Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2025, volume 374, articles C

Conjugal visitation rights, privileges and standards of provision inside European prisons: A socio-legal study of extant literature

Marie Claire Van Hout, Ulla-Britt Klankwarth and Heino Stöver

Local-scale deprivation is associated with the spatial distribution of poor diet quality in adults: A cross-sectional population-based study in Switzerland

Hugo-Alejandro Santa-Ramírez, Usama Bilal, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Mayssam Nehme, Idris Guessous, Silvia Stringhini and Stéphane Joost

Conceptualisation and measurement of healthy ageing: Insights from a systematic literature review

Andreea Alexandra Piriu, Maria Vittoria Bufali, Giulia Cappellaro, Amelia Compagni and Aleksandra Torbica

Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy

Sharon Baute

From egg & sperm to reconceiving medical education: Why teaching about metaphor is essential to remedy injustice

Noelle Molé Liston, Jennifer Karlin and Emily Martin

The role of dignity in food assistance: Participant experiences with a free meal kit program

Joslyn Brenton, Alyssa Tindall, Karen Glanz and Senbagam Virudachalam

Race and gender disparities in pain treatment and opioid prescribing

Peter Joseph Torres

How medical students learn about the social: Opportunities and limitations in service learning and volunteering

Brian Tuohy, Lauren Olsen and Hannah Calvelli

Is walkability healthy for all? Using the National Environmental Database to examine equity in the environmental health characteristics of pedestrian-supportive neighborhoods in the U.S

Lindsay M. Braun, Eric H. Fox and Lawrence D. Frank

A qualitative examination of how direct and indirect police violence shapes perceptions of police, sense of safety, and the mental health of Black adults in Chicago

Katherine G. Quinn, Melissa L. Neal, Jesus Valencia, Jana L. Hirschtick, DeJuan Washington, Jacquelyn Jacobs and Bijou R. Hunt

Identifying the need for care in rheumatoid arthritis: A Candidacy 2.0 analysis of lived experiences

Sharon Koehn, C. Allyson Jones, Anh Pham, Claire E.H. Barber, Jessica Widdifield, Lisa Jasper, Douglas Klein and Neil Drummond

Is the dual process model of bereavement effective among older bereaved parents in China? An examination of the oscillation process and the effects of overloading

Lei Yang and S V Subramanian

Fundamental causation and candidacy: Harnessing explanatory frames to better understand how structural determinants of health inequalities shape disengagement from primary healthcare

Mhairi Mackenzie, David Baruffati, Calum Lindsay, Kate O'Donnell, David Ellis, Sharon Simpson, Geoffrey Wong, Michelle Major and Andrea Williamson

Rural-urban migration dynamics and double burden of malnutrition among women across 29 low and middle income countries

Jinseo Kim, Seung-Ah Choe, Hwa-Young Lee, S.V. Subramanian and Rockli Kim

Communication analysis of the COVID-19 infodemic by medical practitioners in China: A mixed methods study

Teng Zuo, Lingfeng He, Yuan Zheng, Zezheng Lin, Zelin Xu and Ning Li

The social must be stabilised: How are the social needs of young people with social work involvement characterized in their mental health case notes?

Tessa Morgan, Francesca Crozier-Roche, David Graham, Jack Smith, Taliah Drayak, Sophie Mary, Jeanette Cossar, Julia Mannes, Dihini Pilimatalawwe, Pamela Parker, Barry Coughlan, Rick Hood, Dustin Hutchinson, Matt Woolgar and Robbie Duschinsky

Momentary health behaviour cues are moderated by educational attainment: Findings from two ecological momentary assessment studies

Benjamin Schüz, Mario Wenzel and Christopher M. Jones

Identifying the key predictors of positive self-perceptions of aging using machine learning

Mohsen Joshanloo

Using a novel “Perceived Self-Group Hierarchy” measure to predict White Americans’ health via feelings of “falling behind”

Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Erin Cooley, Dylan Vlasak, Jaclyn A. Lisnek, Ryan F. Lei, Camryn Yeager and Nicholas Elacqua

