Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2024, volume 347, articles C

Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation

Sarah Hartmann

Development of the What Matters 2 Adults (WM2A) wellbeing measure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults

K. Howard, G. Garvey, K. Anderson, M. Dickson, R. Viney, J. Ratcliffe, M. Howell, A. Gall, J. Cunningham, L.J. Whop, A. Cass, A. Jaure and B. Mulhern

The association between incarceration and housing insecurity and advanced immune age during late life

Lauren MacConnachie, Yuan S. Zhang, Mateo Farina, Carmen Gutierrez, Andrew Hoover, Yuelin He, Allison E. Aiello and Grace A. Noppert

Exploring the discourses around microdosing psychedelics within the r/microdosing online community

Ioana Andreea Pop, Erwin Gielens, Hannah Kottmann and Peter Achterberg

Hope in adolescence and subsequent health and well-being in adulthood: An outcome-wide longitudinal study

Katelyn N.G. Long, Renae Wilkinson, Richard G. Cowden, Ying Chen and Tyler J. VanderWeele

“Don't fuss at our staff”: A moral economy of volunteerism in South Carolina safety net clinics

Henry Bundy

Understanding the role of the Tanzania national health insurance fund in improving service coverage and quality of care

Doris Osei Afriyie, Pei Shan Loo, August Kuwawenaruwa, Tani Kassimu, Günther Fink, Fabrizio Tediosi and Sally Mtenga

Justice at the Forefront: Cultivating felt accountability towards Artificial Intelligence among healthcare professionals

Weisha Wang, Yichuan Wang, Long Chen, Rui Ma and Minhao Zhang

No time to lie: Examining the identity of pro-vaccination and anti-vaccination supporters through user-generated content

Selma Kadić-Maglajlić, Cristiana R. Lages and Eleonora Pantano

Structural racism in primary schools and changes in epigenetic age acceleration among Black and White youth

Connor D. Martz, Aprile D. Benner, Bridget J. Goosby, Colter Mitchell and Lauren Gaydosh

Invisible cancers: Seeing, knowing, enacting and proving cancers in Haiti

Rebecca Henderson

Does volunteering impact refugee women's life satisfaction, empowerment, and wellbeing? Experimental evidence, local knowledge, and causal reasoning

Catherine Panter-Brick, Jannik J. Eggerman, Philip Jefferies, Lina Qtaishat, Rana Dajani and Praveen Kumar

Seeking care across the US-Mexico border: The experiences of Latinx and Indigenous Mexican caregivers of children with asthma or respiratory distress

Gabriela Ortiz, Sophia Rodriguez, María Pozar, Ashley Moran and Ann Cheney

Does group-based parent support during the transition to parenthood affect child socio-emotional problems and health care utilization? A randomized controlled trial

Tea Trillingsgaard, Hanne Nørr Fentz and Marianne Simonsen

Employer-focused interventions targeting disability employment: A systematic review

Daniel W. Derbyshire, Emma Jeanes, Esmaeil Khedmati Morasae, Susan Reh and Morwenna Rogers

Parental depression and their children's marriage timing: The long-term consequences of parental mental disorders

William G. Axinn, Emma Banchoff, Dirgha J. Ghimire and Kate M. Scott

Understanding policy amenable risk factors: Alcohol consumption and long-term care use among people over 65 years old

Gintarė Mališauskaite, Olena Nizalova, Katerina Gousia, Hansel Teo and Julien Forder

Health communication on social media at the early stage of the pandemic: Examining health professionals’ COVID-19 related tweets

Yao-Tai Li, Man-Lin Chen and Hsuan-Wei Lee

“To do so in a patient-centred way is not particularly lucrative”: The effects of neoliberal health care on PrEP implementation and delivery

Jad Sinno, Emerich Daroya, Alex Wells, Mark Hull, Nathan J. Lachowsky, Darrell H.S. Tan and Daniel Grace

The contributions of avoidable causes of death to gender gap in life expectancy and life disparity in the US and Canada: 2001–2019

