Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2025, volume 370, articles C

Corrigendum to ‘Does the UK-public's aversion to inequalities in health differ by group-labelling and health-gain type? A choice-experiment’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 269, January 2021, 113573]

Simon McNamara, Aki Tsuchiya and John Holmes

Corrigendum to “Examining the perception, frequency, and intensity of domestic violence inflicted by Palestinian wives against their husbands” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 358, October 2024, 117269]

Oqab Jabali

Ethical and legal implications of health monitoring wearable devices: A scoping review

Emma Capulli, Ylenia Druda, Francesco Palmese, Abdul Haleem Butt, Marco Domenicali, Anna Giulia Macchiarelli, Alessandro Silvani, Giorgio Bedogni and Francesca Ingravallo

Intracommunity intersectional discrimination and its impact on psychological distress and smoking behavior among sexual minority men from minority ethnic backgrounds

Randolph C.H. Chan, Marcus Shengkai Lam, Limin Mao, Sujith Kumar Prankumar and Horas Wong

Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography

Alix Boirot, Geraldine Cazorla, Patrizia Carrieri and Marta Lotto

Childhood adversity, early school leaving and long-term social benefit use: A longitudinal mediation analysis of a population-wide study

Signe K. Bennetsen, Bertina Kreshpaj, Signe Hald Andersen, Tjeerd Rudmer de Vries, Karsten Thielen, Theis Lange, Naja Hulvej Rod and Leonie K. Elsenburg

Understanding the experience of employees in assisted living facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative case study

Yaqi Yuan

(Mis)Informed decision-making: How U.S. healthcare providers use science to influence pregnancy options counseling

Lucy Tu

Whose assets? Individual and household income and savings and mental health in a longitudinal cohort

Catherine K. Ettman, Emma Dewhurst, Rajesh Satpathy-Horton, C. Ross Hatton, Ben Thornburg, Brian C. Castrucci and Sandro Galea

Individual- and community-level women's empowerment and complete use of maternal healthcare services: A multilevel analysis of 34 sub-Saharan African countries

Yun-Jung Eom, Hyejun Chi, Amiya Bhatia, Hwa-Young Lee, S.V. Subramanian and Rockli Kim

Heteronormativity and cisgenderism in medical training: A scoping review of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and plus (LGBTQ+) issues in medical training in Asia

Yiu Tung Suen, Eliz Miu Yin Wong, Randolph C.H. Chan, Suchon Tepjan and Peter A. Newman

How hospitals’ goal setting, feedback, and process standardization capacity impact provider payment reforms

Sian Hsiang-Te Tsuei and Winnie Chi-Man Yip

Characteristics of geographic environments that support the health and wellbeing of young people with disability: A scoping review

Amanda Alderton, Zoe Aitken, Belinda Hewitt, Elroy Dearn and Hannah Badland

Retirement and health plan choice

Tobias Müller, Mujaheed Shaikh and Lukas Kauer

Self-management of everyday female health: The role of self-care agency, patient-centered communication, and technology features in the intention to adopt period-tracking apps

Qiwei Luna Wu and Elizabeth Babin Pask

Social media influencers and the Papageno effect: Experimental evidence for the suicide-preventive impact of social media posts on hope, healing, and recovery

Florian Arendt, Benedikt Till, Armin Gutsch and Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

Children's access to mental healthcare: Parental perceptions and resource constraints

Nicole Black, David W. Johnston and Jemimah Ride

Perceived discrimination among migrants in Germany: Does social capital moderate harmful effects on mental health?

Louise Biddle, Barbara Stacherl and Ellen Heidinger

Trading-off outcomes and policy characteristics of a Universal Basic Income and a Minimum Income Guarantee: Evidence from an exploratory mixed-method preference-based study

Neil McHugh, David Bomark, Rachel Baker, Verity Watson, Neil Craig and Cam Donaldson

Exposure to behaviour change techniques and self-management tasks in a nationally-implemented digital intervention for type 2 diabetes self-management: Analysis of usage data

Rhiannon E. Hawkes, Antonia M. Marsden, Sarah Cotterill, Jack S. Benton and David P. French

Expanding contexts of medicalization: The role of policy legacies, race, and class in the prevalence of treatment courts

Meagan Rainock

Adverse childhood experiences and loneliness: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Aisling Curtis, Martina Luchetti, Cian Prendergast, Elayne Ahern, Ann-Marie Creaven, Emma M. Kirwan, Eileen K. Graham and O’Súilleabháin, Páraic S.

Causal mediation of the association between educational attainment and late-life cognitive function by trajectories of social participation

Yu-Tien Hsu, Francine Grodstein, Tzu-Hung Liu, Chia-Rui Chang, Ichiro Kawachi and Jarvis T. Chen

Diminished returns of maternal education on children's vaccination status for indigenous women in Peru

Ali Al-kassab-Córdova, Edward Mezones-Holguin and Jay S. Kaufman

Causally-informative analyses of the effect of job displacement on all-cause and specific-cause mortality from the 1990s Finnish recession until 2020: A population registry study of private sector employees

Stephanie Zellers, Elissar Azzi, Antti Latvala, Jaakko Kaprio and Terhi Maczulskij

Effects of emotional expression and platform prompts on patient selection: A multi-method study on online question and answer platforms

Jiaxin Xue, Zhaohua Deng and Bin Wang

“The system's not getting my grandchild”: A qualitative study of caregiver relationship formation for children born to incarcerated mothers

Bethany Kotlar, Aisha Yousafzai, Carolyn Sufrin, Monik Jimenez and Henning Tiemeier

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