Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2025, volume 376, articles C

Interembodiment beyond kin: Leveraging partibility within microbial FemTech

Rebecca Howes-Mischel and Megan Tracy

Racial differences in residential mobility after the Flint Water Crisis: A survival analysis

Samantha Gailey, Richard Casey Sadler, Alan Harris, Sarah Jenuwine, Jacqueline Dannis and Nicole M. Jones

“The Littlest Creatures that Live Inside Us”: Public understandings influencing microbiome-related behaviors

Melissa K. Melby, Eglee Zent, Sheryl Ariste, Rimmon Shoukat and Mark Nichter

Equal before luck? Well-being consequences of personal deprivation and transition

Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicińska and Melcior Rossello Roig

Whole genome, part population: Protection, representation and postcolonial politics in precision medicine

Laura E. Navne, Sarah Wadmann, Ingelise Olesen, Torben Hansen, Anne Cathrine B. Thuesen and Mette N. Svendsen

“Feeling your emotions is an act of rebellion:” How climate cafés across Canada support youth wellbeing during the climate crisis

Madison E. Cooper, Ashlee Cunsolo, Breanne Aylward, Shelby S. Yamamoto and Sherilee L. Harper

Navigating healthcare during the pandemic: Experiences of racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario's Peel Region

Andrea Rishworth, Kathi Wilson, Matthew Adams and Tracey Galloway

Socioeconomic position and type 2 diabetes: Examining the mediating role of social cohesion—The Maastricht Study

Jeroen D. Albers, Annemarie Koster, Bengisu Sezer, Rachelle Meisters, Jeffrey A. Chan, Anke Wesselius, Miranda T. Schram, Bastiaan E. de Galan, Jeroen Lakerveld and Hans Bosma

Provincializing bodyminds, decolonizing disability

Giorgio Brocco, Laura A. Meek and Jane L. Saffitz

Queer Tax: Examining 2SLGBTQ+ Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour's experiences of accessing assisted reproductive technologies

Michelle W. Tam, Amaya Perez-Brumer and Lori E. Ross

Influence of sex on the incidence of colorectal cancer: considering the influence of gender mechanisms

Amalia Martinez, Nadine Hamieh, Hélène Colineaux, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Pascale Grosclaude, Emmanuel Wiernik, Cyrille Delpierre and Sébastien Lamy

Web and/or MD?: Empirically testing the relationships between internet use and visits to healthcare professionals

Cayley Ryan-Claytor

Impact of a cancer diagnosis on educational, employment, health-related quality of life, and social outcomes among young adults: A matched cohort study of 401 cancer survivors aged 15–24 in England

R. Mattock, A. Martin, A.E. Beckett, O.C. Lindner, D. Stark and R.M. Taylor

Associations of war exposures, post-migration living difficulties and social support with (complex) PTSD: a cohort study of Ukrainian refugees resettled in Denmark

Karen-Inge Karstoft, Ludvig Daae Bjørndal, Anne Agathe Pedersen, Nataliia Korchakova, Séamus A. Power, Thomas A. Morton, Vibeke J. Koushede, Marie H. Thøgersen and Brian J. Hall

Mapping fertility trajectories: An endarkened narrative inquiry of Black women's fertility experiences and pathways through infertility treatment

Isabel Morgan, Christine Tucker, Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist, Stephanie Baker, Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, Chantel L. Martin, Natalie Hernandez and Lasha Clarke

“We know what to do for you, but we can't do it:” How actionability is coordinated and contested in genomics research

E. Carolina Mayes

Medical education as liberatory praxis: Experiences from the UCLA "structural racism and health equity" curriculum

Cydni Baker, Stephanie Bueno, Lizeth Carrillo, Elizabeth Flores, Matthew Hing, Guneet Kaur, Daniel Kennedy, Kathley LeTran, Dailyn Rodriguez, Shamsher Samra, Hanin Sheikh and Lindsay Wells

Disability stigma resistance by parents at the intersection of psychosocial and structural levels

Alice Scavarda and Graham Scambler

The cost of being a legal patient: Judicial use of rape defendants' and victims’ psychiatric records in South Korea

Joohyun Park

Working the boundaries of ‘whining’ – how patients and care professionals make sense of informal complaining practices

