Social Science & Medicine

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2024, volume 353, articles C

Sex reconfigured: DIY hormone therapy and vernacular endocrinology in transfeminine communities in China

Thelma Wang

Digitally mediated relationships: How social representation in technology influences the therapeutic relationship in primary care

Carolyn Steele Gray, Meena Ramachandran, Christopher Brinton, Milena Forte, Mayura Loganathan, Rachel Walsh, Julie Callaghan, Ross Upshur and David Wiljer

US black women’s pregnancy communication networks: A qualitative network analysis

Tiwaladeoluwa B. Adekunle

Young, Muslim and poor: The persistent impacts of the pandemic on mental health in the UK

Henrique Duarte Neves, Miqdad Asaria and Mark Stabile

The “disproportionate costs” of immigrant policy on the health of Latinx and Asian immigrants

Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, May Sudhinaraset, Sharon Tafolla, Michelle Nakphong, Yueqi Yan and Kathryn Kietzman

A hidden population: A rhetorical genre analysis of the posts in the Baidu depression community

Tianlu Ji and Ke Li

The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents

Diana C.G. Mendes, Ana Fonseca and Mónica S. Cameirão

Gendered anti-blackness, maternal health & chattel slavery: OB/Gyn knowledge as a determinant of death of black women

Danielle McCarthy

Trans depathologisation and gender identity disorder in Japan: A critical discourse analysis of medical literature, 2010–2022

Yuumi Konishi

Interprovincial spatial distribution patterns and socioeconomic factors on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) service utilization in China

Beibei Zhang, Jialu Chen, Shuting Li, Yuanyi Cao and Junhui Zhang

Sequential organization and interactional functions of patient loyalty in routine chronic encounters

Ying Jin

New social identities in Ukrainian ‘refugees’: A social cure or social curse?

Magdalena Skrodzka, Grace McMahon, Siobhán M. Griffin and Orla T. Muldoon

One and the same or different? An empirical comparison of aged care recipient and non-aged care recipient preferences for quality of aged care amongst older Australians

Jia Song, Gang Chen, Jyoti Khadka, Rachel Milte and Julie Ratcliffe

Perinatal mortality among pregnant undocumented migrants in Norway 1999–2020: A register-based population study

Frode Eick, Odd Martin Vallersnes, Heidi E. Fjeld, Ingvil K. Sørbye, Morten Valberg and Cecilie Dahl

Mental health service use in children at risk of significant harm: A record linkage study of a child protection register

William P. Ball, Caroline Anderson, Corri Black, Sharon Gordon, Michael Lackenby, Martin Murchie, Bārbala Ostrovska, Katherine O'Sullivan, Helen Rowlands, Magdalena Rzewuska Díaz and Jessica E. Butler

The role of mental well-being in the effects of persuasive health messages: A scoping review

Špela Dolinšek, Christin Scholz, Stefano Giani, Julia C.M. van Weert, Bas van den Putte and Corine S. Meppelink

Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan

Shu-Chu Sarrina Li, Huai-Kuan Zeng and Shih-Yu Lo

Regional trends in mental health inequalities in young people aged 16–25 in the UK and the role of cuts to local government expenditure: Repeated cross-sectional analysis using the British household panel Survey/UK household longitudinal survey

Heather Brown, Ni Gao and Wei Song

2024, volume 352, articles C

Evolving narratives on signal functions for monitoring maternal and newborn health services: A meta-narrative inspired review

Sarah G. Moxon, Subha Sri B, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Sudha Sharma, Jennifer Talbott, Oona M.R. Campbell and Lynn Freedman

Older adults' online activities and cognition: Investigating the psychological mechanisms and age and gender differences

Kun Wang, Xiayu Summer Chen, Suk-Young Kang, Brenda D. Smith and Danan Gu

Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status

Kristian E. Markon, Frank Mann, Colin Freilich, Steve Cole and Robert F. Krueger

Mental Health Implications of Family Separation Associated with Migration Policies in the United States: A Systematic Review

Mitra Naseh, Yingying Zeng, Eunhye Ahn, Flora Cohen and Mustafa Rfat

Exploring bereavement processes among BLACK adolescent male CO-VICTIMS of homicide

Patricia M. Bamwine, John M. Wallace, Maria Catrina D. Jaime, Sarah Elizabeth Morrow, Jaime Booth and Elizabeth Miller

How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect cancer patients in England who had hospital appointments cancelled?

Jakub Lonsky, Catia Nicodemo and Stuart Redding

What impact does hearing impairment have on cognitive health in older married couples in China?

