Social Science & Medicine

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2025, volume 382, articles C

Ethnic and racial social identity, socioeconomic position, and women's bladder health

Sonya S. Brady, Heather A. Klusaritz, Chloe Falke, Sheila Gahagan, Jeni Hebert-Beirne, Sarah B. Hortsch, Kimberly Kenton, Cora E. Lewis, Terri H. Lipman, Gerald McGwin, Jesse N. Nodora, Jenna M. Norton, Katlin Nuscis, Dulce P. Rodriguez-Ponciano, Kyle D. Rudser, Siobhan Sutcliffe, Eliza Wilson-Powers and Shayna D. Cunningham

Trajectories of loneliness in later life – Evidence from a 10-year English panel study

Giorgio Di Gessa, Valeria Bordone and Bruno Arpino

Factors that influence unproven stem cell intervention seeking behavior: A qualitative analysis of U.S. patients considering or having undertaken unproven stem cell interventions

Omar Kawam, Xuan Zhu, Sara Watson, Charlene Martin-Lillie, Jennifer Arthurs, David T. Eton, Lila J. Finney Rutten, Shane Shapiro, Jon C. Tilburt and Zubin Master

From dealer to doctor: A case study examining how Purdue Pharma sought to leverage racial health disparities to attenuate flagging OxyContin sales

Emily Rosenman, Ruth K. Buck, Nafisa Anjum, Lucy Thompson, Justin Rist, Ledeebari Banuna, Erik Dolgoff, Sanae Hartmann, Sophie Lelei, Zixuan Feng and Louisa M. Holmes

The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education

Hannah L. Kakara Anderson and Justin L. Bullock

Mitochondrial replacement techniques: The perspectives of mitochondrial disease specialists in Germany

Jacquelyne Luce

Sex and gender differences in the public stigmatization of persistent somatic symptoms: a systematic review

Aranka V. Ballering, Peter L.B.J. Lucassen, Donald G. van Tol, Liesbet Goubert and Piet Bracke

Intergenerational occupational mobility and health in the United States

Hyeyun Jeong, Jiahui Xu, John Robert Warren, Liying Luo, Eric Grodsky and Chandra Muller

Did COVID-19 vaccine enforcement work? Evidence from northwestern and northern Uganda

Melissa Parker, Bob Okello, Peter Kermundu, Bono E. Ozunga, Moses Baluku, Grace Akello, Hayley MacGregor, Melissa Leach and Tim Allen

Understanding associations between sexual identity change and the mental health of lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the United Kingdom through longitudinal survey

Veena Muraleetharan and Catherine L. Saunders

Local government spending tradeoffs in the Great Lakes Region: Criminal legal spending, community investments, and violent death

Aaron Gottlieb, Cheryl DiMonte, Kathryn Bocanegra, Youngjin Stephanie Hong and Anna Rose Peck-Block

Overcoming Health Fears: How do online peers help patients with chronic pain?

Jasmina Rueger, Wilfred Dolfsma and Rick Aalbers

Chronicity rhetoric in health and welfare systems inhibits patient recovery: a qualitative, ethnographic study of fibromyalgia care

Caroline Cupit, Teresa Finlay, Catherine Pope, Rosemary Hollick, Gareth T. Jones, Louise Locock, Gary J. Macfarlane, Paul McNamee, Kathryn R. Martin, Peter Murchie, Ernest Choy, Sue Ziebland, Karen Walker-Bone, Chris Eccleston, David A. Williams and Neil Basu

A randomised control trial on the impact of nudges, information and incentives on food choices of vulnerable families

Toni Mora, Eleonora Fichera, Beatriz G. López-Valcárcel, Blanca Raidó-Quintana and Pedro Rey-Biel

“Good mothers, lazy mothers”: Analyzing impacts of individual responsibility discourse in maternal and child healthcare in Vanuatu

Chelsea Wentworth and A. Emiko Blalock

Haunted by ableism: Ghosts of the past, present, and future in medical education

Neera R. Jain

Policy response matters: A textual analysis highlights indirect Covid-19 impacts in Israel

Merav Cohen and Daniel E. Orenstein

Defining abortion beyond the clinic: Lay perspectives of abortion from a multi-state cross-sectional survey

Gentry Carter, Robin E. Jensen, Jami Baayd, Caitlin Quade and Jessica Sanders

Examining the relationship between contemporary job typologies and dimensions of health at the intersection of race and gender

Grace E. Venechuk

The associations between intergenerational mobility of income and cognitive function in midlife–The Young Finns Study

