Social Science & Medicine

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2024, volume 358, articles C

Individual, social and area level factors associated with older people's walking: Analysis of an UK household panel study (Understanding Society)

Jonathan R. Olsen, Elise Whitley, Emily Long, Benjamin P. Rigby, Laura Macdonald, Grace O. Dibben, Victoria J. Palmer, Michaela Benzeval, Kirstin Mitchell, Mark McCann, Martin Anderson, Meigan Thomson, Laurence Moore and Sharon A. Simpson

Prevention of, and response to, sexual harassment at secondary school: A system map

Carolyn Blake, Ruth Lewis, Julie Riddell, Malachi Willis, Laura Wylie, Kathryn Dawson, Laurence Moore and Kirstin R. Mitchell

Resistance and the regimen: The microthanatopolitics of Venezuelan antiretroviral scarcity and HIV drug adherence failures

Rebecca Irons

Why some homeless individuals are unsheltered: A narrative review of self-reported reasons

Jack Tsai, Gabrielle Haley and Rebecca L. Kinney

Transgender lives at the population level: Evidence from Danish administrative data

Morten Kjær Thomsen, Matvei Andersen and Jane Greve

Navigating artificial intelligence in care homes: Competing stakeholder views of trust and logics of care

Barbara Barbosa Neves, Maho Omori, Alan Petersen, Mor Vered and Adrian Carter

Did the COVID-19 pandemic reshape equity in healthcare use in Europe?

Louis Arnault, Florence Jusot and Thomas Renaud

Communication quality predicts patients’ colorectal cancer screening behavior

Allison M. Scott, Lauren Jodi Van Scoy, Vernon M. Chinchilli, Mack T. Ruffin, Emily Wasserman and Masahito Jimbo

Trajectories of sleep problems and the longitudinal associations with mental health difficulties among Chinese adolescents

Xiaoting Liu

The role of Contact-Tracing Mobile Apps in pandemic prevention: A multidisciplinary perspective on health beliefs, social, and technological factors

Imed Ben Nasr, Galina Kondrateva, Tatiana Khvatova and Wissal Ben Arfi

Impact of the South African Child Support Grant on memory decline and dementia probability in rural and low-income mothers, 2014–2021

Erika T. Beidelman, Rishika Chakraborty, Janet Jock, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Meredith L. Phillips, Kathleen Kahn, Katherine Eyal, Darina T. Bassil, Lisa Berkman, Lindsay C. Kobayashi and Molly Rosenberg

The interdependence of caring, safety, and health in correctional settings: Analysis of a survey of security staff in a large county jail system

Jody Sundt, Keramet Reiter and Brie Williams

Association of low-quality employment with the development of suicidal thought and suicide planning in workers: A longitudinal study in Korea

Seong-Uk Baek, Jin-Ha Yoon, Yu-Min Lee and Jong-Uk Won

More doctors, better health? A generalised synthetic control approach to estimating impacts of increasing doctors under Brazil's Mais Medicos programme

Rhys Llewellyn Thomas, Christopher Millett, Ricardo de Sousa Soares and Thomas Hone

U.S. physician burnout and the proletarianization of U.S. doctors: A theoretical reframing

Barret Michalec, Monica M. Cuddy, Yvonne Price and Frederic W. Hafferty

Epidemic in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: News media framing of the MMR vaccination controversy in Serbia

Marija Brujić

Carjacking and homicide in Minneapolis after the police killing of George Floyd: Evidence from an interrupted time series analysis

Allison Lind, Ryan P. Larson, Susan M. Mason and Christopher Uggen

“It's very much part of this movement to undermine democracy”: A qualitative study of European Union level opposition strategies against reproductive health and rights

Lynda Gilby and Meri Koivusalo

What can PrEP do for female sex workers? Unpacking the “effectosphere” of biomedical HIV prevention in Dar es Salaam

Hanne Ochieng Lichtwarck, Emmanuel Peter Massawe, Elia John Mmbaga and Kåre Moen

Infrastructures of epidemic response: Mpox and everyday repair work in southwestern Nigeria

Megan Schmidt-Sane, Olufunke Adegoke, Syed Abbas, Akanni O. Lawanson, Michael Kunnuji, Ayodele Jegede and Hayley MacGregor

Inter-relationships among individual views of COVID-19 control measures across multi-cultural contexts

Jianwei Huang, Mei-Po Kwan, Zihan Kan, Minh Kieu, Jiyeong Lee, Tim Schwanen and Ikuho Yamada

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of models of maternity care for women from migrant and refugee backgrounds in high-income countries: A systematic review

Yordanos Gizachew Yeshitila, Lisa Gold, Julie Abimanyi-Ochom, Elisha Riggs, Tadesse Tolossa and Ha N.D. Le