Sujita Pandey, Mohammad Hajizadeh and Ali Kiadaliri

“Nobody has written the book about what non-binary people should put forward in relationships”: Exploring gender equity in relationships of queer, trans, and non-monogamous young women and non-binary youth in British Columbia, Canada

Kalysha Closson, Gem Y. Lee, Zoë Osborne, Colby Hangle, Tadiwa Nemutambwe, Anita Raj, Ivan Leonce and Angela Kaida

Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity

Mille Sofie Stenmarck, David GT. Whitehurst, Rachel Baker and Mathias Barra

Attitudes to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests for population-based screening: A qualitative study in Great Britain

Ninian Schmeising-Barnes, Jo Waller and Laura A.V. Marlow

Public nature and health for homeless populations: Professionals’ perceptions of contingent human benefits and harms

Monika M. Derrien, Gregory N. Bratman, Lee K. Cerveny, Chaja Levy, Dale J. Blahna, Paulo Frank and Naomi Serio

Social class stigma and poorer health behaviors: Evidence from the eating in America study

David G. Figueroa, Jordan E. Parker, Jeffrey M. Hunger, Michael W. Kraus, Keely A. Muscatell and A. Janet Tomiyama

Which foreign vaccine should the government purchase in a pandemic? Evidence from a survey experiment in the United States

Tobias Heinrich, Yoshiharu Kobayashi and Matthew Motta

Disease exposure in infancy affects women's reproductive outcomes and offspring health in southern Sweden 1905–2000

Ingrid van Dijk, Therese Nilsson and Luciana Quaranta

Why is hospital discharge so difficult? Reconsidering patient trajectories in theory and practice: Insights from an ethnographic study of transitions in hip fracture care

Davina Allen

The double invisibility of Long Covid in children

Cervantée Wild, Alice MacLean, Sarah Nettleton, Kate Hunt and Sue Ziebland

Men's sociotechnical imaginaries of artificial intelligence for prostate cancer diagnostics – A focus group study

Emilie Hybertsen Lysø, Maria Bårdsen Hesjedal, John-Arne Skolbekken and Marit Solbjør

First-hand accounts of structural stigma toward people who use opioids on Reddit

Evan L. Eschliman, Karen Choe, Alexandra DeLucia, Elizabeth Addison, Valerie W. Jackson, Sarah M. Murray, Danielle German, Becky L. Genberg and Michelle R. Kaufman

Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography

Anne Wettergren Karlsson, Anne Kragh-Sørensen, Kirsten Børgesen, Karsten Erik Behrens, Torben Andersen, Karen Margrethe Maglekær, Mette Juel Rothmann, Marjolijn Ketelaar, Esben Nedenskov Petersen and Astrid Janssens

Stigma power in practice: Exploring the contribution of Bourdieu's theory to stigma, discrimination and health research

Andy Guise

“Getting Moving” and Being “Active Fit”: Class Differences and Similarities in Health-promoting Parenting through Children's Organized Athletic Activities

Mahala Miller and Teresa Toguchi Swartz

Social disconnection and suicide mortality among Japanese older adults: A seven-year follow-up study

Masashige Saito, Ryota Watanabe, Yudai Tamada, Kenji Takeuchi, Yukako Tani, Katsunori Kondo and Toshiyuki Ojima

Social cognition, personality and social-political correlates of health behaviors: Application of an integrated theoretical model

Zoe M. Griffith, Juho Polet, Taru Lintunen, Kyra Hamilton and Martin S. Hagger

Consequences of receiving weight-related advice from a healthcare provider: Understanding the varied experiences of people with higher weight

Erin C. Standen, Alexander J. Rothman and Traci Mann

Using simulation modelling to transform hospital planning and management to address health inequalities

Eren Demir, Usame Yakutcan and Stephen Page

Inciting maintenance: Tiered institutional work during value-based payment reform in oncology

Thomas Reindersma, Isabelle Fabbricotti, Kees Ahaus, Chris Bangma and Sandra Sülz