Yushan Du, Yanan Luo, Ziyang Ren, Lu Z. Gram, Xiaoying Zheng and Jufen Liu

Community and household-level incarceration and its association with mental health in a racially/ethnically diverse sample of families

Yasin A. Williams, Angela R. Fertig, Amanda C. Trofholz, Alicia Kunin-Batson and Jerica M. Berge

Youth behavioural responses to regulated alcohol advertising content: Results from a mixed-methods study in France

Karine Gallopel-Morvan, Jacques François Diouf and Nicolas Sirven

Countering social exclusion through inclusive homecare provision: Utilising a participatory life-course approach to influence policy

Kieran Walsh, Brídín Carroll, Eamon O'Shea and Diarmuid O'Donovan

Health-related social control among U.S. adults ages 30–80: Associations with alcohol use over four years

Joan S. Tucker, Anthony Rodriguez, Harold D. Green, Rachana Seelam, Beate Henshel and Michael S. Pollard

Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis

Inés Pellón-Elexpuru, Rianne Van Dijk, Inge Van der Valk, Ana Martínez-Pampliega, Asier Molleda and Susana Cormenzana

Medical maximization: The effect of personality on triage decision-making

Laurence Alison, Neil Shortland, Cicely Herrod-Taylor, Catherine Stevens and Paul Christiansen

What happens when the tasks dry up? Exploring the impact of medical technology on workforce planning

L. Maynou, A. McGuire and V. Serra-Sastre

Psychotic white men and bipolar black women? Racialized and gendered implications of mental health terminology

Amy L. Johnson

Moral economy and moral capital: A new approach to understanding health systems

Patrick Bartosch, Chrystal Jaye and Peter Crampton

Can financial incentives improve access to care? Evidence from a French experiment on specialist physicians

Aimée Kingsada

Short- and long-term effects of incentives on prosocial behavior: The case of ride vouchers to a blood collection agency

Claudio M. Ferreira, Yan Vieites, Rafael Goldszmidt, Lucia S.G. Barros and Eduardo B. Andrade

Intergenerational mental health effects of traumatic victimization in Nepal: A 3-D theory study

Clifton R. Emery

Body mapping: A decolonial method towards intergenerational healing

Carla Macal

Covid and the common good: In-group out-group dynamics and Covid-19 vaccination in Wales and the United States

Christopher W.N. Saville, Robin Mann, Anthony Scott Lockard, Aidan Bark-Connell, Stella Gmekpebi Gabuljah, April M. Young and Daniel Rhys Thomas

Linking measures to mechanisms of action in behavior change: A qualitative analysis of expert views

Lilly Derby, Lauren Connell Bohlen, Susan Michie, Marie Johnston, Jeffrey L. Birk, Alexander J. Rothman and Talea Cornelius

The long-term health effects of childhood exposure to social and economic policies: A scoping review

Emily C. Dore and Jordan Wurapa

‘Troubling’ medication reviews in the context of polypharmacy and ageing: A linguistic ethnography

Sarah Pocknell, Nina Fudge, Sarah Collins, Celia Roberts and Deborah Swinglehurst

Therapeutic management in the low-wage workplace

Emily H. Ruppel

Predicting longitudinal changes in patterns of tobacco and nicotine product use among adolescents: A Latent Transition Analysis based on the X:IT study

Lisbeth Lund, Susan Andersen, Christian Ritz and Lotus Sofie Bast

Delayed effects of air pollution on public bike-sharing system use in Seoul, South Korea: A time series analysis

Eun-Hye Yoo, John E. Roberts and YongHun Suh

Social media use and vaccination among Democrats and Republicans: Informational and normative influences

Stephanie L. DeMora, Javier A. Granados Samayoa and Dolores Albarracín

Examining the role of social vulnerability, neighborhood characteristics, and geospatial patterns of firearm-related injuries and clinical outcomes in Milwaukee county

C.W. Tomas, S. Timmer-Murillo, K.J. Kallies, A.J. Snowden, F. Borisy-Rudin, M. Busalacchi, R. Mackenzie, C.A. Kostelac, L.D. Cassidy and T.A. deRoon-Cassini

2024, volume 351, articles S1

Advancing gender transformative intersectional science for health justice: An ecosocial analysis

Nancy Krieger

Dismantling the colonial mindset and becoming “Gender AWAke”: From gendered complicity to embodied praxis

Catherine McKinley

The anti-gender threat: An ethical, democratic, and scientific imperative for NIH research/ers

Amaya Perez-Brumer, Natali Valdez and Ayden I. Scheim

Health consequences of structural sexism: Conceptual foundations, empirical evidence and priorities for future research

