Social Science & Medicine

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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

2025, volume 384, articles C

Organizing for racial justice in medicine and medical education: An ethnographic study of medical trainee experiences

Seth M. Holmes, Hannah Obasi, Monica Hahn and Dorothy Charles

Saying no to weight-loss drugs: The paradox of the ideal patient-consumer and stratified biomedicalization

Jackson, Ni’Shele

Night shift work and sleep duration among middle and older age adults: The role of individual, social, and environmental moderators

Xuejie Ding, Evelina T. Akimova, Bo Zhao and Melinda C. Mills

Social interventions in times of crisis: Community perceptions of integrating social determinants and equity into the COVID-19 response

Taylor M. Cruz and Sophie Webb

Fairness preferences over allocation of scarce medical resources

Zijing Yang, Tigran Melkonyan and Zvi Safra

Clinical bias and gout: How stigma impacts patient care

Joseph A. Vitriol, Jeffrey M. Hunger, Adam Magerman, Brian LaMoreaux and Larry Edwards

Improving numerical measures of human feelings: The case of pain

Michele Garagnani, Petra Schweinhardt, Philippe N. Tobler and Carlos Alós-Ferrer

Beyond smoking: A geospatial investigation of factors associated with lung and bronchus cancer risk in Pennsylvania

Tesla D. DuBois, Daniel Wiese, Kevin A. Henry and Shannon M. Lynch

Visceral love and more-than-human interembodiment: olive trees as sentient kin in Sicily

Amanda Hilton

The recursive violence of reform: A century of failed interventions in migrant farmworker housing

Elise Ferrer, Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Devon Payne-Sturges

Expansive bodies and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease under mass supervision

Dirk Kinsey

A pyramid of human ecology of disease for pandemic preparedness

Sabrina L. Li and Michael Emch

Are recessions bad for loneliness?

Johannes S. Kunz, Trong-Anh Trinh, Michael Berk, Arul Earnest, Lidia Engel, Matthew Hamilton, Laura Hayes, Long Khanh-Dao Le, Michelle Lim, Fikru Rizal, Helen Skouteris, Michael A. Shields and Cathrine Mihalopoulos

Interpretation inaccuracies in pain communication between Hmong patients and clinicians in the USA: A conversation analysis informed study

Binh Ta, Mai Nhia Yang, Alice Hu and Maichou Lor

At the crossroads of policy and technological logics: Audiologists practicing hearing-aid fitting in Israel

Tali Bar-Moshe and Paula Feder-Bubis

Visualizing risk: Risk graphics’ impact on patient understanding and choices in discrete choice experiments

Stella M. Marceta, Esther W. de Bekker-Grob and Jorien Veldwijk

The hidden burden: Understanding the causal link between menstrual health and hygiene and mental health outcomes in Nepal

Karan Babbar

Egg donation beyond the standard model: fertility practitioners’ clinical reasoning in single, combined and shared treatment options in Sweden

Matilda Lindgren, Maja Bodin, Evangelia Elenis and Ulrika Dahl

“What do you mean, we use intuition?” The productive silence of diagnostic intuition: Examining the impact of the "absent present" in healthcare

Roanne van Voorst

How menopause symptoms shape experiences of the criminal legal system: A qualitative study across the United States

Elana Jaffe Brotkin, Shivani Paresh Patel, Aunchalee Palmquist, Amanda Emerson, Jordana Hemberg, Jennifer Lorvick, Megha Ramaswamy and Andrea Knittel

Rights against Abolition: how Law and Rights perpetuate Psychiatric Coercition

Emmanuelle Bernheim

Forgotten lives: A mixed-methods study on cognitive decline associated with discrimination among elderly transgender individuals in India

S. Gnana Sanga Mithra and S. Bhavana

Prediabetes in practice: Examining the stratified medicalization of diabetes prevention

Emily Vasquez

Adverse childhood experiences and adult employment outcomes: Unpacking mechanisms across the life course

Hayun Jang and Jinho Kim

Associations between adverse childhood experiences and vascular indicators of atherosclerosis measured in childhood and early to mid-adulthood: A systematic review

Laura E. Macro, Ana E. von Ah Morano, Sarah L. Halligan and Alan R. Barker

Reproductive and maternal child health experiences of Indigenous women in prison: A scoping review

Jessica Jurgutis, Christine Wang, Alice Cavanagh, Breagh Cheng, Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian and Jennifer Leason

An experimental investigation of the effects of anticipating regret and relief on intentions and decisions to get the influenza vaccination

Sara Lorimer, Teresa McCormack, Christoph Hoerl, Matthew Johnston, Sarah R. Beck and Aidan Feeney

“The grief exists in a bubble that the rest of the world doesn't see”: Exploring biographical disruption and meaning-making amongst people bereaved during the Covid-19 pandemic

Emily Harrop, Kali Barawi, Francesca Mazzaschi, Anna Torrens-Burton, Eileen Sutton, Emma Gilbert, Donna Wakefield, Silvia Goss, Kathy Seddon, Mirella Longo and Lucy E. Selman

