Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2025, volume 377, articles C

Passing on the flame: Do mega sports events promote health behaviours?

Christian Krekel, Georgios Kavetsos and Nicolas R. Ziebarth

Recurrent major depression, employment and transitions to unemployment and disability benefits

Quentin Cau, Coralie Gandré and Pascale Lengagne

Manoeuvring rural mobility policy for active and sustainable travel

Chloe Asker, Laura McGuire, Tessa Pollard, Stewart Barr, Judith Green, Cassandra Phoenix and Cornelia Guell

The persistence of the hegemonic and patriarchal healthcare model during women-centered reforms of Costa Rica's public health system

Ingrid Gómez-Duarte, Karol Rojas Araya, Verónica Gamboa Lizano, Rocío Sáenz Madrigal, Wendy López Vargas, Wilmer Sancho, Silvia Salazar Villegas, Jeimy Torres and Arachu Castro

Declaring racism a public health crisis

Claire Laurier Decoteau, Cal Lee Garrett and Tirza Ochrach-Konradi

“I will prove that ‘disabled’ is just a word”: Phenomenology, adaptive athletes and the adaptabilities model of disability

Norah Anita Schwartz and Christine Alysse von Glascoe

Gender, socioeconomic, and built environment differences in the association of participation in an incentivized walking program with physical and social activity: A prospective cohort study among older adults in Japan

Zhen Du, Koryu Sato, Kimihiro Hino, Katsunori Kondo and Naoki Kondo

Beyond fear of backlash: Effects of messages about structural drivers of COVID-19 disparities among large samples of Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White Americans

Neil A. Lewis, Norman Porticella, Jiawei Liu, Teairah Taylor, Jamila Michener, Colleen L. Barry, Rebekah H. Nagler, Sarah Gollust, Steven T. Moore, Erika Franklin Fowler and Jeff Niederdeppe

Anticipating, experiencing, and responding to disenfranchising talk: The experiences of people with type 1 diabetes

Brooke H. Wolfe, Olivia Watson and Elizabeth A. Hintz

Experiential caring and the mobilisation of peerhood in group clinics

Jackie van Dael, Sara Shaw and Chrysanthi Papoutsi

An (un)restricted living: a qualitative exploration of the mental health and well-being of people living with HIV in England

Vasiliki Papageorgiou, Lucy Cullen, T Charles Witzel, Alex Sparrowhawk, Flavien Coukan, Janey Sewell, Alison Rodger, Carl May and Fiona Burns

The voice of sacrifice: The silence of healthcare professionals in the service of productivity. The case of a French hospital

Antoine Glauzy and Aude Montlahuc-Vannod

Gender inequality in immigrants’ mental health: The legal status gradient

A. Nicole Kreisberg

Cancer framing and psychological characteristics in online cancer diaries: A mixed-methods study in China

Lisai Yu, Yuhang Li and Chenghui Wu

Widening disparities in all-cause and despair-related mortality among Swedish youths: Disentangling selection and causation

Björn Högberg and Simone Scarpa

An absence of accountability: Evidence of employers’ failure to measure and manage employee health benefits administration

Sara J. Singer, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Margaret C. Nikolov

Macroeconomic antecedents of involuntary psychiatric commitments in Denmark

Parvati Singh, Marquianna Griffin, Camilla Hvidtfeldt and Lars H. Andersen

Evictions, legal counsel, and population health: A mixed methods study

Will von Geldern

Racial/ethnic disparities in all-cause and cause-specific death among patients with colorectal cancer in the United States from 1992 to 2021: a registry-based cohort retrospective analysis

Xiangyuan Qi, Hongying Wang, Yutong Wang, Xiaomei Wu and Bo Zhu

Suicide and ill-defined/undetermined deaths in urban areas in Japan: a national database study, 2008–2022

Takashi Yamauchi, Takashi Shimazaki, Tadashi Takeshima, Kimiharu Iwadate and Machi Suka