Evaluate the health risks and impact pathways of precarious employment in the context of globalization: A national longitudinal research from 2017 to 2023 in Japan

Dan Li, Masaaki Yamada, Wenmeng Feng, Liuchun Xiang, Shuang Gao and Haisong Nie

Efficacy of a culturally tailored intervention on perceived stigma among women living with HIV/AIDS in China: A randomized clinical trial

Zhongfang Yang, Shuyu Han, Xiang Qi, Jing Wang, Zhijing Xu, Weiyu Mao, Yaguang Zheng, Yue Zhang, Bei Wu and Yan Hu

2025, volume 373, articles C

Does bundling reminders with messages debunking misconceptions improve the demand for preventive health services? A randomized controlled trial among adults with hypertension in Punjab, India

Caterina Favaretti, Vasanthi Subramonia Pillai, Margaret McConnell, Mohammed K. Ali, Seema Murthy, Adithi Chandrasekar, Shirley D. Yan and Nikkil Sudharsanan

Where there are no visitors: Improvising care in a pediatric hospital in Zambia

Jean Hunleth, Lindsey Kaufman, Emma Bunkley, Sarah Burack, Sam Miti and Comfort Asante

Work-family interface and mental health inequalities between women and men: A gendered exposure model across Canadian provinces

Jaunathan Bilodeau, Nancy Beauregard, Victor Y. Haines and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée

Hemophilia tweets in Turkey: A rare disease and scarce policies

Serra Sezgin, Canan Sümeyra Gün, Mehmet Can Uğur and Selmin Şenol

An observational study of intergenerational sex differences in mortality in Aotearoa New Zealand

M. Campbell, M. Hobbs, K. Mathias and P. Eggleton

Living arrangements and chronic disease accumulation among native-born and immigrant older adults in Europe

Su Yeon Jang, Anna Oksuzyan, Frank J. van Lenthe, Mikko Myrskylä and Silvia Loi

Socio-demographic, family, and health-related predictors of maternal mental health trajectories during eight years postpartum in a national cohort of 17,886 mothers in Taiwan

Yi-Han Chang, Shu-Sen Chang, Jui-fen Rachel Lu and Tung-liang Chiang

Self-harm and interpersonal violence attributable to high alcohol use in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease study 2021

Zuxing Wang, Yu Ye, Yikai Dou, Lili Chen and Zhili Zou

Race, wealth and health: The role of reparations

Shannon Whittaker, Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe, Danya Keene, Akilah Dulin, Trace Kershaw and Joshua Warren

“Creating ourselves:” A qualitative analysis of DIY HRT practices in nonbinary adults

Heather Welty

Understanding the dual role of individual position in multidimensional social support networks and depression levels: Insights from a nomination-driven framework

Chuyao Peng, Xiaoya Wang, Meng Zhang, Dandan Tong, Jibo Li, Tianwei Xu, Jiang Qiu and Dongtao Wei

The mediating role of food insecurity in the relationship between income poverty and depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation: A nationwide study of Korean adults

Seong-Uk Baek and Jin-Ha Yoon

Impact of the 2009 WIC revision on infant and maternal health: A quasi-experimental multi-state study

Guangyi Wang, Marianne Bitler, Dean Schillinger, Martin Halla, Steven Stillman and Rita Hamad

Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance

Haoming Song

“We do not stop being Indigenous when we are in pain”: An integrative review of the lived experiences of chronic pain among Indigenous peoples

Lívia Gaspar Fernandes, Cheryl Davies, Chrystal Jaye, Jean Hay-Smith and Hemakumar Devan

A syndemic perspective on food insecurity, gestational diabetes, and mental health disorders during pregnancy

Sarah Oresnik, Tina Moffat, Luseadra McKerracher and Deborah M. Sloboda

Horizontal equity in primary care financing: An assessment of payments to general practices in England, 2014–2022

Charlene Lo, Laura Anselmi and Matt Sutton

When youth record police: Investigating officer intrusion and mental health repercussions among Black youth in Baltimore City, Maryland

