Social Science & Medicine

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2022, volume 295, articles C

Gendered syndemic of intimate partner violence, alcohol misuse, and HIV risk among peri-urban, heterosexual men in South Africa

Abigail M. Hatcher, Andrew Gibbs, Ruari-Santiago McBride, Dumisani Rebombo, Mzwakhe Khumalo and Nicola J. Christofides

Internet gaming, embodied distress, and psychosocial well-being: A syndemic-syndaimonic continuum

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G. Lacy and Steven W. Cole

Applying an intersectional framework to understand syndemic conditions among young Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men

Katherine G. Quinn

The impact of a syndemic theory-based intervention on HIV transmission risk behaviour among men who have sex with men in India: Pretest-posttest non-equivalent comparison group trial

Venkatesan Chakrapani, Manmeet Kaur, Alexander C. Tsai, Peter A. Newman and Rajesh Kumar

Assessing a syndemic: Gibraltar in the time of cholera

Larry A. Sawchuk, Lianne Tripp and Mahinda Samakaroon

Localizing syndemics: A comparative study of hunger, stigma, suffering, and crime exposure in three Haitian communities

Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich, Michael Galvin and James Lachaud

Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon

Paula Skye Tallman, Amy R. Riley-Powell, Lara Schwarz, Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich, Todd Southgate, Cynthia Pace, Armando Valdés-Velásquez, Stella M. Hartinger, Valerie A. Paz-Soldán and Gwenyth O. Lee

The syndemic effects of food insecurity, water insecurity, and HIV on depressive symptomatology among Kenyan women

Godfred O. Boateng, Cassandra L. Workman, Joshua D. Miller, Maricianah Onono, Torsten B. Neilands and Sera L. Young

Exploring syndemic vulnerability across generations: A case study of a former fishing village in the Netherlands

M. Nienke Slagboom, Mathilde R. Crone and Ria Reis

Using syndemic theory to understand food insecurity and diet-related chronic diseases

David Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero-Daza, Jacquelyn Heuer, William Lucas, Abraham A. Salinas-Miranda and Theresa Stoddard

Syndemic statuses: Intersectionality and mobilizing for LGBTQ+ Latinx health equity after the Pulse shooting

Nolan Kline

Syndemics theory must take local context seriously: An example of measures for poverty, mental health, and food insecurity

Lesley Jo Weaver and Bonnie N. Kaiser

Spatial epidemiology: An empirical framework for syndemics research

Shikhar Shrestha, Cici X.C. Bauer, Brian Hendricks and Thomas J. Stopka

Syndemic effects in complex humanitarian emergencies: A framework for understanding political violence and improving multi-morbidity health outcomes

Brandon A. Kohrt and Lauren Carruth

Testing the waters: Syndemic gastrointestinal distress in Lambaréné, Gabon, 1926–1932

Dylan Atchley Proctor

Syndemic thinking in large-scale studies: Case studies of disability, hypertension, and diabetes across income groups in India and China

Akshar Saxena and Emily Mendenhall

Syndemic anemia in British Malaya: An early global health encounter with hookworm and malaria co-infections in plantation workers

James L.A. Webb

Malnutrition, illness, poverty, and infant growth: A test of a syndemic hypothesis in Nuñoa, Peru

Morgan K. Hoke and Kimberly A. McCabe

The multidimensional clustering of health and its ecological risk factors

Noli Brazil

Intersectionality and syndemics: A commentary

Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Adia Benton

Intersectionality and Syndemics: A Reply to Sangaramoorthy and Benton

Nolan Kline

2022, volume 294, articles C

Declining violence and improving birth outcomes in the US: Evidence from birth certificate data

Nicholas D.E. Mark and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa

Confident futures: Community-based organizations as first responders and agents of change in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic

Nastasja Ilonka Roels, Amarilys Estrella, Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo, Rayna Rapp, Helena Hansen and Anita Hardon

‘Is this something I should be worried about?’: A study of nurses' recontextualisation work when making clinical decisions based on patient reported outcome data

Rikke Torenholt and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen

Trajectories and individual determinants of regular cancer screening use over a long period based on data from the French E3N cohort

Clara Dugord and Carine Franc

The social life of biomedical data: Capturing, obscuring, and envisioning care in the digital safety-net

Taylor Marion Cruz

Life course linkages between enriching early-life activities and later life cognition: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

Emily A. Greenfield, Addam Reynolds and Sara M. Moorman

The impact of mental health support for the chronically ill on hospital utilisation: Evidence from the UK

Jonathan Gruber, Grace Lordan, Stephen Pilling, Carol Propper and Rob Saunders

Differences by sex and gender in the association between minority stress and alcohol use among sexual and gender minority youth: A daily diary study

W.J. Kiekens, L. Baams and R. Veenstra

Longitudinal effects of physical and social neighbourhood change on suicide mortality: A full population cohort study among movers and non-movers in the Netherlands

Paulien Hagedoorn and Marco Helbich

Supportive environments during the substance use disorder epidemic in the rural United States: Provider support for interventions and expectations of interactions with providers

Thomas C. O'Brien, Judith Feinberg, Robert Gross and Dolores Albarracín

Multi-dimensional factors related to participation in a population-wide mass COVID-19 testing program among Hong Kong adults: A population-based randomized survey

