Social Science & Medicine

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2026, volume 405, articles C

Digital technologies, economization and professional practice in hospitals: How socio-technical systems shape reliability

Mona-Maria Bardmann and Caroline Ruiner

International migration and sex trafficking: A scoping review

Higinio Fernández-Sánchez, Mutaz T. Abdulrazag Gamra, Luis E. Caso Vega, Julio Rodriguez-Araujo, Jennifer Stockton, Tahilin Sanchez Karver, Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz and Diane Santa Maria

Frustrated, hopeless and hesitant: Understanding doctors’ learned attitudes and emotions toward vaccine hesitancy through socialisation theory

Philip White, Hugh Alberti, Eugene Tang, Gill Rowlands and Ève Dubé

Technical efficiency and resilience of health systems in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ayumi Hashimoto, Hideki Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Kawaguchi and Yoko Ibuka

The Asian/American LGBTQ+ Migration and Health Equity (AQMHE) Framework

James Huynh, Nguyen Khai Tran, Arjee J. Restar and Hy V. Huynh

When care meets commerce: Patient resistance in optometric consultations

Holly Dobrzycki, Dirk vom Lehn, Peter Allen and Michael Bowen

Patient experiences with pre-abortion healthcare interactions in Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky after Dobbs

Allison A. Guo, Hillary J. Gyuras, Jessica A. Sinclair, Meredith J. Pensak, Danielle Bessett and Michelle L. McGowan

Cultural adaptation and updating of the ICAST-R child abuse and neglect instrument for Denmark

Troels Græsholt-Knudsen, Johanne Bundgaard Bak, Michelle Vestergaard Stadelhofer, Anette Dahl Elgaard, Sarah van Mastrigt, Tina Mogensen Givskud, Mathilde Houmann Stentoft, Pernille Spitz, Franziska Meinck and Ole Ingemann-Hansen

Intersecting social positions and mental wellbeing in adolescence: A population-based study

Eva Oberle, Suiqiong Fan, Xuejun Ryan Ji, Tonje Molyneux, Martin Guhn, Barry Forer, Anusha Kassan and Anne Gadermann

Accountability displacement in health systems integration: A study of the English National Health Service

Puren Aktas-Vincent, Marie Sanderson, Melissa Surgey, Kath Checkland, Lynsey Warwick-Giles and Jonathan Hammond

Ill at home, still at work? Working from home practices and sickness presenteeism

Lena Zöhrer, Heiko Breitsohl, Nils Backhaus and Sophie-Charlotte Meyer

“It's such a luxury, we may as well get something we really want”: a qualitative exploration of public perceptions of health and public health implications of on-demand delivery

Ella Sims, Christina McKerchar, Angela Curl, Susan Bidwell, Gemma Martin, Els Russell and Rose Crossin

A scoping review and examination of conceptual frameworks of cognitive changes in Indigenous communities across Canada

Maxine Brown, Maia Kelly, Sarah A. Vinette, Kahontakwas Diane Longboat, Kawennanoron Cindy White, Emily Simmonds and Suvendrini Lena

Diagnostic stickiness and shifting relevance: Reassessing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses. A qualitative interview study

Rose-Marie Lindkvist, Katalin Niklasson, Allan Lidström, Michelle Nilsson, Sophia Eberhard, Peik Gustafsson, Sebastian Lundström, Maria Råstam and Lena Eriksson

Hate crimes hurt: State-level hate crime rates and racial health disparities

Sujung Lee and Courtney E. Boen

Gentrification, policing, and potential pathways to health: A scoping review

Catherine Tomko, Keiana Greene, Hrday Kowdley, Natalie Flath, Abigail Winiker, Brennan Rhodes Bratton, Susan G. Sherman, Roland J. Thorpe, Sabriya Linton and Saba Rouhani

The gender pay gap and women's sexual health outcomes: Could closing the gap close the risk?

