Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2024, volume 343, articles C

Pilgrimage in pediatric palliative care: The journey of caregivers

María Gabriela Mendoza Martínez, Jessica Guadarrama Orozco and Ingris Peláez Ballestas

The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation

Ioana Popescu, Ben Gibson, Luke Matthews, Shiyuan Zhang, José J. Escarce, Megan Schuler and Cheryl L. Damberg

How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review

Isla Dougall, Milica Vasiljevic, Jack D. Wright and Mario Weick

Discrimination and social identity processes predict impairment and dysfunction among heavy drinkers

Tegan Cruwys, Joseph Selwyn, Joanne A. Rathbone and Daniel Frings

Heterogeneity in physician's job preferences in a dual practice context – Evidence from a DCE

Joana Pestana, João Frutuoso, Eduardo Costa and Filipa Fonseca

Hitting closer to home: State policies’ impacts on health by race and legal status

Tatiana Padilla and Adriana Reyes

Social capital and all-cause mortality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among middle-aged and older people: Prospective cohort study in Poland

Katarzyna Zawisza, Paulina Sekuła, Michalina Gajdzica and Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk

Organized abandonment under racial capitalism: Measuring accountable actors of structural racism for public health research and action

Taylor Riley, Julia P. Schleimer and Jaquelyn L. Jahn

The influence of parents' and partner's education on own health behaviours

Gang Chen, Jan Abel Olsen and Admassu N. Lamu

A novel application of interrupted time series analysis to identify the impact of a primary health care reform on intersectional inequities in avoidable hospitalizations in the adult Swedish population

Per E. Gustafsson, Osvaldo Fonseca-Rodríguez, Sara Castel Feced, Miguel San Sebastián, João Luiz Bastos and Paola A. Mosquera

Unlocking the importance of perceived governance: The impact on COVID-19 in NUTS-2 European regions

Vincenzo Alfano

Understanding the delivery of substance use treatment services to transgender and gender-diverse people: Findings from a mixed-methods study of healthcare professionals

Jaclyn M.W. Hughto, Hill L. Wolfe, Haley Adrian, Don Operario, Landon D. Hughes, Yohansa Fernández, Victoria Briody, Paige Matthews, Patrick J.A. Kelly and Alexandra B. Collins

Barriers and facilitators to viral load suppression among people living with HIV following intensive adherence counseling in Kampala, Uganda: A qualitative study

Jonathan Izudi, Adithya Cattamanchi, Barbara Castelnuovo and Rachel King

There but not really involved: The meanings of loneliness for people with chronic illness

Sophie Lewis, Karen Willis, Lorraine Smith, Leslie Dubbin, Anne Rogers, Maja Lindegaard Moensted and Natasha Smallwood

“Are we not going too far?“: Socio-ethical considerations of preimplantation genetic testing using polygenic risk scores according to healthcare professionals

Maria Siermann, Ophelia Valcke, Joris Robert Vermeesch, Taneli Raivio, Olga Tšuiko and Pascal Borry

What does social prescribing look like in practice? A qualitative case study informed by practice theory

Sara Calderón-Larrañaga, Trish Greenhalgh, Sarah Finer and Megan Clinch

The impact of maternal occupation on children’s health: A mediation analysis using the parametric G-formula

Li Xu and Jinglin Xu

A national longitudinal dyadic analysis of spousal education and cognitive decline in the United States

Hui Liu, William J. Chopik, M. Rosie Shrout and Juwen Wang

Effects of socioeconomic status and greenspace on respiratory emergency department visits under short-term temperature variations: An age-stratified case time-series study

Shengjie Liu and Hung Chak Ho

Exhausting care: On the collateral realities of caring in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic

Tim Rhodes, Maria Paula Ruiz Osorio, Adriana Maldonado Martinez, Alexandra Restrepo Henao and Kari Lancaster

2024, volume 342, articles C

Power and control, resistance and survival: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of the qualitative literature on intimate partner violence against transgender individuals

Elliot Marrow, Mannat Malik, David W. Pantalone and Sarah Peitzmeier

The policy and politics of healthcare corporatisation: The case of the English NHS

Rod Sheaff, Pauline Allen, Mark Exworthy and Russell Mannion

Belonging, endurance, and resistance: Black placemaking theory in primary care

Omar H. Ordaz, Raina L. Croff, LaTroy D. Robinson, Steven A. Shea and Nicole P. Bowles

