Social Science & Medicine

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2024, volume 340, articles C

Social mobility and mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Samiha Islam and Sara R. Jaffee

Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks

Daan Westra, Peter Makai and Ron Kemp

A multi-year quantitative study of the experienced age-friendliness in The Hague: A tale of four personas

Joost van Hoof, Willeke H. van Staalduinen and Jeroen Dikken

Assessing the “healthy immigrant effect” in mental health: Intra- and inter-cohort trends in mood and/or anxiety disorders

Joyce Mason, Audrey Laporte, James Ted McDonald, Paul Kurdyak, Ethan Fosse and Claire de Oliveira

Promoter or barrier? Assessing how social media predicts Covid-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy: A systematic review of primary series and booster vaccine investigations

Christopher J. McKinley and Yam Limbu

Does the opening of an emergency department influence hospital admissions? Evidence from French private hospitals

Brigitte Dormont and Alexis Dottin

Using curiosity to counter health information avoidance

Samantha Horn, Yana Litovsky and George Loewenstein

Social media influencers and adolescents’ health: A scoping review of the research field

Elena Engel, Sascha Gell, Raffael Heiss and Kathrin Karsay

Reconceiving vulnerabilities in relations of care how to account for and deal with carers’ vulnerabilities

Yves Habran, Wendelin Küpers and Jean-Christophe Weber

Beyond the patient-doctor dyad: Examining “other” patient engagement in Traditional Chinese Medicine consultations

Wan Wei

Exploring the impact of social protest on mental health: A study of the 2019 “Social Uprising” in Chile

Fabián Duarte and Álvaro Jiménez-Molina

Mobilizing pilot-based evidence for the spread and sustainability of innovations in healthcare: The role of innovation intermediaries

Harry Scarbrough, Katie Rose M. Sanfilippo, Alexandra Ziemann and Charitini Stavropoulou

Provider communication contributes to colorectal cancer screening intention through improving screening outcome expectancies and perceived behavioral control

Xuan Zhu, Linda Squiers, Leah Helmueller, Gabriel Madson, Brian G. Southwell, Shama Alam and Lila J. Finney Rutten

The impacts of rent burden and eviction on mortality in the United States, 2000–2019

Nick Graetz, Carl Gershenson, Sonya R. Porter, Danielle H. Sandler, Emily Lemmerman and Matthew Desmond

Urbanicity and child health in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: Settlement type and its association with mortality and morbidity

Huijoo Shon

Age-friendly neighbourhood environment, functional abilities and life satisfaction: A longitudinal analysis of older adults in urban China

Zhuolin Pan, Yuqi Liu, Ye Liu, Ziwen Huo and Wenchao Han

Racial disparities in Death rates and Death incidences in Xinjiang: A study of multilevel ecological mechanisms

Xiaozhao Yousef Yang and Scott Schieman

What are the mechanisms driving the early stages of embedded researcher interventions? A qualitative process evaluation in English local government

Rachael C. Edwards, Dylan Kneale, Claire Stansfield and Sarah Lester

Anti-Black violence, discrimination, and sleep difficulties amongst racially diverse Americans: The aftermath of the murder of George Floyd

Yehsong Kim, Alexis M. Beale, Hannah F. Rasmussen, Kelly F.M. Kazmierski and Gayla Margolin

Motivators of e-cigarette use among Australian adolescents, young adults, and adults

Karlijn A.H.J. Thoonen and Michelle I. Jongenelis

Stakeholder perspectives on payment reform in maternity care in the Netherlands: A Q-methodology study

Zoë T.M. Scheefhals, Eline F. de Vries, Jeroen N. Struijs, Mattijs E. Numans and Job van Exel

Voting with their feet: Primary care provider choice and its implications for public sector primary care services in India

Krishna D. Rao, Akriti Mehta, Caitlin Noonan, Michael A. Peters and Henry Perry

Measuring healthcare payor management practices in England

Stephen J. Dorgan, Timothy Powell-Jackson and Andrew Briggs

Residential segregation and Black-White differences in physical and mental health: Evidence of a health paradox?

Nicholas C. Smith

COVID-19 lockdowns and working women's mental health: Does motherhood and size of workplace matter? A comparative analysis using understanding society

Jessica Wilson, Evangelia Demou and Theocharis Kromydas

Social connectedness, functional capacity, and longevity: A focus on positive relations with others

Elliot Friedman, Melissa Franks, Elizabeth Teas and Patricia A. Thomas

Health poverty among people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Malaysia

Fiorella Parra-Mujica, Laurence SJ. Roope, Alia Abdul-Aziz, Feisul Mustapha, Chiu Wan Ng, Sanjay Rampal, Lee-Ling Lim, Helen Dakin and Philip Clarke

Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development

Sharon Goldfeld, Marnie Downes, Sarah Gray, Cindy Pham, Shuaijun Guo, Elodie O'Connor, Gerry Redmond, Francisco Azpitarte, Hannah Badland, Sue Woolfenden, Katrina Williams, Naomi Priest, Meredith O'Connor and Margarita Moreno-Betancur

Cultural tightness–looseness and normative social influence in eight Asian countries: Associations of individual and collective norms with vaccination intentions

Jingyuan Shi, Hye Kyung Kim, Charles T. Salmon, Edson C. Tandoc and Zhang Hao Goh

The association between social class and aggression: A meta-analytic review

Bing Chen, Chao Zhang, Fan Feng, Hua Xian and Yufang Zhao

Support for criminalization of self-managed abortion (SMA): A national representative survey

M. Antonia Biggs, Andréa Becker, Rosalyn Schroeder, Shelly Kaller, Karen Scott, Daniel Grossman, Sarah Raifman and Lauren Ralph

Experiences of loneliness in lower- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of qualitative studies

Samia C. Akhter-Khan, Willemijn van Es, Matthew Prina, Vanessa Lawrence, Ilayda Piri, Ami Rokach, Luzia C. Heu and Rosie Mayston

Perinatal health in Spain during and after the Great Recession: Educational selection into fertility as a protective factor in high unemployment contexts

Marta Seiz, Leire Salazar and Tatiana Eremenko

Does biological age mediate the relationship between childhood adversity and depression? Insights from the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study

Rae Anne M. Martinez, Annie Green Howard, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Joanna Maselko, Brian W. Pence, Radhika Dhingra, Sandro Galea, Monica Uddin, Derek E. Wildman and Allison E. Aiello

Characterizing prescription opioid, heroin, and fentanyl initiation trajectories: A qualitative study

Tasha Perdue, Robert Carlson, Raminta Daniulaityte, Sydney M. Silverstein, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Avelardo Valdez and Alice Cepeda

We're implementing AI now, so why not ask us what to do? – How AI providers perceive and navigate the spread of diagnostic AI in complex healthcare systems

Sandra Gillner

Socioeconomic disparities in mammography screening in the United States from 2012 to 2020

Mariko Ando, Aki Yazawa and Ichiro Kawachi

Superwoman Schema and self-rated health in black women: Is socioeconomic status a moderator?

Christy L. Erving, Izraelle I. McKinnon, Miriam E. Van Dyke, Raphiel Murden, Shivika Udaipuria, Viola Vaccarino, Reneé H. Moore, Bianca Booker and Tené T. Lewis

A longitudinal study of perceived social position and health-related quality of life

Alexi Gugushvili and Ewa Jarosz

Racial/Ethnic disparities in exposure to neighborhood violence and lung cancer risk in Chicago

Sage J. Kim, Caroline Kery, Jinghua An, James Rineer, Georgiy Bobashev and Alicia K. Matthews

Application of life course trajectory methods to public health data: A comparison of sequence analysis and group-based multi-trajectory modeling for modelling childhood adversity trajectories

Leonie K. Elsenburg, Andreas Rieckmann, Jessica Bengtsson, Andreas Kryger Jensen and Naja Hulvej Rod

Economics of widowhood mortality in adult women in India

Babul Hossain and K.S. James

The value of healthy ageing: Estimating the economic value of health using time use data

João Vasco Santos and Jonathan Cylus

Coparenting, mental health, and the pursuit of dignity: A systems-level analysis of refugee father-mother narratives

Qusai Khraisha, Lama Sawalha, Kristin Hadfield, Majd Al-Soleiti, Rana Dajani and Catherine Panter-Brick

The long-term effects of war exposure on psychological health: An experimental study with Turkish conscript veterans

Arzu Kibris and Robin Goodwin

What explains the well-being benefits of physical activity? A mixed-methods analysis of the roles of participation frequency and social identification

Yuhei Inoue, Daniel Lock, Mikihiro Sato, Kurumi Aizawa, Akane Mikura, Natsumi Kohno and Etsuko Ogasawara

Assessing equity and efficiency of health financing towards universal health coverage between regions in Tanzania

Peter Binyaruka, Melisa Martinez-Alvarez, Catherine Pitt and Josephine Borghi

Workplace violence and intention to quit in the English NHS

Victoria Serra-Sastre

Stakeholders’ preferences for the design and delivery of virtual care services: A systematic review of discrete choice experiments