Felix M. Muchomba, Julien O. Teitler and Nancy E. Reichman

Going the distance? A meta-analysis of leadership styles, social distance, turnover intention, and organizational commitment

Silas Blomqvist Johansen, Tina Øllgaard Bentzen and Sofie Loklindt Christensen

Escaping in-work poverty and mental health: A longitudinal study of Swedish workers

Wooseong Kim, Sherry Baron, Melody Almroth, Gun Johansson, Theo Bodin, Rod Hick and Kathryn Badarin

Health impact bonds as an innovative payment model for health prevention programs: A scoping review

Yunfei Li, Jiayuan Guo, Oskar Frisell, Can Cui, Sandar Aye, Francesca Mangialasche, Xin Xia, Miia Kivipelto and Linus Jönsson

The habitus of care: Overdose normalization, reversal expertise, and the invisible moral labor of people who use drugs

Adams L. Sibley, Elizabeth Joniak-Grant, David C. Colston, Alice Bell, Maya Doe-Simkins, Eliza J. Wheeler and Nabarun Dasgupta

Clinical, organizational and institutional levers to ensure low-coercion psychiatry: an ethnographic study of four French psychiatric hospitals

Sébastien Saetta, Loïc Rohr, Frédéric Mougeot, Yvonne Quenum, Magali Coldefy, Jean-Paul Lanquetin, Anaïs McCardell-Kulcsar and Daria Rostirolla

Doing understanding during triadic decision-making with people living with dementia

I.L. Windeatt-Harrison, T. Walker, A. Wardrope, S.M. Bell, D. Blackburn, J.M. Dickson, S. Jones and M. Reuber

When class silences disclosure: Working-Class women, sexual violence and classed gender stigma in healthcare

Karen Lorimer, Pamela Sime and Lesley McMillan

Diagnostic infrastructuring: Biomarkers, pharmaceutical marketing and governance in Taiwan

Yeh-Han Wang and Wen-Hua Kuo

No one wins: Mapping the gendered pathways of structural sexism and health

Jolene Tan and Shao-Tzu Yu

From blood disorders to data disorder. The thwarted path from onco-haematology clinic to occupational cancer epidemiology

Sylvain Brunier, Jean-Noël Jouzel and Giovanni Prete

Living through rupture: The social dynamics of cancer and selfhood in Türkiye

Adem Sağır and Erdener Gülenç

The symbolic power of natural beauty: A qualitative inquiry into the practices of cosmetic surgeons and aesthetic doctors

Sanne Pieters, Anne-Mette Hermans and Giselinde Kuipers

Effects of requiring active parental consent on participation, sample composition, and mental health outcomes in school-based adolescent surveys: A cluster randomized trial

Geir Scott Brunborg, Guido Biele, Ragna Bugge Askeland, Ida Elisabeth Krogstad, Olav Bertin Tveit, Heidi Aase, Hanne Stavenes Støle and Lasse Bang

What's Behind the ‘Digital Front Door’? Building a digital care infrastructure in a fragmented healthcare system

Gigi Corine Willemijn Petra Vissers, Petra Porte, Iris Wallenburg, Jacob J. Visser and Rik Wehrens

Embodiment of sociopolitical stress during pregnancy and coping strategies among perinatal Filipina women

Kristine J. Chua, Kiersten R.M. Reyes, Zoe Pamonag, M. Claire Art, Lia L. Francisco and Abigail W. Bigham

Embodied well-being: Energy, exhaustion, and bodily difference among Danish schoolchildren

Camilla Brændstrup Laursen, Cecilie Winther Bang, Charlotte Nørkjær Eggertsen, Søren Hagstrøm, Helle Lønstrup Haslund-Thomsen and Sine Agergaard

Intersectional parental health inequities one year after childbirth: race/ethnicity, sex/gender and social class in the elfe birth cohort

Santos, Fé·e, Ainhoa Ugarteche Pérez, Cyrille Delpierre, Estelle Carde, Hélène Colineaux and Michelle Kelly-Irving

