Social Science & Medicine

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2025, volume 366, articles C

How is process tracing applied in health research? A systematic scoping review

Rebecca Johnson, Derek Beach and Hareth Al-Janabi

Female versus viral: Understanding the UK gender health inequalities during the Covid-19 pandemic using e-archives

Chen Qu

Commercial determinants of health: A new framework for studying relationships between food corporations and food charities in the UK

Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Kelli Kennedy

Centering the body in agricultural development: Bridging conceptualizations of bodies-as-mechanism and bodies-as-affective

Carly E. Nichols and Nidhi Kumari

Behavioral interventions targeting treatment adherence in chronic kidney disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Malin Ekholm, Matthias Aulbach, Sara Walsh, Daniel Phipps, Virpi Rauta and Keegan Knittle

Medical ambivalence and Long Covid: The disconnects, entanglements, and productivities shaping ethnic minority experiences in the UK

Damien T. Ridge, Alex Broom, Nisreen A. Alwan, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Nina Smyth, Dipesh Gopal, Tom Kingstone, Patrycia Gaszczyk and Samina Begum

A biopsychosocial approach towards understanding disparities in exercise participation between Hispanic and non-Hispanic White patients living with knee osteoarthritis

Navin Kaushal, Donya Nemati, Eric Kholodovsky, Jacob Jahn and Thomas M. Best

Who bears the distance cost of public primary healthcare? Hypertension among the elderly in rural India

Bertrand Lefebvre, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Vastav Ratra

Longitudinal determinants of thriving in Puerto Rican climate crisis migrants on the U.S. mainland: A structural equation model

Maria Duque, Duyen H. Vo, Pablo Montero-Zamora, Cory L. Cobb, Sumeyra Sahbaz, Beyhan Ertanir, Tara Bautista, Lawrence G. Watkins, Yara Acaf, Miracle Ashley Macias, Aigerim Alpysbekova, Maria Fernanda Garcia, Jose Rodriguez, Melissa M. Bates, Ivonne A. Calderon, Mildred M. Maldonado-Molina, John B. Bartholomew, Miguel Pinedo, Tae Kyoung Lee, Christopher P. Salas-Wright and Seth J. Schwartz

Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts

Rebecca Meiksin, Ruth Ponsford, Nambusi Kyegombe and Chris Bonell

Ontological pleasure: Exploring eating as enjoyment among people with experience of homelessness

Stefanie Plage, Cameron Parsell, Rose-Marie Stambe, Robert Perrier and Ella Kuskoff

Impact of private practice of public health workers on public health provision: Evidence from a natural experiment

Paula González, Gabriel Montes-Rojas and Sarmistha Pal

Association of low employment quality with cigarette smoking, smoking initiation, and smoking cessation: A 16-year longitudinal study in South Korea

Seong-Uk Baek, Yu-Min Lee, Jong-Uk Won and Jin-Ha Yoon

Reproductive rights at the U.S. state level and medication access for pregnant women with opioid use

Josh Aleksanyan, Ichiro Kawachi and Sugy Choi

A new SF-6Dv2 value set based on a hybrid model using SG, cTTO, and DCE data

Thomas G. Poder and Hosein Ameri

Why and how do workplaces invest in mental health and wellbeing? A systematic review and process tracing study

Luke Henstock, Rebecca Johnson, Philip Kinghorn, Derek Beach and Hareth Al-Janabi

Reorganizing medical care for older persons in times of scarcity: A cybernetics analysis of work pressure and organizational change

J.J. Schuurmans, M. Felder, R. Bal and I. Wallenburg

Dynamic associations between daily acting with awareness and emotion regulation in individuals living with the effects of a stroke

Nathaniel J. Johnson, Hali Kil, Theresa Pauly, Maureen C. Ashe, Kenneth M. Madden, Rachel A. Murphy, Wolfgang Linden, Denis Gerstorf and Christiane A. Hoppmann

Economic hardships during COVID-19 and maternal mental health: Combining samples with low incomes across three cities

Anne Martin, Elizabeth B. Miller, Rachel S. Gross, Pamela A. Morris-Perez, Daniel S. Shaw, Luciane da Rosa Piccolo, Jennifer Hill, Marc A. Scott, Mary Jo Messito, Caitlin F. Canfield, Lauren O'Connell, Richard C. Sadler, Ashleigh I. Aviles, Chelsea Weaver Krug, Christina N. Kim, Juliana Gutierrez, Ravi Shroff and Alan L. Mendelsohn

Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment

Qingxia Kong, Harwin de Vries, Dursen Deniz Poyraz and Abed Kayyal

Gender differences in later life: Labor supply responses to spousal disability

Liping Fu, Ruizhen Wang and Chaoying He

Overcoming the “valleys of death” in advanced therapies: The role of finance

Simona Cosma, Stefano Cosma, Daniela Pennetta and Giuseppe Rimo

Life course social mobility and cognitive function among middle-aged and older adults in India: Exploring heterogeneity by gender

Soohyeon Ko, Hannah Oh, S.V. Subramanian and Rockli Kim

The experiences in close relationship and internet addiction among college Students: A moderated mediation model of anxiety and information cocoon

Yuan Luo, Yuqian Deng, Yibo Wu, Jiaxin Liu, Haiye Ran, Jie Yuan and Liping Zhao

Patient passports and vulnerability: Disjunctures in health policy instruments for people with rare diseases

Małgorzata Rajtar

Longitudinal associations between intersectional stigmas, antiretroviral therapy adherence, and viral load among women living with HIV using multidimensional latent transition item response analysis

Andrea Norcini-Pala, Kristi L. Stringer, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Deborah Konkle-Parker, Tracey E. Wilson, Phyllis C. Tien, Gina Wingood, Torsten B. Neilands, Mallory O. Johnson, Sheri D. Weiser, Carmen H. Logie, Elizabeth F. Topper, Janet M. Turan and Bulent Turan

Evaluating the psychosocial experiences of participants in HIV cure research before, during, and after analytical treatment interruptions: A longitudinal qualitative study in the United States

Miranda Hill, Lidia Rodriguez Garcia, Elizabeth Nguyen, Anastasia Korolkova, Lillian Cohn, Antonio Rodriguez, Rebecca Hoh, Steven G. Deeks, Michael J. Peluso, John A. Sauceda and Karine Dubé

Whole personhood in medical education: Visual thinking strategy, close reading, and creative practice with a diversity and equity lens

Elizabeth Lahti, Natalie Lanocha, Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman, Pamela Pierce, Candace Chan, Andrew Lee Breidenbach and Lisa Abia-Smith

Quality of information and social norms in Spanish-speaking TikTok videos as levers of commercial practices: The case of semaglutide

Paola Abril Campos-Rivera, Berenice Alfaro-Ponce, Michelle Ramírez-Pérez, Daniel Bernal-Serrano, David Contreras-Loya and Veronika J. Wirtz

“The mannequins have been pink for a very long time.” Navigating whiteness and realness in simulation

David A. Ansari, Emily R. Via and Christine S. Park

A virtual reality intervention to increase interracial empathy and upstander behaviors in nursing leaders

Sean M. Phelan, Holly L. Burkhartzmeyer, Erin C. Standen, Lori L. Arcand, Kelly M. Kiker, Kayla C. Simiele, Ashley L. Proulx, Amy S. Storsveen, Yihong Deng, Jane M. Foote, Ashok Kumbamu, Amrita N. Prakaashana and Dawn E. Nelson

Older family caregivers and health professionals of adults with intellectual disabilities: Qualitative results of the first-phases of the adaptation of the Savvy Caregiver Program through the ADAPT-ITT model

Michela Saretta, Tamara Alhambra-Borrás, Ascensión Doñate-Martínez and Jorge Garcés-Ferrer

Family adversity and co-occurring pain, psychological, and somatic symptom trajectories from late childhood through early adolescence

Thea Senger-Carpenter, Julia Seng, Deanna Marriott, Todd I. Herrenkohl, Eric L. Scott, Bingxin Chen and Terri Voepel-Lewis

Disparities in quality of life by race, gender, and sexual orientation: An intersectional analysis of population-representative data in Gauteng, South Africa

Nicholas Metheny, Gabriel John Dusing, Pedzisai Ndagurwa and Sthembiso Pollen Mkhize

“We use it a lot for everything”: Antibioticalization and everyday life in a refugee camp in Lebanon

Amanda Hylland Spjeldnæs, Livia Wick, Heidi E. Fjeld and Anne Kveim Lie

Context matters: Placing the sociopolitical context into research on enclave-health effects and immigration enforcement

Ezinne Nwankwo and May Sudhinaraset

Success rates and success stories: Staging anticipation on fertility clinic websites in Taiwan, Japan, and the UK

