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2022, volume 313, articles C

Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the mortality profiles of the foreign-born in France during the first pandemic wave

Myriam Khlat, Walid Ghosn, Michel Guillot and Stéphanie Vandentorren

A natural experiment in social security as public health measure: Experiences of international students as temporary migrant workers during two Covid-19 lockdowns

Faiz Ullah and Nicholas M. Harrigan

Learning from women who trade sex in Kenya about the antiblackness of Global Health

Brianna Simmons and Jennifer L. Syvertsen

Outsourcing and children's social care: A longitudinal analysis of inspection outcomes among English children's homes and local authorities

Anders Malthe Bach-Mortensen, Benjamin Goodair and Jane Barlow

Lived experience with sickle cell disease: Predictors of altruistic participation in clinical research

Marilyn S. Baffoe-Bonnie

Do reasoned action approach variables mediate relationships between demographics and cervical cancer screening intentions or behaviour? An online study of women from the UK

Sarah Wilding, Arianna Prudenzi, Mark Conner and Daryl B. O'Connor

Where do measures of health, social care and wellbeing fit within a wider measurement framework? Implications for the measurement of quality of life and the identification of bolt-ons

Aureliano Paolo Finch and Brendan Mulhern

Shades of health: Skin color, ethnicity, and mental health among Black Americans

Christina Bijou and Cynthia G Colen

Mental health, availability to participate in social change, and social movement accessibility

Allison S. Reed

Are grandchildren good for you? Well-being and health effects of becoming a grandparent

Birgit Leimer and Reyn Van Ewijk

Water journeys: Household water insecurity, health risks, and embodiment in slums and informal settlements

Ellis Adjei Adams, Sydney Byrns, Save Kumwenda, Richard Quilliam, Theresa Mkandawire and Heather Price

Depression predicts equivalized income five years later, but not vice versa: Results from the prospective Gutenberg Health Study

Felix S. Wicke, Peter Schmidt, Julia Petersen, Mareike Ernst, Lina Krakau, Elmar Brähler, Ana N. Tibubos, Danielle Otten, Iris Reiner, Matthias Michal, Andreas Schulz, Thomas Münzel, Philipp S. Wild, Jochem König, Karl J. Lackner, Norbert Pfeiffer and Manfred E. Beutel

Does crime trigger genetic risk for type 2 diabetes in young adults? A G x E interaction study using national data

Fangqi Guo, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Jason D. Boardman and Jennifer W. Robinette

Is austerity a cause of slower improvements in mortality in high-income countries? A panel analysis

Gerry McCartney, Robert McMaster, Frank Popham, Ruth Dundas and David Walsh

The health cost of reducing hospital bed capacity

Jonathan Siverskog and Martin Henriksson

“We need to protect each other”: COVID-19 vaccination intentions and concerns among Racialized minority and Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Terra Manca, Robin M. Humble, Laura Aylsworth, Eunah Cha, Sarah E. Wilson, Samantha B. Meyer, Devon Greyson, Manish Sadarangani, Jeanna Parsons Leigh and Shannon E. MacDonald

Recovery capital in action: How is gender understood and employed by men and women recovering from gambling disorder?

Belle Gavriel-Fried, Noa Vana, Niva Lev-el and Galia Weinberg-Kurnik

Theoretical mediators of GlobalConsent: An adapted web-based sexual violence prevention program for university men in Vietnam

Kathryn M. Yount, Irina Bergenfeld, Katherine M. Anderson, Quach Thu Trang, Jessica M. Sales, Yuk Fai Cheong and Tran Hung Minh

Adolescent perinatal mental health in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review of qualitative and quantitative evidence

Alexis Palfreyman and Ursula Gazeley

Explicitness, disgust, and safe sex behavior: A message experiment with U.S. adults

Sebastiaan Gorissen, Helen M. Lillie, Daniel Chavez-Yenter, Alexis Vega, Kevin K. John and Jakob D. Jensen

