Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2026

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

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2026, volume 394, articles C

Corrigendum to ‘Broadening the lens: a commentary on Sheard and Cauana-Finkel's account of women's progress in UK academic health economics’ [Soc. Sci. Med. 382, October 2025, 118411]

Anita Patel, Mireia Jofre Bonet, Katharina Hauck, Marisa Miraldo, Hema Mistry and Shainur Premji

Family structure, “Kinlessness”, and cognitive decline: Social connectedness and contextual variation in Europe

Christine A. Mair and Katherine A. Ornstein

Corrigendum to ‘Association of socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease risk with economic development across 57 low- and middle-income countries: Cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative individual-level data’ [Soc. Sci. Med. 365, January 2025, 117591]

Callum Brindley, Tom Van Ourti, Igna Bonfrer and Owen O'Donnell

Managing menstruation while working in the Australasian ambulance service environment

Lisa Hobbs, Scott Devenish, Louise Reynolds, Anita Westwood and Brianna Larsen

Mass incarceration and its spillover effects: a scoping review of incarceration rates and health

Louisa W. Holaday, Karenna K. Thomas, Jaelen I. King, Alyssa A. Grimshaw, Jessica T. Simes and Emily A. Wang

Pathways to personalisation: The practice of BRCA stratification

Clara Felicity Fabian-Therond

Adolescence in social context: Longitudinal associations of 15 social factors with health and well-being

Renae Wilkinson, Eric S. Kim, Ying Chen, Julianne Holt-Lunstad and Tyler J. VanderWeele

Enacting assemblages of care: How young adults seek support for suicidal ideation

Kate LaForge

Socioeconomic disadvantage explains neighborhood racial inequality in opioid-related mortality

Karl Vachuska and Michael Topping

Family income trajectories and adverse outcomes in late adolescence: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Gianmaria Niccodemi, Lateef Akanni, Davara L. Bennett, Michelle Black, Dougal Hargreaves, Luke Munford, Nicholas Kofi Adjei and David C. Taylor-Robinson

Hygiene narratives as public health discourse: Constructing the national body and national identity in wartime China (New China Daily & Liberation Daily, 1937–1945)

Yanyang Ma and Meifang Zhang

Interdisciplinary expertise to advance human-centered explainable AI

Chloe R. Bennett, Heather Cole-Lewis, Stephanie Farquhar, Naama Haamel, Boris Babenko, Oran Lang, Mathias S. Fleck, Ilana Traynis, Charles Lau, Yun Liu, Ivor Horn and Courtney Lyles

Epistemic injustice in healthcare professional practice: A scoping review

Elizabeth Hornyak-Bell, Aliki Thomas, Allison Chrestensen, Andrea Quaiattini, Patrick Lavoie, Marie-Ève Caty, Marie-Josée Drolet, Annie Rochette and Elizabeth Anne Kinsella

Exploring heuristics and assessing their impact in discrete choice experiments: a proof-of-principle

Stella M. Marceta, Nicholas V.R. Smeele, Joffre D. Swait and Jorien Veldwijk

Social determinants of brain structure and cognition

Mahsa Mayeli and David Matuskey

Preventable tragedies: A longitudinal analysis of state firearm laws and K-12 school shootings in the United States (2000–2019)

Jack G.R. Wippell, Dana L. Haynie and David Riedman

An intersectional approach to understanding systolic blood pressure distribution in a large French study: a MAIHDA analysis

Léna Silberzan, Santos, Fé·e, Ainhoa Ugarteche-Perez, Emmanuel Wiernik, Nathalie Bajos and Michelle Kelly-Irving

Shift work and risk of chronic kidney disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Jiyoun Jung, Cheol Whee Park, Dong-Wook Lee, Seong-Sik Cho, Seilin Uhm, Jongin Lee and Mo-Yeol Kang

Perceived ideological polarization, trust in science and healthcare, and COVID-19 vaccination intention: A four-wave cross-lagged mediation panel analysis

Andrej Kirbiš and Stefani Branilović

“It should have been my decision”: A mixed methods investigation of contraceptive coercion among U.S. patients with and without disabilities

Lindsay M. Cannon, Tiffany L. Green, Meaghan E. Bethea and Laura E.T. Swan

The neuro-fiction of addiction immunizations

Kristin Kay Barker, Erin F. Madden, Preston Lawayne Lowe and Katherine Rickers

Sauna culture improves physical and mental wellbeing in the UK through social connection and ritual

M. Newson, R. McGrath, I. Mosina, G. Reason and L. Peitz

Exploring gender disparities in cognitive performance in later life: The role of social participation across European welfare regimes

