Social Science & Medicine

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2023, volume 328, articles C

Diversity of attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and vaccines: A representative cross-sectional study in France

Jeremy K. Ward, Fatima Gauna, Michael J. Deml, Norah MacKendrick and Patrick Peretti-Watel

A meta-ethnography on the experience and psychosocial implications of providing abortion care

Lisa Mills and Jennifer Watermeyer

Multidimensional intergenerational mobility

Jason Fletcher and Katie M. Jajtner

Temporal frames, temporal focus, and behavioral expectations: The persuasive impact of near and distant threats

Manusheela Pokharel, Jakob D. Jensen, Sophia Taylor-Burton, Andy J. King, Kevin K. John and Sean Upshaw

Effectiveness of father-inclusive interventions on maternal, paternal, couples, and early child outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

Joshua Jeong, Eileen F. Sullivan and Juliet K. McCann

From population numbers to population needs: Incorporating epidemiological change into health service planning in Australia

Sabrina Lenzen and Stephen Birch

Enhanced unemployment benefits, mental health, and substance use among low-income households during the COVID-19 pandemic

Soyun Jeong and Ashley M. Fox

MANstruation: A cyberethnography of linguistic strategies of trans and nonbinary menstruators

Rowena B.D. Kosher, Lauren C. Houghton and Inga T. Winkler

An extended period of elevated influenza mortality risk follows the main waves of influenza pandemics

Max Schroeder, Spyridon Lazarakis, Rebecca Mancy and Konstantinos Angelopoulos

Ethnic enclaves and colon cancer stage at diagnosis among New Jersey Hispanics

Veronica Gomes, Daniel Wiese, Antoinette Stroup and Kevin A. Henry

“Coming out of the closet about sexual assault”: Intersectional sexual assault stigma and (non) disclosure to formal support providers among survivors using Reddit

Stephanie Lanthier, Robin Mason, Carmen H. Logie, Ted Myers and Janice Du Mont

From pandemic to Plandemic: Examining the amplification and attenuation of COVID-19 misinformation on social media

Edmund W.J. Lee, Huanyu Bao, Yixi Wang and Yi Torng Lim

Associations between income changes and the risk of herpes zoster: LIFE study

Hiroaki Onizuka and Haruhisa Fukuda

Declining trend in cigarette smoking among U.S. adults over 2008–2018: A decomposition analysis

Nigar Nargis, Zheng Xue, Samuel Asare, Priti Bandi and Ahmedin Jemal

Moving to opportunity? Low birth weight outcomes among Southern-born Black mothers during the Great Migration

Cecilia Vu, Mariana C. Arcaya, Ichiro Kawachi and David R. Williams

Exposure to gun violence and handgun carrying from adolescence to adulthood

Benjamin P. Comer and Eric J. Connolly

Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial

Hans S. Schroder, Andrew Devendorf and Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher

Adaptation in life satisfaction and self-assessed health to disability - Evidence from the UK

Jannis Stöckel, Job van Exel and Werner Brouwer

Framing the pandemic: Multiplying “crises” in Dutch healthcare governance during the emerging COVID-19 pandemic

Bert de Graaff, Sabrina Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp and Roland Bal

How to present work productivity loss results from clinical trials for patients and caregivers? A mixed methods approach

Jacynthe L'Heureux, Helen McTaggart-Cowan, Gary Johns, Lin Chen, Theodore Steiner, Paige Tocher, Huiying Sun and Wei Zhang

Overconfidence at the time of COVID-19:Does it lead to laxer attitudes?

Dominik M. Piehlmaier, Emanuela Stagno and Agnes Nagy

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on inequalities in preventive health screenings: Trends and implications for U.S. population health

Sneha Sarah Mani and Rebecca Anna Schut

Political network composition predicts vaccination attitudes

Matthew Facciani, Aleksandra Lazić, Gracemarie Viggiano and Tara McKay

Infertility, reproductive timing and ‘cure’ in families affected by Turner Syndrome

Kriss Fearon

Mitigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations: Lessons for improving health and social equity

Si Ying Tan, Chuan De Foo, Monica Verma, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Paul Li Jen Cheh, Aungsumalee Pholpark, Tiara Marthias, Firdaus Hafidz, Likke Prawidya Putri, Yodi Mahendradhata, Kim Bao Giang, Stefan Nachuk, Hong Wang, Jeremy Lim and Helena Legido-Quigley

Spatial availability of federally qualified health centers and disparities in health services utilization in medically underserved areas

Eun Kyung Lee, Gwendolyn Donley, Timothy H. Ciesielski, Darcy A. Freedman and Megan B. Cole

2023, volume 327, articles C

COVID-19-related trauma and the need for organizational healing in a Dutch nursing home

Anne Lia Cremers and Cato Janssen

What does the French public consider to be a conflict of interest for medical researchers?