Patricia Homan

Structural gendered racism as conceptualized by immigrant women in the United States

Goleen Samari, Heather M. Wurtz, Tara F. Abularrage and Mienah Z. Sharif

Structural heteropatriarchy and maternal cardiovascular morbidities

Bethany G. Everett, Morgan M. Philbin and Patricia Homan

Experiences of sexist discrimination as a potential explanatory factor for alcohol and drug misuse among Latina young adult women

Melissa M. Ertl, Annalisa Chu, Lauryn J. Duncan and Cara L. Fresquez

Gender(ed) science: How the institutionalization of gender continues to shape the conduct and content of women's health research

Morgan M. Philbin, Bethany G. Everett and Judith D. Auerbach

“Women's work”: Gender and the physician workforce

Sarah M. Temkin, Arghavan Salles, Elizabeth Barr, Cecilia B. Leggett, Jeffrey S. Reznick and Melissa S. Wong

Methods for structural sexism and population health research: Introducing a novel analytic framework to capture life-course and intersectional effects

Ariel L. Beccia, Madina Agénor, Jonggyu Baek, Eric Y. Ding, Kate L. Lapane and S. Bryn Austin

Gender health equity: The case for including men's health

Derek M. Griffith

The EMERGE framework to measure empowerment for health and development

Anita Raj, Arnab Dey, Namratha Rao, Jennifer Yore, Lotus McDougal, Nandita Bhan, Jay G. Silverman, Katherine Hay, Edwin E. Thomas, Jean Christophe Fotso and Rebecka Lundgren

Gender, power, and health: Modifiable factors and opportunities for intervention

Anita Raj, Elizabeth Barr and Derek M. Griffith

2024, volume 351, articles C

Are we heroes or couriers? A phenomenological study on reappropriation of professional subjectivity and agency among health professionals during COVID-19 contact tracing in Türkiye

Ayşe Polat, Zübeyde Demircioğlu and Hüseyin Küçükali

Bridging the gap or widening the divide? Exploring the dual role of social capital in healthcare financing in rural Uttar Pradesh, India

Md Zabir Hasan, Caitlin E. Kennedy, Binita Adhikari, Akshay Ahuja and Shivam Gupta

Local gun violence, mental health, and sleep: A neighborhood analysis in one hundred US Cities

Daniel C. Semenza, Ian A. Silver, Richard Stansfield and Patricia Bamwine

Clinicians’ perspectives on race-specific guidelines for hypertensive treatment

Chantal J. Rabay, Carolina Lopez, Samantha Streuli, E. Carolina Mayes, Ramya M. Rajagopalan and Amy L. Non

The impact of housing insecurity on mental health, sleep and hypertension: Analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study and linked data, 2009–2019

Kate E. Mason, Alexandros Alexiou, Ang Li and David Taylor-Robinson

Defining equity, its determinants, and the foundations of equity science

Katrina M. Plamondon and Sana Z. Shahram

Drug use and condomless sex among sexual minority men in relationships: Whether relationship quality is a risk or protective factor depends upon what they believe their partners do

Joseph R. Hillesheim and Tyrel J. Starks

A thematic analysis of disinformation in gender-affirming healthcare bans in the United States

Meredithe McNamara, Quinnehtukqut McLamore, Nicolas Meade, Melisa Olgun, Henry Robinson and Anne Alstott

The reproductive journeys of French women over 40 seeking assisted reproductive technology treatments in Spain

Alexandra Desy and Diana Marre

Covid-19 pandemic, social normative compliance, and sustainable consumption: Evidence from experiments

Cheng Xu, KunJing Li, Chang-Jun Li, Hao Xu and Yanqi Sun

Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: A microsimulation study of the UK during the COVID-19 economic crisis

Daniel Kopasker, Patryk Bronka, Rachel M. Thomson, Vladimir Khodygo, Theocharis Kromydas, Petra Meier, Alison Heppenstall, Clare Bambra, Nik Lomax, Peter Craig, Matteo Richiardi and Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi

Status (in)consistency in education and violent parenting practices towards children

Luca Maria Pesando, Elisabetta De Cao, Giulia La Mattina and Alberto Ciancio

Extending intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) to study individual longitudinal trajectories, with application to mental health in the UK

Andrew Bell, Clare Evans, Dan Holman and George Leckie

The gender minority stress model and/or cisnormativity? The need for pluralistic theoretical perspectives in improving trans health and medicine

Ida Linander, Tove Lundberg and Erika Alm

Do the benefits of homeownership on mental health vary by race and poverty status? An application of doubly robust estimation for causal inference