Financial burden of medicines in five Northern European countries: A decommodification perspective

Katri Aaltonen and Maria Vaalavuo

2024, volume 346, articles C

Weaving EU digital health policy into national healthcare practices. The making of a reimbursement standard for digital health technologies in Belgium

Elisa Lievevrouw, Luca Marelli and Ine Van Hoyweghen

Barriers to opioid use disorder treatment among people who use drugs in the rural United States: A qualitative, multi-site study

T.J. Stopka, A.T. Estadt, G. Leichtling, J.C. Schleicher, L.S. Mixson, J. Bresett, E. Romo, P. Dowd, S.M. Walters, A.M. Young, W. Zule, P.D. Friedmann, V.F. Go, R. Baker and R.J. Fredericksen

Positive emotions co-experienced with strangers and acquaintances predict COVID-19 vaccination intentions through prosocial tendencies

Catherine J. Berman, Taylor N. West, Jieni Zhou, Kelly R. Tan, Michael M. Prinzing and Barbara L. Fredrickson

Health emergencies, science contrarianism and populism: A scoping review

Marina Schenkel

Educational attainment, family background and the emergence of pain gradients in adulthood

Michael Topping and Jason Fletcher

Suspicious business: COVID-19 vaccination in Palabek refugee settlement, northern Uganda

Sophie Mylan

Social ecological determinants of the mental distress among Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Turkey: A transnational perspective

Simon A. Ruhnke, Laura Hertner, Judith Köhler and Ulrike Kluge

“Think of the situation in a positive light”: A look at cognitive reappraisal, affective reactivity and health☆

Jessica Maras and Kate A. Leger

Extra/ordinary medicine: Toward an anthropology of primary care

Alissa Bernstein Sideman and Na'amah Razon

Change in avoidable hospitalizations for low-income elders following quasi-market reform in primary care – Evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden

Sofia Sveréus, Max Petzold and Clas Rehnberg

The reproduction of knowledge hierarchies in transgender medicine: Professional, lay, and global expertise in clinical practice guidelines

Alyssa Lynne-Joseph

A situational test of the health belief model: How perceived susceptibility mediates the effects of the environment on behavioral intentions

Shannon Taflinger and Sebastian Sattler

Mental health literacy among Arab men living in high-income Western countries: A systematic review and narrative synthesis

Julian Madsen, Laura Jobson, Shameran Slewa-Younan, Haoxiang Li and Kylie King

Does social empathy moderate fear-induced minority blaming during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Nari Yoo and Sou Hyun Jang

Exploring the measurement of health related quality of life and broader instruments: A dimensionality analysis

Jan M. Heijdra Suasnabar, Aureliano Paolo Finch, Brendan Mulhern and M. Elske van den Akker-van Marle

Caring for older parents in Norway – How does it affect labor market participation and absence from work?

Heidi Gautun and Christopher Bratt

Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses

Aleksandra Wagner, Paulina Polak, Tadeusz Józef Rudek, Maria Świątkiewicz-Mośny, Alistair Anderson, Marlies Bockstal, Luigi Gariglio, Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková, Ana Patrícia Hilário, Pru Hobson-West, Juliana Iorio, Aappo Kuusipalo, Dino Numerato, Alice Scavarda, Pedro Alcântara da Silva, Eva Soares Moura and Pia Vuolanto

Men's physical health and life history transitions in the Philippines: Evidence for ‘marital selection’ but not protective effects of partnering and fatherhood

Lee T. Gettler, Stacy Rosenbaum, Sonny Agustin Bechayda, Thomas W. McDade and Christopher W. Kuzawa

Clinical and sociodemographic characteristics as predictors for quality of life in transmasculine and transfeminine individuals receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy

Saloni U. Lad, Jacob Sinopoli, Brian Khong, Britt Conroy, Adam T. Perzynski and Juan P. del Rincon

Follow the citations: Tracing pathways of “race as biology” assumptions in medical algorithms in eGFR and spirometry

Agustín Fuentes, Ulises J. Espinoza and Virginia Cobbs