Social Science & Medicine

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2023, volume 339, articles C

Online on the frontline: A longitudinal social media analysis of UK healthcare workers’ attitudes to COVID-19 vaccines using the 5C framework

Noémie Déom, Samantha Vanderslott, Patricia Kingori and Sam Martin

Is fair representation good for children? effects of electoral partisan bias in state legislatures on policies affecting children's health and well-being

Canan Karatekin, Susan Marshall Mason, Michael Latner, Bria Gresham, Frederique Corcoran, Anna Hing and Andrew J. Barnes

Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department

Zvika Orr, Levi Jackson, Evan Avraham Alpert and Mark D. Fleming

Age-gender differences in the relationships between physical and mental health

Sam Hugh-Jones, Anna Wilding, Luke Munford and Matt Sutton

Effects of the bio-psycho-social frailty dimensions on healthcare utilisation among elderly in Europe: A cross-country longitudinal analysis

Stefano Calciolari and Cecilia Luini

“It's not a one operation fits all”: A qualitative study exploring fee setting and participation in price transparency initiatives amongst medical specialists in the Australian private healthcare sector

Hana Sabanovic, Camille La Brooy, Susan Mendez, Jongsay Yong, Anthony Scott, Adam G. Elshaug and Khic-Houy Prang

Small money, big change: The distributional impact of differentiated doctor's visit fee on healthcare utilization

Tianyu Wang, Ke Wen, Qiuming Gao and Ruochen Sun

From prescribing dilemma to knowledge in practice: The ontological politics of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs

Melissa Ceuterick, Pauline Van Ngoc, Piet Bracke and Beatrice Scholtes

Kaleidoscopic integration: Advancing the integration of incommensurable knowledge in healthcare guidelines

Lea Lösch, Willemine Willems, Marloes Bongers, Aura Timen and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak

No evidence that social-democratic welfare states equalize valued outcomes for individuals with disabilities

Alexi Gugushvili, Jan Grue, Therese Dokken and Jon Erik Finnvold

Employee perceptions of race and racism in an Australian hospital

Ieta D'Costa, Mandy Truong, Lynette Russell and Karen Adams

Geospatial vaccine misinformation risk on social media: Online insights from an English/Spanish natural language processing (NLP) analysis of vaccine-related tweets

Danny Valdez, Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez and María S. Montenegro

The stability of physicians’ risk attitudes across time and domains

Xuemin Zhu, Marjon van der Pol, Anthony Scott and Julia Allan

The gendered associations between precarious employment and mental health in working-age Australians: A longitudinal analysis using 16 waves of the HILDA survey

Jennifer Ervin, Yamna Taouk, Belinda Hewitt and Tania King

Insomnia is associated with conspiracy mentality, psychological distress, and psychological well-being

Kai-Tak Poon, Rheal S.W. Chan, Jieshuang Liang and Liman Man Wai Li

A Gender Hypothesis of sex disparities in adverse drug events

Katharine M.N. Lee, Tamara Rushovich, Annika Gompers, Marion Boulicault, Steven Worthington, Jeffrey W. Lockhart and Sarah S. Richardson

Identifying longitudinal patterns of HIV treatment (dis)engagement and re-engagement from oral histories of virologically unsuppressed persons in Uganda: A thematic trajectory analysis

Joseph G. Rosen, Neema Nakyanjo, William G. Ddaaki, Tongying Zhao, Anh Van Vo, Rosette Nakubulwa, Charles Ssekyewa, Dauda Isabirye, Ruth L. Katono, Proscovia Nabakka, Richard J. Ssemwanga, Grace Kigozi, Silas Odiya, Gertrude Nakigozi, Fred Nalugoda, Godfrey Kigozi, Joseph Kagaayi, M. Kate Grabowski and Caitlin E. Kennedy

Trading in harms: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state

Elise Andaya and Rajani Bhatia

Threat and adaptation: The maternal lived experience of continuing pregnancy after receiving a prenatal diagnosis of agenesis of the corpus callosum

Pieta Shakes, Andrew Cashin and John Hurley

Physician entrepreneurship: A study of early career physicians’ founding motivations and actions

Ha Hoang and Markus Perkmann

How well do surveys on adherence to pandemic policies assess actual behaviour: Measurement properties of the Dutch COVID-19 adherence to prevention advice survey (CAPAS)

Carlijn Bussemakers, Mart van Dijk, Alexandra L. Dima and Marijn de Bruin

Economic distress, obesity, and the rise in pain

Dana A. Glei and Maxine Weinstein

Immigrants’ health empowerment and access to health coverage in France: A stepped wedge randomised controlled trial

Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah, Anne Gosselin, Karna Coulibaly, Andrainolo Ravalihasy, Corinne Taéron, Jean-Noël Senne, Flore Gubert and Annabel Desgrées du Loû

A realist synthesis to develop an explanatory model of how policy instruments impact child and maternal health outcomes

Maxwell S. Barnish, Si Ying Tan, Sophie Robinson, Araz Taeihagh and G.J. Melendez-Torres

Empirical evidence supporting the inclusion of multi-axes segregation in assessing US county health

David W.S. Wong and Debasree Das Gupta

“Nowhere else to be found”: Drawing on peer support experiences among transgender and gender-diverse people to substantiate community-driven gender-affirming care

Hannah Kia, K.A. Kenney, Alex Abramovich, Olivier Ferlatte, Kinnon Ross MacKinnon and Rod Knight

“Notice of major cleaning”: A qualitative study of the negative impact of encampment sweeps on the ontological security of unhoused people who use drugs

J.L. Goldshear, N. Kitonga, N. Angelo, A. Cowan, B.F. Henwood and R.N. Bluthenthal

Do the integrated theories of self-determination and planned behavior explain the change in active life engagement following a motivational counseling intervention among older people?

Katja Pynnönen, Mary Hassandra, Asko Tolvanen, Sini Siltanen, Erja Portegijs and Taina Rantanen

2023, volume 338, articles C

Better outcomes through patient – Provider therapeutic connections? An exploratory study of proposed mediating variables

Cheryl Rathert, Jessica N. Mittler, Timothy J. Vogus and Yuna S.H. Lee

Location-allocation modelling for rational health planning: Applying a two-step optimization approach to evaluate the spatial accessibility improvement of newly added tertiary hospitals in a metropolitan city of China

Jay Pan, Yufan Deng, Yili Yang and Yumeng Zhang

The impact of air pollution on outpatient medical service utilization and expenditure in a clean air city

Xiaoting Zheng, Lin Yang and Yumeng Liu

Black in the pandemic: Comparing experiences of mistrust, anxiety, and the COVID-19 vaccine among Black adults in the U.S

Janelle R. Goodwill and Kayla J. Fike

Current methods for evaluating people's exposure to green space: A scoping review

Yang Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Man Sing Wong and Changda Yu

Integrating street view images and deep learning to explore the association between human perceptions of the built environment and cardiovascular disease in older adults

Jiwei Xu, Yaolin Liu, Yanfang Liu, Rui An and Zhaomin Tong

Orchestrating moral bearability in the clinical management of second-trimester selective abortion

Laura Louise Heinsen, Camilla Bruheim and Stine Willum Adrian

Companion responses to diagnosis in Chinese outpatient clinical interaction

Shuai Zhang, Meili Cheng, Wen Ma, Huashui Liu and Chunjuan Zhao

Reframing as recourse: How women approach and initiate the end of fertility treatment

Natasha P. Bluth

Fertility behaviors and mid-late-life health status in China: From a life-course perspective

Yulei Weng and Xiaocong Yang

Long-term effects of the left-behind experience on health and its mechanisms: Empirical evidence from China

Shuai Yang, Yan Wang, Yuan Lu, Hanhan Zhang, Feng Wang and Zhijun Liu

Association of community-level social capital with dementia: A multilevel nine-year longitudinal study using data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study

Satoko Fujihara, Taishi Tsuji, Atsushi Nakagomi, Yasuhiro Miyaguni, Masamichi Hanazato, Go Muto and Katsunori Kondo

Mediating immediacy in the era of ‘treat all’: The (chrono)logics of HIV treatment initiation in Shinyanga, Tanzania

Lindsey Reynolds, Eileen Moyer, Judith Meta, Tusajigwe Erio and Josien de Klerk

Effectiveness of a workshop-based intervention to reduce bullying and violence at work: A 2-year quasi-experimental intervention study

Piia Seppälä, Nina Olin, Susanna Kalavainen, Heli Clottes Heikkilä, Mika Kivimäki, Jouko Remes and Jenni Ervasti

