Social Science & Medicine

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2024, volume 354, articles C

The demand for private telehealth services in low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from South Africa

Mylene Lagarde, Irene Papanicolas and Nicholas Stacey

Who's in control? Situating expertise, (mis)trust, and power among the Latine/Hispanic community in COVID-19's liminal moments

D. Grace Smith, A. Rani Elwy, Rochelle K. Rosen, Mario Bueno and Indra Neil Sarkar

High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology

Rebecca Kaufman, Will Schupmann, Stefan Timmermans and Aviad Raz

Putting the exposome into practice: An analysis of the promises, methods and outcomes of the European human exposome network

Yohan Fayet, Thomas Bonnin, Stefano Canali and Elodie Giroux

The health implications of neighborhood networks based on daily mobility in US cities

Noli Brazil, Bozhidar T. Chakalov and Michelle Ko

How should regulatory schemes be optimized to enhance deterrence against medical insurance fraud by enrollees? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in China

Jinsui Zhang, Min Hu, Yusheng Jia, Yuanyuan Gu and Wen Chen

Weight bias among Canadians: Associations with sociodemographics, BMI and body image constructs

Marilou Côté, Vida Forouhar, Iyoma Y. Edache and Angela S. Alberga

School socioeconomic status and psychological complaints among adolescents in 44 countries: The mediating role of schoolwork pressure and classmate support and the moderating role of family SES and country-level income inequality

Mathilde E. Brons, Marco Helbich, Frank J. Elgar, Michela Lenzi, Gideon Bolt, Maxim Dierckens, Alina Cosma, Kirsten Visser and Gonneke W.J.M. Stevens

Adolescents' challenging and grief-filled transitions when living with a parent with ALS: A qualitative interpretive study

Nina Malmström, Joakim Öhlén, Birgitta Jakobsson Larsson, Stefan Nilsson, Ingela Nygren, Peter M. Andersen and Anneli Ozanne

Information avoidance: An interchangeable strategy of self-protection

William B. Meese, Jacqueline Hua and Jennifer L. Howell

Understanding autism and its treatment: The child's perspective

Yael Karni-Visel, Nehami Baum and Mitchell Schertz

Housing, health equity, and global capitalist power: Migrant farmworkers in Canada

Anelyse M. Weiler and C. Susana Caxaj

Would plain packaging and health warning labels reduce smoking in the presence of informal markets? A choice experiment in Colombia

Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes, Pamela Góngora-Salazar, Emmanouil Mentzakis, Neil Buckley, Juan Gallego, G. Emmanuel Guindon, Juan Pablo Martínez and Guillermo Paraje

Racial and gender differences in discrimination and psychological distress among young adults

Imari Z. Smith and Jen'nan G. Read

Formulating cancer worries: How doctors establish medical expertise and authority to facilitate patients’ care choices

Wayne A. Beach

Creating an SF-6Dv2 social value set for New Zealand

Trudy Sullivan, Georgia McCarty, Franz Ombler, Robin Turner, Brendan Mulhern and Paul Hansen

Disparity by caste and tribe: Understanding women's empowerment and health outcomes in India

Piyasa Mal and Nandita Saikia

The integration of geographic methods and ecological momentary assessment in public health research: A systematic review of methods and applications

Yue Zhang, Dongying Li, Xiaoyu Li, Xiaolu Zhou and Galen Newman

Looks and longevity: Do prettier people live longer?

Connor M. Sheehan and Daniel Hamermesh

Insecure maternal employment and children's behaviour difficulties: Evidence from the longitudinal study of Australian children

Mengxuan Li and Yekaterina Chzhen

Kinship, lineage resources (wealth flow transfers), and intimate partner violence among women in Ghana

Eric Y. Tenkorang

Community engagement for stakeholder and community trust in healthcare: Short-term evaluation findings from a nationwide initiative in Lao PDR

Marco Haenssgen, Elizabeth M. Elliott, Sysavanh Phommachanh, Ounkham Souksavanh, Hironori Okabayashi and Shogo Kubota

Labor market discrimination and suicidal ideation: A longitudinal study of Korean women

Youngmin Chu

Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice

John Doering-White, Alejandra Díaz de León, Arisbeth Hernández Tapia, Luisa Delgado Mejía, Sabina Castro, Kendall Roy, Gabriella Q. Cruz and Sarah Hudock-Jeffrey

Cancer linguistics and the politics of decolonizing health communication in Coastal Tanzania: Reflections from an anthropological investigation

Daniel W. Krugman, Athumani Litunu, Saumu Mbeya and M. Yunus Rafiq

Does the time spent in retirement improve health? An IV-Poisson assessment on the incidence of cardiovascular diseases

