Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2023, volume 325, articles C

Interrogation in clinical supervision sessions: Exploring the construction of clinical psychology trainees’ professional identities

Samantha Schubert, Niels Buus, Lynn Monrouxe and Caroline Hunt

On leaving: Coloniality and physician migration in Puerto Rico

Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sheilla Rodríguez-Madera, Mark Padilla, Kariela Rivera-Bustelo, Claudia Mercado-Ríos, Joshua Rivera-Custodio, Armando Matiz-Reyes, Adrián Santiago-Santiago, Yoymar González-Font, John Vertovec, Alíxida Ramos-Pibernus and Kevin Grove

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on alcohol and tobacco consumption: Evidence from Peru

Raisa Sara

Competitiveness, country economic inequality and adolescent well-being: Analysis of 60 countries

Yuna Koyama and Takeo Fujiwara

Spatial and racial covid-19 disparities in U.S. nursing homes

Sandy Wong, C.S. Ponder and Bertram Melix

Data sharing in the context of community-engaged research partnerships

Karen M. Emmons, Samuel Mendez, Rebekka M. Lee, Diana Erani, Lynette Mascioli, Marlene Abreu, Susan Adams, James Daly and Barbara E. Bierer

Is the association between sexual minority status and suicide-related behaviours modified by rurality? A discrete-time survival analysis using longitudinal health administrative data

Andrew Nielsen, Karanpreet Kaur Azra, Chungah Kim, Gabriel John Dusing and Antony Chum

American Indians travel great distances for obstetrical care: Examining rural and racial disparities

Maggie L. Thorsen, Sean Harris, Janelle F. Palacios, Ronald G. McGarvey and Andreas Thorsen

Biographical dialectics: The ongoing and creative problem solving required to negotiate the biographical disruption of chronic illness

Victoria Cluley, James O Burton, Niamh Quann, Katherine L Hull and Helen Eborall

Getting our hopes up: How actors perceive network effectiveness and why it matters

Robin Peeters, Daan Westra, Arno J.A. van Raak and Dirk Ruwaard

Unbalanced global vaccine product trade pattern: A network perspective

Wanpeng Cao, Debin Du and Qifan Xia

Covid-19 restrictions: An opportunity to highlight the effect of neighbourhood deprivation on individuals’ health-related behaviours

Laura Silva, Franco Bonomi Bezzo and Maarten van Ham

2023, volume 324, articles C

Organizing precision medicine: A case study of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's engagement in/with genomics

Jess B. Polk, Jonah Campbell, Alexander E. Drilon, Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio

Cultures of antibiotic prescribing in medical intensive care

Katharina Rynkiewich, Sarin Gole, Sarah Won and David N. Schwartz

Priming COVID-19's consequences can increase support for investments in public health

Renu Singh

Racial and gender disparities among highly successful medical crowdfunding campaigns

Aaron Renee Davis, Shauna K. Elbers and Nora Kenworthy

Maternal depression, alcohol use, and transient effects of perinatal paraprofessional home visiting in South Africa: Eight-year follow-up of a cluster randomized controlled trial

Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Mark Tomlinson, Carol M. Worthman, Peter Norwood, Ingrid le Roux and Mary J. O'Connor

Are distributional preferences for safety stable? A longitudinal analysis before and after the COVID-19 outbreak

Danae Arroyos-Calvera, Judith Covey and Rebecca McDonald

Falling ill raises the health insurer's administration bill

Rudy Douven and Lukas Kauer

Conceptual framework for acute community health care services – Illustrated by assessing the development of services in Denmark

Anders Fournaise, Karen Andersen-Ranberg, Jørgen T. Lauridsen, Kurt Espersen, Claire Gudex and Mickael Bech

Relative deprivation, inequality and the Covid-19 pandemic

Debajyoti Chakrabarty, Bhanu Bhatia, Maneka Jayasinghe and David Low

Pathways from peers to mental health: Adolescent networks, role attainment, and adult depressive symptoms

Molly Copeland, Christina Kamis and Gabriel Varela

Exposure to negative life events, change in their perceived impact, and subsequent well-being among U.S. adults: A longitudinal outcome-wide analysis

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

Promoting COVID-19 vaccine confidence through public responses to misinformation: The joint influence of message source and message content

Reed M. Wood, Marie Juanchich, Mark Ramirez and Shenghao Zhang

Let's come to order: The influence of question order on willingness to register as an organ donor

Danielle R. Blazek and Jason T. Siegel

The effect of self-esteem on the spread of a pandemic. A cross-country analysis of the role played by self-esteem in the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic

Vincenzo Alfano and Massimo Guarino

Cross-temporal relations of conditional risk perception measures with protective actions against COVID-19

Branden B. Johnson and Byungdoo Kim

Effects of engaging fathers and bundling nutrition and parenting interventions on household gender equality and women's empowerment in rural Tanzania: Results from EFFECTS, a five-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial

Lauren Galvin, Cristiana K. Verissimo, Ramya Ambikapathi, Nilupa S. Gunaratna, Paula Rudnicka, Amy Sunseri, Joshua Jeong, Savannah Froese O'Malley, Aisha K. Yousafzai, Mary Mwanyika Sando, Dominic Mosha, Elfrida Kumalija, Hannah Connolly, George PrayGod, Cara Endyke-Doran and Mary Pat Kieffer

The stated preferences of community-based volunteers for roles in the prevention of violence against women and girls in Ghana: A discrete choice analysis