State-level desegregation in the U.S. South and mid-life cognitive function among Black and White adults

Katrina M. Walsemann, Nicole L. Hair, Mateo P. Farina, Pallavi Tyagi, Heide Jackson and Jennifer A. Ailshire

What the pandemic and its impact on the mobility and well-being of older people can teach us about age-friendly cities and communities

Linda Naughton, Francisco Cunha, Miguel Padeiro and Paula Santana

Spatial patterns of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 mortality across waves of infection in England, Wales, and Scotland

Júlia Mikolai, Peter Dorey, Katherine Keenan and Hill Kulu

Time's ticking! Effects of deadline on the utilization of health services: Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial

Hongyu Guan, Tianli Yang, Yunyun Zhang and Yaojiang Shi

The role of patient organisations in research and development: Evidence from rare diseases

Arianna Gentilini and Marisa Miraldo

Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’

Rebecca Dimond, Neil Stephens and Cathy Herbrand

Distinction through distancing: Norm formation and enforcement during the COVID-19 pandemic

Katie Holstein Mercer and Stefanie Mollborn

“Messengers matter”: Assessing the impact of racially concordant care on vaccine hesitation

Ashley Anderson

Return-to-work with long COVID: An Episodic Disability and Total Worker Health® analysis

Elisabeth A. Stelson, Devanshi Dash, Lisa McCorkell, Cali Wilson, Gina Assaf, Yochai Re'em and Hannah Wei

Temporal capital and unaligned times as inequality mechanisms: A case study of chronic care in general practice

Amanda Paust, Sofie Rosenlund Lau, Flemming Bro, Anders Prior and Anna Mygind

“Survive, learn to live with it … or not”: A narrative analysis of women's repeat victimization using a lifecourse perspective

Michaela M. Rogers, Parveen Ali, Jill Thompson and Moninuola Ifayomi

Role of grandparents in risky health behavior transmission: A study on smoking behavior in Norway

Emre Sari, Mikko Moilanen and Maarten Lindeboom

Effectiveness of behavioural economics-informed interventions to promote physical activity: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Helena Reisgies, Arim Shukri, Benjamin Scheckel, Olaf Karasch, Daniel Wiesen, Stephanie Stock and Dirk Müller

“The people here knew how I used to live, but now I have to start again:” Lived experiences and expectations of the displaced and non-displaced women affected by the Thwake Multipurpose Dam construction in Makueni County, Kenya

Patrick Mbullo Owuor, Diana Ross Awuor, Emily Mwende Ngave and Sera L. Young

Bidirectional longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and somatic conditions after adverse childhood experiences in middle-aged and older Chinese: A causal mediation analysis

Ziyang Ren, Yushan Du, Xinyao Lian, Yanan Luo, Xiaoying Zheng and Jufen Liu

Making sense of a myocardial infarction in relation to changing lifestyle in the five months following the event: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

Michelle Brust, Winifred A. Gebhardt, Sytske van Bruggen, Veronica Janssen, Mattijs E. Numans and Jessica C. Kiefte-de Jong

Non-standard family histories and wellbeing at older ages

Bruno Arpino, Jordi Gumà and Albert Julià

Who benefits from the basic old-age insurance contribution subsidy policy for the disabled?

Xiang Zhang, Dongwen Li, Peng Zhan and Xianchun Bai

Loneliness and firearm acquisition among low-income U.S. veterans: Findings from the National Veteran Homeless and Other Poverty Experiences (NV-HOPE) study

Alexander Testa and Jack Tsai

Multi-stakeholder preferences for the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare: A systematic review and thematic analysis

Vinh Vo, Gang Chen, Yves Saint James Aquino, Stacy M. Carter, Quynh Nga Do and Maame Woode

Epistemic and institutional recognition work in changing conditions of social visibility: Anosmia's journey from the shadows to the spotlight

Neva Bojovic and Susi Geiger

Geographical, social, and political contexts of tuberculosis control and intervention, as reported by mid-level health managers in Uganda: ‘The activity around town’

Jason Johnson-Peretz, Gabriel Chamie, Elijah Kakande, Canice Christian, Moses R. Kamya, Cecilia Akatukwasa, Fred Atwine, Diane V. Havlir and Carol S. Camlin

Sexual violence against sexual minority women in STEM: Compound backlash

Dennis E. Reidy, Elizabeth R. Baumler and Jeff R. Temple