Social Science & Medicine

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2023, volume 316, articles C

Exposure to anti-Black Lives Matter movement and obesity of the Black population

Hyun Joon Park, Sara Chari Francisco, M. Rosemary Pang, Lulu Peng and Guangqing Chi

Forms and frequency of vicarious racial discrimination and African American parents’ health

Kathleen Holloway and Fatima Varner

Longitudinal associations between racial discrimination and hippocampal and white matter hyperintensity volumes among older Black adults

Laura B. Zahodne, Neika Sharifian, A. Zarina Kraal, Emily P. Morris, Ketlyne Sol, Afsara B. Zaheed, Lindsey Meister, Richard Mayeux, Nicole Schupf, Jennifer J. Manly and Adam M. Brickman

“Now I just need something sweet”: Racism, emotional eating, and health among African Americans

Lori S. Hoggard, Vanessa V. Volpe, Vanessa L. Hatton, Steven J. Jones, Aleksandr A. Tikhonov and Sarah E. Davis

Moderators of the effects of perceived racism and discrimination on cancer-related health behaviors among two samples of African Americans

Mark Manning, Todd Lucas, Kristen Purrington, Hayley Thompson, Terrance L. Albrecht and Louis Penner

The influence of racial-ethnic discrimination on women's health care outcomes: A mixed methods systematic review

Temitope Akinade, Anna Kheyfets, Naissa Piverger, Tracy M. Layne, Elizabeth A. Howell and Teresa Janevic

Vicarious experiences of major discrimination, anxiety symptoms, and mental health care utilization among Black Adults

Myles D. Moody, Wesley R. Browning, Monir Hossain and Olivio J. Clay

Resilience resources may buffer some middle-aged and older Black Americans from memory decline despite experiencing discrimination

Ian M. McDonough, DeAnnah R. Byrd and Shinae L. Choi

Writing about justice and injustice: Complex effects on affect, performance, threat, and biological responses to acute social stress among african American women and men

Todd Lucas, Jolin B. Yamin, Shoshana Krohner, Stefan M.M. Goetz, Catalina Kopetz and Mark A. Lumley

A longitudinal pathway from ethnic-racial discrimination to sexual risk behaviors among Black women and Latinas: Ethnic-racial identity exploration as a protective factor

Kerstin Pahl, Sharifa Z. Williams, Ariadna Capasso, Crystal Fuller Lewis and Helen Maria Lekas

Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism

Amanda D. Perez, Suzanne M. Dufault, Erica C. Spears, David H. Chae, Cheryl L. Woods-Giscombe and Amani M. Allen

Embracing heterogeneity: Implications for research on stigma, discrimination, and African Americans’ health

Allecia E. Reid and Valerie A. Earnshaw

Negative consequences of self-presentation on disclosure of health information: A catch-22 for Black patients?

Kengthsagn Louis, Alia J. Crum and Hazel R. Markus

Attribution for everyday discrimination typologies and mortality risk among older black adults: Evidence from the health and retirement study

Ryon J. Cobb, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Tyson H. Brown, Patricia Louie, Heather R. Farmer, Connor M. Sheehan, Dawne M. Mouzon and Roland J. Thorpe

The contribution of research to racial health equity? Blame and responsibility in navigating the status quo of anti-black systemic racism

Harold W. Neighbors, Delvon T. Mattingly, Janay Johnson and Kayla Morse

Racial centrality mediates the association between adolescent racial discrimination and adult cigarette smoking outcomes among Black Americans

Angela M. Haeny, Frederick X. Gibbons, Mary E. Fleischli, Meg Gerrard, Joel Lopez and Steven R.H. Beach

Racism measurement and influences, variations on scientific racism, and a vision

Enrique W. Neblett

Discrimination, resilience, and HIV testing frequency among black women seeking services from STD clinics

Jamila K. Stockman, Marguerite B. Lucea, Andrea N. Cimino, Brittany A. Wood, Kiyomi Tsuyuki, Douglas A. Granger and Jacquelyn C. Campbell

