Social Science & Medicine

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2026, volume 404, articles C

Intergenerational impact of maternal trauma on adolescent depression: The role of parenting factors in Samoan mother-daughter dyads

Emma J. Mew, Sarah R. Lowe, Veronika Shabanova, Si'itia Soliai-Lemusu, Robert Toelupe, Francine Iopu, Joshua Naseri, Miracle Loia, Susie Tasele, Jennifer F. Tofaeono, Va'atausili Tofaeono, Nicola L. Hawley and Jueta McCutchan-Tofaeono

Whither the doctor? U.S. physicians’ contradictory class location and sociocultural formation

Akshay Pendyal

Measuring multidimensional structural racism across the lifecourse and its relation to cardiometabolic health

Joëlle Atere-Roberts, Taylor W. Hargrove, Whitney R. Robinson, Paul L. Delamater and Chantel L. Martin

From research method to community resource: Co-developing a body mapping toolkit for peer support with Long Covid patients

Maaret Jokela-Pansini, Oonagh Cousins, Jo Dainow and Beth Greenhough

Associations of current and birthplace region with immunity in later life in the health and retirement study

Eun Young Choi, Gokul Seshadri, Jennifer Ailshire and Bharat Thyagarajan

Accountability-embracing science communication increases public engagement with scientists post-COVID-19

Maja Graso, Kyriaki Fousiani, Cory Clark and Fan Xuan Chen

Label of shame - How formula-feeding mothers in Israel perceive the warning labels on infant formula packaging

Galit Romanelli and Anat Herbst-Debby

Infrastructural violence, water insecurity, and gender in northern Peru

Aman Kothadia, Gabriela Salmon-Mulanovich, Sofia Ingham, Binahayati Rusyidi, Stroma Cole and Paula Tallman

From policy to practice: An anthropological analysis of implementing community-based healthcare reform in Catalonia

Marija Djurdjevic and Francisco Ortega

Happy Village Plus: Community-empowered health promotion interventions in Sri Lanka

Ajith Alagiyawanna, Zoey Verdun, Bernardo Andretti, Lathika Athauda, Ranjith Batuwanthudawa, Madawa Chandratilake, Laksara De Silva, Palitha Karunapema, Indeewara Muthiarachchi, Chathura Palangasinghe, Ashan Pathirana, Kusal Weerasinghe, Nalinda Wellappuli, Dilukshi Wickramasinghe, Millawage Supun Dilara Wijesinghe, Prasad Katulanda, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, Gary Frost, Franco Sassi and Marisa Miraldo

The impact of neighborhood violence on domestic femicides in Mexico: A demonstration of the causal inference roadmap

Alma Lilia Juárez Armenta and Ndola Prata

Fit for purpose? Assessing the robustness of discrete choice experiment designs in the context of evolving health technologies

Mesfin G. Genie, Verity Watson, Michaël Schwarzinger and Stéphane Luchini

Does education shield against vaccine hesitancy? Evidence from the East–West divide

Yarine Fawaz

Can pharmacare reduce suicide-related behaviors? A quasi-experimental study in Ontario youth

Peiya Cao, Kristine Ienciu, Yihong Bai, Arjumand Siddiqi, Mathieu Poirier, Patricia O'Campo and Antony Chum

Where do young adults get information about STIs and HPV? Latent information-source profiles and preventive orientations in Italy

Stefano Crabu, Federico Neresini, Nicoletta Parise, Vincenzo Baldo, Silvia Cocchio, Andrea Cozza, Barbara Morsello and Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

RETRACTED: Masculinity under pressure: How gender norms shape men's mental health help-seeking in the post-pandemic era

He Jiang and Mandy Rose

Managing the waiting time: Treatment burden and patient complexity among lung transplant candidates - A mixed methods investigation

M. Schunk, T. Griesbeck, J. Kapfer, J. Barton, C. Neurohr, N. Kneidinger and C. Bausewein

“Wonderful, wonderful”: Functions of praise towards people living with dementia in the acute hospital environment

Lauren Bridgstock, Alison Pilnick, Sarah Goldberg and Rowan Harwood

Environmental emotions and wellbeing research in Africa: A rapid review

Steven Kator Iorfa and Charles A. Ogunbode

Co-production in mental health care, research, and education: A scoping review of barriers and facilitators

Dagim Dawit Gonsamo, Herman Hay Ming Lo, Wing Hong Chui and Zoe Jiwen Zhang

Examining associations between school suspension and expulsion in early life and later-life cognitive health: A mediation analysis of lifecourse educational pathways

Catherine dP. Duarte, Aayush Khadka, Jennifer Ahern, Jennifer Manly, Irene H. Yen, Alison K. Cohen and Anusha M. Vable

A 10-year retrospective review and future directions for intersectional MAIHDA

Clare R. Evans

The epidemiology of violence against children in England, 1971-2024: A longitudinal ecological analysis of 1.7 million care entries

Michelle Degli Esposti, Bridget Steele, Anders Malthe Bach-Mortensen and Benjamin Goodair

Medical uncertainty, structural inequities and disease: The experiences of long-COVID among racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Canada

Andrea Rishworth, Madeleine Mant, Kathi Wilson and Zafar Iqbal

Access at the doorstep: Supporting engagement with movement-based programmes

Emily Tupper, Tessa Pollard, Sarah Atkinson and Cassandra Phoenix

Exploring self-managed medication abortion post-Dobbs: A qualitative study on experiences in the United States with Mexico-based accompaniment

Sarah E. Baum, Sofia Braunstein, Sofia Filippa, Sandra H. Cardona Alanís, Sachiko Ragosta, Alexandra Wollum and Verónica Cruz Sánchez

Miscarriage, self-harm, and psychiatric disorders in first-time pregnant women: Evidence from a linkage study

Corneliu Bolbocean, Arri Coomarasamy, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Catia Nicodemo, Siobhan Quenby and Stavros Petrou

Do people get used to working long hours?

Christian Krekel, Tim Kremser and Georgios Melios

Does integrating pharmaceutical coverage into publicly financed health insurance reduce out-of-pocket spending? Difference-in-differences evidence from Kerala, India

Karthika V. Menon, Vijay Victor and Omkarprasad S. Vaidya

Beyond the state: First-person ethics and the governance of targeted therapies in China

Isabel Briz Hernández, Yuki Ishihara and Dong Dong

The long-term and economic impact of childhood early life shocks

Qixin Zhu, Eleonora Fichera, Habtamu Beshir and Andrea Serna-Castaño

Exceptionally low mortality despite widespread COVID-19 infection among Indigenous Tsimane and Moseten of Bolivia

Lucia Inchauste, Xavier de Lamballerie, Stepháne Priet, Maguin Gutierrez Cayuba, Juan Copajira Adrian, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Raul Quispe Gutierrez, Sarah Alami, Jacob E. Aronoff, Kenneth Beutow, Daniel K. Cummings, Bret A. Beheim, Caleb E. Finch, Margaret Gatz, Suhail Ghafoor, Thomas S. Kraft, Amanda J. Lea, Wendy J. Mack, David E. Michalik, M. Katherine Sayre, Edmond Seabright, Jonathan Stieglitz, Gregory S. Thomas, Randall C. Thompson, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard S. Kaplan, Michael D. Gurven and Paul L. Hooper

Voluntary micronutrient interventions save lives: Evidence from China's free folic acid supplementation policy

Chang Liu, Ruiming Liu and Yuan Xu

The interplay between actual and perceived air pollution, physical activity, and stress across mobility-based geographic contexts: A double machine learning approach

Zhenchuan Yang and Mei-Po Kwan

A structuralist perspective on the commercial determinants of health: Corporate survival strategies in competitive landscapes

Luc L. Hagenaars, Ulbe Bosma, Martijn J. van der Linden and Jochen O. Mierau

Regulating veterinary antimicrobial prices as an antimicrobial stewardship policy: Impact of France's 2015 ban on purchase discounts

Minfeng Tang, Didier Raboisson and Guillaume Lhermie

“The fear of violence is always there”: Gender-based violence, water and sanitation insecurity in Ghana

Julius Jebuni, Susan J. Elliott and Elijah Bisung

“I was planning my funeral”: A qualitative study of junior physicians' experiences of self-sacrifice during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of physicians' social contract

Annalena Lönn, Maria Weurlander, Mini Ruiz, Charlotte Söderman and Annika Wernerson

Eating disorder severity and treatment outcome across race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status: Intersectional inequities in a clinical sample

Catherine R. Drury, Ariel L. Beccia, Samar Shaqour, Megan Riddle, Sasha Gorrell, Simar Singh, Alan Duffy, Philip S. Mehler, Kianna Zucker, Daniel Le Grange, Renee D. Rienecke and Erin E. Reilly

Race and gender disparities in mental health documentation in primary care: Findings from a video vignette experiment

Fatima G. Fairfax and Julius M. Wilder

From presence to participation: Ethical engagement in community advisory boards for drug use research

Sarah Brothers, Carlos M. Gonzales and Cynthia A. Gómez

Contrasting public and healthcare worker perspectives on the denial of medical care to trans people in the United States: It's (mostly) about gender

Matthew K. Grace and Long Doan

HIV, public health, and the “unwilling or unable” person living with HIV

Eric Mykhalovskiy and Colin Hastings

Mindfulness in schools for internal migrant children at risk of anxiety and depression: A randomized trial

Shuang Lu, Renhui Lyu, Xiaolu Dai and Hui Hu

Beyond the gate: Referral style and utilisation of primary sector specialist care

Sasja Maria Pedersen, Kim Rose Olsen, Nicolai Damslund, Thomas Allen and Trine Kjær

