Social Science & Medicine

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2025, volume 365, articles C

Using social network analysis to identify influential community organizations

Peng Wang, Rodrigo Hernandez, Maria E. Fernandez, Belinda Reininger, Rebecca Wells, Michelle Crum, Maribel R. Sifuentes, Meghan E. Haffey, Derun Xia, Dean Lusher and Kayo Fujimoto

Boundary-work in genomic medicine: Safeguarding the future of diagnostic next-generation sequencing in the clinic

Janneke M.L. Kuiper, Pascal Borry, Danya F. Vears and Ine Van Hoyweghen

Understanding the health system drivers of delayed cancer diagnosis in public healthcare networks of Chile, Colombia and Ecuador: A qualitative study with health professionals, managers and policymakers

Ingrid Vargas, Amparo-Susana Mogollón-Pérez, Pamela Eguiguren, Ana-Lucía Torres, Andrés Peralta, Maria Rubio-Valera, Signe Smith Jervelund, Josep M. Borras, Sónia Dias, María-Luisa Vázquez, M.L. Vazquez, Aida Oliver, Verónica Espinel, Zahara Fernández, Ignacio Aznar-Lou, Paula Arroyo-Uriarte, Montserrat Gil-Girbau, Antoni Serrano-Blanco, María Luisa Garmendia, Ana María Oyarce, Camilo Bass, Isabel Guzmán, Andrea Alvarez, Paola González, Isabel Abarca, Rodney Stock, Berta Cerda, Guillermo Hartwig, Cristopher Tabilo, Carmen Aravena, Gloria Stephens, Virginia Garcia, Ana Maria Restrepo, Angela Pinzón, Carol Cardozo, María Camila Rangel, Pablo Cristancho, Ana María Arellano, Lilian Gabriela Cala, Juan Gabriel Merchán, Omar Velandia, Rafael Torres, Mauricio O'Byrne, Liliana Lancheros, Oscar Duarte, Iván Dueñas, Hugo Pereira, Daniel Ruiz, Estefanía Rodríguez, Julian Perelman, Ana Gama, Patricia Marques and Inês Fronteira

Tooth shame - An ethnographic study of the choreographies of tooth shame in Danish elderly care

Louise Folker, Astrid Pernille Jespersen and Esben Boeskov Øzhayat

Association between education and allostatic load with risk of cancer mortality among Hispanic women

Melissa Lopez-Pentecost, Cynthia Li, Marlo Vernon, Sydney Paige Howard, Jessica Amezcua and Justin Xavier Moore

The medical institution and transgender health: The role of healthcare barriers and negative healthcare experiences

Lawrence Stacey, Wes Wislar and Rin Reczek

Spousal characteristics and unmet care needs: A longitudinal national study of adults aged 50 and over in England

Jingwen Zhang, Yanan Zhang and Matthew R. Bennett

“Because you love us as much as we love you”: The role of community relationships in facilitating Indigenous engagement in healthcare

Jodi John and Heather Castleden

Managing medical knowledge flow: Physicians’ social media actualisation practices

Joyce Yi-Hui Lee, Niki Panteli and Jessy Chia-Yu Lin

Motivating healthcare workers (HCWs) to ensure service delivery during public health emergencies: Insights from a discrete choice experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh

Md Azhar Uddin, Shafiun Nahin Shimul, K.M Nafiz Ifteakhar Tulon, Muhammad Ihsan- Ul- Kabir, Abu Noman, Faojia Sultana, Md. Ashraful Hoque, Md. Ariful Islam, Samiha Tasnim Munmun and Shariful Amin

Nature-based solutions to address anxiety disorders: A cross-sectional ecological study of green spatial patterns in Taiwan

Yu-Sheng Shen

Organ donation information scanning, seeking, and discussing: Impacts on knowledge, attitudes, and donation intentions

Piper Liping Liu, Qingrui Li and Xinshu Zhao

Why nurses quit: Job demands, leadership and voluntary nurse turnover in adult care in the Netherlands