The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care

Nathalia Costa, Karime Mescouto, Miriam Dillon, Rebecca Olson, Prudence Butler, Roma Forbes and Jenny Setchell

Professional competition amidst intractable maternal mortality: Midwifery in rural Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Shayzal Siddiqui and Carolyn Smith-Morris

2022, volume 312, articles C

Meal provision in early childhood education and care programs: Association with geographic disadvantage, social disadvantage, cost, and market competition in an Australian population

Karen Thorpe, Azhar Hussain Potia, Bonnie Searle, Olivia Van Halen, Nicole Lakeman, Candice Oakes, Holly Harris and Sally Staton

Eliminating racial disparities in dementia risk by equalizing education quality: A sensitivity analysis

Chelsea Liu, Audrey R. Murchland, Tyler J. VanderWeele and Deborah Blacker

Health behavior homophily can mitigate the spread of infectious diseases in small-world networks

Hendrik Nunner, Vincent Buskens, Alexandra Teslya and Mirjam Kretzschmar

The effect of moral appeals on influenza vaccination uptake and support for a vaccination mandate among health care workers

Laetitia B. Mulder and Mariëtte Lokate

Expectant parents’ emotions evoked by pregnancy: A longitudinal dyadic analysis of couples in the Swedish Pregnancy Panel

Lucy R. Zheng, Elin Naurin, Elias Markstedt, Petrus Olander, Karolina Linden, Verena Sengpiel, Dietlind Stolle and Helen Elden

COVID-19, nutrition, and gender: An evidence-informed approach to gender-responsive policies and programs

Anna Kalbarczyk, Noora-Lisa Aberman, Bregje S.M. van Asperen, Rosemary Morgan, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Bianca Carducci, Rebecca Heidkamp, Saskia Osendarp, Neha Kumar, Anna Lartey, Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing and Cecilia Fabrizio

Cultivating the ideal obstetrical patient: How physicians-in-training describe pain associated with childbirth

Camille Kroll, Julia Murphy, Lindsay Poston, Whitney You and Ashish Premkumar

The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset

Niharika Rustagi and Sonia Akter

Global, regional, and national progress in financial risk protection towards universal health coverage, 2000–2030

Md Mizanur Rahman, Jenny Jung, Md Rashedul Islam, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Ryota Nakamura, Shamima Akter and Motohiro Sato

Aging workforce with reduced work capacity: From organizational challenges to successful accommodations sustaining productivity and well-being

Lilah Rinsky-Halivni, Boaz Hovav, David C. Christiani and Shuli Brammli-Greenberg

Mirror, mirror on the wall, when are inequalities higher, after all? Analysis of breast and cervical cancer screening in 30 European countries

Carlota Quintal and Micaela Antunes

Psychiatric symptoms influence social support in VA Million Veteran Program enrollees screening positive for traumatic brain injury

Victoria C. Merritt, Laura D. Crocker, McKenna S. Sakamoto, Catherine Chanfreau-Coffinier and Lisa Delano-Wood

Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems

Morag Treanor and Patricio Troncoso

Examining the impact of different social class mechanisms on health inequalities: A cross-sectional analysis of an all-age UK household panel study

Elise Whitley, Gerard McCartney, Mel Bartley and Michaela Benzeval

Can case-based payment contain healthcare costs? - A curious case from China

Jing Wu, Xiaoning He and Xing Lin Feng

Antibiotic geographies and access to medicines: Tracing the role of India's pharmaceutical industry in global trade

Lise Bjerke

Discharge readiness as an infrastructure: Negotiating the transfer of care for elderly patients in medical wards

Anna Louise Skovgaard, Marianne Johansson Jørgensen, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen and Mette Terp Høybye

People's care seeking journey for a chronic illness in rural India: Implications for policy and practice

Sumit Kane, Madhura Joshi, Sapna Desai, Ajay Mahal and Barbara McPake

Social normative origins of the taboo gap and implications for adolescent risk for HIV infection in Zambia

Sophia N. Nesamoney, Iván Mejía-Guevara, Beniamino Cislaghi, Ann M. Weber, Michael T. Mbizvo and Gary L. Darmstadt

