Social Science & Medicine

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2025, volume 383, articles C

“Let's beat cancer together”: A hidden curriculum of medical gentrification on the biomedical innovation frontier

Joyce Lu, Pat M. Kinley and Marina Feldman

Family physicians’ power and team-based care: Lessons from a 60-year-old primary care clinic

Coralie Darcis, Marc-André Pigeon and Haizhen Mou

What drives public support for health policies ? The protection-motivated mediating model of institutional trust and risk paradox

Yi-Hui Christine Huang, Qinxian Cai, Xiaohui Wang and Jie Sun

Large language models’ varying accuracy in recognizing risk-promoting and health-supporting sentiments in public health discourse: The cases of HPV vaccination and heated tobacco products

Soojong Kim, Kwanho Kim and Hye Min Kim

Substance use among transgender and gender nonconforming youth and young adults living in the US: A systematic review

Tural Mammadli, Linda-Jeanne M. Mack, Yali Deng, Gail D. Betz, Chenglin Hong, Zach Runge, Tharyn Giovanni, Simpson Kamugisha, Bruce DeForge and Darren L. Whitfield

Understanding what matters to young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions: a qualitative study to inform the development of a young person end-of-life capability measure

Isabella Floredin, Samantha Husbands, Susan Neilson, Paul Mark Mitchell and Joanna Coast

Excruciating pain, enduring suffering, and searing burns: The culture of care in burn units of hospital in Iran

Reza Saadatmehr, Abouali Vedadhir, Akram Sanagoo and Leila Jouybari

Aging bodies, future technologies: Health insurance coverage and stratified biomedicalization

Tara Gonsalves

Patient choice and socioeconomic disparities in the quality of healthcare: Evidence from Swedish registry data

Lina Maria Ellegård, Gustav Kjellsson, Roxanne Kovacs and Yuejun Zhao

How to incorporate social vulnerability into epidemic mathematical modelling: recommendations from an international Delphi

Megan Naidoo, Whitney Shephard, Nokuthula Mtshali, Innocensia Kambewe, Bernedette Muthien, Nadia N. Abuelezam, Miguel Ponce-de-Leon, Daniel A.M. Villela, Romulo Paes-Sousa, Wirichada Pan-ngum, David Dowdy, Stephen S. Morse, Daiana Pena, Lorena G. Barberia, Rein M.G.J. Houben, Pedro Arcos González, Jamela E. Robertson, Rachid Muleia, Olanrewaju Lawal and Davide Rasella

Corruption and the emergence of a healthcare 'marketplace' in Nigeria's primary health centres: reframing drivers and solutions

Aloysius Odii, Eleanor Hutchinson, Obinna Onwujekwe, Prince Agwu, Tochukwu C. Orjiakor, Pamela Ogbozor, Martin McKee and Dina Balabanova

Self-harm and suicide in custodial settings in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence and risk factors

Maha Aon, Maja Sofie Nørkjær Jensen, Joanne Khabsa, Marie Brasholt, Rohan Borschmann, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Jens Modvig, Miran A. Jaffa and Abla M. Sibai

Perceptions of the medical school learning environment (MSLE) among racially, ethnically, and socially underrepresented minority (RES-URM) medical students

Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman, Andrew Lee Breidenbach, Anna Ayala, Marissa Song Mayeda and Reem Hasan

Power, structure, and health: A primer and introduction to the special collection

Alexandra Brewis, Cindi SturtzSreetharan and Alissa Ruth

The patient double bind: Seeking outsiders while creating insiders

Patricia Satterstrom, Fletcher Dementyev, Maura Danehey, Chancey B. Herbolsheimer and Timothy J. Vogus

Is the quest for efficiency harmful to health equity? An examination of the health efficiency-equity nexus in OECD countries over the past two decades

Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah, Mohammad Abu-Zaineh, Simon Combes and Bruno Ventelou

The development, evolution, and maintenance of structural racism for the study of health inequities: An expanded framework for Asian, Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, and White Americans

Alexis C. Dennis, Rae Anne M. Martinez, Esther O. Chung, Evans K. Lodge and Rachel E. Wilbur

