Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2025, volume 372, articles C

Network analysis of adverse and positive childhood experiences in a national sample of university students

Zhiyuan Yu, Tejashwini Alalamath, Sara Johnson, Yiying Xiong and Lin Wang

Family participation in geriatric decision-making: Marginalization of older patients’ autonomy in Chinese outpatient consultation

Tianxin Yan and Min Yang

Effort-reward imbalance and problem drinking among workers: Differences in gender and the gender composition of industries and main job activities in a prospective cohort study from Sweden

Aziz Mensah, Anna Nyberg, Peter Wennberg and Susanna Toivanen

Age-related trajectories of health and cognition in mothers of children with developmental disabilities: Longitudinal findings from two independent studies

Robert S. Dembo, Jinkuk Hong, Leann Smith DaWalt and Marsha R. Mailick

Health insurance, race, and receipt of a postpartum visit among patients giving birth in a referral hospital in the US South

Jesse Rattan, Justin M. Leach, Christina Blanchard, Meghan Tipre, T. Robin Bartlett, Azita Amiri, Monica L. Baskin, Rachel Sinkey and Janet M. Turan

The neonatal intensive care unit as a site of perinatal iatrogenesis: An ethnographic analysis of postpartum health support in a U.S. children's hospital

Katey E. Mari

Reimagining subjectivities in place: Necropolitical logics of safer supply and housing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Taylor Fleming, Jade Boyd and Ryan McNeil

Healthy eating in life course context: Asymmetric implications of socioeconomic origins and destinations

James S. Malo, Markus H. Schafer and April J. Stull

Vision, relationships, patience … and power: A qualitative analysis of how policy agents scale up cross-sectoral policy for nutrition

Anne Marie Thow, Patrick Harris and Raphael Lencucha

Examining how social class discrimination is associated with combustible tobacco use, nicotine vaping, and dual use among adolescents in California

Zena R. Mello, Vani Kakar and Jamie Jaramillo

Housing and wellbeing: Long-term precarious housing trajectories following humanitarian migration and resettlement

Sheenagh McShane, Ang Li, Karen Block and Rebecca Bentley

Socioeconomic disparities in long COVID diagnosis among ethnic minorities in Denmark

George Frederick Mkoma, Maria Ingeborg Goldschmidt, Jørgen Holm Petersen, Thomas Benfield, Agneta Cederström, Mikael Rostila, Charles Agyemang and Marie Norredam

Beyond the residential neighborhood: A scoping review of research on urban neighborhood networks

Noli Brazil, Jennifer Candipan, Brian Levy and Thalia Tom

“But who takes care of the mom?”: The daily experiences of immigrant mothers navigating health in family life

Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, David K. Jones, Diana Cutts, Allison Bovell-Ammon, Félice Lê-Scherban, Megan Sandel, Eduardo Ochoa, Ana Poblacion, Deborah A. Frank, Maureen M. Black and Gemmae M. Fix

Disease frames and their consequences for stigma and medical research funds

Alina Arseniev-Koehler and Rachel Kahn Best

Social media prompts to encourage intervening with cancer treatment misinformation

Allison J. Lazard, Tara Licciardello Queen, Marlyn Pulido, Shelby Lake, Sydney Nicolla, Hung-Jui Tan, Marjory Charlot, Andrew B. Smitherman and Nabarun Dasgupta

Corrigendum to ‘Women in UK academic health economics: An evaluation of progress since the 1970s’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 368, March 2025, 117794]

Sally Sheard and Liza Caruana-Finkel

Using interactions of area dose and individual exposure to estimate effects of population health interventions

Matt Sutton, Samuel Hugh-Jones and Anna Wilding

Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis

Deivis Nicolas Guzman-Tordecilla and Antonio J. Trujillo

Differences in the influence of the built environment and physical activity on obesity in urban and suburban contexts

Yuxuan Zou and Donggen Wang

The correlation of caloric intake from sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) on type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) risk in Indonesia

