Social Science & Medicine

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2023, volume 319, articles C

Untimely care: How the modern logics of coverage and medicine compromise children's health and development

Maria LaRusso, Daniel F. Gallego-Pérez and César E. Abadía-Barrero

Digital health for all: The turn to digitized healthcare in India

Marine Al Dahdah and Rajiv K. Mishra

Health insurance for the good European citizen? Migrant sex workers’ quests for health insurance and the moral economy of health care

Ursula Probst

Health by the people, again? The lost lessons of Alma-Ata in a community health worker programme in Zambia

James Wintrup

A new universalism? Universal health coverage and debates about rights, solidarity and inequality in Kenya

Jacinta Victoria S. Muinde and Ruth Jane Prince

Digital diagnostics from Tanzania: Beyond mere technological fixing?

Tom Neumark

Disrupting healthcare? Entrepreneurship as an “innovative” financing mechanism in India's primary care sector

Sandra Bärnreuther

Universal healthcare for all? Māori health inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1975–2000

Hayley Brown and Linda Bryder

The local roots of ‘health for all’: Primary health care in practices, 1950s–2000s

Claire Beaudevin, Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Christoph Gradmann

The moral economy of universal public healthcare. On healthcare activism in austerity Spain

Janina Kehr

Mental health coverage for forced migrants: Managing failure as everyday governance in the public and NGO sectors in England

Philipa Mladovsky

Whose public, whose goods? Generations of patients and visions of fairness in Ghanaian health

David Bannister

The political economy of ‘strengthening health services’: The view from WHO AFRO, 1951-c.1985

Martin Gorsky and John Manton

Patronage, partnership, voluntarism: Community-based health insurance and the improvisation of universal health coverage in Senegal

Anna Wood

Health for all? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare

Janina Kehr, Jacinta Victoria Syombua Muinde and Ruth J. Prince

2023, volume 318, articles C

Data flows during public health emergencies in LMICs: A people-centered mapping of data flows during the 2018 ebola epidemic in Equateur, DRC

Sharon Abramowitz, Lys Alcayna Stevens, Gabriel Kyomba, Serge Mayaka and Karen A. Grépin

Nothing about us without us: Community-based participatory research to improve HIV care for mobile patients in Kenya and Uganda

Irene Maeri, Patrick Eyul, Monica Getahun, Khalela Hatchett, Lawrence Owino, Cecilia Akatukwasa, Harriet Itiakorit, Sarah A. Gutin, Jason Johnson-Peretz, Sarah Ssali, Craig R. Cohen, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Moses R. Kamya, Edwin D. Charlebois and Carol S. Camlin

Birth order and health disparities throughout the life course

Evelina Björkegren and Helena Svaleryd

Net worth poverty and adult health

Christina Gibson-Davis, Courtney E. Boen, Lisa A. Keister and Warren Lowell

A locational analytics approach to COVID-19 discrimination and inequality against minorities across the United States

Qingmin Meng

The associations of everyday and major discrimination exposure with violence and poor mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic

Anita Raj, Sangeeta Chatterji, Nicole E. Johns, Jennifer Yore, Arnab K. Dey and David R. Williams

The right to the unhealthy deprived city: An exploration into the impacts of state-led redevelopment projects on the determinants of mental health

Ella O'Neill, Helen V.S. Cole, Melissa García-Lamarca, Isabelle Anguelovski, Pedro Gullón and Margarita Triguero-Mas

Assessing risk factors and health impacts across different forms of exchange sex among young women in informal settlements in South Africa: A cross-sectional study

Kirsten Stoebenau, Kristin Dunkle, Samantha Willan, Nwabisa Shai and Andrew Gibbs

Shifts in patterns of help-seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Hong Kong's younger generation

Alvin Junus, Ching Kwan, Clifford Wong, Zhansheng Chen and Paul Siu Fai Yip

Longitudinal pathways from adolescent depressive symptoms to cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood

Hansol Park, Taehoon Kim and Jinho Kim

2023, volume 317, articles C

Community-level age bias and older adult mortality

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

Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India

Isabelle Feldhaus, Susmita Chatterjee, Emma Clarke-Deelder, Logan Brenzel, Stephen Resch and Thomas J. Bossert

Decreasing patterns of depression in living alone across middle-aged and older men and women using a longitudinal mixed-effects model

Jiwon Baek, Go-Un Kim, Kijun Song and Heejung Kim

Geographic information science and the United States opioid overdose crisis: A scoping review of methods, scales, and application areas

Jeffery Sauer and Kathleen Stewart

Modification of temperature-related human mortality by area-level socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in Latin American cities

Maryia Bakhtsiyarava, Leah H. Schinasi, Brisa N. Sánchez, Iryna Dronova, Josiah L. Kephart, Yang Ju, Nelson Gouveia, Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Marie S. O'Neill, Goro Yamada, Sarav Arunachalam, Ana V. Diez-Roux and Daniel A. Rodríguez

Diarrheal disease, sanitation, and culture in India

Aatishya Mohanty and Akshar Saxena

Three-in-1,000 and dynamic norms: A mixed-method investigation of novel appeals for influencing organ donor registration

Jason T. Siegel, Maria D. McManus, Danielle R. Blazek and Alexander Marshburn

Assessing the factors that influence the donation of a deceased family member's organs in an opt-out system for organ donation

Lee Shepherd, Ronan E. O'Carroll and Eamonn Ferguson

The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States

Paul R. Duberstein, Michael Hoerger, Sally A. Norton, Supriya Mohile, Britt Dahlberg, Erica Goldblatt Hyatt, Ronald M. Epstein and Marsha N. Wittink

Impact of long-term care insurance on medical costs and utilization by patients with Parkinson's disease

Seung Hoon Kim, Eun-Cheol Park and Suk-Yong Jang

Of informal practitioners of biomedicine. The interplay of medicine, economy and society in India

V. Sujatha

Defensive versus evidence-based medical technology: Liability risk and electronic fetal monitoring in low-risk births

Louise Marie Roth

Gender inequality, women's empowerment, and adolescent birth rates in 363 Latin American cities

Ariela Braverman-Bronstein, Ana F. Ortigoza, Dèsirée Vidaña-Pérez, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez, Laura Baldovino-Chiquillo, Usama Bilal, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Francisco Diez-Canseco, Julie Maslowsky, Alejandra Vives V. and Ana V. Diez Roux

Barriers and facilitators of antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence habit formation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a qualitative study in Kampala, Uganda

Chad Stecher, Alina I. Palimaru, Mary Odiit, Lillian Lunkuse, Stewart Walukaga and Sebastian Linnemayr

Living alone and all-cause mortality in community-dwelling older adults: The moderating role of perceived neighborhood cohesion

Yanping Jiang, Mengting Li and Tammy Chung

Handwashing adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study based on protection motivation theory

Zofia Szczuka, Maria Siwa, Charles Abraham, Adriana Baban, Sydney Brooks, Sabrina Cipolletta, Ebrima Danso, Stephan U. Dombrowski, Yiqun Gan, Tania Gaspar, Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Konstadina Griva, Michelle Jongenelis, Jan Keller, Nina Knoll, Jinjin Ma, Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah, Karen Morgan, William Peraud, Bruno Quintard, Vishna Shah, Konstantin Schenkel, Urte Scholz, Ralf Schwarzer, Diana Taut, Silvia C.M. Tomaino, Noa Vilchinsky, Hodaya Wolf and Aleksandra Luszczynska

The psychological and financial impacts of an emotional culture of anxiety and its antidote, an emotional culture of companionate love

Olivia Amanda O'Neill, Sigal G. Barsade and Francesco Sguera

Efficacy of theory-based interventions aimed at reducing binge drinking in adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Mathieu Gourlan, Sarah Ricupero, Marion Carayol and Florence Cousson-Gélie