2022, volume 311, articles C

Why does abortion stigma matter? A scoping review and hybrid analysis of qualitative evidence illustrating the role of stigma in the quality of abortion care

Annik Mahalia Sorhaindo and Antonella Francheska Lavelanet

Validating a geospatial healthfulness index with self-reported chronic disease and health outcomes

Richard C. Sadler, Thomas W. Wojciechowski, Zachary Buchalski, Mieka Smart, Megan Mulheron and David Todem

Understanding responses to different types of conflicting information about cancer prevention

Irina A. Iles, Arielle S. Gillman, Lauren E. O'Connor, Rebecca A. Ferrer and William M.P. Klein

Depression among poor older adults: The role of social support

Alex Yue Feng Zhu and Kee Lee Chou

Saliva testing among teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects on health concerns, well-being, and precautionary behavior

Marlies Van de Casteele, Joachim Waterschoot, Sibyl Anthierens, Ann DeSmet, Benoit Galand, Herman Goossens, Sofie Morbée and Maarten Vansteenkiste

Perceived ethnic discrimination and cognitive function: A 12-year longitudinal study of Mexican-origin adults

Elizabeth Muñoz, Richard W. Robins and Angelina R. Sutin

Patterns in older adults' perceived chronic stressor types and cognitive functioning trajectories: Are perceived chronic stressors always bad?

Kun Wang, Alexander R. Marbut, Zainab Suntai, Dianhan Zheng and Xiayu Chen

Pandemic influenza and gender imbalance: Mortality selection before births

Kota Ogasawara

Associations of parenting daily hassles with parents’ mental health during the COVID-19 school closure

Shifeng Li, Qiongying Xu, Jing Xie, Lei Wang, Huining Li, Li Ma and Ruixue Xia

Family affluence as a protective or risk factor for adolescent drunkenness in different countries and the role drinking motives play

Karen Schelleman-Offermans, Alessio Vieno, Gonneke W.J.M. Stevens and Emmanuel Kuntsche

Essential for society but not equally deserving of preferential treatment? A discrete-choice experiment regarding COVID-19 healthcare

Anna Heusler, Christopher Osiander and Julia Schmidtke

Can a conditional financial incentive (CFI) reduce socio-demographic inequalities in home-based HIV testing uptake? A secondary analysis of the HITS clinical trial intervention in rural South Africa

Maxime Inghels, Hae-Young Kim, Thulile Mathenjwa, Maryam Shahmanesh, Janet Seeley, Sally Wyke, Nuala McGrath, Benn Sartorius, H. Manisha Yapa, Adrian Dobra, Till Bärnighausen and Frank Tanser

The impact of women's off-farm employment on depressive symptoms: Evidence from rural China

Zheng Shen, Xiangming Fang and Xiaodong Zheng

The reluctant and the envious: Therapeutic subalternity and the practice of homeopathy in North America

Nadine Ijaz

‘A medical case history … ’: Huntington’s disease and psychiatry

Kathleen Flanagan

Does price-cap regulation work for increasing access to contraceptives? Aggregate- and pharmacy-level evidence from Colombia

Tatiana Andia, César Mantilla, Álvaro Morales, Santiago Ortiz and Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes

Experiences and perceptions of nutritional health and wellbeing amongst food insecure women in Europe: A qualitative meta-ethnography

Zoë Bell, Steph Scott, Shelina Visram, Judith Rankin, Clare Bambra and Nicola Heslehurst

Investigating the impact on mental wellbeing of an increase in pensions: A longitudinal analysis by area-level deprivation in England, 1998–2002

Viviana Albani, Heather Brown, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Andrew Kingston, Terje Andreas Eikemo and Clare Bambra

Cognitive testing of questions about antenatal care and nutrition interventions in southern Nepal

Andrew L-Thorne-Lyman, Tsering Pema Lama, Rebecca A. Heidkamp, Porcia Manandhar, Seema Subedi, Melinda K. Munos, Emily Bryce, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. LeClerq and Joanne Katz

