Social Science & Medicine

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2026, volume 399, articles C

An Afrofuture of Global Health

Emma Nelson Bunkley, Ndèye Aminata Mbaye, Fatoumata Diagne and Raïssa Minkilane

Mental health peer support workers’ experiences and management of interpersonal boundaries: A scoping review and integrative framework

Samia Chreim, Julia Dobrowolski, Abraham Wan and Emily Ann Da Silva

Social influence on women's contraceptive use: Population-based, sociocentric network study in rural Uganda

Alison B. Comfort, Sarah E. Piombo, James Moody, Charles Baguma, Bernard Kakuhikire, Esther Atukunda, Emily N. Satinsky, Mercy Juliet, E. Betty Namara, Phionah Ahereza, Cynthia C. Harper and Alexander C. Tsai

Cognitive health and protective factors: from a life expectancy approach

Sarahí Rueda-Salazar, Alejandra-Ximena Araya and Claudia Miranda-Castillo

Warm hands entangled in cold technology? Psychologists’ tinkering expertise in digital psychiatry

Emilie Kristine Dyrlev

Using the Diffusion of Innovation Theory to explain the declining trend in adolescent drunkenness between 2002 and 2022 across 46 countries

Karen Schelleman-Offermans, Emmanuel Kuntsche, Margreet E. de Looze, Gonneke W.J.M. Stevens, Alessio Vieno and Hans Bosma

Close kin availability and mortality among older adults in Brazil

Nekehia T. Quashie, Flavia C.D. Andrade, Joseph L. Saenz and Daniella P. Nunes

Liquidity shock mitigation and mental health: Evidence from pension withdrawals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile

Fabián Duarte and Álvaro Jiménez-Molina

Emotional labor demands, stratification, and mental health pathways in Europe: Evidence from the European working conditions survey

Nikolaos Antonakakis

Left out and languishing: A cross-national analysis of relative deprivation and human flourishing

Frank J. Elgar, Valerie E. Michelson, Nathan King and William Pickett

Number of living siblings, social engagement, and cognitive decline among older Mexican adults

Nekehia T. Quashie, Joseph L. Saenz and Xing Zhang

Exploring racial and ethnic diversity trajectories and diabetes prevalence in the United States

Jiue-An Yang, Calvin P. Tribby, Anna Dmowska, Qian Xiao and Marta M. Jankowska

“Your problem is still your problem”: Gatekeeping, perceived exclusion, and Ukrainian refugees’ (dis)engagement with Danish general practice

Maria Martí-Castañer, Viktoriia Vereshchakina, Olivia Spalletta and Marie Nørredam

Disability and gendered earnings gaps in Indonesia

Mohammad Farhad and Anu Rammohan

Changes in sales of packaged food and beverages, energy, and nutrients after the implementation of front-of-pack warning labels in Mexico

Adriana Garduño-Alanis, Juan Carlos Salgado, Alejandra Contreras-Manzano, Tania C. Aburto, Luis A. Moreno-Aguilar, Shu Wen Ng and Simón Barquera

Employment quality, non-standard work, and health: Evidence from China

Yongzhong Jiang, Zhilin Hu, Tomas Baležentis and Zhiyang Shen

Experiences of discrimination in health services in Finland: An observational cross-sectional survey study among migrant and general populations

R. García-Velázquez, K.-L. Mustonen, N. Skogberg, A.E. Castaneda, M. Eid, S. Parikka and H. Kuusio

Factors influencing the allocation of United States' development assistance for health, 2000-2020

Yan Hao, Nuo Chen, Chen Wang, Minghui Ren and Jin Xu

Disrupting the path to cardiovascular disease: Stress-related coping and onset of hypertension and obesity

Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Scott G. Smith, Shuqi Zhang and Laura D. Kubzansky

“If we were a straight couple”: Laboring to navigate LGBTIQA+ reproductive bioprecarity in UK fertility clinics

Carolyn Wilson-Nash, Jennifer Takhar, Chloe He, Nour Al-Ma'ani and Oluwafunmilola Salu

