Social Science & Medicine

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2022, volume 303, articles C

Interventions to promote physical distancing behaviour during infectious disease pandemics or epidemics: A systematic review

Tracy Epton, Daniela Ghio, Lisa M. Ballard, Sarah F. Allen, Angelos P. Kassianos, Rachael Hewitt, Katherine Swainston, Wendy Irene Fynn, Vickie Rowland, Juliette Westbrook, Elizabeth Jenkinson, Alison Morrow, Grant J. McGeechan, Sabina Stanescu, Aysha A. Yousuf, Nisha Sharma, Suhana Begum, Eleni Karasouli, Daniel Scanlan, Gillian W. Shorter, Madelynne A. Arden, Christopher J. Armitage, Daryl B. O'Connor, Atiya Kamal, Emily McBride, Vivien Swanson, Jo Hart, Lucie Byrne-Davis, Angel Chater and John Drury

Direct-to-consumer detection of atrial fibrillation in a smartwatch electrocardiogram: Medical overuse, medicalisation and the experience of consumers

Patti Shih, Kathleen Prokopovich, Chris Degeling, Jacqueline Street and Stacy M. Carter

Is disability more discriminatory in hiring than ethnicity, address or gender? Evidence from a multi-criteria correspondence experiment

Yannick L'Horty, Naomie Mahmoudi, Pascale Petit and François-Charles Wolff

Social preferences for adopting new vaccines in the national immunization program: A discrete choice experiment

Jeroen Luyten, Philippe Beutels, Corinne Vandermeulen and Roselinde Kessels

Process evaluations of mental health and psychosocial support interventions for populations affected by humanitarian crises

Alessandro Massazza, Carl R. May, Bayard Roberts, Wietse A. Tol, Sergiy Bogdanov, Abhijit Nadkarni and Daniela C. Fuhr

Has Ebola delayed progress on access to routine care and financial protection in Sierra Leone? Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis with propensity score weighting

Jessica King, Zia Sadique, Michael Amara and Josephine Borghi

The filial piety paradox: Receiving social support from children can be negatively associated with quality of life

Shannon Ang and Rahul Malhotra

Professional certification and earnings of health care workers in low social closure occupations

Janette Dill, Jennifer Craft Morgan, Jane Van Heuvelen and Meredith Gingold

Construction and validation of a spatial database of providers of transgender hormone therapy in the US

Avery R. Everhart, Laura Ferguson and John P. Wilson

“Better the devil you know”: Are stated preferences over health and happiness determined by how healthy and happy people are?

Matthew D. Adler, Paul Dolan, Amanda Henwood and Georgios Kavetsos

Rising childhood income inequality and declining Americans’ health

Hui Zheng, Yoonyoung Choi, Jonathan Dirlam and Linda George

Views on disability and prenatal testing among families with Down syndrome and disability activists: A comparative analysis of interviews from Germany and Israel

Tamar Nov-Klaiman, Marina Frisman, Aviad E. Raz and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

Infrastructural capital in the Israeli vaccination campaign against COVID-19

Omri Tubi

2022, volume 302, articles C

Father involvement and early child development in a low-resource setting

Italo Lopez Garcia, Lia C.H. Fernald, Frances E. Aboud, Ronald Otieno, Edith Alu and Jill E. Luoto

Inequities in cancer drug development in terms of unmet medical need

Eliana Barrenho, Réka Halmai, Marisa Miraldo, Iván Tzintzun, Setti Raïs Ali, Lea Toulemon, Jean-Claude K. Dupont and Lise Rochaix

Evaluating childhood policy impacts on lifetime health, wellbeing and inequality: Lifecourse distributional economic evaluation

Ieva Skarda, Miqdad Asaria and Richard Cookson

Universal health coverage as hegemonic health policy in low- and middle-income countries: A mixed-methods analysis

Daniel Smithers and Howard Waitzkin

Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Stephanie Morris, Josephine M. Wildman, Kate Gibson, Suzanne Moffatt and Tessa M. Pollard

A standardized approach for measuring multivariate equity in vaccination coverage, cost-of-illness, and health outcomes: Evidence from the Vaccine Economics Research for Sustainability & Equity (VERSE) project

Bryan Patenaude, Deborah Odihi, Salin Sriudomporn, Joshua Mak, Elizabeth Watts and Gatien de Broucker