Informal payments in Czech healthcare: The blurry line between greed, need, and gratitude

Kristyna Basna, Jaroslava Pospisilova and Radim Bures

‘Spreading love’ or ‘working holiday’? The narrative of altruistic rhetorics, financial motivations, and risks in domestic and transnational Taiwanese egg donation

Jung Chen

Temporal and spatial patterns of xylazine and medetomidine detected in the DEA's National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS) reports

David T. Zhu, Suhanee Mitragotri and Manuel Cano

Testing the psychological costs of intergenerational social mobility: Evidence from a German panel study

Michael Becker, Lilly-Marlen Bihler, Martin Neugebauer and Jenny Wagner

Housing crowding and sleep health in urban China: A mediation analysis of psychosocial pathways using nationally representative data

Zhen Yan

Triggered: Qualitatively exploring structural and social drivers of firearm violence exposure among LGBTQ+ young adults of color in Detroit

Wesley M. Correll-King, Ini-Abasi Ubong, Dior Monro, Kalaan Scott, Sydney N. Strunk, J. Stephenson, Laura Jadwin-Cakmak, Avery Everhart and Kristi E. Gamarel

Health impacts of direct displacement in a context of housing crisis and transnational gentrification: findings from Porto, Portugal

José Pedro Silva, Raquel Carvalheiro, Ema Torres, Cláudia Jardim Santos and Ana Isabel Ribeiro

Assessing water and health insecurity in informal settlements: Bringing Europe's invisible, marginalized Roma communities into focus. A systematic scoping review

Carmen Anthonj, Karen Setty, Christoph Hoeser, Joe Brown, Lukáš Ihnacik and Kasandra Poague

Possible explanations for the upward trend in mental distress among adolescents in Norway from 2011 to 2024

Geir Scott Brunborg, Sondre Aasen Nilsen, Jens Christoffer Skogen and Lasse Bang

Adult children's education, parental cognitive health, and the role of selection

Ashley B. Barr, Christopher R. Dennison, Kristen Schultz Lee and Zhe Zhang

The buffering effect of social support on the link between biologically embedded childhood maltreatment and adult cardiovascular disease

Man-Kit Lei and Rachael Dean Weaver

Theory of planned behavior constructs as mediators of relations between personality traits, trust, and COVID-19 preventive behavior adherence

Robin Wollast, Joseph B. Phillips, Martin S. Hagger, Kyra Hamilton, Ann DeSmet and Olivier Luminet

Racialized exposure to multiple COVID-19 deaths and their consequences for mental health

Matthew K. Grace and Danny Lee

Examining the continuity of modifiable cancer-risk behaviors from youth into adulthood through prospective longitudinal studies: A scoping review

Mackaully L. Parada, Jeremy Horn and Christopher Cambron

Donor preferences for recipient control of international development aid

Jack Hennessy, Duncan Mortimer, Rohan Sweeney and Maame Esi Woode

Relative deprivation and subsequent health, happiness, and human flourishing: A longitudinal outcome-wide analysis

Chun-Tung Kuo, Shu-Hui Hsieh, Pei-Shan Liao and Ichiro Kawachi

Tinkering with weight loss medication in clinical encounters: An ethnographic study

Sissel Due Jensen, Annelli Sandbæk, Jens Meldgaard Bruun and Pernille Andreassen

The development of body mass index from adolescence to adulthood: A genotype-family socioeconomic status interaction study

Gaia Ghirardi

Indirect effects of immigration enforcement on health care utilization among lawfully present older Hispanics

Jordan Herring and Burt Barnow

Education, occupation and income inequalities in obesity among Portuguese women and men: Evidence from national health surveys (1998–2019)

Berta Valente, Milton Severo, Ulf-Göran Gerdtham, Sílvia Fraga and Joana Araújo

Socioeconomic inequalities in developing cardiometabolic diseases and transition to depression: A trajectory analysis of large-scale population-based study

Han Chen, Xuemei Wang, Zhi Cao and Chenjie Xu

Health in justice or health injustice? Indigenous Māori experiences of primary care following release from New Zealand prisons: a national record study

Paula Toko King, Frederieke Sanne Petrović-van der Deen, Cheryl Davies, Bridget Robson, Sue Crengle, Gabrielle Baker, Julia Carr, Natalie Paki Paki, Tīria Pehi, Marama Cole, Bernadette Jones, Tristram Ingham, Jeannine Stairmand, Belinda Tuari-Toma, Christopher Kemp, Marshall H. Chin and Ruth Cunningham

Interembodiment and language: Deaf language practices as resistance

Erin Mellett

Gentrification and mental health inequities: a scoping review

Justine Pineault, Clara Blache-Pichette, Christine Loignon and Martine Shareck

“It seems that climate change is already harming us all”: Complex climate change, health, and socio-ecological risks for Mexican fishing communities

M. Banuet-Martinez, A.J. Hernandez-Velasco, C.A. Dominguez-Sanchez, M.J. Espinosa-Romero, F. Vera-Velazquez, S.A. Sandoval-Arauz, S.C. Vazquez-Murillo, S.C.P.P. Ensenada, S.C.P.P. Buzos y Pescadores de la Baja California, S.S. Yamamoto and S.L. Harper

