Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2025, volume 380, articles C

Are there diminishing returns to social spending? Social policy, health and health inequalities in European countries. A comparative longitudinal survey data analysis

Oda Nordheim and Kjetil A. van der Wel

“We like to be in the tent”: How charitable organizations navigate political advocacy for health equity

Ann De Shalit, Emily van der Meulen, Michael Orsini, Rachel Laforest and Adrian Guta

Gendered knowledge practices and human-animal-ecological health in Papua New Guinea: a qualitative study during a zoonotic tuberculosis investigation

Benjamin Hegarty, Paula Jops, Janet Gare, Jane Greig, Herick Aeno, Somu Nosi, April Holmes, Priscah Hezeri, Dukduk Kabiu, Pele Ursula Melepia, Suman S. Majumdar, Margaret Kal, Philipp du Cros and Angela Kelly-Hanku

“I continue to consult remotely”: The trans/national practices of war-related migrant doctors in Israel and professional boundaries

Anna Temkina and Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin

Neighborhood context: Understanding the relationship between national indices of neighborhood risk, individual perception, and posttraumatic stress

Allison L. Baier, Yael I. Nillni, Amar Mandavia, Nicholas Livingston and Tara Galovski

Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners

Anne-Mette Hermans and Rebecca Nash

The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality: An experiment in China

Yafei Si, Gang Chen, Zhongliang Zhou, Winnie Yip and Xi Chen

Qualitative methods and the commercial determinants of health: Insights from the social sciences

Eduardo J. Gómez

Corporate social responsibility as a commercial determinant of health: A case study of the alcohol industry in the Philippines

Gianna Gayle H. Amul

Medicalizing violence: The institutional politics of trauma in Veterans Treatment Courts

Victoria Piehowski

The making of transplant kin

Tanya Zivkovic

‘Doctors do not know about Cystic Fibrosis’: Examining structural vulnerability in the management of rare diseases in India

Sibille Merz and Ramila Bisht

Healthcare services for low-wage migrant workers: A systematic review

Eilin Rast, Karen Lau, Rosita Chia-Yin Lin, Tharani Loganathan, Sally Hargreaves and Cathy Zimmerman

Effects of childhood environments on the discernment of health misinformation

Si-Qi Zhang, Ming-Hui Li, Yu-Chu Li and Li-Lin Rao

A heterogeneity analysis of health-related quality of life in early adults born very preterm or very low birthweight across the sociodemographic spectrum

Corneliu Bolbocean, Peter J. Anderson, Peter Bartmann, Jeanie L.Y. Cheong, Lex W. Doyle, Samantha Johnson, Neil Marlow, Dieter Wolke, Stavros Petrou and Stephen O'Neill

Delivering green social prescribing: An ethnographic exploration of the place of walking and gardening groups in a social prescribing intervention

Tessa M. Pollard, Kate Gibson, Emily Tupper, Laura McGuire, Bethan Griffith and Jayne Jeffries

The food (in)security and mental health nexus in high-risk immigrant populations in middle- and high-income countries: A scoping review

Elizabeth Onyango, Keji Mori, Binita Jirel and Destiny Otoadese

Minority stress and bereavement: The impact of social positioning on LGBTQ+ bereavement experiences

Felicity Johnson and Kristin Bindley

US-born and foreign-born life expectancy by race and Hispanic origin before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Eugenio Paglino and Irma T. Elo

Investigating the role of chronic stress and perceived discrimination in racial disparities in incident dementia among U.S. older adults

Mina Habib, Nicola Churchill and Roch A. Nianogo

Correlates of longitudinal patterns of racial discrimination in midlife and older Black adults: Evidence from the health and retirement study

Kellee White Whilby, Shuo J. Huang, Bethany A. Bell, Kaitlynn Robinson-Ector, Mario Sims and David R. Williams

Simulating social network-based interventions for adolescent cigarette smoking

Cynthia M. Lakon, Cheng Wang, John R. Hipp and Carter T. Butts

Early-life access to primary healthcare and educational attainment: Evidence from community health centers in China

Yucheng Sun, Jiaolong Li, Xiuheng Shen and Zhewen Pan

Internal migration, health selection, and the salmon bias: A register-based study of Finland

Eugenio Paglino, Irma T. Elo and Pekka Martikainen

Mental well-being trends and school-based protective factors among adolescents in British Columbia (2015–2022): A population-based study