Dylan B. Jackson, Rebecca L. Fix, Alexander Testa, Lindsey Webb and Tamar Mendelson

Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions

Theresa M. Marteau, Eleni Mantzari and Gareth J. Hollands

Marital choice, spousal communication, and contraceptive self-efficacy and use among newly married girls in India: Evidence from the UDAYA study

Pintu Paul, Ria Saha, Lotus McDougal and Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan

The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study

Torill Tverborgvik, Marianne Riksheim Stavseth, Nicoline Toresen Lokdam, Amalie Jordan and Anne Bukten

Healthy competition? Market structure and the quality of clinical care given to standardised patients in Tanzania

Timothy Powell-Jackson, Jessica J.C. King, Christina Makungu and Catherine Goodman

Deteriorating care home residents as ‘matter out of place’ in both care homes and hospitals: An ethnographic study

Fawn Harrad-Hyde, Chris Williams and Natalie Armstrong

Gender affirming medical care access: The role of healthcare stereotype threat and social support in a national probability sample of transgender adults

Madeline Smith-Johnson and Katherine Alexander

Social and environmental adversity predict poor mental health in a Milwaukee, WI community sample

C.W. Tomas, S. Timmer-Murillo, K. Vine, J. Krukowski, S. Purdle, J. Janusiak, J.R. Mantsch, L. Torres, J. Harris and T.A. deRoon-Cassini

Cross-cultural validation and psychometric testing of the Indonesian version of the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey for people living with diabetes

Anggi Lukman Wicaksana, Raden Bowo Pramono and Pei-Shan Tsai

The role of place-based consciousness in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A survey analysis across rural and urban subgroups in the U.S

Ramsey W. Ash, Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, Anne N. Sosin, Erika L. Moen and Christine Gunn

“We have a good neighbor policy”: How street vendors access (or not) water and toilets

Fernanda Deister Moreira, Marcilia Maria Germano Alves, Leo Heller and Sonaly Rezende

Making sense of absent-yet-present others: Representing the liminal vegetative state beyond life and death

Edoardo Zulato, Paula Castro, Carolina Silvia Quagliarella and Lorenzo Montali

Traditional medicine in Filipino patients’ therapeutic itineraries

Gideon Lasco, Vincen Gregory Yu and Clarissa David

Health-related quality of life, service utilisation and costs for anxiety disorders in children and young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Sithara Wanni Arachchige Dona, Kaitlyn McKenna, Thi Quynh Anh Ho, Shalika Bohingamu Mudiyanselage, Monique Seymour, Ha N.D. Le and Lisa Gold

Detection of potential causal pathways among social determinants of health: A data-informed framework

Michael Korvink, Madeleine Biondolillo, Julie Willems Van Dijk, Anjishnu Banerjee, Christopher Simenz and David Nelson

“There's no real urgency when it comes to us”: Critical discourse analysis of Black communities' lived experience with opioid overdose response in Indianapolis area

Dong-Chul Seo, Leonardo Alba-Lopez, Naomi Satterfield, Shin Hyung Lee, Charlotte Crabtree and Francesca Williamson

Complex decision-making of people's use of opioid agonist therapy during pregnancy: Troubling the concept of ‘non-compliance’

Rose A. Schmidt, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Nat Kaminski, Ashley Smoke, Akosua Gyan-Mante, Ningwakwe George, Tara Gomes, Brian Rush and Carol Strike

Pain by proxy: An ethnographic study on the relational co-construction of the agency of young children in healthcare encounters

Esther Lermytte, Alice Scavarda, Ana Patrícia Hilário, Luigi Gariglio, Joana Mendonça and Melissa Ceuterick

Child stunting, thinness, and their academic performance in Ethiopia: A longitudinal study

Getenet Dessie, Jinhu Li, Son Nghiem and Tinh Doan

Breaching the professional social contract to drive system innovation: Nurse managers and the emergence of a new professional group

Charlotte Croft and Trish Reay