Social Science & Medicine

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2025, volume 373, articles C

Does bundling reminders with messages debunking misconceptions improve the demand for preventive health services? A randomized controlled trial among adults with hypertension in Punjab, India

Caterina Favaretti, Vasanthi Subramonia Pillai, Margaret McConnell, Mohammed K. Ali, Seema Murthy, Adithi Chandrasekar, Shirley D. Yan and Nikkil Sudharsanan

Where there are no visitors: Improvising care in a pediatric hospital in Zambia

Jean Hunleth, Lindsey Kaufman, Emma Bunkley, Sarah Burack, Sam Miti and Comfort Asante

Work-family interface and mental health inequalities between women and men: A gendered exposure model across Canadian provinces

Jaunathan Bilodeau, Nancy Beauregard, Victor Y. Haines and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée

Hemophilia tweets in Turkey: A rare disease and scarce policies

Serra Sezgin, Canan Sümeyra Gün, Mehmet Can Uğur and Selmin Şenol

An observational study of intergenerational sex differences in mortality in Aotearoa New Zealand

M. Campbell, M. Hobbs, K. Mathias and P. Eggleton

Living arrangements and chronic disease accumulation among native-born and immigrant older adults in Europe

Su Yeon Jang, Anna Oksuzyan, Frank J. van Lenthe, Mikko Myrskylä and Silvia Loi

Socio-demographic, family, and health-related predictors of maternal mental health trajectories during eight years postpartum in a national cohort of 17,886 mothers in Taiwan

Yi-Han Chang, Shu-Sen Chang, Jui-fen Rachel Lu and Tung-liang Chiang

Self-harm and interpersonal violence attributable to high alcohol use in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease study 2021

Zuxing Wang, Yu Ye, Yikai Dou, Lili Chen and Zhili Zou

Race, wealth and health: The role of reparations

Shannon Whittaker, Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe, Danya Keene, Akilah Dulin, Trace Kershaw and Joshua Warren

“Creating ourselves:” A qualitative analysis of DIY HRT practices in nonbinary adults

Heather Welty

Understanding the dual role of individual position in multidimensional social support networks and depression levels: Insights from a nomination-driven framework

Chuyao Peng, Xiaoya Wang, Meng Zhang, Dandan Tong, Jibo Li, Tianwei Xu, Jiang Qiu and Dongtao Wei

The mediating role of food insecurity in the relationship between income poverty and depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation: A nationwide study of Korean adults

Seong-Uk Baek and Jin-Ha Yoon

Impact of the 2009 WIC revision on infant and maternal health: A quasi-experimental multi-state study

Guangyi Wang, Marianne Bitler, Dean Schillinger, Martin Halla, Steven Stillman and Rita Hamad

Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance

Haoming Song

“We do not stop being Indigenous when we are in pain”: An integrative review of the lived experiences of chronic pain among Indigenous peoples

Lívia Gaspar Fernandes, Cheryl Davies, Chrystal Jaye, Jean Hay-Smith and Hemakumar Devan

A syndemic perspective on food insecurity, gestational diabetes, and mental health disorders during pregnancy

Sarah Oresnik, Tina Moffat, Luseadra McKerracher and Deborah M. Sloboda

Horizontal equity in primary care financing: An assessment of payments to general practices in England, 2014–2022

Charlene Lo, Laura Anselmi and Matt Sutton

When youth record police: Investigating officer intrusion and mental health repercussions among Black youth in Baltimore City, Maryland

Dylan B. Jackson, Rebecca L. Fix, Alexander Testa, Lindsey Webb and Tamar Mendelson

Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions

Theresa M. Marteau, Eleni Mantzari and Gareth J. Hollands

Marital choice, spousal communication, and contraceptive self-efficacy and use among newly married girls in India: Evidence from the UDAYA study

Pintu Paul, Ria Saha, Lotus McDougal and Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan

The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study

Torill Tverborgvik, Marianne Riksheim Stavseth, Nicoline Toresen Lokdam, Amalie Jordan and Anne Bukten