Awakening the sense of the possible: the Symptoms Clinic as liminal affective technology

Monica Greco, Vincent Deary, Kate Fryer, Tom Sanders and Christopher Burton

Mapping risk and protective factors in tuberculosis-related stigma: a scoping review

Mariana Vieira, Pedro Barbosa, João Pedro Ramos, Marta Castro, Dulce Torres and Raquel Duarte

‘A bucket in the ocean’: Justice transitions and the emancipatory potential of establishing mental health care in Nepal

Susan Thieme, Sony K.C. and Christine Bigler

Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and persistent infection burden: Links to cellular immunosenescence in U.S. young adults

Jennifer Momkus, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Y.Claire Yang, Chantel L. Martin, Jessie K. Edwards and Allison E. Aiello

Parental beverage choices to inform policy on sugar-sweetened beverages: a discrete choice experiment

Nyamdavaa Byambadorj, Rohan Best, Undram Mandakh and Kompal Sinha

The social gradients in mental health and psychosocial well-being from adolescence to midlife and the mediating role of parenting practices: a national cohort study

Libor Potočár, Michal Kozák, Tormod Bøe and Tilmann von Soest

Viewpoints of local decision-makers on what matters in the allocation of scarce social care resources in the Netherlands

P.P.M. Mos, A.F.H. Hoogenboom, Job van Exel and V.T. Reckers-Droog

How the country of education affects migrant doctors’ acceptance among their patients

Piet Groot and Naomi Ellemers

Experienced weight stigma among Asian, Black, and Latinx sexual and gender minorities: A systematic review

Xiaoyin Liu and Sarah E. Conlin

Diabetes, obesity, and economic social exclusion (DOSE) syndemic among a nationally representative sample in the United States

Jeanna Campbell

How digital and social isolation drive frailty transitions in middle-aged and elderly adults populations: a seven-year multicohort study

Jiuyun Qiu, Lei Cheng, Qiwen Hu and Peigang Wang

The ‘survival job’ pathway: Risk-focusing and occupational challenges among Canadian racialized and immigrant adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

Erica Kilius, Andrea Rishworth, JeeHee Suh, Fatema M Ali, Thelma Zulfawu Abu, Matthew Adams, Kathleen Wilson and Tracey Galloway

The effect of traditional menstrual practices on violence against women: A feminist-inspired structural violence perspective from the Far-Western Nepal

Binaya Chalise, Cari Jo Clark, Shivani Bhattarai and Subash Thapa

Temporal stability of preferences: The case of COVID-19 vaccines in Australia and New Zealand

My Tran, Robbie Maris, Stephane Hess, Zack Dorner, Elisabeth Huynh, Kathryn Glass and Emily Lancsar

Teletherapy Matters – Mental health and materialities of care in domestic more-than-digital assemblages

Marjo Kolehmainen and Deborah Lupton

Unmasking stigma: Understanding psychosocial distance toward pandemic-recovered individuals and lessons for future pandemics

Xiaoguang Li and Xiaoxian Guo

(Re)Conceptualizing abortion attitudes through the lens of Abortion Tolerance

Kristen N. Jozkowski, Amelia Hawbaker, Jacqueline Y. Paiz, Brandon L. Crawford and Ronna C. Turner

Racial inequities in the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events in ELSA-Brasil cohort: the mediating role of weathering

Amanda Viana Machado, Sandhi Maria Barreto, Rodrigo Citton Padilha dos Reis, Luana Giatti, Sheila Maria Alvim Matos, Ana Luísa Patrão, Belinda L. Needham and Lidyane V. Camelo

Childhood victimization and young adult firearm violence and self-harm ideation

Elizabeth A. Mumford, Weiwei Liu and Jackie Sheridan-Johnson

Teen dating violence victimization and mental health in adulthood: The mediating roles of violence experiences and lifestyle factors

Jinho Kim and Taehoon Kim

Diabetes and suicide risk according to area-level deprivation: A nationwide cohort study in Japan

Yoshikazu Komura, Kosuke Inoue, Yusuke Tsugawa and Naoki Kondo

Cognitive functioning and depressive symptoms in the aging population: The buffering role of marital status

