Social Science & Medicine

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2026, volume 393, articles C

Corrigendum to ‘From egg & sperm to Reconceiving medical education: Why teaching about metaphor is essential to remedy injustice’ [Soc. Sci. Med. volume 374 (2025) 117957]

Noelle Molé Liston, Emily Martin and Jennifer Karlin

Associations between skin scars and body image – A systematic review and meta-analysis

Whitney L. Quong, Nina Hadžimustafić, Cornelia M. Borkhoff, Aaron M. Drucker and Joel S. Fish

Health among sexual and gender minority people affected by armed conflict and forced displacement: Call for a biocultural and minority stress framework

James K. Gibb, Delaney J. Glass, Besan Jaber and Roula Kteily-Hawa

Selling masculinity – A qualitative analysis of gender representations in social media content about “low T”

Emma Grundtvig Gram, Barbara Mintzes, Tessa Copp, Ray Moynihan, Anthony Brown, Patti Shih and Brooke Nickel

Definitions of non-intimate partner and family-related femicide/feminicide: A scoping review

Elizabeth A. Cook, Caroline Miles and Merili Pullerits

Who is most at risk, and when? Gender-differentiated patterns and risk heterogeneity of adolescent depression in China: Evidence from a large-scale national study

Chengxi Hu, Yiqiao Qi, Wenfei Winnie Wang, Wei Yan and Kaiping Peng

The impact of incarceration on health: A global systematic review

Lindsay A. Pearce, Rebecca R. Shuttleworth, Jesse T. Young, Rohan Borschmann and Stuart A. Kinner

Close a pit, kill a community: An ecological analysis of coal mining history and deaths of despair in England and Wales

Eurwen H. Williams and Christopher W.N. Saville

The health and wellbeing of incarcerated trans, gender diverse, and non-binary people: An international scoping review

Matthew Maycock, Tarra Excell, Annette Brömdal, Penelope Abbott, Riki Lane and Paul Leslie Simpson

Policing and care in mental health crisis response: Boundary work and the politics of safety and authority

Mark D. Fleming, Dani MacVicar, Aoife M. McDermott and Amanda L. Brewster

Legal but informal abortion: Reproductive governance and health(care) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Mari Valdur

Residential segregation of Black and Latinx older adults and brain imaging outcomes

Lilah M. Besser, Sarah Forrester, Diana Mitsova, Pauline Maillard, Charles DeCarli, Rachel Whitmer and Oanh L. Meyer

Kinlessness, sole family survivorship, and the mental and physical health of U.S. older adults

Susan L. Brown, I-Fen Lin, Francesca A. Marino and Kagan A. Mellencamp

Towards a care continuum: A socio-material analysis of intra-acting public-private maternity care in South Africa

Nicole Miriam Daniels

Bordering in Canadian healthcare: How the criminalization of immigrants with precarious status undermines their children's right to health

Monica D. Gagnon

Type of water and sanitation facilities and risk of non-partner sexual violence: A multilevel analysis across 31 low- and middle-income countries

Hyejun Chi, Abigail Puno-Balagosa, Anoop Jain, S.V. Subramanian and Rockli Kim

Loneliness predicts mortality risk via the erosion of purpose in life

Páraic S. O'Súilleabháin, Emma M. Kirwan, Milou Fredrix, Martina Luchetti, Damaris Aschwanden, Máire McGeehan, Angelina R. Sutin, Antonio Terracciano, Yannick Stephan and Gráinne McKenna

Corrigendum to ‘Parenthood and mental health: Findings from an English longitudinal cohort aged 32’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 383, October 2025, 118471]

Rosie Mansfield and Morag Henderson

Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality in older Japanese adults: a 6-year prospective cohort study, modified by marital status

Tomoki Kawahara, Yukako Tani, Katsunori Kondo and Takeo Fujiwara

Corrigendum to ‘No one wants to be a good patient: Intersectionality and agency in the sick role’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 382, October 2025, 118372]

Weiwei Lu

The connections among interactions with nature, diet quality, and sustainable eating: Insights from a mixed methods study

Dahlia Stott, Michael Bruneau, Jonathan M. Deutsch, Rebecca Ippolito, DeAndra Forde, Mara Z. Vitolins, Jennifer A. Nasser and Brandy-Joe Milliron

"Empower and be empowered": Unveiling how community engagement influences residents' perceived health in high-density high-rise housing

Weixuan Chen, Yuxiang Wang, Izzy Yi Jian and Kar Him Mo

Departures from health universalism? A value set of AP-7D in Japan as an attempt to develop a “culture-specific” preference-based measure