Healthy competition? Market structure and the quality of clinical care given to standardised patients in Tanzania

Timothy Powell-Jackson, Jessica J.C. King, Christina Makungu and Catherine Goodman

Deteriorating care home residents as ‘matter out of place’ in both care homes and hospitals: An ethnographic study

Fawn Harrad-Hyde, Chris Williams and Natalie Armstrong

Gender affirming medical care access: The role of healthcare stereotype threat and social support in a national probability sample of transgender adults

Madeline Smith-Johnson and Katherine Alexander

Social and environmental adversity predict poor mental health in a Milwaukee, WI community sample

C.W. Tomas, S. Timmer-Murillo, K. Vine, J. Krukowski, S. Purdle, J. Janusiak, J.R. Mantsch, L. Torres, J. Harris and T.A. deRoon-Cassini

Cross-cultural validation and psychometric testing of the Indonesian version of the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey for people living with diabetes

Anggi Lukman Wicaksana, Raden Bowo Pramono and Pei-Shan Tsai

The role of place-based consciousness in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A survey analysis across rural and urban subgroups in the U.S

Ramsey W. Ash, Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, Anne N. Sosin, Erika L. Moen and Christine Gunn

“We have a good neighbor policy”: How street vendors access (or not) water and toilets

Fernanda Deister Moreira, Marcilia Maria Germano Alves, Leo Heller and Sonaly Rezende

Making sense of absent-yet-present others: Representing the liminal vegetative state beyond life and death

Edoardo Zulato, Paula Castro, Carolina Silvia Quagliarella and Lorenzo Montali

Traditional medicine in Filipino patients’ therapeutic itineraries

Gideon Lasco, Vincen Gregory Yu and Clarissa David

Health-related quality of life, service utilisation and costs for anxiety disorders in children and young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Sithara Wanni Arachchige Dona, Kaitlyn McKenna, Thi Quynh Anh Ho, Shalika Bohingamu Mudiyanselage, Monique Seymour, Ha N.D. Le and Lisa Gold

Detection of potential causal pathways among social determinants of health: A data-informed framework

Michael Korvink, Madeleine Biondolillo, Julie Willems Van Dijk, Anjishnu Banerjee, Christopher Simenz and David Nelson

“There's no real urgency when it comes to us”: Critical discourse analysis of Black communities' lived experience with opioid overdose response in Indianapolis area

Dong-Chul Seo, Leonardo Alba-Lopez, Naomi Satterfield, Shin Hyung Lee, Charlotte Crabtree and Francesca Williamson

Complex decision-making of people's use of opioid agonist therapy during pregnancy: Troubling the concept of ‘non-compliance’

Rose A. Schmidt, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Nat Kaminski, Ashley Smoke, Akosua Gyan-Mante, Ningwakwe George, Tara Gomes, Brian Rush and Carol Strike

Pain by proxy: An ethnographic study on the relational co-construction of the agency of young children in healthcare encounters

Esther Lermytte, Alice Scavarda, Ana Patrícia Hilário, Luigi Gariglio, Joana Mendonça and Melissa Ceuterick

Child stunting, thinness, and their academic performance in Ethiopia: A longitudinal study

Getenet Dessie, Jinhu Li, Son Nghiem and Tinh Doan

Breaching the professional social contract to drive system innovation: Nurse managers and the emergence of a new professional group

Charlotte Croft and Trish Reay

2025, volume 372, articles C

Network analysis of adverse and positive childhood experiences in a national sample of university students

Zhiyuan Yu, Tejashwini Alalamath, Sara Johnson, Yiying Xiong and Lin Wang

Family participation in geriatric decision-making: Marginalization of older patients’ autonomy in Chinese outpatient consultation

Tianxin Yan and Min Yang

Effort-reward imbalance and problem drinking among workers: Differences in gender and the gender composition of industries and main job activities in a prospective cohort study from Sweden

