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2024, volume 348, articles C

Resisting the (re-)medicalisation of dying and grief in the post-digital age: Natural language processing and qualitative analysis of data from internet support forums

Shaun Peter Qureshi, Ellen Judson, Ciaran Cummins, Amy Gadoud, Karen Sanders and Margaret Doherty

The urban political ecology of antimicrobial resistance: A critical lens on integrative governance

Raphael Aguiar, Roger Keil and Mary Wiktorowicz

“I'm just searching to get better”: Constructions of treatment citizenship on injectable opioid agonist treatment

Samara Mayer, Emily Jenkins, Nadia Fairbairn, Al Fowler and Ryan McNeil

Health and well-being of young mothers displaced by conflict: Experiences from South Sudan and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Kimberly Howe, Elizabeth Stites, Lucy Bassett, Maya Ewart, Khalat Ahmed Hammada, Shilan Sulaiman, Nyachar Lony and Tabitha Nyalel Maguek

When the Penny Drops: Understanding how social class influences speciality careers in the UK medical profession

Louise Ashley and Ian McDonald

Understanding the interplay of occupational, public health, and climate-related risks for informal workers: A new framework with findings from Zimbabwe and India

Alice Sverdlik, Kanupriya Kothiwal, Artwell Kadungure, Siddharth Agarwal, Rangarirai Machemedze, Shabnam Verma and Rene Loewenson

Where I'm Livin’ and How I'm Feelin’: Associations among community stress, gender, and mental-emotional health among Black Americans

August I.C. Jenkins, Agus Surachman and Marina Armendariz

Disrupted family reunification: Mental health, race, and state-level factors

Lauren M. Beard and Kyung Won Choi

Vaccine rhetoric on social media and COVID-19 vaccine uptake rates: A triangulation using self-reported vaccine acceptance

Victoria Nelson, Bidhan Bashyal, Pang-Ning Tan and Young Anna Argyris

Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women's and girls' reproductive autonomy in Nigeria

Signe Svallfors, Karin Båge, Anna Mia Ekström, Kelly Elimian, Ezra Gayawan, Helena Litorp and Anna Kågesten

One-size fits all? Evaluating group differences in an integrated social cognition model to understand COVID-19 vaccine intention and uptake

Jennifer M. Kowalsky, Melissa T. Buelow and Amy B. Brunell

Mortality risk following end-of-life caregiving: A population-based analysis of hospice users and their families

Mike Hollingshaus, Ken R. Smith, Huong Meeks, Katherine Ornstein, Eli Iacob, Djin Tay, Caroline Stephens and Rebecca L. Utz

Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil

Rodrigo Furst, Rafael Goldszmidt, Eduardo B. Andrade, Yan Vieites, Bernardo Andretti and Guilherme A. Ramos

Associations between environmental perception and self-rated health in the city hierarchy of China: Findings from a national cross-sectional survey

Wenyao Sun, Ying Wu, Lan Wang, Xiaotian Li, Qiaoni Guo and Zhanzhan Hu

A novel approach to model cumulative stress: Area under the s-factor curve

Frank D. Mann, Adolfo G. Cuevas, Sean A.P. Clouston, Colin D. Freilich, Zlatan Krizan, Sascha Zuber, Linda Wänström, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Patrick O'Keefe, Stacey Voll, Scott Hofer, Joseph L. Rodgers and Robert F. Krueger

Rural Friendship Bench: A qualitative study in Zaka district, Zimbabwe

K. Kidia, D. Machando, V. Dzoro, D. Chibanda, M. Abas, E. Manda, A. Mutengerere, T. Nyandoro, M. Chawarika, D. Majichi, J.H. van Dijk and H. Jack

Exploring social network typologies and their impact on health and mental well-being in older adults: Evidence from JAGES

Zaira Torres, Amparo Oliver, José M. Tomás and Naoki Kondo

Structural gendered racism and preterm birth inequities in the United States

Taylor Riley, Daniel A. Enquobahrie, Lisa S. Callegari and Anjum Hajat

Preparing popular views for inclusion in a reflective equilibrium: A case study on illness severity

Borgar Jølstad, Mille Sofie Stenmarck and Mathias Barra

Positive school climate and strong school identification as protective factors of adolescent mental health and learning engagement: A longitudinal investigation before and during COVID-19

