Social Science & Medicine

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2025, volume 381, articles C

Combating vaccine hesitancy: The case of HPV vaccination

Lina Diaz, Deborah Martinez Villarreal, Karina Marquez and Carlos Scartascini

Collectively cultivating the pleasures of interembodiment: Waste labor, nuclearity, and river love in Bulgaria

Elana Resnick

Intergenerational transmission of preventive health-seeking behaviors: Like mother, like daughter? The case of cancer screening in France

Clara Dugord and Carine Franc

The cognitive benefits of ecosystem improvement: Evidence from China's National Key Ecological Function Zones

Jia Tang, Chenxu Ni, Shuwei Lu, Jie Xiong and Mingzhe Wang

Corrigendum to ‘Evaluating the psychosocial experiences of participants in HIV cure research before, during, and after analytical treatment interruptions: A longitudinal qualitative study in the United States’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 366, February 2025, 117644]

Miranda Hill, Lidia Rodriguez Garcia, Elizabeth Nguyen, Anastasia Korolkova, Lillian Cohn, Antonio Rodriguez, Rebecca Hoh, Steven G. Deeks, Michael J. Peluso, John A. Sauceda and Karine Dubé

Health system resilience in the context of forced migration: a qualitative framework analysis of Germany's crisis responses in 2015 and 2020

Rosa Jahn, Clara Perplies, Eilin Rast, Louise Biddle, Andreas W. Gold and Kayvan Bozorgmehr

Paradoxical bio-citizenship: Examining healthy eating from lay and professional perspectives

Alison Fixsen, Damien Ridge, Anna Cheshire and Panagiota Tragantzopoulou

Individual and neighborhood determinants of depressive symptoms in ethnic minorities in the urban HELIUS sample: a multi-level network perspective

K.B.S. Huth, J. van der Wal, O. Zavlis, J. Luigjes, J. Lakerveld, H. Galenkamp, A. Lok, K. Stronks, C.L. Bockting, M. Marsman, A.E. Goudriaan and R.J. van Holst

Spiritual needs following cancer diagnosis: A national cross-sectional survey of randomly selected adults and cancer patients linked to nationwide registers

Tobias Anker Stripp, Lars Henrik Jensen, Sonja Wehberg, Linda Juel Ahrenfeldt, Tracy A. Balboni, Per Torp Sangild, Jens Søndergaard and Niels Christian Hvidt

Area-level socioeconomic status is associated with colorectal cancer screening, incidence and mortality in the US: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Thomas P. Lawler, Lauren Giurini, Cibele Barbosa Carroll, Jennifer M. Weiss, Noelle K. LoConte and Shaneda Warren Andersen

Feeling connected, feeling poor? The dual impact of everyday interactions with neighbors and relative deprivation on subjective well-being

Christoph Zangger

Corrigendum to ‘Understanding deep disadvantage at the end of life: A nationwide analysis of unclaimed deaths’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 365, January 2025, 117551]

Jennifer Brite, Frank W. Heiland and Deborah Balk

Weapon victimization and long-term cardiovascular disease risk

Esther Lee, Daniel C. Semenza, Arline T. Geronimus and Justin Heinze

Cultural context and pandemic preparedness: Reassessing the Global Health Security Index’s predictive power during COVID-19

Hyosun Kim, Taejong Kim and Gi Khan Ten

The political economy of occupational health and safety regulation: The contentious path to criminalizing work-related deaths in South Korea

Juyeon Lee and Erica Di Ruggiero

Syndemic interactions of chronic pain, mental health problems, and opioid misuse and their association with academic performance and quality of life among college students

Fares Qeadan, Rose Thornquist and Benjamin Tingey

Framing coalitions and the Canadian overdose crisis: The case of opioid marketing

Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, Quinn Grundy, Benjamin Hawkins and Robert Schwartz

Making disordered bodies in the context of male eating disorders

Piotr Maron

Contested illness, contested identity: How women with fibromyalgia construct legitimacy online

Jenna M. Kerr and Carey DeMichelis

Misinformation, trust, and health: The case for information environment as a major independent social determinant of health

Amitabha Palmer and Sara Gorman

The unmothering of care: childhood disability, structural violence, and the politicisation of motherhood

Rosamund Greiner

Support or stress? How attachment and relationship dynamics associate with acute psychosocial stress in the presence of the romantic partner

Mathilde Gallistl, Johanna Elea Hamann, Ilona Croy, Pascal Vrticka and Veronika Engert

Parents see genes at play: Parenthood and heritability attributions about “lifestyle” diseases

Alison Jane Martingano and Susan Persky

Training clinicians to be organizers: Expanding professional identities through a year-long Climate Health Organizing Fellowship