Émilien Schultz, Julien Mancini and Jeremy K. Ward

Unmasking racial avoidance: Experimental evidence on parental school choice and public health policies during the Covid-19 pandemic

Chantal A. Hailey, Brittany Murray, Rachel Boggs, Jalisa Broussard and Milani Flores

Effects of performance-based capitation payment on the use of public primary health care services in Indonesia

Novat Pugo Sambodo, Igna Bonfrer, Robert Sparrow, Menno Pradhan and Eddy van Doorslaer

The diffusion of health care fraud: A bipartite network analysis

A. James O'Malley, Thomas A. Bubolz and Jonathan S. Skinner

Derivation of a UK preference-based value set for the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) to allow estimation of Mental Well-being Adjusted Life Years (MWALYs)

Hei Hang Edmund Yiu, John Buckell, Stavros Petrou, Sarah Stewart-Brown and Jason Madan

Social isolation and subsequent health and well-being in older adults: A longitudinal outcome-wide analysis

Atsushi Nakagomi, Taishi Tsuji, Masashige Saito, Kazushige Ide, Katsunori Kondo and Koichiro Shiba

Realizing the Tobacco Endgame: Understanding and mobilizing public support for banning combustible cigarette sales in the United States

Aya Avishai, Kurt M. Ribisl and Paschal Sheeran

Opioids ease my pain: Early-life malnutrition and elderly outcomes

Mohammadali Mokhtari

The impact of a partner's nursing home admission on individuals' mental well-being

Hansel Teo

Latent class analysis of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms following exposure to Hurricane Ike

Drishti E. Sanghvi, Gavin N. Rackoff and Michelle G. Newman

Using laws, common sense, and statistical approaches to design indicators for ‘medical desertification’. An application on the Romanian case

Bogdan Voicu, Dana Fărcășanu, Mirela Mustață, Alexandra Deliu and Iulia Vișinescu

Entertainment-education to reduce internalized stigma, increase intimate partner status disclosure intentions, and increase antiretroviral medical adherence intentions: A randomized controlled trial targeting black women living with HIV in the Southern U.S

Jazmyne V. Bryant, Nick Carcioppolo, Di Lun and JoNell Potter

Multi-group data versus dual-side theory: On race contrasts and police-caused homicides

Rima Wilkes and Aryan Karimi

Embodying or resisting social normativity? A carnal inquiry into exercise addiction experiences

Nicolas Moreau, Emmanuelle Larocque, Annie Jaimes, Florence Vinit, Matthieu Quidu and Brice Favier-Ambrosini

Artificial intelligence-based computer aided detection (AI-CAD) in the fight against tuberculosis: Effects of moving health technologies in global health

Julien Onno, Faiz Ahmad Khan, Amrita Daftary and Pierre-Marie David

Contesting misrecognition online: Experiences of epistemic in/justice by vloggers with contested illnesses

Groenevelt, I.P.(Irene) and M.L.(Marjolein) de Boer,

The struggle with transnormativity: Non-binary identity work, embodiment desires, and experience with gender dysphoria

Stef Murawsky

Living longer in declining health: Factors driving healthcare costs among older people

Laia Maynou, Andrew Street and García−Altés, Anna

Social and physical neighbourhood characteristics and 10-year incidence of depression and anxiety in older adults: Results from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam

Irina Motoc, Emiel O. Hoogendijk, Erik J. Timmermans, Dorly Deeg, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx and Martijn Huisman

Differences between complete and incomplete couples in physical health research: Implications for methods and generalizability

Krista W. Ranby, Sydneyjane Roberts, Jennalee S. Wooldridge and Gillian R. Ulrich

Experiences of insecurity among non-standard workers across different welfare states: A qualitative cross-country study

Kim Bosmans, Emilia F. Vignola, Valentina Álvarez-López, Mireia Julià, Emily Q. Ahonen, Mireia Bolíbar, Mariana Gutiérrez-Zamora, Lars Ivarsson, Signild Kvart, Carles Muntaner, Patricia O'Campo, Marisol E. Ruiz, Kristian Vänerhagen, Isabel Cuervo, Letitia Davis, Ignacio Diaz, Astrid Escrig-Piñol, Virginia Gunn, Wayne Lewchuk, Per-Olof Östergren, Eva Padrosa, David Vílchez, Alejandra Vives, Mattias Vos, Alessandro Zaupa, Theo Bodin and Sherry L. Baron

