Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2026

Current editor(s): Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian

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2026, volume 391, articles C

Competitive interdependence: A critical political economy of regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ipek Eren Vural, Matthew Herder and Janice E. Graham

Interventions aiming to change multiple healthcare professional behaviors: A systematic review

Carolina C. Silva, Marta M. Marques, Zack van Allen, Márcia Carvalho, John Dinsmore and Justin Presseau

Socioeconomic advantage as protection from genetic mental health risks

Nicolau Martin-Bassols, John P. de New, Sonja C. de New and Clement C. Wong

Social capital and uptake of primary healthcare during protracted displacement: Evidence from four refugee settlements in northern Uganda

Nancy Vollmer, Robert Anguyo, Anjali Sharma and Joseph J. Valadez

Racialized heteropatriarchy, sexual minority status, and cardiometabolic risk among Black and White young adult women

Sylvie Tuder

Higher educational attainment and later-life cognition: Twentieth-century linkages by gender and race in the United States

Matthew A. Andersson, Max E. Coleman, Catherine E. Harnois and Markus H. Schafer

Individual and environmental stressors in life course cognitive health disparities: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study

Mariana Soares, Jochen O. Mierau, Stefan Pichler and Laura Viluma

Memory trajectories by migration status and gender: A life-course intersectional perspective

Silvia Loi, Giulia Tattarini and Jo Mhairi Hale

Educational and gender gaps in cognitive health expectancy across Europe: A prevalence-based analysis using SHARE

Donata Stonkute, Angelo Lorenti and Jo Mhairi Hale

Utilizing perceptions of public health officials in Cali, Colombia to support the surveillance of co-circulating vector-borne diseases

M.R. Desjardins, I. Casas, A.M. Victoria-Castro, C. Hammelman, D.M. Dávalos, A. Varela and E.M. Delmelle

The effect of welfare receipt on unmet health care needs: Evidence from Dibao program in rural China

Yaping Luo, Qian Liu and Huawei Han

Miracle cures, wonder drugs, and unproven treatments for COVID-19: A global database

Gideon Lasco, Arianna Maever Loreche, Michelle Ann D. Aguilar and Vincen Gregory Yu

Investigating attributes of stigma towards individuals who did not receive a COVID-19 vaccine: An analysis of user comment threads on Reddit conducted by the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN)

Bobbi Rotolo, Natasha Janak Sanghadia, Ève Dubé, James R. Wallace, Janice E. Graham, Christine Huel, Shannon E. MacDonald, Terra Manca and Samantha B. Meyer

Sleep science, the cultural authority of medicine, and school start times

Judson G. Everitt, Dana Garbarski and Dana La Vergne

Parental education disparities in childhood vaccination in Denmark: A test of two explanations for the role of misinformation

Vibeke Tornhøj Christensen, Andrea N. Polonijo and Richard M. Carpiano

Trends and associations between preferred institutional influence, expectations and emotional outcomes among adolescents in the US: Results from monitoring the future

Katherine M. Keyes, Noah T. Kreski and Seth J. Prins

Fair and effective vaccine allocation during pandemics: A system dynamics model for prioritization of socioeconomically vulnerable populations

Nezihe Nazli Gul, Saeed Taheri, Sander de Leeuw and Ramez Kian

Macro-level indicators of household and ambient air pollution mortality risk: Global evidence

Scott Mark Romeo Mahadeo and Avidesh Seenath

Worthy of thinness: Moral reasoning and bureaucratic care in a state-funded bariatric surgery committee

Hilla Nehushtan

Striving and thriving: Gender differences in the effects of climbing the socioeconomic ladder on stress and discrimination

Mitchell D. Wong, Benjamin P.L. Meza, Bridget Callaghan, Jennifer A. Silvers, A. Janet Tomiyama, Kimberly Narain and Rebecca N. Dudovitz

Maternal education and the intergenerational transmission of birthweight: Evidence from Japan

Chisako Yamane and Yoshiro Tsutsui

An ethnographic study of diagnosis of physical illness in people with mental health conditions in the emergency department