Jonathan D. Shaffer, Predrag Stojicic, Danny McCormick, Alanna Kate Cruz, Zobayer Ahmmad and Gaurab Basu

Social support, cognition, and mental health among older people in China: A longitudinal life course study

Chengxu Long, Wei Yang and Karen Glaser

Interembodiment among Long Haulers and their carers

Emily Mendenhall, Shreeja Banerjee and Ayo Wahlberg

Mental health behaviors and suicide risk among White and Black adults with Opioid Use Disorder

Hannah S. Szlyk, Daphne Lew, Xiao Li, Lindsey M. Filiatreau, JaNiene Peoples, Erin Kasson and Patricia Cavazos-Rehg

Tailoring anxiety assessment for Parkinson's disease: The Chinese Parkinson anxiety scale with cultural and situational anxiety considerations

Shu-Fai Poon, Chun-Hsiang Tan, Wei-Pin Hong, Kao Chin Chen and Rwei-Ling Yu

Armed conflict and birthweight: The role of organized violence and anti-coca fumigation in Colombia

Signe Svallfors, Sunnee Billingsley, Gudrun Østby and Siddartha Aradhya

Network analysis of social-emotional skills in children and adolescents across ten cities: Evidence from the 2019 OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills

Ming Huo and Bo Ning

Remarkable concordance in associations between epigenetic clocks and health behaviors across three countries

Eric T. Klopack, Belinda Hernandez, Claire Potter, Jessica D. Faul, Claire Hill, Laura Smyth, Colter Mitchell, Cathal McCrory, Rose Anne Kenny, Amy Jayne McKnight, Bernadette McGuinness and Eileen M. Crimmins

Female circumcision in Southern Kurdistan: Testing bargaining with the patriarchy

Sinem Esengen

Broken trust – Institutional betrayal and posttraumatic distress in mothers of children with neuropsychiatric disorders

Hadas Stricher-Stern, Anat Shalev and Yael Lahav

Social network influences on adolescent substance use: Exposure, perceptions, and ethnicity

Thomas W. Valente, Kristina Miljkovic, Jessica Barrington-Trimis and Sarah E. Piombo

Military experience and depression: a prospective multi-cohort analysis across nations

Xiaohan Zhu, Yushan Du, Mingxing Wang and Chao Guo

Maternal health and child health disparities among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children: Insights from repeated measures across infancy and adolescence

Nahida Afroz, Enamul Kabir, Khorshed Alam and Zakir Hossain

Negotiating clinical practice guidelines: Doctors’ experiences with implementing and rationing high-cost cystic fibrosis treatment

Audun Brendbekken, Ole F. Norheim, Frode Lindemark, Gunnar Houge and Andrea Melberg

The experience of intimate partner violence and age at the onset of multimorbidity: a population-based cohort study in Australian women

Mohammad R. Baneshi, Annette Dobson and Gita D. Mishra

Machine learning and the labor market: A portrait of occupational and worker inequities in Canada

Arif Jetha, Qing Liao, Faraz Vahid Shahidi, Viet Vu, Aviroop Biswas, Brendan Smith and Peter Smith

Structural racism and perinatal mental health – The role of racialized economic segregation

Mahader Tamene, Safyer McKenzie-Sampson, Jennifer Ahern, Patrick T. Bradshaw, Suzan L. Carmichael and Mahasin S. Mujahid

“You have to do mental gymnastics to get any form of care”: How Two Spirit, lesbian, bisexual, trans, and queer women and gender-diverse people navigate racism and cisheterosexism in Canadian healthcare

Celeste Pang, Brittany A.E. Jakubiec, Kimberly Seida and J. Garrett-Walker

Reassessing human capital and health capital over the life course: Causal mediation analysis of higher education, health, and wages

Satoshi Araki

Rural-urban living with spinal cord injury, impact health, quality of life and integration - Experiences from Denmark

Bodil Bjoernshave Noe, Anne Hoejgaard, Frederik Skovbjerg, Randi Steensgaard and Egon Bjoernshave Noe

Childhood neighborhoods and health in later Life: Hospital admissions in Sweden 1939–2015

Finn Hedefalk, Ingrid K. van Dijk and Martin Dribe

Recovery in mental health: An international Delphi study from a recovery-oriented professional perspective

Estefania Guerrero, Maite Barrios, Hernán María Sampietro, Alba Aza, Georgina Guilera and Juana Gómez-Benito

Going in circles? – Identifying the dissemination process of healthcare networks within their member organizations

Roos G.F.M. van der Ven, Daan Westra, Felice N. van Erning, Ignace H. de Hingh and Agnes Paulus

How populist-aligned views are reflected in people's accounts of the receipt of public health interventions: a systematic review of qualitative studies

Kaitlin Conway-Moore, Alison R. McKinlay, Jack M. Birch, Fiona Graham, Emily J. Oliver, Clare Bambra, Michael P. Kelly and Chris Bonell

Doctors as system leaders: medical professionalism and ‘making a stand’

Lorelei Jones and Kirsten Armit

Family-work history and inequalities in old-age cognition in China

Jiawei Wu and Guillaume Marois

2025, volume 380, articles C

Are there diminishing returns to social spending? Social policy, health and health inequalities in European countries. A comparative longitudinal survey data analysis

Oda Nordheim and Kjetil A. van der Wel

“We like to be in the tent”: How charitable organizations navigate political advocacy for health equity

Ann De Shalit, Emily van der Meulen, Michael Orsini, Rachel Laforest and Adrian Guta

Gendered knowledge practices and human-animal-ecological health in Papua New Guinea: a qualitative study during a zoonotic tuberculosis investigation

Benjamin Hegarty, Paula Jops, Janet Gare, Jane Greig, Herick Aeno, Somu Nosi, April Holmes, Priscah Hezeri, Dukduk Kabiu, Pele Ursula Melepia, Suman S. Majumdar, Margaret Kal, Philipp du Cros and Angela Kelly-Hanku

“I continue to consult remotely”: The trans/national practices of war-related migrant doctors in Israel and professional boundaries

Anna Temkina and Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin

Neighborhood context: Understanding the relationship between national indices of neighborhood risk, individual perception, and posttraumatic stress

Allison L. Baier, Yael I. Nillni, Amar Mandavia, Nicholas Livingston and Tara Galovski

Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners

Anne-Mette Hermans and Rebecca Nash

The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality: An experiment in China

Yafei Si, Gang Chen, Zhongliang Zhou, Winnie Yip and Xi Chen

Qualitative methods and the commercial determinants of health: Insights from the social sciences

Eduardo J. Gómez

Corporate social responsibility as a commercial determinant of health: A case study of the alcohol industry in the Philippines

Gianna Gayle H. Amul

Medicalizing violence: The institutional politics of trauma in Veterans Treatment Courts

Victoria Piehowski

The making of transplant kin

Tanya Zivkovic

‘Doctors do not know about Cystic Fibrosis’: Examining structural vulnerability in the management of rare diseases in India

Sibille Merz and Ramila Bisht

Healthcare services for low-wage migrant workers: A systematic review

Eilin Rast, Karen Lau, Rosita Chia-Yin Lin, Tharani Loganathan, Sally Hargreaves and Cathy Zimmerman

Effects of childhood environments on the discernment of health misinformation

Si-Qi Zhang, Ming-Hui Li, Yu-Chu Li and Li-Lin Rao

A heterogeneity analysis of health-related quality of life in early adults born very preterm or very low birthweight across the sociodemographic spectrum

Corneliu Bolbocean, Peter J. Anderson, Peter Bartmann, Jeanie L.Y. Cheong, Lex W. Doyle, Samantha Johnson, Neil Marlow, Dieter Wolke, Stavros Petrou and Stephen O'Neill

Delivering green social prescribing: An ethnographic exploration of the place of walking and gardening groups in a social prescribing intervention

Tessa M. Pollard, Kate Gibson, Emily Tupper, Laura McGuire, Bethan Griffith and Jayne Jeffries

The food (in)security and mental health nexus in high-risk immigrant populations in middle- and high-income countries: A scoping review

Elizabeth Onyango, Keji Mori, Binita Jirel and Destiny Otoadese

Minority stress and bereavement: The impact of social positioning on LGBTQ+ bereavement experiences

Felicity Johnson and Kristin Bindley

US-born and foreign-born life expectancy by race and Hispanic origin before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Eugenio Paglino and Irma T. Elo

Investigating the role of chronic stress and perceived discrimination in racial disparities in incident dementia among U.S. older adults

Mina Habib, Nicola Churchill and Roch A. Nianogo

Correlates of longitudinal patterns of racial discrimination in midlife and older Black adults: Evidence from the health and retirement study

Kellee White Whilby, Shuo J. Huang, Bethany A. Bell, Kaitlynn Robinson-Ector, Mario Sims and David R. Williams

Simulating social network-based interventions for adolescent cigarette smoking

Cynthia M. Lakon, Cheng Wang, John R. Hipp and Carter T. Butts

Early-life access to primary healthcare and educational attainment: Evidence from community health centers in China

Yucheng Sun, Jiaolong Li, Xiuheng Shen and Zhewen Pan

Internal migration, health selection, and the salmon bias: A register-based study of Finland

Eugenio Paglino, Irma T. Elo and Pekka Martikainen

Mental well-being trends and school-based protective factors among adolescents in British Columbia (2015–2022): A population-based study

Eva Oberle, Xuejun Ryan Ji, Tonje Molyneux, Martin Guhn, Barry Forer, Kimberly Thomson, Maram Alkawaja, Anusha Kassan and Anne Gadermann

Intimate partner violence and time to making an abortion appointment in the United States

Sameera S. Nayak, Arielle A.J. Scoglio and Taiwo Sanni-Ojikutu

Heterogeneous associations between early-life religious upbringing and late-life health: Evidence from a machine learning approach

Xu Zong, Xiangjiao Meng, Karri Silventoinen, Matti Nelimarkka and Pekka Martikainen

The constructive power of informality? Relationships, emotion, and empathy in the administration of social assistance for childhood disability in South Africa

Zara Trafford

Mental health and wellbeing priority setting: a study of evidence use in schools in England

Camille Allard, Rebecca Johnson, Sally O'Loughlin and Hareth Al-Janabi

The second Health Inequalities Module in the European Social Survey (ESS): Methodology and research opportunities

Hanno Hoven, Terje Andreas Eikemo, Insa Backhaus-Hoven, Andrea Riebler, Rory Fitzgerald, Sara Martino, Tim Huijts, Kristian Heggebø, Pilar Vidaurre-Teixidó, Clare Bambra and Mirza Balaj

Flexibility in coping deployment and psychological adjustment during COVID-19: A three-level meta-analysis across 33 countries

Si Chen, Mike W.-L Cheung and Cecilia Cheng

Social network intervention to improve blood pressure control after stroke: The TEAMS-BP randomized clinical trial

Amar Dhand, Katherine Crum, Kaitlin E. Hanken, Gauri Bhatkhande, Melinda Luo, Ian M. Corbin, George Usmanov, Zachary Rothfeld-Wehrwein, Vrushali Dhongade, David Lin, Chloe Slocum, Nancy Haff and Niteesh K. Choudhry

Educational disparities in dementia incidence and healthcare utilization: evidence from a cohort study in Italy

Agostino Cristofalo, Silvia Cascini, Giulia Cesaroni, Eleonora Trappolini, Nera Agabiti and Anna Maria Bargagli

Paradoxical effects of community social cohesion on mental health and help-seeking among older adults: The role of reputation concern and socioeconomic status

Kuan-Ju Huang, Yukiko Uchida, Kosuke Takemura, Shintaro Fukushima, Jun Aida, Masamichi Hanazato and Mariko Kanamori

Dimensions of women's decision-making power and the influence on quality early prenatal care in Burkina Faso

Eric Allara Ngaba

When nature strikes: Unraveling the mental health consequences among herders in China's pastoral region

Dongqing Li, Alec Zuo and Lingling Hou

Relational coordination of state partnership with traditional birth attendants: soft partnering in Ghana's maternal and child healthcare context

Gordon Dugle, Simon Bishop and Judy Muthuri

Neighborhoods can be sexist too: Hostile sexism and risk of intimate partner violence across city neighborhoods

Enrique Gracia, Antonio López-Quílez, Miriam Marco, Pablo Escobar-Hernández and Marisol Lila

The impact of bioequivalence regulation on pharmaceutical firm outcomes: Evidence from China

Menghan Shen, Xiaoxia Liang and Han Wu

The lasting impact of incarceration: A qualitative thematic analysis of mental health in formerly incarcerated Black men

Helena A. Addison, Therese S. Richmond, Toorjo Ghose and Sara F. Jacoby

Using drugs to enhance capacities for action in everyday life practices: Analysing addiction stories’ descriptions of the escalation of substance use as counter-narratives

Jukka Törrönen, Ulrika Winerdal and Malin Gunnarsson

‘It's about the connections we've made with each other’: resilience and risk translation in governing healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bert de Graaff, Sabrina Huizenga and Roland Bal

Beyond dental dams: a critical review of recent research on lesbian, bisexual and queer women's sexual health

Jennifer Power, Ruby Grant, Tinonee Pym, Percy Gurtler, Kerryn Drysdale and Julie Mooney-Somers

Caring at the end of life: Bereaved family members' experiences of preparedness, readiness, and anticipation fatigue

Nathan D. MacArthur, Emma Kirby and Jane Mowll

The social experience of stress as premedical students in the United States

Caitlin Tickman and Lauren D. Olsen

The predictive power of employment trajectories on cognition of older adults: Evidence from Chile

Magdalena Delaporte