Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2024, volume 356, articles C

The role of economic factors in shaping and constituting the household burden of neglected tropical diseases of the skin: Qualitative findings from Ghana and Ethiopia

Yohannes Hailemichael, Jacob Novignon, Lucy Owusu, Daniel Okyere, Tara Mtuy, Abebaw Yeshambel Alemu, Edmond Kwaku Ocloo, Eric Koka, Jennifer Palmer, Stephen L. Walker, Endalamaw Gadisa, Mirgissa Kaba and Catherine Pitt

Diversity of flexible working time arrangements and workers' health: An analysis of a workers’ panel and linked employer-employee data for France

Christine Erhel, Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière and Malo Mofakhami

Male twinning after the 2008 Obama election: A test of symbolic empowerment

Allison Stolte, Alison Gemmill, Hedwig Lee, Brenda Bustos, Joan A. Casey, Tim A. Bruckner and Ralph A. Catalano

Social scripts of violence among adolescent girls and young women in Zambia: Exploring how gender norms and social expectations are activated in the aftermath of violence

Christina Laurenzi, Chanda Mwamba, Chuma Busakhwe, Chipo Mutambo, Eugene Mupakile and Elona Toska

Mitigating the influence of message features on health misinformation sharing intention in social media: Experimental evidence for accuracy-nudge intervention

Xiang Xue, Haiyun Ma, Zhao, Yuxiang (Chris), Qinghua Zhu and Shijie Song

Understanding cooperative contact tracing: Factors explored through privacy management theories

Zeynep Altinay

Arts and cultural engagement and subsequent social deficits among older adults: A three-year longitudinal study using the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study

Taiji Noguchi, Jessica K. Bone, Tami Saito, Katsunori Kondo and Hei Wan Mak

Educational mismatch and mental health: Evidence from China

Qingqing Xu and Yun Chen

Job burnout and anxiety among medical staff: A latent profile and moderated mediation analysis

Shuwei Hao and Xueting Zhang

A validation study for measuring Asian- and Hispanic-serving sociocultural institutions in neighborhoods using business listing data and potential implications for health

Brittany N. Morey, Samantha Garcia, Katherine Lin, Alison J. Canchola, Stacey E. Alexeeff, Elaine M. Kurtovich, Stephen Uong, Rhonda-Lee F. Aoki, Alice Guan, Jacqueline M. Torres, Salma Shariff-Marco, Song Yao, Lawrence H. Kushi, Scarlett Lin Gomez and Candyce H. Kroenke

Couples, alcohol use and experience of intimate partner violence among young women in urban informal settlements in Durban, South Africa: A mixed methods study

Andrew Gibbs, Smanga Mkhwanazi, Leane Ramsoomar, Samantha Willan and Rachel Jewkes

Unequal geographies of gender-affirming care: A comparative typology of trans-specific healthcare systems across Europe

Ed Kiely, Nessa Millet, Asher Baron, Baudewijntje P.C. Kreukels and David Matthew Doyle

Impact of the targeted poverty alleviation policy on older adults’ healthcare utilization: A quasi-experimental analysis from China

Xinfeng Wang and Xin Ye

‘Barely keeping the wheels on the trolley’: A qualitative study of the New Zealand COVID Tracer App

Phoebe Elers, Sarah Derrett, Tepora Emery and Tim Chambers

Does health aid matter to financial risk protection? A regression analysis across 159 household surveys, 2000–2016

Jacopo Gabani, Marc Suhrcke, Sven Neelsen, Patrick Hoang-Vu Eozenou and Marc-Francois Smitz

When reality knocks on the door. The effect of conspiracy beliefs on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and the moderating role of experience with the virus

Ádám Stefkovics, Péter Krekó and Júlia Koltai

“Cultural and conceptual knowledge”: Reformulation and conceptual analysis of a key component of the health literacy model

Lydia P. Buki, Jessie M. Quintero Johnson, Kali Knight and Akeitha Walton

Medication and procedural abortion uptake during a period of increasing abortion hostility

Karim Sariahmed, Paul J. Christine, Jiayi Wang, Christine Prifti, Mallika Sabharwal and Marc LaRochelle

The social class of orthopedic rehabilitation patients: Are there differences in subjective health, return to work motivation, and participation in aftercare interventions?

Robin Rinn, Amanda Whittal, Eleni Kremeti and Sonia Lippke

Reducing health-related stigma in adults living with chronic non-communicable diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Samuel Akyirem, Emmanuel Ekpor, Janene Batten and Veronica Brady

Decomposition analysis to assess intervention strategies for reducing health-related exposure disparities in Michigan public drinking water systems

Liangfei Ye, Qianqian Dong and Stephen Gasteyer

Assessing the accuracy of self-reported health expenditure data: Evidence from two public surveys in China

Zhuang Hao, Xudong Zhang and Yuze Wang

‘Like going to get a facial’: Heterotopic spaces and gendered aesthetics of commercial Australian reproductive clinics

Angie Sassano and Christopher Mayes

The role of metaphor in the corporate political strategies of health harming industries: Comparing the concept of balance in the gambling and opioid industry discourses

May CI. van Schalkwyk, Benjamin Hawkins, Daniel Eisenkraft Klein and Adam D. Koon

How long-term changes in neighborhood and school racial composition shape children's behavior problems

Jennifer Candipan, Nicole L. Hair and Katrina M. Walsemann

An elephant in the room? Explaining agenda-setting in antimicrobial resistance policies in 30 European countries

Colette S. Vogeler and Anne-Marie Parth

Revisiting organizational culture in healthcare: Heterogeneity as a resource

Maike Tietschert, Hassina Bahadurzada and Michaela Kerrissey

A sense of injustice in care networks: An intersectional exploration of the collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background

Aldiene Henrieke Hengelaar, Petra Verdonk, Margo van Hartingsveldt and Tineke Abma

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