Eva Oberle, Xuejun Ryan Ji, Tonje Molyneux, Martin Guhn, Barry Forer, Kimberly Thomson, Maram Alkawaja, Anusha Kassan and Anne Gadermann

Intimate partner violence and time to making an abortion appointment in the United States

Sameera S. Nayak, Arielle A.J. Scoglio and Taiwo Sanni-Ojikutu

Heterogeneous associations between early-life religious upbringing and late-life health: Evidence from a machine learning approach

Xu Zong, Xiangjiao Meng, Karri Silventoinen, Matti Nelimarkka and Pekka Martikainen

The constructive power of informality? Relationships, emotion, and empathy in the administration of social assistance for childhood disability in South Africa

Zara Trafford

Mental health and wellbeing priority setting: a study of evidence use in schools in England

Camille Allard, Rebecca Johnson, Sally O'Loughlin and Hareth Al-Janabi

The second Health Inequalities Module in the European Social Survey (ESS): Methodology and research opportunities

Hanno Hoven, Terje Andreas Eikemo, Insa Backhaus-Hoven, Andrea Riebler, Rory Fitzgerald, Sara Martino, Tim Huijts, Kristian Heggebø, Pilar Vidaurre-Teixidó, Clare Bambra and Mirza Balaj

Flexibility in coping deployment and psychological adjustment during COVID-19: A three-level meta-analysis across 33 countries

Si Chen, Mike W.-L Cheung and Cecilia Cheng

Social network intervention to improve blood pressure control after stroke: The TEAMS-BP randomized clinical trial

Amar Dhand, Katherine Crum, Kaitlin E. Hanken, Gauri Bhatkhande, Melinda Luo, Ian M. Corbin, George Usmanov, Zachary Rothfeld-Wehrwein, Vrushali Dhongade, David Lin, Chloe Slocum, Nancy Haff and Niteesh K. Choudhry

Educational disparities in dementia incidence and healthcare utilization: evidence from a cohort study in Italy

Agostino Cristofalo, Silvia Cascini, Giulia Cesaroni, Eleonora Trappolini, Nera Agabiti and Anna Maria Bargagli

Paradoxical effects of community social cohesion on mental health and help-seeking among older adults: The role of reputation concern and socioeconomic status

Kuan-Ju Huang, Yukiko Uchida, Kosuke Takemura, Shintaro Fukushima, Jun Aida, Masamichi Hanazato and Mariko Kanamori

Dimensions of women's decision-making power and the influence on quality early prenatal care in Burkina Faso

Eric Allara Ngaba

When nature strikes: Unraveling the mental health consequences among herders in China's pastoral region

Dongqing Li, Alec Zuo and Lingling Hou

Relational coordination of state partnership with traditional birth attendants: soft partnering in Ghana's maternal and child healthcare context

Gordon Dugle, Simon Bishop and Judy Muthuri

Neighborhoods can be sexist too: Hostile sexism and risk of intimate partner violence across city neighborhoods

Enrique Gracia, Antonio López-Quílez, Miriam Marco, Pablo Escobar-Hernández and Marisol Lila

The impact of bioequivalence regulation on pharmaceutical firm outcomes: Evidence from China

Menghan Shen, Xiaoxia Liang and Han Wu

The lasting impact of incarceration: A qualitative thematic analysis of mental health in formerly incarcerated Black men

Helena A. Addison, Therese S. Richmond, Toorjo Ghose and Sara F. Jacoby

Using drugs to enhance capacities for action in everyday life practices: Analysing addiction stories’ descriptions of the escalation of substance use as counter-narratives

Jukka Törrönen, Ulrika Winerdal and Malin Gunnarsson

‘It's about the connections we've made with each other’: resilience and risk translation in governing healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bert de Graaff, Sabrina Huizenga and Roland Bal

Beyond dental dams: a critical review of recent research on lesbian, bisexual and queer women's sexual health

Jennifer Power, Ruby Grant, Tinonee Pym, Percy Gurtler, Kerryn Drysdale and Julie Mooney-Somers

Caring at the end of life: Bereaved family members' experiences of preparedness, readiness, and anticipation fatigue

Nathan D. MacArthur, Emma Kirby and Jane Mowll

The social experience of stress as premedical students in the United States

Caitlin Tickman and Lauren D. Olsen

The predictive power of employment trajectories on cognition of older adults: Evidence from Chile

