Social Science & Medicine

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2026, volume 403, articles C

“It's really easy to fall under the radar and get lost” – being unseen in postpartum care pathways after hypertensive pregnancy

Lisa Hinton, Katherine Tucker, Carol Dumelow, Sabrina Keating, Lucy C. Chappell and Richard J. McManus

Insured but unequal: Exploring the diverging impacts of health coverage on women in transactional and commercial sex in Yaoundé

Aurélia Lépine, Emile Nitcheu, Julienne Noo, Stephanie Moyoum, Eric Defo Tamgno, Iliassou Mfochive, Ubald Tamoufe and Serge Billong

Initiating talk about suicide and self-harm in psychotherapy with adolescents with depression in China: A conversation analysis approach

Shuai Zhang, Xueli Yao, Qingwei Song, Jing Zhou and Meili Cheng

Mortality among people who had contact with the criminal justice system during adolescence: a systematic review and meta-analysis

April Martinez, Emilia Janca, Melissa Willoughby, Alexander Campbell and Stuart A. Kinner

Cultural consonance profiles: A person-centered approach to cultural alignment and violent parenting among mothers of young children in the Dominican Republic

Arachu Castro and Laura V. Sánchez-Vincitore

How do community contexts shape relationship dynamics? A case study of young people living in informal settlements in eThekwini municipality, South Africa

Andrew Gibbs, Erin Stern, Laura Washington, Sivuyile Khaula, Smanga Mkhwanazi, Nonhlonipho Bhengu, Zamakhoza Khoza, Nangipha Mnandi, Maryam Shahmanesh, Rachel Jewkes and Yandisa Sikweyiya

“New barefoot Doctors”: How social workers navigate HIV care and structural marginality in Yi ethnic minority communities

Apei Song

Health equity, consensual care and the work that survivors of violence do to navigate healthcare services

Benjamin S. Roebuck, Janna Klostermann, Caitlin Jebakumar-Corbett, Carmen Hust, Tara Leach, Madison Watt Henderson, Philip Hobbs and Diana McGlinchey

Developing a state-level structural cisheteropatriarchy legal index in the United States

Dougie Zubizarreta, Ariel L. Beccia, S. Bryn Austin, Ayden I. Scheim and Jaquelyn L. Jahn

What's a policy without trust? How the legacy of policing shapes experiences of drug decriminalization in British Columbia

Alissa Greer, Becca Wood, Naomi Zakimi and Benjamin D. Scher

The role of state social service spending in moderating mental health outcomes of community violence: A spatial meta-analysis

Jordyn R. Ricard, Jennifer A. Richeson, Mudia Uzzi, Mikayla Barber, Madelynn Huff, Matt Larosa, Natasha Steinert and Arielle Baskin-Sommers

Witnessing intimate partner violence in childhood and sleep disturbances across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Haneen Abdul Hamid, Rosie Lenihan, Elayne Ahern, Antonio Terracciano, Yannick Stephan and Páraic S. O'Súilleabháin

The ethics and moral psychology of HPV vaccination: Evidence from a cross-cultural study

M. Alejandra Petino Zappala, Andrea Quint, T.N. Phuc Nguyen, Julia V. Schulz, Johannes T. Doerflinger and Nora C. Heinzelmann

Caste and religion based discrimination in healthcare delivery: A standardized patient study with random assignment in Bihar, India

Rushil Zutshi

Does additional education affect memory consistently? An analysis of compulsory schooling reforms across Europe and U.S

Francisco Perez-Arce, David Knapp, Rachel Lobo, McKayla Wenner and Arie Kapteyn

Emergency department encounters’ impacts on First Nations members, families and communities: Results of a thematic analysis of sharing circles in three treaty areas

Patrick McLane, Lea Bill, Katherine Rittenbach, Cheryl Barnabe, Brian R. Holroyd, Tessy Big Plume, Kris Janvier, Eunice Louis, Deanna Neri and Bonnie Healy

Racial and gender disparities in patient-centered communication among older adults in the United States

Brenda Onyango

Bargaining and calibration: How SGM people navigate intersectional oppression in healthcare

Ning Hsieh and Stef M. Shuster

Nurses’ experiences regarding role boundaries in collaborative AI-Assisted nursing: A meta-synthesis

Zhiqiao Zhang, Jiayu Hou, Chengye Xu, Hanxu Li and Huan Wan

Including “sexual” in sexual and reproductive health labor: Gendered experiences of sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention, testing, and treatment among young people in Texas

Brooke Whitfield

Political distrust and confidence in medical institutions in the United States: An institutional spillover perspective

Dukanwojo Beulah Suleman and Rowland Edet

Fatherhood and men's participation across diverse antenatal care systems in rural Eastern Zimbabwe: A qualitative study

Anthony Shuko Musiwa, Morten Skovdal and Lawrence Mbuagbaw

Privatizing and prescribing identity: How Canadian biotechnology firms capture queer, trans, and neurodivergent movements for profit

