Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2025, volume 369, articles C

Corrigendum to “An analysis of intersectional disparities in alcohol consumption in the US” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 363, December 2024, 117514]

Sophie Bright, Charlotte Buckley, Daniel Holman, George Leckie, Andrew Bell, Nina Mulia, Carolin Kilian and Robin Purshouse

Corrigendum to “The effect of public tolerance towards corruptive behaviour on healthcare efficiency and equity – The case of the UK's COVID-19 vaccination programme” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 361, November 2024, 117180]

Franziska Sohns, Stefano Ghinoi and Magdalena Langosch

Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries

Valerie Moran, Ellen Nolte, Marc Suhrcke and Maria Ruiz-Castell

Undiagnosed: Relational characteristics of mental health pre-diagnostic self-labeling

Gabriel Varela

The generation of hope: Optimism and cognitive status among Black Americans born before 1964

Katsuya Oi and Cleothia Frazier

Biobanking as a contentious issue in global health governance: Diversification and contestation of policy frames in international biobanking debates

Maria Weickardt Soares, Anna Holzscheiter and Tim Henrichsen

Food insecurity, intimate partner violence, and barriers to sexual and reproductive health care among women in Lorentzville, South Africa

Lucy Khofi, Lenore Manderson and Eileen Moyer

“He was not interested in pain”: The experience of pain in child sexual abuse as conveyed by adult survivors

Noga Tsur, Bella Klebanov, Ada Talmon and Carmit Katz

Living with the rare late-onset genetic disease CADASIL: Improvising “tactics” to appropriate biomedical knowledge and technology

Madeleine Akrich, Florence Paterson and Vololona Rabeharisoa

“I want to get out … I've got a child at home”: Intersubjectivity, reality disjunctures and distress in the care of people living with dementia in the acute hospital

Alison Pilnick, Rebecca O'Brien, Suzanne Beeke, Isabel Windeatt-Harrison, Lauren Bridgstock and Rowan H. Harwood

“It's a low-key thing of eugenics”: Disability reproductive injustice in barriers to cervical cancer screening during the COVID-19 pandemic

Meredith Evans, Kyara J. Liu, Alexandra Rego, Nkem Ogbonna, Sidrah K. Zafar and Hilary K. Brown

Dog companionship and cortisol levels in youth. A systematic review and meta-analysis

Humberto Peña-Jorquera, Sam Hernández-Jaña, Javier Sanchez-Martinez, Juan Pablo Espinoza-Puelles, Ricardo Martínez-Flores, Felipe Barreto-Schuch, Rodrigo Yáñez-Sepúlveda, Pedro Delgado-Floody, Gerson Ferrari, Kabir P. Sadarangani, Jorge Cancino-López, Joao Bento-Torres, Alexis Espinoza-Salinas, Emmanuel Stamatakis and Carlos Cristi-Montero

Mortality after prison release in England and Wales, 2019–2021: A comparative analysis of cause-specific death rates and risk profiles

Karen Slade, Lucy Justice, Thom Baguley, Erica Bowen, Gillian W. Shorter, Lyn Adamson, Amy Beck and Rohan Borschmann

The impact of China's low-carbon city pilot program on the health of children

Jiaoli Cai, Yue Li and Peter C. Coyte

A virtual assistant can persuade you to get vaccinated against the flu. Online dialogue as a tool of social influence in promoting vaccinations

Agnieszka Kozłowska, Tomasz Grzyb and Dariusz Doliński

Organizational characteristics associated with sustained participation in internal quality improvement: Findings from two waves of a national sample of physician practices in the United States

Vanessa B. Hurley, Amanda L. Brewster, Matthew J. DePuccio, Dorothy Y. Hung, A. James O'Malley and Karen E. Schifferdecker

(Dis)trust in the care of work related mental health problems in Brazil: Between multiple systems and shared lifeworlds

Fernanda Sousa-Duarte and Patrick Brown

Themes of togetherness. Examining space sharing sociality among older people

Eva Thulin and Bertil Vilhelmson

Expertise and the “new science” of eugenics

Margaret R. Eby

Examining the association between service coverage of UHC and global disease burden: A cross-country panel analysis

Tisha Chakma, Suzana Karim and Atonu Rabbani

Effects of extended working lives on depressive symptoms, physical, and cognitive health in middle and later life: Evidence from China

Hengyi Xu, Zhongmin Zhang, Xue Yang, Qin Yang and Ting Chen

Place-based access to integrated mental health services within substance use disorder treatment facilities in the US

George Pro, Harold W. Neighbors, Brittany Wilkerson and Tiffany Haynes

Medical uncertainty in the shadow of Dobbs: Treating obstetric complications in a new reproductive frontier

Mara Buchbinder, Kavita S. Arora, Samantha M. McKetchnie and Erika L. Sabbath

Care in an opioid substitution therapy daycentre

Esben Houborg, Sif Ingibergsdottir Mogensen, Mette Kronbæk, Kristian Relsted Fahnøe, Nanna Kappel and Katrine Schepelern Johansen

2025, volume 368, articles C

Corrigendum to ‘When reality knocks on the door. The effect of conspiracy beliefs on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and the moderating role of experience with the virus’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 356, September 2024, 117149]

