Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2026

Current editor(s): Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian

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2026, volume 397, articles C

Impacts beyond the child: A theoretical framework of pediatric economic evaluation from a family perspective

Ramesh Lamsal, Laila Rahman, E. Ann Yeh, Eleanor Pullenayegum and Wendy J. Ungar

From extended family to enhanced burden: Health implications for daughters-in-law within patrilocal households

Deepthi Sara Anil and Debayan Pakrashi

Does private equity acquisition impact the quality of care provided in US hospices?

Yukiko Watanabe, Kazuhiro Abe and Ichiro Kawachi

Can trust in healthcare be restored after armed violence? Evidence from a randomized field experiment in north-eastern Nigeria

Max Schaub, Liliana Abreu, Gbadebo Collins Adeyanju, Aisha Aliyu Abulfathi, Musa Muhammad Bello, Lennart Kasserra, Aminatu Ayaba Kwaku, Muhammad Ibrahim Jalo, Ahmad Mahmud, Pia Schrage and Rabiu Ibrahim Jalo

The components of reassurance for no-problem diagnoses: A conversation analytic study of physician-patient interactions

Anne Elizabeth Clark White, Clara A. Bergen and Caroline K. Tietbohl

Experiments in response-ability: Integrative medicine, rebel doctors and expanding repertoires of care

Nele Jensen

Built environment features: Predictors or effect modifiers of post-disaster mental health outcomes? A systematic review

Yue Zhang, Dongying Li, Galen Newman, Yining Liu and Emily Besse

Improving mental health during crisis: Outcomes from the EMERALD online lifestyle medicine and coaching program

Monique Jones, Paul E. Schwenn, Alexandra P. Metse, Andrew Watkins, Daniel F. Hermens and Christina Driver

Teaching against torture: Evidence based abolitionist pedagogies in an era of intensified bordering

Victoria Canning

Connection to nature in nature based social prescribing: A scoping review of evidence, gaps, and policy implications

Anna Kenyon, Trishna Chauhan, Kelly Reynolds, Sam Pywell, Ruqaiya Shaikh and Aderonke Ajiboye

Harmful epistemic practices in antipsychotic medication prescribing and counselling

Kickan Roed, Julie Midtgaard, Jimmi Nielsen, Ingrid Egerod, Mette Ødegaard and Niels Buus

Tailored AI ethics: Enacting geriatric care with AI-based patient monitoring

Victor Vadmand Jensen, Marianne Johansson Jørgensen, Rikke Hagensby Jensen, Jeppe Lange, Jan Wolff and Mette Terp Høybye

Social media influence on healthcare utilization: WeChat use and healthcare facility choices among Chinese older adults

Bangan Wu, Yuedan Geng, Weiwei Sun and Qianqian Ben Liu

Reweighting intersectionality: Statistical and epistemic alignment in intersectional MAIHDA

Nasir Z. Bashir

‘A thorn in my heart’: Narratives of systemic burdens and gendered suffering in Chinese autism parenting discourse

Yining Wang, Shuangning Wang and Meiyuan Zheng

Work-welfare trajectories and despair-related mortality among Swedish social service clients

Simone Scarpa and Björn Högberg

2026, volume 396, articles C

The normalisation of under-resourcing limits the potential for improvement of critical care: evidence from a multi-method study of Kenyan hospitals

Jacob McKnight, Jacquie Oliwa, Tamara Mulenga Willows, Onesmus Onyango, Rosanna Mazhar, Lydia Bernard Jones, Elibariki Mkumbo, John Maiba, Carl Otto Schell, Tim Baker, Patrick Amoth, Ian Were, Osman Warfa and Mike English

Financial assets and cardiometabolic risk in early adulthood: Evidence from add health

Haiyi Cheng and Manuel Schechtl

How structural homophobia is spreading HIV-risk sexual behaviours around the world

Vincent Leroy, Erik Lamontagne, Bruno Spire, Sean Howell, Sylvie Boyer and Bruno Ventelou

The relative value of mental health for pandemic response: A discrete choice experiment with stakeholders and the general population in Europe

Vincent Lorant, Pablo Nicaise, Wagner Silva Ribeiro, Mark Harrison, A-La Park and David McDaid

Unpacking the commercial determinants of health: Insights from social science

Eduardo J. Gomez

Video-based ecological momentary assessment of health and well-being outcomes in nature: Lessons learned from a park-based pilot study

Katelyn R. O'Bright, Sean T. Doherty, Catherine E. Reining, Alexander Wray, Shiran Zhong, Jason Gilliland and Christopher J. Lemieux

TEK, access, and health disparities: 40 years of land use change in a traditional Maroon rainforest community

Lydia Gibson, Oral White and Robert Cawley

Collective coping work among healthcare providers navigating the precarities of an overburdened maternity facility in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Haika Osaki, Columba Mbekenga, Morten Skovdal, Nanna Maaløe and Jane Brandt Sørensen

Interembodiment: Relational living and interconnected thinking

Emma Nelson Bunkley and Emily Ann Mendenhall

Imaginaries of digital health: Unpacking the platformization of mental health through users’ practices

Letizia Zampino

Future gender in pediatric transgender and DSD/intersex consultations: a conversation analysis

Mieke Breukelman, Wyke J.P. Stommel, Chris M. Verhaak and Anke J.M. Oerlemans

Where do uninsured patients go? The paradox of collaborative network dynamics in interhospital transfers

Minyoung Ku, Jinyoung Cha and Keon-Hyung Lee

Self-reporting quality of life in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia: Comparing capability and health-focused measures using response process validation

Irina Kinchin, Jayne Conlon, Erin Boland, Rachel Fitzpatrick, Iracema Leroi and Joanna Coast