Dario Fontana, Chiara Ardito, Roberto Leombruni, Elena Strippoli and d’Errico, Angelo

On the ability of the SF-6D to capture the consequences of chronic illnesses on subjective well-being: Evidence from France

Philippe Tessier and François-Charles Wolff

Modeling of drinking and driving behaviors among adolescents and young adults in the United States: Complexities and Intervention outcomes

Niyousha Hosseinichimeh, Rod MacDonald, Kaigang Li, James C. Fell, Denise L. Haynie, Bruce Simons-Morton, Barbara C. Banz, Deepa R. Camenga, Ronald J. Iannotti, Leslie A. Curry, James Dziura, David F. Andersen and Federico E. Vaca

2024, volume 353, articles C

Sex reconfigured: DIY hormone therapy and vernacular endocrinology in transfeminine communities in China

Thelma Wang

Digitally mediated relationships: How social representation in technology influences the therapeutic relationship in primary care

Carolyn Steele Gray, Meena Ramachandran, Christopher Brinton, Milena Forte, Mayura Loganathan, Rachel Walsh, Julie Callaghan, Ross Upshur and David Wiljer

US black women’s pregnancy communication networks: A qualitative network analysis

Tiwaladeoluwa B. Adekunle

Young, Muslim and poor: The persistent impacts of the pandemic on mental health in the UK

Henrique Duarte Neves, Miqdad Asaria and Mark Stabile

The “disproportionate costs” of immigrant policy on the health of Latinx and Asian immigrants

Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, May Sudhinaraset, Sharon Tafolla, Michelle Nakphong, Yueqi Yan and Kathryn Kietzman

A hidden population: A rhetorical genre analysis of the posts in the Baidu depression community

Tianlu Ji and Ke Li

The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents

Diana C.G. Mendes, Ana Fonseca and Mónica S. Cameirão

Gendered anti-blackness, maternal health & chattel slavery: OB/Gyn knowledge as a determinant of death of black women

Danielle McCarthy

Trans depathologisation and gender identity disorder in Japan: A critical discourse analysis of medical literature, 2010–2022

Yuumi Konishi

Interprovincial spatial distribution patterns and socioeconomic factors on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) service utilization in China

Beibei Zhang, Jialu Chen, Shuting Li, Yuanyi Cao and Junhui Zhang

Sequential organization and interactional functions of patient loyalty in routine chronic encounters

Ying Jin

New social identities in Ukrainian ‘refugees’: A social cure or social curse?

Magdalena Skrodzka, Grace McMahon, Siobhán M. Griffin and Orla T. Muldoon

One and the same or different? An empirical comparison of aged care recipient and non-aged care recipient preferences for quality of aged care amongst older Australians

Jia Song, Gang Chen, Jyoti Khadka, Rachel Milte and Julie Ratcliffe

Perinatal mortality among pregnant undocumented migrants in Norway 1999–2020: A register-based population study

Frode Eick, Odd Martin Vallersnes, Heidi E. Fjeld, Ingvil K. Sørbye, Morten Valberg and Cecilie Dahl

Mental health service use in children at risk of significant harm: A record linkage study of a child protection register

William P. Ball, Caroline Anderson, Corri Black, Sharon Gordon, Michael Lackenby, Martin Murchie, Bārbala Ostrovska, Katherine O'Sullivan, Helen Rowlands, Magdalena Rzewuska Díaz and Jessica E. Butler

The role of mental well-being in the effects of persuasive health messages: A scoping review

Špela Dolinšek, Christin Scholz, Stefano Giani, Julia C.M. van Weert, Bas van den Putte and Corine S. Meppelink

Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan

Shu-Chu Sarrina Li, Huai-Kuan Zeng and Shih-Yu Lo

Regional trends in mental health inequalities in young people aged 16–25 in the UK and the role of cuts to local government expenditure: Repeated cross-sectional analysis using the British household panel Survey/UK household longitudinal survey

Heather Brown, Ni Gao and Wei Song

2024, volume 352, articles C

Evolving narratives on signal functions for monitoring maternal and newborn health services: A meta-narrative inspired review

Sarah G. Moxon, Subha Sri B, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Sudha Sharma, Jennifer Talbott, Oona M.R. Campbell and Lynn Freedman

Older adults' online activities and cognition: Investigating the psychological mechanisms and age and gender differences

Kun Wang, Xiayu Summer Chen, Suk-Young Kang, Brenda D. Smith and Danan Gu

Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status

Kristian E. Markon, Frank Mann, Colin Freilich, Steve Cole and Robert F. Krueger

Mental Health Implications of Family Separation Associated with Migration Policies in the United States: A Systematic Review

Mitra Naseh, Yingying Zeng, Eunhye Ahn, Flora Cohen and Mustafa Rfat

Exploring bereavement processes among BLACK adolescent male CO-VICTIMS of homicide

Patricia M. Bamwine, John M. Wallace, Maria Catrina D. Jaime, Sarah Elizabeth Morrow, Jaime Booth and Elizabeth Miller

How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect cancer patients in England who had hospital appointments cancelled?

