Social Science & Medicine

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2023, volume 337, articles C

A structured methodology for essential medicines lists and health emergency stockpiles: Experience with the Emergency Medicines Buffer Stock in the United Kingdom

A. Angelis, G. Montibeller and P. Kanavos

Changing mobility practices. Can meta-ethnography inform transferable and policy-relevant theory?

Cornelia Guell, David Ogilvie and Judith Green

Mechanism substitution in preventive innovations: Dissecting the reproduction of health inequalities in the United States

Angel R. Zapata-Moya, Jeremy Freese and Piet Bracke

“Please don't let me become a statistic in this grocery store”: Civic engagement among older Americans since the COVID-19 pandemic onset

Jessica Finlay, Marisa Eastman and Lindsay Kobayashi

The impact of changes in a physician fee schedule on medical expenditures, fees, and volume of services. Evidence from a national fee schedule reform in Australia

Dajung Jun and Anthony Scott

Gig work and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic: A gendered examination of comparisons with regular employment and unemployment

Zhuofei Lu, Senhu Wang, Wanying Ling and Ya Guo

Understanding the health decline of Americans in boomers to millennials

Hui Zheng, Jonathan Dirlam, Yoonyoung Choi and Linda George

Investment in the peace of mind? How private services change the landscape of maternity care in Poland

Maria Węgrzynowska, Ilona Nenko, Dorota Raczkiewicz and Barbara Baranowska

Gender differences in happiness in Chinese society: The role of parental preference for sons over daughters

Yiwei Liu, Qiuyue Guo, Yuting Su and Zhenglian Ren

Neighbourhood crime and obesity: Longitudinal evidence from Australia

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Augustine Asante

Burning issues: Unraveling the nexus between dysfunctional institutions and counterfeiting in developing countries

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah

Personal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and self-reported asthma-related health

Amy McCarron, Sean Semple, Christine F. Braban, Colin Gillespie, Vivien Swanson and Heather D. Price

“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes

Abbie E. Greig

Covid and the coalfield: Covid-19 vaccine hesitance in Wales and Appalachia

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

Fighting against COVID-19: With or without politics?

Martin Kovanic and Max Steuer

Parents' perceptions of their children's mental health during COVID-19: Evidence from Canada

Issam Abdo Ahmad, Ali Fakih and Mohammad Hammoud

Loneliness and risk for cardiovascular disease in the United States and Japan: The effects of nationality, collectivism, and gender

Eleni A. Kapoulea, Rebecca E. Ready and Joel C. Ginn

A longitudinal study of immigrant mothers' destination-language proficiency and their children's psychological well-being: Evidence and mechanisms from a study in South Korea

HyunJee Park, Gum-Ryeong Park and Jinho Kim

Hybrid health regimes: Access to primary care physicians and COVID-19 vaccine uptake across municipalities in Romania

Norbert Petrovici, Belbe, Stefana (Ștefana), Mare, Codruta (Codruța) and Cotoi, Calin (Călin)

Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care

Benjamin Marent, Flis Henwood and Mary Darking

How student healthcare providers in a communication skills course respond to standardized patient resistance

Trena M. Paulus, Heather Grubbs, Renee Rice-Moran and Jessica N. Lester

Physicians as shock absorbers: The system of structural factors driving burnout and dissatisfaction in medicine

Tania M. Jenkins

Medical education experiences among medical students with chronic health conditions: A qualitative study

Peyton Cabaniss

2023, volume 336, articles C

The ambivalence of radiotherapy: Re-framing effects and their temporalities in treatment for gynaecological cancer

Mette Kragh-Furbo, Daniel Hutton, Hilary Stewart, Vicky Singleton and Lisa Ashmore

Impact of ecological reserves on the local residents’ health: Evidence from a natural experiment in China

Mingzhe Wang, Hai Huang, Jie Xiong, Zhe Yuan and Keya Zeng

Access to emergency care in Egypt: Tiered health care and manifestations of inequity

Hisham Shokr, Andrea Rishworth and Kathi Wilson

Association of census-tract level gentrification and income inequality with 6-year incidence of metabolic syndrome in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, an epidemiologic cohort study

Catherine M. Pichardo, Earle C. Chambers, Lisa A.P. Sanchez-Johnsen, Margaret S. Pichardo, Linda Gallo, Gregory A. Talavera, Amber Pirzada, Amanda Roy, Sheila F. Castañeda, Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, Krista M. Perreira, Yanping Teng, Carmen B. Rodriguez, Matthew Allison, Jordan A. Carlson, Martha L. Daviglus and Jesse J. Plascak

Understanding adults with communication disorders in Ghana: Accessing rehabilitation and support systems

Emmanuel Kofi Opoku, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Lilian Frimpomaa, William Nketsia, Mprah Kwadwo Wisdom, Yaw Akoto and Mohammed Safi

“We are everyone's ASHAs but who's there for us?” a qualitative exploration of perceptions of work stress and coping among rural frontline workers in Madhya Pradesh, India

Ritu Shrivastava, Lochan Sharma, Mehak Jolly, Romi Ahuja, Radhika Sharma, John A. Naslund, Jyotsna Agrawal, Rahul Shidhaye, Seema Mehrotra, Steve D. Hollon, Vikram Patel, Deepak Tugnawat, Ananth Kumar, Anant Bhan and Ameya P. Bondre