Takeru Shiroiwa, Yasuhiro Morii, Eri Hoshino, Tatsunori Murata, Richard Norman, Brendan Mulhern, Nan Luo, Donna Rowen and Takashi Fukuda

Religiosity and justification of euthanasia: multilevel moderation of beliefs in life after death

Bruno Frutuoso Costa and Helena Carvalho

Nexus between biomedicalization and Traditional Chinese Medicine: conceptualization of subhealth

Yue Zhang and Jingjing Su

Risk adjustment to improve fairness and efficiency of resource allocation: a case from the Emilia Romagna region in the decentralized Italian SSN

Josefa Henriquez, Gianluca Fiorentini and Francesco Paolucci

Criminalizing homelessness: Longitudinal associations of police encounters and homeless sweeps with psychosocial health among the unhoused community in Los Angeles

Jessie Chien, Benjamin F. Henwood and Randall Kuhn

Ethno-cultural risk of ante-natal lead exposure among South Asian women in the UK

Sharmind Neelotpol, Alastair WM. Hay and Mike W. Woolridge

Participation in the house-ball community as a social determinant of HIV care and prevention outcomes among transgender women of color

Alexander Furuya, Cho-Hee Shrader, Makella Coudray, Ichiro Kawachi, Asa Radix, Jenesis Merriman, Denton Callander and Dustin T. Duncan

A critical analysis of the Australian public consultation on childhood vaccine mandate introduction

Sayali Gore, Katie Attwell, Emma Campbell, Jane Williams, Stacy M. Carter, Julie Leask and Kerrie Wiley

“It's more than just being in a place, it's more like a peace of mind”: Ontological security among residents of a transitional housing program implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic

Megan Comfort, Jennifer Amegashie, Jordana Hemberg, Richa Ruwala and Jennifer Lorvick

Why urban communities in low- and middle-income countries participate in global health research: A scoping review and fuzzy cognitive mapping summary

Marie-Catherine Gagnon-Dufresne, Iván Sarmiento, Sarah Cooper, Md Mizanur Rahman, Protyasha Ghosh, Neil Andersson and Kate Zinszer

Elucidating the role of unemployment in complex social inequalities in mental health: An intersectional mediation analysis of the cross-sectional Spanish National Health Surveys

Antonio Moreno-Llamas, Amaia Bacigalupe, Unai Martín, Miguel San Sebastián and Per E. Gustafsson

Spatially heterogeneous and neighborhood impacts of deep tubewells on childhood diarrhea in rural Bangladesh

Varun Goel, Mark M. Janko, Katerina EB. Beach, Md Yunus, Md Taslim Ali, Md Al Fazal Khan, Md Nurul Alam, A.S.G. Faruque, Paul L. Delamater, Marc L. Serre, Mark D. Sobsey, Md Sirajul Islam and Michael Emch

Family care reflections and expectations among 2nd generation Turkish immigrants in Norway: A qualitative study

Büşra Nur Temür, Nilgün Aksoy, Lillian Karlsen and Anne-Sofie Helvik

Bringing together realist and economic approaches in the evaluation of health and social care interventions: a scoping review of theoretical, methodological and practical implications

Andrew Fletcher, Sonia Dalkin, Rob Anderson, Rachel M. Baker, Cam Donaldson, Vivienne Hibberd, Meghan Bruce Kumar, Felicity Shenton, Gill Westhorp, Geoff Wong, Judy Wright and Angela Bate

Why do inpatients bypass secondary hospitals? A discrete choice analysis of reputation, specialty matching, and travel time in China's hierarchical healthcare system

Jiarui Han, Liping Fu, Wenhao Hu, Yingyi Zhang and Kunmeng Li

The gendered landscape of informal caregiving: Cohort effects and socioeconomic inequalities in England

Maria Petrillo, Ricardo Rodrigues, Matt Bennett and Gwilym Pryce

The widowhood effect across diverse partnerships: Mortality risk after partner loss in same-sex and mixed-sex unions

Estelle Knoblauch, Stefanie Mollborn, Kaare Christensen and Anna Oksuzyan

Gambling and wellbeing: Uneven gains and deficits across risk levels

David Forrest, Ian McHale, Kaori Narita and Ayan Orujov

Corrigendum to ‘“Learning to stay silent”: Coping, help-seeking and mitigation strategies for intimate partner violence against men in Kenya’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 388, January 2026, 118694]