A discourse of african traditional healing tendencies with medicinal plants: An ethnobotanical study of the sukuma of Tanzania, 1922–1960s

Hamisi Yunus Nchimbi and Mikidadi Hamisi Alawi

The relationship between union membership and self-rated health among racially diverse U.S. healthcare workers: The role of control over work schedules and locations

Alein Y. Haro-Ramos, Ray Block and Gabriel Sanchez

Racial capitalism and firearm violence: Developing a theoretical framework for firearm violence research examining structural racism

Mudia Uzzi, Shannon Whittaker, Michael H. Esposito, Lorraine T. Dean, Shani A. Buggs and Keshia M. Pollack Porter

‘Managing values’ in health economics modelling: Philosophical and practical considerations

Stephanie Harvard and Eric B. Winsberg

“Successful” ageing in later older age: A sociology of class and ageing in place

Kate Gibson, Andrew Kingston, Emma McLellan, Louise Robinson and Katie Brittain

Precision medicine in primary care: How GPs envision “old” and “new” forms of personalization

Mirjam Pot, Olivia Spalletta and Sara Green

Identifying vulnerabilities in essential health services: Analysing the effects of system shocks on childhood vaccination delivery in Lebanon

Sharif A. Ismail, Andrada Tomoaia-Cotisel, Aya Noubani, Fouad M. Fouad, Robert Šakić Trogrlić, Sadie Bell, Karl Blanchet and Josephine Borghi

Emotion regulation strategies and coping self-efficacy as moderators of daily associations between transgender and gender diverse (TGD) enacted stigma and affect among TGD young adults assigned female at birth

Christina Dyar, Emily Herry and Sophia Pirog

“Working within broken systems”: Social workers bridge the fractures of U.S. healthcare: A qualitative inquiry on moral injury

Pari Thibodeau, Aprille Arena, Hannah Wolfson, Michael Talamantes and Karen Albright

Spatial solidarity among older adults in age-related housing

Virve Repo

‘What if I get sick?’ Healthcare (non)decisions of overseas Filipino workers in Taiwan

Isaiah Christian Felix Antonio and Po-Han Lee

Examining the perception, frequency, and intensity of domestic violence inflicted by Palestinian wives against their husbands

Oqab Jabali

2024, volume 357, articles C

Improving the equity of U.S. health care financing: A commentary on Jacobs and Hill

Thomas Rice

Psychedelic public health: State of the field and implications for equity

Heather Kuiper, Chris Alley, Zoë Harris, Cordelia Kuiper Rauch, Marlena Robbins, Pablo Rodriguez, Paula Tomczak, Julian Urrutia and Veronica Magar

Persistency of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditures: Measurement with evidence from three African countries - Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda

Rocio Garcia-Diaz, Vishnu Prasad Sapkota and Gabriela Flores

Social capital mediates knowledge gaps in informing sexual and reproductive health behaviours across Africa

Till Koebe, Theophilus Aidoo, Ridhi Kashyap, Douglas R. Leasure, Valentina Rotondi and Ingmar Weber

“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice

Natja Bech Kjeldsen, Tine Holm and Jeppe Oute

The last word: An analysis of power dynamics in clinical notes documenting against-medical-advice discharges

Matthew Kelly, Judith B. Vick, Amanda McArthur and Mary Catherine Beach

Impact of medical insurance integration on reducing urban-rural health disparity: Evidence from China

Yingqian Tang, Rong Fu and Haruko Noguchi

Collective pronouns, collective health actions: Predicting pandemic precautionary measures through online first-person plural pronoun usage across U.S. states

Mac Zewei Ma, Sylvia Xiaohua Chen and Xijing Wang

Decolonising the field of violence against women and girls: A scoping review and recommendations for research and programming

Michelle Lokot, Marjorie Pichon, Beatriz Kalichman, Samantha Nardella, Jane Falconer, Nambusi Kyegombe and Ana Maria Buller

Precarious employment and the onset of depressive symptoms and problematic alcohol use in middle-aged or older workers: A Korean longitudinal study (2006–2022)

Seong-Uk Baek, Yu-Min Lee, Jong-Uk Won and Jin-Ha Yoon

From stress communication to depressive symptoms among couples facing vision impairment: The mediating role of dyadic coping

Stephanie Alves, Katharina Weitkamp, Christina Breitenstein and Guy Bodenmann

Mother-infant attachment from the perspective of young mothers: Does the data support a maternal instinct?

