Social Science & Medicine

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2022, volume 308, articles C

Does direct settlement of intra-province medical reimbursements improve financial protection among middle-aged and elderly population in China? Evidence based on CHARLS data

Yan Pan, Wen-fang Zhong, Rong Yin, Meng Zheng, Kun Xie, Shu-yuan Cheng, Li Ling and Wen Chen

COVID-19 lockdowns: Employment and business disruptions, water access and hygiene practices in Nairobi's informal settlements

Nupur Joshi, Sara Lopus, Corrie Hannah, Kacey C. Ernst, Aminata P. Kilungo, Romanus Opiyo, Margaret Ngayu, Julia Davies and Tom Evans

Prosociality predicts individual behavior and collective outcomes in the COVID-19 pandemic

Ximeng Fang, Timo Freyer, Chui-Yee Ho, Zihua Chen and Lorenz Goette

Impact of extreme temperatures on emergency hospital admissions by age and socio-economic deprivation in England

Dheeya Rizmie, Laure de Preux, Marisa Miraldo and Rifat Atun

Political ideology predicts preventative behaviors and infections amid COVID-19 in democracies

Hans H. Tung, Teng-Jen Chang and Ming-Jen Lin

Social health insurance consolidation and urban-rural inequality in utilization and financial risk protection in China

Di Yang, Yubraj Acharya and Xiaoting Liu

Domesticating cleaner cookstoves for improved respiratory health: Using approaches from the sanitation sector to explore the adoption and sustained use of improved cooking technologies in Nepal

Sarah Jewitt, Matthew Smallman-Raynor, Binaya K C, Benjamin Robinson, Puspanjali Adhikari, Catrin Evans, Biraj Man Karmacharya, Charlotte E. Bolton and Ian P. Hall

Coordinating illness and insurance trajectories: Evidence from a post-acute care unit

Guillermina Altomonte

Doing ‘our bit’: Solidarity, inequality, and COVID-19 crowdfunding for the UK National Health Service

Ellen Stewart, Anna Nonhebel, Christian Möller and Kath Bassett

Evaluating the relationship between moral values and vaccine hesitancy in Great Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey

Kelly Ann Schmidtke, Laura Kudrna, Angela Noufaily, Nigel Stallard, Magdalena Skrybant, Samantha Russell and Aileen Clarke

The moderating role of coping flexibility in reports of somatic symptoms among early breast cancer patients

Rawan Dahabre, Ilan Roziner, Gabriella Bentley, Paula Poikonen-Saksela, Ketti Mazzocco, Berta Sousa and Ruth Pat-Horenczyk

Navigating fear and care: The lived experiences of community-based health actors in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic

Warren Dodd, Laura Jane Brubacher, Amy Kipp, Sara Wyngaarden, Victoria Haldane, Hannah Ferrolino, Kendall Wilson, Danilo Servano, Lincoln Leehang Lau and Xiaolin Wei

Skill-mix change and outcomes in primary care: Longitudinal analysis of general practices in England 2015–2019

Igor Francetic, Jon Gibson, Sharon Spooner, Katherine Checkland and Matt Sutton

Mental and social wellbeing and the UK coronavirus job retention scheme: Evidence from nine longitudinal studies

Jacques Wels,, Charlotte Booth, Bożena Wielgoszewska, Michael J. Green, Giorgio Di Gessa, Charlotte F. Huggins, Gareth J. Griffith, Alex S.F. Kwong, Ruth C.E. Bowyer, Jane Maddock, Praveetha Patalay, Richard J. Silverwood, Emla Fitzsimons, Richard Shaw, Ellen J. Thompson, Andrew Steptoe, Alun Hughes, Nishi Chaturvedi, Claire J. Steves, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi and George B. Ploubidis

Doctor decision making with time inconsistent patients

Alastair Irvine, Marjon van der Pol and Euan Phimister

2022, volume 307, articles C

Opt-out policy and its improvements promote COVID-19 vaccinations

Xin Liu, Ning Zhao, Shu Li and Rui Zheng

Assessing stigma in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of scales used with children and adolescents