2023, volume 326, articles C

The role of mental health in online gambling decisions: A discrete choice experiment

Lachlan Cameron and Jemimah Ride

Road traffic mortality and economic uncertainty: Evidence from the United States

Panos Kanavos and Sotiris Vandoros

The environment a young person grows up in is associated with their mental health: A nationwide geospatial study using the integrated data infrastructure, New Zealand

Hobbs M, Bowden N, Marek L, Wiki J, Kokaua J, Theodore R, Ruhe T, Boden J, Thabrew H, Hetrick S and Milne B

A qualitative study of ecological and motivational factors to inform weight management interventions for Black men in the rural South of the United States

Demetrius A. Abshire, Guillermo M. Wippold, Dawn K. Wilson, Bernardine M. Pinto, Janice C. Probst and James W. Hardin

A conceptual framework and exploratory model for health and social intervention acceptability among African adolescents and youth

Marisa Casale, Oluwaseyi Somefun, Genevieve Haupt Ronnie, Chris Desmond, Lorraine Sherr and Lucie Cluver

The value of a QALY towards the end of life and its determinants: Experimental evidence

Barbara Fischer, Harry Telser, Peter Zweifel, Viktor von Wyl, Konstantin Beck and Andreas Weber

Towards machine learning for moral choice analysis in health economics: A literature review and research agenda

Nicholas V.R. Smeele, Caspar G. Chorus, Maartje H.N. Schermer and Esther W. de Bekker-Grob

Stayin’ alive: The introduction of municipal in-patient acute care units was associated with reduced mortality and fewer hospital readmissions

Geir Haakon Hilland, Terje P. Hagen and Pål E. Martinussen

Navigating the quality-of-life impacts of a chronic inflammatory disease (CID) among South Asian children and parents

Andrea Rishworth, Tiffany Cao, Ashika Niraula and Kathi Wilson

“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then”: A study combining register and self-reported QoL data in assessing how response shift may occur in an injury population

Ritva Rissanen, Anna Warnqvist and Marie Hasselberg

Investigating sonic injustice: A review of published research

Christopher Trudeau, Nicholas King and Catherine Guastavino

Income-related inequality in out-of-pocket health-care expenditures under Taiwan's national health insurance system: An international comparable estimation based on A System of Health Accounts

Christy Pu, Miaw-Chwen Lee and Tsung-Che Hsieh

Heterogeneity in the mental health cost of caring for others

Camille Portier

Community nursing delivery in urban China: A social power perspective

Bo Li, Juan Chen and Natasha Howard

Connective and Tactfully Tactical: Connective Tactics and Professional Authority in Doctor-Patient Relationships

Lars Thorup Larsen and Mathilde Cecchini

University students’ (binge) drinking during COVID-19 lockdowns: An investigation of depression, social context, resilience, and changes in alcohol use

Milagros Rubio, Kirsten van Hooijdonk, Maartje Luijten, Rutger Kappe, Antonius H.N. Cillessen, Maaike Verhagen and Jacqueline M. Vink

Long-term trajectories of suicide ideation and its socioeconomic predictors: A longitudinal 8-year follow-up study

Minjae Choi, Eun Hae Lee, Joshua Kirabo Sempungu and Yo Han Lee

Has South Korea achieved the goals of national health insurance? Trends in financial protection of households between 2011 and 2018

Sujin Kim and Soonman Kwon

Effects of individual and neighborhood social risks on diabetes pay-for-performance program under a single-payer health system

Wen-Chen Tsai, Kuang-Hua Huang, Pei-Chun Chen, Yu-Chia Chang, Michael S. Chen and Chiachi Bonnie Lee

Assessing performance of ZCTA-level and Census Tract-level social and environmental risk factors in a model predicting hospital events

Leigh G. Goetschius, Morgan Henderson, Fei Han, Dillon Mahmoudi, Chad Perman, Howard Haft and Ian Stockwell

Adolescents de facto deported in Oaxaca, Mexico: Mental and emotional health impacts

Marta Rodríguez-Cruz

Beyond the biomedical, towards the agentic: A paradigm shift for population health science

Jessica Acolin and Paul Fishman