Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2023, volume 331, articles C

Urban densification over 9 years and change in the metabolic syndrome: A nationwide investigation from the ORISCAV-LUX cohort study

Marion Tharrey, Laurent Malisoux, Olivier Klein, Torsten Bohn and Camille Perchoux

Algorithms and heuristics of health technology assessments: A retrospective analysis of factors associated with HTA outcomes for new drugs across seven OECD countries

Panos Kanavos, Erica Visintin and Arianna Gentilini

Will the implementation process for goal-oriented primary care succeed? A qualitative study investigating five perceived attributes of goal-oriented care

Ine Huybrechts, Anja Declercq, Emily Verté, Pauline Boeckxstaens, Peter Raeymaeckers and Sibyl Anthierens

Disease perception and preventive behavior: The vaccination response to local measles outbreaks

Sarah Hofmann

A tale of two cities: Heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 quarantine on domestic violence in Brazil

Soraya Roman, Marina Aguiar-Palma and Cecilia Machado

Intersectional inequities in the birthweight gap between twin and singleton births: A random effects MAIHDA analysis of 2012–2018 New York City birth data

Clare R. Evans, Christina I. Nieves, Natasha Erickson and Luisa N. Borrell

Losing trust: Processes of vaccine hesitancy in parents’ narratives

Johanna Nurmi and Joni Jaakola

“You just want to feel safe when you go to a healthcare professional:” Intimate partner violence and patient safety

Shelly A. Maras

Does parental separation moderate the heritability of health risk behavior among adolescents?

Philipp Dierker, Mine Kühn and Bastian Mönkediek

Health care provider decision-making and the quality of maternity care: An analysis of postpartum care in Kenyan hospitals

Dan Han, Emma Clarke-Deelder, Nora Miller, Kennedy Opondo, Thomas Burke, Monica Oguttu, Margaret McConnell and Jessica Cohen

Formative research to inform the future design of a multicomponent fatherhood intervention to improve early child development in Mwanza, Tanzania

Joshua Jeong, Juliet K. McCann, Alya Alsager, Alina Bhojani, Ngusa Andrew, Julieth Joseph, Marilyn N. Ahun, Mary Kabati and Damas Joachim

Navigating and manipulating childbirth services in Afar, Ethiopia: A qualitative study of cultural safety in the birthing room

Ashley Hagaman, Humberto Gonzalez Rodriguez, Emilie Egger, Befikadu Bitewulign, Haley Case, Abiyou Kiflie Alemayehu, Elizabeth C. Rhodes, Abiy Seifu Estifanos, Kavita Singh, Dorka Woldesenbet Keraga, Mahrukh Zahid, Hema Magge and Clare Barrington

Handbooks and health interpreters: How men are assets for their pregnant partners in Senegal

Richard Powis and Emma N. Bunkley

Searching for relief from suffering: A patient-oriented qualitative study on medical assistance in dying for mental illness as the sole underlying medical condition

Hamer Bastidas-Bilbao, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Mary Rose van Kesteren, Donna Eileen Stewart, Vivien Cappe, Mona Gupta, Daniel Z. Buchman, Alexander I.F. Simpson, David Castle, Bartholemew Hugh Campbell and Lisa D. Hawke

Was lockdown worth it? community perspectives and experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic in remote southwestern Haiti

Kevin Bardosh, Lorence Jean, Luccene Desir, Sarah Yoss, Brianna Poovey, Madsen Valerie Beau de Rochars and Gregory S. Noland

Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway

Jannike Gottschalk Ballo

Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden

Lisen Dellenborg and Daniel Enstedt

Migration and health: Exploring the effect of destinations on the health outcomes among rural-urban migrants in India

Tanushree Bhan and Amit Patel

Interrogating the pill: Rising distrust and the reshaping of health risk perceptions in the social media age

Anna Schneider-Kamp and Jennifer Takhar

Epigenetic age acceleration mediates the relationship between neighborhood deprivation and pain severity in adults with or at risk for knee osteoarthritis pain

Pamela Jackson, Antoinette L. Spector, Larissa J. Strath, Lisa H. Antoine, Peng Li, Burel R. Goodin, Bertha A. Hidalgo, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Cesar E. Gonzalez, Alana C. Jones, Thomas C. Foster, Jessica A. Peterson, Tammie Quinn, Zhiguang Huo, Roger Fillingim, Yenisel Cruz-Almeida and Edwin N. Aroke

Political orientation predicts the use of conventional and complementary/alternative medicine: A survey study of 19 European countries

Jussi Valtonen, Ville-Juhani Ilmarinen and Jan-Erik Lönnqvist

“They are always focusing on the person who is doing the worst”: Exploring how crisis shapes young people's pathways in and out of supportive housing in Vancouver, Canada

Daniel Manson and Danya Fast

Advancing health equity through implementation science: Identifying and examining measures of the outer setting

Erica T. Warner, Nathalie Huguet, Michelle Fredericks, Daniel Gundersen, Andrea Nederveld, Meagan C. Brown, Thomas K. Houston, Kia L. Davis, Stephanie Mazzucca, Katharine A. Rendle and Karen M. Emmons

Healthcare practitioners’ construction of occupational risk during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wayne Rivera-Cuadrado

