Social Science & Medicine

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2023, volume 322, articles C

“We (still) charge genocide”: A systematic review and synthesis of the direct and indirect health consequences of police violence in the United States

Rahwa Haile, Tawandra Rowell-Cunsolo, Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe and Sirry Alang

Barriers and facilitators to implementing priority setting and resource allocation tools in hospital decisions: A systematic review

Antonio Ahumada-Canale, Varinder Jeet, Anam Bilgrami, Elizabeth Seil, Yuanyuan Gu and Henry Cutler

A randomised controlled trial of volitional and motivational interventions to improve cervical cancer screening uptake

Sarah Wilding, Sarah Wighton, Robert West, Mark Conner and Daryl B. O'Connor

Therapeutic landscapes, networks, and health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods study among female domestic workers

Fikriyah Winata and Sara L. McLafferty

Food systems determinants of nutritional health and wellbeing in urban informal settlements: A scoping review in LMICs

Anne-Sophie Roy, Maud Mazaniello-Chézol, Maria Rueda-Martinez, Sohana Shafique and Alayne M. Adams

The place of charity in a public health service: Inequality and persistence in charitable support for NHS trusts in england

James Bowles, David Clifford and John Mohan

The ties that bind: Social network analysis describes the social element of medical workforce recruitment to rural/remote Australia

Yulia Shiikha, Rebekah Ledingham and Denese Playford

Ethical considerations and methodological uses of Facebook data in public health research: A systematic review

Hannah Stuart Lathan, Amy Kwan, Courtney Takats, Joshua P. Tanner, Rachel Wormer, Diana Romero and Heidi E. Jones

“We are not the ethics police”: The professionalization of clinical ethicists and the regulation of medical decision-making

Will Schupmann

Operationalizing antiracism in health systems: Strategies state government administrative organizations use towards racial and ethnic mental health equity

Alexandra M. Alden

Liquid Health. Medicine in the age of surveillance capitalism

Giovanni Rubeis

“It was just one moment that I felt like I was being judged”: Pregnant and postpartum black Women's experiences of personal and group-based racism during the COVID-19 pandemic

Brittany D. Chambers, Jazmin Fontenot, Safyer McKenzie-Sampson, Bridgette E. Blebu, Brittany N. Edwards, Nicole Hutchings, Deborah Karasek, Kimberly Coleman-Phox, Venise C. Curry and Miriam Kuppermann

Factors associated with contact tracing compliance among communities of color in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

Jason G. Randall, Dev K. Dalal and Aileen Dowden

Impact of a free care policy on routine health service volumes during a protracted Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Janna Wisniewski, Matt Worges and Paul-Samson Lusamba-Dikassa

The role of physical and cognitive/emotional functioning in the associations between common health conditions and working

Leah Abrams, Kevin Friedman and Nicole Maestas

Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in the association between higher state minimum wages and health and mental well-being in US adults with low educational attainment

James H. Buszkiewicz, Anjum Hajat, Heather D. Hill, Jennifer J. Otten and Adam Drewnowski

Optimization referral rate design for hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system based on accessibility-utilization efficiency bi-objective collaboration: A case study of China

Zhongyu Wei, Jianjun Bai and Ruitao Feng

Caregiving and changes in health-related behaviour

Ayako Hiyoshi, Mikael Rostila, Katja Fall, Scott Montgomery and Alessandra Grotta

2023, volume 321, articles C

How states engage in and exercise power in global health: Indonesian and Japanese engagement in the conceptualization of Sustainable Development Goal 3

Robert Marten, Johanna Hanefeld and Richard D. Smith

How does arthritis affect employment? Longitudinal evidence on 18,000 British adults with arthritis compared to matched controls

Nasir Rajah, Edward J.D. Webb, Claire Hulme, Sarah R. Kingsbury, Robert West and Adam Martin

The relationship between extended kin resources and children's healthcare utilization: An analysis of family networks

Emily Treleaven

Does caring for others affect our mental health? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

Chiara Costi, Bruce Hollingsworth, Vincent O'Sullivan and Eugenio Zucchelli

Confidence in the health system and health insurance enrollment among the informal sector population in Lusaka, Zambia

Doris Osei Afriyie, Felix Masiye, Fabrizio Tediosi and Günther Fink

The COVID-19 curtain: Can past communist regimes explain the vaccination divide in Europe?

