Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2025, volume 379, articles C

Socioeconomic area deprivation and its relationship with dementia, Parkinson's Disease and all-cause mortality among UK older adults: a multistate modeling approach

May A. Beydoun, Michael F. Georgescu, Jordan Weiss, Nicole Noren Hooten, Hind A. Beydoun, Jack Tsai, Christian A. Maino Vieytes, Michele K. Evans and Alan B. Zonderman

Understanding the mental and physical health consequences of the U.S. citizenship exam for Rohingya refugees: Implications for policy and practice

Ifrah Mahamud Magan and Jessica R. Goodkind

Encounters between fields: Integrating military forces into the health field's epidemiological effort during COVID-19 in Israel

Liron Inchi, Baruch Shimoni, Batia Madjar and Shiran Bord

Making and disposing of life's ‘starting materials’: A focus group study of attitudes concerning reproductive scarcity and abundance in in vitro gametogenesis

Robbin Jeffries Hein, Anne Le Goff and Hannah L. Landecker

How concepts guide policy: an ethnographic study of the meaning making of ‘appropriate care’ in Dutch healthcare

Britt Kraaijeveld, Sietse Wieringa, Eivind Engebretsen and Jet Bussemaker

Excess neonatal mortality among private facility births in rural parts of high-mortality states of India: Demographic analysis of a national survey

Diane Coffey, Nikhil Srivastav, Aditi Priya, Asmita Verma, Nathan Franz, Alok Kumar and Dean Spears

GBTQ+ safe sex entanglements: Finding the bacterial in the age of resistant STIs and prevention innovation

Shiva Chandra, Alex Broom, Damien Ridge, Katherine Kenny, Michelle Peterie, Jennifer Broom, Bridget Haire, Lise Lafferty, Carla Treloar, Stephanie Raymond, Catriona Bradshaw, Tanya Applegate and Rebecca Guy

Nothing is so impactful as good theory: Evidence for the impact of the social identity approach to health on policy and practice

Tegan Cruwys, S. Alexander Haslam, Niklas K. Steffens, Catherine Haslam and Stephen D. Reicher

Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis

Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine and Sarah Abboud

Perception and sentiment analysis of palliative care in Chinese social media: Qualitative studies based on machine learning

Qi Zhou, Yuling Lei, Luwen Tian, Shanshan Ai, Yuting Yang and Yueli Zhu

Relationships between historical redlining, contemporary housing market dynamics, racial composition, and mental health in U.S. urban neighborhoods: A conditional process analysis

Jenny Wagner, Noli Brazil, Shani Buggs and Michelle Ko

Precarious employment in self-employment: A typology and impact on cardiovascular health conditions in Sweden

J. Gevaert, L. Mangot-Sala, M. Almroth, K. Badarin, D.L. Elling, E. Jonsson, S. Kvart, F. Lundh, P. O'Campo, K. Pan, E. Thern and T. Bodin

Gender discrimination in the workplace and the onset of problematic alcohol use among female wage workers: A longitudinal study in Korea

Seong-Uk Baek, Jin-Ha Yoon and Jong-Uk Won

Taking stock of youth substance use portrayals: A critical content analysis of Canadian news media, 2016–2024

Trevor Goodyear, Monique Sandhu, Claire Pitcher, Dana Dmytro, Bryn Shaffer, Sherri Moore-Arbour, Chris Gilham, Tara Bruno, Anne Gadermann, Johanna Sam, Nathan Ngieng and Emily Jenkins

Developing a social model for blood and plasma donation

Adam Easterbrook, Mary Berger, Kelly Holloway and Nick Bansback

How mobility-based exposure measures may mitigate the underestimation of the association between green space exposures and health

Yang Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Liuyi Song, Changda Yu and Yuhan Cui

Monitoring privilege for health equity: building consensus on indicators to monitor socioeconomic advantage through a modified Delphi survey

Amy Carrad, Ashley Schram, Belinda Townsend, Patrick Harris, Fran Baum, Lucie Rychetnik, Steven Allender, Melanie Pescud and Sharon Friel

Social and mental health pathways to institutional trust: A cohort study

Vincent Paquin, Diana Miconi, Samantha Aversa, Janique Johnson-Lafleur, Sylvana Côté, Marie-Claude Geoffroy and Sinan Gülöksüz

2025, volume 378, articles C

Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic: Instrumentalizing social life for biological control in Denmark's COVID-19 response

Jens Seeberg, Andreas Roepstorff and Mette Terp Høybye

Covering the long shadow: the moderating role of children's education on health disparity by social origin in Japan

Shingo Nitta

Mediating candidacy: Qualitative study of a link work intervention to support individuals with severe mental ill health to access dental care

Louise Laverty, Jasper Palmier-Claus, Rebecca Harris, Christopher Lodge, Neil Caton, Abigail Morris and Fiona Lobban

Pursuing a “normal” life of food: Families’ experiences of pediatric food allergy clinical trials

Jill A. Fisher

The quiet currency of age - A phenomenological study of older adults' roles in reverse ageism in senior living facilities

Shi Yin Chee

Mindfulness in the school curriculum? A nationwide cluster-randomized trial of the effectiveness of implementing a mindfulness-based intervention for 9–16-year-olds students in Danish elementary schools

Lise Juul, Morten Frydenberg, Emilie Hasager Bonde, Michelle Sand Beck, Katinka Goetzsche, Heidi Berg Nielsen and Lone Overby Fjorback

Voices from the water(s): Developing a salutogenic trace through swimming

Ronan Foley

Professional identities and new technologies of hepatitis C point-of-care testing

Anna Conway, Alison D. Marshall, Jason Grebely, Guillaume Fontaine and Carla Treloar

Legal gender recognition and the health of transgender and gender diverse people: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Ayden I. Scheim, Arjee J. Restar, Dougie Zubizarreta, Ruby Lucas, S. Wilson Cole, Avery Everhart, Kellan E. Baker and Maria I. Rodriguez

Silence as a manner within the doctor's epistemic posture during the diagnostic process: A case study in a French hospital

Antoine Glauzy

Public preferences for skin cancer prevention policies: a discrete choice experiment in three European countries

Sander Boxebeld, Niek Mouter and Job van Exel

Considerations for the epidemiological evaluation of hyperlocal interventions: A case study of the New York City overdose prevention centers

Bennett Allen, Brandi Moore, Victoria A. Jent, William C. Goedel, Khadija Israel, Alexandra B. Collins, Brandon D.L. Marshall and Magdalena Cerdá

Predicting healthcare costs with diagnoses recorded in primary and secondary care: an analysis of linked records

Shaolin Wang, Laura Anselmi, Yiu-Shing Lau and Matt Sutton

Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health difficulties over childhood: a longitudinal sex-stratified analysis using the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Yu Wei Chua, Daniela Schlüter, Anna Pearce, Helen Sharp and David Taylor-Robinson

Association between severity of physical intimate partner violence and neonatal mortality in Afghanistan: Survival analysis using Cox proportional hazard model

Abdul Ghani Khatir, Negina Rahman, Tolulope Ariyo and Quanbao Jiang

2025, volume 377, articles C

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

Christian Krekel, Georgios Kavetsos and Nicolas 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