Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2026

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

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2025, volume 387, articles C

To what extent does the onset of limiting health condition co-occur with poverty entries across European countries and educational groups?

Aapo Hiilamo

Threshold effects between spatial access to medical resources and life expectancy: a 19-year longitudinal study in Hong Kong

Xinyi Zou, Yi Lu and Ying Zhou

The social life of health-promotion messages: Message effects in complex information environments

Christin Scholz, Hang-Yee Chan, Hanneke Hendriks and Eva A. van Reijmersdal

The long arm of childhood: The association between early-life indoor air pollution exposure and cognitive performance in later life

Xu Zong

Defining infertility: The varied criteria people in two regions of Uganda use to identify infertility in themselves and others

Suzanne O. Bell, Simon P.S. Kibira, Haley L. Thomas, Sarah Nabukeera, Sande Slivesteri, Irene Tenda, Caitlin Kennedy and Caroline Moreau

Sparking justice under the aegis of pragmatism: A mentorship program for Black and Indigenous students in Canadian medicine

Csilla Kalocsai, Oshan Fernando, Maclite Tesfaye, Sophie Weiss, Ayelet Kuper, Jill Tinmouth, Nick Daneman, Maydianne Andrade and Mireille Norris

Examining the social prescription process: Barriers, facilitators, and the role of health information technology

David Haynes, Maya Wedlow, Kevin Gilliam, Rebekah Pratt and Timothy J Beebe

Health logics in and beyond the laboratory: Medicine, public health, and pandemic governance in Denmark

Charlotte Nørholm, Jens Seeberg, Andreas Roepstorff and Mette Terp Høybye

“Hiding symptoms and balancing work, family and relationships”: Australian women discuss menopause and the midlife collision

Katrina Wood, Simone McCarthy, Hannah Pitt, Melanie Randle, Grace Arnot and Samantha L. Thomas

Public sector innovation and the constraints of ‘platform thinking’: An account of Johnson & Johnson's adenoviral vector vaccines

Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder and Christopher J. Morten

How is a large-scale reform perceived by citizens in Finnish primary health care?

Laura Kihlström, Ilmo Keskimäki, Henna Paananen, Satu Paatela, Markku Satokangas and Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen

Corrigendum to “Temporal stability of preferences: The case of COVID-19 vaccines in Australia and New Zealand” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 383, October 2025, 118417]

My Tran

Bonus of the leave: the impact of maternity leave extension on children's health in China

Ailin Mao, Yu Fu and Xiaoman Li

The evolution of support networks among unmarried childless older men in rural China

Wenqian Xu, Chunyan Kong, Marianne Granbom and Fang Zhao

Should we all go to college? Revisiting educational benefits for memory aging in a large-scale study

Katsuya Oi

Integrating healthcare financing for refugees into national health systems: Findings from a rapid review of the literature

Maria Paola Bertone, Natasha Palmer and Sophie Witter

“Trying to get down here when the dealer's closer”: Place and participation in clinical trials for substance use disorders

Kaitlyn Jaffe, Didier Jutras-Aswad and Lindsey Richardson

Exploring the psychosocial impacts of the 2015 Aliso Canyon natural gas blowout: Tracing an ‘invisible’ disaster through a novel Disaster Invisibility Framework

Kathleen A. Lynch, Tamra Loeb, Charles Gravereaux, Sydney Monte-Sano, Anh Hoang, Christina Batteate, Honghu Liu, David M. Abramson and David P. Eisenman

Reciprocity, moral accounting work and the limitations of the concept of altruism: Motives for participation in a UK epidemiological cohort study

Kirsten Bell, Sophie Day, Paul Elliott and Helen Ward

The stakes of stimulant use, psychosis, and antipsychotic treatment among youth who use drugs: A longitudinal qualitative study

Trevor Goodyear, Madison Thulien, Alexandra Anghel, Allie Slemon, Mazal Jensen, Martha J. Ignaszewski, Roberto Sassi, Steve Mathias, Emily Jenkins, Rod Knight and Danya Fast