Correlates of COVID-19 vaccination intentions: Attitudes, institutional trust, fear, conspiracy beliefs, and vaccine skepticism

Daniel Seddig, Dina Maskileyson, Eldad Davidov, Icek Ajzen and Peter Schmidt

Building patient trust in health systems: A qualitative study of facework in the context of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker role in Queensland, Australia

Stephanie M. Topp, Josslyn Tully, Rachel Cummins, Veronica Graham, Aryati Yashadhana, Lana Elliott and Sean Taylor

“Can I take responsibility for bringing a person to this world who will be part of the apocalypse!?”: Ideological dilemmas and concerns for future well-being when bringing the climate crisis into reproductive decision-making

Maja Bodin and Jenny Björklund

Parental preference for boys in childhood and the health of the elderly: Evidence from China

Yiwei Liu, Yuting Su and Yuru Yin

The impact of national legislation on psychosocial risks on organisational action plans, psychosocial working conditions, and employee work-related stress in Europe

Aditya Jain, Luis D. Torres, Kevin Teoh and Stavroula Leka

Understanding the spatial diffusion dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city system in China

Lijuan Gu, Linsheng Yang, Li Wang, Yanan Guo, Binggan Wei and Hairong Li

Tract level associations between historical residential redlining and contemporary fatal encounters with police

Jeffrey Mitchell and Guilherme Chihaya

Geographic disparities in access to Medication for Opioid Use Disorder across US census tracts based on treatment utilization behavior

Penelope Mitchell, Steven Samsel, Kevin M. Curtin, Ashleigh Price, Daniel Turner, Ryan Tramp, Matthew Hudnall, Jason Parton and Dwight Lewis

Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey

Charlotte Hervy, Nicolo Cavalli, Joan E. Madia and Catia Nicodemo

2022, volume 301, articles C

Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass

Caroline Marker, Timo Gnambs and Markus Appel

Two Indias: The structure of primary health care markets in rural Indian villages with implications for policy

Jishnu Das, Benjamin Daniels, Monisha Ashok, Eun-Young Shim and Karthik Muralidharan

Social-capital-based mental health interventions for refugees: A systematic review

E. Villalonga-Olives, T.R. Wind, A.O. Armand, M. Yirefu, R. Smith and D.P. Aldrich

The environment an adult resides within is associated with their health behaviours, and their mental and physical health outcomes: a nationwide geospatial study

M. Hobbs, T.L. Milfont, L. Marek, K. Yogeeswaran and C.G. Sibley

Food insecurity, depressive symptoms, and the salience of gendered family roles during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

Debra L. Shepherd

Human papillomavirus vaccination disparities among U.S. college students: An intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)

Dougie Zubizarreta, Ariel L. Beccia, Mai-Han Trinh, Colleen A. Reynolds, Sari L. Reisner and Brittany M. Charlton

Does attracting FDI affect population health? New evidence from a multi-dimensional measure of health

Raphaël Chiappini, Marine Coupaud and François Viaud

An audit test evaluation of state practices for supporting access to and promoting Covid-19 vaccinations

Carolyn J. Heinrich, Sayil Camacho, Kaitlin Binsted and Shadlan Gale

System avoidance and social isolation: Mechanisms connecting police contact and deleterious health outcomes

Richard Carbonaro

Personality, gender, and age resilience to the mental health effects of COVID-19

Anita Staneva, Fabrizio Carmignani and Nicholas Rohde

Valuing quality in mental healthcare: A discrete choice experiment eliciting preferences from mental healthcare service users, mental healthcare professionals and the general population

Donna Rowen, Philip A. Powell, Arne Hole, Maria-Jose Aragon, Adriana Castelli and Rowena Jacobs

Language and the cultural markers of COVID-19

Neha Deopa and Piergiuseppe Fortunato

Alcohol use and the COVID-19 pandemic: Historical trends in drinking, contexts, and reasons for use among U.S. adults

Megan E. Patrick, Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath, Richard A. Miech, Katherine M. Keyes, Justin Jager and John E. Schulenberg

Climate change impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of young people: A scoping review of risk and protective factors

Tianyi Ma, Jane Moore and Anne Cleary

Making sense of a pandemic: Mindsets influence emotions, behaviors, health, and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sean R. Zion, Kengthsagn Louis, Rina Horii, Kari Leibowitz, Lauren C. Heathcote and Alia J. Crum