Explaining the deprivation gap in COVID-19 mortality rates: A decomposition analysis of geographical inequalities in England

Viviana Albani, Claire E. Welsh, Heather Brown, Fiona E. Matthews and Clare Bambra

Neighborhood social context and suicide mortality: A multilevel register-based 5-year follow-up study of 2.7 million individuals

Andreas Lindegaard Jakobsen and Rolf Lyneborg Lund

The role of social resources and trajectories of functional health following stroke

Takeshi Nakagawa, Taiji Noguchi, Ayane Komatsu and Tami Saito

Multidimensional poverty and adolescent mental health: Unpacking the relationship

Yadira Díaz, Philipp Hessel, Mauricio Avendano and Sara Evans-Lacko

Social asset or social liability? How partisanship moderates the relationship between social capital and Covid-19 vaccination rates across United States counties

Zhiwei Zhang, Gao Liu, Bin Chen and Kun Huang

Trust in the publicly financed care system and willingness to pay for long-term care: A discrete choice experiment in Denmark

Anna Amilon, Agnete Aslaug Kjær, Jacob Ladenburg and Anu Siren

The built environment and mental health among older adults in Dalian: The mediating role of perceived environmental attributes

Yafei Yue, Dongfeng Yang, Neville Owen and Delfien Van Dyck

“Who is our real enemy?” internalized racism in the Puerto Rican diaspora and the role of political education within community health intervention

Anna Mullany, Marielena Barbieri, Stevaughn Smith, Aline Gubrium and Luis A. Valdez

Geospatial analysis of associations among mental health need, housing need, and involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County

Joseph H. Grotts, Meredith M. Mead, Shayan Rab, Imani J. Walker and Kristen R. Choi

Links between household and family social dynamics with sleep profiles among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin

Lee T. Gettler, David R. Samson, Erica Kilius, Mallika S. Sarma, Yann R. Ouamba, Valchy Miegakanda, Adam H. Boyette and Sheina Lew-Levy

Investigating how historical legacies of militarized violence can motivate COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from global dyadic survey

Yoshiharu Kobayashi, Christopher Howell, Tobias Heinrich and Matthew Motta

Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices

Emma Rich and Deborah Lupton

Doing gender, doing alcohol: The paradox of gendered drinking practices among young Nigerians

Emeka Dumbili

Norms, Repertoires, & Intersections: Towards an integrated theory of culture for health research and practice

Cyril Bennouna, Alli Gillespie, Lindsay Stark and Ilana Seff

Working around safety net exclusions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study of rural Latinx immigrants

Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Fabiola Perez-Lua, Hannah Sarnoff, Vivianna Plancarte, Sidra Goldman-Mellor and Denise Diaz Payán

Waiting for medical test results: A delay discounting approach

Val Wongsomboon and James A. Shepperd

Lifetime discrimination in low to middle income mothers and cellular aging: A prospective analysis

Judith E. Carroll, Jonah Eliezer Price, Joni Brown, Olajide Bamishigbin, Madeleine U. Shalowitz, Sharon Ramey and Christine Dunkel Schetter

Personality traits of world leaders and differential policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Mike Medeiros, Alessandro Nai, Ayşegül Erman and Elizabeth Young

State level income inequality affects cardiovascular stress responses: Evidence from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study

Megan Ryan, Stephen Gallagher, Jolanda Jetten and Orla T. Muldoon

Making medicines in post-colonial Ghana: State policies, technology transfer and pharmaceuticals market

Jessica Pourraz

‘I want to die on my own terms’: Dominant interpretative repertoires of ‘a good death’ in old age in Dutch newspapers

Els van Wijngaarden and José Sanders

Theorising the shift to video consulting in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of a mixed methods study using practice theory

Gemma Hughes, Lucy Moore, Gregory Maniatopoulos, Joseph Wherton, Gary W. Wood, Trisha Greenhalgh and Sara Shaw