Aziz Mensah, Anna Nyberg, Peter Wennberg and Susanna Toivanen

Age-related trajectories of health and cognition in mothers of children with developmental disabilities: Longitudinal findings from two independent studies

Robert S. Dembo, Jinkuk Hong, Leann Smith DaWalt and Marsha R. Mailick

Health insurance, race, and receipt of a postpartum visit among patients giving birth in a referral hospital in the US South

Jesse Rattan, Justin M. Leach, Christina Blanchard, Meghan Tipre, T. Robin Bartlett, Azita Amiri, Monica L. Baskin, Rachel Sinkey and Janet M. Turan

The neonatal intensive care unit as a site of perinatal iatrogenesis: An ethnographic analysis of postpartum health support in a U.S. children's hospital

Katey E. Mari

Reimagining subjectivities in place: Necropolitical logics of safer supply and housing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Taylor Fleming, Jade Boyd and Ryan McNeil

Healthy eating in life course context: Asymmetric implications of socioeconomic origins and destinations

James S. Malo, Markus H. Schafer and April J. Stull

Vision, relationships, patience … and power: A qualitative analysis of how policy agents scale up cross-sectoral policy for nutrition

Anne Marie Thow, Patrick Harris and Raphael Lencucha

Examining how social class discrimination is associated with combustible tobacco use, nicotine vaping, and dual use among adolescents in California

Zena R. Mello, Vani Kakar and Jamie Jaramillo

Housing and wellbeing: Long-term precarious housing trajectories following humanitarian migration and resettlement

Sheenagh McShane, Ang Li, Karen Block and Rebecca Bentley

Socioeconomic disparities in long COVID diagnosis among ethnic minorities in Denmark

George Frederick Mkoma, Maria Ingeborg Goldschmidt, Jørgen Holm Petersen, Thomas Benfield, Agneta Cederström, Mikael Rostila, Charles Agyemang and Marie Norredam

Beyond the residential neighborhood: A scoping review of research on urban neighborhood networks

Noli Brazil, Jennifer Candipan, Brian Levy and Thalia Tom

“But who takes care of the mom?”: The daily experiences of immigrant mothers navigating health in family life

Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, David K. Jones, Diana Cutts, Allison Bovell-Ammon, Félice Lê-Scherban, Megan Sandel, Eduardo Ochoa, Ana Poblacion, Deborah A. Frank, Maureen M. Black and Gemmae M. Fix

Disease frames and their consequences for stigma and medical research funds

Alina Arseniev-Koehler and Rachel Kahn Best

Social media prompts to encourage intervening with cancer treatment misinformation

Allison J. Lazard, Tara Licciardello Queen, Marlyn Pulido, Shelby Lake, Sydney Nicolla, Hung-Jui Tan, Marjory Charlot, Andrew B. Smitherman and Nabarun Dasgupta

Corrigendum to ‘Women in UK academic health economics: An evaluation of progress since the 1970s’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 368, March 2025, 117794]

Sally Sheard and Liza Caruana-Finkel

Using interactions of area dose and individual exposure to estimate effects of population health interventions

Matt Sutton, Samuel Hugh-Jones and Anna Wilding

Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis

Deivis Nicolas Guzman-Tordecilla and Antonio J. Trujillo

Differences in the influence of the built environment and physical activity on obesity in urban and suburban contexts

Yuxuan Zou and Donggen Wang

The correlation of caloric intake from sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) on type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) risk in Indonesia

Abdillah Ahsan, Triasih Djutaharta, Maulida Gadis Utami, Yuyu Buono Ayuning Pertiwi, Anggiana Diniary, Nadira Amalia, Sakiru Adebola Solarin and Santhi Ramanathan

“My full-time unpaid role”: Understanding the (extra)ordinary work of founders of rare disease organisations

Rebecca Dimond and Jamie Lewis

“It makes you feel worthless.” The lived experience of discrimination in the US food assistance system

Sarah J. Blau, Alison Tovar, Deborah N. Pearlman, Heidi M. Weeks, Jeneen Ali and Katherine W. Bauer