Alina Schmitz, Martina Brandt, Michal Levinsky, Melanie Wagner and Ella Cohn-Schwartz

Police contact and self-rated health among LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people

Stefan Vogler

2026, volume 393, articles C

Corrigendum to ‘From egg & sperm to Reconceiving medical education: Why teaching about metaphor is essential to remedy injustice’ [Soc. Sci. Med. volume 374 (2025) 117957]

Noelle Molé Liston, Emily Martin and Jennifer Karlin

Associations between skin scars and body image – A systematic review and meta-analysis

Whitney L. Quong, Nina Hadžimustafić, Cornelia M. Borkhoff, Aaron M. Drucker and Joel S. Fish

Health among sexual and gender minority people affected by armed conflict and forced displacement: Call for a biocultural and minority stress framework

James K. Gibb, Delaney J. Glass, Besan Jaber and Roula Kteily-Hawa

Selling masculinity – A qualitative analysis of gender representations in social media content about “low T”

Emma Grundtvig Gram, Barbara Mintzes, Tessa Copp, Ray Moynihan, Anthony Brown, Patti Shih and Brooke Nickel

Definitions of non-intimate partner and family-related femicide/feminicide: A scoping review

Elizabeth A. Cook, Caroline Miles and Merili Pullerits

Who is most at risk, and when? Gender-differentiated patterns and risk heterogeneity of adolescent depression in China: Evidence from a large-scale national study

Chengxi Hu, Yiqiao Qi, Wenfei Winnie Wang, Wei Yan and Kaiping Peng

The impact of incarceration on health: A global systematic review

Lindsay A. Pearce, Rebecca R. Shuttleworth, Jesse T. Young, Rohan Borschmann and Stuart A. Kinner

Close a pit, kill a community: An ecological analysis of coal mining history and deaths of despair in England and Wales

Eurwen H. Williams and Christopher W.N. Saville

The health and wellbeing of incarcerated trans, gender diverse, and non-binary people: An international scoping review

Matthew Maycock, Tarra Excell, Annette Brömdal, Penelope Abbott, Riki Lane and Paul Leslie Simpson

Policing and care in mental health crisis response: Boundary work and the politics of safety and authority

Mark D. Fleming, Dani MacVicar, Aoife M. McDermott and Amanda L. Brewster

Legal but informal abortion: Reproductive governance and health(care) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Mari Valdur

Residential segregation of Black and Latinx older adults and brain imaging outcomes

Lilah M. Besser, Sarah Forrester, Diana Mitsova, Pauline Maillard, Charles DeCarli, Rachel Whitmer and Oanh L. Meyer

Kinlessness, sole family survivorship, and the mental and physical health of U.S. older adults

Susan L. Brown, I-Fen Lin, Francesca A. Marino and Kagan A. Mellencamp

Towards a care continuum: A socio-material analysis of intra-acting public-private maternity care in South Africa

Nicole Miriam Daniels

Bordering in Canadian healthcare: How the criminalization of immigrants with precarious status undermines their children's right to health

Monica D. Gagnon

Type of water and sanitation facilities and risk of non-partner sexual violence: A multilevel analysis across 31 low- and middle-income countries

Hyejun Chi, Abigail Puno-Balagosa, Anoop Jain, S.V. Subramanian and Rockli Kim

Loneliness predicts mortality risk via the erosion of purpose in life

Páraic S. O'Súilleabháin, Emma M. Kirwan, Milou Fredrix, Martina Luchetti, Damaris Aschwanden, Máire McGeehan, Angelina R. Sutin, Antonio Terracciano, Yannick Stephan and Gráinne McKenna

Corrigendum to ‘Parenthood and mental health: Findings from an English longitudinal cohort aged 32’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 383, October 2025, 118471]

Rosie Mansfield and Morag Henderson

Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality in older Japanese adults: a 6-year prospective cohort study, modified by marital status

Tomoki Kawahara, Yukako Tani, Katsunori Kondo and Takeo Fujiwara

Corrigendum to ‘No one wants to be a good patient: Intersectionality and agency in the sick role’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 382, October 2025, 118372]

Weiwei Lu

The connections among interactions with nature, diet quality, and sustainable eating: Insights from a mixed methods study

Dahlia Stott, Michael Bruneau, Jonathan M. Deutsch, Rebecca Ippolito, DeAndra Forde, Mara Z. Vitolins, Jennifer A. Nasser and Brandy-Joe Milliron

"Empower and be empowered": Unveiling how community engagement influences residents' perceived health in high-density high-rise housing

Weixuan Chen, Yuxiang Wang, Izzy Yi Jian and Kar Him Mo

Departures from health universalism? A value set of AP-7D in Japan as an attempt to develop a “culture-specific” preference-based measure

