Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian

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2022, volume 300, articles C

Life in the buffer zone: Social relations and surplus health workers in Uganda's medicines retail sector

Eleanor Hutchinson, Sunday Mundua, Lydia Ochero, Anthony Mbonye and Sian E. Clarke

(Re)arranging “systems of care” in the early Ebola response in Sierra Leone: An interdisciplinary analysis

Susannah H. Mayhew, Dina Balabanova, Ahmed Vandi, Gelejimah Alfred Mokuwa, Tommy Hanson, Melissa Parker and Paul Richards

Responsibility, repair and care in Sierra Leone's health system

Eva Vernooij, Francess Koker and Alice Street

The anthropology of health systems: A history and review

Svea Closser, Emily Mendenhall, Peter Brown, Rachel Neill and Judith Justice

Shapeshifters, systems thinking and settler colonial logic: Expanding the framework of analysis of Indigenous health equity

Lana Ray, Lloy Wylie and Ann Marie Corrado

Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation

Randall C. Burson, Olivia O. Familusi and Justin T. Clapp

How performance targets can ingrain a culture of ‘performing out’: An ethnography of two Indian primary healthcare facilities

Priya Das, Tom Newton-Lewis, Karima Khalil, Madhavi Rajadhyaksha and Phalasha Nagpal

Health and immigration systems as an ethnographic field: Methodological lessons from examining immigration enforcement and health in the US

Nolan Kline

(De)constructing ‘therapeutic itineraries’ of hypertension care: A qualitative study in the Philippines

Jhaki A. Mendoza, Gideon Lasco, Alicia Renedo, Lia Palileo-Villanueva, Maureen Seguin, Benjamin Palafox, Arianna Maever L. Amit, Veincent Pepito, Martin McKee and Dina Balabanova

Simulated patients and their reality: An inquiry into theory and method

Veena Das, Benjamin Daniels, Ada Kwan, Vaibhav Saria, Ranendra Das, Madhukar Pai and Jishnu Das

Understanding global health policy engagements with qualitative research: Qualitative evidence syntheses and the OptimizeMNH guidelines

Christopher J. Colvin

2022, volume 299, articles C

Promising careers? A critical analysis of a randomised control trial in community health worker recruitment in Zambia

James Wintrup

Depression deterioration of older adults during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe

Omar Paccagnella and Benedetta Pongiglione

The health impact of free access to antiretroviral therapy in South Africa

Cobus Burger, Ronelle Burger and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Healthy eating in the wild: An experience-sampling study of how food environments and situational factors shape out-of-home dietary success

Jan M. Bauer, Kristian S. Nielsen, Wilhelm Hofmann and Lucia A. Reisch

Using first-person narratives about healthcare workers and people who are incarcerated to motivate helping behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mary E. Andrews, Bradley D. Mattan, Keana Richards, Samantha L. Moore-Berg and Emily B. Falk

The impact of the consumer and neighbourhood food environment on dietary intake and obesity-related outcomes: A systematic review of causal impact studies

Petya Atanasova, Dian Kusuma, Elisa Pineda, Gary Frost, Franco Sassi and Marisa Miraldo

Home alone together: Differential links between momentary contexts and real-time loneliness among older adults from Chicago during versus before the COVID-19 pandemic

Ellen L. Compernolle, Laura E. Finch, Louise C. Hawkley and Kate A. Cagney

Clinical trials as disease control? The political economy of sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1996–2016)

Jean-Benoît Falisse and Alain Mpanya

2022, volume 298, articles C

Opioid abuse and austerity: Evidence on health service use and mortality in England

Rocco Friebel, Katelyn Jison Yoo and Laia Maynou

‘Progression capitals’: How homeless health peer advocacy impacts peer advocates

Pj Annand, Lucy Platt, Sujit D. Rathod, Paniz Hosseini and Andrew Guise

The path towards herd immunity: Predicting COVID-19 vaccination uptake through results from a stated choice study across six continents

Stephane Hess, Emily Lancsar, Petr Mariel, Jürgen Meyerhoff, Fangqing Song, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Olufunke A. Alaba, Gloria Amaris, Julian Arellana, Leonardo J. Basso, Jamie Benson, Luis Bravo-Moncayo, Olivier Chanel, Syngjoo Choi, Romain Crastes dit Sourd, Helena Bettella Cybis, Zack Dorner, Paolo Falco, Luis Garzón-Pérez, Kathryn Glass, Luis A. Guzman, Zhiran Huang, Elisabeth Huynh, Bongseop Kim, Abisai Konstantinus, Iyaloo Konstantinus, Ana Margarita Larranaga, Alberto Longo, Becky P.Y. Loo, Malte Oehlmann, Vikki O'Neill, Juan de Dios Ortúzar, María José Sanz, Olga L. Sarmiento, Hazvinei Tamuka Moyo, Steven Tucker, Yacan Wang, Yu Wang, Edward J.D. Webb, Junyi Zhang and Mark H.P. Zuidgeest

Optimal subscription models to pay for antibiotics

Euan Barlow, Alec Morton, Itamar Megiddo and Abigail Colson

Applying an extended protection motivation theory to predict Covid-19 vaccination intentions and uptake in 50–64 year olds in the UK

Bethany Griffin, Mark Conner and Paul Norman

Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 era

Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor, Grace Akello, Lawrence Babawo, Moses Baluku, Alice Desclaux, Catherine Grant, Foday Kamara, Marion Nyakoi, Melissa Parker, Paul Richards, Esther Mokuwa, Bob Okello, Kelley Sams and Khoudia Sow

