Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2026

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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

2026, volume 400, articles C

Road Traffic Accidents and Disability: A global health concern

N. Groce, M. Chatukuta, D. Mont, M. Pinilla-Roncancio, J. Hanass-Hancock, D.S. Raja and C. McClain-Nhlapo

Global definitions of political determinants of health: A systematic review

Predrag Duric, Marvellous Smith, Peter Collins and Ruoling Chen

Multimodal metaphors in animated depression educational videos on Chinese social media: A critical multimodal discourse analysis

Yiyi Zhang and Zhengpeng Luo

Exclusive versus integrative professional norms: A comparative study of biomedical attitudes toward traditional Chinese medicine in Hong Kong and Chinese mainland

Xiaoli Tian, Sining Wang and Longwen Fu

Adverse selection or beneficial selection in dual western medicine–traditional Chinese medicine insurance markets

Xiyin Chen, Xinxin Han, Jianchao Quan and David Bishai

Nationally representative surveys of experiences of discrimination and positive treatment in people with mental health problems in Australia: Changes over 10 years

Nicola J. Reavley, Anna M. Ross, Rachel Green, Gayle McNaught and Amy J. Morgan

Ethnic and racial discrimination and sleep among black college students: The moderating role of public regard

Tiffany Yip, Jinjin Yan, G. Alice Woolverton, Jiawei Wu, Natasha C. Johnson, Zhenqiang Zhao, Heining Cham, Mona El-Sheikh and David H. Chae

Improving water security through social protection: Findings from a natural experiment with Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Program

Urbanus Azupogo, Elijah Bisung, Meshack Achore, Sarah Dickin and Joseph Kangmennaang

How does the integration of health and justice systems impact on health and care inequalities in marginalised populations? A mixed methods systematic review

Joanne McGrath, Lisa Crowe, Katherine Jackson, Naomi Griffin, Judy Baariu, Alison Jobe, Hannah King, Amy O'Donnell, Stephen J. Macdonald, Lisa Moseley, Luke Munford, Sheena E. Ramsay, Jason Scott, Kelly Stockdale, Michelle Addison and Stephanie Scott

Contexts, kin and cognition: Effects of living arrangements and family resources on the cognitive function of older adults in Vietnam

Attrayee Bandyopadhyay, Kim Korinek, Daniel E. Adkins and Tran Khanh Toan

Socioeconomic position and type 2 diabetes: The mediating role of physical work environment - the Maastricht study

Bengisu Sezer, Jeroen D. Albers, Rachelle Meisters, Miranda T. Schram, Annemarie Koster and Hans Bosma

Experiences of housing interventions among survivors of intimate partner violence: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis

Alexa R. Yakubovich, Aneesah Bari, Nicole Doria, Anam Khan, Nicholas Metheny, Patricia O'Campo and Dionne Gesink

The role of parental consent: Implications for surveying minors who experience or are at risk for commercial sexual exploitation in the United States

Sarah Lockwood, Amelia Wagner, Amy Farrell and Carlos A. Cuevas

Tuition-free lower secondary education and women's healthcare decision-making in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bijetri Bose, Alfredo Martin, Amy Raub and Jody Heymann

Advance care planning of U.S. older adults with limited family ties: Evaluating the impacts of partnership trajectories and parental statuses

Deborah Carr and Shinae L. Choi

Anticipated living arrangement plans in later life: Interplay of health, childlessness, and income in South Korea

Jung-Hwa Ha and Manacy Pai

What lies in the shadows: The collateral consequences of constructing ‘high risk’ targets in public health

Fernandos Ongolly and Susi Geiger

How urban park exposure shapes dyslipidemia risk: Evidence from mobility data in Seoul, South Korea

Bonyu Koo and Heeyeun Yoon

Fair pay, performance optimizer, or status marker? The social meaning of remuneration for India's women community health workers

Vrinda Marwah

Structures of survival: Syndemic pathways to care among people with HIV involved with the criminal legal system

Felicia O. Casanova, G'Vanni Puchi, Esmeralda Ramirez, Ahzin Bahraini, Zinzi D. Bailey and Kathryn M. Nowotny

‘A gendered family affair’? Examining the role of partners', parents', and parents-in-law's education in preventive healthcare use among older men and women

Katrijn Delaruelle, Vladimir Jolidon, Cornelia Wagner, Stéphane Cullati, Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Bernadette W.A. van der Linden, Sorana Toma and Piet Bracke

What motivates (un)satisfied physicians?

Anne Sophie Oxholm, Line Bjørnskov Pedersen, Dorte Gyrd-Hansen and Luigi Siciliani

How do traits and dispositional constructs relate to intentions and behavior? The trait-informed attitude, cognition, and intention tenet (TACIT)

Martin S. Hagger

Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum under heat strain: Visibilising lived experiences and coping practices of women in rural Zimbabwe through an adapted participatory Photovoice approach

Fortunate Machingura, Leslie Nyoni, Concilia Mutasa, Lameck Kachena, Jaspar Maguma, Madonna Mlambo, Tariro Chinozvina, Brian Sibanda, Thabani Muronzie, George Mapiye, Cremance Tshuma, Isabelle L. Lange, Debra Jackson, Veronique Filippi and Stanley Luchters

Children’s participation and the logic of care: An analysis of narratives from Childhood-Haus professionals in Germany

Rosemarie Schwenker, Jana Heringer-Seifert, Dominik Wulf, Edwin Pütz, Adrienne Alayli, Freia De Bock and Dorit Biermann-Teuscher