Siyu Chen, Diana Cárdenas, Haochen Zhou and Katherine J. Reynolds

Health shocks, health and labor market dynamics, and the socioeconomic-health gradient in older Singaporeans

Terence C. Cheng, Seonghoon Kim and Dennis Petrie

Effective policy research of county and township health sector integration in China: Empirical evidence from the difference-in-differences model

Jie Zhao and Jianzhong Zheng

The impact of devolution on local health systems: Evidence from Greater Manchester, England

Philip Britteon, Alfariany Fatimah, Stephanie Gillibrand, Yiu-Shing Lau, Laura Anselmi, Paul Wilson, Matt Sutton and Alex J. Turner

A happiness approach to valuing health states for children

Li Huang, Nancy Devlin, Gang Chen and Kim Dalziel

Exploring experiences with alcohol and how drinking has changed over time among minority ethnic groups with a diagnosed mental health problem

Jo-Anne Puddephatt, Millissa Booth, Juliana Onwumere, Jayati Das-Munshi, Ross Coomber and Laura Goodwin

Sense of failure in end of life care: Perspectives from physicians and nurses

Yaffa Naomi Stokar

Direct and vicarious exposure to healthcare discrimination and erasure among transgender and gender independent individuals: Testing the indirect effect of mistrust in healthcare on utilization behaviors

Kyle L. Mason, Kristina B. Hood, Paul B. Perrin, Faye Z. Belgrave, Kevin W. Allison and B. Ethan Coston

Exposure to neighborhood violence, and laboratory-based and ambulatory cognitive task performance in adulthood

Elizabeth Muñoz, Jinshil Hyun, Jose A. Diaz, Stacey B. Scott and Martin J. Sliwinski

Effects of communicating health disparities using social comparison framing: A comprehensive review

Jiawei Liu and Jeff Niederdeppe

Vacillating between “strange” and “familiar” - representations of children in migrant families and their health in Swedish school health services

Emmie Wahlström, Frida Wallander and Jonas Stier

From the body as an object to embodied subjectivity: Social egg freezing as a personal definition rite among ultra-orthodox singles

Miriam Billig and Maya Maor

COVID-19 vaccination of at-risk and marginalised groups: recentering the state in vaccine uptake

Katie Attwell, Jake Turvey and Lisa Wood

Civil service organization as a political determinant of health: Analyzing relationships between merit-based hiring, corruption, and population health

Andrew C. Patterson

The association between loneliness with health service use and quality of life among informal carers in Australia

Ishani Kartik Majmudar, Cathy Mihalopoulos, Julie Abimanyi-Ochom, Mohammadreza Mohebbi and Lidia Engel

Immigrant-blind care: How immigrants experience the “inclusive” health system as they access care

Nilüfer Akalın

‘Chugging along, plugging in and out of it’: Understanding a place-based approach for community-based support of mental health recovery

Caroline Claisse, Abigail C. Durrant, Dawn Branley-Bell, Elizabeth Sillence, Angela Glascott and Alisdair Cameron

‘Kindling the fire’ of NHS patient data exploitations: The care.data controversy in news media discourses

Paraskevas Vezyridis

The biomedicalization of pregnancy prevention, neoliberal feminism, and college women's experiences of the contraceptive paradox

Emily S. Mann and Andrea M. Bertotti

Characterizing provider bias in contraceptive care in Tanzania and Burkina Faso: A mixed-methods study

Alexandra Wollum, Corrina Moucheraud, Jessica D Gipson, Willa Friedman, Manisha Shah and Zachary Wagner

Diversity patterns in non-standard employment and their relationship with self-rated health in urban China from 2010 to 2021

Wanying Ling, Senhu Wang and Shuanglong Li

Service restrictions from emergency shelters among people experiencing homelessness: Uncovering pathways into unsheltered homelessness and institutional circuitry

Nick Kerman, Carrie Anne Marshall, Alexia Polillo, Joseph Voronov, Timothy de Pass, Corinna Easton, Brooklyn Ward, Amanda Noble, Stephen W. Hwang, Nicole Kozloff, Vicky Stergiopoulos and Sean A. Kidd

Understanding Australian pharmacy degree holders’ job preferences through the lens of motivation-hygiene theory