Abdillah Ahsan, Triasih Djutaharta, Maulida Gadis Utami, Yuyu Buono Ayuning Pertiwi, Anggiana Diniary, Nadira Amalia, Sakiru Adebola Solarin and Santhi Ramanathan

“My full-time unpaid role”: Understanding the (extra)ordinary work of founders of rare disease organisations

Rebecca Dimond and Jamie Lewis

“It makes you feel worthless.” The lived experience of discrimination in the US food assistance system

Sarah J. Blau, Alison Tovar, Deborah N. Pearlman, Heidi M. Weeks, Jeneen Ali and Katherine W. Bauer

Corrigendum to “Do high school experiences shape midlife body weight?” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 367, February 2025, 117693]

Michelle L. Frisco, Emily A. Lybbert, Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky and J. Robert Warren

Uncovering the influence of community nursing on health promotion in China: A biopower analysis

Bo Li

Mapping the lived experience of rural substance use stigma: A conceptual framework of salient attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in people who use drugs

Adams L. Sibley, Sophia M. Bartels, Seth M. Noar, Nisha Gottfredson O'Shea, Kathryn E. Muessig, William C. Miller and Vivian F. Go

Neonatal mortality and contraceptive utilization following abortion restriction in the Dominican Republic: A difference-in-differences analysis

Foluso Ishola, Britt McKinnon, Seungmi Yang and Arijit Nandi

Are extensions in paid parental leave associated with lower infant and neonatal mortality in Latin American cities? Evidence from 148 cities in Chile, Mexico, and Colombia (2000–2015)

Asiya Validova, Jessica Uruchima, Goro Yamada, Alejandra Vives, Alina Schnake-Mahl, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Ariela Braverman, Brisa Sanchez, Hugo-Alejandro Santa-Ramírez, Laura Baldovino Chiquillo, Marcio Alazraqui, Monica Mazariegos, Mónica Serena Perner, Olga Lucia Sarmiento, Tamara Doberti, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez, Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ana Ortigoza

Womb to wisdom: Early-life exposure to midwifery laws and later-life disability

Hamid Noghanibehambari, Hesamaldin Bagheri, Mostafa Toranji, Hoa Vu and Nasrin Tavassoli

Do type, timing and duration of life course non-employment differentially predict dementia risk? An application of sequence analysis

Lucia Pacca, S. Amina Gaye, Willa D. Brenowitz, Kaori Fujishiro, M. Maria Glymour, Amal Harrati and Anusha M. Vable

The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era

Jess M. Meyer, Jarron M. Saint Onge and Catherine F. Siengsukon

More than one manifestation of agency: Relinquishing and/or retaining menstrual practices in Nepali migrant communities in the United States

Sara Baumann, Isabella M. Wegner, Sanjana Murthy, Katarina Schneiderman and Inga T. Winkler

Identifying Indigenous strengths for health and wellbeing: Targeting the legacy of colonial masculinities in Peru

Reshmi Mukerji, Jenevieve Mannell, Hattie Lowe, Maria Calderón, Blenda Milagros Abarca Diaz, Renan Espezua, Laura J. Brown and Jennie Gamlin

Tensions of time at the end (of life)

Alex Broom, Katherine Kenny, Nadine Ehlers, Henrietta Byrne and Phillip Good

Equity in health care and health: Contributions from health economics

John Cullinan and Paula Lorgelly

“I get to relate to my patients”: Latinx medical students and residents’ navigational capital in medical education

Nicole A. Perez, Sarah Medina-Aguirre, Pilar Ortega, Monica Vela and Laura E. Hirshfield

Global temporal trends in depression incidence among women of childbearing age: A 30-year analysis and projections to 2030

Wu Zhou, Bo Hei, Zhixin Liu, Yihao Liu, Zihan Ding and Meihua Li

Structural inequities and provider burnout in maternal health in the United States

