Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2023, volume 333, articles C

Inducing collective action intentions for healthcare reform through medical crowdfunding framing

Krystallia Moysidou and Smadar Cohen Chen

Prioritizing women's choices, consent, and bodily autonomy: From a continuum of violence to women-centric reproductive care

Cheryl O'Brien and Morgan Newport

Storytelling and affiliation between healthcare staff in Schwartz Round interactions: A conversation analytic study

Sarah Atkins, Alison Pilnick, Jill Maben and Laura Thompson

Exploratory analysis of local extreme-temperature attributable mortality in an urban city of Madrid

J. López-Bueno, C. Linares, J. Díaz, A. Sanz, M.A. Navas-Martín, J.M. Vellón, F. Follos and C. Sánchez-Guevara

When health trumps money: Economic incentives and health equity in the public provision of nursing homes in Norway

Øystein Hernæs, Snorre Kverndokk, Simen Markussen and Henning Øien

‘I don't feel that we are a burden’: Latinx immigrants and deservingness during the COVID-19 pandemic

Whitney L. Duncan and Lupita Nabor Vazquez

The #longcovid revolution: A reflexive thematic analysis

Melody Turner, Helen Beckwith, Tanisha Spratt, Elvira Perez Vallejos and Barry Coughlan

Hope over fear: The interplay between threat information and hope appeal corrections in debunking early COVID-19 misinformation

Ran Tao, Jianing Li, Liwei Shen and Sijia Yang

Impact of the minimum wage increase on smoking behaviour: A quasi-experimental study in South Korea

Yihong Bai, Chungah Kim and Antony Chum

Conditional cash transfers and violence against women – Does the type of violence matter?

Abhilasha Sahay, Ervin Dervišević and Elizaveta Perova

‘Let there be light’ or life in the dark? Vital geographies of mental healthcare

Ebba Högström and Chris Philo

Contrasting socio-economic influences on colorectal cancer incidence and survival in England and Wales

Charlotte Sturley, Paul Norman, Michelle Morris and Amy Downing

The impact of devolution on experienced health and well-being

Yao Wei, Laura Anselmi, Luke Munford and Matt Sutton

Estimating the unintended impact of the North American free trade agreement on U.S. public health

Derick T. Adu, Wenying Li and Wendiam P.M. Sawadgo

County- and state-level immigration policies are associated with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation among Latino households

M. Pia Chaparro, Amy H. Auchincloss, Sofia Argibay, Dominic A. Ruggiero, Jonathan Purtle and Brent A. Langellier

Social inequality in navigating the healthcare maze: Care trajectories from hospital to home via intermediate care for older people in Norway

Linda Aimée Hartford Kvæl and Heidi Gautun

Neo-traditionalist, egalitarian and progressive masculinities in men's heterosexual intimate partner relationships

John L. Oliffe, Mary T. Kelly, Nina Gao, Jennifer Mootz, Zac E. Seidler and Simon M. Rice

Becoming active in the micro-politics of healthcare re-organisation: The identity work and political activation of doctors, nurses and managers

Justin Waring, Simon Bishop, Jenelle Clarke and Bridget Roe

Addressing vaccine concerns through the spectrum of vaccine acceptance

Maureen Ayikoru,, Jennifer Cole, Klaus Dodds, Milburga Atcero, Joseph K. Bada, Ivica Petrikova and William Worodria

The use of PrEP among men who have sex with men and transgender women as Biomedical Prevention Work: A conceptual framework

Inga Haaland, Emmy Metta and Kåre Moen

Equality of public health service and family doctor contract service utilisation among migrants in China

Yu Chen, Feng Huang and Qin Zhou

Priority setting for non-communicable disease prevention – Co-producing a regulatory agenda informing novel codes of practice in Australia

Maddie Heenan, Stephen Jan, Martyn Ralph, Gary Sacks, Boyd Swinburn and Janani Shanthosh

Primary care physicians’ strategies for addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

Tasmiah Nuzhath, Abigail Spiegelman, Julia Scobee, Kirby Goidel, David Washburn and Timothy Callaghan

The needle and the damage done: Deaths of despair, economic precarity, and the white working-class

Eric Bjorklund

Family deaths in the early life course and their association with later educational attainment in a longitudinal cohort study

Naomi Harada Thyden, Jaime Slaughter-Acey, Rachel Widome, John Robert Warren and Theresa L. Osypuk

Longitudinal network relations between symptoms of problematic internet game use and internalizing and externalizing problems among Chinese early adolescents

