Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2026

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

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2026, volume 402, articles C

Precision medicine ‘versus’ or ‘for’ public health? Different configurations of precision medicine in relation to the social determinants of health

Ilaria Galasso, Martyn Pickersgill and Giuseppe Testa

Looking through the cracks: vulnerabilities and deprivation in the Brazilian open drug scenes

Alexandra Almeida, Susan M. Kiene, María Luisa Zúñiga, Dan Werb, Annick Bórquez and Francisco I. Bastos

Equity of financial protection for health care in high-income countries: A systematic scoping review

Edward C. Xie, Diego Proaño, Shehzad Ali, Sara Allin, Michael R. Law and Beate Sander

Silence as a discourse regime in professional interactions within hospitals

Antoine Glauzy and Jean-Philippe Bouilloud

From macro aging narratives to personal response scripts: A process model from bilibili comment discourse

Zhangwei Zheng, Qin Lingda Tan and Hafizuddin-Syah B.A.m

Reducing tobacco supplier profits and pricing power: Modelling the impact of a tobacco price cap and tax increase on socioeconomic inequalities in England

Duncan Gillespie, Damon Morris, Ryan Kai Le Chen, Alan Brennan and J. Robert Branston

Ethics of transference care: Navigating personhood, data, and the dead in corneal donation

Ronja Tammi

Sense of coherence and the cultural organisation of barriers to healthy eating and active living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Uppsala

Jonas Idevall Hagren, Helle Mölsted Alvesson, Mats Martinell, Tove Fall and Meena Daivadanam

Life course socio-economic effects in later life cognitive functioning by cohort, gender and origin

Liili Abuladze and Luule Sakkeus

Critical model of resilience in children and youth from a Latin American polycrisis context based on a mixed-methods study

Felipe Agudelo-Hernández, Yulissa Mosquera-Cetre and Helena Vélez-Botero

Early life adversity and cardiometabolic risk in adolescents: Comparison of dimensional and cumulative approaches to adversity

Leah Cha, DaiJa Moorehead, Katie A. McLaughlin and Jennifer A. Sumner

Proximity and positionality: Situating knowledge through the experiences of quantitative air quality data collectors working in participants’ homes

Elara Shurety, Frank J. Kelly and Diana Varaden

The impossibility problem: When public health policies require what structural conditions prevent

Katelin Albert, Jasmine Padam and Garry C. Gray

“They don't care”: The implications of systemic racism on Black women's help-seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic

Anna Pirsch, Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Hanan Abusbaitan, Alexa A. Lopez, Jennifer Kibicho, Diane Schadewald and Jeneile Luebke

From information receiver to knowledge constructor: The dynamic construction of health information literacy in treatment practice among people living with HIV

Ziyi Xie, Kinglun Ngok, Zhenjie Yang and Zhizhuang Duan

Migrant access to emergency health care: The significance of emotions

Simran Sandhu, Raelene Wilding and Sabrina Gupta

From connection to stigmatization: The influence of storytelling networks on perceived stigma and quality of life among migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong

Jeffry Oktavianus

A tale of two discriminations: Examining social network pathways between healthcare and everyday discrimination and type 2 diabetes self-management among Black/African American men

Tyler Prochnow, Jeong-Hui Park, Meg S. Patterson, Ledric D. Sherman and Matthew Lee Smith

“I'm not just a large lady; I'm a large Black lady”: Intersectional stigma and barriers to healthcare access among Black women

Gashaye Melaku Tefera, Virginia Ramseyer Winter, Shelby Varol, Ally Terhaar, Ponsiano Ngondwe, Sophia Anderson and Kate Trout

"Why is my body malfunctioning?”: Legitimacy narratives of women experiencing chronic lactation insufficiency

Susanna Foxworthy Scott, Julie Searcy and Izzi Jordan

Serial associations of depressive symptoms and functional impairment in the social isolation-cognitive function relationship: Findings from the Hubei Memory and Aging Cohort Study

Heqianxi Dong, Gui-Rong Cheng, Hua Meng, Yuan-Yuan Peng, Jia-Yi Lu, Wen-Zhe Zheng, Dan Liu, Fei-Fei Hu, Xin-Yan Xie, Yi-Feng Cheng, Xing Wang and Yan Zeng

Relating rightly: Toward a relational-ethical framework for peer support service through an ethnographic study in China

Yun Chen

Corrigendum to “An infrastructural approach to cross-boundary healthcare access: The case of Hong Kong patients in the Greater Bay Area, China” [Soc. Sci. Med. 390, February 2026, 118891]

Xiang Yan, Zixuan Han and Shenjing He

Testing the sociocultural model of eating disorders: A cross-national analysis of income inequality, gender equality, and eating disorder rates

E.A. Harris, F.K. Barlow, A. Wu, D. Russo-Batterham, S. Griffiths and K.R. Blake

Health migrations: How pre-migration healthcare experiences and US healthcare challenges shape immigrants’ transnational healthcare practices