M. Ciziceno and Giuseppe Maggio

Exploring Japanese Medical Students’ mental distress and wellbeing challenges

Mariko Morishita, Ali Ajaz, Ania Korszun and Hiroshi Nishigori

Why the use of responsible language is crucial in the field of migration and ethnicity in public health. Overview and perspectives from case studies in Denmark and Germany

Navina Sarma, Katja Kajikhina, Mark RD. Johnson, Carmen Koschollek, Raj S. Bhopal, Allan Krasnik and Bernadette N. Kumar

On medical ideology and the production of docile doctors: The politics of care in an age of authoritarianism

Eric Reinhart

Linking perceived social mobility to health and happiness in China: Insights from inter- and intra-generational and prospective perspectives

Wu, Qiong (Miranda)

The healthcare experiences of LGBTQ people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the United States: A scoping review

Taye M. Hallock, Patrick J.A. Kelly, Aidan Campagnolio, Makhari Dysart, Rebecca Fülöp, Izzy Kaufman, Nova McGiffert and Sally Gould-Taylor

A good rest makes a caring doctor: Linking physicians’ nonwork time recovery to patient-centered communication with nonwork-to-work enrichment and empathy

Yu Zheng, Shu Yang, Qingrui Li and Bingqing Ling

Assessing the impact of day and night urban outdoor environments on women's physiological and psychological states using pedestrian-centric street view images

Chongxian Chen, Yongqi Hou, Xinrui Xiong, Yuru Hua, Guangsi Lin, Mengyun Chen and Jingyi Liu

A conditional indirect effect model of racism and depressive and anxiety symptoms by ethnicity among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic

Michael P. Huynh, Linda Toch, Adrian Bacong, Erika Mey, Janine Chi and Anne Saw

Blood sugar, social struggles: Biomarkers of socioeconomic, gender, and ethnic health disparities in type 2 diabetes care

David Consolazio and Antonio Giampiero Russo

Institutional change and health equity: Tracing the impact of market transition on health inequalities in China, 1993–2015

Shengyuan Liang and Canmian Liu

Expectation vs reality: A case study of the impact of the da Vinci surgical robot on healthcare professionals’ work experiences

Hong Yu Liu and James Hayton

A Cycle of Social Violence: a novel theoretical framework for explaining how structural, slow, and symbolic violence interact to produce and maintain health inequalities in England

T.J. Price and V.J. McGowan

Are geographic variations in secondary hospital expenditure caused by supply and demand factors? Evidence from migration in England

Sean Urwin, Laura Anselmi, Yiu-Shing Lau and Matt Sutton

Family caregivers of people who use drugs in Vietnam: Perceived burden and coping

Hieu Ngoc Nguyen, Li Li, Diep Bich Nguyen, Thang Hong Pham and Tuan Anh Nguyen

The impact of early childhood adversity on adult cognitive performance: The mediating roles of childhood cognitive ability and educational attainment

Jenna K. Blujus, George D. Papandonatos, Stephen L. Buka, Michelle L. Rogers, Jo-Ann L. Donatelli, Elena K. Festa and William C. Heindel

Sex-selective abortion bans and the birth outcomes of Asian immigrants

Emma Zang, Keitaro Okura and Melissa Tian

Toward labor-sensitive research: Health data labor and targeted inclusion in precision medicine research

Daan Kenis and Ina Devos

Protest and trainees in the health professions: Exploring the global landscape of recent protest action

Veena Sriram, Ryan Essex, Sorcha A. Brophy, Fariha Kabir, Emily Scarlett and Tasha Wyatt

The impact of adverse childhood experiences on cardiovascular disease risk in middle-aged and older adults

Yangyang Han, Jiao Rong, Jun Chen, Yueming Lv and Fujie Jing

The legacy of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ and disability rolls

Anne Devlin, Declan French and Duncan McVicar

The emergence of egg intermediaries in the European fertility landscape: the creation of value in reproductive bioeconomies

Nicky Hudson, Christina Weis, Vincenzo Pavone, Cathy Herbrand and Veerle Provoost

