Social Science & Medicine

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2026, volume 388, articles C

The mechanisms by which a whole-school intervention might improve sexual health: qualitative realist research nested in a trial in English secondary schools

Ruth Ponsford, Rebecca Meiksin, Veena Muraleetharan, Nerissa Tilouche, G.J. Melendez-Torres, Josephine McAllister, Maria Lohan, Alison Hadley, Honor Young, Rona Campbell, Catherine Mercer, Karin Coyle, Jo Sturgess, Charles Opondo, Stephen Morris, Elizabeth Allen and Chris Bonell

Consistency of perception of tobacco use: Evidence from a biomarker

Soomin Jang and Dongyoung Kim

Promoting health and inclusion of people with refugee backgrounds through horticulture: A mixed-methods systematic review

Louise Emma O'Connor and Sarah Jay

Population health and the carceral continuum: A narrative review

Khadijah Ameen, Nishita Dsouza, Yesnely Flores, Nikhil Rao, Maya Talwar-Hebert, Michelle Tan and Zoe Waltz

Advancing stratified biomedicalization for urgent times

Janet K. Shim and Laura Mamo

“Learning to stay silent”: Coping, help-seeking and mitigation strategies for intimate partner violence against men in Kenya

Jacinta Mukulu Waila, Olaf Horstick, Domnick Onyango Mitiro, Christine Wayua Musyimi and Michael Lowery Wilson

Corrigendum to “How does accommodation inspire communication? Examining affective and cognitive paths linking accommodation and family communication about health” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 386, December 2025, 118655]

Kun Peng, Qingrui Li and Yu Zheng

Preparation, Participation and Impact (PPI): the best practice principles of Place-Based Approaches (PBAs)

Tanya Rong, Eli Ristevski and Matthew Carroll

Strengthening health systems for displaced populations: A systematic review of access to surgical care in low- and middle-income countries

Shreeja Sarabu, Maeve Sophia Bognini, Meskerem Aleka Kebede, Martilord Ifeanyichi, Rachel Hargest and Rocco Friebel

Does feeling different from neighbors matter? Exploring the impact of perceived neighborhood environment on subjective well-being in a comprehensive framework

Yuchen Hu, Min Zhang, Enyu Chang, Peipei Chen and Linshen Jiao

“Take away the greed of the private landlord housing market … because that is killing people”: Examining the political economy of housing and health inequalities in four English coastal towns

Victoria J McGowan

Gender at the crossroads of mental health and climate change: A scoping review

Thelma Z. Abu and Meshack Achore

Intersectional health disparities among U.S. midlife and older adults focusing on sexual orientation and race and ethnicity: Evidence from a population-based study

Hyun-Jun Kim, Hailey H. Jung, Austin Oswald and Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen

A decade of discourse: Exploring sentiments and trends around immigration on social media from 2014 to 2024

Thu T. Nguyen, Penchala Sai Priya Mullaputi, Xiaohe Yue, Heran Mane, Adwaith Santhosh, Elizabeth Dennard, Amrutha S. Alibilli, Katrina Makres, Rozalina G. McCoy and Quynh C. Nguyen

Implementing large-scale primary health care workforce reforms: a narrative literature review of middle-income country experiences

Akriti Mehta, Prabhjeet Kaur, Meike J. Schleiff, Bryan N. Patenaude and Krishna D. Rao

The experience of social loss and epigenome-wide DNA methylation

Martin Stoffel, Joshua Stevenson-Hoare, Ben Schöttker, Johanna Hammer, Hermann Brenner and Beate Ditzen

The impact of state safety-net policies on perinatal birth outcomes by maternal race

Alexandra Eastus, Alina Schnake-Mahl, M. Pia Chaparro, Felice Lê-Scherban, Gabriel L. Schwartz, Caroline Kravitz and Brent A. Langellier

Revisiting the education-HIV gradient in Africa: Cohort variation analysis of a temporal shift and speculation on causes

Ismael Muñoz and David P. Baker

General population preferences for health-related protective behaviors during infectious disease emergencies: a systematic review of conjoint-analysis studies

Nannan Li, Baharak Rambod, Nicole Dukers-Muijrers, Joshua M. Chevalier, Lisanne Steijvers, Lilian Kojan, Senne Wijnen, Rik Crutzen, Beate Jahn, Uwe Siebert, Leonard Stellbrink, Florian van Daalen, Mirjam Kretzschmar and Mickaël Hiligsmann

“It feels more natural for me to take a step back”: Cross-cultural analysis of paternal care in paediatric diabetes

Maria Athena Campbell, Bryan Cleal, Dan Grabowski, Jannet Svensson and Hanne Overgaard Mogensen

Adults with sickle-cells in a migration-driven rare disease setting: Therapeutic remoteness and graphic medicine in Austria

Eva-Maria Knoll

Meet Them Where They're At: The intersection of Haudenosaunee knowledge and community justice reform

Kanatase Horn and Gabriel Maracle

The role of financial difficulty on the health and well-being of adults with functional limitations that may require long-term services and supports

Lei Chen and Kathryn Kietzman

Negotiating mobility: Methodological insights from older adults' activity diaries

Amber D. DeJohn and Ainsley Bowie

Cognitive co-ageing with inequitable political ecologies: Deconditioning & urban public transport

