Social Science & Medicine

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2022, volume 314, articles C

Adverse Childhood Experiences, health insurance status, and health care utilization in middle adulthood

Alexander Testa, Dylan B. Jackson, Michael G. Vaughn, Kyle T. Ganson and Jason M. Nagata

Beyond co-production: The construction of drug checking knowledge in a Canadian supervised injection facility

Alex Betsos, Jenna Valleriani, Jade Boyd and Ryan McNeil

The impact of the minimum wage on suicide rates in Hong Kong

Abigail A. Rath, Eric HY. Lau and C Mary Schooling

Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation

Xiaoli Nan, Yuan Wang and Kathryn Thier

Cueing quality: Unpacking country-of-origin effects on intentions to vaccinate against COVID-19 in Taiwan

Chun-Fang Chiang, Jason Kuo and Jin-Tan Liu

Does health information affect lifestyle behaviours? The impact of a diabetes diagnosis

Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio and Eugenio Zucchelli

Race/ethnicity, immigrant generation, and physiological dysregulation among U.S. adults entering midlife

Fatima Touma and Robert A. Hummer

Integrating poverty alleviation and environmental protection efforts: A socio-ecological perspective on menstrual health management

Federica Angeli, Anand Jaiswal and Saumya Shrivastava

Benefits and harms adopted by health economic assessments evaluating antenatal and newborn screening programmes in OECD countries: A systematic review of 336 articles and reports

May Ee Png, Miaoqing Yang, Sian Taylor-Phillips, Svetlana Ratushnyak, Nia Roberts, Ashley White, Lisa Hinton, Felicity Boardman, Abigail McNiven, Jane Fisher, Baskaran Thilaganathan, Sam Oddie, Anne-Marie Slowther, Jenny Shilton Osborne, Stavros Petrou and Oliver Rivero-Arias

How do housing asset and income relate to mortality? A population-based cohort study of 881220 older adults in Canada

Gum-Ryeong Park, Michel Grignon, Marisa Young and James R. Dunn

Stepping into the shoes of the policy maker: Results of a Participatory Value Evaluation for the Dutch long term COVID-19 strategy

Niek Mouter, Karen Trujillo Jara, Jose Ignacio Hernandez, Maarten Kroesen, Martijn de Vries, Tom Geijsen, Floor Kroese, Ellen Uiters and Marijn de Bruin

Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence

Stephanie Moulton, Alec Rhodes, Donald Haurin and Cäzilia Loibl

Prosocial behavior in emergencies: Evidence from blood donors recruitment and retention during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli, Roberto Di Paolo, Dario Menicagli, Veronica Pizziol, Emiliano Ricciardi and Francesco Serti

The association between pregnancy intention, fertility treatment use, and postpartum depression

Gabriela A. Barber and Julia R. Steinberg

Mistrust in public health institutions is a stronger predictor of vaccine hesitancy and uptake than Trust in Trump

Yongjin Choi and Ashley M. Fox

The effect of COVID-19 confinement and economic support measures on the mental health of older population in Europe and Israel

Gordey Yastrebov and Dina Maskileyson

Using core values and social influence to increase mask-wearing in non-compliant college students

Melissa G. Hunt, Daniel Chiarodit, Tiffany Tieu and Julie Baum

Intersectional inequalities in loneliness among older adults before and during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A total population survey in the Swedish eldercare setting

Per E. Gustafsson, Osvaldo Fonseca-Rodríguez, Ingeborg Nilsson and Miguel San Sebastián

A life course approach to understanding stress exposures and cognitive function among middle-aged and older adults

Ruijia Chen, David R. Williams, Kristen Nishimi, Natalie Slopen, Laura D. Kubzansky and Jennifer Weuve

Family environment characteristics and sleep duration in children: Maternal mental health as a mediator

Ling-Yin Chang and Tung-liang Chiang

How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review

Jacinta Francis, Natalie Strobel, Gina Trapp, Natasha Pearce, Sharmila Vaz, Hayley Christian, Kevin Runions, Karen Martin and Donna Cross

The Ubuntu Approach in Project SOAR (Speaking Our African American Realities): Building a robust community-academic partnership and culturally curated focus groups

Tammie Denyse, Kimberly J. Martin and Annette L. Stanton

“If I Am Ready”: Exploring the relationships between masculinities, pregnancy, and abortion among men in James Town, Ghana

Joe Strong, Nii Lartey Samuel Lamptey, Nii Kwartelai Quartey and Nii Kwartei Richard Owoo

Assessing the World Health Organization: What does the academic debate reveal and is it democratic?

