Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2024, volume 355, articles C

Network spillover effects associated with the ChooseWell 365 workplace randomized controlled trial to promote healthy food choices

Mark C. Pachucki, Chen-Shuo Hong, A. James O'Malley, Douglas E. Levy and Anne N. Thorndike

Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare

Sarah Hamed, Hannah Bradby, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Beth Maina Ahlberg

Structural changes in a Danish social housing area: The impact of forced permanent rehousing on contact frequency with general practitioner and use of antidepressants

Frederikke Sissel Blohm, Siv Steffen Nygaard, Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen and Rikke Lund

Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide

Kate Bernard, Victoria J McGowan and Clare Bambra

Improvements in habitability and housing satisfaction after dwelling regeneration in social housing complexes. The RUCAS study

Fidel Gonzalez, F. Baeza, R. Valdebenito, B.N. Sánchez, A. Diez-Roux and A. Vives

Exploring space and practices of control in long-term residential care violence prevention strategies

Rachel V. Herron, Dale Spencer, Sheila Novek, Laura Funk, Christine Kelly and Katie Aubrecht

Examining the underpinnings of decisions to allocate public resources to social care: A systematic review

Philipa Mos and Vivian Reckers-Droog

Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana

Otuto Amarauche Chukwu and Beverley Essue

Risk patterns of bullying perpetration and victimization among children

Yangjin Park and Kathrine Sullivan

“My child is my job now” – Care, work and careers of mothers with disabled children in the Norwegian welfare state

Kaja Larsen Østerud, Eia Elena Skjønsberg and Elena Albertini Früh

Abortion, decriminalisation and the medico-legal paradigm

Erica Millar

A relational approach to youth healthcare: Examining young people's, parents' and clinicians' experiences in the context of variations in sex characteristics

Katrina Roen, Tove Lundberg and Eileen Joy

“It's All Just F*cking Impossible:” The influence of Taylor Swift on fans' body image, disordered eating, and rejection of diet culture

Lizzy Pope and Kelsey L. Rose

The associations of socioeconomic position with structural brain damage and connectivity and cognitive functioning: The Maastricht Study

Anouk F.J. Geraets, Miranda T. Schram, Jacobus F.A. Jansen, Sebastian Köhler, Martin P.J. van Boxtel, Simone J.P.M. Eussen, Annemarie Koster, Coen D.A. Stehouwer, Hans Bosma and Anja K. Leist

In risk we trust? Making decisions about knee replacement

Giles Birchley, Wendy Bertram, Andrew J. Moore, Richard Huxtable, Nicholas Howells, Zoe Chivers, Emma Johnson, Vikki Wylde, Leah Jones, Tony Timlin and Rachael Gooberman-Hill

“Whatever is bad goes back to the woman”: The gendered blame game of sickle cell disease in Malawi and Uganda

Sarah Svege, Joseph Rujumba, Bjarne Robberstad and Siri Lange

Exploring the relationship between marital quality and cognitive function: A systematic review

Paniz Haghighi, Emma A.L. Littler, Dane Mauer-Vakil, Michaella Miller and Mark Oremus

Who should value children's health and how? An international Delphi study

Philip A. Powell, Donna Rowen, Anju Keetharuth, Clara Mukuria and Koonal Shah

Evaluating the association between receipt of a winter fuel cash transfer and older people's care needs, quality of life, and housing quality: Evidence from England

Javiera Cartagena-Farias, Nicola Brimblecombe and Martin Knapp

A systematic review of economic evaluations conducted on gender-transformative interventions aimed at preventing unintended pregnancy and promoting sexual health in adolescents

Janet Ncube, Theodosia Adom, Áine Aventin, Sarah Skeen and Lungiswa Nkonki

The causal impact of shared decision making on pain outcomes: Gender matters

Timothy T. Brown, Jadyn Lee and Sione Markarian

A more equitable approach to economic evaluation: Directly developing conceptual capability wellbeing attributes for Tanzania and Malawi

Edith Chikumbu, Victor Katiti, Christopher Bunn, Elizabeth F. Msoka, Junious Sichali, Nateiya Mmeta Yongolo, Emma McIntosh, Blandina T. Mmbaga, Sally Wyke and Joanna Coast

The enemy within: The new war in medical education

Tasha R. Wyatt, Vinayak Jain and TingLan Ma

Grandparents' educational attainment is associated with grandchildren's epigenetic-based age acceleration in the National Growth and Health Study

Agus Surachman, Elissa Hamlat, Anthony S. Zannas, Steve Horvath, Barbara Laraia and Elissa Epel

2024, volume 354, articles C

The demand for private telehealth services in low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from South Africa

Mylene Lagarde, Irene Papanicolas and Nicholas Stacey

Who's in control? Situating expertise, (mis)trust, and power among the Latine/Hispanic community in COVID-19's liminal moments