Takeru Shiroiwa, Yasuhiro Morii, Eri Hoshino, Tatsunori Murata, Richard Norman, Brendan Mulhern, Nan Luo, Donna Rowen and Takashi Fukuda

Religiosity and justification of euthanasia: multilevel moderation of beliefs in life after death

Bruno Frutuoso Costa and Helena Carvalho

Nexus between biomedicalization and Traditional Chinese Medicine: conceptualization of subhealth

Yue Zhang and Jingjing Su

Risk adjustment to improve fairness and efficiency of resource allocation: a case from the Emilia Romagna region in the decentralized Italian SSN

Josefa Henriquez, Gianluca Fiorentini and Francesco Paolucci

Criminalizing homelessness: Longitudinal associations of police encounters and homeless sweeps with psychosocial health among the unhoused community in Los Angeles

Jessie Chien, Benjamin F. Henwood and Randall Kuhn

Ethno-cultural risk of ante-natal lead exposure among South Asian women in the UK

Sharmind Neelotpol, Alastair WM. Hay and Mike W. Woolridge

Participation in the house-ball community as a social determinant of HIV care and prevention outcomes among transgender women of color

Alexander Furuya, Cho-Hee Shrader, Makella Coudray, Ichiro Kawachi, Asa Radix, Jenesis Merriman, Denton Callander and Dustin T. Duncan

A critical analysis of the Australian public consultation on childhood vaccine mandate introduction

Sayali Gore, Katie Attwell, Emma Campbell, Jane Williams, Stacy M. Carter, Julie Leask and Kerrie Wiley

“It's more than just being in a place, it's more like a peace of mind”: Ontological security among residents of a transitional housing program implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic

Megan Comfort, Jennifer Amegashie, Jordana Hemberg, Richa Ruwala and Jennifer Lorvick

Why urban communities in low- and middle-income countries participate in global health research: A scoping review and fuzzy cognitive mapping summary

Marie-Catherine Gagnon-Dufresne, Iván Sarmiento, Sarah Cooper, Md Mizanur Rahman, Protyasha Ghosh, Neil Andersson and Kate Zinszer

Elucidating the role of unemployment in complex social inequalities in mental health: An intersectional mediation analysis of the cross-sectional Spanish National Health Surveys

Antonio Moreno-Llamas, Amaia Bacigalupe, Unai Martín, Miguel San Sebastián and Per E. Gustafsson

Spatially heterogeneous and neighborhood impacts of deep tubewells on childhood diarrhea in rural Bangladesh

Varun Goel, Mark M. Janko, Katerina EB. Beach, Md Yunus, Md Taslim Ali, Md Al Fazal Khan, Md Nurul Alam, A.S.G. Faruque, Paul L. Delamater, Marc L. Serre, Mark D. Sobsey, Md Sirajul Islam and Michael Emch

Family care reflections and expectations among 2nd generation Turkish immigrants in Norway: A qualitative study

Büşra Nur Temür, Nilgün Aksoy, Lillian Karlsen and Anne-Sofie Helvik

Bringing together realist and economic approaches in the evaluation of health and social care interventions: a scoping review of theoretical, methodological and practical implications

Andrew Fletcher, Sonia Dalkin, Rob Anderson, Rachel M. Baker, Cam Donaldson, Vivienne Hibberd, Meghan Bruce Kumar, Felicity Shenton, Gill Westhorp, Geoff Wong, Judy Wright and Angela Bate

Why do inpatients bypass secondary hospitals? A discrete choice analysis of reputation, specialty matching, and travel time in China's hierarchical healthcare system

Jiarui Han, Liping Fu, Wenhao Hu, Yingyi Zhang and Kunmeng Li

The gendered landscape of informal caregiving: Cohort effects and socioeconomic inequalities in England

Maria Petrillo, Ricardo Rodrigues, Matt Bennett and Gwilym Pryce

The widowhood effect across diverse partnerships: Mortality risk after partner loss in same-sex and mixed-sex unions

Estelle Knoblauch, Stefanie Mollborn, Kaare Christensen and Anna Oksuzyan

Gambling and wellbeing: Uneven gains and deficits across risk levels

David Forrest, Ian McHale, Kaori Narita and Ayan Orujov

Corrigendum to ‘“Learning to stay silent”: Coping, help-seeking and mitigation strategies for intimate partner violence against men in Kenya’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 388, January 2026, 118694]

Jacinta Mukulu Waila, Olaf Horstick, Domnick Onyango Mitiro, Christine Wayua Musyimi and Michael Lowery Wilson