Elizaveta Pronkina, Inés Berniell, Yarine Fawaz, Anne Laferrere and Pedro Mira

“The first difficulty is time”: The impact of gestational age limits on reproductive health and justice in the context of cross-border travel for abortion care in Europe

Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, Giulia Zanini and Caitlin Gerdts

Changes in the health systems and policy environment for maternal and newborn health, 2008–2018: An analysis of data from 78 low-income and middle-income countries

Elizabeth K. Stierman, Blerta Maliqi, Meighan Mary, Martin AJ. Dohlsten, Elizabeth Katwan, Allisyn C. Moran and Andreea A. Creanga

Assessing the contribution of migration related policies to equity in access to healthcare in European countries. A multilevel analysis

Wiebke Hübner, Jenny Phillimore, Hannah Bradby and Tilman Brand

Racialized police use of force and birth outcomes

Valentina Chegwin, Julien Teitler, Felix M. Muchomba and Nancy E. Reichman

Twin pandemics, intertwined (intergroup) solutions: Support for mitigating racism benefits vaccine hesitancy

Tiffany N. Brannon and Riley A. Marshall

Challenging the logic of lifesaving in the intensive care unit

Amanda van Beinum

(De)Bonding with embryos: The emotional choreographies of Portuguese IVF patients

Catarina Delaunay, Luís Gouveia, Mário JDS. Santos and Rita Morais

Re-constructing parental identity after parents face their offspring's suicidal behaviour: An interview study

A. Juel, A. Erlangsen, L.L. Berring, E.R. Larsen and N. Buus

Longitudinal association between perceived discrimination and sleep problems among young adults in the United States: Tests of moderation by race/ethnicity and educational attainment

Kiwoong Park and Jinho Kim

Uncovering sample heterogeneity in gaming and social withdrawal behaviors in adolescent and young adult gamers in Hong Kong

Ted C.T. Fong, Qijin Cheng, C.Y. Pai, Isabelle Kwan, Clifford Wong, Sing-Hang Cheung and Paul S.F. Yip

Promoting mental health in Latina immigrant women: Results from the Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma intervention trial

India J. Ornelas, Deepa Rao, Cynthia Price, Gary Chan, Anh Tran, Gino Aisenberg, Georgina Perez, Serena Maurer and Adrianne Katrina Nelson

Video call and depression among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: The JAGES one-year longitudinal study

Ryunosuke Shioya, Atsushi Nakagomi, Kazushige Ide and Katsunori Kondo

The economic impacts of house screening against malaria transmission: Experimental evidence from eastern Zambia

Brian Chisanga, Erwin Bulte, Menale Kassie, Clifford Mutero, Freddie Masaninga and Onyango Peter Sangoro

COVID-19 vaccination intentions and subsequent uptake: An analysis of the role of marginalisation in society using British longitudinal data

Silvia Mendolia and Ian Walker

The impact of hearing loss on trajectories of depressive symptoms in married couples

Jessica S. West, Sherri L. Smith and Matthew E. Dupre

Reciprocal relations between financial hardship, sense of societal belonging and mental health for social assistance recipients

Lincy Scholten, János Betkó, Maurice Gesthuizen, Gerdine Fransen-Kuppens, Renée de Vet and Judith Wolf

Barriers, facilitators, and motives to provide distance care, and the consequences for distance caregivers: A mixed-methods systematic review

Eva Bei, Val Morrison, Mikołaj Zarzycki and Noa Vilchinsky

Power and politics in a pandemic: Insights from Finnish health system leaders during COVID-19

Laura Kihlström, Lea Siemes, Moona Huhtakangas, Ilmo Keskimäki and Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen

Multiple forms of discrimination and inflammation in Black Americans: Are there differences by sex?

DeAnnah R. Byrd and Julie Ober Allen

Reciprocal associations between social media use and self-perception of aging among older adults: Do men and women differ?