James Rupert Fletcher

Product of our environment? Place effects on Body Mass Index

Alan Duncan, Astghik Mavisakalyan, Loan Vu and Michael Windsor

A theory-based randomised controlled trial to increase delivery of behaviour change interventions by healthcare professionals

Chris Keyworth, Christopher J. Armitage, Judith Johnson, Tracy Epton, Katharina S. Vogt and Mark Conner

Community and behavior maintenance: the association of community factors with behavior maintenance outcomes in people with type 2 diabetes participating in a group-based walking intervention

Hannah Regeer, Arjan Huizing, Henk J.G. Bilo, Eelco J.P. de Koning, Sasja D. Huisman and Pepijn van Empelen

Interactive experience design evaluation of community emotional healing installations based on analytic hierarchy process method

Tanhao Gao, Phillip Bernstein and Hongtao Zhou

Unmasking and rethinking hierarchical inefficiency in healthcare systems

Tuaine Junior Unuia, Antony Andrews and Sean Kimpton

State-level structural sexism and cardiovascular disease outcomes in the United States

Emily C. Dore, Patricia A. Homan, Kiarri N. Kershaw, Debora Kamin Mukaz and Nicole D. Fields

Conceptive risk-taking: Personal uncertainty, flexible fertility intentions, and twins from medically assisted reproduction

Eliza Brown

Bisexuality, romantic relationships, and depression: The role of relationship quality

Jaime Hsu and Sara Mernitz

Making the invisible visible: nurses’ stealth work to legitimize their telemedicine coordination role

Mattia Vincenzo Olive, Luca Gastaldi and Giovanni Radaelli

The work-wellbeing Paradox: Exploring the emotional and bodily dimensions of intersectional capitalism among Latinx immigrants in the U.S

Bianca Ruiz-Negrón, Alejandra Lemus, Susana Echeverri Herrera, Alejandro Tovar, Aurora Arreola, Julia M. Hess and Jessica R. Goodkind

Politics of diversity in the framing of blood donation: The in-and exclusion of racially minoritised blood donors on blood agency websites in Belgium and the United Kingdom

Toyah Van der Poten, Pierre Monforte and Lesley Hustinx

Healthcare access and utilisation under liminal legality: Sudanese forced migrants in Israel

Anda Barak-Bianco and Rebeca Raijman

Decentralization and equitable service delivery: Access and satisfaction under health sector governance reform

Alan Zarychta, Bertha Bermudez Tapia, Elisabeth Dowling Root, Dominic Freake, Tara Grillos, Krister Andersson and Jane Menken

The invisible and racialized labor of culturally sensitive care: A Hmong nursing home case study

Mai See Thao, Heather Wood Davila and Tetyana Shippee

Precarious manhood, precarious nations: The contribution of cultural beliefs comprising masculinity to national happiness

James R. Mahalik and Michael P. Harris

Deportation enforcement, mental health, and health risk behaviors of hispanic adolescents

Tianyuan Luo, Genti Kostandini, Yanjun Liu and Peng Nie

Examining support for school-based suicide prevention across the political spectrum: Findings from two surveys

Jessica Brantez, Bernice Pescosolido and Anna S. Mueller

Consumer perceptions of electrocardiography-enabled smartwatches in health management

Martijn Clarysse, Eline Baert, Michel Walrave, Lieven De Marez and Koen Ponnet

Occupational stress and substance use-related stigma among criminal attorneys

Garland E. Gerber, Angela R. Bazzi, Leo Beletsky, Eileen V. Pitpitan, Mark B. Reed and Laramie R. Smith

Food insecurity and multidimensional healthy aging across 31 countries: pooled longitudinal evidence from four cohorts

Guanghui Cui, Mingzheng Hu, Kaixuan Tang and Shaojie Li

Learning from crisis: Enduring habits as foundations for healthcare resilience after COVID-19

Kirstine Zinck Pedersen

Contested and neglected: Social and medical marginalization in severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Bita Nezamdoust and Erin Ruel

A trajectory mining framework for exploring individual concurrent environmental exposure and its association with mental health

Zihan Kan, Jiaomin Wei, Mei-Po Kwan and Zhenchuan Yang

Effects of economic freedom on life expectancy in Africa

Idrissa Ouedraogo

Are individuals with persistently high conspiracy mentality also persistently vaccine-hesitant? Findings from a three-wave panel study

Monika Lamot, Andrej Kirbiš and Katja Kerman

Child road safety in Transition: How economic growth shapes fatality risks for pedestrians, cyclists, and Motorists

Teik Hua Law, Kun Yang, Tong Zhu and Fauzan Mohd Jakarni

Gender differences in associations between spousal cognitive decline and marital strain: Evidence from the U.S. older couples

Meiyi Li, Yiang Li and Michal Engelman

Bio-exploitation under siege: the political economy of pregnant women's urine in Gaza's humanitarian crisis

Ekrema Shehab and Bilal Hamamra

Cognitive ageing: sex and life course social class differences in England

Lindsay Richards, Asri Maharani and Patrick Präg

Temporalities of interembodiment: Insights from clinical and community health practices

William J. Robertson and Amaree Austin

Prison health data collection: Transforming prisons from public health risks to opportunities for global health equity

Lindsay A. Pearce, Louise Southalan and Stuart A. Kinner