D. Grace Smith, A. Rani Elwy, Rochelle K. Rosen, Mario Bueno and Indra Neil Sarkar

High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology

Rebecca Kaufman, Will Schupmann, Stefan Timmermans and Aviad Raz

Putting the exposome into practice: An analysis of the promises, methods and outcomes of the European human exposome network

Yohan Fayet, Thomas Bonnin, Stefano Canali and Elodie Giroux

The health implications of neighborhood networks based on daily mobility in US cities

Noli Brazil, Bozhidar T. Chakalov and Michelle Ko

How should regulatory schemes be optimized to enhance deterrence against medical insurance fraud by enrollees? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in China

Jinsui Zhang, Min Hu, Yusheng Jia, Yuanyuan Gu and Wen Chen

Weight bias among Canadians: Associations with sociodemographics, BMI and body image constructs

Marilou Côté, Vida Forouhar, Iyoma Y. Edache and Angela S. Alberga

School socioeconomic status and psychological complaints among adolescents in 44 countries: The mediating role of schoolwork pressure and classmate support and the moderating role of family SES and country-level income inequality

Mathilde E. Brons, Marco Helbich, Frank J. Elgar, Michela Lenzi, Gideon Bolt, Maxim Dierckens, Alina Cosma, Kirsten Visser and Gonneke W.J.M. Stevens

Adolescents' challenging and grief-filled transitions when living with a parent with ALS: A qualitative interpretive study

Nina Malmström, Joakim Öhlén, Birgitta Jakobsson Larsson, Stefan Nilsson, Ingela Nygren, Peter M. Andersen and Anneli Ozanne

Information avoidance: An interchangeable strategy of self-protection

William B. Meese, Jacqueline Hua and Jennifer L. Howell

Understanding autism and its treatment: The child's perspective

Yael Karni-Visel, Nehami Baum and Mitchell Schertz

Housing, health equity, and global capitalist power: Migrant farmworkers in Canada

Anelyse M. Weiler and C. Susana Caxaj

Would plain packaging and health warning labels reduce smoking in the presence of informal markets? A choice experiment in Colombia

Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes, Pamela Góngora-Salazar, Emmanouil Mentzakis, Neil Buckley, Juan Gallego, G. Emmanuel Guindon, Juan Pablo Martínez and Guillermo Paraje

Racial and gender differences in discrimination and psychological distress among young adults

Imari Z. Smith and Jen'nan G. Read

Formulating cancer worries: How doctors establish medical expertise and authority to facilitate patients’ care choices

Wayne A. Beach

Creating an SF-6Dv2 social value set for New Zealand

Trudy Sullivan, Georgia McCarty, Franz Ombler, Robin Turner, Brendan Mulhern and Paul Hansen

Disparity by caste and tribe: Understanding women's empowerment and health outcomes in India

Piyasa Mal and Nandita Saikia

The integration of geographic methods and ecological momentary assessment in public health research: A systematic review of methods and applications

Yue Zhang, Dongying Li, Xiaoyu Li, Xiaolu Zhou and Galen Newman

Looks and longevity: Do prettier people live longer?

Connor M. Sheehan and Daniel Hamermesh

Insecure maternal employment and children's behaviour difficulties: Evidence from the longitudinal study of Australian children

Mengxuan Li and Yekaterina Chzhen

Kinship, lineage resources (wealth flow transfers), and intimate partner violence among women in Ghana

Eric Y. Tenkorang

Community engagement for stakeholder and community trust in healthcare: Short-term evaluation findings from a nationwide initiative in Lao PDR

Marco Haenssgen, Elizabeth M. Elliott, Sysavanh Phommachanh, Ounkham Souksavanh, Hironori Okabayashi and Shogo Kubota

Labor market discrimination and suicidal ideation: A longitudinal study of Korean women

Youngmin Chu

Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice

John Doering-White, Alejandra Díaz de León, Arisbeth Hernández Tapia, Luisa Delgado Mejía, Sabina Castro, Kendall Roy, Gabriella Q. Cruz and Sarah Hudock-Jeffrey

Cancer linguistics and the politics of decolonizing health communication in Coastal Tanzania: Reflections from an anthropological investigation

Daniel W. Krugman, Athumani Litunu, Saumu Mbeya and M. Yunus Rafiq

Does the time spent in retirement improve health? An IV-Poisson assessment on the incidence of cardiovascular diseases

Dario Fontana, Chiara Ardito, Roberto Leombruni, Elena Strippoli and d’Errico, Angelo

On the ability of the SF-6D to capture the consequences of chronic illnesses on subjective well-being: Evidence from France

Philippe Tessier and François-Charles Wolff

Modeling of drinking and driving behaviors among adolescents and young adults in the United States: Complexities and Intervention outcomes

Niyousha Hosseinichimeh, Rod MacDonald, Kaigang Li, James C. Fell, Denise L. Haynie, Bruce Simons-Morton, Barbara C. Banz, Deepa R. Camenga, Ronald J. Iannotti, Leslie A. Curry, James Dziura, David F. Andersen and Federico E. Vaca