How American college students understand social resilience and navigate towards the future during covid and the movement for racial justice

Mari Sanchez, Michèle Lamont and Shira Zilberstein

Knowledge translation approaches and practices in Indigenous health research: A systematic review

Melody E. Morton Ninomiya, Raglan Maddox, Simon Brascoupé, Nicole Robinson, Donna Atkinson, Michelle Firestone, Carolyn Ziegler and Janet Smylie

Conceptualizing culture in (global) mental health: Lessons from an urban American Indian behavioral health clinic

William E. Hartmann, Denise M. Saint Arnault and Joseph P. Gone

The diagonal approach: A theoretic framework for the economic evaluation of vertical and horizontal interventions in healthcare

Erin Kirwin, Rachel Meacock, Jeff Round and Matt Sutton

Estimating an anchored utility tariff for the well-being of older people measure (WOOP) for the Netherlands

Sebastian Himmler, Marcel Jonker, Frédérique van Krugten, Mariska Hackert, Job van Exel and Werner Brouwer

“I refused to drink but they still forced me”: A mixed-methods approach to understanding the pathways to reduce alcohol use among Vietnamese people with HIV

M.X. Nguyen, R.B. Hershow, N.A. Blackburn, Q.X. Bui, C.A. Latkin, H. Hutton, G. Chander, D. Dowdy, K.E. Lancaster, C. Frangakis, T. Sripaipan, H.V. Tran and V.F. Go

‘Vulnerable’ but not ‘Valuable’: Older refugees and perceptions of deservingness in medical humanitarianism

Sigrid Lupieri

Autoresuscitation and clinical authority in death determination using circulatory criteria

Amanda van Beinum, Laura Hornby, Nathan Scales, Sam D. Shemie and Sonny Dhanani

Embodied risk for families with Li-Fraumeni syndrome: Like electricity through my body

Allison Werner-Lin, Rowan Forbes Shepherd, Jennifer L. Young, Catherine Wilsnack, Shana L. Merrill, Mark H. Greene and Payal P. Khincha

The association between COVID-19 policy responses and mental well-being: Evidence from 28 European countries

Veronica Toffolutti, Samuel Plach, Teodora Maksimovic, Giorgio Piccitto, Massimiliano Mascherini, Letizia Mencarini and Arnstein Aassve

Making pandemics big: On the situational performance of Covid-19 mathematical models

Tim Rhodes and Kari Lancaster

Longitudinal evidence on adolescent social network position and cardiometabolic risk in adulthood

Jinho Kim and Kiwoong Park

Locus of control and the mental health effects of local area crime

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Russell Smyth

Cognitive underpinnings of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

Sinem Acar-Burkay and Daniela-Carmen Cristian

Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review

Valerie van Mulukom, Lotte J. Pummerer, Sinan Alper, Hui Bai, Vladimíra Čavojová, Jessica Farias, Cameron S. Kay, Ljiljana B. Lazarevic, Emilio J.C. Lobato, Gaëlle Marinthe, Irena Pavela Banai, Jakub Šrol and Iris Žeželj

The relation between conspiracism, government trust, and COVID-19 vaccination intentions: The key role of motivation

Pascaline Van Oost, Vincent Yzerbyt, Mathias Schmitz, Maarten Vansteenkiste, Olivier Luminet, Sofie Morbée, Omer Van den Bergh, Joachim Waterschoot and Olivier Klein

Enhancing our understanding of the commercial determinants of health: Theories, methods, and insights from political science

Eduardo J. Gómez

Family involvement in medical decision making in Europe and the United States: A replication and extension in five Countries

Sebastian Scherr, Doreen Reifegerste, Florian Arendt, Julia C.M. van Weert and Dana L. Alden

The changing dynamics of community care and support in rural Malawi: The impact on Women's health and wellbeing at end of life

Maren M. Hawkins, Anne Dressel, Nancy Kendall, Claire Wendland, Stephen Hawkins, Kimberly Walker, Elizabeth Mkandawire, Jackline Kirungi, Peninnah Kako and Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu

Explaining higher Covid-19 vaccination among some US primary care professionals

Qian Huang, Melissa B. Gilkey, Peyton Thompson, Brigid K. Grabert, Susan Alton Dailey and Noel T. Brewer

How do clinical quality and patient satisfaction vary with provider size in primary care? Evidence from English general practice panel data

