Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2025, volume 386, articles C

Music and singing as arts-based methods to facilitate participatory spaces for co-production in migration health research: A mixed methods study

Fran Garry, Anne MacFarlane, Helen Phelan, Ahmed Hassan, Jon Salsberg, Padraig MacCarron and Anna Papyan

The mental health of female and male homemakers: A longitudinal study using Dutch population register data

Lea Kröner, Deni Mazrekaj, Tanja van der Lippe and Anne-Rigt Poortman

The hidden curriculum undermines teaching about health literacy and clear communication, promoting inequities in care

Cliff Coleman, Samantha Birk, Katie Stowers, Christine Mullowney and Marie Chisholm-Burns

Beyond past-due bills: The varieties of medical debt used to finance healthcare

Elizabeth C. Martin

Hospital consolidation and quality: Opening the behavioral black box

Mark V. Pauly, Lawton Robert Burns, Alejandra Benitez and Michael Sielski

Taboo trade-off aversion in choice behaviors: A discrete choice model and application to health-related decisions

Nicholas V.R. Smeele, Sander van Cranenburgh, Bas Donkers, Maartje H.N. Schermer and Esther W. de Bekker-Grob

Social-spatial residence patterns and adolescent mental health: Investigating the influences of residential segregation, neighborhood social cohesion, and race on persistent, distressing psychotic-like experiences in the United States

Kirsten L. Wade, Michael Kramer and Benson Ku

How professionals respond to disruptive effects of artificial intelligence on their jurisdiction: The role of interactive governance

Qin Chen, Hongchuan Wang, Chengcheng Ma and Peng Ru

Tackling wicked problems through street-level diplomacy: the case of antimicrobial stewardship in Northern Europe

Matthew McKenna, Carla Rodrigues, Patrick Brown, Hannah Bradby and Nicola Gale

Mothers’ level of education and infant health. Causal effects of the introduction of a school reform in Norway

Jostein Grytten and Irene Skau

Income inequality modified adolescent substance use trajectories from 2018-19 to 2020–21: Findings from the COMPASS study

Stephen Hunter, Urvi Rai, Amy B. Crandall-Nickolet, Karen A. Patte, Scott T. Leatherdale and Roman Pabayo

Inter-identity threats and opportunities shaping professional influence for the Allied Health Profession (AHP) healthcare workforce: a study of identity paradox

Sarah E Crozier, Carol Atkinson, Mike Bresnen and Peter Goodwin

“I read a bit of information”: Epistemic markers as a resource for enacting patients’ agency

Aleksandr Shirokov

Beyond LGBTQ+: Centering QT2S lived experiences in body image research

Byron E. Upshaw, Souksavanh T. Keovorabouth and Felina M. Cordova-Marks

Adolescents and young adults' preferences for sexual and reproductive health services in Ethiopia: Evidence from three discrete choice experiments

Melaku Birhanu Alemu, Richard Norman, Yuanyuan Gu, Tigest Tamrat, Daniel Gashaneh Belay, Jaya A.R. Dantas, Gavin Pereira and Gizachew A. Tessema

Longitudinal network analysis of resilience factors and mental health symptoms among healthcare workers during a public health emergency

Nur Hani Zainal, Cheryl Yunn Shee Foo, Irene Teo and Sharon C. Sung

How does accommodation inspire communication? Examining affective and cognitive paths linking accommodation and family communication about health

Kun Peng, Qingrui Li and Yu Zheng

How does social tie strength work? A panel study exploring the effects of pro-e-cigarette content from peers, influencers, and brands on social media

Luxi Zhang, Sha Sarah Qiu and Xinshu Zhao

Even with diet and exercise, Ozempic use reduces perceived effort and praiseworthiness of resulting weight loss

Maria Bachmakova, Mey Bahar Buyukbabani, Vilius Dranseika, Rebecca C.H. Brown, Katrien Devolder, Nanette Ryan, Julian Savulescu, Jim A.C. Everett, Ivar Hannikainen and Brian D. Earp

The price of mobility: How migration shapes health outcomes in China

Qianqian Huang, Jianjun Zhou, Zhaopeng Xu, Feng Jiang and Lufa Zhang

Preference inversion in discrete choice experiments: A novel test of the emoji scale

Thao Thai, Lidia Engel, Jemimah Ride, Brendan Mulhern, Richard Norman and Cathrine Mihalopoulos

Patterns of marital residence and spousal violence among married people in Kogi state, Nigeria

Lanre Abdul-Rasheed Sulaiman

The carceral state beyond bars: Pretrial surveillance as a structural determinant of health

Erin Eife and Brian Tuohy

Childhood SES gradients in adult functional limitations: Does state-level macro-economic context matter?

Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell, Samia Sultana, Carol D. Ryff, Eric S. Kim, Markus Jokela, S.V. Subramanian and Ichiro Kawachi

Pre- versus post-COVID-19 pandemic comparison of kindergarten teacher-reported child development in multiple Canadian jurisdictions

Marc Jambon, Caroline Reid-Westoby, Eric Duku, Barry Forer, Nathalie Goulet, Martin Guhn, Jessie-Lee McIsaac, Nazeem Muhajarine, Nathan Nickel, Anne-Marie Smith, Jean Paul Lefebvre and Magdalena Janus

Eyes of the storm: Biographical disruption and political context of ocular trauma victims during the 2019 Chilean uprising

Carlos A. Salas, Lorena Nunez Carrasco and Francisca Marquez

Creating livable lives: A qualitative exploration of life after homelessness

Maja Lindegaard Moensted and Carolyn Day

Corrigendum to “The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile” [Soc. Sci. Med., Volume 329, July 2023, 116030]

Thomas A. Lowe, Louise Meijering and Billie de Haas

2025, volume 385, articles C

How social inequities get under the skin

Stefan Timmermans

The social uses of the body

Luc Boltanski

A toolbox for studying health inequalities: commentary on ‘The social uses of the body’

Muriel Darmon, Nathalie Bajos, Michelle Kelly-Irving and Dieter Vandebroeck

Updating ‘somatic culture’ for the sociology of health professions education

Kelly Underman and Alexandra H. Vinson

Luc Boltanski, Pierre Bourdieu, class, capital and the body

Fran M. Collyer

Home vs. nursing care: Unpacking the impact on health and well-being

Elena Bassoli, Mathieu Lefebvre and Jérôme Schoenmaeckers

Refugee integration in national health systems of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): evidence synthesis and future research agenda

Amina Olabi, Natasha Palmer, Maria Paola Bertone, Giulia Loffreda, Ibrahim Bou-Orm, Lucas Sempe, Marcia Vera-Espinoza, Arek Dakessian, Paul Kadetz, Alastair Ager and Sophie Witter

A scoping review of community participation in public health research and action during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring approaches on the continuum between utilitarianism and empowerment

Annika Frahsa, Harvy Joy Liwanag, Cristopher Kobler Betancourt, Aziz Mert Ipekci, Beatrice Minder and Diana Schow

New forms of expertise and their implications for the system of professions in healthcare: the case of the patient safety specialist role in the English NHS

Graham P. Martin, Robert Pralat, Justin Waring and M. Farhad Peerally

Disenfranchised social isolation in protracted displacement: Lessons from Georgia based on emotion analysis of social media data

Tina R. Kilaberia, Hamid Akbary, Sarah Beckman and Mohamad Adam Brooks

Early effects of cognitive-impairment friendly community on health care utilization in China: Evidence from administrative data in Shanghai

Jingyi Ai, Xi Chen, Jin Feng and Yufei Xie

Trajectories of immigrant workers with work-related injuries: the path to mistrust

Maude Arsenault, Bob White and Daniel Côté

The “controlled flow” migration strategy and regimes of humanitarian care for people “in transit” through Darién, Panama

Madeline Baird, K. Michelle Ordaz, Carlos Franco-Paredes and Amanda Gabster

‘Fighting him’: Following distress in hostile housing regimes

Elizabeth Storer, Nikita Simpson, Ella Hubbard and Suad Duale

Sex workers’ engagement with mutual aid on-the-ground and online: Exploring access to grassroots support networks among a community-based cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2020–2024)

Jennie Pearson, Andrea Krüsi, Kate Shannon, Charlie Zhou and Shira M. Goldenberg

Marginalization-related diminished returns of education level on self-rated physical and mental health among immigrants: an analysis of six high-income countries

Ali Al-kassab-Córdova, Edward Mezones-Holguin, Shervin Assari and Jay S. Kaufman

“Can you bury him before he dies?” Sickle cell disease and social sites of suffering in Malawi and Uganda

Sarah Svege, Joseph Rujumba, Bjarne Robberstad and Siri Lange

Neighborhood affluence and cognitive decline: Moderation by race?