Equity in the governance of antimicrobial resistance surveillance: Global experts’ perspectives

Raphael Aguiar, Arne Ruckert, Fiona Harris, Antoine Boudreau LeBlanc, Luís Pedro Carmo, Michael Davies-Venn, Roger Keil, Cécile Aenishaenslin and Mary E. Wiktorowicz

Pilot investigation of the social group with low mobility and doubly disadvantageous co-exposure to green space and outdoor artificial light at night (ALAN)

Yang Liu, Mei-Po Kwan and Zhihang Liu

Factors influencing the adoption of Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Insights from a realist synthesis

Evaline Langat, Hailay Abrha Gesesew, Lillian Mwanri and Paul R. Ward

Residential segregation, housing cost, and smoking behaviors in Black Americans

Debarchana Ghosh, Xin He, Arunima Dasgupta, Asli McCullers, Bhumika Desai, Tiffany Saavedra, Nathaniel Woodard, Valerie Aldana, Beverly R. Williams, Eddie M. Clark, Mario Schootman, Crystal L. Park and Cheryl L. Knott

Navigating patients’ word-of-mouth: Attribution theory and the dynamics of self-empowerment in elective medicine

Song, Yiping (Amy), Tom Joonhwan Kim, Peng Zuo and Haosheng Fan

Targeting ‘average Jane’: The co-modification of for-profit nursing home care in the Netherlands

L. De Brabandere, J. Schuurmans, O. van der Woerd, R. Bal and I. Wallenburg

Birth-parent perspectives on safety and trust in inpatient postpartum health care

Amelia N. Gibson, Jasmine L. Garland McKinney, Karen Sheffield-Abdullah, Alison M. Stuebe and Kristin P. Tully

Prenatal drug use criminalization and health system avoidance: Evidence from births in Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee, 1989–2019

Emilie Bruzelius, Seth J. Prins, Lisa M. Bates, Kristen Underhill, Marian Jarlenski and Silvia S. Martins

2025, volume 386, articles C

Music and singing as arts-based methods to facilitate participatory spaces for co-production in migration health research: A mixed methods study

Fran Garry, Anne MacFarlane, Helen Phelan, Ahmed Hassan, Jon Salsberg, Padraig MacCarron and Anna Papyan

The mental health of female and male homemakers: A longitudinal study using Dutch population register data

Lea Kröner, Deni Mazrekaj, Tanja van der Lippe and Anne-Rigt Poortman

The hidden curriculum undermines teaching about health literacy and clear communication, promoting inequities in care

Cliff Coleman, Samantha Birk, Katie Stowers, Christine Mullowney and Marie Chisholm-Burns

Beyond past-due bills: The varieties of medical debt used to finance healthcare

Elizabeth C. Martin

Hospital consolidation and quality: Opening the behavioral black box

Mark V. Pauly, Lawton Robert Burns, Alejandra Benitez and Michael Sielski

Taboo trade-off aversion in choice behaviors: A discrete choice model and application to health-related decisions

Nicholas V.R. Smeele, Sander van Cranenburgh, Bas Donkers, Maartje H.N. Schermer and Esther W. de Bekker-Grob

Social-spatial residence patterns and adolescent mental health: Investigating the influences of residential segregation, neighborhood social cohesion, and race on persistent, distressing psychotic-like experiences in the United States

Kirsten L. Wade, Michael Kramer and Benson Ku

How professionals respond to disruptive effects of artificial intelligence on their jurisdiction: The role of interactive governance

Qin Chen, Hongchuan Wang, Chengcheng Ma and Peng Ru

Tackling wicked problems through street-level diplomacy: the case of antimicrobial stewardship in Northern Europe

Matthew McKenna, Carla Rodrigues, Patrick Brown, Hannah Bradby and Nicola Gale

Mothers’ level of education and infant health. Causal effects of the introduction of a school reform in Norway