School food hero and the battle of the food foes: A story of public health policy, power imbalance and potential

Anna Hawkins and Rachel Rundle

Two generations later: New evidence on health equalisation in youth

Andreas Klocke and Sven Stadtmüller

"I don't have a telephone to the fetus": Clinicians' conceptions of fetal patienthood in maternal-fetal surgery counseling

E Goldblatt Hyatt, Abigail Wilpers, Mert Ozan Bahtiyar, Yunzhe Hu, Daisy Leon-Martinez, Frank A. Chervenak and Judith L.M. McCoyd

“We need a little strength as well”: Examining the social context of informal caregivers for Black women with breast cancer

Tess Thompson, Jacquelyn Coats, Merriah Croston, Robert O. Motley, Vetta Sanders Thompson, Aimee S. James and LaShaune P. Johnson

Health protective behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic: Risk adaptation or habituation?

Dylan Martin-Lapoirie, Kathleen McColl, Karine Gallopel-Morvan, Pierre Arwidson and Jocelyn Raude

What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature

Áine Doran, Christopher Colvin and Eoin McLaughlin

Assessing the impact of caregiving for older parents on caregivers' health: Initial health status and trajectories of physical and mental health among midlife caregivers for parents and parents-in-law in Britain

Pilar Zueras and Emily Grundy

Economic activity and suicides: Causal evidence from macroeconomic shocks in England and Wales

Gabriele M. Lepori, Sara Morgan, Borna A. Assarian and Tapas Mishra

“I too have a responsibility for my partner's life”: Communal coping among Malawian couples living with HIV and cardiometabolic disorders

Allison Ruark, Julie T. Bidwell, Rita Butterfield, Sheri D. Weiser, Torsten B. Neilands, Nancy Mulauzi, James Mkandawire and Amy A. Conroy

A matter of (good) faith? Understanding the interplay of power and the moral agency of managers in healthcare service reconfiguration

Chris Q. Smith, Iestyn Williams and Will Leggett

“We are just not sure what that means or if it's relevant”: Uncertainty when gathering family history information in South African prenatal genetic counseling consultations

Megan Scott, Jennifer Watermeyer and Tina-Marie Wessels

Political affiliation as a moderator of the relationship between organizational climate and COVID-19 vaccine readiness

Malte Roswag, Jan A. Häusser, Sascha Abdel Hadi, Philipp Hubert and Andreas Mojzisch

Less stunted? The impact of Chinese health aid on child nutrition

Jia Li

Risk factors for deaths of despair in England: An ecological study of local authority mortality data

Christine Camacho, Roger T. Webb, Peter Bower and Luke Munford

Co-defining WASH (In)Security challenges among people experiencing homelessness. A qualitative study on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation from Bonn, Germany

C. Anthonj, S.N. Stanglow and N. Grunwald

Place or patient as the driver of regional variation in healthcare spending – Discrepancies by category of care

Naimi Johansson, Niklas Jakobsson and Mikael Svensson

2024, volume 341, articles C

Cultural health capital and patient partner recruitment into healthcare improvement work

Becky Woolf and Alexandra H. Vinson

“We have to lie low … that sort of poisons me more and more”: A qualitative study of violent political rhetoric and health implications for Spanish and Chinese speaking immigrants

Itzel López-Hinojosa, James Zhang, Katherine López-Hinojosa, Arshiya A. Baig, Elizabeth L. Tung and Aresha Martinez-Cardoso

Self-reported childhood adversity, unhealthy lifestyle and risk of new-onset chronic kidney disease in later life: A prospective cohort study

Kun Zhang, Yuying Wang, Ying Sun, Ling Gao, Yingli Lu and Ningjian Wang

Lead and delinquency rates; A spatio-temporal perspective

Duncan J. Mayer

Economic inequalities in health insurance subscription renewal: Evidence from Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme

Yaw Boateng Atakorah, Eric Arthur, Anthony Kofi Osei-Fosu and Jacob Novignon

Beyond knowledge: Introducing embodied aversion through the case of contraception

Virginia Kuulei Berndt and Ann V. Bell

‘Ageing well’: Discursive constructions of ageing and health in the public reach of a national longitudinal study on ageing

