Social Science & Medicine

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2022, volume 297, articles C

State and regional estimates using seven cycles of pooled nationally representative HINTS data

Lee Harding, Ronaldo Iachan, Kelly Martin, Yangyang Deng, Deirdre Middleton, Richard Moser and Kelly Blake

Healthier over time? Period effects in health among older Europeans in a step-wise approach to identification

Michal Myck and Monika Oczkowska

Mental health monitoring apps for depression and anxiety in children and young people: A scoping review and critical ecological analysis

Jessy E. Williams and Jessica Pykett

It's giving me the blues: A fixed-effects and g-formula approach to understanding job insecurity, sleep disturbances, and major depression

Robin S. Högnäs, Maarten J. Bijlsma, Ulf Högnäs, Sandra Blomqvist, Hugo Westerlund and Linda Magnusson Hanson

Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine

Susie Weller, Kate Lyle and Anneke Lucassen

“There is no standard vulva”: Sanitized vs. contextualized instruction of hands-on medical skills

Bex MacFife

“Dirty looks”: A critical phenomenology of motorized mobility scooter use

Alfiya Battalova, Laura Hurd, Sandra Hobson, R. Lee Kirby, Richelle Emery and W. Ben Mortenson

“The kind of doctor who doesn't believe doctor knows best”: Doctors for Choice and the medical voice in Irish abortion politics, 2002–2018

Sadie Bergen

Covid-19 vaccination, fear and anxiety: Evidence from Google search trends

Haithem Awijen, Younes Ben Zaied and Duc Khuong Nguyen

The longitudinal effect of COVID-19 infections and lockdown on mental health and the protective effect of neighbourhood social relations

James O'Donnell, Diana Cárdenas, Nima Orazani, Ann Evans and Katherine J. Reynolds

Assessing the association between Corporate Financial Influence and implementation of policies to tackle commercial determinants of non-communicable diseases: A cross-sectional analysis of 172 countries

Luke N. Allen, Simon Wigley and Hampus Holmer

The reciprocal longitudinal relationship between body mass index and subjective well-being in China

Junyan Fang, Zhonglin Wen, Jinying Ouyang, Guomin Huang and Xiqin Liu

Distributive justice in environmental health hazards from industrial contamination: A systematic review of national and near-national assessments of social inequalities

Di Fonzo Davide, Fabri Alessandra and Pasetto Roberto

Elder abuse and cognitive function among community-Dwelling older adults: Does abuse history matter?

Mengting Li and XinQi Dong

2022, volume 296, articles C

Integration of perinatal mental health care into district health services in Uganda: Why is it not happening? The Four Domain Integrated Health (4DIH) explanatory framework

Nandini D.P. Sarkar, Florence Baingana and Bart Criel

Household overcrowding trajectories and mental well-being

Jaime Ruiz-Tagle and Ignacio Urria

The QALY at 50: One story many voices

Anne Spencer, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Ruth Wong, Aki Tsuchiya, Han Bleichrodt, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Richard Norman, Andrew Lloyd and Philip Clarke

Integrating network theory into the study of integrated healthcare

Lawton R. Burns, Ingrid M. Nembhard and Stephen M. Shortell

Reciprocal relationships among influenza experiences, perceptions, and behavior: Results from a national, longitudinal survey of United States adults

Sarah A. Nowak, Andrew M. Parker, Courtney A. Gidengil, Andrea S. Richardson, Matthew M. Walsh, David P. Kennedy and Raffaele Vardavas

A qualitative approach to bridging and bonding social capital: Experiences of a cohort of Chilean older people

María-José Torrejón and Anne Martin-Matthews

Qualitative study of candidacy and access to secondary mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic

Elisa Liberati, Natalie Richards, Jennie Parker, Janet Willars, David Scott, Nicola Boydell, Vanessa Pinfold, Graham Martin, Peter B. Jones and Mary Dixon-Woods

Affordances of home drinking in accounts from light and heavy drinkers

Sarah MacLean, Robin Room, Megan Cook, Janette Mugavin and Sarah Callinan

The interplay between time spent gaming and disordered gaming: A large-scale world-wide study

Halley M. Pontes, Bruno Schivinski, Christopher Kannen and Christian Montag

Association of parental dissatisfaction and perceived inequality of post-disaster recovery process with child mental health

Yuna Koyama, Takeo Fujiwara, Junko Yagi and Hirobumi Mashiko

Public support for policies to improve population and planetary health: A population-based online experiment assessing impact of communicating evidence of multiple versus single benefits