Jelmer Brüggemann, Ann-Charlotte Nedlund and Lisa Guntram

Can care ethics help healthcare systems address their environmental harms? Findings from focus groups with members of the UK public

Gabrielle Samuel, Miranda MacFarlane and Sarah Briggs

“No peace in my heart”: Exploring psychosocial problems experienced by women in relation to water insecurity and inadequate sanitation in an informal settlement, Kenya

Joan J. Kimutai, Crick Lund, Wilkister N. Moturi, Seble Shewangizaw and Charlotte Hanlon

Inflammation and minority stress: A moderated mediation model of childhood adversity and mental health in young men who have sex with men

Laura H. Dosanjh, Cynthia Franklin, Yessenia Castro, Bridget Goosby, Fiona N. Conway, Frances A. Champagne, Luis A. Parra, Jeremy T. Goldbach and Michele D. Kipke

2025, volume 375, articles C

Intensity Matters: Heterogeneous impact of cigarette tax reform on drinking behaviors by smoking intensity

Mingyeong Park and Hyelim Son

The clustering of disadvantage in different life dimensions across ethnic groups: A network analysis of indicators of precariousness in the HELIUS study

Leonie K. Elsenburg, Mary Nicolaou, Henrike Galenkamp, Jeroen Lakerveld and Karien Stronks

Too close for comfort: Intergenerational blame and disillusionment in social work supervision in the West Bank, Palestine

Anan Fareed, David S. Byers and Khalid Hreish

Impact of retirement transition on health, well-being and health behaviours: critical insights from an overview of reviews

Giacomo Pietro Vigezzi, Chiara Barbati, Elena Maggioni, Sari Stenholm, Anna Odone, A. Amerio, C. Ardito, P. Bertuccio, G. Costa, d’Errico, A., L. Gentile, A. Odone and G.P. Vigezzi

Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing

Tom Worters, Christina McKerchar, Leah Watkins, Ryan Gage and Louise Signal

Empowering individuals to adopt artificial intelligence for health information seeking: A latent profile analysis among users in Hong Kong

Jingyuan Shi, Xiaoyu Xia, Huijun Zhuang, Zixi Li and Kun Xu

Resilience of the acute sector in recovery from COVID-19 pressures

Laia Bosque-Mercader, Simon Conroy, Daniel Lasserson, Russell Mannion, Catia Nicodemo and Raphael Wittenberg

The impact of minimum wages on overall health and well-being: Global evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Panagiotis Sotirakopoulos, Cahit Guven, Aydogan Ulker and Carol Graham

Under pressure: Assessing the relationship between job loss and mental health of young adults in Vietnam

Richard Freund, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Douglas Scott and Le Thuc Duc

Provision of primary healthcare centers and women's healthcare-seeking behaviour: Evidence from Bangladesh

Mohammad Riaz Uddin

Measurement invariance and differential item functioning of a care staff proxy measure of nursing home resident dementia-specific quality of life (DEMQOL-CH): do care aides' first language, and care aides' and residents’ ethno-cultural background matter?

Matthias Hoben, Sevilay Kilmen, Janice Keefe, Hannah M. O'Rourke, Sube Banerjee and Carole A. Estabrooks

Are we gatekeeping trauma? A conceptual model to expand criterion A for invisible, identity-based, and systemic traumas

Tanya C. Saraiya, Alexandria G. Bauer, Devin E. Banks, Delisa G. Brown, Amber M. Jarnecke, Chantel T. Ebrahimi and Donte L. Bernard

Abrasion: a phenomenological study of inequity in workplace-based assessment in pediatrics

Hannah L. Kakara Anderson, Layla Abdulla, Pricilla Cabral, Marjan Govaerts, Dorene F. Balmer and Jamiu O. Busari

Ageing in place or stuck in place: A critical qualitative study on older adults’ independence across six municipalities in Norway

Linda Aimée Hartford Kvæl

2025, volume 374, articles C

Conjugal visitation rights, privileges and standards of provision inside European prisons: A socio-legal study of extant literature

Marie Claire Van Hout, Ulla-Britt Klankwarth and Heino Stöver

Local-scale deprivation is associated with the spatial distribution of poor diet quality in adults: A cross-sectional population-based study in Switzerland