The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India

Eva Fiks

2025, volume 376, articles C

Interembodiment beyond kin: Leveraging partibility within microbial FemTech

Rebecca Howes-Mischel and Megan Tracy

Racial differences in residential mobility after the Flint Water Crisis: A survival analysis

Samantha Gailey, Richard Casey Sadler, Alan Harris, Sarah Jenuwine, Jacqueline Dannis and Nicole M. Jones

“The Littlest Creatures that Live Inside Us”: Public understandings influencing microbiome-related behaviors

Melissa K. Melby, Eglee Zent, Sheryl Ariste, Rimmon Shoukat and Mark Nichter

Equal before luck? Well-being consequences of personal deprivation and transition

Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicińska and Melcior Rossello Roig

Whole genome, part population: Protection, representation and postcolonial politics in precision medicine

Laura E. Navne, Sarah Wadmann, Ingelise Olesen, Torben Hansen, Anne Cathrine B. Thuesen and Mette N. Svendsen

“Feeling your emotions is an act of rebellion:” How climate cafés across Canada support youth wellbeing during the climate crisis

Madison E. Cooper, Ashlee Cunsolo, Breanne Aylward, Shelby S. Yamamoto and Sherilee L. Harper

Navigating healthcare during the pandemic: Experiences of racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario's Peel Region

Andrea Rishworth, Kathi Wilson, Matthew Adams and Tracey Galloway

Socioeconomic position and type 2 diabetes: Examining the mediating role of social cohesion—The Maastricht Study

Jeroen D. Albers, Annemarie Koster, Bengisu Sezer, Rachelle Meisters, Jeffrey A. Chan, Anke Wesselius, Miranda T. Schram, Bastiaan E. de Galan, Jeroen Lakerveld and Hans Bosma

Provincializing bodyminds, decolonizing disability

Giorgio Brocco, Laura A. Meek and Jane L. Saffitz

Queer Tax: Examining 2SLGBTQ+ Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour's experiences of accessing assisted reproductive technologies

Michelle W. Tam, Amaya Perez-Brumer and Lori E. Ross

Influence of sex on the incidence of colorectal cancer: considering the influence of gender mechanisms

Amalia Martinez, Nadine Hamieh, Hélène Colineaux, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Pascale Grosclaude, Emmanuel Wiernik, Cyrille Delpierre and Sébastien Lamy

Web and/or MD?: Empirically testing the relationships between internet use and visits to healthcare professionals

Cayley Ryan-Claytor

Impact of a cancer diagnosis on educational, employment, health-related quality of life, and social outcomes among young adults: A matched cohort study of 401 cancer survivors aged 15–24 in England

R. Mattock, A. Martin, A.E. Beckett, O.C. Lindner, D. Stark and R.M. Taylor

Associations of war exposures, post-migration living difficulties and social support with (complex) PTSD: a cohort study of Ukrainian refugees resettled in Denmark

Karen-Inge Karstoft, Ludvig Daae Bjørndal, Anne Agathe Pedersen, Nataliia Korchakova, Séamus A. Power, Thomas A. Morton, Vibeke J. Koushede, Marie H. Thøgersen and Brian J. Hall

Mapping fertility trajectories: An endarkened narrative inquiry of Black women's fertility experiences and pathways through infertility treatment

Isabel Morgan, Christine Tucker, Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist, Stephanie Baker, Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, Chantel L. Martin, Natalie Hernandez and Lasha Clarke

“We know what to do for you, but we can't do it:” How actionability is coordinated and contested in genomics research

E. Carolina Mayes

Medical education as liberatory praxis: Experiences from the UCLA "structural racism and health equity" curriculum

Cydni Baker, Stephanie Bueno, Lizeth Carrillo, Elizabeth Flores, Matthew Hing, Guneet Kaur, Daniel Kennedy, Kathley LeTran, Dailyn Rodriguez, Shamsher Samra, Hanin Sheikh and Lindsay Wells

Disability stigma resistance by parents at the intersection of psychosocial and structural levels

Alice Scavarda and Graham Scambler

The cost of being a legal patient: Judicial use of rape defendants' and victims’ psychiatric records in South Korea

