Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2025, volume 368, articles C

Corrigendum to ‘When reality knocks on the door. The effect of conspiracy beliefs on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and the moderating role of experience with the virus’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 356, September 2024, 117149]

Ádám Stefkovics, Péter Krekó and Júlia Koltai

Corrigendum to “Ambiguous animals, ambivalent carers and arbitrary care collectives: Re-theorizing resistance to social robots in healthcare” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 365, January 2025, 117587]

Tanja Ahlin and Anna Mann

Resistance, tensions and consent to digital working in healthcare

Dimitra Petrakaki, Petros Chamakiotis, Emma Russell and Andy Charlwood

Sibling love in adolescence and subsequent health and well-being in adulthood

Renae Wilkinson, Ying Chen, Matthew T. Lee, Richard G. Cowden and Tyler J. VanderWeele

“It's a reality that we in medicine should catch up with”: Physician's attitudes about self-sourced and managed abortion in the United States

Jennifer Karlin, Juliana Novaes, Shashi Sarnaik, Kelsey Holt, Jody Steinauer and Christine Dehlendorf

Corrigendum to “The pilot of a new patient classification-based payment system in China: The impact on costs, length of stay and quality” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 289, November 2021, 114415]

Mengcen Qian, Xinyu Zhang, Yajing Chen, Su Xu and Xiaohua Ying

Informal caregiver quality of life: Psychosocial and behavioral correlates of quality of life among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual caregivers in the Women's Health Initiative

Jennifer M. Jabson Tree, Katherine Buchman, Joel G. Anderson, Daniel Beavers and Michelle J. Naughton

Preparing for exclusion: The hidden curriculum of success in medical student guidebooks

Grace Franklyn, Tania M. Jenkins and Savannah Salato

The effectiveness of character strength intervention on severe mental illness in Hong Kong

Chaoran Sun and Sylvia Y.C.L. Kwok

Corrigendum to “Decolonising the field of violence against women and girls: A scoping review and recommendations for research and programming” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 357, September 2024, 117168]

Michelle Lokot, Marjorie Pichon, Beatriz Kalichman, Samantha Nardella, Jane Falconer, Nambusi Kyegombe and Ana Maria Buller

Observations of teamworking in a multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic: Bridging roles of podiatry and technology

Mary Lee, Winnie Teo, Huiling Liew and Jennifer Cleland

The effect of cigarette prices on smoking cessation in South Africa using duration analysis: 1970–2017

Nicole Vellios, Corne van Walbeek and G. Emmanuel Guindon

Healthcare payor management practices are associated with health system performance and population health

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

Effects of separating drug sales from treatment on medical disputes

Qinghong He, Gordon G. Liu, Xiangbo Liu and Daisheng Tang

Reputational revival and industry survival: A rhetorical analysis of tobacco industry evidence before a UK parliamentary select committee

Benjamin Hawkins and May CI. van Schalkwyk

Women in UK academic health economics: An evaluation of progress since the 1970s

Sally Sheard and Liza Caruana-Finkel

20-Year income volatility and cognitive function in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) cohort: A replication and extension of CARDIA findings

Katrina L. Kezios, Calvin L. Colvin, Leslie Grasset, Catherine dP. Duarte, M. Maria Glymour and Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri

Associations between adverse childhood experiences and health service utilisation, prescription claims, and school performance during adolescence

Shalini Wijekulasuriya, Reidar Lystad, Yvonne Zurynski, Reema Harrison, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Rebecca Mitchell

Politics negatively impacts women's mental health in Georgia: Depression, anxiety, and perceived stress from 2023 to 2024

Kaegan Ortlund, Madeline Chandler, Betty Lin, Michael Anastario and Stephanie M. Eick

Informal employment as a social determinant of health: A conceptual framework and research agenda accounting for context

Amanda E. Aronsson and Tim Huijts

“It does help but there's a limit …”: Young people's perspectives on policies to manage hot food takeaways opening near schools

B. Savory, C. Thompson, S. Hassan, J. Adams, B. Amies-Cull, M. Chang, D. Derbyshire, M. Keeble, B. Liu, A. Medina-Lara, O.T. Mytton, J. Rahilly, N. Rogers, R. Smith, M. White, T. Burgoine and S. Cummins

Longitudinal effects of the built environment on transportation and recreational walking and differences by age and sex: A systematic review

Tharindu Niwarthana Bandara, Carl Higgs, Gavin Turrell, Alysha De Livera, Lucy Gunn and Belen Zapata-Diomedi

The relationship between housing and asylum seekers’ mental health: A systematic review

Janelle Spira, Dafni Katsampa, Hannah Wright and Kemi Komolafe

The time-lagged effect of noise exposure on noise annoyance: The role of temporal, spatial and social contexts

Jiangyu Song, Suhong Zhou, Mei-Po Kwan, Guangwen Song, Jinying Long and Wanying Song

Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits

John Paul Kuwornu, Clifford Afoakwah, Isaac Koomson, Zephanie Tyack, David Brain, Sundresan Naicker, Qing Xia and Steven M. McPhail

The sociology of prescribing: A narrative review and agenda

Anthony K J. Smith

2025, volume 367, articles C

Beyond biomedical institutions: An ethnographic study of community science and the rise of alternative therapeutic imaginaries

Nicole Foti

Interventions for subjective and objective social isolation among people living with HIV: A scoping review

Ting Zhao, Chulei Tang, Jun Ma, Xirongguli Halili, Huang Yan and Honghong Wang

Sick of debt: How over-indebtedness is hampering health in rural Cambodia

Dalia Iskander, Fiorella Picchioni, Giacomo Zanello, Vincent Guermond and Katherine Brickell

Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States

Karina Brunn, Olivia Toledo, Chelsea Chau Tran, Ashwin Vasudevan and Bharat Jayram Venkat

Dyadic adjustment of persons with albinism and their significant other: A Bayesian mediation model of the Actor-Partner Interdependence (APIMeM)

Hugo Fournier, Nicolas Pillaud, Fanny Morice-Picard, Smail Hadj-Rabia, Benoit Arveiler and Bruno Quintard

Does women empowerment impact child well-being? Evidence from India

Sunetra Nath and Gurudas Das

Temporal stability and volatility in population-level high-risk illicit polysubstance use by gender and marital status in the United States, 2002–2019

Kira England and Alexander Chapman

Development of deep learning auto-encoder algorithms for predicting alcohol use in Korean adolescents based on cross-sectional data

Serim Lee

Do high school experiences shape midlife body weight?

Michelle L. Frisco, Emily A. Lybbert, Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky and J. Robert Warren

Health insurance expansion and academic production: The case of Medicare Part D legislation

Guanting Yi

Female agency and probable depression in the perinatal period and beyond: Longitudinal findings from rural Pakistan

Sarah C. Haight, Kaitlin Shartle, Aparna G. Kachoria, Ashley Hagaman, Sugandh Gupta, Michelle S. Escobar Carias, Amina Bibi, Lisa M. Bates and Joanna Maselko

Converging perspectives on the processes exacerbating adolescent obesity: An integrative systems approach

Anaely Aguiar, Jefferson K. Rajah, Kaitlin Conway-Moore, Natalie Savona, Cécile Knai, Ioana Vlad, Oddrun Samdal, Harry Rutter, Nanna Lien and Birgit Kopainsky

Bidirectional work-family conflicts and work engagement: A longitudinal study

Yumiko Kobayashi, Maho Haseda and Naoki Kondo

Navigating the lived efficacies of Chagas treatment

Laia Ventura Garcia

Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

Sawsan Abdulrahim, Dennis Kunichoff, Yara Asi, Nadine Bahour, Weeam Hammoudeh, David Mills, Osama Tanous, Bram Wispelwey and Mary T. Bassett

Quantitative approaches to structural intersectionality research: Conceptual and methodologic considerations

Dougie Zubizarreta and Ariel L. Beccia

Housing matters: The long-term impact of stable housing on mortality among people with HIV in British Columbia, Canada

Megan E. Marziali, Silke Hansen, Katherine W. Kooij, Michael Budu, Monica Ye, Cassidy Tam, Taylor McLinden, Scott D. Emerson, Julio S.G. Montaner, Surita Parashar and Robert S. Hogg

Intra-EU migration and healthcare deservingness: A conjoint experiment in Belgium and Spain

Roberta Perna and Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero

Racial disparities in intrapartum care experiences and birth hospital characteristics

Fiona Weeks, Rebecca Myerson, Ronald Gangnon, Jennifer Dykema, Candi Cornelius and Tiffany Green

Barriers to breast and cervical cancer screening among adolescent girls and young women in Kenya: A nationwide cross-sectional survey

Joseph Kawuki, Victor Savi, Benjamin Betunga, Meroona Gopang, Kahabi Ganka Isangula and Lilian Nuwabaine

Populism and medical advocacy: The case of hydroxychloroquine prior the 2020 United States presidential election

Gabriel Salgado Ribeiro de Sá

Exploring good death in China: A qualitative study from the perspectives of family members

Mingming Cheng, Qin Luo, Chao Fang, Alastair Comery and John Troyer

Stigma and patient work: Understanding cumulative inequities for gay and bisexual men in accessing HIV healthcare services

Anthony K J. Smith, Loren Brener, Timothy R. Broady, Bernard Saliba, Phillip Keen, Bianca Prain and Carla Treloar

Navigating bodily disruptions within biolegitimizing institutions: Mastectomy, femininity, and race

Jessica Poling

Unequal but widespread despairs: Social inequalities and self-rated health trends in the United States in 1972–2018

Yiwan Ye and Xiaoling Shu

Can self-distancing benefit adjustment to bereavement? A multi-method investigation