Financial hardship and change in emotional well-being before to during COVID-19 pandemic among middle-aged and older Americans: Moderating effects of internal coping resources

Shinae L. Choi and Yoon G. Lee

Understanding perceptions of neighborhood health and non-communicable disease risk in urban contexts in Ghana

Irenius Konkor, Vincent Kuuire and Elijah Bisung

The role of energy balance related behaviors in socioeconomic inequalities in childhood body mass index: A comparative analysis of Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Sanneke de la Rie, Elizabeth Washbrook, Valentina Perinetti Casoni, Jane Waldfogel, Sarah Jiyoon Kwon, Jascha Dräger, Thorsten Schneider, Melanie Olczyk, Césarine Boinet and Renske Keizer

The importance of wage loss in the financial burden of illness: Longitudinal evidence from India

Aditya Shrinivas, Suhani Jalota, Aprajit Mahajan and Grant Miller

The maternal health of American Indian and Alaska Native people: A scoping review

Ailish Burns, Teresa DeAtley and Susan E. Short

Anxiety in the face of the first wave of the spread of COVID-19 in Israel: Psychosocial determinants of a “Panic-to-complacency-continuum”

Golan Shahar, Limor Ahronson-Daniel, David Greenberg, Hadar Shalev, Avichai Tendler, Itamar Grotto, Patrick Malone and Nadav Davidovitch

Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities

Songyun Shi, Yu-Chih Chen and Paul S.F. Yip

Prediction of bullying at work: A data-driven analysis of the Finnish public sector cohort study

Jenni Ervasti, Jaana Pentti, Piia Seppälä, Annina Ropponen, Marianna Virtanen, Marko Elovainio, Tarani Chandola, Mika Kivimäki and Jaakko Airaksinen

Futile or fertile? The effect of persuasive strategies on citizen engagement in COVID-19 vaccine-related tweets across six national health departments

Di Wang, Jiahui Lu and Ying Zhong

Open access publishing – noble intention, flawed reality

John Frank, Rosemary Foster and Claudia Pagliari

The protective role of parental vigilance in the link between risky childhood environments and health

Kelsey L. Corallo, Christopher P. Carr, Justin A. Lavner, Kalsea J. Koss and Katherine B. Ehrlich

Economic risk framing increases intention to vaccinate among Republican COVID-19 vaccine refusers

Wei Zhong and David A. Broniatowski

Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study

Dries De Witte, Margaux Delporte, Geert Molenberghs, Geert Verbeke, Stefaan Demarest and Vera Hoorens

Young people's media use and adherence to preventive measures in the “infodemic”: Is it masked by political ideology?

Sibylle Juvalta, Camilla Speranza, Dominik Robin, Yassmeen El Maohub, Julia Krasselt, Philipp Dreesen, Julia Dratva and L. Suzanne Suggs

“Letting go” - Relinquishing control of illness outcomes to God and quality of life: Meaning/peace as a mediating mechanism in religious coping with cancer

Thomas V. Merluzzi, Natalia Salamanca-Balen, Errol J. Philip and John M. Salsman

Impact of a link worker social prescribing intervention on non-elective admitted patient care costs: A quasi-experimental study

John Wildman and Josephine M. Wildman

COVID-related social determinants of substance use disorder among diverse U.S. racial ethnic groups

Xiangyu Tao, Tingting Liu, Celia B. Fisher, Salvatore Giorgi and Brenda Curtis

Reconfiguring the social organization of work in the intensive care unit: Changed relationships and new roles during COVID-19

Jason Rodriquez

Theorising mother-baby-assemblages: The vital emergence of maternal health

Eva Neely

The efficacy of health experts’ communication in inducing support for COVID-19 measures and effect on trustworthiness: A survey in Hong Kong

Vera W.H. Yuen

Are profiles of social, cultural, and economic capital related to living well with dementia? Longitudinal findings from the IDEAL programme