Elisa Liberati, Archana Jayaprakash, Rosie Lindsay, Janet Willars, John Gibson, Zoe Fritz, Annabel Price, Thea Hatfield, Natalie Richards, Mary Dixon-Woods and Graham Martin

Between epistemic empowerment and moral anxiety: Chinese patients’ ambivalence toward AI-assisted diagnosis

Ronghui Yang

Low socioeconomic status as a major risk factor for early-onset type 2 diabetes with limited lifestyle mediation: Cross-Sectional evidence from US and South Korean populations

Siying Liu, Tingting Liu, Yanli Cao, Cihang Lu, Jiahui Guo, Jie Li, Qiqiang Guo, Jing Zhang and Yongze Li

2026, volume 390, articles C

A scoping review of variations in psychedelic interventions for psychological suffering associated with the end of life

Sarah Kratina, Carol Strike, Robert Schwartz, Ayah Nayfeh, Sydney Jopling, Chris Lo and Brian Rush

‘Mum feels that the decision has already been made’: From shared decision-making to negotiated compromise in adult social care

Phillip J. Whitehead, Leigh Rooney, Jane Adams-Thomas, Marie Greenup, Anne Raffle, Carole Southall, Stephanie Whittington and Tim Rapley

A scoping review of preference-based instruments for measuring carer outcomes in economic evaluations

Nikki McCaffrey, Lidia Engel, Benjamin Karnon, Julie Ratcliffe, Renske Hoefman, Stacey Rand, Hareth Al-Janabi, David Currow, Madison Frith and Claire Hutchinson

Seeking evidence of intersectional effects in emergency hospital readmissions of adults in England (2016–2019)

Jonathan Spencer, Richard Ward, Mara Bortnowschi, Abeda Mulla, Simon Brake, Steven Wyatt and Paramjit Gill

Beyond saturation: A qualitative framework for operationalizing respondent sampling (Q-FORS) for data adequacy

Clarissa Hsu, Delaney Glass, Stephanie Cruz, Andrea Corage Baden and Kirsten Senturia

Loss, inflammation, and cognition: Understanding the lifecourse impact of early life parental disruption

Erika A. Pugh, Gina Lee, Jeffrey E. Stokes, Emily Briggs, Mónika López-Anuarbe and Amanda N. Leggett

Migration trajectories, uncertainty and health: a conceptual review

Eilin Rast, Bianka Detering, Sven Rohleder and Kayvan Bozorgmehr

Methodological assumptions and limitations of life expectancy estimates for minoritised ethnic groups in the UK: implications for validity, practice, and policy

Harry Taylor, Sarah Stopforth, Dharmi Kapadia, James Nazroo, Chris White and Laia Bécares

Beyond Preferences: Rethinking shared decision-making through the Lens of care

Mauro Turrini, Roberta Valenti, Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox, Aarón Zau NKosi Rio, Mette N. Svendsen and Catherine Bourgain

Market failure in a universal welfare state? Ownership, quality, and regulation in Danish social services

Anders Bach-Mortensen, Benjamin Goodair, Ole Helby Petersen and Jon Kvist

Taking a stance about the inner lives of patients with intellectual disabilities: uncertainty as an interactional resource in Discovery Awareness meetings

Joseph Webb, Alison Pilnick and Jennifer Clegg

Evaluating the effectiveness of an integral neighbourhood-oriented approach for healthy ageing: Findings from a cluster-randomised controlled trial in socioeconomically diverse communities

Lieke J.E. Duijsens, Catherine A.W. Bolman, Denise A. Peels, Peter Verboon, Alissa S. Paas and Lilian Lechner

Hospitalization costs of dementia in elderly population in Jilin, China: a quantile regression analysis

Jing Yuan, Yuheng Yin, Keyao Kang and Xihe Yu

Patients as boundary subjects in home care: How patients and their relatives coordinate (inter-)professional work

Marilena Diel, Clarissa E. Weber, Christiane Müller, Eva Hummers and Indre Maurer

Physician networks and the rise of elective obstetric interventions

Will Schupmann, Julien Teitler, Nancy E. Reichman and Kayuet Liu

Obstetric views on reduced preterm birth rates early in the COVID-19 pandemic

Lucia C. Rejzek, Annette Lee, Zaira P. Leal Hernandez, Ramya M. Rajagopalan and Amy L. Non

