Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2013, volume 81, articles C

Do psychosocial factors moderate the association between neighborhood walkability and adolescents' physical activity? pp. 1-9

Femke De Meester, Delfien Van Dyck, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Benedicte Deforche and Greet Cardon

Where wealth matters more for health: The wealth–health gradient in 16 countries pp. 10-17

Moshe Semyonov, Noah Lewin-Epstein and Dina Maskileyson

Effects of home-based Voluntary Counselling and Testing on HIV-related stigma: Findings from a cluster-randomized trial in Zambia pp. 18-25

Marte Jürgensen, Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy, Charles Michelo and Knut Fylkesnes

Accumulated occupational class and self-rated health. Can information on previous experience of class further our understanding of the social gradient in health? pp. 26-33

Sara Kjellsson

Putting knowledge to trial: ‘ADHD parents’ and the evaluation of alternative therapeutic regimes pp. 34-41

Claire Edwards and Etaoine Howlett

The poorer cancer survival among the unmarried in Norway: Is much explained by comorbidities? pp. 42-52

Øystein Kravdal

Childhood adversities and subsequent risk of one or multiple abortions pp. 53-59

Julia R. Steinberg and Jeanne M. Tschann

Educational inequalities in health in European welfare states: A social expenditure approach pp. 60-69

Espen Dahl and Kjetil A. van der Wel

Mental health of Aboriginal children and adolescents in violent school environments: Protective mediators of violence and psychological/nervous disorders pp. 70-78

Violet Kaspar

Cross-border ties and self-rated health status for young Latino adults in Southern California pp. 79-86

Jacqueline M. Torres

Social role participation and the life course in healthy adults and individuals with osteoarthritis: Are we overlooking the impact on the middle-aged? pp. 87-93

Monique A.M. Gignac, Catherine L. Backman, Aileen M. Davis, Diane Lacaille, Xingshan Cao and Elizabeth M. Badley

Determinants of changes in income-related health inequalities among working-age adults in Japan, 1986–2007: Time-trend study pp. 94-101

Yuko Kachi, Mariko Inoue, Mariko Nishikitani, Shinobu Tsurugano and Eiji Yano

The fiscal impact of informal caregiving to home care recipients in Canada: How the intensity of care influences costs and benefits to government pp. 102-109

Josephine C. Jacobs, Meredith B. Lilly, Carita Ng and Peter C. Coyte

Mental health of those directly exposed to the World Trade Center disaster: Unmet mental health care need, mental health treatment service use, and quality of life pp. 110-114

Robert M. Brackbill, Steven D. Stellman, Sharon E. Perlman, Deborah J. Walker and Mark R. Farfel

The relationships between housing quality and occupant health in Uganda pp. 115-122

William E. Herrin, Michelle M. Amaral and Arsene M. Balihuta

2013, volume 80, articles C

Seasonality, disease and behavior: Using multiple methods to explore socio-environmental health risks in the Mekong Delta pp. 1-9

Roger Few, Iain Lake, Paul R. Hunter and Pham Gia Tran

Achieving and sustaining profound institutional change in healthcare: Case study using neo-institutional theory pp. 10-18

Fraser Macfarlane, Cathy Barton-Sweeney, Fran Woodard and Trisha Greenhalgh

The scarring effect of unemployment throughout adulthood on psychological distress at age 50: Estimates controlling for early adulthood distress and childhood psychological factors pp. 19-23

M. Daly and Liam Delaney

A paradox in healthcare service development: Professionalization of service users pp. 24-30

Nellie El Enany, Graeme Currie and Andy Lockett

Sheepskin effects of education in the 10-year Framingham risk of coronary heart disease pp. 31-36

Sze Yan Liu, Stephen L. Buka, Laura D. Kubzansky, Ichiro Kawachi, Stephen E. Gilman and Eric B. Loucks

Investigating the affordability of key health services in South Africa pp. 37-46

Susan Cleary, Steve Birch, Natsayi Chimbindi, Sheetal Silal and Di McIntyre

Habit, custom, and power: A multi-level theory of population health pp. 47-56

Frederick J. Zimmerman

Changes in income inequality and the health of immigrants pp. 57-66

Tod G. Hamilton and Ichiro Kawachi

Residential segregation, geographic proximity and type of services used: Evidence for racial/ethnic disparities in mental health pp. 67-75

Gniesha Y. Dinwiddie, Darrell J. Gaskin, Kitty S. Chan, Janette Norrington and Rachel McCleary

The social environment and walking behavior among low-income housing residents pp. 76-84

Caitlin E. Caspi, Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, Reginald Tucker-Seeley and Glorian Sorensen

Migration, environmental hazards, and health outcomes in China pp. 85-95

Juan Chen, Shuo Chen and Pierre F. Landry

The effects of local and non-local traffic on child pedestrian safety: A spatial displacement of risk pp. 96-104

Nikolaos Yiannakoulias and Darren M. Scott

‘We view that as contraceptive failure’: Containing the ‘multiplicity’ of contraception and abortion within Scottish reproductive healthcare pp. 105-112

Siân M. Beynon-Jones

Compositional and contextual associations of social capital and self-rated health in Seoul, South Korea: A multilevel analysis of longitudinal evidence pp. 113-120

Sehee Han

The effect of Hurricane Katrina on the prevalence of health impairments and disability among adults in New Orleans: Differences by age, race, and sex pp. 121-129