Thao Thai, Emily Lancsar, Jean Spinks, Christopher Freeman and Gang Chen

Problems with NICE's severity weights

Daniel M. Hausman

Impacts of active mobility on individual health mediated by physical activities

Hui Kong, Jingyi Wu and Pengfei Li

“All hands on deck”: a qualitative study of safeguarding and the transition to telemedical abortion care in England and Wales

Jordan A. Parsons and Elizabeth Chloe Romanis

“That’s not at all what I needed” trans adults' perspectives on trans-affirming primary care and eating disorders

Emil K. Smith and Erin N. Harrop

Intergenerational trauma transmission through family psychosocial factors in adult children of Rwandan survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi

Jessica L. Bonumwezi, Sally L. Grapin, Monica Uddin, Samantha Coyle, D'Artagnan Habintwali and Sarah R. Lowe

To stay or not to stay at home? The unintended consequences of public health advice for older adults in the context of Covid-19 and urban heat

Zofia Boni, Diotima Bertel and Viktoria Adler

Social media & subjectivity: Adolescent lived experiences with social media in a Southern California middle school

Giselle Sanchez and Janis H. Jenkins

The mental health benefits and costs of critical consciousness: A longitudinal investigation of the co-occurring positive and negative effects of critical consciousness among sexual minorities

Randolph C.H. Chan

The gender of PrEP: Transgender men negotiating legitimacy in France

Clark Pignedoli and Paul Rivest

Short-term changes in mental health help-seeking behaviors following exposure to multiple social stressors and a natural disaster

Sophia C. Ryan, Margaret M. Sugg, Jennifer D. Runkle, Luke Wertis, Devyani Singh and Shannon Green

Local government spending and mental health: Untangling the impacts using a dynamic modelling approach

Ekaterina Melianova, Tim T Morris, George Leckie and David Manley

Examining the non-linear effects of education on Alzheimer's and non-Alzheimer's disease: Sex-stratified analysis of 17,671 older persons

Tau Ming Liew and Li Chang Ang

The impact of an economic empowerment intervention on intimate partner violence among women engaged in sex work in southern Uganda: A cluster randomized control trial

Josephine Nabayinda, Susan S. Witte, Samuel Kizito, Flavia Nanteza, Edward Nsubuga, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Proscovia Nabunya and Fred M. Ssewamala

Improving health and reducing health inequality: An innovation of digitalization?

Meirui Zhong, Dan Qiang, Jinxian Wang and Weizeng Sun

A single dose for me, A wealth of protection for us: The public health cost of individualism in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccine

Wei Fu, Li-San Wang and Shin-Yi Chou

Getting it right with discrete choice experiments: Are we hot or cold?

Semra Ozdemir, Juan Marcos Gonzalez, Prateek Bansal, Vinh Anh Huynh, Ban Leong Sng and Eric Finkelstein

The effect of silent eating during school lunchtime on COVID-19 outbreaks

Ryo Takahashi, Kengo Igei, Yusuke Tsugawa and Makiko Nakamuro

Are digital technologies an effective inhibitor of depression among middle-aged and older adults? Micro-level evidence from a panel study

Chonghui Zhang, Chenying Nie, Weihua Su and Tomas Baležentis

Identifying promising themes and messages for youth vaping prevention: A national study

Emily F. Galper, Nisha Gottfredson O'Shea, Caroline Ritchie, Alex Kresovich, Haijing Ma, Erin L. Sutfin, Paschal Sheeran and Seth M. Noar

Access Denied: A qualitative Study on transgender health policy in Egypt

Nora Noralla

The illusion of treatment choice in abortion care: A qualitative study of comparative care experiences in England and Wales

Katy Footman

Amazons in Mali? Women's experiences of breast cancer and gender (re)negotiation

Clémence Schantz, Abdourahmane Coulibaly, Kadiatou Faye and Drissa Traoré

Do tougher drinking policies affect men's smoking behavior - Evidence from China

Zili Zhang, Xiao Hu, Xuanxuan Zhang and Rong Zheng

Provision of gender affirming care among medical and allied health practitioners: The influence of transnormative beliefs in working with gender diverse patients

Molly Speechley, Jaimee Stuart, Riley A. Scott, Bonnie L. Barber and Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck