Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian

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2023, volume 335, articles C

The relationship between mental health and public attention to the Brett Kavanaugh hearings and confirmation

Colin Sleeper, Kate Cartwright and David N. van der Goes

Abandoning female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC) is an emerging but costly parental investment strategy in rural Ethiopia

Mhairi A. Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu, Regina Chua, Hannelore Van Bavel and Sarah Myers

Explaining the U.S. rural disadvantage in COVID-19 case and death rates during the Delta-Omicron surge: The role of politics, vaccinations, population health, and social determinants

Malia Jones, Mahima Bhattar, Emma Henning and Shannon M. Monnat

Positive life experiences and mortality: Examination of psychobiological pathways

Naomi Podber and Tara L. Gruenewald

Measuring spatial availability of children for older adults with disability

Tsai-Chin Cho, Bona Park and HwaJung Choi

The relationship between physical activity, cognitive function and health care use: A mediation analysis

Sabrina Lenzen, Brenda Gannon, Christiern Rose and Edward Norton

Birth in the U.S. Plantation South and Racial Differences in all-cause mortality in later life

Cheryl Elman, Solveig A. Cunningham, Virginia J. Howard, Suzanne E. Judd, Aleena M. Bennett and Matthew E. Dupre

Testing mediating pathways between school segregation and health: Evidence on peer prejudice and health behaviors

Gabriel L. Schwartz, Amy Y. Chiang, Guangyi Wang, Min Hee Kim, Justin S. White and Rita Hamad

“Technically an abortion”: Understanding perceptions and definitions of abortion in the United States

Alicia J. VandeVusse, Jennifer Mueller, Marielle Kirstein, Joe Strong and Laura D. Lindberg

“Your son needs help … and we're gonna help him”: A qualitative study of the experiences of gun-owning caregivers of adolescents receiving lethal means counseling in the emergency department

Carmel Salhi, Elizabeth Beatriz, John Berrigan, Deb Azrael, Ashley Houston, Carol Runyan, Catherine Barber, Marian Betz and Matthew Miller

Effectiveness of a theory-driven mHealth intervention in promoting post-surgery rehabilitation adherence in patients who had anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A randomized clinical trial

Alfred S.Y. Lee, Patrick Shu-Hang Yung, Michael Tim-Yun Ong, Chris Lonsdale, Thomson W.L. Wong, Parco M. Siu, Martin S. Hagger and Derwin K.C. Chan

“Mothers get really exhausted!” The lived experience of pregnancy in extreme heat: Qualitative findings from Kilifi, Kenya

F. Scorgie, A. Lusambili, S. Luchters, P. Khaemba, V. Filippi, B. Nakstad, J. Hess, C. Birch, S. Kovats and M.F. Chersich

Solitary confinement and the well-being of people in prison

Kevin A. Wright, Jacob T.N. Young, Caitlin G. Matekel, Arynn A. Infante, Faith E. Gifford, Travis J. Meyers and Stephanie J. Morse

Collective action mitigates the negative effects of COVID-19 threat and anti-abortion restrictions on mental health

Anna Wnuk, Tomasz Oleksy, Małgorzata Gambin, Małgorzata Woźniak-Prus, Agnieszka Łyś and Paweł Holas

How to effectively communicate health information on social media depending on the audience's personality traits: An experimental study in the context of organ donation in Germany

Alexandra Olsacher, Celina Bade, Jan Ehlers and Leonard Fehring

Far-right political ideology and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Multilevel analysis of 21 European countries

Insa Backhaus, Hanno Hoven and Ichiro Kawachi

Examining spatial variation for immunisation coverage in pregnant women: A nationwide and geospatial retrospective cohort study in Aotearoa New Zealand

M. Hobbs, L. Marek, A. Young, E. Willing, P. Dawson and P. McIntyre

Different logics of pain: the gendered dimension of chronic pain in a relational setting

Stina Melander

Did the design and planning of testing and contact tracing interventions for COVID-19 consider social inequalities in health? A multiple case study from Brazil, Canada, France & Mali

Marie-Catherine Gagnon-Dufresne, Lara Gautier, Camille Beaujoin, Pauline Boivin, Abdourahmane Coulibaly, Zoé Richard, Stéphanie Gomes de Medeiros, Raylson Emanuel Dutra Da Nóbrega, Sydia Rosana de Araujo Oliveira, Patrick Cloos, Fanny Chabrol, Valéry Ridde and Kate Zinszer

Associations between weight discrimination and the use of potentially harmful dietary supplements during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Amanda Raffoul, Ariel L. Beccia, Destiny A. Jackson, Vishnudas Sarda, Jaime E. Hart, Jorge E. Chavarro and S. Bryn Austin

Openness to change among COVID misinformation endorsers: Associations with social demographic characteristics and information source usage

Xiaoquan Zhao, Urszula A. Horoszko, Amy Murphy, Bruce G. Taylor, Phoebe A. Lamuda, Harold A. Pollack, John A. Schneider and Faye S. Taxman

Segmenting citizens according to their self-sufficiency: A tool for local government

Marleen Fluit, Thomas Bortolotti, Manda Broekhuis and Mayan van Teerns

Experiences of stigma, mental health, and coping strategies in Lebanon among Lebanese and displaced Syrian men who have sex with men: A qualitative study

Sarah Abboud, David W. Seal, John E. Pachankis, Kaveh Khoshnood, Danielle Khouri, Fouad M. Fouad and Robert Heimer

2023, volume 334, articles C

The total health gains and cost savings of eradicating cold housing in Australia

Shiva Raj Mishra, Tim Wilson, Hassan Andrabi, Driss Ait Ouakrim, Ang Li, Edifofon Akpan, Rebecca Bentley and Tony Blakely

Education and age trajectories of chronic conditions: Are tests of the cumulative advantage and disadvantage hypothesis biased by underreporting?