Hugh Gravelle, Dan Liu and Rita Santos

Reciprocal relationships between time pressure and mental or physical health in Australian mothers of preschool aged children

Belinda Hewitt, Mara A. Yerkes, Amanda Cooklin and Lyndall Strazdins

Obstetric gaslighting and the denial of mothers’ realities

Priya Fielding-Singh and Amelia Dmowska

The produced injured: Locating workplace accidents amongst precarious migrant workmen in Singapore

Sallie Yea

Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods

Lucia Savadori and Marco Lauriola

Gender, health, and labor in Thailand's medical hub

Reya Farber

Highlighting COVID-19 racial disparities can reduce support for safety precautions among White U.S. residents

Allison L. Skinner-Dorkenoo, Apoorva Sarmal, Kasheena G. Rogbeer, Chloe J. André, Bhumi Patel and Leah Cha

Did expansion of insurance coverage for major diseases in Korea induce a positive spillover effect on dental service utilization?

Hwa-Young Lee, Nam-Hee Kim and Ichiro Kawachi

A meta-ethnography of participatory health research and co-production in Nepal

Heather Yoeli, Ranjita Dhital, Susannah Hermaszewska and Jacqueline Sin

Cumulative exposure to state-level structural sexism and risk of disordered eating: Results from a 20-year prospective cohort study

Ariel L. Beccia, S. Bryn Austin, Jonggyu Baek, Madina Agénor, Sarah Forrester, Eric Y. Ding, William M. Jesdale and Kate L. Lapane

Lived experience of State-sponsored intra-national overseas therapeutic mobility for stem cell transplantation

Loreley Franchina, Aline Sarradon-Eck, Yolande Arnault, Anne-Gaëlle Le Corroller, Patricia Zunic and Patricia Marino

Death takes no bribes: Impact of perceived corruption on the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions at combating COVID-19

Vincenzo Alfano, Salvatore Capasso, Salvatore Ercolano and Rajeev Goel

Implementing “from here to there”: A case study of conceptual and practical challenges in implementation science

Daniel D. Reidpath, Pascale Allotey, S. Fiona Barker, Thomas Clasen, Matthew French, Karin Leder, Diego Ramirez-Lovering, Emma L.M. Rhule and José Siri

Emotional geographies of loss in later life: An intimate account of rural older peoples' last move

Laura I.L. Poulin and Mark W. Skinner

Towards a participatory framework for improving water & health outcomes: A case study with Maasai women in rural Tanzania

Robbie A. Venis, Virginia Taylor, Paulina Sumayani, Marie Laizer, Troy Anderson and Onita D. Basu

Childhood police encounters, social isolation and epigenetic age acceleration among older U.S. adults

Aniruddha Das

Hostile attitudes toward immigrants and refugees are associated with poor self-rated health. Analysis of 21 European countries

Sara Pinillos-Franco and Ichiro Kawachi

Experiences of inequalities in access to safe water and psycho-emotional distress in Ghana

Meshack Achore and Elijah Bisung

County social isolation and opioid use disorder among older adults: A longitudinal analysis of Medicare data, 2013–2018

Tse-Chuan Yang, Carla Shoff, Seulki Kim and Benjamin A. Shaw

‘We're kind of like genetic nomads': Parents' experiences of biographical disruption and uncertainty following in/conclusive results from newborn cystic fibrosis screening

Felicity Boardman and Corinna Clark

The medical and societal impact of big data analytics and artificial intelligence applications in combating pandemics: A review focused on Covid-19

Panagiota Galetsi, Korina Katsaliaki and Sameer Kumar

Deserving but not entitled: The social construction of autism spectrum disorder in federal policy

Giuseppina Chiri, Meredith Bergey and Thomas I. Mackie

Shifting paradigms: Developmental milestones for integrated care

James Shaw, Jennifer Gutberg, Paul Wankah, Mudathira Kadu, Carolyn Steele Gray, Ann McKillop, G. Ross Baker, Mylaine Breton and Walter P. Wodchis

Structural sexism and Women's alcohol use in the United States, 1988–2016

Sarah McKetta, Seth J. Prins, Deborah Hasin, Megan E. Patrick and Katherine M. Keyes

Explaining the declining utilization of village clinics in rural China over time: A decomposition approach

Yunwei Chen, Sean Sylvia, Paiou Wu and Hongmei Yi