Mallory J. Bell

The association between macro-level structural discrimination and alcohol outcomes: A systematic review

Sophie Bright, Charlotte Buckley, Daniel Holman, Madeleine Henney, Loni Philip Tabb and Robin Purshouse

Implementing employability interventions for workers with health conditions: A systematic review

Kevin Daniels, Helen Fitzhugh and Rayhaan Nooraya

Emergency department crowding: How valuable is GPs information?

Rosella Levaggi, Carmen Marchiori, Michela Marchiori and Raffaele Miniaci

Introduction to the special issue on bodies, health, environments

Carly E. Nichols, Sterling Johnson and Allison Hayes-Conroy

Micromobilities: The turn to health, social interaction and inclusivity

Becky P.Y. Loo

Strategies for recruiting participants underrepresented in clinical research: A scoping review

Abigail Helm, Marinna Kaufman, Nathaniel Glassy, Camilo Posada Rodríguez, Paige Shaffer, Becky Baltich Nelson and David Smelson

Better health, but growing social and health inequalities among young adults in Germany due to educational expansion? A counterfactual mediation analysis

Stefanie Sperlich, Batoul Safieddine and Johannes Beller

Depression trajectories from mid to late life (50–89 Years): The roles of cohort, multimorbidity status, and national contexts across nine European countries

Yufei Zhang and Zhihao Ma

Beyond partisan rhetoric: Institutional constraints and local COVID-19 policies in Brazil

Ivan Filipe Fernandes, Gustavo Andrey de Almeida Lopes Fernandes, Michael Touchton and Brian Libgober

Sustained social participation and dementia: evidence from a Japanese longitudinal cohort study with a time-varying exposure analysis

Yusuke Matsuyama, Kokoro Shirai and Jun Aida

The effects of parental unemployment on children's wellbeing – results from Switzerland and the United Kingdom

Claire Mariano, Christoph Henking, Dawid Gondek and Laura Bernardi

Does intensive parenting come at the expense of parents’ health? Evidence from Sweden

Anna-Karin Nylin, Stefanie Mollborn and Sunnee Billingsley

The risk of suicide mortality according to income dynamics assessed using health insurance premium data: A nationwide cohort study in Korea

Kye-Yeung Park, Kyu-na Lee, Hwan-Sik Hwang, Kyungdo Han and Hoon-Ki Park

From hardship to resilience: Childhood financial conditions and adult well-being in WEIRD and less WEIRD countries

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Andrzej Cwynar, Piotr Bialowolski, Richard G. Cowden, Renae Wilkinson, R. Noah Padgett, Byron R. Johnson and Tyler J. VanderWeele

Railways to better minds: The influence of high-speed rail on cognitive health inequalities

Xu Zong, Mingming Guan, Ye Zhang and Guowei Dong

Chronic pain prevalence and trends in urban, suburban, and rural areas among American adults aged 55+, 1998–2022

Yulin Yang, Feinuo Sun, Zachary Zimmer, Anna Zajacova, Rui Huang, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk and Jacqueline M. Torres

Australian health and social service providers’ perspectives on interpersonal and structural forms of reproductive coercion

Susan Saldanha, Jessica R. Botfield, Maryam Moradi, Jeana Wong and Danielle Mazza

The contribution of crime to the longitudinal relationship between neighbourhood disadvantage and mental well-being, 2009 to 2016

Emily M. Davis, Kristiann C. Heesch, Jerome N. Rachele, Nicola W. Burton and Gavin Turrell

Bidirectional, longitudinal associations between finance and health - what comes first? Evidence from middle-aged and older adults in Europe

Piotr Bialowolski, Andrzej Cwynar and Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska

The socioeconomic trajectories followed during early adulthood contribute to inequalities in cardiometabolic health by age 24 years

Eleanor M. Winpenny, Jan Stochl, Alun Hughes, Kate Tilling and Laura D. Howe

Fat shame does not promote health: Attempting weight loss because of weight-based teasing is associated with elevated blood pressure, inflammation, and skipping meals among U.S. youth

Jennifer M. Cullin and Kurt E. White

‘The lesser evil’–Abortion and reproductive stigma among Ethiopian university students

Mulumebet Zenebe and Marte E.S. Haaland