Social Science & Medicine

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2022, volume 310, articles C

Legitimizing evidence: The trans-institutional life of evidence-based practice

E. Summerson Carr and Hannah Obertino-Norwood

Social network change after new-onset pain among middle-aged and older European adults

Yulin Yang, Rui Huang, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk and Jacqueline M. Torres

Community solutions to food apartheid: A spatial analysis of community food-growing spaces and neighborhood demographics in Philadelphia

Ashley B. Gripper, Rachel Nethery, Tori L. Cowger, Monica White, Ichiro Kawachi and Gary Adamkiewicz

Understanding organ donation processes and structures in ontario: A social network analysis approach

Vanessa Silva e Silva, Janine Schirmer, Bartira de Aguiar Roza, Aimee Sarti, Michael Hickey, Sonny Dhanani, Joan Almost, Markus Schafer and Joan Tranmer

A high level of vaccine knowledge increases people's behavioral risks for contracting COVID-19 in Japan

Shuko Takahashi, Shohei Yamada, Satoshi Sasaki, Naomi Takahashi, Masaru Nohara and Ichiro Kawachi

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

Online student culture as site for negotiating assessment in medical education

Kelly Underman, Merlin Kochunilathil, Lauren McLean and Alexandra H. Vinson

Incarceration exposure and epigenetic aging in neighborhood context

Mark T. Berg, Ethan M. Rogers, Kendall Riley, Man-Kit Lei and Ronald L. Simons

Understanding parental vaccine refusal: Implicit and explicit associations about vaccines as potential building blocks of vaccine beliefs and behavior

Jennifer L. Howell, Melissa L. Gasser, Debra Kaysen and Kristen P. Lindgren

The role of self-efficacy, well-being capability and diabetes care assessment for emotional and diabetes management challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a follow-up study

Ina Tapager, Lene Eide Joensen and Karsten Vrangbæk

COVID-19 booster uptake among US adults: Assessing the impact of vaccine attributes, incentives, and context in a choice-based experiment

Shyam Raman, Douglas Kriner, Nicolas Ziebarth, Kosali Simon and Sarah Kreps

Vaccine nationalism among the public: A cross-country experimental evidence of own-country bias towards COVID-19 vaccination

Joan Barceló, Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen, Hans H. Tung and Wen-Chin Wu

Contextual fallacy in MLMs with cross-level interaction: A critical review of neighborhood effects on psychiatric resilience

Tay Jeong

Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey

Alessandro Sasso, Mónica Hernández-Alava, John Holmes, Matt Field, Colin Angus and Petra Meier

Evaluating a game-based randomized experiment to increase melanoma identification among adults living in the U.S

Nick Carcioppolo, Soyoon Kim, Margaret Sanchez, Bingjing Mao, Ekaterina Malova, Ashley Ryan, Di Lun, Clay Ewing and Shasa Hu

Neighbourhood environmental influences on older adults’ physical activities and social participation in Singapore: A photovoice study

Adithi Moogoor, Špela Močnik and Belinda Yuen

Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health behaviours across 32 different countries – The role of country-level social mobility

Heiko Schmengler, Margot Peeters, Gonneke W.J.M. Stevens, Anton E. Kunst, Katrijn Delaruelle, Maxim Dierckens, Lorena Charrier, Dom Weinberg, Albertine J. Oldehinkel and Wilma A.M. Vollebergh

Income, wealth, and Black-White disparities in cognition

Dana A. Glei, Chioun Lee and Maxine Weinstein

Being active for a purpose: Evaluating the bi-directional associations between monthly purpose and physical activity

Gabrielle N. Pfund, Anita DeLongis, Nancy Sin, Talia Morstead and Patrick L. Hill

Maternal employment and child weight-related health

Angela R. Fertig, Junia N. de Brito, Amanda C. Trofholz and Jerica M. Berge

Inequities in spatial accessibility to COVID-19 testing in 30 large US cities

Pricila H. Mullachery, Ran Li, Steven Melly, Jennifer Kolker, Sharrelle Barber, Ana V. Diez Roux and Usama Bilal

Determinants of voluntary compliance: COVID-19 mitigation

Meng-Hao Li, Kingsley Haynes, Rajendra Kulkarni and Abu Bakkar Siddique

2022, volume 309, articles C

Anishinabek sources of strength: Learning from First Nations people who have experienced mental health and substance use challenges

Melody E. Morton Ninomiya, Bryan Tanner, Laura J. Peach, Ningwakwe George, Sara Plain, Tracey George, Kathryn Graham, Sharon Bernards, Laura Jane Brubacher and Samantha Wells

Pet ownership during pregnancy and mothers' mental health conditions up to 1 year postpartum: A nationwide birth cohort—the Japan Environment and Children's Study