Don't stop me now: The impact of retirement proximity on GP performance

Marta Giachello, Cristina Ugolini and Rossella Verzulli

The impact of forced choice on person trade-offs: Evidence on age weights for paediatric health gains

Udeni De Silva Perera, Nancy Devlin, Tessa Peasgood and Gang Chen

Quantifying noise complaint intensity via multi-LLM and revealing vertical greenery mitigation thresholds

Yan Zhang, Zhijie Zhang, Mei-Po Kwan and Wei Wang

Mixing or socioeconomic status? A quasi-experimental study of neighborhood composition and subjective well-being

Yi Zhang, Liyang Huang and Yizhou Ye

Syndemic interactions in northwest Italy: education, place of birth, and the co-occurrence of type 2 diabetes and depression

Lucia Dansero, Lorenzo Milani, Federica Buscema, Cinzia Destefanis, Roberta Picariello, Savino Sciascia, Roberto Gnavi and Fulvio Ricceri

Physical activity, indoor air pollution, and cognitive function among older-adults in India: Evidence of gendered environmental disadvantage

Sayani Das and Liat Ayalon

Trends, disparities, and the impact of COVID-19 on drug overdose mortality among adolescents and young adults in the United States

Zhixin Zhan, Suyan Tian, Junhui Qiu, Siqi Zuo and Yubo Wang

Mapping interrelated factors in Health in All Policies implementation in local governments: A complexity-informed review

Naia Hernantes, Agurtzane Mujika, Birgit Kopainsky and Kjell Ivar Øvergård

Institutional social isolation and preventive health check-up attendance among public assistance recipients in Japan: A qualitative dominant mixed-methods study

Shingo Hayashi

When the platform becomes a co-author: Self-writing about HPV vaccination on social media as technologies of the self

Shang Xu, Wen Zhang and Qi Wang

“Are you sexually active?”: Unilateral informing patterns in communicating the sexual impact of prostate cancer treatment

Simon John Stewart, Lisa Roberts and Lucy Anne Brindle

Bridging the gap: Addressing healthcare disparities among foreign-born SGM and racial/ethnic minority populations

Bozhidar T. Chakalov, Clare E.B. Cannon and Michelle J. Ko

The role of medical evidence certifying PTSD for legal outcomes in Swedish asylum cases 2016–2020

Linda Pfister, Junia Mannheimer, Ida Hedkvist, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Anna Sarkadi

Why we need political values in epidemic modelling: parameters, populations, and public health policy goals

Alexis V. Rayapoullé, Bruno Falissard and Paul-Loup Weil-Dubuc

Toward a typology of government-sanctioned child maltreatment: A scoping review of the harms of U.S. immigration enforcement

Michael T. Zuch, Zayna Lyon, Vania S. Buck, Morgan Pardue-Kim, Linda-Jeanne Mack and Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen

Epidemiologic approaches to policy research – examinations of single policies, policy clusters, and policy climates: Conceptualization, measurement, and analysis

Dougie Zubizarreta, Ariel L. Beccia, Ellicott C. Matthay, Jaquelyn L. Jahn and Alina Schnake-Mahl

Health inequality aversion in China: Public and decision-maker views

Xiaoning He, Yuhang Xin, Shitong Xie, Jing Wu and Richard Cookson

Time to check up: Retirement and cancer screening in Australia

Kadir Atalay, Kannika Damrongplasit and Rong Zhu

The gendered burden of natural disasters: Evidence from two catastrophic earthquakes in Türkiye

Berrak Itır Aylı, Nilüfer Dilara Ar Mutlu and Nüket Paksoy

Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of women in the slums of Guwahati city (Assam, India): A qualitative analysis

Priyanka Kumari Kushwaha, Joanna Mahjebeen and Dolly Phukon

Corrigendum to “Does additional education affect memory consistently? An analysis of compulsory schooling reforms across Europe and U.S.” [Soc. Sci. Med. 403 (2026) 119377]

Francisco Perez-Arce, David Knapp, Rachel Lobo, McKayla Wenner and Arie Kapteyn

Violence prevention through legislative change: Qualitative insights on ending the physical punishment of children in the UK

Katie Hollingworth, Kirrily Pells, Sharon Eager, Ruby Jarvis, Eleanor Mindel, Rebecca Lacey, Yvonne Kelly, Maria Sifaki and Anja Heilmann

Is intersectionality selective? The role of collider bias

Nasir Z. Bashir and Ali Al-kassab-Córdova

Corrigendum to “Life course socio-economic effects in later life cognitive functioning by cohort, gender and origin” [Soc. Sci. Med. August 2026 119333 402]

Liili Abuladze and Luule Sakkeus

Retraction notice to “Masculinity under pressure: How gender norms shape men's mental health help-seeking in the post-pandemic era” [Soc. Sci. Med. 404 (2026) 119468]

He Jiang and Mandy Rose