Nikita Arora, Romain Crastes dit Sourd, Matthew Quaife, Anna Vassall, Giulia Ferrari, Deda Ogum Alangea, Theresa Tawiah, Rebecca Kyerewaa Dwommoh Prah, Rachel Jewkes, Kara Hanson and Sergio Torres Rueda

Maternal perceptions of human milk expression output: An experimental design using photographs of milk

Elizabeth A. Quinn, Sarah Sobonya and Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist

Structural sexism moderates work and occupational risks for alcohol consumption and binge drinking among US women, 1989–2016

Sarah McKetta, Seth J. Prins, Deborah Hasin, Megan E. Patrick and Katherine M. Keyes

Influences of genetically predicted and attained education on geographic mobility and their association with mortality

Elsa Ojalehto, Deborah Finkel, Tom C. Russ, Ida K. Karlsson and Malin Ericsson

The impact of a randomized cash transfer intervention on mortality of adult household members in rural South Africa, 2011–2022

Molly Rosenberg, Erika Beidelman, Xiwei Chen, David Canning, Lindsay Kobayashi, Kathleen Kahn, Audrey Pettifor and Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula

The efficient moral hazard effect of health insurance: Evidence from the consolidation of urban and rural resident health insurance in China

Yao Li, Lei Li and Junxia Liu

“It's no foundation, there's no stabilization, you're just scattered”: A qualitative study of the institutional circuit of recently-evicted people who use drugs

Taylor Fleming, Alexandra B. Collins, Jade Boyd, Kelly R. Knight and Ryan McNeil

2023, volume 323, articles C

Societal impact on older persons’ chronic pain: Roles of age stereotypes, age attribution, and age discrimination

Becca R. Levy, Robert H. Pietrzak and Martin D. Slade

Re-traumatization of torture survivors during treatment in somatic healthcare services: A mapping review and appraisal of literature presenting clinical guidelines and recommendations to prevent re-traumatization

Ana Carla S.P. Schippert, Ellen Karine Grov, Tone Dahl-Michelsen, Juha Silvola, Bente Sparboe-Nilsen, Stein Ove Danielsen, Irene Lie and Ann Kristin Bjørnnes

The social life of risk probabilities in medicine

David Armstrong

Does prospective payment influence quality of care? A systematic review of the literature

Clara Pott, Tom Stargardt and Simon Frey

Randomised comparison of online interviews versus face-to-face interviews to value health states

Tessa Peasgood, Mackenzie Bourke, Nancy Devlin, Donna Rowen, Yaling Yang and Kim Dalziel

Who does COVID-19 hurt most? Perceptions of unequal impact and political implications

Sarah E. Gollust and Jake Haselswerdt

The association between the proportion of Brexiters and COVID-19 death rates in England

Ludovic Phalippou and Betty Wu

Adventurous play for a healthy childhood: Facilitators and barriers identified by parents in Britain

Brooke E. Oliver, Rachel J. Nesbit, Rachel McCloy, Kate Harvey and Helen F. Dodd

Associations of peer generational status on adolescent weight across Hispanic immigrant generations: A social network analysis

Christopher J. Gonzalez, Molly Copeland, Martin F. Shapiro and James Moody

Amplified disparities: The association between spousal education and own health

Admassu N. Lamu, Gang Chen and Jan Abel Olsen

Protection, health seeking, or a laissez-passer: Participants’ decision-making in an EVD vaccine trial in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Myfanwy James, Joseph Grace Kasereka, Benjamin Kasiwa, Hugo Kavunga-Membo, Kasonia Kambale, Rebecca Grais, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Daniel G. Bausch, Deborah Watson-Jones and Shelley Lees

Respected physician in Syria, unemployed refugee in the Netherlands: An analysis of the integration of Syrian refugees with a medical degree in the Dutch medical field

J.J. Postmes and R.L. Rolim Medeiros

Erasing inequality: Examining discrepancies between electronic health records and patient narratives to uncover perceived stigma and dismissal in clinical encounters

Jennifer M. Silva, T. Elizabeth Durden and Annemarie Hirsch

Not all diagnoses are created equal: Mothers’ narratives of children, ADHD, and comorbid diagnoses

Talia Fried and Galia Plotkin-Amrami

The impact of paid sick leave mandates on women's health

Meredith Slopen

Psychological caring climate at work, mental health, well-being, and work-related outcomes: Evidence from a longitudinal study and health insurance data

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Richard G. Cowden, Piotr Bialowolski, Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele and Eileen McNeely

Blurred border or safe harbor? Emotional well-being among sexual and gender minority adults working from home during COVID-19

Layne Amerikaner, Hope Xu Yan, Liana C. Sayer, Long Doan, Jessica N. Fish, Kelsey J. Drotning and R. Gordon Rinderknecht

Herding behavior in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in rural Zimbabwe: The moderating role of health information under heterogeneous household risk perceptions

Terrence Kairiza, George Kembo and Lloyd Chigusiwa

Banal nationalisms in medicine and prostate onco-practice in Japan: A urological viewpoint

Genaro Castro-Vázquez

Longitudinal interplays between basic psychological need satisfaction and sleep among older adults in China

Jing Li

Feeling too isolated to be vaccinated? The contributing role of subjective interpersonal isolation factors towards COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance

Madhwa S. Galgali, Peter J. Helm and Jamie Arndt

The roles of social norms and leadership in health communication in the context of COVID-19

Serap Akfırat, Fatih Bayrak, Emir Üzümçeker, Tolga Ergiyen, Taylan Yurtbakan and Mete Sefa Uysal