Serena Sabatini, Anthony Martyr, Laura D. Gamble, Ian R. Jones, Rachel Collins, Fiona E. Matthews, Martin Knapp, Jeanette M. Thom, Catherine Henderson, Christina Victor, Claire Pentecost and Linda Clare

Obstetric experiences of young black mothers: An intersectional perspective

Nefertiti OjiNjideka Hemphill, Natasha Crooks, Wenqiong Zhang, Fareeha Fitter, Katherine Erbe, Julienne N. Rutherford, Kylea L. Liese, Pamela Pearson, Karie Stewart, Nicollette Kessee, Luecendia Reed, Lisa Tussing-Humphreys and Mary Dawn Koenig

Long-term health effects of childhood parental income

Nicardo McInnis

Entanglements and imagined futures: The subject(s) of precision in oncology

Jacinthe Flore, Renata Kokanović, Alex Broom, Sarah Heynemann, Julia Lai-Kwon and Michael Jefford

Risk perception, adaptation, and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Alaska Natives

Taylor P. van Doren, Deborah Zajdman, Ryan A. Brown, Priya Gandhi, Ron Heintz, Lisa Busch, Callie Simmons and Raymond Paddock

“We're IMGs, and we're often seen as human garbage outside of primary care”: A qualitative investigation of dynamic status hierarchy construction online by medical trainees

Grace Franklyn

Intergroup relationships with people who use drugs: A personal network approach

Ashley F. Railey, Adam R. Roth, Anne C. Krendl and Brea L. Perry

Patients' work and fluid trajectories: Access to medicines for oncological and rare diseases in Russia

Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva and Klasien Horstman

HIV stigma beliefs and unprotected sex among teenagers and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa: The moderating role of mass media exposure

David A. Cort, Kathryn Reynolds and Debadatta Chakraborty

The great decline in adolescent risk behaviours: Unitary trend, separate trends, or cascade?

Jude Ball, Richard Grucza, Michael Livingston, Tom ter Bogt, Candace Currie and Margaretha de Looze

I feel the pains of our past water struggles anytime I turn on the tap: Diaspora perceptions and experiences of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) gendered violence in Ghana

Abraham Marshall Nunbogu, Susan J. Elliott and Elijah Bisung

Investigating the impact of structural racism on black birthing people - associations between racialized economic segregation, incarceration inequality, and severe maternal morbidity

Noelene K. Jeffers, Blair O. Berger, Christina X. Marea and Alison Gemmill

How social policies shape the health and well-being of sexual- and gender-minority youth: Pathways of influence, social side effects and implications for life course trajectories

Morgan M. Philbin, Heather M. Wurtz, Tara McCrimmon, Erin Kelly, Patricia Homan and Adrian Guta

Everything has a limit: How intellectual humility lowers the preference for naturalness as reflected in drug choice

Yu Cao and Heng Li

Educational gradient in social network changes at disease diagnosis

Won-tak Joo

Treatment success or failure in children and adolescents born with HIV in rural Senegal: An anthropological perspective

Bernard Taverne, Gabrièle Laborde-Balen, Khoudia Sow, Ndeye Bineta Ndiaye and Karim Diop

Social implications of Covid-19: Its impact on general trust, political trust, and trust in physicians in China

Ning Liu, Guoxian Bao and Shaolong Wu

Understanding the effects of informal caregiving on health and well-being: Heterogeneity and mechanisms

Dung Le and Yoko Ibuka

Small talk is a big deal: A discursive analysis of online off-topic doctor-patient interaction in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Shuang Wei and Yansheng Mao

From delta to omicron: The role of individual factors and social context in self-reported compliance with pandemic regulations and recommendations

Philipp Sprengholz, Robert Bruckmann, Marc Wiedermann, Dirk Brockmann and Cornelia Betsch

The ends of an assemblage of health

Cameron Duff