Formal long-term care expansions and their ripple effects on family care, health, and work

Xianhua Zai

“You can't whoop autism”: Intersectional stigma in the Black community

Jennifer S. Singh and Jennifer Nicholas

Effects of neighborhood amenities, services, and built infrastructure on cognitive health: A longitudinal study of older Chinese immigrants in Chicago, United States

Yanping Jiang, Jessica Finlay, Zhe Lin, Wendi Da, Leslie Zhen and Fengyan Tang

The role of housing in patient health: Practitioner insights and protocol review

Anosh Nadeem Butt and Sonja Oliveira

Psychological burdens during genocide: A psychocartographic qualitative study of civilian experiences in Gaza, December 2024–February 2025

Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Nermin Abulibda, Abdelrahman Almqayyad and Tracy Lyn Chemaly

Neighborhood environments for older adults with dementia: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of walking interviews

Wenjin Wang, Ziying Zhang, Xi Chen and Chanam Lee

City-wide cognitive function screening study of older adults in Beijing reveal protective association of urban green space

Weiju Zhou, Yaojing Chen, Yanxi Zeng, He Li, Xiangwei Dai, Junying Zhang, Jiuxuan Gao, Yue Ma, Ying Long, Jun Yang, Qingzhi Huang, Yun Chen, Zhanjun Zhang and John S. Ji

COVID-19 vaccination policies around the world: How democracy influenced prioritisation strategies

Andrea Vaccaro, Thomas Hale and Anna Petherick

Emotional demands at work measured via a job exposure matrix and sickness absence from common mental disorders: a population-based study of sex differences

Tom Sterud and Ståle Østhus

Mechanistic pathways between adult child education and late-life parental health outcomes: cross-national comparisons across the US, Mexico, and India

Emma Nichols, Karla Renata Flores Romero, Sirena Gutierrez, Ah-Reum Lee, Yulin Yang, Jinkook Lee and Jacqueline M. Torres

You don’t need criminal law to make cops: Reading carceral care work into reproductive healthcare policies in Vancouver

Idil Abdillahi, Jen Rinaldi, Julia Smith, Lauren Munro, Émilie Hudon, Josh Lamers, Alice Murage, Amy Wright and Yann Zoldan

Dividing lives: The impacts of delayed school tracking on inequalities in cognitive aging in Europe

Filippo Da Re, Marco Bertoni, Clemence Kieny and Mauricio Avendano

Religious disparities in mental health: a systematic review and conceptual framework

Jasmine Lee, Kriti Kothari, Yi Yang, Kelly Rose-Clarke, Jacques Wels and Praveetha Patalay

Multiple domesticities: A cross-country analysis on One Health domesticity across selected localities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire

Carlos Rocha, Hellena Debelts, Gerard Mbengo, Adeponle Adeoye, Rachelle Tonga and Almudena Mari-Saez

“The first person to reach you becomes dearest to you”: Mapping health information diffusion in Myanmar's polycrisis through digital strategies, networked pathways, and innovative solutions

Hein Thu, Myat Min Thu and Shahmir H. Ali

The long-term effects of early life exposure to primary healthcare expansion: Evidence from the Barefoot Doctor Program

Feng Huang, Ya Li and Yuke Zhu

Job loss and mental health: The role of anticipation and re-employment in recovery patterns

Olivier Bargain, Nicolas Hérault and Daniel Nettle

Calibrating diagnostic practices: The role of psychiatric diagnoses for mental health professionals’ everyday practice

Jonathan Munch Bach and Henriette Bruun

Profiling spatiotemporal contexts associated with compound exposure disadvantages in noise and greenery: A study using mobile sensors and explainable machine learning

Linsen Wang and Mei-Po Kwan

Associations between gender nonconformity and SOGIE-attributed victimization: Setting-specific variations by sociodemographic characteristics

Shichang Yang, Aishworya Shrestha, Kelsey G. Reeder, Daria Hurley, Jimin Sung, Elwin Wu and Lijuan Wu

Adrift in life: A longitudinal qualitative study into the lived experience of persistent suicidality