Luana Gavan, Kim Hartog, Gabriela V. Koppenol-Gonzalez, Petra C. Gronholm, Allard R. Feddes, Brandon A. Kohrt, Mark J.D. Jordans and Ruth M.H. Peters

Linking health worker motivation with their stated job preferences: A hybrid choice analysis in Ethiopia

Nikita Arora, Romain Crastes dit Sourd, Kara Hanson, Dorka Woldesenbet, Abiy Seifu and Matthew Quaife

Attributing public ignorance in vaccination narratives

Samantha Vanderslott, Luisa Enria, Alex Bowmer, Abass Kamara and Shelley Lees

Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data

Gerhard Krug and Sebastian Prechsl

Delay of routine health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A theoretical model of individuals’ risk assessment and decision making

Prakriti Shukla, Myeong Lee, Samantha A. Whitman and Kathleen H. Pine

The weight of culture: Societal individualism and flexibility explain large global variations in obesity

Plamen Akaliyski, Michael Minkov, Jianghong Li, Michael Harris Bond and Stefan Gehrig

How demographics and concerns about the Trump administration relate to prenatal mental health among Latina women

Molly Fox

Policy stress and social support: Mental health impacts for Latinx Adults in the Southeast United States

Mary Lehman Held, Jennifer M. First, Melody Huslage and Marie Holzer

Material hardship level and unpredictability in relation to U.S. households’ family interactions and emotional well-being: Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic

Sihong Liu, Maureen Zalewski, Liliana Lengua, Megan R. Gunnar, Nicole Giuliani and Philip A. Fisher

Shifts in lifestyle and socioeconomic circumstances predict change—for better or worse—in speed of epigenetic aging: A study of middle-aged black women

Ronald L. Simons, Mei Ling Ong, Man-Kit Lei, Eric Klopach, Mark Berg, Yue Zhang, Robert Philibert, Frederick X. Gibbons and Steven R.H. Beach

Household food insecurity and obesity risk in preschool-aged children: A three-year prospective study

Danruo Zhong, Megan R. Gunnar, Aaron S. Kelly, Simone French, Nancy E. Sherwood, Jerica M. Berge and Alicia Kunin-Batson

A healthy migrant effect? Estimating health outcomes of the undocumented immigrant population in the United States using machine learning

Simon A. Ruhnke, Megan M. Reynolds, Fernando A. Wilson and Jim P. Stimpson

Information sharing across mental health service providers and criminal legal system stakeholders: Perspectives of people with serious mental illnesses and their family members

Leah G. Pope, Amanda Warnock, Tyler H. Perry, Stephanie Langlois, Simone Anderson, Tehya Boswell, Paul Appelbaum, Lisa Dixon, Amy Watson and Michael T. Compton

Lived experiences of pregnancy and prison through a reproductive justice lens: A qualitative meta-synthesis

Alice Cavanagh, Tahmina Shamsheri, Katrina Shen, Jessica Gaber, Jessica Liauw, Meredith Vanstone and Fiona Kouyoumdjian

The mixed-status community as analytic framework to understand the impacts of immigration enforcement on health

William D. Lopez and Heide Castañeda

“Who am I to say?” Dutch care providers' evaluation of psychosocial vulnerability in pregnant women

Esca van Blarikom, Bregje de Kok and Hilmar H. Bijma

Normalisation of electronic medical records in routine healthcare work amidst ongoing digitalisation of the Philippine health system

Romeo Luis A. Macabasag, Eunice U. Mallari, Patrick Joshua C. Pascual and Portia Grace H. Fernandez-Marcelo

Racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in U.S. Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy during vaccine rollout and factors that explain them

Michelle L. Frisco, Jennifer Van Hook and Kevin J.A. Thomas

Black boxes and information pathways: An actor-network theory approach to breast cancer survivorship care

Deborah Lefkowitz

African Americans and the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative inquiry of preparedness, challenges, and strategies on how we can move forward

Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Imari Parham, Leah Alexander, Jamal Moss, Iman Barre, Taneisha Gillyard and Jamaine Davis

Equity in the use of physician services in Canada's universal health system: A longitudinal analysis of older adults

Mohammad Habibullah Pulok and Mohammad Hajizadeh

Does vertical integration of health and social care organizations work? Evidence from Scotland

José M. Alonso and Rhys Andrews

In utero exposure to natural disasters and later-life mortality: Evidence from earthquakes in the early twentieth century

Hamid Noghanibehambari

Expert or experiential knowledge? How knowledge informs situated action in childcare practices

Xiaoli Tian and Sai Zhang

Disparities in premature mortality: Evidence for the OECD countries

Ana Ledesma-Cuenca, Antonio Montañés and María Blanca Simón-Fernández

2022, volume 306, articles C

Neighborhood deprivation and obesity: Sex-specific effects of cross-sectional, cumulative and residential trajectory indicators

Laurence Letarte, Sekou Samadoulougou, Rachel McKay, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, E.O.D. Waygood and Alexandre Lebel

Pathway mapping as a tool to address police use of force in behavioral health crisis

Heather M. Ross, Kathleen H. Pine, Sarah Curran and Dawn Augusta

Engendering connection: The embodied emotional labor of U.S. cosmetic surgeons

Alka V. Menon and Chloe Sariego

Revisiting the relationship between economic uncertainty and suicide: An alternative approach

Rawayda Abdou, Damien Cassells, Jenny Berrill and Jim Hanly

How does home ownership affect migrants’ sense of relative deprivation? An investigation based on field theory

Danchen Liu, Suyan Shen, Ruth Shillair, Fang Li and Zhe Chen

Do social determinants of health explain racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 infection?

Haena Lee, Theresa Andrasfay, Alicia Riley, Qiao Wu and Eileen Crimmins

A comparison of health and socioeconomic gradients in health between the United States and Canada

Anna Zajacova and Arjumand Siddiqi

Material and epistemic precarity: It's time to talk about labour exploitation in mental health research

Papoulias, Stan (Constantina) and Felicity Callard

The impact of son or daughter care on Chinese older adults' mental health

Yanan Zhang and Sarah Harper

Racial and ethnic differences in perseverative cognition at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic

DeWayne P. Williams, Nickolas M. Jones and E. Alison Holman

Association between race and socioeconomic factors and suicide-related 911 call rate

Katherine L. O'Connell, Samantha V. Jacobson, Andrew T. Ton and Keyne C. Law

Assessment of an evacuation shelter program for people with access and functional needs in Monroe County, Florida during Hurricane Irma

Tisha Joseph Holmes, Patrice C. Williams, Sandy Wong, Kathryn Smith, John T. Bandzuh and Christopher K. Uejio

The Life with Corona survey

Wolfgang Stojetz, Neil Ferguson, Ghassan Baliki, Oscar Díaz, Jan Elfes, Damir Esenaliev, Hanna Freudenreich, Anke Koebach, Liliana Abreu, Laura Peitz, Ani Todua, Monika Schreiner, Anke Hoeffler, Patricia Justino and Tilman Brück

Sociopolitical and psychological correlates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States during summer 2021

Justin Stoler, Casey A. Klofstad, Adam M. Enders and Joseph E. Uscinski

‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information

Alan Petersen, Allegra Schermuly and Alison Anderson

The effects of universal child allowance on maternal health: Evidence from South Korea

Sarah Jiyoon Kwon and Jaehyun Nam

Mindfulness buffers the deleterious effects of workaholism for work-family conflict

Carole Daniel, Elodie Gentina and Jessica Mesmer-Magnus

Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations

Anna-Maria Fontrier

Economic gradients in loneliness, social isolation and social support: Evidence from the UK Biobank

Claryn S.J. Kung, Stephen E. Pudney and Michael Shields

Does informal care reduce health care utilisation in older age? Evidence from China

Yixiao Wang, Wei Yang and Mauricio Avendano

The cultural sensitivity continuum of mental health interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review