Kenta Matsumura, Kei Hamazaki, Akiko Tsuchida and Hidekuni Inadera

Cognability: An Ecological Theory of neighborhoods and cognitive aging

Jessica Finlay, Michael Esposito, Kenneth M. Langa, Suzanne Judd and Philippa Clarke

Integrating Citizens Juries and Discrete Choice Experiments: Methodological issues in the measurement of public values in healthcare priority setting

Rebecca Schoon and Chunhuei Chi

Assessing the comparative feasibility, acceptability and equivalence of videoconference interviews and face-to-face interviews using the time trade-off technique

Donna Rowen, Clara Mukuria, Nathan Bray, Jill Carlton, Louise Longworth, David Meads, Ciaran O'Neill, Koonal Shah and Yaling Yang

Reluctant Saviors: Professional ambivalence, cultural imaginaries, and deservingness construction in naloxone provision

Madison Baumgart-McFarland, Elizabeth Chiarello and Tayla Slay

Producing paramedicine: Case studies in the medical labor process

Josh Seim, Michael Corman and Leo McCann

Exploring the conceptualization, operationalization, implementation, and measurement of outreach in community settings with hard-to-reach and hidden populations: A scoping review

Sunny Jiao, Allie Slemon, Adrian Guta and Vicky Bungay

Lower-class origin professionals in Canadian health and social service professions: “A different level of understanding”

Brenda L. Beagan, Anna MacLeod, Michelle Owen, Tara M. Pride and Kaitlin R. Sibbald

Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research

Andrew Binet, Yael Nidam, Rebecca Houston-Read, César Garcia Lopez, Gabriela Zayas del Rio, Dina Abreu, Carl Baty, Arnetta Baty, Josee Genty, Goldean Graham, Jeff Joseph, Will Justice, Gail Roderigues, David Underhill, Vedette Gavin and Mariana C. Arcaya

“We've all got the virus inside us now”: Disaggregating public health relations and responsibilities for health protection in pandemic London

Ben Kasstan, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Katherine M. Gaskell, Rosalind M. Eggo, Michael Marks and Tracey Chantler

Competing Narratives: Examining Obstetricians’ Decision-Making Regarding Indications for Cesarean Sections and Abdominal Incisions

Vania Smith-Oka and Brenda Flores

Why they willingly complied: Ordinary people, the big environment, and the control of COVID-19 in China

Yifeng Troy Cai and Katherine A. Mason

Assessing associations between insecure income and US workers’ health: An IPUMS-MEPS analysis

Robert D. Thomas, John W. Davis, Paula M. Cuccaro and Gretchen L. Gemeinhardt

Studying social determinants of health using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A worked example

Lauri Kokkinen

Like a finely-oiled machine: Self-help and the elusive goal of hormone balance

Norah A. MacKendrick and Hannah Troxel

Balancing consumption and constraint: Binge drinking, stimulant misuse, and relational capital among young adults

Mark Pawson and Brian C. Kelly

Vaccination nudges: A study of pre-booked COVID-19 vaccinations in Sweden

Carl Bonander, Mats Ekman and Niklas Jakobsson

Gene-by-peer-environment interaction effects on cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use among US high school students of European Ancestry*

Boyan Zheng, Jason Fletcher, Fengyi Zheng and Qiongshi Lu

Women's experiences of infertility after the Holocaust

Peggy J. Kleinplatz and Paul Weindling

Best and worst performing health facilities: A positive deviance analysis of perceived drivers of primary care performance in Nepal

Todd P. Lewis, Amit Aryal, Suresh Mehata, Astha Thapa, Aisha K. Yousafzai and Margaret E. Kruk

Stroke survival and the impact of geographic proximity to family members: A population-based cohort study

Hye Jung Choi, Marissa LeBlanc, Tron Anders Moger, Morten Valberg, Geir Aamodt, Christian M. Page, Grethe S. Tell and Øyvind Næss

Suicide and quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic: Do we know everything?

Fabián Duarte and Álvaro Jiménez-Molina

Effects of a global budget payment scheme on medical specialty workforces

Lee-Kai Lin

Estimating the effect on happiness through question randomization: An application to blood donation

Giacomo Degli Antoni and Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti

Status and correlates of micronutrient deficiencies in slum and non-slum areas of India's four metropolitan cities: Investigation from CNNS

Preeti Dhillon, Harihar Sahoo, Mohd Usman, Anjula Srivastava, Praween K. Agrawal, Robert Johnston and Sayeed Unisa

The politics of public health investments

Olivier Jacques and Alain Noël

Childhood exposure to war and adult onset of cardiometabolic disorders among older Europeans

Steven A. Haas and Daniel Ramirez

Social vulnerability, exposure to environmental risk factors, and accessibility of healthcare services: Evidence from 2,000+ informal settlements in Argentina

Alfredo Palacios, Julia Gabosi, Caitlin R. Williams and Carlos Rojas-Roque