Linh K. Vo, Michelle J. Allen, Michelle Cunich, Janani Thillainadesan, Steven M. McPhail, Pakhi Sharma, Shannon Wallis, Kelly McGowan and Hannah E. Carter

Marital dissatisfaction and functional performance in older adults: Heterogeneity in the association by educational level

Jinho Kim and Keun Young Kwon

Impact of COVID-19 on negative body image: Evidence based on social media data

Xinyu Ji, Taotao Zhan and Tingshao Zhu

Neighbourhood mothers’ education and its differential impact on stunting: Evidence from 30 Sub-Saharan African countries

Vida Afarebea Agyen, Samuel Kobina Annim and Emmanuel Ekow Asmah

The words we die by

Daniel A. Menchik and Maya Giaquinta

Beyond burnout: Moral suffering among healthcare workers in the first COVID-19 surge

Melina Sherman and Eric Klinenberg

The impact of social media influencers on health outcomes: Systematic review

John Powell and Tabitha Pring

Unmet needs and the effect of healthcare system generosity on prevention activity – A multilevel analysis

Shuli Brammli-Greenberg and Boaz Hovav

Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents

Nicholas Rohde

Different roles of interpersonal trust and institutional trust in motivating older adults to receive COVID-19 vaccines in Singapore

Yaqi Yuan, Shun Yuan Yeo and Kristen Schultz Lee

Organizing implementation in healthcare: Balancing orders of worth

Helena Lagerlöf, Lena Eriksson and Morten Sager

The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood

Jay O'Shields, Orion Mowbray and Zach Cooper

“We don't experiment with our patients!” An ethnographic account of the epistemic politics of (re)designing nursing work

Syb Kuijper, Martijn Felder, Stewart Clegg, Roland Bal and Iris Wallenburg

Ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of virtual agents and virtual reality in healthcare

Catharina Rudschies and Ingrid Schneider

Journey mapping long COVID: Agency and social support for long-hauling

Bernardo Figueiredo, Jacob Sheahan, Shiqi Luo, Stephen Bird, Dawn Wong Lit Wan, Sophia Xenos, Catherine Itsiopoulos, Rebecca Jessup and Zhen Zheng

COVID-19's death transfer to Sub-Saharan Africa

Sosso Feindouno, Jean-Louis Arcand and Patrick Guillaumont

The “spillover effect” of long-term care insurance in China on spouses’ health and well-being

Yanan Luo, Kexin Yuan, Yuxiao Li, Yating Liu and Yao Pan

Policy implications of heterogeneous demand reactions to changes in cost-sharing: Patient-level evidence from Austria

Michael Berger, Eva Six and Thomas Czypionka

Alcohol misuse as a social determinant of food insecurity among smallholder farmers

Kamaldeen Mohammed, Evans Batung, Moses Mosonsieyiri Kansanga and Isaac Luginaah

“Quenching the thirst of others while suffering”: Embodied experiences of water vendors in Ghana and Kenya

Florence Dery, Elijah Bisung, Sarah Dickin and Ophelia Soliku

The stigma of smoking among women: A systematic review

Jean-Charles David, David Fonte, Anne-Laure Sutter-Dallay, Marc Auriacombe, Fuschia Serre, Nicole Rascle and Deborah Loyal

The impact of adult children living at home on the well-being of Spanish parents: Evidence from panel data

Maria José Gil-Moltó and Arne Hole

Longitudinal associations among the Big Five personality traits and healthcare utilization in the U.S

Olivia E. Atherton, Emily C. Willroth, Sara J. Weston, Daniel K. Mroczek and Eileen K. Graham

Eviction as a community health exposure

Gabriel L. Schwartz, Kathryn M. Leifheit, Mariana C. Arcaya and Danya Keene

A critical analysis of newspaper accounts of violence against doctors in India

Mayuri Samant, Michael Calnan and Sumit Kane

Traditional bullying, cyberbullying, and quality of life among adolescents in 35 countries: Do cultural values matter?

Hui Yin, Ziqiang Han and Yuhuan Li

Double jeopardy: Exploring the moderating effect of educational mismatch in the relationship between work-family conflict and depressive symptoms among Korean working women

Kyungeun Song, Min-Ah Lee and Jinho Kim

Performative credibility: How opioid researchers sustain public trust during the opioid epidemic

Xinyan Wu

Understanding UK public views on normative decisions made to value health-related quality of life in children: A qualitative study

Philip A. Powell, Donna Rowen, Anju Keetharuth and Clara Mukuria