Ester Ellen Trees Bolt, Manhal Ali and Jonathan Winterton

Understanding deep disadvantage at the end of life: A nationwide analysis of unclaimed deaths

Jennifer Brite, Frank W. Heiland and Deborah Balk

Male social embeddedness and intimate partner violence perpetration in Tanzania

Rebecca Brambilla, Gerry Mshana, Neema Mosha, Donati Malibwa and Heidi Stöckl

‘Small benefits and a certain risk’: Media representations of novel treatments for Alzheimer's disease

Sudeepa Abeysinghe, Yu Tao, Priscilla Kyei-Baffour and Emily Adrion

From trusted intruder to real collaborator: Mapping the ecosystem of stakeholders and community assets in a coastal region in England, with a focus on end-of-life care and bereavement support

Alice Malpass, Andre Le Poidevin, Alison Bamford, Sally Lowndes, Georgie Grant and Lucy Selman

Beyond the body: Social, structural, and environmental infertility

Martina Yopo Díaz and Loreto Watkins

“I think they are actually a bit racist in not giving us everything that we need in terms of medication”: Racialised governance and asylum seeker access to healthcare in England

Maddy Power and Maddie Baxter

Borrowing regulatory capacity in middle-income countries during public health crises: Brazil, regulatory reliance, and the politics of COVD-19 vaccine regulation

Elize Massard da Fonseca, Herschel S. Nachlis, Kyle Thomson and Holly Jarman

Women's experiences of facility-based abortion care: A WHO qualitative evidence synthesis

Bela Ganatra, Annik Mahalia Sorhaindo, Amanda Cleeve, Özge Tunçalp and Antonella Francheska Lavelanet

The gendered impact of Covid-19 on health behaviours and mental health: Evidence from the UK

Karen Arulsamy, Paul McNamee and Silvia Mendolia

Structural stigmatisation of abortion in the health system: Perspectives of abortion care-seekers, providers, managers, and funders in England and Wales

Katy Footman

“I am a guest man in a world of women”: The lived experiences of gay fathers utilizing human milk donations for their babies

Noaz Cohen and Ayelet Oreg

Racial and nonracial discrimination and tobacco use among high school students in California

C.D. Harris, L.M. Dutra, C.D. Donaldson, Brian Bradfield, S.E. Russell, L.E. Baum and X. Zhang

A medical profession towards empowerment? The uncertain future of digitalization in private general practice

Marie Ghis Malfilatre and Séverine Louvel

Differences in responsibility for child healthcare by parent gender: A cross-sectional study

Marie E. Heffernan, Nina L. Alfieri, Ashley Keese, Anne C. Bendelow, Mia Casale, Tracie L. Smith, Carly G. Menker, John James Parker, Craig F. Garfield, Matthew M. Davis and Michelle L. Macy

Efficiency paradox: Introducing secure messaging in outpatient care

Maura Soekijad

Youth at work: Exploring the relationship between social status, a history of child labour, and health

Emine Öncü, Elif Okay, Yağmur Çelik and Kadir Uçar

Preferences of citizens in Peru for school opening during a public-health crisis: A participatory value evaluation study

Karen Trujillo Jara, Jose Ignacio Hernandez, Niek Mouter, Werner Brouwer and Job van Exel

Disparities in depression and anxiety at the intersection of race and gender identity in a large community health sample

Amelia M. Stanton, Christopher Chiu, Brett Dolotina, Norik Kirakosian, Dana S. King, Chris Grasso, Jennifer Potter, Kenneth H. Mayer, Conall O'Cleirigh and Abigail W. Batchelder

Intersectional inequities in colorectal cancer screening attendance in Sweden: Using decision trees for intersectional matrix reduction

Núria Pedrós Barnils and Per E. Gustafsson

Environmental regulation and mental well-being: Evidence from China's air pollution prevention and control action plan