Complex effects of racism and discrimination on African Americans' health and well-being: Navigating the status quo

Mark Manning, DeAnnah Byrd, Todd Lucas and Laura B. Zahodne

Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women

Izraelle I. McKinnon, Dayna A. Johnson, Raphiel J. Murden, Christy L. Erving, Rachel Parker, Miriam E. Van Dyke, Viola Vaccarino, Bianca Booker, Renee H. Moore and Tené T. Lewis

2022, volume 315, articles C

Quantifying public preferences for healthcare priorities in Taiwan through an integrated citizens jury and discrete choice experiment

Rebecca Schoon, Chunhuei Chi and Tsai-Ching Liu

Moving to greener pastures: Health selection into neighborhood green space among a highly mobile and diverse population in California

Samantha Gailey

An umbrella review of intersectoral and multisectoral approaches to health policy

Michelle Amri, Ali Chatur and Patricia O'Campo

Do they just know more, or do they also have different preferences? An exploratory analysis of the effects of self-reporting serious health problems on health state valuation

Jack Elliott and Aki Tsuchiya

As long as it circulates, we've got to keep fighting: COVID-19 and the motivation to get vaccinated

Guy Moshe Ross

Maternal height and child health and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa: Decomposition and heterogeneity

Omar Karlsson and Martin Dribe

Promoting blood donation through social media: Evidence from Brazil, India and the USA

Stephen Harrell, Andrew Simons and Peter Clasen

Introducing the C-reactive protein point-of-care test: A conversation analytic study of primary care consultations for respiratory tract infection

Anna K.B. Lindström and Thomas Tängdén

When the influencer says jump! How influencer signaling affects engagement with COVID-19 misinformation

Ben Wasike

Pay (for it) as you go: Prepaid energy meters and the heat-or-eat dilemma

Andrew Burlinson, Apostolos Davillas and Cherry Law

Common model of stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in pregnant women from seven high-income Western countries at the COVID-19 pandemic onset

Marci Lobel, Heidi Preis, Brittain Mahaffey, Nora K. Schaal, Karen Yirmiya, Shir Atzil, Inbal Reuveni, Matteo Balestrieri, Chiara Penengo, Chiara Colli, Marco Garzitto, Lorenza Driul, Michalina Ilska, Anna Brandt-Salmeri, Anna Kołodziej-Zaleska, Rafael A. Caparros-Gonzalez, Rita Amiel Castro, Pearl La Marca-Ghaemmaghami and Hannah Meyerhoff

Disability-related inequalities in health and well-being are mediated by barriers to participation faced by people with disability. A causal mediation analysis

Zoe Aitken, Glenda M Bishop, George Disney, Eric Emerson and Anne M Kavanagh

Nationwide equity assessment of the 20-min neighbourhood in the scottish context: A socio-spatial proximity analysis of residential locations

Jonathan R. Olsen, Lukar Thornton, Grant Tregonning and Richard Mitchell

‘Don't cross the line, you're a researcher and not an educator’: Incorporating indigenous researchers' moral perspectives to improve ethical protocols in health research

Sharon Watson

Agency through medicalization: Ghanaian children navigating illness, medicine and adult resistance

Colette Santah and Christian Bröer

Reconceptualizing successful pandemic preparedness and response: A feminist perspective

Julia Smith, Sara E. Davies, Karen A. Grépin, Sophie Harman, Asha Herten-Crabb, Alice Murage, Rosemary Morgan and Clare Wenham

The uneven consequences of rapid organizational change: COVID-19 and healthcare workers

Stef M. Shuster and Noah Lubben

Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies

Inuk Hwang and Tae-Jin Lee

Social network analysis to study health behaviours in adolescents: A systematic review of methods

Magali Collonnaz, Teodora Riglea, Jodi Kalubi, Jennifer O'Loughlin, Alexandre Naud, Yan Kestens, Nelly Agrinier and Laetitia Minary