Mette M. Palm, Joosje M. Lakke, Elke Elzinga, Guy A.M. Widdershoven, Aartjan T.F. Beekman, Sisco M.P. van Veen and Els J. van Wijngaarden

2026, volume 398, articles C

Towards integrated advice for pandemic policies: Insights from a qualitative explorative study on Avian influenza simulation exercises in the Netherlands

Charlotte NM. Waltz, Femke W. Overbosch, Bart Blokland, Jeannette de Boer, Pearl A. Dykstra, Danielle RM. Timmermans, Bas ter Weel, Marijn de Bruin, Marion Koopmans, Tomris Cesuroglu and Anja Schreijer

What counts as need? A qualitative study exploring perceptions of sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings

Rosanna Le Voir

Social value of a childhood QALY - Revealed preferences from pharmaceutical funding decisions in Australia 2005–2023

Jing Jing Li, Duncan Mortimer, Anthony Harris, Emily Lancsar, Rakhee Raghunandan, Kah-Ling Sia, Nicola Huxley, Leonie Picton, Nayyereh Ayati, Karen Yong, Stavros Petrou, Martin Howell, Marcus Sellars, Elisabeth Huynh, Cam Donaldson and Kirsten Howard

How school phone policies influence adolescent phone use and wellbeing (SMART Schools): a qualitative comparative case study

Victoria A. Goodyear, Amie Randhawa, Péymane Adab, Hareth Al-Janabi, Sally Fenton, Maria Michail, Paul Patterson, Alice Sitch, Matthew Wade and Miranda Pallan

Life-course neighborhood contexts, social engagement, and cognitive health in later adulthood

Chengming Han and Nan Zhou

Synergies of participatory mapping and health geography: A scoping review

Shamayeta Bhattacharya, Thelma Z. Abu, Meghan Cope and Arunima Dasgupta

The double-edged sword of social capital: Impacts on women's health in extreme poverty

David Lawson and Md Moslah Uddin

Domain-staged progression of cognitive impairment in older adults: Evidence from China

Zhengyu Wu, Zuqi Cai, Bryan Yu Juin Tan and Qiushi Feng

“We are already naked”: An ethnographic study of migrant sex-workers’ marginalisation under medical surveillance in Singapore

Rong Mu, Vanessa Ho, Sook Lin Toh, Shermaine Koh, Nur Binte Sarah Pancadarma, Audrey Kang, Rayner Kay Jin Tan and Natasha Howard

Advancing the concept of community positive health through participatory research in marginalized communities in Kenya

Laura E.R. Peters, Hinjal Bhatia, Winnie Chelagat, Gulraj Grewal, Ilan Kelman, Lilian Koskey, Geoffrey Mwai, Iregi Mwenja, Emma Ogden, Aloyce Odhiambo Rakinyo, Claudia Robbiati and Geordan Shannon

“I wasn't really welcome in that community”: A qualitative study of place, intersectional stigma, and health among Black sexual minoritized men in Baltimore

Zoé Mistrale Hendrickson, Ananya V. Bhaktaram, Justise Wattree, Laurens Van Sluytman, Mudia Uzzi, Carl Latkin and Lauren Dayton

How representative are electronic health records? A record linkage study using individual-level census data

Victoria Udalova, Aubrey Limburg, Timothy S. Carey, Anisha P. Ganguly, John P. Powers, Emily R. Pfaff and Barbara Entwisle

Decomposing educational inequalities in cancer mortality: The roles of incidence and survival in Belgium, 2004–2013

Joachim Gotink, Freija Verdoodt and Sylvie Gadeyne

Mapping social health and dementia risk: A register-based study of older adults in Finland

Elisa Cisotto, Margherita Moretti, Margherita Silan, Joan Damiens, Pietro Belloni, Kaarina Korhonen and Pekka Martikainen

Evolution of self-employed physician production: Cohort, career-course, and feminization effects

Simon Drapala, Matthieu Cassou and Carine Franc

“I thought I could postpartum-proof my experience”: Embodying, resisting, and negotiating medicalization online