Narayan Sastry and Jesse Gregory

A randomized controlled trial to improve health among women receiving welfare in the U.S.: The relationship between employment outcomes and the economic recession pp. 130-140

Shawn M. Kneipp, John A. Kairalla and Amanda L. Sheely

2013, volume 79, articles C

Sociodemographic and cultural determinants of sleep deficiency: Implications for cardiometabolic disease risk pp. 7-15

Kristen L. Knutson

Perceived neighborhood quality, sleep quality, and health status: Evidence from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin pp. 16-22

Lauren Hale, Terrence D. Hill, Elliot Friedman, F. Javier Nieto, Loren W. Galvao, Corinne D. Engelman, Kristen M.C. Malecki and Paul E. Peppard

Sleeping, dreaming, and health in rural Indonesia and the urban U.S.: A cultural and experiential approach pp. 23-30

Douglas Hollan

Sleep budgets in a globalizing world: Biocultural interactions influence sleep sufficiency among Egyptian families pp. 31-39

Carol M. Worthman and Ryan A. Brown

Medicalisation or customisation? Sleep, enterprise and enhancement in the 24/7 society pp. 40-47

Simon J. Williams, Catherine M. Coveney and Jonathan Gabe

“Listening for his breath:” The significance of gender and partner reporting on the diagnosis, management, and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea pp. 48-56

Doug Henry and Leon Rosenthal

Unique sleep disorders profile of a population-based sample of 747 Hmong immigrants in Wisconsin pp. 57-65

Eric Young, Se Xiong, Laurel Finn and Terry Young

Work–family conflicts and subsequent sleep medication among women and men: A longitudinal registry linkage study pp. 66-75

T. Lallukka, S. Arber, M. Laaksonen, E. Lahelma, T. Partonen and O. Rahkonen

“They silently live in terror…” why sleep problems and night-time related quality-of-life are missed in children with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder pp. 76-83

Osman S. Ipsiroglu, William H. McKellin, Norma Carey and Christine Loock

Nighttime parenting strategies and sleep-related risks to infants pp. 92-100

Lane E. Volpe, Helen L. Ball and James J. McKenna

Eye of the beholder? Maternal mental health and the quality of infant sleep pp. 101-108

Wendy A. Goldberg, Rachel G. Lucas-Thompson, Gary R. Germo, Meret A. Keller, Elysia Poggi Davis and Curt A. Sandman

A qualitative exploration of adolescent perceptions of healthy sleep in Tucson, Arizona, USA pp. 109-116

Kathryn M. Orzech

Gender differences in approaches to self-management of poor sleep in later life pp. 117-123

Susan Venn, Robert Meadows and Sara Arber

2013, volume 78, articles C

The shape of things to come? Obesity prevalence among foreign-born vs. US-born Mexican youth in California pp. 1-8

Alison M. Buttenheim, Anne R. Pebley, Katie Hsih, Chang Y. Chung and Noreen Goldman

The art of letting go: Referral to palliative care and its discontents pp. 9-16

Alex Broom, Emma Kirby, Phillip Good, Julia Wootton and Jon Adams

Measuring the catastrophic and impoverishing effect of household health care spending in Serbia pp. 17-25

Jelena Arsenijevic, Milena Pavlova and Wim Groot

Agency and implementation: Understanding the embedding of healthcare innovations in practice pp. 26-33

Carl May

Education and obesity at age 40 among American adults pp. 34-41

Alison K. Cohen, David H. Rehkopf, Julianna Deardorff and Barbara Abrams

Implementing a Basic Package of Health Services in post-conflict Liberia: Perceptions of key stakeholders pp. 42-49

Dörte Petit, Egbert Sondorp, Susannah Mayhew, Maria Roura and Bayard Roberts

Understanding maternal smoking during pregnancy: Does residential context matter? pp. 50-60

Carla Shoff and Tse-Chuan Yang

Structural and environmental factors are associated with internalised homonegativity in men who have sex with men: Findings from the European MSM Internet Survey (EMIS) in 38 countries pp. 61-69

Rigmor C. Berg, Michael W. Ross, Peter Weatherburn and Axel J. Schmidt

Addiction in the family is a major but neglected contributor to the global burden of adult ill-health pp. 70-77

Jim Orford, Richard Velleman, Guillermina Natera, Lorna Templeton and Alex Copello

Conferences, tablecloths and cupboards: How to understand the situatedness of quality improvements in long-term care pp. 78-85

Annemiek Stoopendaal and Roland Bal

Economic gradients in early child neurodevelopment: A multi-country study pp. 86-95

George L. Wehby and Ann Marie McCarthy

How robust is the evidence of an emerging or increasing female excess in physical morbidity between childhood and adolescence? Results of a systematic literature review and meta-analyses pp. 96-112

Alice MacLean, Helen Sweeting, Matt Egan, Geoff Der, Joy Adamson and Kate Hunt

“I'm always entirely happy when I'm here!” Urban blue enhancing human health and well-being in Cologne and Düsseldorf, Germany pp. 113-124

Sebastian Völker and Thomas Kistemann

The ongoing westernization of East Asian biomedical ethics in Taiwan pp. 125-129

Yen-Yuan Chen, Shih-Li Tsai, Chih-Wei Yang, Yen-Hsuan Ni and Shan-Chwen Chang