Joohyun Park

Working the boundaries of ‘whining’ – how patients and care professionals make sense of informal complaining practices

Jelmer Brüggemann, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund and Lisa Guntram

Can care ethics help healthcare systems address their environmental harms? Findings from focus groups with members of the UK public

Gabrielle Samuel, Miranda MacFarlane and Sarah Briggs

“No peace in my heart”: Exploring psychosocial problems experienced by women in relation to water insecurity and inadequate sanitation in an informal settlement, Kenya

Joan J. Kimutai, Crick Lund, Wilkister N. Moturi, Seble Shewangizaw and Charlotte Hanlon

Inflammation and minority stress: A moderated mediation model of childhood adversity and mental health in young men who have sex with men

Laura H. Dosanjh, Cynthia Franklin, Yessenia Castro, Bridget Goosby, Fiona N. Conway, Frances A. Champagne, Luis A. Parra, Jeremy T. Goldbach and Michele D. Kipke

2025, volume 375, articles C

Intensity Matters: Heterogeneous impact of cigarette tax reform on drinking behaviors by smoking intensity

Mingyeong Park and Hyelim Son

The clustering of disadvantage in different life dimensions across ethnic groups: A network analysis of indicators of precariousness in the HELIUS study

Leonie K. Elsenburg, Mary Nicolaou, Henrike Galenkamp, Jeroen Lakerveld and Karien Stronks

Too close for comfort: Intergenerational blame and disillusionment in social work supervision in the West Bank, Palestine

Anan Fareed, David S. Byers and Khalid Hreish

Impact of retirement transition on health, well-being and health behaviours: critical insights from an overview of reviews

Giacomo Pietro Vigezzi, Chiara Barbati, Elena Maggioni, Sari Stenholm, Anna Odone, A. Amerio, C. Ardito, P. Bertuccio, G. Costa, d’Errico, A., L. Gentile, A. Odone and G.P. Vigezzi

Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing

Tom Worters, Christina McKerchar, Leah Watkins, Ryan Gage and Louise Signal

Empowering individuals to adopt artificial intelligence for health information seeking: A latent profile analysis among users in Hong Kong

Jingyuan Shi, Xiaoyu Xia, Huijun Zhuang, Zixi Li and Kun Xu

Resilience of the acute sector in recovery from COVID-19 pressures

Laia Bosque-Mercader, Simon Conroy, Daniel Lasserson, Russell Mannion, Catia Nicodemo and Raphael Wittenberg

The impact of minimum wages on overall health and well-being: Global evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos, Cahit Guven, Aydogan Ulker and Carol Graham

Under pressure: Assessing the relationship between job loss and mental health of young adults in Vietnam

Richard Freund, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Douglas Scott and Le Thuc Duc

Provision of primary healthcare centers and women's healthcare-seeking behaviour: Evidence from Bangladesh

Mohammad Riaz Uddin

Measurement invariance and differential item functioning of a care staff proxy measure of nursing home resident dementia-specific quality of life (DEMQOL-CH): do care aides' first language, and care aides' and residents’ ethno-cultural background matter?

Matthias Hoben, Sevilay Kilmen, Janice Keefe, Hannah M. O'Rourke, Sube Banerjee and Carole A. Estabrooks

Are we gatekeeping trauma? A conceptual model to expand criterion A for invisible, identity-based, and systemic traumas

Tanya C. Saraiya, Alexandria G. Bauer, Devin E. Banks, Delisa G. Brown, Amber M. Jarnecke, Chantel T. Ebrahimi and Donte L. Bernard

Abrasion: a phenomenological study of inequity in workplace-based assessment in pediatrics

Hannah L. Kakara Anderson, Layla Abdulla, Pricilla Cabral, Marjan Govaerts, Dorene F. Balmer and Jamiu O. Busari

Ageing in place or stuck in place: A critical qualitative study on older adults’ independence across six municipalities in Norway

Linda Aimée Hartford Kvæl