Amanda Nurmi, Teemu Vepsäläinen, Katja Pahkala, Elina Puolakka, Laura Pulkki-Råback, Marko Elovainio, Markus Juonala, Nina Hutri, Mika Kähönen, Terho Lehtimäki, Eero Jokinen, Tomi P. Laitinen, Päivi Tossavainen, Leena Taittonen, Jorma S.A. Viikari, Olli T. Raitakari and Suvi P. Rovio

Frequent callers to the emergency medical services: A mixed-methods study of call patterns, reasons for calling, and wellbeing

Tine Bennedsen Gehrt, Camilla Brændstrup Laursen, Marie Kryger Lock, Claus Bossen, Linda Huibers and Ulla Væggemose

Medicines in motion: An ethnographic exploration of the informal cross-border pharmaceutical trade in Africa

Kate Hampshire, Heather Hamill, Simon Mariwah, Samuel Asiedu Owusu, Daniel Amoako-Sakyi and Gerry Mshana

Use of a digital health benefit to maintain employees’ productivity while trying to conceive

Natalie Henrich, Alison Brinson, Smriti Karwa and Hannah R. Jahnke

Iatrogenic injustice: an institutional ethnography of Fitness to Practise hearings

Gemma Hughes, Francesca Ribenfors, Sara Ryan, Louise M. Wallace, Rosalind H. Searle, Arne Mueller, Mari Greenfield and Annie Sorbie

The expert eye – Navigating ambiguity in clinical breast radiology

Emma Grundtvig Gram, John Brandt Brodersen and Alexandra Brandt Ryborg Jønsson

Autism diagnosis in Wales: The case of governance-driven medicalisation in care pathways

Michael Arribas-Ayllon

Stratified reproduction and threats to reproductive justice for immigrants: Decision-making for fertility using an ecological model

May Sudhinaraset, Rebecca Woofter and Priscilla Huang

Transcending trauma and embracing survivance in testimonies from survivors of the Beauval Indian Residential School of Canada

Rachel L. Burrage, Babe Kawaii-Bogue and Joseph P. Gone

Examining the link between housing characteristics and individual mental health within the context of socio-spatial inequality in China

Zurong Liang and Wanting Ren

Gender disparities in water-related knowledge, perceptions, and governance in rural Ghana: insights from a qualitative study augmented by Natural Language Processing

Lucía Nadal, Caroline Delaire, Bashiru Yachori, Ranjiv Khush and Valerie Bauza

“Why you should (not) use semaglutide?”: A critical discourse analysis on health professionals’ videos of semaglutide for weight loss on Douyin

Xiang Huang

Uncertainties, risks, or hope? Managing embryos in a multidisciplinary team of PGT

Jiaqi Liu, Mei Ding, Jianfeng Zhu and Dong Dong

“Don't vape, nobody uses these poisonous sticks”: A content analysis of adolescents' self-generated anti-smoking and anti-vaping messages

Sofie Vranken, Femke Geusens, Caroline Christiaens, Kathryn Greene and Kathleen Beullens

The effects of engagement in arts and cultural activities on adolescent mental health: Results from a large UK panel study

Sam Hugh-Jones and Luke Munford

Charting a path forward toward integrating macrolevel phenomena, marginalization, and health equity principles in into dissemination and implementation science

Hannah LF. Cooper, Kelli Hall, Cam Escoffery, Livingston, Melvin “Doug”, Jessica Sales, Anna Mullaney, Whitney Rice, Umed Ibragimov, Michelle Kegler, Claire Sterk, Chandra Ford and Lisa Bowleg

Mental health problems among adolescents in foster family care: Prevalence and trends from 2004 to 2022

Hilma Forsman

Corrigendum to ‘Military experience and depression: a prospective multi-cohort analysis across nations’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 381, September 2025, 118291]

Xiaohan Zhu, Yushan Du, Mingxing Wang and Chao Guo

Slow mobility & medicine: A critical review

Becky P.Y. Loo and Ting Lian

“Shō ga nai yo ne”: Interembodied experiences of menstrual pain among young Japanese women

Maura Stephens-Chu

Socioeconomic disparities in hypertension and diabetes among older adults in South Korea: a trend analysis from a national survey, 2011–2023

Bokyoung Choi, Jihee Choi, Jihwan Lee, Eunhee Choi and Soong-nang Jang

The racialized logics of clinical policing of pregnant bodies in the United States

Katharine McCabe

Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception and DNA testing

Petra Nordqvist, Leah Gilman, Caroline Redhead, Marie Fox, Nicky Hudson, Fiona MacCallum and Lucy Frith

Female house ownership drives the positive association between matriliny and women's health in Meghalaya (India)

Loïa Lamarque, Banrida Langstieh, Michel Raymond and Alexandra Alvergne

Towards a decolonial heat-health nexus: Disrupters, enablers and energy properties of heat from the 19th century to the present day