Hormones, culture and puberty: How clinicians (don't) see gender in persistent pediatric pain

Henni Alava and Venla Oikkonen

Effects of compressed work schedules on sickness absence

Elisabeth Fevang, Andreas Fidjeland, Karen Hauge and Otto Lillebø

Fostering the concept of “inclusion oral health” through experiential learning: A mixed-methods approach to explaining health inequities to dental students

Sonal Bhatia, Vikrant Mohanty, Aswini Y. Balappanavar, Chaity Sarkar, Sneha Malhotra and Radhika Gupta

Minority stress, community involvement, and cognitive decline in rural SGM older adults: A longitudinal SEM and growth curve approach

Harry Barbee and Tara McKay

Finding health in a disadvantaged place: Ethnic differences in multimorbidity by neighbourhood deprivation in England and Wales

Stephen Jivraj, Christopher D. Lloyd, Gemma Catney and David McLennan

Unequal high streets? A spatial analysis of inequalities in health-related amenities in England from 2014-2024

Eman Zied Abozied, Luke Munford, Adam Todd and Clare Bambra

Why is water insecurity so distressing? Evidence from Iran that interpersonal conflict is key

Seyed Ahmad Mir Mohamad Tabar, Alexandra Brewis, Mahmod Teimouri and Maryam Sohrabi

Using leisure to find meaning: Perspectives from youth in Stockholm

Camilla Wasserman and Ulrika Lögdberg

Dual scripts and incongruent innovation: implementing social technology in homecare services

Martin Vinther Bavngaard, Anne Lund and Erik Børve Rasmussen

Structural contradictions in providing opioid use disorder care within the total institution of carceral facilities: Perspectives from patients and community service providers in Maryland

Ashley Q. Truong, Victoria R. Green, Kyle J. Moon, Deborah Agus, Sachini Bandara and Omeid Heidari

“I can't help them like I used to”: Evolving prenatal genetic counseling practices in a post-Roe U.S

Leslie S. Riddle, Julie Harris-Wai, Mary E. Norton, Julia Silver and Galen Joseph

Differential own-price elasticity of demand for prescription drugs by clinical value

Yawen Jiang and Zhanyu Dong

Between relief and estrangement: Family experiences of involuntary treatment for psychosis in South Africa

Alex Freeman, Leslie Swartz and Laila Asmal

Entering medicine “on the wrong side”? Caregiving as a legitimate pathway to medicine

David A. Ansari, Nikki Waltrich, Izziah Thabath, Vivian Nguyen, Vennela Challagondla, Emily R. Via and Joanna Michel

The affective organisation of social infrastructures

Cameron Duff

How social isolation accelerates biological aging: Exploring underlying behavioral and psychological mechanisms

Keun Young Kwon and Jinho Kim

Sustaining healthy food retail: do Australian and New Zealand government policies consider long-term change?

Bettina Backman, Miranda R. Blake, Christina Zorbas, Alexandra Chung, Sally Schulz, Victoria Brown, Päivi Mäki and Serene Yoong

Cognitive function and the social environment: A multilevel approach

Adam R. Roth and Brea L. Perry

The double nexus of clinical management - hybrid doctor-manager roles in Danish hospitals

Amalie M. Hauge, Vibeke Kristine Scheller, Mickael Bech and Marie Henriette Madsen

Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and on-demand dosing in Australia

Martin Holt, Kari Lancaster, Tim Rhodes and Anthony KJ. Smith

The infodemic–pandemic nexus: Cross-national analysis of online misinformation’s impact on population health

Yuxi Wang, Ugofilippo Basellini and Carlo-Giovanni Camarda

Grief and love: Responses to death and disjuncture in homelessness research and practice

Jayne Malenfant

Phenotypes of stigma expressed by people who use drugs on Reddit

Layla Bouzoubaa, Elham Aghakhani and Rezvaneh Rezapour

An infrastructural approach to cross-boundary healthcare access: The case of Hong Kong patients in the Greater Bay Area, China

Xiang Yan, Zixuan Han and Shenjing He