Magdalena Delaporte

2025, volume 379, articles C

Socioeconomic area deprivation and its relationship with dementia, Parkinson's Disease and all-cause mortality among UK older adults: a multistate modeling approach

May A. Beydoun, Michael F. Georgescu, Jordan Weiss, Nicole Noren Hooten, Hind A. Beydoun, Jack Tsai, Christian A. Maino Vieytes, Michele K. Evans and Alan B. Zonderman

Understanding the mental and physical health consequences of the U.S. citizenship exam for Rohingya refugees: Implications for policy and practice

Ifrah Mahamud Magan and Jessica R. Goodkind

Encounters between fields: Integrating military forces into the health field's epidemiological effort during COVID-19 in Israel

Liron Inchi, Baruch Shimoni, Batia Madjar and Shiran Bord

Making and disposing of life's ‘starting materials’: A focus group study of attitudes concerning reproductive scarcity and abundance in in vitro gametogenesis

Robbin Jeffries Hein, Anne Le Goff and Hannah L. Landecker

How concepts guide policy: an ethnographic study of the meaning making of ‘appropriate care’ in Dutch healthcare

Britt Kraaijeveld, Sietse Wieringa, Eivind Engebretsen and Jet Bussemaker

Excess neonatal mortality among private facility births in rural parts of high-mortality states of India: Demographic analysis of a national survey

Diane Coffey, Nikhil Srivastav, Aditi Priya, Asmita Verma, Nathan Franz, Alok Kumar and Dean Spears

GBTQ+ safe sex entanglements: Finding the bacterial in the age of resistant STIs and prevention innovation

Shiva Chandra, Alex Broom, Damien Ridge, Katherine Kenny, Michelle Peterie, Jennifer Broom, Bridget Haire, Lise Lafferty, Carla Treloar, Stephanie Raymond, Catriona Bradshaw, Tanya Applegate and Rebecca Guy

Nothing is so impactful as good theory: Evidence for the impact of the social identity approach to health on policy and practice

Tegan Cruwys, S. Alexander Haslam, Niklas K. Steffens, Catherine Haslam and Stephen D. Reicher

Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis

Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine and Sarah Abboud

Perception and sentiment analysis of palliative care in Chinese social media: Qualitative studies based on machine learning

Qi Zhou, Yuling Lei, Luwen Tian, Shanshan Ai, Yuting Yang and Yueli Zhu

Relationships between historical redlining, contemporary housing market dynamics, racial composition, and mental health in U.S. urban neighborhoods: A conditional process analysis

Jenny Wagner, Noli Brazil, Shani Buggs and Michelle Ko

Precarious employment in self-employment: A typology and impact on cardiovascular health conditions in Sweden

J. Gevaert, L. Mangot-Sala, M. Almroth, K. Badarin, D.L. Elling, E. Jonsson, S. Kvart, F. Lundh, P. O'Campo, K. Pan, E. Thern and T. Bodin

Gender discrimination in the workplace and the onset of problematic alcohol use among female wage workers: A longitudinal study in Korea

Seong-Uk Baek, Jin-Ha Yoon and Jong-Uk Won

Taking stock of youth substance use portrayals: A critical content analysis of Canadian news media, 2016–2024

Trevor Goodyear, Monique Sandhu, Claire Pitcher, Dana Dmytro, Bryn Shaffer, Sherri Moore-Arbour, Chris Gilham, Tara Bruno, Anne Gadermann, Johanna Sam, Nathan Ngieng and Emily Jenkins

Developing a social model for blood and plasma donation

Adam Easterbrook, Mary Berger, Kelly Holloway and Nick Bansback

How mobility-based exposure measures may mitigate the underestimation of the association between green space exposures and health

Yang Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Liuyi Song, Changda Yu and Yuhan Cui

Monitoring privilege for health equity: building consensus on indicators to monitor socioeconomic advantage through a modified Delphi survey

Amy Carrad, Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend, Patrick Harris, Fran Baum, Lucie Rychetnik, Steven Allender, Melanie Pescud and Sharon Friel

Social and mental health pathways to institutional trust: A cohort study

Vincent Paquin, Diana Miconi, Samantha Aversa, Janique Johnson-Lafleur, Sylvana Côté, Marie-Claude Geoffroy and Sinan Gülöksüz