Biopower, governmentality and the making of health inequities of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong

Bik Che Lam, Juan Chen and Hok Bun Ku

“It's time … to end everything”: Discontinue medication choices and narratives among elderly HIV-positive Yi women

Jiaojiao He, Jian Liu and Apei Song

Moralisation, stigmatisation, and downstream interventions: How symbolic violence sustains geographic inequalities in deaths of despair in England

Timothy Price

The racial politics of visibility and equity in genome-editing therapies for sickle cell disease

Santiago J. Molina and Melissa Creary

Impact of supply-side conditional cash transfers on household family planning decisions: Evidence from a field experiment in Afghanistan

Ahmad Reshad Osmani and Albert Okunade

Time, diagnosis, and medication: The institutional circuit of billing in community mental health care

Katerina Melino, Joanne Olson, Jude Spiers, Janet Rankin and Carla Hilario

Risk assessment tools used at the policing stage for health and crime outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Howard Ryland, Matthias Burghart, Shaoling Zhong, Seena Fazel and Rongqin Yu

Reproductive justice and the liberatory possibilities of midwifery education

Sandhya Ganapathy, Jasmine Benedict, Anastasia George, Marla Jacobs, Gweneth Landis, Sabra Lindsay and Mathilda Rice

Migration-induced subjective social mobility and its associations with self-rated mental and general health: A systematic review and narrative synthesis

Maike Platz Pereira, Nora Gottlieb, Maren Hintermeier, Niklas Nutsch and Kayvan Bozorgmehr

Discrimination, chronic stress, and cardiovascular health among African American men and women in the Jackson Heart Study: A cross-sectional study

Amber J. Johnson, Mario Sims, Chelsea Okundolor, Sherman A. James and Katharine A. Kirby

Impacts of chronic suicidal ideation on parenting and child development: A longitudinal mother-child cohort study in Pakistan

Ashley Hagaman, Allison Frost, Kate Sanborn, Yunji Zhou, John Gallis, Elizabeth Turner, Siham Sikander, Atif Rahman, Lisa M. Bates, Gul Saeed, Sidra Mumtaz, Amina Bibi, Abid Malik and Joanna Maselko

Fertile debates, circumventive pursuits: Reproductive governance and gamete donation in Turkey

Burcu Mutlu

Helping behaviors and cognitive function in later life: The impact of dynamic role transitions and dose changes

Sae Hwang Han, Jeffrey A. Burr and Shiyang Zhang

Becoming a cognitive miser? Antecedents and consequences of addictive ChatGPT use

Zihao Deng and Zhaohua Deng

The interembodiment of healing: Holistic transformations in neurological rehabilitation and care

William A.S. Lucas

The effect of anti-discrimination legislation on individuals with disabilities in Nordic countries

Alexi Gugushvili, Jan Grue and Jon Erik Finnvold

Community-based interventions to improve the health of migrant children in high-income countries: a systematic review

Carolina Di Fabrizio, Judite Gonçalves and Maria do Rosário O. Martins

Parenthood and mental health: Findings from an English longitudinal cohort aged 32

Rosie Mansfield and Morag Henderson

Education shapes episodic memory measurement via test specifications: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Yizhou Chen and James O'Donnell

Criteria for detection of married or cohabiting couples in the UK Biobank

Kristen M. Kelly, Tanya B. Horwitz and Matthew C. Keller

A network analysis of ‘thinking a lot’: Connections to childhood trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder among men who have sex with men in Vietnam

Kathy Trang, Khanh Ha Phan, Luy Dau, Dung Nguyen, Lina Tran, Hai-Yen Dong, Le Minh Giang, Carol M. Worthman, Patrick S. Sullivan, Devon E. Hinton, Archana Basu, Elizabeth Levey and Tanja Jovanovic

Cancer as communication work: A qualitative study of Filipino migrant domestic workers with cancer in Hong Kong

Margo Turnbull, Madhu Neupane Bastola and Jeffry Oktavianus

Contextualizing cognition: Socio-environmental factors shape how momentary stress predicts memory

Jillian R. Silva-Jones, Anna L. Smith, Christopher K. Marshburn, Alexandra D. Crosswell, Wendy Berry Mendes and Lauren N. Whitehurst

How gender norms shape the health of women and men?