Kaitlin H. Joshua

Configuring symptoms: experiences from an internet-based self-help programme for persistent physical symptoms in general practice

Michal Frumer, Mette Trøllund Rask, Lisbeth Frostholm, Oliver Rønn Christensen, Marianne Rosendal and Mette Bech Risør

Stratified medicalization rerouted: Lesbian women's turn to IVF as pragmatic overmedicalization amid stratified reproduction

Xiaomin Cai

Unpacking sociopolitical determinants of suicide in networked movements: Exposure to protest suicides in Hong Kong

Lynn Tang

Digital mindfulness and the laboring self: A discourse analysis of burnout in Headspace

Eloïse Jaumier

Family social class differences in children's leisure-time physical activity: The mediating role of parenting styles and the family sports environment

Jiapeng Yang, Lijie Lou, Xiaoru Chen, Chunyu Xiang and Wei Xu

Understanding the impact of an integrated Housing First, mental health, and addiction service model for youth experiencing homelessness and concurrent disorders: Early findings at 12 months

Maritt Kirst, Victoria Rozycki, Ri Wang, Jenna Sykes, Jennifer Davis, Olivia Delair, Margaret Douglin, John Graham, Lisa Hawke and Stephanie Laing

Boosting mental health literacy in Chinese universities: A randomized controlled trial of intervention efficacy

Peipei Wu, Wei Ge, Guanghui Lei, Jingyuan Zhang and Yan Zhang

Bringing back the political apparatus to medicine: A commentary on Reinhart (2025)

Seohwa Park

Beyond the hidden curriculum: Power, justice and innovation

David A. Ansari, Constance R. Tucker and Jennifer Karlin

Social disparities in associations between informal caregiving intensity and mental health: Evidence from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

Zilin Li, Isabelle Vedel and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée

Reconceptualizing integrated people-centred health services: Towards a mechanism-sensitive model using realist evaluation

Usangiphile E. Buthelezi, Arvin Bhana, Zamasomi Luvuno, Tasneem Kathree, Sanah Bucibo, Noxolisa Radebe, Mosa Moshabela, Inge Petersen and André J. van Rensburg

Understanding how adults and adolescents value children's health states: a qualitative exploration using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) with and without duration

Alice Yu, Yiting Luo, Mina Bahrampour, Richard Norman, Deborah Street, Rosalie Viney, Nancy Devlin and Brendan Mulhern

Centralized drug procurement and inequality: Therapeutic and geographic spillovers from China's national volume-based procurement

Tao Wang

Neighborhood opportunity and cellular senescence in a national sample of U.S. adults

Mariana Rodrigues, Jemar R. Bather, Alisha A. Crump, Emiko O. Kranz, Steven W. Cole and Adolfo G. Cuevas

Estimating the harms from smoking and second-hand smoke exposure in social housing: a modelling study

Samantha Howe, Tim Wilson, Kylie Morphett, Kate Mason, Germaine Lai, Vaughan W. Rees and Driss Ait Ouakrim

Better politicians, fewer deaths? Local resilience in overcoming the pandemic crisis in Italy

Stefania Fontana, Calogero Guccio, Giacomo Pignataro and Francesco Vidoli

Embodied ostomy work and the varying scales of medical expertise

Amber D. DeJohn, Braidyn Lazenby, Madeline Levey and Srinivas Joga Ivatury

Corrigendum to ‘“If we were a straight couple”: Laboring to navigate LGBTIQA+ reproductive bioprecarity in UK fertility clinics’ [Soc. Sci. Med. 399 (2026) 119214]

Carolyn Wilson-Nash, Jennifer Takhar, Chloe He, Nour Al-Ma'ani and Oluwafunmilola Salu

Corrigendum to ‘Understanding how adults and adolescents value children's health states: a qualitative exploration using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) with and without duration’ [Soc. Sci. Med. 398 (2026) 119193]

Alice Yu, Yiting Luo, Mina Bahrampour, Richard Norman, Deborah Street, Rosalie Viney, Nancy Devlin and Brendan Mulhern