Jianhua Zhou, Lulu Zhang and Xue Gong

Household donations of time and money in response to a health shock

Elaine De Gruyter, Dennis Petrie and Nicole Black

Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective

Kevin M. Korous, Agus Surachman, Charles R. Rogers and Adolfo G. Cuevas

Reciprocal longitudinal associations of supportive workplace relationships with depressive symptoms and self-rated health: A study of Korean women

Seong-Uk Baek, Jin-Ha Yoon and Jong-Uk Won

Paramedic perspectives of job stress: Qualitative analysis of high-stress, high-stakes emergency medical situations

Bram Duffee and David Blake Willis

How do remittances impact child mortality and are there preconditions?

Benjamin Ramkissoon and Regan Deonanan

Views, obstacles, and uncertainties around the inclusion of children and young people's time in economic evaluations: Findings from an international survey of health economists

Lazaros Andronis, Cameron Morgan, Cam Donaldson, Emily Lancsar and Stavros Petrou

Income is more protective against pain in more equal countries

Cheng Tang, Lucía Macchia and Nattavudh Powdthavee

The politics of classification: Discursive tensions in the Danish political debate on trans identity and diagnosis in the years 2007–2016

Nina Langer Primdahl and Maria Olejaz Tellerup

Unequally Unequal? Contextual-level status inequality and social cohesion moderating the association between individual-level socioeconomic position and systemic chronic inflammation

Moritz Oberndorfer, Alastair H. Leyland, Jamie Pearce, Igor Grabovac, Mary K. Hannah and Thomas E. Dorner

2023, volume 332, articles C

Lest we forget. Illuminating lived experience of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown

S. Hanson, P. Belderson, E. Ward, F. Naughton and C. Notley

Evolution of preferences for COVID-19 vaccine throughout the pandemic – The choice experiment approach

Ricardo Daziano and Wiktor Budzinski

Reconsidering the relationship between health and income in the UK

Rosen Chowdhury, Steve Cook and Duncan Watson

The role of labor market inequalities in explaining the gender gap in depression risk among older US adults

Maria Gueltzow, Maarten J. Bijlsma, Frank J. van Lenthe and Mikko Myrskylä

Impact of the expanded child tax credit and its expiration on adult psychological well-being

Eunho Cha, Jiwan Lee and Stacie Tao

The impact of poverty-reduction intervention on child mental health mediated by family relations: Findings from a cluster-randomized trial in Uganda

Leyla Karimli, Fred M. Ssewamala and Torsten B. Neilands

Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers: The experience of chaplains evaluating religious accommodation requests from coworkers

M.J. Wirpsa, P. Galchutt, C.S. Price, B. Schaefer, C. Szilagyi and P.K. Palmer

The social patterning of vicarious discrimination: Implications for health equity

Edward B. Quinn, Jessica D. Ross, P. Qasimah Boston, HEAT Steering Committee, Connie J. Mulligan and Clarence C. Gravlee

Defining focused ethnography: Disciplinary boundary-work and the imagined divisions between ‘focused’ and ‘traditional’ ethnography in health research – A critical review

Catherine Trundle and Tarryn Phillips

Demedication without demedicalization? Redefining the medical and economic boundaries of veterinary professional jurisdiction

Clémentine Comer, Lucile Benoit, Florence Hellec and Nicolas Fortané

A contemporary ontology of continuity in general practice: Capturing its multiple essences in a digital age

Emma Ladds, Trisha Greenhalgh, Richard Byng, Sarah Rybczynska-Bunt, Asli Kalin and Sara Shaw

Non-standard nature. Venoms, serum and serpentariums in the uneven fabrication of global health

Mathieu Quet

Health accidents and wealth decline in old age

d’Albis, Hippolyte, Najat El Mekkaoui and Bérangère Legendre

Change in sense of coherence mediates the association between economic recession and mortality among middle-aged men: A population-based cohort study from Eastern Finland

Ilkka Piiroinen, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Tommi Tolmunen, Siiri-Liisi Kraav, Rand Jarroch and Ari Voutilainen

Promoting COVID-19 booster vaccines in Macao: A psychological reactance perspective

Hongzhe Xiang, Yiwei Li and Yu Guo

Reconceptualising men's loneliness: An interpretivist interview study of UK-based men

John Ratcliffe, Mona Kanaan and Paul Galdas

Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?

Dorrit Posel and Adeola Oyenubi