Joshua Dao-Wei Sim and Laurie Parsons

Cash transfer and a psychological intervention: Impact on alcohol outcomes and household welfare in India

Joseph Ugbede Ejima, Parmod Kumar and Arjunan Subramanian

Spirit of hope: Diminished hopelessness mediates the serial relation between spiritual experiences, reduced stress, and positive affect in transdiagnostic and healthy individuals

L.E. Ptasczynski, E. Haller, A. Küttner, K. Schöniger, R. Herrmann, J. Selle, M. Uhlig, J. Andreev, L. Fleischer, L. Brunner, P. König, E. Zwiky and R. Redlich

Why people hesitate about dementia screening: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Jiahui Jin, Benjamin Junting Li and Yin Leng Theng

The long shadow of suicidal ideation: The impact of offspring suicidal ideation in adolescence on parental cognitive function 20 years later

Keun Young Kwon, Juho Lee, Angelina R. Sutin and Jinho Kim

Trauma as a workaround: Recognizing chronic pain as disability without medical documentation in the United States and France

Jane Pryma

“They're not just fire pits, they're Sacred Fires”: Traditional healing spaces as sites of anticolonial resistance in a Toronto hospital

Vanessa N. Ambtman-Smith, Rennie Linklater and Chantelle A.M. Richmond

Anticipating the future: Reproductive decision-making among people with cystic fibrosis in Germany

Stefan Reinsch and Anika König

Influence of socioeconomic position on the relationship between long COVID and health-related quality of life: A nationwide random sampling survey in France in autumn 2022

Cyrille Delpierre, Cédric Lemogne, Olivier Steichen, Sarah Tebeka, Tatjana T. Makovski and Joël Coste

Ethnoracial inequities in social stressors and patterns of alcohol use in a population of United States transgender Veterans

Jessie M. Garcia Gutiérrez, David E. Reed, Kathryn S. Macia, Olivia Fletcher, Emily C. Williams and Jessica A. Chen

Challenges in data documentation and retrieval in the ASHA diary from a usability perspective

Sakshi Patel and Puneet Tandon

Firearm incidents and cardiovascular disease mortality: A census-tract level study

Esther Lee, Wenchu Pan, Lu Wang and Justin Heinze

No one wants to be a good patient: Intersectionality and agency in the sick role

Weiwei Lu

Credibility work in disenfranchising patient-clinician conversations for Mono/Multiracial women of color with autoimmune disease in the U.S

Jacqueline N. Gunning, Sarah N. Boateng, Lili R. Romann and Elizabeth A. Hintz

Structural racism and sexual and reproductive healthcare experiences: A qualitative study among undocumented Asian and Latina

Yadira Bribiesca Leon, Brenda Soun and May Sudhinaraset

Distancing and discrediting among persons with an acquired spinal cord injury

Niels B. Feddersen and Pia Wedege

The medical construction of gestational age and its effects on abortion access

Raphaël Perrin

The role of providers’ intrinsic motivation for quality of care and responses to a non-financial incentive

Anne Sophie Oxholm, Merethe Kirstine Andersen, Frans Boch Waldorff, Sonja Wehberg and Line Bjørnskov Pedersen

Corrigendum to <“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> [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 369, March 2025, 117805]

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

What is ‘normal’ after birth? Situating the material everyday consequences of second-degree vaginal tears in relation to post-birth norms

Lisa Guntram and Lisa Lindén

A liminal duality of expert authority: the perpetuation of hierarchical authority in UK surgical teams contrary to a national collective leadership policy

Tracey Rosell

“I don't have a crystal ball”: time control during colorectal cancer treatment

Juliette Bontemps

The role of emotional labour in doula practice

Christina Young

Associations between community-based integrated care services and disability trajectories of older adults: Evidence from China

Hongwei Hu, Hongwang Guo, Kairan Zhang and Yujia Liu

Exploring associations between healthy relationships, intimate partner violence, and health at the population level

Janet Fanslow, Melissa Reid-Ellis, Pauline Gulliver and Tracey McIntosh

Local homicides increase suicide in US counties

Daniel C. Semenza, Christopher Thomas, Richard Stansfield, David B. Johnson, Kimberly C. Burke and Michael D. Anestis

Spousal loss and physical vulnerability: Diverging frailty trajectories by educational attainment in older adults

Jinho Kim, Sujeong Park and Keun Young Kwon

Memory biases in problematic social media use: The impact of attachment insecurity

Xujia Bai, Chunmei Lan, Jiayu Li, Yuhong Zhou, Lian Zhou and Xuemei Gao

Broadening the lens: a commentary on Sheard and Cauana-Finkel's account of women's progress in UK academic health economics

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

Response to commentary

Sally Sheard and Liza Caruana-Finkel