Jakub Lonsky, Catia Nicodemo and Stuart Redding

What impact does hearing impairment have on cognitive health in older married couples in China?

Yushan Du, Yanan Luo, Ziyang Ren, Lu Z. Gram, Xiaoying Zheng and Jufen Liu

Community and household-level incarceration and its association with mental health in a racially/ethnically diverse sample of families

Yasin A. Williams, Angela R. Fertig, Amanda C. Trofholz, Alicia Kunin-Batson and Jerica M. Berge

Youth behavioural responses to regulated alcohol advertising content: Results from a mixed-methods study in France

Karine Gallopel-Morvan, Jacques François Diouf and Nicolas Sirven

Countering social exclusion through inclusive homecare provision: Utilising a participatory life-course approach to influence policy

Kieran Walsh, Brídín Carroll, Eamon O'Shea and Diarmuid O'Donovan

Health-related social control among U.S. adults ages 30–80: Associations with alcohol use over four years

Joan S. Tucker, Anthony Rodriguez, Harold D. Green, Rachana Seelam, Beate Henshel and Michael S. Pollard

Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis

Inés Pellón-Elexpuru, Rianne Van Dijk, Inge Van der Valk, Ana Martínez-Pampliega, Asier Molleda and Susana Cormenzana

Medical maximization: The effect of personality on triage decision-making

Laurence Alison, Neil Shortland, Cicely Herrod-Taylor, Catherine Stevens and Paul Christiansen

What happens when the tasks dry up? Exploring the impact of medical technology on workforce planning

L. Maynou, A. McGuire and V. Serra-Sastre

Psychotic white men and bipolar black women? Racialized and gendered implications of mental health terminology

Amy L. Johnson

Moral economy and moral capital: A new approach to understanding health systems

Patrick Bartosch, Chrystal Jaye and Peter Crampton

Can financial incentives improve access to care? Evidence from a French experiment on specialist physicians

Aimée Kingsada

Short- and long-term effects of incentives on prosocial behavior: The case of ride vouchers to a blood collection agency

Claudio M. Ferreira, Yan Vieites, Rafael Goldszmidt, Lucia S.G. Barros and Eduardo B. Andrade

Intergenerational mental health effects of traumatic victimization in Nepal: A 3-D theory study

Clifton R. Emery

Body mapping: A decolonial method towards intergenerational healing

Carla Macal

Covid and the common good: In-group out-group dynamics and Covid-19 vaccination in Wales and the United States

Christopher W.N. Saville, Robin Mann, Anthony Scott Lockard, Aidan Bark-Connell, Stella Gmekpebi Gabuljah, April M. Young and Daniel Rhys Thomas

Linking measures to mechanisms of action in behavior change: A qualitative analysis of expert views

Lilly Derby, Lauren Connell Bohlen, Susan Michie, Marie Johnston, Jeffrey L. Birk, Alexander J. Rothman and Talea Cornelius

The long-term health effects of childhood exposure to social and economic policies: A scoping review

Emily C. Dore and Jordan Wurapa

‘Troubling’ medication reviews in the context of polypharmacy and ageing: A linguistic ethnography

Sarah Pocknell, Nina Fudge, Sarah Collins, Celia Roberts and Deborah Swinglehurst

Therapeutic management in the low-wage workplace

Emily H. Ruppel

Predicting longitudinal changes in patterns of tobacco and nicotine product use among adolescents: A Latent Transition Analysis based on the X:IT study

Lisbeth Lund, Susan Andersen, Christian Ritz and Lotus Sofie Bast

Delayed effects of air pollution on public bike-sharing system use in Seoul, South Korea: A time series analysis

Eun-Hye Yoo, John E. Roberts and YongHun Suh

Social media use and vaccination among Democrats and Republicans: Informational and normative influences

Stephanie L. DeMora, Javier A. Granados Samayoa and Dolores Albarracín

Examining the role of social vulnerability, neighborhood characteristics, and geospatial patterns of firearm-related injuries and clinical outcomes in Milwaukee county

C.W. Tomas, S. Timmer-Murillo, K.J. Kallies, A.J. Snowden, F. Borisy-Rudin, M. Busalacchi, R. Mackenzie, C.A. Kostelac, L.D. Cassidy and T.A. deRoon-Cassini