Haunted houses: Using photovoice to understand emotional geographies in single room occupancy housing

Taylor Fleming, Jade Boyd, Thomas Kerr and Ryan McNeil

Hustlers and tricksters: Colonialism, the war on drugs, and survival strategies of people who inject drugs

Roberto Abadie

Splitting FND: Differences in targeted therapies for functional movement disorders and functional seizures

Paula Muhr

Urban-rural differences in the longitudinal reciprocal relationship between assets and health among Chinese older adults

Siyuan Guo, Junyue Yue, Xin Li and Sang-Rok Lee

Childlessness and advance care planning in midlife and late adulthood: A mixed-methods study in Singapore

Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Dahye Kim, Pearlyn Neo Hui Min and Christine Ho

“It's part of me”: A study of the self-construal of people with diabetes using wearable medical devices

Yixin Cui and Pengxiang Li

Maternal decision-making through temporal uncertainties: The anticipatory biopolitics of Vosoritide in dwarfism communities

Kelly-Mae Saville

Reimagining the regulation of informal pharmaceutical markets: The importance of pragmatic expertise and improvisation in Nigeria

Gernot Klantschnig and Ediomo-Ubong Nelson

Between hospital and home: Hospital-adjacent neighborhood as a third therapeutic place for China's long-distance patients

Xiang Yan, Chao Song and Tian Feng

2026, volume 395, articles C

Pedalling progress? Assessing the long-term impact of a bicycle intervention on adolescent maternal and child health in Zambia

Shruti Shukla, Yulia Shenderovich, Choolwe Jacobs and Janina I. Steinert

The commodification of human milk: Analysing corporate practices and policy implications using the UCSF Industry Documents Library

Sarah L. Steele, Noah C.A. Cooke, David Stuckler and Adam Kamradt-Scott

Does aggressive policing worsen infant health disparities? Evidence from ‘Stop and Frisk’ in New York City

Nicole S. Ngo and James Rising

Early versus late entry into parenthood and mental health outcomes in Norway: A Bayesian longitudinal analysis of life satisfaction and depressive tendencies by gender and SES

Magnus Jørgensen, Bente Wold and Andreas Stenling

Energy poverty consequences of aggressive tobacco tax policies

MohammadHossein Hadi, Dennis Petrie and Umair Khalil

Disrupting the information order in health care: Institutions, policy regimes, and the value of data

Denise Anthony and Amanda Stanhaus

Rare diseases, global health, and local contexts

Małgorzata Rajtar and Eva-Maria Knoll

A system dynamics approach for examining the health implications of male out-migration on non-migrating household members in the Western Highlands of Guatemala

Emily Kocsis, Joshua Garcia-Barrios, Rony Aguilar, Sara Wyngaarden, Hannah Neufeld, Matthew Little and Warren Dodd

Associations of family policy and income inequality with loneliness in midlife: Cross-national evidence from the United States and Europe

Frank J. Infurna, Nutifafa E.Y. Dey, Yesenia Cruz-Carrillo, Markus Wettstein, Kevin J. Grimm, Margie E. Lachman and Denis Gerstorf

Early-life adversity and problem drinking in adulthood: Improving on the measurement of adverse childhood experiences

Shenyu Zhang and Adam M. Lippert

Positive outcomes: Positive psychology's application in intellectual disability context- a systematic review and bibliometric analysis

Yogesh Yadav and Namrata,

Social connection among the unhoused in Northern Arizona

Sarah M. Asantewaa, Rea Antoniou and Michelle A. Parsons

“Those eyes that look at you:” somatic modes of care in professional encounters with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients

Ángel Martínez-Hernáez, Antonio Insunza and Fernando Vidal

Living through the collapse: Post-traumatic adaptation after a mining disaster in Turkey

Emel Genç, Kübra Baldan and Nalan Göktekin

Unconditional cash transfers to improve health behaviors among primary care patients: a qualitative sub-study of a randomized clinical trial

Laura A. Gibson, Aaron Richterman, Aaliyah Randall, Jonathan Muruako, Beth Uzwiak, Eva Fabian, Harsha Thirumurthy and Christina A. Roberto

The impact of education on dementia: Evidence from compulsory schooling reforms in England

Nathalie Monnet, Emma Nichols, Clémence Kieny and Mauricio Avendano

How do tensions between medical professionalism and financial incentives play out under case-based payment reform in China

Xiaoying Zhu, Daniel Strachan, Tiara Marthias, Ajay Mahal, Shenglan Tang and Barbara McPake

The entangled temporalities of a forgotten disease: Making sense of the 2025 measles resurgence in the U.S. and Canada

Yanqiu Rachel Zhou

Anticipating unintended consequences of public health nutrition policy: Implications for disordered eating and weight stigma

Amanda Raffoul and Sharon I. Kirkpatrick

Public servants or privileged elites? -Analyzing physician strikes in the Republic of Korea

Seongwon Choi

Political trust and health compliance during a health crisis: A systematic literature review from the COVID-19 pandemic

Talia Goren, Dana R. Vashdi and Itai Beeri

Feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a combined intimate partner violence (IPV) and mental health intervention (WINGS+PM+) for women in informal settlements in Kenya

Samantha C. Winter, Lena Moraa Obara, David Ndetei, Victoria Mutiso, Louisa Gilbert, Scarlett L. Bellamy, Gi Un Shin, Aishworya Shrestha and Susan S. Witte

The narrative construction of good death in China: A qualitative study of family members’ roles

Zexi Xie and Aeneas Zi Wang

Corrigendum to ‘Sauna culture improves physical and mental wellbeing in the UK through social connection and ritual’ [Soc. Sci. Med. 394, April 2026, 119061]

M. Newson, R. McGrath, I. Mosina, G. Reason and L. Peitz