Ningning Zhou, Fei Ren, Chenqian Cao, Zhuang She, Kirsten V. Smith and Juzhe Xi

Associations of physical activity and mental health in pregnant women: A cross-sectional isotemporal substitution analysis

Huan Zhang, Youcheng Yue, Yundan Mei, Yulu Zhang, Qile Lu, Qiang Chen, Xun Lei, Lili Yu, Mingfang Zhou and Yao Fan

Perceived gender expression nonconformity as an important determinant for vulnerability to bullying and cyberbullying among high school youth in the United States, 2013–2021

Melanie E. Mason, Michael G. Curtis, Ysabel Beatrice Floresca, Scar Winter Kelsey, Shahin Davoudpour, Noah Jayne and Gregory Phillips

Compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and mindfulness among healthcare professionals: A meta-analysis of correlational studies and randomized controlled trials

Amanda C.M. Li, Floria H.N. Chio, Winnie W.S. Mak, T.H. Fong, Sarah H.W. Chan, Y.H.R. Tran and K. Kakani

Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness

Zhuyun Lin

Ethical issues in conducting health research with people in prison: Results of a deliberative research project conducted with people in Australian prisons

Paul Leslie Simpson, Jill Guthrie, Jocelyn Jones, Bridget Haire and Tony Butler

Understanding the relationship between health and place: A systematic review of methods to disaggregate data to small areas

Rose Atkins, Rita Santos, Maria Panagioti, Evan Kontopantelis, James Evans, Christos Grigoroglou, Matt Sutton and Luke Munford

WASH-friendly schools for whom? Integrating the perception of different school stakeholders in Brazil

Kasandra I.H.M. Poague, Andressa P. Ramos, Caio B. de S. Lopes, Gabriel V.L. Gonçalves, Marina B.R. Damasceno, Justine I. Blanford, Javier A. Martinez and Carmen Anthonj

The ‘us and them divide’: A qualitative study of student experiences of global health education through the lens of ‘inclusivity’

Mariam Sbaiti, Eliel Cohen, Xuan Odofin, Julianne K. Viola and Jin Keng Stephen Lam

Between ‘fetal viability’ and the ‘viability of families’: Decision-making for extremely premature infants in Spain

Paula Martone, Anna Molas and Diana Marre

The long-term effects of housing insecurity in young adulthood on subsequent material hardship, physiological and mental health

Mary K. Roberts, Aarti C. Bhat and Andrew Fenelon

Impact of COVID-19 on medical utilization for psychiatric conditions in Japan

Kazuhiro Abe, Kouta Suzuki, Atsushi Miyawaki and Ichiro Kawachi

Racial and gender inequities in the control of arterial hypertension in ELSA-Brasil: An intersectional approach

Etna Kaliane Pereira Da Silva, Sandhi Maria Barreto, Lidyane do Valle Camelo, Luisa Campos Caldeira Brant, Edna Maria de Araújo, Roberta Carvalho Figueiredo, Maria De Jesus Mendes Da Fonseca, Rosane Harter Griep and Luana Giatti

Caring around and through medical tests in primary care: On the role of care in the diagnostic process

Mirjam Pot

Immigrant experiences of harm in sexual and reproductive healthcare in Spain

Simon E. Fern

The tragedy of promising happiness through overcoming disability

Olivia Dahl and Merete Monrad

Moving opportunistically: Interstate migration after medicaid expansion

Matthew C. Baker and Thomas Stratmann

What contributes to out-of-pocket health expenditure in Cambodia's uncovered population? A distributional and decomposition analysis using survey data

Andrea Hannah Kaiser, Searivoth Vorn, Björn Ekman, Marlaina Ross, Sovathiro Mao, Sokunthea Koy, Pichenda Koeut and Jesper Sundewall

What a boy wants: Transgender men's hidden tran/scripts about the nonprescription use of gender-affirming hormones in mainland China

Tao H. Wei, Mary Hawk and Yun Jiang

Risk and decision-making: Communication between health professionals and pregnant women at risk of preeclampsia in Catalonia

Mariana Campos Lichtsztejn, Anna Molas Closas and Joan Pujol-Tarrés

Volunteering during early retirement reduces depression

Angelo Lorenti, Alessandra De Rose and Filomena Racioppi

Social pension expansion and suicidal behaviour of older adults in Korea: A quasi-experimental study

Chungah Kim

Gender-based violence syndemics in global health: A systematic review

Luissa Vahedi, Ilana Seff, Alexander C. Tsai, Mustafa Rfat, Muneera Suliman Aljamhan and Lindsay Stark

Sorting patients and institutional bad faith: A study of a hospital during the COVID-19 epidemic in France

Maud Gelly

Accounting for neuronormativity in transgender medicine

Nic Rios

Health—Embodiment of corporeal experiences: Meanings of health among individuals living with comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension in The Gambia

Tahir Ahmad Touray, James Woodall and Louise Warwick-Booth

Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation

Ivan Souček, Roman Hofreiter and Kamila Koza Beňová