Megan Q. Linton and Kai Jacobsen

Assessing differences in epigenetic aging markers between sexual or gender minority and straight cisgender adults using the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults cohort

Adovich S. Rivera, Bridget R. Slone, Grace V. Avila, Brian Joyce, Yinan Zheng, Lifang Hou, Mercedes Carnethon, Ankeet S. Bhatt, James M. Shikany, Cora E. Lewis, Pamela J. Schreiner and Lauren B. Beach

Ranking group-level outcomes with multilevel models: An information-theoretic measure of statistical separation

Nasir Z. Bashir, Juan Merlo and George Leckie

Psychosocial problems, sexual violence victimization, and substance use among sexual and gender minorities in India: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (I-MAIHDA)

Venkatesan Chakrapani, Ayden I. Scheim, Alexander C. Tsai, Murali Shunmugam and Murugesan Sivasubramanian

The cost of digital convenience: Food delivery platform entry, health, and medical spending

Lu Tian, Qiuyue Guo, Jiaqi Shen and Yiwei Liu

The social stratification of slumber: Disentangling the intersectional effects of heterogeneous adverse childhood experiences on sleep deprivation in US children and adolescents

Lu, Zékai (Zachary), Zelin Liu, Nan Jiang and Danhua Lin

Migration status, discrimination, and recent sexually transmitted infection testing among South Asian gay, bisexual, and other queer men living in Canada

Joshun Dulai, Nathan Lachowsky, Ben Klassen, Vaibhav Sawhney, Praney Anand, Ananya Banerjee, Darrell H.S. Tan, Amaya Perez-Brumer and Daniel Grace

The effectiveness of housing-based interventions and harm reduction among adults experiencing homelessness: a systematic review of recent controlled evidence (2019–2025)

Agnieszka Nieradko-Heluszko, Andriej Szpakow and Beata Karakiewicz

Locked out of the ward: Workflow-based care refusal for people living with HIV in China's general hospitals

Yong Yu, Wenzhao Huang and Shishi Tang

Moral injury, PTSD and narrative identity among Danish military veterans

Lars Williams

How do pre-migration crisis exposures and post-migration cultural stressors shape mental health symptoms among Venezuelan youth in the United States and Colombia?

Seo Woo Lee, Christopher P. Salas-Wright, Mildred M. Maldonado-Molina, Tae Kyoung Lee, Ivonne A. Calderón, Augusto Pérez-Gómez, Juliana Mejía-Trujillo, Melissa M. Bates, Sehun Oh, Duyen H. Vo, Aigerim Alpysbekova, Patricia Andrade, José Rodríguez and Seth J. Schwartz

Age segregation and deaths of despair among older adults, 2010-2022: Rural/Urban county comparisons

Tse-Chuan Yang, Heeyoung Lee and Golam Morshed Suhel

Financial, housing, food, and healthcare insecurities and their independent and joint associations with depressive symptoms and stress in a U.S. cohort of adults with and without HIV

Hilary J. Bethancourt, Bulent Turan, Audrey L. Richards, Andrea Norcini-Pala, Sigal Maya, Kartika Palar, Henry J. Whittle, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Katherine C. Wu, Jorge R. Kizer, Phyllis C. Tien, David B. Hanna, Allison A. Appleton, Daniel Merenstein, Gypsyamber D'Souza, Igho Ofotokun, Deborah Konkle-Parker, Erin D. Michos, Sarah Krier, Valentina Stosor, Sheri D. Weiser and Edward A. Frongillo

Rent increases and mental health among low-income renters in Australia: A longitudinal analysis

Kate Mason, Erika Martino, Adelle Mansour and Rebecca Bentley

Housing and malaria risk: Evidence across ecological and climatic gradients in sub-Saharan Africa

Mohamad AlAbbas

Investigating the relationship between psychological stress and physical activity through individual-based geographic ecological momentary assessment

Haoxuan Ge, Jue Wang, Devin Yongzhao Wu and Hanlin Zhou

Evaluation of sensitive period, accumulation, and social mobility mechanisms linking neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation to mental health during adolescence and young adulthood: A life-course, causal inference approach

Yi Zeng, Marco Helbich, Margot Peeters and Gonneke W.J.M. Stevens

Non-linear relationships between age-friendly neighborhood environments and cognitive health among older adults in Guangzhou, China

Ye Liu, Anqi Chen, Zhuolin Pan, Yi Sun and Zhixin Feng

Relationship between long-term exposure to sources of particulate matter, ambient air pollution and cognitive function in older adults

Ruoyu Wang, Joanna S. Valson, Shay Mullineaux, Jennifer M. McKinley, Frank Kee, Bernadette McGuinness, Gareth McKay, Emma Cunningham, Angie Scott and Ruth F. Hunter

Integrating dietitians’ perspectives and behavioral efficacy into food-based dietary guidelines implementation

