Social Science & Medicine

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2026, volume 389, articles C

Corrigendum to “Adventurous play for a healthy childhood: Facilitators and barriers identified by parents in Britain” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 323, April 2023, 115828]

Brooke E. Oliver, Rachel J. Nesbit, Rachel McCloy, Kate Harvey and Helen F. Dodd

Economic evaluation of participation in community led organisations for individuals living in disadvantaged areas in the UK

Helen Mason, Nicola Irvine, Sarkis Manoukian, Jack Rendall, Cam Donaldson, Artur Steiner, Michael J. Roy, Jennifer McLean, Michael P. Kelly, Marcello Bertotti, Karen Galway and Rachel Baker

Devolution, health and health inequalities in Greater Manchester

Nicholas Patrick Sweeney

From reporting to relating: Reimagining ePROMs in cancer symptom management

Karen S. Schaepe, Joan M. Griffin, Jennifer L. Ridgeway, Deirdre R. Pachman, Kathryn J. Ruddy, Sarah Minteer, Sandra A. Mitchell, Lila J. Finney-Rutten and Andrea L. Cheville

Birthplace, perinatal loss, and the parity—post-reproductive mortality relationship: Evidence from the Jim Crow-era American South

Cheryl Elman, Andrew S. London and Angela M. O'Rand

Narrating hope among relatives to patients with disorders of consciousness

Hanne Bess Boelsbjerg, Niklas Blond and Mette Terp Høybye

Protective and risk factors for cognitive decline: The role of sex and occupational status

Giulia Sebastianutto, Giovanna Boccuzzo, Sveva Salvi Bentivoglio, Sonia Montemurro, Veronica Pucci and Sara Mondini

Childless and sonless in India: Implications for subjective well-being in mid- and older adulthood

Kriti Vikram, Jinhan Liu and Suhyoon Choi

The contribution of comparative genomics to health geography research: A case study on the identification of sites at which M. ulcerans contamination occurs in Benin

Alexandra Boccarossa, Estelle Marion, Arnaud Lepetit, Martial Briand, Line Ganlonon and Sébastien Fleuret

Promises past and future - Gene therapy and the actualisation of future expectations

Eva Hilberg, Aleksandra Stelmach, Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek and Paul Martin

Rental assistance, housing insecurity, & well-being: Spillover effects of emergency rental assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Vincent A. Fusaro, Christopher Baidoo, Naoka Carey and Rebekah Levine Coley

Moonlighting and subjective wellbeing: Exploring the roles of quality time with children and time stress

Isaac Koomson, Lauren Ball and Amy Kirkegaard

Hegemonic femininity, motherhood, and alcohol in Australia

Maree Patsouras, Gabriel Caluzzi, Cassandra J.C. Wright, Emmanuel Kuntsche, Sarah MacLean and Sandra Kuntsche

Gender, sexuality and viral safety: A mixed-methods examination of the negotiation of risk and precautions through dating apps during a pandemic

Jaime García-Iglesias, Brian Heaphy, Neta Yodovich and Qian Xiong

Understanding patient lived experiences of hospital admission and aftercare following Acute Kidney Injury: A ‘Lifeworld’ perspective

Mark Jeffries, Kelly Howells, Duncan McNab, Caroline Sanders, Robbie Foy and Tom Blakeman

Despite all our rage: An autoethnographic analysis on the role of shared affect in dementia caregiving relationships

Kate Rossiter

Happy mothers, healthy minds: Maternal welfare and children's early development in the global south

Dao Le-Van and Tung Bui

Multiple social positions and well-being among Nordic adolescents: An intersectional MAIHDA analysis of the interplay between gender, age, immigrant background, family structure, and perceived socioeconomic status

Jasmine Gustafsson, Hanna Konttinen, Nelli Lyyra, Nina Simonsen, Charli Eriksson, Anne-Siri Fismen, Einar Thorsteinsson and Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti

Perceptions and misconceptions of PSA screening in Switzerland: A preference epidemiology study

Giovanni Spitale, Federico Germani and Nikola Biller-Andorno

Social inequality in health as a political topic in Denmark in the 21st century

Christopher Jamil de Montgomery and Karsten Vrangbæk

Risk and danger on the rise: Representation of intersex variations of innate sex characteristics in biomedical research

Brian W. King, Carmen Dayrell and Virginia Zorzi

Livable City and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults in China——Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Studies (CHARLS)

Zhixin Feng, Hongyu Chen and Jing Xie

Global, regional, and national burden of DALYs attributable to occupational risks, 1990–2021: Trends and projections to 2030

Xumin Zong, Huai Hu, Haojun Li, Yan Wang, Liqing Du, Chang Xu, Jinhan Wang, Huijuan Song, Ningning He, Manman Zhang, Kaihua Ji, Jingxing Sun, Hongbing Xu, Yeqing Gu and Qiang Liu