Elena Bassoli

Exploring social influences on healthcare user decision-making

S.P.H. Nouwens, J. Veldwijk, L. Pilli and E.W. de Bekker-Grob

Immune logics, immune selves and immunoprivilege in the COVID era: Perspectives from marginalised social groups

Deborah Lupton and Kerryn Drysdale

Parental employment quality during childhood and mental health in adolescence: a 10-year longitudinal study

Faraz Vahid Shahidi, Li Wang, Jinette Comeau, Jordan Edwards, Gita Wahi, Arjumand Siddiqi, Katholiki Georgiades and Anne E. Fuller

A non-randomised controlled trial testing the effectiveness of a recovery planning workshop implemented in community mental health services in Spain

Hernán María Sampietro, Georgina Guilera, Maite Barrios, J. Emilio Rojo and Juana Gómez-Benito

Are we making progress? Testing whether interventions to promote key health behaviors improved over the past 30 years

Paschal Sheeran, Yifei Pei and Alexander J. Rothman

Positive association between hobby participation and objective and subjective cognition among adults aged 50 years and over in 24 countries

Weicheng Huang, Qun Xiao, Zhen Li, Yubin Chen, Xiangyu Wang and Qing Liu

What seems to be the problem? Locum doctors, liminality and concerns about performance

Gemma Stringer, Jane Ferguson, Kieran Walshe, Thomas Allen, Christos Grigoroglou, Evangelos Kontopantelis and Darren M. Ashcroft

First entrants in a new medical specialty: Resolving relational ambivalence during Dutch hospitalists’ identity formation

Marjolein A.G. van Offenbeek, Gerdien Regts and Janita F.J. Vos

Measuring adult health and well-being outcomes associated with nature contact in protected areas: A scoping review

Catherine E. Reining, Mark W. Groulx, Loraine F. Lavallee, Jill Bueddefeld, Ryan Brady, Andrew Tenute and Christopher J. Lemieux

Comparison of methods for anchoring latent values on the full health-dead utility scale

Thomas G. Poder and Hosein Ameri

Food insecurity through the lens of multidimensional poverty: Evidence from Chile

Rodrigo Yáñez, Carolina Olcay, José Navea, Gustavo Ahumada and Benjamín Jara

Mpox among people reporting being unhoused or engaging in transactional sex within a multijurisdictional case-control study of sexually and gender minoritized individuals— United States, August 2022–March 2024

Jessica P. Sherman, Adeline L. Morris, Linda M. Niccolai, Anna Ruff, Dakota Schneider, Melissa Sutton, Sam Hawkins, Preeti Pathela, Gabriela S. Betancourt, Gretchen Rothrock, Joelle Nadle, Jemma V. Rowlands, Christina B. Felsen, Amber Britton, Monica M. Farley, Lauren M. Duval, Kevin F. Kamis, William L. Still, Allison S. Morrow and Caroline J. Waddell

What drives labor market losses among diabetics—physiological impairment or psychosocial burden? New evidence from triangulation

Jiakai Gong and Chen Zhu

Harnessing financial incentives for health promotion: A scoping review of prevention programs implemented in upper-middle and high-income countries

Francesco Petracca, Vittoria Ardito, Francesca Sala, Guido Bertolaso, Lorenzo Menichelli, Riccardo Vecchio and Rosanna Tarricone

Maternal contact with Child Protective Services around childbirth and postpartum contraception

Nicole Kovski, Lawrence M. Berger and Maria Cancian

Healthcare pathways and social experiences of Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Ireland

Jayne Conlon, Irina Kinchin and Iracema Leroi

Traditional beliefs and practices surrounding pregnancy loss in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Michael Galvin, Lezanie Coetzee, Patricia Leshabana, Nthabiseng Masebe, Shitshembiso Lebepe, Aneesa Moolla, Amanda R. Tarullo, Peter C. Rockers and Denise Evans