Meiqi Xin, Joseph Tak-fai Lau and Mason M.C. Lau

Association between community average body mass index and perception of overweight

Xiaoqi Feng and Andrew Wilson

Bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure: Assembling the Philippine Government's disciplinary quarantine response to COVID-19

Nico A. Canoy, Augil Marie Q. Robles and Gilana Kim T. Roxas

Health outcomes in redlined versus non-redlined neighborhoods: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Eun Kyung Lee, Gwendolyn Donley, Timothy H. Ciesielski, India Gill, Owusua Yamoah, Abigail Roche, Roberto Martinez and Darcy A. Freedman

The short- and long-term effects of the Great Recession on late-life depression in Europe: The role of area deprivation

Benjamin Aretz

Women, men and COVID-19

Yeva Aleksanyan and Jason P. Weinman

Jab my arm, not my morality: Perceived moral reproach as a barrier to COVID-19 vaccine uptake

Daniel L. Rosenfeld and A. Janet Tomiyama

“Land is everything, land is us”: Exploring the connections between climate change, land, and health in Fort William First Nation

Lindsay P. Galway, Elizabeth Esquega and Kelsey Jones-Casey

Psychosocial trajectories before and after spousal loss: Does gender matter?

Heesoo Yoon, Gum-Ryeong Park and Jinho Kim

Changes in the health and broader well-being of U.S. veterans in the first three years after leaving military service: Overall trends and group differences

Dawne Vogt, Shelby C. Borowski, Lauren R. Godier-McBard, Matt J. Fossey, Laurel A. Copeland, Daniel F. Perkins and Erin P. Finley

Engagement in leisure activities and depression in older adults in the United States: Longitudinal evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Jessica K. Bone, Feifei Bu, Meg E. Fluharty, Elise Paul, Jill K. Sonke and Daisy Fancourt

The impact of climate change on children's nutritional status in coastal Bangladesh

S.M. Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Nidhiya Menon and Agnes Quisumbing

Does perceived social mobility affect health? Evidence from a fixed effects approach

Alexi Gugushvili, Olga Zelinska, Patrick Präg and Grzegorz Bulczak

How do embodied experiences of asthma influence caregiver conceptual models?

Julie Spray, Jean Hunleth, Sienna Ruiz, Julia Maki, David A. Fedele, Sreekala Prabhakaran, Hannah Fechtel, James A. Shepperd, Deborah J. Bowen and Erika A. Waters

Accountable care organizations and physician antibiotic prescribing behavior

Svetlana Beilfuss, Sebastian Linde and Brandon Norton

Government of Ethiopia's public works and complementary programmes: A mixed-methods study on pathways to reduce intimate partner violence

Meghna Ranganathan, Marjorie Pichon, Melissa Hidrobo, Heleene Tambet, Wastina Sintayehu, Seifu Tadesse and Ana Maria Buller

Understanding the role of scars in adults' narratives of childhood liver transplantation: A sociological perspective

Karen Lowton and Paul Higgs

Patient participation in priority setting: Co-existing participant roles

Mette B. Steffensen, Christina L. Matzen and Sarah Wadmann

Not ‘putting a name to it’: Managing uncertainty in the diagnosis of childhood obesity

Iliya Gutin

The passivists: Managing risk through institutionalized ignorance in genomic medicine

Kellie Owens

Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying and contextualizing variation

Ann Caroline Danielsen, Katharine MN Lee, Marion Boulicault, Tamara Rushovich, Annika Gompers, Amelia Tarrant, Meredith Reiches, Heather Shattuck-Heidorn, Luke W. Miratrix and Sarah S. Richardson

The body politics of successful ageing in the nexus of health, well-being and energy consumption practices

Ross Gordon, Theresa Harada and Fiona Spotswood

Heroes, victims, and villains in news media narratives about COVID-19. Analysing moralising discourse in Swedish newspaper reporting during the spring of 2020

Frida Skog and Ragnar Lundström

Interaction order and the labeling of disorder: How parents mobilize personal knowledge in the clinic to resist medicalization of their children's behavior

Jason Turowetz

Ethnic/racial and gender differences in disordered eating behavior prevalence trajectories among women and men from adolescence into adulthood

Melissa Simone, Susan Telke, Lisa M. Anderson, Marla Eisenberg and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

Comparison of three indices of relative income deprivation in predicting health status

Krisztina Gero, Aki Yazawa, Naoki Kondo, Masamichi Hanazato, Katsunori Kondo and Ichiro Kawachi

Outpatient mental health service use following contact with primary health care among migrants in Norway: A national register study

Melanie L. Straiton, Aart C. Liefbroer, Anna-Clara Hollander and Lars Johan Hauge

Embracing and rejecting the medicalization of autism in Italy

Alice Scavarda and M. Ariel Cascio

Private provider incentives in health care: The case of caesarean births

Serena Yu, Denzil Fiebig, Rosalie Viney, Vanessa Scarf and Caroline Homer

Do patients and other stakeholders value health service quality equally? A prospect theory based choice experiment in cataract care

Aline C. Stolk-Vos, Arthur Attema, Michele Manzulli and Joris J. van de Klundert