Ádám Stefkovics, Péter Krekó and Júlia Koltai

Corrigendum to “Ambiguous animals, ambivalent carers and arbitrary care collectives: Re-theorizing resistance to social robots in healthcare” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 365, January 2025, 117587]

Tanja Ahlin and Anna Mann

Resistance, tensions and consent to digital working in healthcare

Dimitra Petrakaki, Petros Chamakiotis, Emma Russell and Andy Charlwood

Sibling love in adolescence and subsequent health and well-being in adulthood

Renae Wilkinson, Ying Chen, Matthew T. Lee, Richard G. Cowden and Tyler J. VanderWeele

“It's a reality that we in medicine should catch up with”: Physician's attitudes about self-sourced and managed abortion in the United States

Jennifer Karlin, Juliana Novaes, Shashi Sarnaik, Kelsey Holt, Jody Steinauer and Christine Dehlendorf

Corrigendum to “The pilot of a new patient classification-based payment system in China: The impact on costs, length of stay and quality” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 289, November 2021, 114415]

Mengcen Qian, Xinyu Zhang, Yajing Chen, Su Xu and Xiaohua Ying

Informal caregiver quality of life: Psychosocial and behavioral correlates of quality of life among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual caregivers in the Women's Health Initiative

Jennifer M. Jabson Tree, Katherine Buchman, Joel G. Anderson, Daniel Beavers and Michelle J. Naughton

Preparing for exclusion: The hidden curriculum of success in medical student guidebooks

Grace Franklyn, Tania M. Jenkins and Savannah Salato

The effectiveness of character strength intervention on severe mental illness in Hong Kong

Chaoran Sun and Sylvia Y.C.L. Kwok

Corrigendum to “Decolonising the field of violence against women and girls: A scoping review and recommendations for research and programming” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 357, September 2024, 117168]

Michelle Lokot, Marjorie Pichon, Beatriz Kalichman, Samantha Nardella, Jane Falconer, Nambusi Kyegombe and Ana Maria Buller

Observations of teamworking in a multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic: Bridging roles of podiatry and technology

Mary Lee, Winnie Teo, Huiling Liew and Jennifer Cleland

The effect of cigarette prices on smoking cessation in South Africa using duration analysis: 1970–2017

Nicole Vellios, Corne van Walbeek and G. Emmanuel Guindon

Healthcare payor management practices are associated with health system performance and population health

Stephen J. Dorgan, Timothy Powell-Jackson and Andrew Briggs

Effects of separating drug sales from treatment on medical disputes

Qinghong He, Gordon G. Liu, Xiangbo Liu and Daisheng Tang

Reputational revival and industry survival: A rhetorical analysis of tobacco industry evidence before a UK parliamentary select committee

Benjamin Hawkins and May CI. van Schalkwyk

Women in UK academic health economics: An evaluation of progress since the 1970s

Sally Sheard and Liza Caruana-Finkel

20-Year income volatility and cognitive function in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) cohort: A replication and extension of CARDIA findings

Katrina L. Kezios, Calvin L. Colvin, Leslie Grasset, Catherine dP. Duarte, M. Maria Glymour and Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri

Associations between adverse childhood experiences and health service utilisation, prescription claims, and school performance during adolescence

Shalini Wijekulasuriya, Reidar Lystad, Yvonne Zurynski, Reema Harrison, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Rebecca Mitchell

Politics negatively impacts women's mental health in Georgia: Depression, anxiety, and perceived stress from 2023 to 2024

Kaegan Ortlund, Madeline Chandler, Betty Lin, Michael Anastario and Stephanie M. Eick

Informal employment as a social determinant of health: A conceptual framework and research agenda accounting for context

Amanda E. Aronsson and Tim Huijts

“It does help but there's a limit …”: Young people's perspectives on policies to manage hot food takeaways opening near schools

B. Savory, C. Thompson, S. Hassan, J. Adams, B. Amies-Cull, M. Chang, D. Derbyshire, M. Keeble, B. Liu, A. Medina-Lara, O.T. Mytton, J. Rahilly, N. Rogers, R. Smith, M. White, T. Burgoine and S. Cummins

Longitudinal effects of the built environment on transportation and recreational walking and differences by age and sex: A systematic review

Tharindu Niwarthana Bandara, Carl Higgs, Gavin Turrell, Alysha De Livera, Lucy Gunn and Belen Zapata-Diomedi

The relationship between housing and asylum seekers’ mental health: A systematic review

Janelle Spira, Dafni Katsampa, Hannah Wright and Kemi Komolafe

The time-lagged effect of noise exposure on noise annoyance: The role of temporal, spatial and social contexts

Jiangyu Song, Suhong Zhou, Mei-Po Kwan, Guangwen Song, Jinying Long and Wanying Song

Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits

John Paul Kuwornu, Clifford Afoakwah, Isaac Koomson, Zephanie Tyack, David Brain, Sundresan Naicker, Qing Xia and Steven M. McPhail

The sociology of prescribing: A narrative review and agenda

Anthony K J. Smith