Jacinta Mukulu Waila, Olaf Horstick, Domnick Onyango Mitiro, Christine Wayua Musyimi and Michael Lowery Wilson

2026, volume 392, articles C

From Clinic to Grave: Women's experiences of ‘pregnancy remains’ disposal following an early miscarriage in England, UK

Susie Kilshaw

Why is the pharmaceutical industry investing in targeted therapies? The emergence of “premium pharma”

Paul Martin, Jin Ding and Matthew Hanchard

Long-term consequences of early-life exposure to Famine: Evidence from the 1943 Bengal Famine

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

“What's wrong with me?”: Women's perceptions of gendered infertility stigma

Marta Bornstein, Anna C. Church, Kaleb Masterson, Jessica D. Gipson and Alison H. Norris

When health meets politics: Selective gatekeeping of health experts in Chinese media during COVID-19

Kaiping Zhang and Bingyan Wang

‘It's very hard, it's very very difficult ….’ Exploring the lived experiences of managing diabetes among young people living with type 1 diabetes in underserved communities in Ghana

Joseph Kangmennaang, Alhassan Siiba, Prince Ofori-Boateng, Nana Ama Barnes Amoa, Yacoba Atiase and Elizabeth Bankah

Mortgage affordability and mental healthcare use: Evidence from Finnish population registers

Joan Damiens, Michael Berger, Liina Junna and Pekka Martikainen

Diffusion of responsibility: Patient moral judgments of generative AI-informed clinical decisions

Wei Zhang, Jicheng Li, Fuxiang Guo, Chengyan Zhu, Magdalena Kludacz-Alessandri and Richard Evans

Financial epidemiology: Linking financialization to population health

Joseph Dov Bruch and Chloe Thurston

Serious psychological distress, unmet mental health treatment needs, and help-seeking among Asian American adults in New York City: A population-based study

Thinh Toan Vu, Zi Lian, Victoria Khanh Ngo, Rachel Suss, Jo-Anne Caton and Christina Norman

Born in the USA? A scoping review of deaths of despair research beyond the United States

Eurwen H. Williams and Christopher W.N. Saville

Polygyny and help-seeking for intimate partner violence in Afghanistan: The mediating role of women's autonomy and the moderating effects of education and fear of the husband

Mohammad Fazel Akbary, Mohammad Baqir Marefat, Rashed Nawaz and Quanbao Jiang

‘When you go to bed, and you cannot sleep … ’: smallholder farmers' experiences and perceptions of climate change events and their impacts on health in northern Ghana

Alhassan Siiba, Joseph Kangmennaang, Leonard Baatiema and Isaac Luginaah

Coping with stigma and choosing silence: Discrimination and concealment among public housing residents

Gum-Ryeong Park, Jean Choi and Haitao Du

A study on user satisfaction with medical devices for the elderly: The case of blood pressure monitors

Yuanwu Shi and Jiuye Sun

Incidence of dementia diagnosis in Denmark, 1986–2023: an age-period-cohort analysis

Julia Callaway, Cosmo Strozza and Óskar Daði Jóhannsson

Pharma-cology 101: Educating future prescribers on drug reps, dead drugs, and the hidden scripts of pharmaceutical industry relationships

Michael J. Oldani

‘The cycle must stop here’: Patterns of intergenerational transmission of traumatizing WWII experiences in three generations

Bart Nauta, Huibertha Bastiaantje Mitima-Verloop, Rosa-Lena Van der Maat, Anne Marthe Van der Bles and Trudy T.M. Mooren

“I'm not moving from here until you resolve this for me”: mothers of disabled children overcoming barriers to health care

Rosamund Greiner

‘For us, we call it resistance’- conceptualizing resilience and its pathways among Arab Canadians: The CAN-HEAL study

Sarah Elshahat, Tina Moffat, K. Bruce Newbold, Asil Samhat, Mafaz Gehani, Yumnah Jafri, Zena Shamli Oghli, Nour Kanaa, Bisma Shafiq, Amna Zaidi, Aniqa Chaudhry, Janna Elshakankiri, Mariam Rahman and Momina Ahmad

“I can't take in every stray puppy”: How U.S. pain specialists purify pain management through opioid-related gatekeeping

Camille Kroll

The importance of values in a community-based response to malaria in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: results from a longitudinal, mixed-methods study

Hunter Keys, Keyla Ureña, Kevin Bardosh, Diana Taveras, Luccene Desir and Gregory Noland

My family member's health and my mental health: A longitudinal matched cohort study

Clifford Afoakwah, Isaac Koomson, David Brain, Steven McPhail and John Paul Kuwornu

How do counties’ industrial structures shape geographic disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality?