Kun Wang and Danan Gu

From ‘making up’ professionals to epistemic colonialism: Digital health platforms in the Global South

Dimitra Petrakaki, Petros Chamakiotis and Daniel Curto-Millet

“As a clinician, you have to be passionately involved”: Advocacy and professional responsibility in gender-affirming healthcare

Alyssa Lynne-Joseph

Financial incentives and antibiotic prescribing patterns: Evidence from dispensing physicians in a public healthcare system

Barbara Stacherl, Anna-Theresa Renner and Daniela Weber

Assessing progress towards universal health coverage in Cambodia: Evidence using survey data from 2009 to 2019

Andrea Hannah Kaiser, Okore Okorafor, Björn Ekman, Srean Chhim, Sokunthea Yem and Jesper Sundewall

2023, volume 320, articles C

Air pollution and anti-social behaviour: Evidence from a randomised lab-in-the-field experiment

Paul M. Lohmann, Elisabeth Gsottbauer, Jing You and Andreas Kontoleon

Urban precarity and youth mental health: An interpretive scoping review of emerging approaches

Jessica Pykett, Niyah Campbell, Sarah-Jane Fenton, Elizabeth Gagen, Anna Lavis, Karen Newbigging, Verity Parkin and Jessy Williams

Geographic mobility and its impact on sexual health and ongoing HIV transmission among migrant latinx men who have sex with men

Susan Cassels, Alison Cerezo, Sean C. Reid, David B. Rivera, Colin Loustalot and Dan Meltzer

Gender differences in the association between parity and cognitive function: Evidence from the UK biobank

Yan Zhang, Jason Fletcher, Qiongshi Lu and Jie Song

Estimating the health impact of delayed elective care during the COVID -19 pandemic in the Netherlands

Marije Oosterhoff, Lisanne H.J.A. Kouwenberg, Adriënne H. Rotteveel, Ella D. van Vliet, Niek Stadhouders, G. Ardine de Wit and Anoukh van Giessen

Self-reported psychological symptoms and severe stress events, but not patients' gender, affect illness representation and medical advice by lay-referral network advisors

Ilaria Giovannelli, Stefano Pagliaro, Federica Spaccatini and Maria Giuseppina Pacilli

My future-self has (not) quit smoking: An experimental study into the effect of a future-self intervention on smoking-related self-identity constructs

Kristell M. Penfornis, Winifred A. Gebhardt, Ralph C.A. Rippe, Colette Van Laar, Bas van den Putte and Eline Meijer

Characteristics of victim blaming related to COVID-19 in South Korea

Ji-Bum Chung, Dahye Yeon and Min-Kyu Kim

Towards evidence-based and inclusive models of peer support for long covid: A hermeneutic systematic review

Jordan C.R. Mullard, Jessica Kawalek, Amy Parkin, Clare Rayner, Ghazala Mir, Manoj Sivan and Trisha Greenhalgh

Quantifying the financial impact of overuse in primary care in China: A standardised patient study

Yafei Si, Hazel Bateman, Shu Chen, Katja Hanewald, Bingqin Li, Min Su and Zhongliang Zhou

How socio-institutional contexts and cultural worldviews relate to COVID-19 acceptance rates: A representative study in Italy

Barbara Cordella, Fulvio Signore, Silvia Andreassi, Serena De Dominicis, Alessandro Gennaro, Salvatore Iuso, Terri Mannarini, Skaiste Kerusauskaite, Ankica Kosic, Matteo Reho, Alessia Rochira, Giulia Rocchi and Sergio Salvatore

Political views, health literacy, and COVID-19 beliefs and behaviors: A moderated mediation model

Linda D. Cameron, Sheleigh Lawler, Alexandra Robbins-Hill, Imrinder Toor and Paul M. Brown

Peers’ parental education and cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood: The mediating role of health-related behaviors

Hayun Jang and Jinho Kim

Beyond GDP: Using healthy lifetime income to trace well-being over time with estimates for 193 countries

Junlai Zhang, Klaus Prettner, Simiao Chen and David E. Bloom

The cumulative effect of gun homicide-related loss on neighborhood perceptions among street-identified black women and girls: A mixed-methods study

Brooklynn K. Hitchens

How do scientists model humanness? A qualitative study of human organoids in biomedical research