Jostein Grytten and Irene Skau

Income inequality modified adolescent substance use trajectories from 2018-19 to 2020–21: Findings from the COMPASS study

Stephen Hunter, Urvi Rai, Amy B. Crandall-Nickolet, Karen A. Patte, Scott T. Leatherdale and Roman Pabayo

Inter-identity threats and opportunities shaping professional influence for the Allied Health Profession (AHP) healthcare workforce: a study of identity paradox

Sarah E Crozier, Carol Atkinson, Mike Bresnen and Peter Goodwin

“I read a bit of information”: Epistemic markers as a resource for enacting patients’ agency

Aleksandr Shirokov

Beyond LGBTQ+: Centering QT2S lived experiences in body image research

Byron E. Upshaw, Souksavanh T. Keovorabouth and Felina M. Cordova-Marks

Adolescents and young adults' preferences for sexual and reproductive health services in Ethiopia: Evidence from three discrete choice experiments

Melaku Birhanu Alemu, Richard Norman, Yuanyuan Gu, Tigest Tamrat, Daniel Gashaneh Belay, Jaya A.R. Dantas, Gavin Pereira and Gizachew A. Tessema

Longitudinal network analysis of resilience factors and mental health symptoms among healthcare workers during a public health emergency

Nur Hani Zainal, Cheryl Yunn Shee Foo, Irene Teo and Sharon C. Sung

How does accommodation inspire communication? Examining affective and cognitive paths linking accommodation and family communication about health

Kun Peng, Qingrui Li and Yu Zheng

How does social tie strength work? A panel study exploring the effects of pro-e-cigarette content from peers, influencers, and brands on social media

Luxi Zhang, Sha Sarah Qiu and Xinshu Zhao

Even with diet and exercise, Ozempic use reduces perceived effort and praiseworthiness of resulting weight loss

Maria Bachmakova, Mey Bahar Buyukbabani, Vilius Dranseika, Rebecca C.H. Brown, Katrien Devolder, Nanette Ryan, Julian Savulescu, Jim A.C. Everett, Ivar Hannikainen and Brian D. Earp

The price of mobility: How migration shapes health outcomes in China

Qianqian Huang, Jianjun Zhou, Zhaopeng Xu, Feng Jiang and Lufa Zhang

Preference inversion in discrete choice experiments: A novel test of the emoji scale

Thao Thai, Lidia Engel, Jemimah Ride, Brendan Mulhern, Richard Norman and Cathrine Mihalopoulos

Patterns of marital residence and spousal violence among married people in Kogi state, Nigeria

Lanre Abdul-Rasheed Sulaiman

The carceral state beyond bars: Pretrial surveillance as a structural determinant of health

Erin Eife and Brian Tuohy

Childhood SES gradients in adult functional limitations: Does state-level macro-economic context matter?

Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell, Samia Sultana, Carol D. Ryff, Eric S. Kim, Markus Jokela, S.V. Subramanian and Ichiro Kawachi

Pre- versus post-COVID-19 pandemic comparison of kindergarten teacher-reported child development in multiple Canadian jurisdictions

Marc Jambon, Caroline Reid-Westoby, Eric Duku, Barry Forer, Nathalie Goulet, Martin Guhn, Jessie-Lee McIsaac, Nazeem Muhajarine, Nathan Nickel, Anne-Marie Smith, Jean Paul Lefebvre and Magdalena Janus

Eyes of the storm: Biographical disruption and political context of ocular trauma victims during the 2019 Chilean uprising

Carlos A. Salas, Lorena Nunez Carrasco and Francisca Marquez

Creating livable lives: A qualitative exploration of life after homelessness

Maja Lindegaard Moensted and Carolyn Day

Corrigendum to “The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile” [Soc. Sci. Med., Volume 329, July 2023, 116030]

Thomas A. Lowe, Louise Meijering and Billie de Haas