Life-course stress exposure and cognitive decline in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: The role of sex differences and educational protection

Jiahao Li, Giulia Mozzanica, Feng Zhang, Jocelien D.A. Olivier and Ulrich L.M. Eisel

Do financial incentives affect rural physician supply? Empirical evidence from a Canadian experiment

Quazi Nazmus Sakib, Ahmed Aziz and Tamanna Rimi

Social status in a complex society: Examining multidimensional prestige as a social driver of health in the U.S

Daniel J. Mulligan, Lisa J. Rapport, Patricia M. Morton, Ty Partridge and Christopher J. Trentacosta

Housing environments, social isolation, and mortality among low-income older renters in the United States

Seoyeon Ahn, Sojung Park, BoRin Kim, Eunsun Kwon, Minyoung Kwak and Oejin Shin

Association between socioeconomic status, lifestyle factors and mortality: A scoping review

Zhiwei Lian, Chunsu Zhu, Volker Arndt and Melissa S.Y. Thong

Evaluating the effect of social mobility on the incidence of HIV/AIDS in low-income populations: A dynamic microsimulation study with large cohort data

Felipe Alves Rubio, Rodrigo Volmir Anderle, José Alejandro Ordoñez, Gonzalo Barreix, Megan Naidoo, Priscila Fernanda Porto Scaff Gestal, Ana Paula Santin Bertoni, Inês Dourado, James Macinko and Davide Rasella

Working while living with cystic fibrosis: Why symptom severity tells us little about employment outcomes?

David Pichonnaz

A call for standardization: A case study of theoretical ambiguity in mental illness labeling and stigma research via systematic review

Bianca N. Manago and Amy N. Gourley

“I want to be able to say that I did everything I could”. Exploring the negotiations between the logic of care and the logic of research in clinical trials

Duncan J. Reynolds, Manuela Perrotta and Giuliano Maeilli

A longitudinal ethnographic exploration of actor power and agency in healthcare systems: The role of human and non-human actors in shaping care delivery and outcomes

Tadhg Ryan, Briga Hynes and Nuala Ryan

Does who is counted matter? Comparing disability measures and self-rated health

Andrew Myers

Physicians’ viewpoints on initiating invasive mechanical ventilation in older persons: A Q methodology study in Japan

Monique Daniels, Akira Kuriyama, Toru Kamiya, Stef Groenewoud, Job van Exel and Werner Brouwer

Racism, mortification and carcerality: Three concepts needed to understand the experiences of racially minoritised people diagnosed with severe mental illness

Dharmi Kapadia, Maria Haarmans, Jason Grant-Rowles, Charlotte Maxwell, Zahra Motala, James Nazroo, Sonja Osahan and James Rhodes

Patient-made knowledge networks: Long COVID discourse, epistemic injustice, and online community formation

Tawfiq Ammari

Abuse and disrespect of family members in pediatric hospital wards in Sierra Leone: The role of emotional culture and spatial practices for emotion management

Ryann Manning

Filling the void: Compensatory expertise and psychiatric care continuity among Russian migrants in Georgia

Arvid Kachurin

Neighborhood social structure, criminal convictions, and substance use disorders in Sweden: a population-based sibling comparison study

Anneli Andersson, Sofi Oskarsson, Miguel Garcia-Argibay, Catherine Tuvblad, Henrik Larsson, Antti Latvala and Brittany Evans

Changing cannabis use among diverse adolescents over a 12-year period of policy change: Trends and disparities

Marla E. Eisenberg, Ryan J. Watson, Hana-May Eadeh, Jaylen A. Santos and Amy L. Gower

Scale matters: Patterns of inequity in measures of structural racism can reverse direction when using the relative vs. the absolute scale

Corinne A. Riddell, Mathew V. Kiang and Jay S. Kaufman

Birth cohort trends in activity limitation among U.S. adults in established adulthood: an intersectional approach to examine the effects of persistent inequality on health