Chia-Ling Wu, Wei-Hong Chen, Sam Robbins and Hinata Sakai

Surviving the 2021 heat dome with schizophrenia: A qualitative, interview-based unpacking of risks and vulnerabilities

Liv Yoon, Emily J. Tetzlaff, Tiffany Chiu, Carson Wong, Lucy Hiscox, Dominique Choquette, Samantha Mew, Glen P. Kenny, Randall F. White and Christian G. Schütz

Transition symptom management careers: Historical patterns of mental health symptoms and service use among young adults experiencing a psychiatric crisis

Sarah C. Narendorf, Umaira Khan, Michelle R. Munson, Vanessa V. Klodnick and Jamaica Harrell

Housing stability, employment, and survival behaviors among young mothers experiencing homelessness: A randomized controlled trial of a housing intervention

Jing Zhang, Natasha Slesnick, Ruri Famelia and Xin Feng

Socioeconomic inequality in the outcomes of a psychological intervention for depression for South Africans with a co-occurring chronic disease: A decomposition analysis

Amarech Obse, Susan Cleary, Rowena Jacobs and Bronwyn Myers

Behaviours and drivers of diagnosis-related group upcoding in China: A mixed-methods study

Wuping Zhou, Chunchun Xu, Lanyue Zhang, Hongqiao Fu and Weiyan Jian

Patterns of socioeconomic marginalization and non-fatal overdose among people who use drugs: A gender-stratified repeated measures latent class analysis

Sanjana Mitra, Lindsey Richardson, Zishan Cui, Mark Gilbert, M.-J. Milloy, Kanna Hayashi and Thomas Kerr

Effectiveness of 234 interventions to improve life satisfaction: A rapid systematic review

Katie Tiley, Richard Crellin, Tania Domun, Frances Harkness and Joanna M. Blodgett

Nurses' perspectives on assisted suicide: Challenges and support needs

Elisabeth L. Zeilinger, Tamina-Laetitia Vielgrader, Arzu Petersen, Alexa L. Meyer, Nadine Brunevskaya and Matthias Unseld

Conceptualizing self-reported adverse childhood experiences: From epidemiologic exposure to psychometric latent variable

Marianna D. LaNoue and Richard W. Hass

‘Care as capital’: Developing theory about school investment in mental health and wellbeing

Rebecca Johnson, Camille Allard, Colette Soan, Derek Beach and Hareth Al-Janabi

Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment

Alexa B. D'Angelo, Michelle Dearolf, Arjee Restar, Emma K. Tsui, Naomi Zewde and Christian Grov

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the burden of maternal and neonatal disorders: A counterfactual modeling based on the global burden of disease study (2021)

Jiaxing Qi, Can Chen, Siheng Zhang, Mengsha Chen, Kexin Cao, Wenkai Zhou, Rongrong Qu, Jiani Miao, Xiaoyue Wu, Yinuo Wang, Yi Yang, Jingtong Zhou, Rui Yan, Ying Xiao, Shigui Yang, Shigui Yang, Xudong Zhou, Peige Song, Ning Zhang, Hao Lei, Junfang Xu and Jianbing Wang

Getting the numbers right: Power, creativity and ‘good’ routine maternal and neonatal health data in Southern Tanzania

Jil Molenaar, Amani Kikula, Josefien van Olmen, Andrea Pembe and Lenka Beňová

The promises and limits of standardisation through paper-based technologies: An ethnographic exploration of integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) in Bangladesh

Tamanna Majid, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman and Janet E. Perkins

Gender inequality, well-being, and ill-being: A macro analysis of human and societal flourishing

Satoshi Araki and Francisco Olivos

Do educated politicians facilitate better public health? Evidence from India

Deepthi Sara Anil, Soham Sahoo and Debayan Pakrashi

Frequency, recency, and variety of gun violence exposure: Implications for mental health and suicide among US adults

Daniel C. Semenza, Allison E. Bond, Devon Ziminski and Michael D. Anestis

Association between homelessness and PrEP uptake among men who have sex with men: Results from the American Men's Internet Survey, 2017–2021

Yuanqi Mi, John Mark Wiginton, Sarah M. Murray, Iaah Lucas, Mariah Valentine-Graves, Lorraine T. Dean, Tiara C. Willie, Kalai Willis, Travis Sanchez, Stefan Baral and Amrita Rao

Black/White disparities in low birth weight across maternal trajectories of social mobility in South Carolina

Abigail L. Kappelman, Annie Ro, Lindsay Admon, Belinda L. Needham and Nancy L. Fleischer

Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support

Delaney Peterson, Matthijs Rooduijn, Frederic R. Hopp, Gijs Schumacher and Bert N. Bakker

Infant birth weight in Brazil: A cross-sectional historical approach

Cassia Roth

The genomic promise of cancer as “not-yet-treatable” and the moral burden of “trying”

Isabel Briz Hernández

Rhythmanalysis of care: Daily practices among informal caregivers of children with cancer

Xuelian Li, Yang Yang, Fangjuan Du, Wei Li and Hanyan Wu

Economic inequality, intergenerational mobility, and life expectancy

Ning Xiong and Yehua Dennis Wei

Sit is not lit: Examining the impact of message framing, modality, and peer influence on attitudes and intentions to reduce sedentary behavior

Mahar Nirmala, Huanyu Bao, Brenda Jansen, Melissa Wen Ai Koh, Li Wen Kok, Jasmine Jiemin Ng and Edmund W.J. Lee

Are we ready for the next pandemic? Public preferences and trade-offs between vaccine characteristics and societal restrictions across 21 countries

Marcello Antonini, Mesfin G. Genie, Katie Attwell, Arthur Attema, Jeremy K. Ward, Alessia Melegaro, Aleksandra Torbica, Brian Kelly, Chiara Berardi, Ana Rita Sequeira, Neil McGregor, Adrian Kellner, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Madeleine Hinwood, Liubovė Murauskienė, Daiga Behmane, Zsolt J. Balogh, Terje P. Hagen and Francesco Paolucci

Association between behavioral jet lag with subjective and objective circadian rhythm among Chinese young adults

Yu-xiang Xu, Jing Li, Yu-hui Wan, Pu-yu Su, Fang-biao Tao and Ying Sun

Frontline professionals’ experiences of navigating boundaries in a layered care and support system for individuals with complex care needs in the Netherlands

Teyler van Muijden, Violet Petit-Steeghs, Marcello Aspria, Roland Bal and Hester van de Bovenkamp

Maternal adverse childhood experiences and lifetime experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with current household hardships and intergenerational health

Félice Lê-Scherban, Sharon M. Coleman, Zachary Fusfeld, Deborah A. Frank, Ana Poblacion, Maureen M. Black, Eduardo Ochoa, Megan Sandel and Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba

How epigenetic inheritance fails to explain the Black-White health gap

Evan Charney, William Darity and Lucas Hubbard

Using latent profile analysis to classify US states into typologies of structural racism

Stephanie Veazie, Elleni M. Hailu and Corinne A. Riddell

Association of experienced stigma in healthcare settings with health outcomes among Black women living with HIV: Mediating roles of internalized stigma, anticipated stigma, and trust in HIV care

Ibrahim Yigit, Tracey E. Wilson, Tonya N. Taylor, Seble G. Kassaye, Sheri D. Weiser, Mardge H. Cohen, Stephen Gange, Brian W. Pence, Igho Ofotokun, Gina M. Wingood, Lisa R. Metsch, Janet Brown-Friday, Michelle Floris-Moore, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Janet M. Turan and Bulent Turan

Social isolation and loneliness increase the risk of coronary heart disease: Insights from a prospective cohort study

Zhaoru Yang, Ce Liu, Li He, Hao Zhao, Jiabei Jian, Huan Chen, Huanhuan Wei, Jingping Niu and Bin Luo

Housing hardship and health: Longitudinal evidence of the mediating role of health behaviors

Keun Young Kwon and Jinho Kim

Structural racism and racial disparities in stroke mortality in the United States, 2021

Annika Gompers, Tené T. Lewis and Michael R. Kramer

Grandparental childcare and subjective well-being: The role of activities and reasons for care

Karen Glaser and Giorgio Di Gessa

Through Their Eyes: Defining ‘good life’ in dementia for health economics and outcomes research

Irina Kinchin, Erin Boland, Iracema Leroi and Joanna Coast

Trajectories of health-related quality of life across age cohorts: A longitudinal analysis of the German population over 16 years

C. Kasinger, L. Kriechel, S. Hahm, A. Reinwarth, B. Strauss, M. Beutel, E. Brähler and L. Altweck

Walking to the same winter: Urban-rural disparities in pain among middle-aged and older Chinese

Siyuan Chen, Piet Bracke and Katrijn Delaruelle

Organizational resilience in emergency healthcare: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in five Danish hospitals

Iben Duvald, Børge Obel, Cecilie Lohse, Hans Kirkegaard and Richard M. Burton