Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2024, volume 350, articles C

Persecution as stigma-driven trauma: Social determinants, stigma, and violence in asylum seekers in the United States

Jennifer H. McQuaid, Amar Mandavia, Galen Cassidy, Michelle Alejandra Silva, Kaiz Esmail, Shreya Aragula, Gigi Gamez and Katherine McKenzie

Rank, stress, and risk: A conjecture

Oded Stark and Julia Włodarczyk

Public health intervention amidst conflict: Violence, politics, and knowledge frames in the 2018-20 Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Rachel Sweet and Noé Kasali

The nexus between maternity care and bordering practices: A qualitative study of provider perspectives on maternal healthcare provision for Afghan women migrating through Serbia to Western Europe

Esther Sharma, Diane Duclos and Natasha Howard

Migration and professional mobility: Rural attraction and retention of South African educated physicians

Ashley Hadley

Does the approach used to measure sexual identity affect estimates of health disparities differently by race? A randomized experiment from the National Survey of Family Growth

Curtiss W. Engstrom, Brady T. West, Ty S. Schepis and Sean Esteban McCabe

The potential and paradoxes of eHealth research for digitally marginalised groups: A qualitative meta-review

Jessica A. Coetzer, Ibrahim Loukili, Nicole S. Goedhart, Johannes C.F. Ket, Tjerk Jan Schuitmaker-Warnaar, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak and Christine Dedding

Factors affecting public acceptance of healthy lifestyle nudges

Anastasia Vugts, Emmy van den Heuvel and Remco C. Havermans

Framing Long Covid through Patient activism in the United States: Patient, Provider, Academic, and Policymaker Views

Kenton Kaplan and Emily Mendenhall

Superior medical resources or geographic proximity? The joint effects of regional medical resource disparity, geographic distance, and cultural differences on online medical consultation

Xiaoxiao Liu and Qianqian Ben Liu

Our hands are tied: abortion bans and hesitant medicine

Anna-Grace Lilly, Isabelle P. Newman and Sophie Bjork-James

Medical schools as cisgendered organizations

Andrea D. Kelley

Application of an egocentric social network approach to examine changes in social connections following treatment for anxiety and depression: A novel measurement tool for clinical trials research?

Madeleine Rassaby, Holly B. Shakya, James H. Fowler, Christopher Oveis, William J. Sieber, Sonia Jain, Murray B. Stein and Charles T. Taylor

Telework, working conditions, health and wellbeing during the Covid crisis: A gendered analysis

Malo Mofakhami, Emilie Counil and Ariane Pailhé

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV treatment gap lengths and viremia among people living with HIV British Columbia, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic: Are we ready for the next pandemic?

Lalani L. Munasinghe, Weijia Yin, Hasan Nathani, Junine Toy, Paul Sereda, Rolando Barrios, Julio S.G. Montaner and Viviane D. Lima

Meaning-focused coping as a cultural process: A mixed quantitative and PhotoVoice study of adolescents with Arab backgrounds overcoming stigma and harassment

Ilana Seff, Cyril Bennouna, Alli Gillespie, Ali Ali, Carine Allaf, Michael Wessells and Lindsay Stark

The hidden work of general practitioners: An ethnography

Rachel Barnard, Sharon Spooner, Michaela Hubmann, Kath Checkland, John Campbell and Deborah Swinglehurst

Why did this happen to me? Causal attributions of illness and cultural health capital

Andrew S. Gallan, Anu Helkkula and William R. McConnell

Capitalism and the ‘commercial determinants of health’: A more-than-human micropolitics

Nick J. Fox

“Fighting demons”: Stigma and shifting norms in explicit mention of overdose in obituaries, 2010–2019

Meghann Lucy

Communicating male sexual dysfunction: The medicalization and psychologization of sexual experiences in Chinese online medical consultations

Xuekun Liu and Zhengpeng Luo

Indigenous peoples’ health: Culturally grounded evidence from the Baka, Southeastern Cameroon

Sandrine Gallois, Appolinaire Ambassa and Fernando Ramírez Rozzi

Public stigma against fentanyl overdose decedents in the United States: A conjoint vignette experiment

Sydney Sauer

Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making

Meredith K.D. Hawking and Deborah Swinglehurst

It's a jungle out there: Understanding physician payment and its role in group dynamics

Rachel Gifford, Eric Molleman and Taco van der Vaart

A typology of evaluative health platforms: Commercial interests and their implications for patient voice

Jacob Reilley, Dane Pflueger and Christian Huber

Assessing the durability of a cash transfer on physical intimate partner violence and sexual relationships among adolescent girls and young women in rural South Africa

Allison K. Groves, Luwam T. Gebrekristos, Marie C.D. Stoner, F Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Kathleen Kahn and Audrey E. Pettifor

Food insecurity and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults

Javier A. Tamargo and Yenisel Cruz-Almeida

Experimenting with arts-based methods and affective provocations to understand complex lived experience of a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder

Tamara Borovica, Renata Kokanović, Jacinthe Flore, Lisa Blackman, Emma-Louise Seal, Kathrine Boydell and Jill Bennett

2024, volume 349, articles C

Cognitive function following early life war-time stress exposure in a cohort of Vietnamese older adults

Kim Korinek, Zachary Zimmer, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Yvette Young, Long Cao Manh and Tran Khanh Toan

Investigating the spatial and temporal variation of vape retailer provision in New Zealand: A cross-sectional and nationwide study

I. Waterman, L. Marek, A. Ahuriri-Driscoll, J. Mohammed, M. Epton and M. Hobbs

Profits over care? An analysis of the relationship between corporate capitalism in the healthcare industry and cancer mortality in the United States

Teresa Perry and Alexandra Bernasek

Discursive trends in New York Times coverage of Evusheld access: A case study in the social production of ignorance

Sydney Goggins

Mechanisms of mental illness anti-stigma messaging matter: Leveraging mental health communication inequities among Latinx populations to understand what works and what we can do better

Melissa J. DuPont-Reyes, Alice P. Villatoro and Lu Tang

Creating safety amidst chronic contamination: A mixed-method analysis of residents’ experiences in a Southern Italian steel town

Maaret Jokela-Pansini, Raffaele Ippolito, Beth Greenhough and Anna Lora-Wainwright

The link between anticipated and internalized stigma and depression: A systematic review

Aisling T. O'Donnell and Aoife-Marie Foran

Understanding posthumous sperm retrieval during war through a terror management theory perspective

Ayelet Oreg and Taubman – Ben-Ari, Orit

Comparing preferences for skin cancer screening: AI-enabled app vs dermatologist

Susanne Gaube, Isabell Biebl, Magdalena Karin Maria Engelmann, Anne-Kathrin Kleine and Eva Lermer

Schematising COVID-19 pandemic responses: An ideal typical analysis

Lee F. Monaghan

Waiting to start abortion: A qualitative exploration of narratives of waiting shared in a Reddit community for abortion post-Dobbs leak in 2022

Elizabeth Pleasants, Lindsay Parham, Karen Weidert, Emma Anderson, Eliza Dolgins, Ndola Prata, Ushma D. Upadhyay and Cassondra Marshall

Clear as a bell? Policy stringency and elderly health during Covid-19

Jules Dupuy, Thomas Barnay and Éric Defebvre

Every loaf of bread is political – Reflections on collective care responses to Covid-19 in Cape Town

Manya van Ryneveld, Helen Schneider, Leanne Brady and Eleanor Whyle

Substandard and falsified medicines in African pharmaceutical markets: A case study from Ethiopia

Akalework Mengesha, Hilde Bastiaens, Raffaella Ravinetto, Linda Gibson and Robert Dingwall

Cross-disease spillover from research funding: Evidence from four diseases

Josie Coburn, Ohid Yaqub, Ismael Ràfols and Joanna Chataway

Access and triage in contemporary general practice: A novel theory of digital candidacy

Francesca H. Dakin, Sarah Rybczynska-Bunt, Rebecca Rosen, Aileen Clarke and Trisha Greenhalgh

From classroom to life: Gender differences in the persistent effect of learning disabilities on adult depressive symptoms

Hyunseo Rim, Hyewon Son and Jinho Kim

“Your child will have a bird brain!”: Vaccination choices and stigma among vaccine enquirers in Sweden: A qualitative study

Sibylle Herzig van Wees and Maria Ström

(e)Managing the uncertainty of tuberculosis in the post-Soviet limbo: Tracking prisoners' coerced mobility for treatment in Ukrainian prisons

Alexandra Dmitrieva, Vladimir Stepanov and Ivan Titar

Partner incarceration, maternal substance use, and the mediating role of social support: A longitudinal analysis using the future of families and child wellbeing study

Megan E. Marziali, Seth J. Prins, Sarah Gutkind and Silvia S. Martins

The problematic nature of existing explanations for differential immigrant mortality: Insights from a comparative cross-national systematic review and meta-analysis

David J. Roelfs and Eran Shor

Uncontrolled vaping and restraint strategies: A qualitative study

Callie Whitesell, Thomas H. Blount, Susan Alton Dailey, Marissa G. Hall, Kurt M. Ribisl, Paschal Sheeran, Mohammad Ebrahimi Kalan and Noel T. Brewer

Trajectories of job insecurity and the probability of poorer mental health among prime working-age Australian women and men

Jennifer Ervin, Anthony D LaMontagne, Yamna Taouk and Tania King

Hospital competition and health outcomes: Evidence from acute myocardial infarction admissions in Germany

Esra Eren Bayindir, Sara Jamalabadi, Robert Messerle, Udo Schneider and Jonas Schreyögg