Amy Hinterberger and Sara Bea

“I can't be the nurse I want to be”: Counter-stories of moral distress in nurses' narratives of pediatric oncology caregiving

Monica L. Molinaro, Jessica Polzer, Debbie Laliberte Rudman and Marie Savundranayagam

The ambiguity of “we”: Perceptions of teaming in dynamic environments and their implications

Michaela Kerrissey, Zhanna Novikov, Maike Tietschert, Russell Phillips and Sara J. Singer

Improving quality of non-communicable disease services at primary care facilities in middle-income countries: A scoping review

Krishna D. Rao, Akriti Mehta, Hunied Kautsar, Mohini Kak, Ghassan Karem, Madhavi Misra, Harsha Joshi, Christopher H. Herbst and Henry B. Perry

The impact of recreational cannabis markets on motor vehicle accident, suicide, and opioid overdose fatalities

Samantha Marinello and Lisa M. Powell

Vulnerability and recovery: Long-term mental and physical health trajectories following climate-related disasters

Ang Li, Mathew Toll, Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ferdi Botha and Rebecca Bentley

The links between COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and non-pharmaceutical interventions

Maurizio Bussolo, Nayantara Sarma and Iván Torre

Designing for two: How enhancing human-centered design with behavioral nudges unlocked breakthroughs to promote young women's psychological safety and access to reproductive care in Tanzania

Jenny X. Liu, Janelli Vallin, Calvin Chiu, F. Abigail Cabrera, Lauren A. Hunter, Aarthi Rao, Prosper Njau and Sandra I. McCoy

Economic costs and cost-effectiveness of conditional cash transfers for the uptake of services for the prevention of vertical HIV transmissions in a resource-limited setting

Steven P. Masiano, Bienvenu Kawende, Noro Lantoniaina Rosa Ravelomanana, Tiffany L. Green, Bassam Dahman, Harsha Thirumurthy, April D. Kimmel and Marcel Yotebieng

“When I was a child, the doctor advised me to have sex more gently”: The perceptions and experiences with the healthcare system as conveyed by adult survivors of child sexual abuse

Noga Tsur, Afnan Attrash Najjar and Carmit Katz

COVID-19 lockdowns and changes in loneliness among young people in the U.K

Claryn S.J. Kung, Johannes Kunz and Michael Shields

Spillover effects of anti-sugar-sweetened beverage messages: From consumption decisions to policy preferences

James Price Dillard, Shannon M. Cruz and Lijiang Shen

Precarious employment and workplace health outcomes in Britain

Getinet Astatike Haile

How urban versus rural residency relates to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A large-scale national Chinese study

Jian Wu, Zhanlei Shen, Quanman Li, Clifford Silver Tarimo, Meiyun Wang, Jianqin Gu, Wei Wei, Xinyu Zhang, Yanli Huang, Mingze Ma, Dongyang Xu, Theodora Ojangba and Yudong Miao

Reprint of: Community-level age bias and older adult mortality

Alexander J. Kellogg, David W. Hancock, Grace Y. Cho and Allecia E. Reid

Intimate partner violence and barriers to prenatal care

Alexander Testa, Jacqueline Lee, Daniel C. Semenza, Dylan B. Jackson, Kyle T. Ganson and Jason M. Nagata

Longitudinal associations between parental migration and children's psychological well-being in Southeast Asia: The roles of caregivers' mental health and caregiving quality

Yao Fu, Lucy P. Jordan, Xiaochen Zhou, Cheng Chow and Lue Fang

Determinants and transition of anaemia among under-five children from different social groups in India from 2005–06 to 2015-16

Pritam Ghosh

Identity affirmation is associated with adaptive cardiovascular flexibility in response to stress among sexual and gender minority people of color

Monica A. Ghabrial and Judith P. Andersen

Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began

Changle Li, M. Mahmud Khan and Zhuo Chen

Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?