Yuze Wang, Zidi Zhang, Zhuang Hao and Tor Eriksson

Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services

Eric Evans Osei Opoku and Alex Acheampong

Training humans to supplement a machine learning system: The role of guides in a digital mental health intervention

David Ben Berners-Lee

Ambiguous animals, ambivalent carers and arbitrary care collectives: Re-theorizing resistance to social robots in healthcare

Tanja Ahlin and Anna Mann

Structural violence as a driver of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and low vaccine uptake among people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada: A qualitative study

J.I.R. Jenkinson, J. Wigle, L. Richard, T. Tibebu, A.M. Orkin, N.S. Thulien, T. Kiran, E. Gogosis, F. Crichlow, A.P. Dyer, M.D. Gabriel and S.W. Hwang

Association of socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease risk with economic development across 57 low- and middle-income countries: Cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative individual-level data

Callum Brindley, Tom Van Ourti, Igna Bonfrer and Owen O'Donnell

Planting flowers for the bees: Spirituality, emotion, and embodied subjectivities through relational practices of socioecological care

Melody Lynch

The effect of social media use on adolescents’ subjective well-being: Longitudinal evidence from Switzerland

Sebastian Mader, Damiano Costantini, Annette Fahr and Marina Delgrande Jordan

Associations of sexual orientation and state-level antidiscrimination policy protections with alcohol, tobacco, and mental health outcomes in a U.S. sample of adolescents and adults

Rebecca J. Evans-Polce, Luisa Kcomt, Logan Casey, Carol J. Boyd, Sean Esteban McCabe, Phil T. Veliz, Ciarán Conlin and Luis A. Parra

Similar health emergencies, different commitments: Comparative strategies to end Ebola and COVID-19 in “post-conflict” Liberia

Florence Wullo Anfaara, Erica S Lawson and Isaac Luginaah

The psychological impact of reopening after COVID-19 lockdowns in China: Threat perception, affect and moral conflict

Qin Duan, Shangyi Chen, Hang Yuan, Yue Zhang and Siyang Luo

Pandemic income support programs and adolescent mental health in the UK, Ireland, and Australia

Gabriele Mari

Age-friendly community environments and the age trajectories of long-term care dependency among Chinese older adults

Peng Nie and Qiaoge Li

Cigarette packaging as a commercial determinant of smoking: A thematic analysis of Filipinos’ perception of graphic health warnings and plain packaging in the Philippines

Gianna Gayle H. Amul, Eunice U. Mallari, John Rafael Y. Arda and Alen Josef A. Santiago

Negotiated care practices: The experiences of young people who question their gender, their parents and the healthcare professionals who support them

Christine Jackson-Taylor and Karl Atkin

The mortality implications of a unionized career

Tom VanHeuvelen, Xiaowen Han and Jane VanHeuvelen

Language barriers in emergency ambulance calls for cardiac arrest: Cases of missing vital information

Nirukshi Perera, Marine Riou, Tanya Birnie, Austin Whiteside, Stephen Ball and Judith Finn

Hate crimes and psychiatric emergency department visits among Asian Americans

Mandana Masoumirad, Shutong Huo, Abhery Das and Tim A. Bruckner

The unintended effects of a large minimum wage increase on health: Evidence from South Korea

Jung Hyun Kim, Marc Suhrcke and Anja K. Leist

The contribution of childhood adversity to adult socioeconomic gradients in mortality: A Swedish birth cohort analysis

Josephine Jackisch and Alyson van Raalte

A network comparison analysis of socio-ecological protective and risk factors of depression between Chinese urban and rural adolescents

Xiaoyu Zhuang, Chun Pong Chan and Xue Yang

Tuberculosis treatment and undernutrition on Daru Island, Papua New Guinea: A qualitative exploration of a local foodscape

A. Persson, P. Jops, J. Cowan, M. Kupul, R. Nake Trumb, S.S. Majumdar, S. Islam, H. Nindil, W. Pomat, S. Bell, G. Marks, M. Bauri, S.M. Graham and A. Kelly-Hanku