Eleni Mantzari, James P. Reynolds, Susan A. Jebb, Gareth J. Hollands, Mark A. Pilling and Theresa M. Marteau

Supply-demand adjusted two-steps floating catchment area (SDA-2SFCA) model for measuring spatial access to health care

Yaxiong Shao and Wei Luo

Measuring effectiveness in community-based palliative care programs: A systematic review

Erin Vernon, M. Courtney Hughes and Monica Kowalczyk

Mapping the complex causal mechanisms of drinking and driving behaviors among adolescents and young adults

Niyousha Hosseinichimeh, Rod MacDonald, Kaigang Li, James C. Fell, Denise L. Haynie, Bruce Simons-Morton, Barbara C. Banz, Deepa R. Camenga, Ronald J. Iannotti, Leslie A. Curry, James Dziura, Linda C. Mayes, David F. Andersen and Federico E. Vaca

What do we know about the impact of economic recessions on mortality inequalities? A critical review

Joan Benach, Álvaro Padilla-Pozo, Eliana Martínez-Herrera, Juan Camilo Molina-Betancur, Manuela Gutiérrez, Juan M. Pericàs, Mariana Gutiérrez-Zamora Navarro and Christos Zografos

Cutting Women: Unnecessary cesareans as iatrogenesis and obstetric violence

Vania Smith-Oka

From sustainability to sustaining work: What do actors do to sustain knowledge translation platforms?

Robert A.J. Borst, Rik Wehrens, Roland Bal and Maarten Olivier Kok

Intergenerational transmission of health behaviors in a changing demographic context: The case of smoking and alcohol consumption

Matthijs Kalmijn

Wingman-Connect Program increases social integration for Air Force personnel at elevated suicide risk: Social network analysis of a cluster RCT

Peter A. Wyman, Trevor A. Pickering, Anthony R. Pisani, Ian Cero, Bryan Yates, Karen Schmeelk-Cone, C. Hendricks Brown, Robert D. Gibbons, Jordan Simonson and Steven E. Pflanz

Empowerment in pregnancy: ART adherence among women living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa

Kira DiClemente-Bosco, Alison Z. Weber, Abigail Harrison, Nokwazi Tsawe, Zanele Rini, Kirsty Brittain, Christopher J. Colvin, Landon Myer and Jennifer A. Pellowski

Effects of ‘doctor shopping’ behaviour on prescription of addictive drugs in Sweden

Yana V. Zykova, Andrea Mannberg and Øystein Myrland

Maternal education, health care system and child health: Evidence from India

Sohini Paul, Sourabh Paul, Ashish Kumar Gupta and K.S. James

Patient cost-sharing, mental health care and inequalities: A population-based natural experiment at the transition to adulthood

Francisca Vargas Lopes, Carlos J. Riumallo Herl, Johan P. Mackenbach and Tom Van Ourti

Marginal men, respectable masculinity and access to HIV services through intimate relationships with female sex workers in Kampala, Uganda

Martin Mbonye, Godfrey Siu and Janet Seeley

Government-sponsored disinformation and the severity of respiratory infection epidemics including COVID-19: A global analysis, 2001–2020

Thung-Hong Lin, Min-Chiao Chang, Chun-Chih Chang and Ya-Hsuan Chou

Long-term care insurance and the well-being of older adults and their families: Evidence from China

Xiaoyan Lei, Chen Bai, Jingpeng Hong and Hong Liu

A review of the effectiveness and experiences of welfare advice services co-located in health settings: A critical narrative systematic review

Sian Reece, Trevor A. Sheldon, Josie Dickerson and Kate E. Pickett

In a life full of risks, COVID-19 makes little difference. Responses to COVID-19 among mobile migrants in gold mining areas in Suriname and French Guiana

Marieke Heemskerk, François-Michel Le Tourneau, Helene Hiwat, Hedley Cairo and Pierre Pratley

Latent profile analysis as a method for process evaluations: Discovering response subgroups in a mindfulness intervention

Marguerite M. Beattie, Hanna M. Konttinen, Salla-Maarit Volanen and Nelli E. Hankonen

Race, place, and HIV: The legacies of apartheid and racist policy in South Africa

Griffin J. Bell, Jabulani Ncayiyana, Ari Sholomon, Varun Goel, Khangelani Zuma and Michael Emch

“Sex is supposed to be naturally more pleasurable”: Healers as providers of holistic sexual and reproductive healthcare in Uganda

Erin V. Moore, William Ddaaki, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Larry Chang, Fred Nalugoda and John S. Santelli