Hyeyoung Oh Nelson, Ashlyn Lange, Maleeha K. Shah and Mercy Kibet

A multidimensional tool for quantifying structural racism: Application to adverse pregnancy outcomes in Chicago, Illinois

Alexa A. Freedman, Lauren S. Keenan-Devlin, Britney P. Smart, Renee M. Odom-Konja, Shanti U. Gallivan, Andrew D. Franklin, Amy H. Crockett, Linda M. Ernst, Ann Borders and Gregory E. Miller

Psychosocial adversities in adulthood among individuals raised with family members with disabilities

Anna Amilon, Stine Vernstrøm Østergaard and Rikke Fuglsang Olsen

2025, volume 371, articles C

Early-life nutrition and schooling

Florencia Borrescio-Higa, Carlos Guillermo Bozzoli and Federico Droller

Midlife financial stress and cognitive and physical impairments in older age: The role of potentially modifying factors

Ingemar Kåreholt, Charlotta Nilsen, Miia Kivipelto, Deborah Finkel and Shireen Sindi

Disputes over the agenda to promote adequate and healthy eating - How the agri-food sector interfered in the Brazilian Tax Reform

Bruna Kulik Hassan, Vitória Lucia Silva de Moraes, Laís Amaral Mais, Ana Maria Thomaz Maya Martins, Marcello Fragano Baird, Marília Sobral Albiero, Paula Johns and Camila Maranha Paes de Carvalho

Dimensions of cisheteronormativity that influence healthcare utilization practices in LGBTQ+ populations: A systematic review

Mik S. Bartels, Caroline Ng Tseung-Wong, Dimity A. Crisp and Patricia M. Brown

Catastrophic health expenditure during healthcare financing reform: Evidence from Kazakhstan

Aigerim Sarsenbayeva and Dinara Alpysbayeva

Childhood adversity trajectories and not being in education, employment, or training during early adulthood: The Danish life course cohort (DANLIFE)

Leonie K. Elsenburg, Bertina Kreshpaj, Signe Hald Andersen, Tjeerd Rudmer de Vries, Karsten Thielen and Naja Hulvej Rod

AI in medical diagnosis: A contextualised study of patient motivations and concerns

Nastaran Hajiheydari, Mohammad Soltani Delgosha and Tahereh Saheb

Strategies of containment: Financialization and Latinx immigrants' health care exclusion in Colorado's mountain resort region

Sarah B. Horton

Not/belonging as health promotion: The affective potentialities of human and non-human relationalities in mother-baby-assemblages

Eva Neely and Michaela Pettie

Labor market disadvantages and mental health among the second-generation children of immigrants in Sweden. A population cohort study

Wooseong Kim, Sol P. Juárez, Andrea Dunlavy, Sven Drefahl and Siddartha Aradhya

Explaining subjective social status and health: Beyond education, occupation and income

Matthew Robson, Gang Chen and Jan Abel Olsen

Comprehensive assessment of the impact of mandatory community-based health insurance in Burkina Faso

Delphine Boutin, Laurène Petitfour, Yvonne Allard, Souleymane Kountoubré and Valéry Ridde

The long-term health effects of welfare reform

Emily C. Dore, Rita Hamad, Kelli A. Komro and Melvin D. Livingston

Testing “the science”: A comparative analysis of COVID-19 testing policy across four Canadian provinces

Katherine Fierlbeck, Lara Gautier, Susan Usher, Sara Allin, Veena Sriram and Peter Berman

How many doctors does a health system need? Histories of workforce planning in the NHS

Clare Herrick and David Armstrong

The power paradox of patient-centred care in Chinese community health: Towards a conceptualisation

Bo Li

A political economy of hope: Materialisations of social class and inequity in women's imaginings of alcohol (free) futures

Paul R Ward, Kristen Foley, Megan Warin and Belinda Lunnay

Disputed and disfavored: Pain, mental illness, and invisible conditions in disability discrimination cases