Development and Validation of the Trust in My Doctor, Trust in Doctors in General, and Trust in the Health Care Team Scales

Jennifer Richmond, Marcella H. Boynton, Sachiko Ozawa, Kathryn E. Muessig, Samuel Cykert and Kurt M. Ribisl

The influence of Continuous Quality Improvement on healthcare quality: A mixed-methods study from Zimbabwe

Anna D. Gage, Tamar Gotsadze, Endris Seid, Ronald Mutasa and Jed Friedman

Social exclusion at the intersections of immigration, employment, and healthcare policy: A qualitative study of Mexican and Chinese immigrants in California

Michelle K. Nakphong, Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Brenda Morales, Iris Y. Guzman-Ruiz, Lei Chen and Kathryn G. Kietzman

The politics of mask-wearing: Political preferences, reactance, and conflict aversion during COVID

Dannagal G. Young, Huma Rasheed, Amy Bleakley and Jessica B. Langbaum

Therapeutic citizens or therapeutic refugees? An examination of triage, refugeehood, and referral health care in Tanzania

Zachary Obinna Enumah

COVID-19 lockdown and housing deprivation across European countries

Luis Ayala, Elena Barcena-Martin, Olga Cantó and Carolina Navarro

Changing healthcare professionals' non-reflective processes to improve the quality of care

Sebastian Potthoff, Dominika Kwasnicka, Leah Avery, Tracy Finch, Benjamin Gardner, Nelli Hankonen, Derek Johnston, Marie Johnston, Gerjo Kok, Phillippa Lally, Gregory Maniatopoulos, Marta M. Marques, Nicola McCleary, Justin Presseau, Tim Rapley, Tom Sanders, Gill ten Hoor, Luke Vale, Bas Verplanken and Jeremy M. Grimshaw

Long-term improvement of psychological well-being in the workplace: What and how

Xiangdan Piao and Shunsuke Managi

Informal payments and patients’ perceptions of the physician agency problem: Evidence from rural China

Mingqiang Li, Zhihui Li and Yip, Chi-Man (Winnie)

Fractured lives in fractured cities: Towards a critical understanding of urban violence in the context of market-driven urban restructuring processes in Bogotá and Rio de Janeiro

Elis Borde and Mario Hernández-Álvarez

Life expectancies across congressional districts in the United States

Aya Takai, Akhil Kumar, Rockli Kim and S.V. Subramanian

Genetic testing and family entanglements

Rebecca Dimond, Shane Doheny, Lisa Ballard and Angus Clarke

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the continuity of care for at-risk patients in Swiss primary care settings: A mixed-methods study

Michael J. Deml, Julia Minnema, Julie Dubois, Oliver Senn, Sven Streit, Yael Rachamin and Katharina Tabea Jungo

Vaccine discourse in white nationalist online communication: A mixed-methods computational approach

Dror Walter, Yotam Ophir, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu and Meredith L. Pruden

“Am I really alive?”: Understanding the role of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in young LGBT+ people's suicidal distress

Hazel Marzetti, Lisa McDaid and Rory O'Connor

Under the ‘weight’ of norms: Social representations of overweight and obesity among Brazilian, French and Spanish dietitians and laywomen

Maria Clara de Moraes Prata Gaspar, Priscila de Morais Sato and Fernanda Baeza Scagliusi

Negotiating ‘the problem’ in GP home visits to people with dementia

Jemima Dooley and Dr Rebecca Barnes

Dual pharmaceutical citizenship: Exploring biomedicalization in the daily lives of mixed HIV-serostatus couples in Canada

Molly Ryan, Joshua B. Mendelsohn, Amrita Daftary, Minhui Yang, Sandra Bullock, Bertrand Lebouché and Liviana Calzavara

Be like the running water: Assessing gendered and age-based water insecurity experiences with Six Nations First Nation

Sarah Duignan, Tina Moffat and Dawn Martin-Hill

Associations between multiple indicators of discrimination and allostatic load among middle-aged adults

Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Ichiro Kawachi, Kellee White, Mary T. Bassett and David R. Williams

Associations of family subjective socioeconomic status with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in emerging adulthood: A daily diary study

Wenjing Yan, Linting Zhang, Wenjie Li, Xuqun You and Feng Kong

Conditional risk perception and protection behavior: Testing the behavior motivation hypothesis and the risk reappraisal hypothesis

Hye Kyung Kim, Sungeun Chung, Youllee Kim and Seoin Lee

Contextual factors of external inspections and mechanisms for improvement in healthcare organizations: A realist evaluation

Einar Hovlid, Gunnar Husabø, Inger Lise Teig, Kjersti Halvorsen and Jan C. Frich

Male partners of female sex workers: The intersectional risk environment of HIV/AIDS in a Kampala informal settlement

Megan Schmidt-Sane

Inside the ‘black box’ of COVID-19 vaccination beliefs: Revealing the relative importance of public confidence and news consumption habits

Jennifer A. Lueck and Timothy Callaghan

Gender inequality and mammography screening: Does living with a partner improve women's mammography uptake?

Vladimir Jolidon

Relating to moral injuries: Dutch mental health practitioners on moral injury among military and police workers

Teun Eikenaar

The devolution of eugenic practices: Sexual and reproductive health and oppression of people with intellectual disability

David McConnell and Shanon Phelan