Measuring the spatial scale of structural racism and discrimination: Consequences for estimated life expectancy

John R. Hipp, Yuqing Wang, Nisha Gottfredson O'Shea, Robert W. Faris, Dorothy L. Espelage, Alberto Valido and Tamara Taggart

The effects of commuting and working from home arrangements on mental health

Ferdi Botha, Jan Kabátek, Jordy Meekes and Roger Wilkins

Experienced economic segregation and associated mental health inequalities across urbanicity

Yuxuan Zhou and Yi Lu

Effectiveness of a one-year teacher training program in delivering school-based mindfulness on schoolteachers' mental health: A nationwide cluster-randomized trial

Hanne Landgrebe Axelsen, Anna Glavind Müller, Lone Overby Fjorback, Katinka Goetzsche, Heidi Berg Nielsen and Lise Juul

Enhancing patient value co-creation via AI-enabled cases disclosure: The role of uncertainty reduction, patient empowerment and risk aversion

Limin Xiao and Xiaoyun Han

Testing the healthy immigrant effect on youth alcohol use: A longitudinal study

Lydia Muyingo, Sean P. Mackinnon, Simon B. Sherry, Sherry H. Stewart and Patricia J. Conrod

Predicting and explaining recurrent child abuse using interpretable machine learning: Evidence from national-level child abuse data in South Korea (2017–2020)

Donghun Kim, Ting Jiang, Kihyun Kim, Jae-Won Kim and Yongjun Zhu

Urban parks and public health: A multi-scale assessment of park and Covid-19 dynamics on public health in the US

Mahran Gamal N. Mahran, Haoying Han, Mahmoud Mabrouk and Salma Antar A. AbouKorin

COVID-19, economic downturn, and long-term trajectories of population mental health: Evidence from two nationally representative British birth cohorts at the intersection of gender and socioeconomic position

Darío Moreno-Agostino, George B. Ploubidis and Jayati Das-Munshi

Social participation and cognitive function in Chinese older couples: Urban-rural variations in partner effects

Anqi Chen and Shannon Ang

Bridging the digital divide in the pharmaceutical industry: A future research agenda

Mario Miozza, Salvatore M. Lombardo, Marco Galvagno and Luca Magni

Unequal care, unequal health care? Gender differences in health care use after adult care access

Wanying Wang and Joan Costa-Font

Momentary associations between time-varying social contacts and depressive symptomatology in older adults: A GPS-based mobility survey study

Dan Zou, Giovanna Fancello, Andrea Montanari, Suhong Zhou and Basile Chaix

Revisiting the energy-happiness paradox: Energy hardship, housing tenure, and well-being

Gum-Ryeong Park, Bo Zhang and Haitao Du

“At the mercy of the State”: Transgender and nonbinary young adults’ experiences navigating restrictive healthcare legislation

Shannon K. Carter, J. Scott Carter, Sylvia Stewart, Dahlia Wrubluski, Eric W. Schrimshaw and Lindsay A. Taliaferro

Environmental noise, air pollution, and momentary stress: A context- and mobility-based approach

Wanying Song and Mei-Po Kwan

Adverse childhood experiences partially mediate sexual minority disparities in depression, anxiety, and suicidality in a population-based study

Benjamin D. Smart, John E. Pachankis and Richard Bränström

Post-traumatic stress disorder and memory function in older adults exposed to civilian conflict: Findings from the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA)

Claire Potter, Joanne Feeney, Elizabeth Fowler, Amy Jayne McKnight, Frank Kee and Bernadette McGuinness

Being and becoming spouseless in later life: Social support and participation as moderators of psychological well-being

Wen-Chiung Chang, Shiau-Fang Chao, Hui-Chuan Hsu and Ju-Ping Lin

Vouchers to increase fruit affordability in Nigeria and Vietnam

Kate Ambler, Inge D. Brouwer, Alan de Brauw, Sylvan Herskowitz, Truong Tuyet Mai, Giulia Pastori, Folake Samuel, Oluyemisi Shittu and Elise F. Talsma

Incentivizing co-occurring disorder diagnoses through blended payments

Daniel Baslock, Jennifer I. Manuel and Victoria Stanhope

Migrants' and immigrants' understandings of health and disease. Medical diversity in two diverse urban neighbourhoods

Kevin Becker, Frauke Kraas and Carsten Butsch

User-AI intimacy in digital health

Runyu Shi and Dimitra Petrakaki

Corrigendum to ‘Informal payments in Czech healthcare: The blurry line between greed, need, and gratitude’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 384, November 2025, 118519]

Kristyna Basna, Jaroslava Pospisilova and Radim Bures

Corrigendum to ‘Livable city and depressive symptoms among older adults in China——Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Studies (CHARLS)’ [Soc. Sci. Med., volume 389 (2026) 1–12/ 118809]

Zhixin Feng, Hongyu Chen and Jing Xie

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