Rachel Kahn Best, Yan Fang, Catherine Fisk, Linda Hamilton Krieger and Diana Reddy

“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces

Henriette List, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen and Ole Graumann

When the invisible becomes the impossible: Direct care workers’ experience of organizational change

Jane S. VanHeuvelen, Tom VanHeuvelen and Janette S. Dill

Natural disaster-induced dementia and cognitive decline: A meta-analysis and systematic review

Jacob Thompson and Maryam Vasefi

Associations of parental internal migration with child growth and nutritional status in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

Emeline Rougeaux, Adriana Vázquez-Vázquez, Laura Busert-Sebela, Mary Fewtrell and Jonathan C.K. Wells

Evolution of intimate partner violence impacts from cash transfers, food transfers, and behaviour change communication: Mixed-method experimental evidence from a nine-year post-programme follow-up in Bangladesh

Michelle Lokot, Nasrin Sultana, Melissa Hidrobo, Akhter Ahmed, John Hoddinott, Deboleena Rakshit, Shalini Roy and Meghna Ranganathan

Emotional or informational? Understanding cancer patients’ multifaceted help-seeking behaviors in online health communities

Xiandong Feng, Yinhuan Hu, Holger Pfaff, Sha Liu, Hui Wang and Yangfan Wang

Sources of well-being and cardiovascular health: A mixed methods investigation from the MIDUS study

Julia K. Boehm, Monica Adams and Jennifer Morozink Boylan

Bracing for impact: An intensive longitudinal investigation of weight stigma, vigilant coping, and maladaptive eating

Karen E. Wetzel, Mary S. Himmelstein and Jeffrey A. Ciesla

Changes in marital and health status as risk factors for a subsequent negative wealth shock: A population-based longitudinal study in the United States, 1995–2020

Tsai-Chin Cho, Xuexin Yu, Sara D. Adar, HwaJung Choi, Kenneth M. Langa and Lindsay C. Kobayashi

Employment quality and mental health in Germany: The mismatch of low employment quality with work and family values by gender

Deborah De Moortel, Rebeka Balogh, Miriam Engels and Julie Vanderleyden

Stressors faced by forcibly displaced Ukrainians in England within 6 months of arrival: A qualitative study

J. Whitehead, O. Fokaf, T. Deinekhovska, M. Egan and M. Seguin

Is time a gift for health and life satisfaction? Exploring the relationship between time allocation and adaptation to a breast cancer diagnosis

Ni Gao, Mark Harris, Mandy Ryan, Suzanne Robinson and Richard Norman

Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach

Le Khanh Ngan Nguyen, Holly McCabe, Susan Howick, Itamar Megiddo, Soumen Sengupta and Alec Morton

Health disparity among older adults in urban China: Does labor migration matter

Zehan Pan, Feiyang Yang, Nan Yang and Riming Nie

Moving away from volunteerism in community health? Motivations and wellbeing among urban and rural Ethiopian volunteers

Kenneth Maes, Svea Closser, Yihenew Tesfaye and Roza Abesha

Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity

Jasmin A. Darville, Katherine Campbell, Kaitlyn K. Stanhope, Alexis Kendall, Sierra Carter, Michael R. Kramer, Ran Zhang and Sheree L. Boulet

Suicide rates in South Korea and internationally following release of the Netflix series ‘Squid Game’

Mark Sinyor, Sangsoo Shin, Jiyun Lee, Steven Stack, Vera Yu Men and Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

Methodologies and estimates of social costs of gambling: A scoping review

Sari Hautamäki, Virve Marionneau, Sari Castrén, Jussi Palomäki, Susanna Raisamo, Tomi Lintonen, Pia Pörtfors and Tiina Latvala

Relatively independent and complementary roles of family history and polygenic risk score in age at onset and incident cases of 12 common diseases

Wenyan Hou, Yuxin Liu, Xingjie Hao, Jike Qi, Yuchen Jiang, Shuiping Huang and Ping Zeng