Behavioral vs. cognitive: Expanded definitions of coping and stigma resistance

Shibashis Mukherjee and Jane S. VanHeuvelen

Connecting care: Understanding the relational dimensions of supporting migrant children and young people living with sickle cell disease

Brenda Agyeiwaa Poku, Natasha Nicholls, Alison Pilnick, Karl Michael Atkin, Gloria Olutayo, David Adeyemi Olowofoyeku, Nathaniel Adebayo Olowofoyeku and Tamia Kawonga

Governing the rise of AI in healthcare: A comparative governance document and implementation implications across five jurisdictions

Jinsong Chen, Mingli Pang, Wenrong Qian, Weifang Zhang, Caiming Xu and Ping He

From expansion to optimization: Government health expenditure and chronic disease burden among older adults in China

Yun Zhang and Yi-chen Shi

Childhood socioeconomic status and changes in biological aging across mid-to-later life

Rebecca G. Reed, Mia K. DeCataldo, Stephen B. Manuck, Zak Hutchinson, Shervin Bazmi, Peter J. Gianaros and Anna L. Marsland

A logic model for alternative response programs to guide public health research and practice

Paul J. Fleming, Wolfgang V. Bahr, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, William D. Lopez, Alexandra Parks, Christine M. Mitchell, Liz Kennedy, Luna N.H., Evan Thompkins and Sirry Alang

Diamonds and viruses: Reconstructing the epidemiological origins of HIV-1 in Angola's mining frontier

Jorge Varanda and Ana Abecasis

Available but unusable: Theorizing layered exclusions as a barrier to women's physical activity

Dalit Lev-Arey, Azza Nasser and Orr Levental

Waste-ing antibiotics: Antimicrobial resistance, environmental pollution and unsettled science in the governance of pharmaceutical manufacturing

Helen Lambert, Amishi Panwar, Neelam Taneja and Elizabeth Wellington

Between stigma and solidarity: Experiences of sexual and reproductive health among young women in the Republic of Ireland

Elaine L. Kinsella, Zélie Dunne, Sarah Jay and Aisling T. O'Donnell

Where state, market, and community meet: Village doctors and the governance of rural health in China

Ziyue Wang, Zequn Gao, Xiang Zou, Ping Zhang, Xiaochen Ma, Kathleen Rice, Jennifer Bouey and Xiaoyun Liu

“They think they know me without listening”: Restoring relational care and authority in Māori health encounters

Tania Kahika-Foote, Angelique Reweti, Mary Breheny and Christina Severinsen

Risks posed by AI actants in human-AI health communication: AI health assistants facing HIV-related stigma inquiries

Meiyu Chen

Presence and procedure: Experiencing relationality between patients, relatives and healthcare professionals in Dutch euthanasia requests

Marte Fleur Antonides, Dominique Girard, Vera van den Berg, Yvonne Engels and Els van Wijngaarden

Structural violence, disability, and the struggle for dignity among disabled women and girls in Gaza

Ekrema Shehab and Bilal Hamamra

Fair enough? How developers and clinicians justify who receives physical assistive robotics in rehabilitation

Susanne Frennert and Björn Fischer

Social networks and the theory of planned behavior: How networks matter for healthy eating and meat consumption

Stephanie Zintel, Lukas Schumacher, Anna K. Kaiser and Falko F. Sniehotta

A systematic review of the factors associated with lung cancer stigma

Sarah McCann, Linda Vehar and Simon Dunne

Using a theory-based approach to evaluate a physical activity promotion intervention for youth with intellectual disabilities

Laura Maenhout, Sofie Compernolle, Greet Cardon, Annick De Paepe, Geert Van Hove and Geert Crombez

Sensitive places, persistent violence: Effectiveness of “Bar Ban” laws in reducing gun violence near alcohol vendors

Jack Kappelman, Diana Silver, Jin Yung Bae, Kevin Butler, Tanvi Shinkre, Falco J. Bargagli Stoffi and James Macinko

Do we say what we do? Testing cheap talk to reduce hypothetical bias in moral choice experiments

Nicholas V.R. Smeele, Sander van Cranenburgh, Bas Donkers and Esther W. de Bekker-Grob

Benefit payment design and subjective well-being of the elderly: Evidence from China's long-term care insurance pilots

Hongwei Hu, Jianqun Shi and Yujia Liu

A quantitative intersectional approach to measuring change in built environment amenities and the association with mortality in U.S. counties

Victoria P. Fisher, Richard C. Sadler and Nadia N. Abuelezam

Interpretive contests over anti-Müllerian hormone testing: How women engage with and resist anticipatory medicine

Azer Kılıç and Mürüvet Esra Yıldırım

Exploring the relationship between race, older age, and health inequality in the UK: the experience of racialised minority older adults living in the UK

Victoria Cluley, Gifty Thomas-Ekweh and Upanish Oli

The Making of Vulnerability. An ethnographic study exploring vulnerability in specialized outpatient care for pregnant persons with diabetes in Denmark

Mette Mørup Schlütter, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Tine Brink Henriksen and Viola Burau

The role of social media influencer promotion in initiation and use of cigar, little cigar, cigarillo, and cannabis products among US youth and young adults: Using exogenous marketing exposure measures

Ganna Kostygina, Yoonsang Kim, Mateusz Borowiecki, Chandler C. Carter, Michael Liu, Alex Kresovich, Jennifer M. Kreslake, Elizabeth C. Hair and Sherry L. Emery