Obianujunwa Anakwenze

Effects of economic support, comprehensive sexuality education and community dialogue on sexual behaviour: Findings from a cluster-RCT among adolescent girls in rural Zambia

Hanne Keyser Hegdahl, Patrick Musonda, Joar Svanemyr, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Taran Grønvik, Choolwe Jacobs and Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy

No new fast-food outlets allowed! Evaluating the effect of planning policy on the local food environment in the North East of England

Heather Brown, Huasheng Xiang, Viviana Albani, Louis Goffe, Nasima Akhter, Amelia Lake, Stewart Sorrell, Emma Gibson and John Wildman

Doing more with less - How frugal innovations can contribute to improving healthcare systems

Soumodip Sarkar and Sara Mateus

Past, present, and future dimensions of socioeconomic status and sexual self-efficacy of young women during the transition into adulthood

Hyungmin Cha

Death and the treatment imperative: Decision-making in late-stage cancer

Alexandra Tate

The Googlization of Health: Invasiveness and corporate responsibility in media discourses on Facebook's algorithmic programme for suicide prevention

Tineke Broer

Strategies of inclusion: The tradeoffs of pursuing “baked in” diversity through place-based recruitment

Janet K. Shim, Michael Bentz, Emily Vasquez, Melanie Jeske, Aliya Saperstein, Stephanie M. Fullerton, Nicole Foti, Caitlin McMahon and Sandra Soo-Jin Lee

The science-policy relationship in times of crisis: An urgent call for a pragmatist turn

Trisha Greenhalgh and Eivind Engebretsen

Mobile health technology as a solution to self-control problems: The behavioral impact of COVID-19 contact tracing apps in Japan

Masahiro Shoji, Susumu Cato, Asei Ito, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Hiroto Katsumata and Kenneth Mori McElwain

Rural older adults’ resilience in the context of COVID-19

Rachel V. Herron, Breanna C. Lawrence, Nancy E.G. Newall, Doug Ramsey, Candice M. Waddell- Henowitch and Jennifer Dauphinais

Neighborhood collective efficacy in stressful events: The stress-buffering effect

Donglin Zeng and Xiaogang Wu

Spatial uncertainty and environment-health association: An empirical study of osteoporosis among “old residents” in public housing estates across a hilly environment

Hung Chak Ho, Wei Cheng, Yimeng Song, Yuqi Liu, Yingqi Guo, Shiyu Lu, Terry Yat Sang Lum, Rebecca Chiu and Chris Webster

Self-rated health when population health is challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic; a longitudinal study

Margot P. van de Weijer, Lianne P. de Vries, Dirk H.M. Pelt, Lannie Ligthart, Gonneke Willemsen, Dorret I. Boomsma, Eco de Geus and Meike Bartels

A post-lockdown study of burnout risk amongst New Zealand essential workers

Jarrod Haar and Conor O'Kane

Protecting mental health during periods of financial stress: Evidence from the Australian Coronavirus Supplement income support payment

Ferdi Botha, Peter Butterworth and Roger Wilkins

Men smoke less under the COVID-19 closure policies: The role of altruism

Weicheng Cai and Yi Zhou

Mapping the current knowledge in syndemic research applied to men who have sex with men: A scoping review

Maxence R. Ouafik, Laetitia Buret and Beatrice Scholtes

Particularizing the picture: Features and uses of instantiation stories told by clinicians doing autism diagnosis

Lucas Z. Wiscons

Air pollution and health outcomes: Evidence from Black Saturday Bushfires in Australia

Namal N. Balasooriya, Jayatilleke S. Bandara and Nicholas Rohde

The association between tree canopy cover over streets and elderly pedestrian falls: A health disparity study in urban areas

Sungmin Lee, Xinyue Ye, Ji Won Nam and Kai Zhang

Comfort with and willingness to participate in COVID-19 contact tracing: The role of risk perceptions, trust, and political ideology

Jenna A. Van Fossen, John W. Ropp, Kathleen Darcy and Joseph A. Hamm