Lela Rankin, Haley G. Krouskop and Maryanne L. Fisher

A novel approach for health state valuation: Multiple bounded dichotomous choice compared to the traditional standard gamble

Thomas G. Poder and Hosein Ameri

Specialty economies of scope in English hospitals: Cost Arguments for colocation

Robert Willans and Bruce Hollingsworth

“Hope is being stirred up”: Critical consciousness in gender-based violence interventions

Anh Van Vo, Araz Majnoonian, Fortunate Shabalala, Sakhile Masuku and Rebecca Fielding-Miller

An ‘all-world ageing’ perspective and its wider ethics of care: An empirical illustration

Gavin J. Andrews and Megan Read

Young people returning to alcohol and other drug services as incremental treatment

Sarah J. MacLean, Gabriel Caluzzi, Mark Ferry, Andrew Bruun, Jacqui Sundbery, Jennifer Skattebol, Joanne Neale and Joanne Bryant

“I can't see the forest for the ticks, uhm, trees …”: The role of online forums in parents' vaccination trajectories

Katharina T. Paul, Anna Pichelstorfer, Nora Hansl, Maximilian Martin, Paula-Marie Pucker and Dmitrii Zhikharevich

Therapist's positive evaluation of children with hearing impairment: A conversation analysis perspective

Shuning Zhao, Xiuxiu Shen and Wen Ma

The emotional ambiguities of healthcare professionals’ platform experiences

Veronica Moretti and Riccardo Pronzato

Maneuvering between cultures: The reception of hospice care in the Chinese medical community

Xiao Mei and Jiong Tu

“Lives versus livelihoods”: Conflict and coherence between policy objectives in the COVID-19 pandemic

Katelyn Esmonde, Jeff Jones, Michaela Johns, Brian Hutler, Ruth Faden and Anne Barnhill

Social networks and posttraumatic stress symptoms five to ten years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster

Maiko Fukasawa, Maki Umeda Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Akiyama, Naoko Horikoshi, Seiji Yasumura, Hirooki Yabe, Yuriko Suzuki, Evelyn J. Bromet and Norito Kawakami

What is the relationship between changes in the size of economies and mortality derived population health measures in high income countries: A causal systematic review

Anna Brook, Georgia Rendall, Wendy Hearty, Petra Meier, Hilary Thomson, Alexandra Macnamara, Rachel Westborne, Mhairi Campbell and Gerry McCartney

Reduce negative life events to Increase satisfaction: A daily diary study on the relationship between negative life events and life satisfaction

Youling Bai, Can Ben, Wenshuang Xu, Yu Wu and Yanling Liu

The impact of acculturative stress on internalizing problems among racially and ethnically minoritized adolescents and young adults in the U.S.: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Petty Tineo, Michael T. Bixter, Lillian Polanco-Roman, Sally L. Grapin, Lizbeth Taveras and Jazmin Reyes-Portillo

Examining barriers to dental, medical, mental, and vision healthcare access, attitudes towards seeking healthcare, and internalized racism among Black Americans

Drexler James and Lisette Horne

Prevalence and risk factors associated with mental disorders among migrants in the MENA region: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Meryem Zabarra, Majdouline Obtel, Abdellah Sabri, Samia El Hilali, Zhor Zeghari and Rachid Razine

Polio, public health memories and temporal dissonance of re-emerging infectious diseases in the global north

Ben Kasstan-Dabush, Stephen A. Flores, Delia Easton, Achal Bhatt, Vanessa Saliba and Tracey Chantler

Are employment and social integration more strongly associated with deaths of despair than psychological or economic distress?

Dana A. Glei, Chioun Lee, Casey L. Brown and Maxine Weinstein

Long-term effects of unintended pregnancy on children: Findings from the Dutch prospective birth-cohort Amsterdam born children and their development study

Wieke Y. Beumer, Marjette H. Koot, Tanja Vrijkotte, Tessa J. Roseboom and Jenneke van Ditzhuijzen

Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach

Yuying Zhou, Jiahui Lao, Yiting Cao, Qianqian Wang, Qin Wang and Fang Tang

Rebuilding trust in psychotherapy for biologically explained depression: A two-part experimental study examining the durability of an online psychoeducational intervention

Annalise M. Perricone and Woo-kyoung Ahn

Equity in national healthcare economic evaluation guidelines: Essential or extraneous?

Tuba Saygın Avşar, Xiaozhe Yang and Paula Lorgelly

The role of administrative categories in the globalisation of a psychiatric concept: Case studies of autism in Japan

Sawako Shinomiya

Examining liminality in professional practice, relational identities, and career prospects in resource-constrained health systems: Findings from an empirical study of medical and nurse interns in Kenya

Yingxi Zhao, Stephanie Nzekwu, Mwanamvua Boga, Daniel Mbuthia, Jacinta Nzinga, Mike English, Sassy Molyneux and Gerry McGivern

A longitudinal analysis of the effects of COVID-19 on tourists’ health risk perceptions

Rita R. Carballo, Carmelo J. León and María M. Carballo

Parental perceptions of neighborhood safety and preschool children's outdoor play: An exploration of sex and safety type differences

Hyewon Son and Jinho Kim