Age at first birth and women's midlife health: Cohort and race differences across the 20th century

Joseph D. Wolfe, Mieke Beth Thomeer and Rin Reczek

The precariousness of living with, and caring for people with, dementia: Insights from the IDEAL programme

A. Hillman, I.r Jones, C. Quinn, C. Pentecost, S. Stapley, C. Charlwood and L. Clare

Care and rhythmanalysis: Using metastability to understand the routines of dementia care

Tess Osborne, Thomas A. Lowe and Louise Meijering

2023, volume 329, articles C

A matter of life and death: The power of personal networks for medical crowdfunding performance

Shen Yang, Xiwang Ke, Cheng Cheng and Yanjie Bian

Shared decision-making during prostate cancer consultations: Implications of clinician misalignment with patient and partner preferences

Simon John Stewart, Lisa Roberts and Lucy Brindle

Different health systems – Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992–2019

Michael Mühlichen, Mathias Lerch, Markus Sauerberg and Pavel Grigoriev

“Don't use herbs in labor!”: Plants, pharmaceuticals, and the unmaking of traditional birth attendants in Ghana, 1970–2000

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare

Clinician resistance to broaching the topic of weight in primary care: Digging deeper into weight management using strong structuration theory

Anisa Hajizadeh, Laura Heath, Aryati Ahmad, Maryam Kebbe, Susan Anne Jebb, Paul Aveyard and Gemma Hughes

“This is most likely not the correct vaccine”: Analyzing COVID-19's viral spread and vaccine anxieties in Ghana, Cameroon, and Malawi

Nathanael Ojong and Eyram Agbe

Social network-structural position and obesity: Evidence from a national study

Jaeun Lim and Benjamin Cornwell

Measuring negative emotional responses to climate change among young people in survey research: A systematic review

Gina Martin, Alina Cosma, Tasha Roswell, Martin Anderson, Matthew Treble, Kathleen Leslie, Kiffer G. Card, Kalysha Closson, Angel Kennedy and Maya Gislason

How does debt shape health outcomes for older Americans?

Stipica Mudrazija and Barbara A. Butrica

Does social capital matter? A study of hit-and-run in US counties

Stefano Castriota, Sandro Rondinella and Mirco Tonin

The health and economic benefits of sugar taxation and vegetables and fruit subsidy scenarios in Canada

Siyuan Liu, Arto Ohinmaa, Katerina Maximova and Paul J. Veugelers

Transgender/nonbinary young adults’ exposure to cissexism-related social stressors: Variation across gender groups

Gabriel R. Murchison, Rodrigo A. Aguayo-Romero, Elle Lett, Sabra L. Katz-Wise, Madina Agénor and Allegra R. Gordon

Exploring non-participation in colorectal cancer screening: A systematic review of qualitative studies

Alice Le Bonniec, Oonagh Meade, Milou Fredrix, Eimear Morrissey, Ronan E. O'Carroll, Patrick J. Murphy, Andrew W. Murphy and Jenny Mc Sharry

Online engagement, resilience, and loneliness among older people during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kunyu Zhang, Jeffrey A. Burr, Jan E. Mutchler and Jiehua Lu

COVID-19 vaccinations and mental health among U.S. adults: Individual and spillover effects

Rebekah Levine Coley, Naoka Carey, Christopher Baum and Summer Sherburne Hawkins

Well-being and cultural identity for Māori: Knowledge of iwi (tribal) affiliations does not strongly relate to health and social service outcomes

Lara M. Greaves, Cinnamon Lindsay Latimer, Eileen Li and Logan Hamley

Experiences of dehumanizing: Examining secondary victimization within the nurse-patient relationship among African American women survivors of sexual assault in the Upper Midwest

Ashley M. Ruiz, Kaylen M. Moore, Lynne M. Woehrle, Peninnah Kako, Kelly C. Davis and Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu

The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile

Thomas A. Lowe, Louise Meijering and Billie de Haas

Reconfigured professional purpose in times of crisis: Experiences of frontline healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jenny K. Rodriguez, Stephen Procter and Gregorio Perez Arrau

From Preventing physical infection to managing affective contagion: An initial study of daily nursing practices in the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan

Man Wen, Shaoying Zhang and Derek McGhee

Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being

Kimberly Higuera and Tomás R. Jiménez

Bright sides and dark sides: Unveiling the double-edged sword effects of social networks

Xiaoguang Li, Xiaoxian Guo and Zhilei Shi

The impact of sleep quality on mental health in working Australians: A quasi-experimental approach

Jia Kai Foo and Tinh Doan

Examining individual-level tri-exposure to greenspace and air/noise pollution using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data

Dong Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Zihan Kan and Yang Liu

Pathways to ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 health outcomes in the United Kingdom: A systematic map

Patricia Irizar, Dharmi Kapadia, Sarah Amele, Laia Bécares, Pip Divall, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Eliud Kibuchi, Dylan Kneale, Ronan McCabe, James Nazroo, Laura B. Nellums, Harry Taylor, Shirley Sze, Daniel Pan and Manish Pareek

Intersex people's perspectives on affirming healthcare practices: A qualitative study

Darius Haghighat, Tala Berro, Lillian Torrey Sosa, Kayla Horowitz, Bria Brown-King and Kimberly Zayhowski