Tiffany D. Joseph and Vibhustuti Thapa

2026, volume 401, articles C

Assessing multilevel association of genderism on cognitive health of older adults across mesosystems and microsystems using the longitudinal aging study in India: An adaptation of the ecological systems theory and cumulative disadvantage/advantage framework

Arokiasamy Perianayagam, Rakhi Dandona, Y. Selvamani, Supriya Kaustubh Salvi, Snehaprabha Surpum, Emiliano Albanese and Preeti Pushpalata Zanwar

Initiate-manage-sustain: A multimodal conversation analytic approach to understanding therapeutic engagement for children with autism spectrum disorder

Xiaoxin Ma, Virginia Calabria, Shuai Zhang, Na Wang, Xiaomeng Zhang and Wen Ma

Longing for continuity: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research on the experience of older people living with chronic illness towards the end of life

Emma Gobiet, Khyati Tripathi, Aline De Vleminck, Lieve Van den Block and Lara Pivodic

Children's voices in community-based promotion of childhood health and wellbeing and the responses of community stakeholders

Maja Vilhelmsen, Thomas Amled, Didde Hoeeg, Paul Bloch, Louise A.S. Bratsch, Jiani Ma and Ulla Toft

Limited family ties, friendship, and contextual variation in loneliness risk across 25 countries

Christine A. Mair

Politeness strategies in doctor-patient communication on weight loss: Addressing face-threats in advice delivery

Liliia Bespala, Miriam Meyerhoff and Charlotte Albury

Taking the long view: The shifting impacts of food aid on mental health over time, and the implications for mental health governance

Maddy Power and Madeleine Baxter

Characterising public opinion for food-based fiscal policies in the UK

John Buckell, Thomas Hancock, Hannah Forde, Lauren Bandy, Henning Jensen, Marcus Keogh-Brown, Ben Amies-Cull, Margarida Bica, Sian Taylor, Owen Thomas, Jane Ward, Mike Rayner, Jessica Renzella, Richard Smith, Laura Cornelsen, Peter Scarborough and Asha Kaur

Digital health among forcibly displaced women in the MENA region: Risks of reproducing traumatic experiences through technological mediation

Nena Mocnik

An early intervention public health approach to violence prevention: A realist evaluation of the Thames Valley Hospital Navigator Scheme

Sarah Bekaert, Georgia Cook and Kelly Reed

Chemical intimacy: A topological analysis of chemsex and harm reduction practices among gay and bisexual men in Taiwan

Poyao Huang, Yu-Hsiung Chen, Chia-Wen Li, Stephane Wen-Wei Ku and Carol Strong

Waiting as a frontier: (Un)making patients for uterus transplantation in Denmark

Zainab Afshan Sheikh, Alexandra Middleton and Anja M.B. Jensen

Vaccine hesitancy and uptake during pregnancy: investigating the role of emotional mental imagery

Julie L. Ji, Zoe Bradfield, Lies Notebaert, Joshua Lake, Catherine Hughes, Jane Warland, Julian Basanovic, Colin MacLeod, Margie Danchin, Christopher C. Blyth and Katie Attwell

“I feel like most people seem to just go with the flow”: Menopause, stigma and Chinese culture

Olga A. Zayts-Spence, Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar and David Matthew Edmonds

Understanding public opposition to negative reimbursement decisions in healthcare: A systematic review

Vivian Reckers-Droog, Philipa Mos, Werner Brouwer and Saskia Knies

Aging-related deficits accumulation and cancer-related outcomes in testicular and prostate cancer: Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings

Michael A. Hoyt, Karen Llave, Judith E. Carroll and Marcie D. Haydon

No evidence that anti-domestic violence laws reduce violent child discipline in sub-Saharan Africa

Hanbo Wu and Luca Maria Pesando

Mental health in a digitally fragmented world: Exploring negative and positive associations across spatial contexts and gender

Noam J. Gal, Alex Li Min Wang, Amnon Franco, Basile Chaix and Amit Birenboim

Who benefits, who is left behind? Intersectional inequities in unmet health care needs before and after the 2010 Swedish choice in primary health care reform using decision trees

Núria Pedrós Barnils, Paola A. Mosquera and Per E. Gustafsson

Using a life table to quantify survival-related selection bias in studies of racial health disparities

Qiang Xia, Prima Manandhar-Sasaki, Daniel Bertolino, Lucia V. Torian, Zoe R. Edelstein and Yingjie Zheng

Mimetic violence and wartime organ donation between Israeli Jews and Palestinians

Dr Netanel Dagan and Dr Ayelet Oreg

Geographies of the secret: Navigating medical, activist, and intimate spaces in intersex research in Chile

Gloria E. Casanova-Molina

Birth order and infant health: Evidence from maternal immunisation in New Zealand

Thomas Schober

Therapeutic equivalence, different stigma: Pills and long-acting injectable antiretroviral treatment imaginaries among gay and bisexual men living with HIV in Colombia

Julien Brisson, Mariangela Castro-Arteaga, Carmen H. Logie and Amaya Perez-Brumer

Abortion information seeking: Engaged patients, stigma, and emotion work

Orlaith Heymann, Hillary Gyuras, Tamika Odum and Danielle Bessett