Liliya Leopold, Irene G.M. van Valkengoed and Henriette Engelhardt

Identifying latent themes in suicide among black and white adolescents and young adults using the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2013–2019

Julie A. Phillips, Thomas R. Davidson and Marilyn S. Baffoe-Bonnie

Of odysseys and miracles: A narrative approach on therapeutic mobilities for ayurveda treatment

Heidi Kaspar, Alwin Abegg and Sunita Reddy

Risk factors for loneliness: A literature review

Martina Barjaková, Andrea Garnero and d’Hombres, Béatrice

Informal caregiving and the allocation of time: implications for opportunity costs and measurement

Sean Urwin, Yiu-Shing Lau, Gunn Grande and Matthew Sutton

Risk preferences, preventive behaviour, and the probability of a loss: Empirical evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

Adriaan Kalwij

Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives

Alex K. Gearin

Weight stigma, welfare stigma, and political values: Evidence from a representative British survey

Amanda M. Hughes and Daniel McArthur

The relationship between adolescent reading habits and older adult social engagement – A longitudinal cohort analysis

Viji Diane Kannan, Kelly Peters and Benjamin P. Chapman

Stillbirths, miscarriages and early losses in armed conflict contexts. The modification effect of violence. The Colombian case

Harold Mera León

Donor versus recipient preferences for aid allocation: A systematic review of stated-preference studies

Jack Hennessy, Duncan Mortimer, Rohan Sweeney and Maame Woode

Understanding and managing the Self-Wise during a healthcare crisis

Niek Althuizen and Victoria-Sophie Osburg

Understanding the spatiotemporal evolution of opioid overdose events using a regionalized sequence alignment analysis

Yuchen Li, Harvey J. Miller, Ayaz Hyder and Peng Jia

The U.S. hemp-derived cannabinoid industry and the potential of self-regulation: Using social media to assess an evolving health risk

Doug Henry, Kelly Partin, Cassidy R LoParco and Matthew Rossheim

Ubuntu as a mediator in coping with multimorbidity treatment burden in a disadvantaged rural and urban setting in South Africa

Nonzuzo Mbokazi, Myrna van Pinxteren, Katherine Murphy, Frances S. Mair, Carl R. May and Naomi S. Levitt

Understanding the impact of police brutality on Black sexually minoritized men

Katherine G. Quinn, Travonne Edwards, Anthony Johnson, Lois Takahashi, Andrea Dakin, Nora Bouacha and Dexter Voisin

Effect of age-based left-digit bias on stroke diagnosis: Regression discontinuity design

Shingo Fukuma, Ryo Ikesu, Toshiaki Iizuka and Yusuke Tsugawa

Sustaining positive perceptions of science in the face of conflicting health information: An experimental test of messages about the process of scientific discovery

Rebekah H. Nagler, Sarah E. Gollust, Marco C. Yzer, Rachel I. Vogel and Alexander J. Rothman

Comorbidity of loneliness and social anxiety in adolescents: Bridge symptoms and peer relationships

Jiahui Chen, Quanquan Wang, Yiting Liang, Baitao Chen and Ping Ren

Neighborhood gentrification, displacement, and severe maternal morbidity in California

Xing Gao, Timothy A. Thomas, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Amani M. Allen, Jonathan M. Snowden, Suzan L. Carmichael and Mahasin S. Mujahid

“In the beginning, I said I wouldn't get it.”: Hesitant adoption of the COVID-19 vaccine in remote Alaska between November 2020 and 2021

Laura Eichelberger, Amanda Hansen, Patricia Cochran, Ruby Fried and Micah Hahn

Receptive and participatory arts engagement and subsequent healthy aging: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Melinda Rena, Daisy Fancourt, Feifei Bu, Elise Paul, Jill K. Sonke and Jessica K. Bone

Caregiving across generations: Do older adults with more grandchildren get another bite at the “sandwich” generation?

Thomas Rapp, Anupam B. Jena, Joan Costa-Font and David C. Grabowski

Economic policy uncertainty and subjective health: A gender perspective

Hung-Lin Tao and Hui-Pei Cheng

Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice

Elle Christine Lüchau, Helen Atherton, Finn Olesen, Jens Søndergaard and Elisabeth Assing Hvidt

Hold the phone! A cross-national analysis of Women's education, mobile phones, and HIV infections in low- and middle-income countries, 1990–2018

Aarushi Bhandari and Rebekah Burroway

Pubertal timing, neighborhood income, and mental health in boys and girls: Findings from the adolescent brain cognitive development study

Li Niu, Perry Sheffield and Yan Li

Response to provide key health services to Ukrainian refugees: The overview and implementation studies

Aleksander Biesiada, Agnieszka Mastalerz-Migas and Mateusz Babicki