Fabian Moser and Jesse B. Bump

Inequalities of spatial primary healthcare accessibility in China

Peng Jia, Youfa Wang, Min Yang, Limin Wang, Xuchao Yang, Xinyu Shi, Lijian Yang, Jin Wen, Yi Liu, Maokang Yang, Junguo Xin, Fengying Zhang, Lihua Jiang, Chunhua Chi, Luxia Zhang, Xudong Ma, Xiao Ma, Li Zhao and Weimin Li

When do democratic transitions reduce or increase child mortality? Exploring the role of non-violent resistance

Aaron Reeves and Laura Sochas

Work-family trajectories in young adulthood: Associations with mental health problems in adolescence

Vendula Machů, Karin Veldman, Iris Arends and Ute Bültmann

Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

Amy Clair and Emma Baker

Residential addiction treatment providers: Identifying the role of social context in worker health and turnover

Elisabeth A. Stelson, Lauren L. Sabbath-Clayton, Glorian Sorensen, Laura D. Kubzansky, Lisa F. Berkman and Erika L. Sabbath

Brief opportunistic interventions by general practitioners to promote smoking cessation: A conversation analytic study

H. Wheat, R.K. Barnes, P. Aveyard, F. Stevenson and R. Begh

Theorizing on neo public assistance: How do race and class impact resource uptake and behavior following disaster?

Jerel M. Ezell, Brooke Olson, Arnab Ghosh and Elizabeth C. Chase

The social value of genomic sequencing for disadvantaged families facing rare disease

Sm Outram, Jeh Brown and Sl Ackerman

Antibiotic prescription for acute upper respiratory tract infections: Understanding patient and physician contributions via patients’ migration

Woohyeon Kim and Euna Han

Incarceration exposure and women's oral health experiences during pregnancy

Alexander Testa and Chantal Fahmy

The impact of lifestyle guidance intervention on health outcomes among Japanese middle-aged population with metabolic syndrome: A regression discontinuity study

Yunfei Li, Akira Babazono, Aziz Jamal, Ning Liu, Takako Fujita, Rui Zhao, Yukari Maeno, Ya Su, Lifan Liang and Lan Yao

Biological embedding vs. embodiment of social experiences: How these two concepts form distinct thought styles around the social production of health inequalities

Séverine Louvel and Alexandra Soulier

A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues

Jisun Kim, Dong Ha Kim, Jihyun Lee, Youngseo Cheon and Seunghyun Yoo

Social care for disabled elderly women in urban China: The roles of the community

Yan Li

Social resource patterns and health outcomes among Canadian LGBTQ2+ adults: A latent class analysis

Fabio Cannas Aghedu, Martin Blais, Mathieu Philibert, Isabel Côté, Mariia Samoilenko and Line Chamberland

Insights into effects of individual, dyadic, and collaborative planning interventions on automatic, conscious, and social process variables

Ewa Kulis, Zofia Szczuka, Anna Banik, Maria Siwa, Monika Boberska, Nina Knoll, Theda Radtke, Urte Scholz, Ryan E. Rhodes and Aleksandra Luszczynska

The effect of executive function on the development of chronic pain: A prospective longitudinal study

Wee Qin Ng and Andree Hartanto

State mask mandates and psychological reactance theory: The role of political partisanship and COVID-19 risk in mask adoption and resistance

Stephen A. Rains, Paulina M. Colombo, Brian L. Quick and Lauren A. Kriss

The role of causal ideas in the governance of commercial determinants of health. A qualitative study of tobacco control in the pacific

Dori Patay, Ashley Schram and Sharon Friel

Epidemics and the Military: Responding to COVID-19 in Uganda

Melissa Parker, Moses Baluku, Bono E. Ozunga, Bob Okello, Peter Kermundu, Grace Akello, Hayley MacGregor, Melissa Leach and Tim Allen

Building care amid navigating liability risks: The possibility of policy-driven care in China's drug-control arena

Chaoxiong Zhang

Worth the trip? The effect of hospital clinic closures for patients undergoing scheduled surgery

Anna Kollerup

Cultural consonance, body image, and disordered eating among young South Korean men

Lawrence T. Monocello and William W. Dressler

Is it just a cure? Re-evaluating the effects of prenatal exposure to the Great Chinese Famine on the risk of infectious diseases in adulthood

Ping He, Yanan Luo, Ruoxi Ding and Xiaoying Zheng

Put your FTSE down: Wealth shocks and road traffic collisions

Zisen Chen and Jonathan James

Can imaginary mobilities be conducive to mental health?

Hyanggi Park

The impact of COVID-19 lockdown stringency on loneliness in five European countries

Juan Carlos Caro, Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Claus Vögele

Online health communities and the patient-doctor relationship: An institutional logics perspective

Roberta Bernardi and Philip F. Wu

The Identity Vitality-Pathology model: A novel theoretical framework proposing “identity state” as a modulator of the pathways from structural to health inequity

Ganga S. Bey

“I was gonna ask you”: How patients use agency framing to display engagement in primary care

Caroline K. Tietbohl and Clara Bergen