Daniel M. Hausman

Anti-Black attitudes predict decreased concern about COVID-19 among Whites in the U.S. and Brazil

Chad A. Miller, Clara L. Wilkins, Clara de Paula Couto, Jéssica Farias and Jaclyn A. Lisnek

Associations between depression and diabetes among Latinx patients from low-income households in New Mexico

Erik Erhardt, Cristina Murray-Krezan, Lidia Regino, Daniel Perez, Elaine L. Bearer and Janet Page-Reeves

“Letting die” by design: Asylum seekers’ lived experience of postcolonial necropolitics

Brenda K. Wilson, Alexis Burnstan, Cristina Calderon, And, and Thomas J. Csordas

Self-esteem influences the willingness to engage in COVID-19 prevention behavior and persuasion efficacy

Anika Stuppy and Robert W. Smith

Health systems resilience: is it time to revisit resilience after COVID-19?

Marco Antonio Catussi Paschoalotto, Eduardo Alves Lazzari, Rudi Rocha, Adriano Massuda and Marcia C. Castro

Preferences for investment in and allocation of additional healthcare capacity

Merel A.J. van Hulsen, Kirsten I.M. Rohde and Job van Exel

Explaining socioeconomic disparities in electoral participation: The role of health in the SES-voting relationship

Micah H. Nelson

Disentangling the complexities of modelling when high social capital contributes to indicating good health

Carlota Quintal, Luis Ramos and Pedro Torres

Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes

Taehyun Kim and Julia R. Steinberg

Getting COVID-19: Anticipated negative emotions are worse than experienced negative emotions

Amanda J. Dillard and Brian P. Meier

Alignment of state-level policies and public attitudes towards abortion legality and government restrictions on abortion in the United States

Arielle A.J. Scoglio and Sameera S. Nayak

Wrangling for health: Moving beyond ‘tinkering’ to struggling against the odds

Supuni Liyanagunawardena

Conceptualisation, experiences and suggestions for improvement of food security amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and carers in remote Australian communities

Sue Booth, Caroline Deen, Kani Thompson, Sue Kleve, Ellie Chan, Leisa McCarthy, Emma Kraft, Bronwyn Fredericks, Julie Brimblecombe and Megan Ferguson

Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review

Tasha R. Wyatt, Ting Lan Ma and Rachel H. Ellaway

A comprehensive examination of discrimination and the impact on health in young adults

Sadie O. Ridgeway and Justin T. Denney

Undertaking risk and relational work to manage vulnerability: Acute medical patients’ involvement in patient safety in the NHS

E. Sutton, G. Martin, H. Eborall and C. Tarrant

Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis

Florian Arendt and Manina Mestas

Trans broken arm syndrome: A mixed-methods exploration of gender-related medical misattribution and invasive questioning

Catherine S.J. Wall, Alison J. Patev and Eric G. Benotsch

Subjective social status and allostatic load among older people in England: A longitudinal analysis

Lindsay Richards, Asri Maharani and Patrick Präg

Lone parents' employment policy and adolescents’ socioemotional development: Quasi-experimental evidence from a UK reform

Liming Li and Mauricio Avendano

Structural racism and homophobia evaluated through social media sentiment combined with activity spaces and associations with mental health among young sexual minority men

Dustin T. Duncan, Stephanie H. Cook, Erica P. Wood, Seann D. Regan, Basile Chaix, Yijun Tian and Rumi Chunara

From ‘parallel world’ to ‘trading zone’: How diabetes-related information from social media is (not) discussed in clinical consultations

Emilie Mølholm Kjærulff and Henriette Langstrup

The salience of gender in the illness experiences and care preferences of people with Parkinson's disease

Irene Göttgens, Linda Modderkolk, Corine Jansen, Sirwan K.L. Darweesh, Bastiaan R. Bloem and Sabine Oertelt-Prigione

Between health care and social services: Boundary objects and cross-sector collaboration

Mark D. Fleming, Nadia Safaeinili, Margae Knox, Elizabeth Hernandez and Amanda L. Brewster

Gender-specific effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on scientific publishing productivity: Impact and resilience

M. Ryan, J. Tuke, M.R. Hutchinson and S.J. Spencer

Defining despair: Assessing the multidimensionality of despair and its association with suicidality and substance use in early to middle adulthood

Iliya Gutin, William Copeland, Jennifer Godwin, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Lilly Shanahan and Lauren Gaydosh