Natalie A. Rivadeneira, Annie Green Howard, Joanna Maselko, Natalicio Serrano, Jaime Slaughter-Acey and Ganga S. Bey

Spirit of the Hawk: Colonial intensity and alcohol use disorders across 178 countries

Milad Sharafi Zadegan and Dritjon Gruda

Caring for children with special healthcare needs and parent health in later life

Liangqi Shen and Rita X. Hu

Producing antibiotic practices from guidelines, clinical assessment and health insurance in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Sine Grude, Winfrida C. Mwita, Anne Helene Kveim Lie and Heidi E. Fjeld

Beyond socio-economic disadvantage: Religio-cultural practices and the Muslim advantage in child survival in India

Abid Faheem

Incarceration, inclusion, and health equity: A global challenge

Stuart A. Kinner, Rohan Borschmann, Amanda Butler, Megha Ramaswamy, Emily A. Wang and Fiona Kouyoumdjian

Navigating aging and health with limited family ties across societies: Challenges, adaptations, and policy responses

Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan and Christine A. Mair

Corrigendum to “Why we need political values in epidemic modelling: parameters, populations, and public health policy goals” [Soc. Sci. Med. 404 (2026) 119532]

Alexis V. Rayapoullé, Bruno Falissard and Paul-Loup Weil-Dubuc

Trajectories and inequalities in routine healthcare uptake from adolescence to retirement: A sequence analysis across 14 European countries

Cornelia Wagner, Vladimir Jolidon, Bernadette WA. van der Linden, Katrijn Delaruelle, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Sorana Toma, Piet Bracke, Claudine Burton-Jeangros and Stéphane Cullati

Looking back and moving forward: Reflections on twenty editions of the international medical geography symposium and the state of the field

Michael R. Desjardins and Chetan Tiwari

Educational attainment and social isolation trajectories from midlife to later life in four high- and middle-income countries

Zhiyong Lin and Jianfeng He

Socioeconomic inequalities in inflammation in childhood and adolescence: an international study across five cohorts

Kavindi Gamage, Susanna Pätsi, Tong Chen, Anne-Louise Ponsonby, Richard Saffery, Kate Mooney, Sylvain Sebert, Toby Mansell, David Burgner and Naomi Priest

Corrigendum to “The habitus of care: Overdose normalization, reversal expertise, and the invisible moral labor of people who use drugs” [Soc. Sci. Med. 405 (2026) 119560]

Adams L. Sibley, Elizabeth Joniak-Grant, David C. Colston, Alice Bell, Maya Doe-Simkins, Eliza J. Wheeler and Nabarun Dasgupta

Navigating opioid overdose risks in a vulnerable social network

Anthony A. Braga, Andrew V. Papachristos, Brandon S. Turchan, Brian Wade and Benjamin K. Struhl

Soft skills as mediation competencies in digitally mediated healthcare

Lior Naamati-Schneider

Intersectional sampling in health research: A scoping review of approaches and structural constraints

Usman Sani Dankoly, Gaia Segantin, Zoë Tieges, Mai Chin A. Paw, Philippa Dall and Sebastien Chastin

Patients’ perceptions of suspected Lyme borreliosis in a non-endemic area: A qualitative study in French Guiana

Tom Cartau, Marc-Alexandre Tareau, Alice Raffetin, Carole Eldin, Claire Gatti and Loïc Epelboin

Corrigendum to “Educational inequalities are associated with distinct metabolomic and gut microbiome patterns in adults” [Soc. Sci. Med. 403 (2026) 119454]

Fynn Brix, Tobias Demetrowitsch, Julia Jensen-Kroll, Niklas Roeder, Nathalie Rohmann, Mario Hasler, Robin Kosch, Silvio Waschina, Silke Szymczak, Stefan Schreiber, Matthias Laudes, Helena U. Zacharias and Karin Schwarz