Gerard Fealy, Matteo Di Placido, Deirdre O'Donnell, Jonathan Drennan, Fiona Timmins, Marlize Barnard, Catherine Blake, Michael Connolly, Sarah Donnelly, Gerardine Doyle, Kelly Fitzgerald, Timmy Frawley, Paul Gallagher, Suzanne Guerin, Emanuela Mangiarotti, Jonathan McNulty, Doreen Mucheru, Desmond O'Neill, Ricardo Segurado, Diarmuid Stokes, Mary Ryder, Yeter Sinem Üzar Özçetin, John Wells and Anto Čartolovni

Accessibility in health professions education: The Flexner Report and barriers to diversity in American physical therapy

Andrew J. Hogan

Resistance to the biomedicalization of mental illness through peer support: The case of peer specialists and mental health

Ellis C. Frieh

The effects of effort-reward imbalance on the job, overcommitment, and income on life satisfaction in Germany from a longitudinal perspective

Lisa Braunheim, Nico Dragano, Kristine Khachatryan, Manfred E. Beutel and Elmar Brähler

From unequal injuries to unequal learning? Socioeconomic gradients in childhood concussions and the impact on children's academic performance

Ea Hoppe Blaabæk, Lars Højsgaard Andersen and Peter Fallesen

To trust or not to trust in the thrall of the COVID-19 pandemic: Conspiracy endorsement and the role of adverse childhood experiences, epistemic trust, and personality functioning

Hanna Kampling, David Riedl, Nora Hettich, Astrid Lampe, Tobias Nolte, Sandra Zara, Mareike Ernst, Elmar Brähler, Cedric Sachser, Jörg M. Fegert, Stephan Gingelmaier, Peter Fonagy, Lina Krakau and Johannes Kruse

The influence of perceptions of gender discrimination in the workplace on depressive symptoms among Korean working women: The moderating role of job satisfaction

Hyunseo Rim and Jinho Kim

Does a multi-component intervention including pictorial risk communication about subclinical atherosclerosis improve perceptions of cardiovascular disease risk without deteriorating efficacy beliefs?

Elin M. Andersson, Per Liv, Steven Nordin, Ulf Näslund and Kristina Lindvall

Toward the conceptualization and measurement of transphobia-driven intimate partner violence

Beth J. Maclin, Sarah Peitzmeier, Natalie K. Krammer, Kieran P. Todd, Erin E. Bonar and Kristi E. Gamarel

Public preferences for the allocation of societal resources over different healthcare purposes

Sander Boxebeld, Tom Geijsen, Charlotte Tuit, Job van Exel, Amr Makady, Laurence Maes, Michel van Agthoven and Niek Mouter

Transitioning into and out of precarious employment and life satisfaction: Evidence from asymmetric fixed effects models

Hansol Park, Gum-Ryeong Park and Jinho Kim

On practicing magicine, from wonder to care: A systematic review of studies that apply magic in healthcare

Kuan-Ting Lee, Yen-Chin Chen, Yi-Ching Yang and Wei-Li Wang

The death of an adult child and trajectories of parental depressive symptoms: A gender-based longitudinal analysis

Sujeong Park and Jinho Kim

Children's bullying victimization and maternal suicidal ideation among multicultural families in South Korea: Heterogeneity by family socioeconomic status

Hyewon Son, Eunhye Ahn and Jinho Kim

Feeling too low to be active: Physical inactivity mediates the relationship between mental and physical health

Gaja Zager Kocjan, Andreja Avsec and Tina Kavčič

Discrimination and bladder health among women in the CARDIA cohort study: Life course and intersectionality perspectives

Sonya S. Brady, Andrés Arguedas, Jared D. Huling, Gerhard Hellemann, Cora E. Lewis, Cynthia S. Fok, Stephen K. Van Den Eeden and Alayne D. Markland

Staying silent during a crisis: How workplace factors influence safety decisions in U.S. nurses

Archana Manapragada Tedone and Julie J. Lanz

Lifetime exposure to unemployment and prior working conditions are associated with retiree's health: A retrospective study in a large population-based French cohort

Marina Sanchez Rico, Marie Plessz, Guillaume Airagnes, Emmanuel Wiernik, Nicolas Hoertel, Marcel Goldberg, Marie Zins and Pierre Meneton

Patient-centered or population-centered? How epistemic discrepancies cause harm and sow mistrust

Katie Donnelly

Navigating interprofessional boundaries: Midwifery students in Canada

Elena Neiterman, Farimah HakemZadeh, Isik U. Zeytinoglu, Karolina Kaminska, Irina Oltean, Jennifer Plenderleith and Derek Lobb