative evaluations in social interactions

Tamkinat Rauf and Jeremy Freese

Discrimination and risk of spontaneous abortion in a preconception cohort study

Sharonda M. Lovett, Molly N. Hoffman, Ruth J. Geller, Amelia K. Wesselink, Jasmine Abrams, Chad M. Coleman, Erika L. Sabbath, Ugochinyere Vivian Ukah, Renée Boynton-Jarrett, Collette N. Ncube and Lauren A. Wise

Safety prioritization beyond efficiency: The role of age, health status, and ingroup preferences

Judith Covey, Danae Arroyos-Calvera and Rebecca McDonald

“Beggars can't be choosers”: Exploring service users' perspectives on charitable meal services while experiencing homelessness

Corinna Easton, Abe Oudshoorn, Tracy Smith-Carrier, Cheryl Forchuk and Carrie Anne Marshall

Heat, home-based assault and domestic and family violence injuries: Evidence from hospital emergency department presentations

Asher Flynn, Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, Jacqui True and Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri

Prenatal exposure to maternal stress during the 2024 floods in Valencia, Spain, and risk of prematurity

Leire Salazar and Nerea Bello-Iglesias

Responsibility beyond accountability: Navigating trust and control in Swedish primary care purchasing

Helena Lagerlöf and Morten Sager

Social network exposures, political party affiliation, and perceived health risk

Caroline M. Barry and Weihua An

Diagnosing employability: neurodiversity and the expansion of diagnosis into the workplace

Maria Concetta Lo Bosco

Corrigendum to “Are you sexually active?”: Unilateral informing patterns in communicating the sexual impact of prostate cancer treatment” [Soc. Sci. Med. 404 (2026) 119528]

Simon John Stewart, Lisa Roberts and Lucy Anne Brindle

From listening to verification: PDMP risk governance and the transformation of pain credibility in healthcare

Xuebei Hu

Corrigendum to ‘Place and brain health: A community-led yarning study with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia’ [Soc. Sci. Med. 408 (2026) 119799]

A.J. Clarke, K. Radford, C. Murrup-Stewart, C. Swinton, P. Bates-Canty, J. McGuinness, L. Lavrencic, A. Withall, A. Brodtmann and J. Towney