Corrigendum to “Do high school experiences shape midlife body weight?” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 367, February 2025, 117693]

Michelle L. Frisco, Emily A. Lybbert, Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky and J. Robert Warren

Uncovering the influence of community nursing on health promotion in China: A biopower analysis

Bo Li

Mapping the lived experience of rural substance use stigma: A conceptual framework of salient attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in people who use drugs

Adams L. Sibley, Sophia M. Bartels, Seth M. Noar, Nisha Gottfredson O'Shea, Kathryn E. Muessig, William C. Miller and Vivian F. Go

Neonatal mortality and contraceptive utilization following abortion restriction in the Dominican Republic: A difference-in-differences analysis

Foluso Ishola, Britt McKinnon, Seungmi Yang and Arijit Nandi

Are extensions in paid parental leave associated with lower infant and neonatal mortality in Latin American cities? Evidence from 148 cities in Chile, Mexico, and Colombia (2000–2015)

Asiya Validova, Jessica Uruchima, Goro Yamada, Alejandra Vives, Alina Schnake-Mahl, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Ariela Braverman, Brisa Sanchez, Hugo-Alejandro Santa-Ramírez, Laura Baldovino Chiquillo, Marcio Alazraqui, Monica Mazariegos, Mónica Serena Perner, Olga Lucia Sarmiento, Tamara Doberti, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez, Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ana Ortigoza

Womb to wisdom: Early-life exposure to midwifery laws and later-life disability

Hamid Noghanibehambari, Hesamaldin Bagheri, Mostafa Toranji, Hoa Vu and Nasrin Tavassoli

Do type, timing and duration of life course non-employment differentially predict dementia risk? An application of sequence analysis

Lucia Pacca, S. Amina Gaye, Willa D. Brenowitz, Kaori Fujishiro, M. Maria Glymour, Amal Harrati and Anusha M. Vable

The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era

Jess M. Meyer, Jarron M. Saint Onge and Catherine F. Siengsukon

More than one manifestation of agency: Relinquishing and/or retaining menstrual practices in Nepali migrant communities in the United States

Sara Baumann, Isabella M. Wegner, Sanjana Murthy, Katarina Schneiderman and Inga T. Winkler

Identifying Indigenous strengths for health and wellbeing: Targeting the legacy of colonial masculinities in Peru

Reshmi Mukerji, Jenevieve Mannell, Hattie Lowe, Maria Calderón, Blenda Milagros Abarca Diaz, Renan Espezua, Laura J. Brown and Jennie Gamlin

Tensions of time at the end (of life)

Alex Broom, Katherine Kenny, Nadine Ehlers, Henrietta Byrne and Phillip Good

Equity in health care and health: Contributions from health economics

John Cullinan and Paula Lorgelly

“I get to relate to my patients”: Latinx medical students and residents’ navigational capital in medical education

Nicole A. Perez, Sarah Medina-Aguirre, Pilar Ortega, Monica Vela and Laura E. Hirshfield

Global temporal trends in depression incidence among women of childbearing age: A 30-year analysis and projections to 2030

Wu Zhou, Bo Hei, Zhixin Liu, Yihao Liu, Zihan Ding and Meihua Li

Structural inequities and provider burnout in maternal health in the United States

Hyeyoung Oh Nelson, Ashlyn Lange, Maleeha K. Shah and Mercy Kibet

A multidimensional tool for quantifying structural racism: Application to adverse pregnancy outcomes in Chicago, Illinois

Alexa A. Freedman, Lauren S. Keenan-Devlin, Britney P. Smart, Renee M. Odom-Konja, Shanti U. Gallivan, Andrew D. Franklin, Amy H. Crockett, Linda M. Ernst, Ann Borders and Gregory E. Miller

Psychosocial adversities in adulthood among individuals raised with family members with disabilities

Anna Amilon, Stine Vernstrøm Østergaard and Rikke Fuglsang Olsen