Stock market fluctuation and stroke incidence: A time series study in Eastern China

Fudong Li, Jieming Zhong, Fan He, Hao Wang, Junfen Lin and Min Yu

Using Electronic Health Records to understand the population of local children captured in a large health system in Durham County, NC, USA, and implications for population health research

Allison Stolte, M. Giovanna Merli, Jillian H. Hurst, Yaxing Liu, Charles T. Wood and Benjamin A. Goldstein

“How deep do I have to cut?“: Non-suicidal self-injury and imagined communities of practice on Tumblr

Federica Guccini and Gerald McKinley

Exploring a theory of change: Are increases in parental empowerment associated with healthier weight-related parenting practices?

Cristina M. Gago, Janine Jurkowski, Jacob P. Beckerman-Hsu, Alyssa Aftosmes-Tobio, Roger Figueroa, Carly Oddleifson, Josiemer Mattei, Erica L. Kenney, Sebastien Haneuse and Kirsten K. Davison

The effects of India's COVID-19 lockdown on critical non-COVID health care and outcomes: Evidence from dialysis patients

Radhika Jain and Pascaline Dupas

Invitations, incentives, and conditions: A randomized evaluation of demand-side interventions for health screenings

Damien de Walque, Adanna Chukwuma, Nono Ayivi-Guedehoussou and Marianna Koshkakaryan

Reasoning for autonomous suicide? A qualitative approach to pre-suicidal decision-making

Hannah Mrozynski and Eva Kuhn

Empowered but abused? A moderated mediation analysis to explore the relationship between wife's relative resources, relational empowerment and physical abuse

Vanita Singh and Karan Babbar

Information trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy amongst middle-aged and older adults in Singapore: A latent class analysis Approach

Micah Tan, Paulin Tay Straughan and Grace Cheong

Racial discrimination and health among two generations of African American couples

Ashley B. Barr, Ronald L. Simons, Steven R.H. Beach and Leslie Gordon Simons

Does armed conflict increase individuals’ religiosity as a means for coping with the adverse psychological effects of wars?

Ori Shai

Universal health coverage and public-private arrangements within Sri Lanka's mixed health system: Perspectives from women seeking healthcare

Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Rupaleem Bhuyan and Josephine Pui-Hing Wong

Understanding the mental health effects of instability in the private rental sector: A longitudinal analysis of a national cohort

Ang Li, Emma Baker and Rebecca Bentley

SHIFTing artificial intelligence to be responsible in healthcare: A systematic review

Haytham Siala and Yichuan Wang

Proposing network analysis for early life adversity: An application on life event data

Tjeerd Rudmer de Vries, Iris Arends, Naja Hulvej Rod, Albertine J. Oldehinkel and Ute Bültmann

From scarcity to sisterhood: The framing of egg donation on fertility clinic websites in the UK, Belgium and Spain

Catherine Coveney, Nicky Hudson, Sara Lafuente- Funes, Lara Jacxsens and Veerle Provoost

Grandparent-grandchild relationships, generativity, subjective well-being and self-rated health of older people in Chile

M. Soledad Herrera, Milda Galkuté, M. Beatriz Fernández and Raúl Elgueta

Rurality and opioid prescribing rates in U.S. counties from 2006 to 2018: A spatiotemporal investigation

Feinuo Sun

Cross-level group density interactions on mental health for cultural, but not economic, components of social class

Christopher W N Saville and Robin Mann

Policy of free GP care for children under 6 years: The impact on daytime and out-of-hours general practice

Therese McDonnell, Emma Nicholson, Gerard Bury, Claire Collins, Ciara Conlon, Kevin Denny, Michael O'Callaghan and Eilish McAuliffe

Stigma and blame related to COVID-19 pandemic: A case-study of editorial cartoons in Canada

Fabienne Labbé, Catherine Pelletier, Julie A. Bettinger, Janet Curran, Janice E. Graham, Devon Greyson, Noni E. MacDonald, Samantha B. Meyer, Audrey Steenbeek, Weiai Xu and Ève Dubé

Land loss and the intergenerational transmission of wellbeing: The experience of iwi in Aotearoa New Zealand

Rowan Ropata Macgregor Thom and Arthur Grimes

Professional regulation, profession-state relations and the pandemic response: Australia, Canada, and the UK compared

Tracey L. Adams and Kaitlin Wannamaker

Living through and with the global HIV/AIDS pandemic: Distinct ‘pandemic practices’ and temporalities

Reidar Staupe-Delgado and Olivier Rubin