Yue Sun and Michael H. Esposito

Can equalizing education weaken the link between parental education and cognitive function? Evidence from a non-parametric decomposition analysis

Fabian Kratz and Matthias Klee

The privilege to heal? Mapping patients’ unequal mobilisation of health capital in a Nordic welfare context

Kristian Larsen, Ina Koch Røpke, Mette Rørth and Anette Lykke Hindhede

Curative justice: Epistemic contestations of health in the case of type 1 diabetes and hepatitis C in Austria

Magdalena Eitenberger and Lisa Lehner

Associations of total daily working hours encompassing unpaid care and domestic work with nonrestorative sleep and mental health in middle-aged Japanese men and women: A cross-sectional study

Akiko Morimoto, Hideaki Furuki, Naho Sugita, Risako Hayashi and Nao Sonoda

Trends in adults body mass index related to changes in socioeconomic status of 201 large Latin American cities

Mónica Serena Perner, Kari Moore, Andrés Trotta, Hal Chen, Mariana Lazo, Olga L. Sarmiento, Daniel Rodriguez, Marcio Alazraqui and Ana V. Diez Roux

Postpartum severe maternal morbidity: A longitudinal analysis of the association with economic segregation and neighborhood deprivation in Georgia, USA 2016–2022

Michael R. Kramer, Kaitlyn K. Stanhope, Peter J. Joski, Marissa Coloske, Anne L. Dunlop and E. Kathleen Adams

Impact of booster breaks and computer prompts on sedentary time, body composition, stress perception, and occupational pain in desk-based workers: A quasi-experimental study – The UP project

Ricardo Martínez-Flores, Caroline Brand, Gerson Ferrari, Kabir P. Sadarangani, Jorge Cancino-López, Jaime Leppe-Zamora and Carlos Cristi-Montero

Accountability as Self-Determination: Abolitionist conceptions of health, wellbeing, and safety

Cameron W. Rasmussen and Mimi E. Kim

Cognability across adulthood: A qualitative investigation of neighborhoods and cognitive health behaviors

Jessica Finlay, Grace Savard, Desiree Alvarez-McNelis, Mallory Sagehorn, Grace Bowman, Yue Sun and Michael Esposito

Medicalizing the social determinants of health and the inadvertent reproduction of inequities through social-care program implementation in the United States

Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer and Sara Mendez

Sociocultural identification of migrant forensic psychiatric inpatients facing mandatory repatriation – a hospital ethnography

Charlotte Clous, Hannah Jongsma, Anniek van Weeghel, Ria Reis and Wim Veling

Dialogues of obstetric risk in the first trimester of pregnancy: Insights from a hospital ethnography

Ana Cerezuela González, Carolina Remorini and Diana Marre

Empowerment or responsibilisation: Articulation work in English primary care coordination from the perspectives of patients and clinicians

Mhorag Goff, Patrick Burch, Jonathan Hammond, Kath Checkland and Sally Jacobs

Area-socioeconomic disadvantage and cognitive function among Chinese older adults: the mediating role of healthcare resources and the moderating role of individual socioeconomic status

Xiaqing Jiang, Yuying Zhang and Jiamin Gao

Following the power: social-class inequities in mortality from accidental poisonings, suicide, and chronic liver disease in the United States

Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot, Candace M. Cosgrove, Alex Azan, Samuel R. Friedman, Seth J. Prins and Audrey Renson

Nature, gender, trauma: The role of nature in recovering from intimate partner violence

Kimberley Kinder

The impact of media coverage of a celebrity suicide on suicide and attempted suicide rates in Taiwan

Ying-Yeh Chen, Vera Yu Men, Cheuk Yui Yeung, Kevin Chien-Chang Wu, Ying-Chen Chi and Paul SF. Yip

Engaging patients in blood systems: A qualitative study on immune globulin recipient perspectives

Umair Majid, Quinn Grundy, Stephanie Kelly and Kelly Holloway

Contraceptive autonomy of adolescents and young adults in the U.S. South: The influence of healthcare providers, partners, and parents

Kathleen Broussard, Laura D. Lindberg and Emily S. Mann

‘They're big and I is small’: The precarious identity reconstruction process of a low-status occupational group

Marieke van Wieringen

Prison healthcare and other paradoxes

Harley Pomper and Manu S. Sundaresan