Jun-Hong Chen, Dylan Jones, Jihye Lee, Yufu Yan, Wan-Jung Hsieh, Chieh-Hsun Huang, Yuanyuan Yang, Chi-Fang Wu, Melissa Jonson-Reid and Brett Drake

“When we were allowed to go back … the freedom, the vista, the delight … It was just magic”: Disruption and adaptation among people ageing-in-place in Ireland during COVID-19

Viveka Guzman, Frank Doyle, Ronan Foley, Penny Wilson, Noelene Crowe, Peter Craven and Maria Pertl

Socioeconomic deprivation, health and healthcare utilisation among millennials

Mario Martínez-Jiménez, Bruce Hollingsworth and Eugenio Zucchelli

Signs and symptoms: Adverse events associated with a sterilization device

Valerie Leiter

“Doing being a good parent” in the pediatric clinic: Parents' knowledge displays in advice requests on infants' everyday care

Federica Ranzani

The video window: How video consultation technology reveals and redefines the art of medicine in Danish specialist practice

Anne Sofie Borsch, Anja M.B. Jensen, Sif Sofie Vange and Signe Smith Jervelund

Infrastructuring precision medicine: Making gene therapies for rare diseases workable in practice

Sarah Wadmann, Anna Brueckner Johansen, Alfred Peter Born and Line Kessel

Does identity as a drinker predict problem recognition motivation in harmful drinkers?

Ian P. Albery, Natalie Long, Isabelle Kelly, Daniel Frings and James Morris

Social cognition correlates of self-management behaviors in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH): A meta-analytic review

Rabia Majeed, Kyra Hamilton, Gerald F. Watts and Martin S. Hagger

A longitudinal perspective to migrant health: Unpacking the immigrant health paradox in Germany

Alessandro Ferrara, Carla Grindel and Claudia Brunori

Exploring the mechanisms underlying increased risk of depressive disorder in ethnic minority populations in Europe: A causal loop diagram

J.M. van der Wal, K.B.S. Huth, A. Lok, C.L. Bockting, K. Stronks and M. Nicolaou

Mental health in nursing homes: The role of immigration in the long-term care workforce

Hankyung Jun and David C. Grabowski

Climate vulnerability and child health outcomes in developing countries: Do women's political empowerment and female education make the difference?

Suzie Imelda Foudjo and Joseph Keneck-Massil

Reframing the experience of childbirth: Black doula communication strategies and client responses during delivery hospitalization

Soroya Julian McFarlane, Kallia O. Wright, Beauty Acheampong, Diane B. Francis, Tamora Callands, Andrea Swartzendruber and Oyinade Adesina

The maintenance of mexican traditional medicine practices among mexicans in southern Arizona

Rebecca M. Crocker, Daniel E. Martínez, Adriana Maldonado and David O. Garcia

What are the barriers to health professionals' training on gender-affirming care from patients' and clinicians’ perspectives?

Mohammad Mousavian, Kavitha Ranganathan, Alex S. Keuroghlian, Yoon Soo Park and Anshul Kumar

Applications of turning point analysis in behavioral medicine research: A systematic scoping review

Amanda Kastrinos, Carla L. Fisher, Diliara Bagautdinova, Greenberry Taylor, Mia Behrens and Carma L. Bylund

Sex based differences in depression, anxiety, and quality of life and predictors of quality of life among South Asian individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A Bayesian analysis

Ahtisham Younas, Hussan Zeb, Angela Durante and Ercole Vellone

Perceived discrimination among caregivers of children with disabilities in China: Unraveling the effects of social determinants

Ling Li Leng, Shixin Huang and Lin Gang Zhou

Genetic propensity to depression and the role of partnership status

Maria Gueltzow, Hannu Lahtinen, Maarten J. Bijlsma, Mikko Myrskylä and Pekka Martikainen

Economic outcomes among microfinance group members receiving community-based chronic disease care: Cluster randomized trial evidence from Kenya

M. Wilson-Barthes, J. Steingrimsson, Y. Lee, D.N. Tran, J. Wachira, C. Kafu, S.D. Pastakia, R. Vedanthan, J.A. Said, B.L. Genberg and Omar Galarraga

Horizontal and vertical equity and public subsidies for private health insurance in the U.S

Paul D. Jacobs and Steven C. Hill

The embodiment of exclusionary displacement pressure: Intersections of housing insecurity and mental health in a Hispanic/Latinx immigrant neighborhood

Marisa Westbrook

Differences in health utilities between cancer patients and the general population: The case of Quebec using the SF-6Dv2

Moustapha Touré and Thomas G. Poder