Carolina O.C. Werle and Sabine Boesen-Mariani

Intersectionality and health inequalities among minoritized groups in Europe: A cross-sectional MAIHDA study

Daniel La Parra-Casado, Jeffrey Mitchell and Anton Sandin

When solidarity turns bad: Misappropriated and exclusive solidarity as problematic forms of solidarity in healthcare

Elias Weiss and Barbara Prainsack

Cooperation of general practitioners in referral networks: Impact on health outcomes and costs in chronic care

Sophia Cordes and Tom Stargardt

Powerless and pressured: Mental health vulnerabilities in the context of prolonged blackouts in Cuba

Yunier Broche-Pérez and Zoylen Fernández-Fleites

Explaining donor lapse in voluntary blood donation: A grounded theory study from China

Biao Xu, Yifan Shao, Patiman Yidilisi and Tao Yang

Defensive decoupling: Tensions and contradictions in a US surgical safety intervention

Catherine van de Ruit and Mekha Varghese

Care, commerce, and conflict: A multimodal discourse analysis of dietary guidance for gastrointestinal cancer survivors on Xiaohongshu

Xinyi Xu, Chun-min Wu, Wei-Hong Liu, Juan Cao and Qin Xu

Navigating intersectional stigma and post-traumatic growth among heterosexually married men who have sex with men living with HIV in China

Changhui Song, Shanshan Zhang, Danni Chi and Hui Xie

Body size, cardiometabolic risk, and educational disparities in mortality among U.S. adults, 1988-2019

Iliya Gutin

Determinants of ultra-processed food purchases: Evidence of between- and within-household variation in France

Céline Bonnet and Catarina Goulão

Child maltreatment and premature mortality in the United States: Heterogeneity by gender and maltreatment subtypes

Hayun Jang and Jinho Kim

Relationship between mental health help-seeking intention and prospective help-seeking behavior: A meta-analysis with moderation testing

Wenqi Weng, Joseph H. Hammer, Safiyah M. Sadek, Kathleen B. Aspiranti, Melanie E. Miller and Amelia A. Stanley

The 2013 mass public school closure and firearm violence in Chicago: A quasi-experimental difference-in-differences analysis

Thomas Statchen, Michael Desjardins, Elizabeth Wagner, Odis Johnson, Elizabeth L. Tung and Mudia Uzzi

The topology of adversities: Mapping the space of adverse childhood experiences, social positions, and risk behaviors/health outcomes among US adolescents

Lu, Zékai (Zachary)

“Care is nowhere but everywhere”: Improvising care in medical precarity in urban Somali refugee community in Kenya

Hyojin Im

Trade-offs in mental health support: Preferred patient-centered communication attributes across AI chatbots, telemedicine, online health communities, and in-person clinicians

Nathalie Laura Neuendorf, Katharina Angermayr and Sebastian Scherr

Context or composition? Spatial Bayesian analysis of sexual violence against adolescent girls and young women in Namibia

Tobias Willem Shinyemba, Shino Shiode and Karen Devries

The hope gap: a qualitative analysis of tiered hypertension care in China

Bo Li

Social capital and vaccine decision-making: A scoping review

Erynn Monette and Gabrielle Duval

Human milk for cancer care: Science-in-extension and gendered digital labor

Revital Harari, Ayelet Oreg and Anat Herbst-Debby

Alcohol in the workplace: an ethnographic study of professional bartender culture and risk management

Alix Boirot and Marta Lotto

Professional and regulatory logics of care: Unraveling the institutional contexts of personal care workers’ well-being failure

Shixin Huang and Tat Chor Au-Yeung

Between trust and traceability: How immigrant-serving organizations become sites of both care and surveillance

Nilüfer Akalın

“Gold standard” Birth: Unmet birth expectations and the ought-maternal-self

Rebecca Matthews, Vicki Harman and Katherine Finlay

Navigating racialised healthcare: Intersectional experiences shaping cancer screening among Black women in Belgium

Sarah Derveeuw, Femke Van Landschoot, Sara Willems, Katrien Vanthomme and Sorana Toma

Rethinking the social structuring of health: Toward an epidemiological sociology

David Consolazio

Educational inequalities are associated with distinct metabolomic and gut microbiome patterns in adults

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

Pronatalist and fertility-support policies in response to fertility decline: A scoping review with implications for Latin America

Nicolás Fernandez-Barra, Pedro Gutierrez-Contreras, Ernesto Poroj-Caraballo, Tamara Arratia and José Andrés Poblete L

Association of duration and timing of physicians’ early-career training with subsequent settlement in medically underserved areas in Japan: A nationwide cohort study

So Sato, Akira Okada, Toshihiro Funai, Soichi Koike and Hideo Yasunaga

Health selection at out- and return migration in Manitoba, Canada. A retrospective matched cohort register study

Marcelo L. Urquia, Gilles R. Detillieux, Shantanu Debbarman, Alan Katz and Sol P. Juárez

Navigating undone science: The search for adequate endometriosis care

Heather Welty and Melanie Jeske