Subjective socioeconomic status and self-rated health in the English Longitudinal Study of Aging: A fixed-effects analysis☆☆We thank the anonymous reviewers of Social Science & Medicine for their helpful comments. Data (Phelps et al., 2020) used in this study as well as programming code for data preparation and analysis (Coustaury et al., 2023) are publicly available. Patrick Präg's work is supported by a grant of the French National Research Agency ANR, ‘Investissements d'Avenir’ (LabEx Ecodec/ANR-11-LABX-0047). The English Longitudinal Study of Aging was developed by a team of researchers based at University College London, Natcen Social Research, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the University of Manchester, and the University of East Anglia. The data were collected by Natcen Social Research. ELSA funding is currently provided by the National Institute on Aging (Ref: R01AG017644) and by a consortium of UK government departments: Department for Health and Social Care, Department for Transport, Department for Work and Pensions, which is coordinated by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR, Ref: 198-1074). Funding has also been provided by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Camille Coustaury, Elias Jeannot, Adele Moreau, Clotilde Nietge, Asri Maharani, Lindsay Richards and Patrick Präg

“We grew up in the church”: A critical discourse analysis of Black and White rural residents’ perceptions of mental health

Caroline R. Efird, Clare Barrington, Jonathan M. Metzl, Kathryn E. Muessig, Derrick D. Matthews and Alexandra F. Lightfoot

Power and poverty: A participatory study on the complexities of HIV and intimate partner violence in an informal urban settlement in Nairobi, Kenya

Beate Ringwald, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Veronicah Mwania, Mary Muthoki, Faith Munyao, Lina Digolo, Lilian Otiso, Anne S. Wangui Ngunjiri, Robinson N. Karuga and Rachel Tolhurst

Poverty and population health – The need for A Paradigm shift to capture the working poor and better inform public health planning

Brian Witrick, Timothy S. Dotson, Frank Annie, Wesley Kimble, Emily Kemper and Brian Hendricks

(Un)Health from parental intervention: Does the marriage formation pathway influence married people's health?

Shichao Du

No heat, no eat: (Dis)entangling insecurities and their implications for health and well-being

Stav Shapira and Naama Teschner

Disentangling the interplay between genes, cognitive skills, and educational level in adolescent and young adult smoking – The TRAILS study

Heiko Schmengler, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Wilma A.M. Vollebergh, Joëlle A. Pasman, Catharina A. Hartman, Gonneke W.J.M. Stevens, Ilja M. Nolte and Margot Peeters

Corporate influenced state preemption and health: A legal mapping analysis of workers’ rights preemption bills in the US south

Courtnee Melton-Fant

Declined prevalence, improved awareness and control of hypertension are associated with spousal educational attainment: A mega-data study

Meiya Liu, Ying Yang, Xinyi Lyu, Jieying Zhang, Youhong Liu, Die Xu, Hanbin Wu, Jueming Lei, Yuzhi Deng, Chuanyu Zhao, Xuan Hu, Wenlu Xie, Jiaxin Huang, Siyu Wu, Ya Zhang, Hongguang Zhang, Yuan He, Zuoqi Peng, Yuanyuan Wang, Haiping Shen, Qiaomei Wang, Yiping Zhang, Donghai Yan, Long Wang and Xu Ma

Moral foundations and HPV vaccine acceptance in the United States: State, parental, and individual factors

Jamieson M. O'Marr, Akila Raoul, Erin K. James, Maike Winters, Avnika B. Amin, Robert A. Bednarczyk, Jesse Graham, Jeffrey R. Huntsinger and Saad B. Omer

A double-edged sword: Residents’ views on the health consequences of gentrification in Porto, Portugal

José Pedro Silva, Cláudia Jardim Santos, Ema Torres, Lucía Martínez-Manrique, Henrique Barros and Ana Isabel Ribeiro

Suitability of Middle Eastern and North African immigrant minimal reporting category for Arab immigrant health research in the national health interview survey

Florence J. Dallo, Tiffany B. Kindratt and Kristine J. Ajrouch

Making the visible seen: The interactional competence of a person in a disordered state of consciousness

Christina Papadimitriou, Luke Lindemann and Albert J. Meehan

Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications

Türkay Salim Nefes, Patrick Präg, Alejandro Romero-Reche and Manuel Pereira-Puga

Positive health and ageing policies for older Irish travellers and older people who have experienced homelessness in Ireland: Life-course meanings and determinants

Brídín Carroll, Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Diarmuid O'Donovan and Sinéad Keogh

Five urban health research traditions: A meta-narrative review

Jinhee Kim, Evelyne de Leeuw, Ben Harris-Roxas and Peter Sainsbury

Bed flow priorities and the spatial and temporal dimensions of rural older adult care

Laura I.L. Poulin, Mark W. Skinner and Mary T. Fox

Putting a price on pain: The monetary compensation needed to offset welfare losses due to violence

Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir, Hjördis Hardardottir and Brynja Jonbjarnardóttir

Lessons learned from COVID-19 vaccination implementation: How psychological antecedents of vaccinations mediate the relationship between vaccine literacy and vaccine hesitancy

Yunshu Lu, Quanfang Wang, Shan Zhu, Sen Xu, Muhtar Kadirhaz, Yushan Zhang, Nan Zhao, Yu Fang and Jie Chang

Valuing indigenous quality of life: A review of preference-based quality of life instruments and elicitation techniques with global older indigenous populations

Kevin Taylor, Julie Ratcliffe, Dawn Bessarab and Kate Smith

Contending with precarity: Digital pathways to sexual and reproductive healthcare among transgender Filipinos during the COVID-19 pandemic

Luis Emmanuel A. Abesamis

Digital support for first time self-injectable contraceptive users in Nairobi, Kenya: A design evaluation

Rhiana Mills, Oonagh Comerford, Rapha Krong and Paula Baraitser

How social norms and values shape household healthcare expenditures and resource allocation: Insights from India

Sumit Kane, Madhura Joshi, Ajay Mahal and Barbara McPake

Assessing the relationship between gun ownership and fear of mass shootings

Madison B Gerdes