Hugo-Alejandro Santa-Ramírez, Usama Bilal, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Mayssam Nehme, Idris Guessous, Silvia Stringhini and Stéphane Joost

Conceptualisation and measurement of healthy ageing: Insights from a systematic literature review

Andreea Alexandra Piriu, Maria Vittoria Bufali, Giulia Cappellaro, Amelia Compagni and Aleksandra Torbica

Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy

Sharon Baute

From egg & sperm to reconceiving medical education: Why teaching about metaphor is essential to remedy injustice

Noelle Molé Liston, Jennifer Karlin and Emily Martin

The role of dignity in food assistance: Participant experiences with a free meal kit program

Joslyn Brenton, Alyssa Tindall, Karen Glanz and Senbagam Virudachalam

Race and gender disparities in pain treatment and opioid prescribing

Peter Joseph Torres

How medical students learn about the social: Opportunities and limitations in service learning and volunteering

Brian Tuohy, Lauren Olsen and Hannah Calvelli

Is walkability healthy for all? Using the National Environmental Database to examine equity in the environmental health characteristics of pedestrian-supportive neighborhoods in the U.S

Lindsay M. Braun, Eric H. Fox and Lawrence D. Frank

A qualitative examination of how direct and indirect police violence shapes perceptions of police, sense of safety, and the mental health of Black adults in Chicago

Katherine G. Quinn, Melissa L. Neal, Jesus Valencia, Jana L. Hirschtick, DeJuan Washington, Jacquelyn Jacobs and Bijou R. Hunt

Identifying the need for care in rheumatoid arthritis: A Candidacy 2.0 analysis of lived experiences

Sharon Koehn, C. Allyson Jones, Anh Pham, Claire E.H. Barber, Jessica Widdifield, Lisa Jasper, Douglas Klein and Neil Drummond

Is the dual process model of bereavement effective among older bereaved parents in China? An examination of the oscillation process and the effects of overloading

Lei Yang and S V Subramanian

Fundamental causation and candidacy: Harnessing explanatory frames to better understand how structural determinants of health inequalities shape disengagement from primary healthcare

Mhairi Mackenzie, David Baruffati, Calum Lindsay, Kate O'Donnell, David Ellis, Sharon Simpson, Geoffrey Wong, Michelle Major and Andrea Williamson

Rural-urban migration dynamics and double burden of malnutrition among women across 29 low and middle income countries

Jinseo Kim, Seung-Ah Choe, Hwa-Young Lee, S.V. Subramanian and Rockli Kim

Communication analysis of the COVID-19 infodemic by medical practitioners in China: A mixed methods study

Teng Zuo, Lingfeng He, Yuan Zheng, Zezheng Lin, Zelin Xu and Ning Li

The social must be stabilised: How are the social needs of young people with social work involvement characterized in their mental health case notes?

Tessa Morgan, Francesca Crozier-Roche, David Graham, Jack Smith, Taliah Drayak, Sophie Mary, Jeanette Cossar, Julia Mannes, Dihini Pilimatalawwe, Pamela Parker, Barry Coughlan, Rick Hood, Dustin Hutchinson, Matt Woolgar and Robbie Duschinsky

Momentary health behaviour cues are moderated by educational attainment: Findings from two ecological momentary assessment studies

Benjamin Schüz, Mario Wenzel and Christopher M. Jones

Identifying the key predictors of positive self-perceptions of aging using machine learning

Mohsen Joshanloo

Using a novel “Perceived Self-Group Hierarchy” measure to predict White Americans’ health via feelings of “falling behind”

Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Erin Cooley, Dylan Vlasak, Jaclyn A. Lisnek, Ryan F. Lei, Camryn Yeager and Nicholas Elacqua

Evaluate the health risks and impact pathways of precarious employment in the context of globalization: A national longitudinal research from 2017 to 2023 in Japan

Dan Li, Masaaki Yamada, Wenmeng Feng, Liuchun Xiang, Shuang Gao and Haisong Nie

Efficacy of a culturally tailored intervention on perceived stigma among women living with HIV/AIDS in China: A randomized clinical trial

Zhongfang Yang, Shuyu Han, Xiang Qi, Jing Wang, Zhijing Xu, Weiyu Mao, Yaguang Zheng, Yue Zhang, Bei Wu and Yan Hu