The association of individual food security status with women's political participation, labor-force participation, and reproductive health: A cross-sectional analysis of gendered structural inequality in the League of Arab States

Wesley Raymond Dean, Olfat Sheikomar, Hala Ghattas, Rola el-Husseini and Nadine Sahyoun

Addressing housing insecurity as a social determinant of health: A systematic review of interventions in healthcare settings

Han Yan, Allyson J. Gallant, Alannah Delahunty-Pike, Jodi E. Langley, Alexander Zsager, Eunice Abaga, Carolyn Ziegler, Jeff Karabanow, Stephen W. Hwang and Andrew D. Pinto

The sound of emergency: The role of vocal cues in healthcare

Arianna Bagnis, Alexander Todorov, Ernesto Caffo, Alessandra De Palma, Francesco Franchini, Pierfrancesco Melucci and Katia Mattarozzi

Unpaid labour and mental health–the role of perceived fairness and satisfaction in division amongst working-age adults; a longitudinal analysis using 18 waves of panel data

Jennifer Ervin, Brendan Churchill, Leah Ruppanner and Tania King

How is power reflected in the patient centred care literature? A critical review of power in the centredness literature through a social science lens

Jenny Advocat, Elizabeth Sturgiss, Danny Vadesz and Annette Peart

The moral dimension of professional socialization in the premedical years

Kaltri Hoxha and Alexandra H. Vinson

Attuning to uncertainty: Enacting health in platformised taxicab driving

Salman Khan and Tiago Moreira

Delivering the script: The educational activities of medical device industry representatives as a knowledge management strategy

Quinn Grundy

Divergent pathways of mental health symptomatology: A network analysis of adverse childhood experiences and mental health disorders from early to middle adulthood

Shan Jiang, Xuan Li, Chengkun Jin and Zurong Liang

The role of stress proliferation in linking childhood stressors to accelerated biological aging

Maleah Fekete and Gabriele Ciciurkaite

New political science analysis of the renewed push for preventive health: ‘Can it be any different this time around?’

Paul Cairney, John Boswell, Hashum Mahmood and Annie Bliss

Extending biomedicalization, complicating stratification

Claire Laurier Decoteau and Paige L. Sweet

Can unlocking the potential of peripheral public health workers improve healthcare outcomes? A trial of intervention on enhancing elderly health literacy in China

Xin Xiang, Ming Lu, Xuan Yang, Yujuan Huang, Luping Dong and Hongzhi Wang

The "natural" in the artificial: Surrogates’ reproductive literacy in navigating the health care system

Orit Chorowicz Bar-Am

Cultural consonance as a mediator between maternal adversity and parenting practices across family contexts in the Dominican Republic

Arachu Castro and Laura V. Sánchez-Vincitore

Intersecting social inequalities in prenatal and postnatal care: Examining race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geographic location

Neema Langa, Kathryn Freeman Anderson, Zelma Oyarvide Tuthill, Annamaria Milazzo, McClain Sampson, Elizabeth Gregory, Kimberly A. Pilkinton, Regan S. Bennet, Felicia N. York and Quenette L. Walton

The protective power of social connectedness: Individual vs. community influences on psychological distress in middle-aged Black adults

Yu-Tien Hsu, Katelyn Kostakis, Shazel Muhammad and Yusuf Ransome

A panel data analysis of the impact of government trust on support for universal and air travel vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic

Songkhun Nillasithanukroh, Chul Hyun Park, Robert Richards and Alyssa Ghaleb

Inequities in eating disorder diagnoses in college students: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA)

Nicholas K. Andrysiak, Payal Chakraborty, Ariel L. Beccia, Brittany M. Charlton and Colleen A. Reynolds

Adolescent loneliness and later-life depressive symptoms: The intersecting roles of gender and socioeconomic status

Keun Young Kwon, NaKyung Nam and Jinho Kim

From disorder to distress: Investigating neighborhood change and mental health with Streetview and longitudinal survey data

Yi Zhang and Jia Miao

“It's soul destroying to be honest”: A qualitative study of morally uninhabitable working environments and the responsibilization of healthcare professionals working in concurrent disorders

Jackson P. Loyal, Ridhwana Kaoser, Jack York, Craig Norris, Emily Jenkins, Sean O'Callaghan, Ruth Lavergne and Will Small

Exploring the relationship between depressive symptoms, allostatic load, and income inequality in US adults aged 20 and older

Khushbu Balsara, Ali Iftikhar, Emmanuel Animashaun, Shervin Assari and Hossein Zare

The role of norms and acculturation in migrants’ willingness to seek mental health care: Results from a large preregistered study

Samantha M. Harris, Hege H. Bye and Jonas R. Kunst

Navigating behavioural change: insights from prompts self-authored by individuals during a digital multiple health behaviour intervention trial

Elizabeth S. Collier, Elin A. Karlsson, Joel Crawford, Preben Bendtsen and Marcus Bendtsen