Workplace gender harassment, illegitimate tasks, and poor mental health: Hypothesized associations in a Swedish cohort

Aziz Mensah, Susanna Toivanen, Martin Diewald, Mahmood Ul Hassan and Anna Nyberg

Responsive social support serves important functions in clinical communication: Translating perspectives from relationship science to improve cancer clinical interactions

Laura A. Dwyer, Ronald M. Epstein, Brooke C. Feeney, Irene V. Blair, Niall Bolger and Rebecca A. Ferrer

Increased belief in vaccination conspiracy theories predicts increases in vaccination hesitancy and powerlessness: Results from a longitudinal study

Priscila Coelho, Katrina Foster, Meriam Nedri and Mathew D. Marques

Cascading disasters and mental health inequities: Winter Storm Uri, COVID-19 and post-traumatic stress in Texas

Sara E. Grineski, Timothy W. Collins and Jayajit Chakraborty

The differential impacts of social deprivation and social fragmentation on suicides: A lesson from Hong Kong

Cheuk Yui Yeung, Yu Vera Men, Eric D. Caine and Paul Siu Fai Yip

Adverse birth outcomes in New York City women: Revisiting the Hispanic Paradox

Luisa N. Borrell, Francisco Bolúmar, Elena Rodriguez-Alvarez and Christina I. Nieves

Grandparenting and subjective well-being in China: The moderating effects of residential location, gender, age, and income

Shuhong Wang, Li, Shengxiao (Alex) and Wanyang Hu

Group memberships and post-traumatic growth: How we connect determines how we recover

Natalie Craig, Catherine Haslam, Jolanda Jetten and Tegan Cruwys

Can healthcare choice be predicted using stated preference data? The role of model complexity in a discrete choice experiment about colorectal cancer screening

Samare P.I. Huls and Esther W. de Bekker-Grob

Intergenerational continuity of parent-child separation among mother-offspring dyads: Implication for child cognitive development in rural China

Xu-dong Zhao, An-hui Zhang, Qi Li, Yu-hui Wan, Fang-biao Tao and Ying Sun

Effects of New York state paid family leave on early immunizations

Pinka Chatterji, Trang Nguyen, Butho Ncube and Barbara A. Dennison

A cross-national comparison of the linkages between family structure histories and early adolescent substance use

Haley Stritzel, Michael Green and Robert Crosnoe

Health and meaning through “doings”: A qualitative study with young unaccompanied refugees in Norway

Gjertrud Moe and Borgunn Ytterhus

Body image self-conscious emotions get worse throughout adolescence and relate to physical activity behavior in girls and boys

Catherine M. Sabiston, Isabelle Doré, Kristen M. Lucibello, Eva Pila, Jennifer Brunet, Véronique Thibault and Mathieu Bélanger

“They're forcing people to have children that they can't afford”: a qualitative study of social support and capital among individuals receiving an abortion in Georgia

Madison S. Dickey, Elizabeth A. Mosley, Elizabeth A. Clark, Sarah Cordes, Eva Lathrop and Lisa B. Haddad

Discuss and remember: Clinician strategies for integrating social determinants of health in patient records and care

Mira D. Vale and Denise White Perkins

The capability imperative: Theorizing ableism in medical education

Neera R. Jain

Antibiotic assemblages and their implications for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance

Mark DM Davis, Davina Lohm, Paul Flowers and Andrea Whittaker

Vulnerability and resilience to the harmful health consequences of weight discrimination in Black, Latina, and sexual minority women

Mary A. Gerend, Cylena Stewart and Karen Wetzel

Providing culturally competent and universal health care in the Peruvian Amazon: The role of medical authority

Irene Del Mastro N.

Toward a ‘green allopathy’? Naturopathic paradigm and practice in Ontario, Canada

Nadine Ijaz, Sandy Welsh and Heather Boon