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2022, volume 293, articles C

The conspiracy of Covid-19 and 5G: Spatial analysis fallacies in the age of data democratization

Eoin Flaherty, Tristan Sturm and Elizabeth Farries

Intersecting racism and homonegativism among sexual minority men of color: Latent class analysis of multidimensional stigma with subgroup differences in health and sociostructural burdens

Eric K. Layland, Jennifer L. Maggs, Michele D. Kipke and Bethany C. Bray

Diversified demand for health tourism matters: From a perspective of the intra-industry trade

Lei Jiang, Huazhang Wu and Yang Song

Birth registration policies in the United States and their relevance to sexual and/or gender minority families: Identifying existing strengths and areas of improvement

Adary Zhang, Iman Berrahou, Stephanie A. Leonard, Elliott K. Main and Juno Obedin-Maliver

Demand for vaccination in Sub-Saharan Africa: The vertical legacy of the slave trade

Laure Athias and Moudo Macina

The ‘good life’, personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda

Jude Robinson, Anna Chiumento, Rosco Kasujja, Theoneste Rutayisire and Ross White

Saving Grace? Religious ecology and deaths of despair

Christopher Seto

Feeling unsafe as a source of psychological distress in early adolescence

Riccardo Valente and Lucrezia Crescenzi-Lanna

Role of trust in sustaining provision and uptake of maternal and child healthcare: Evidence from a national programme in Nigeria

Nkoli Ezumah, Ana Manzano, Uchenna Ezenwaka, Uche Obi, Tim Ensor, Enyi Etiaba, Obinna Onwujekwe, Bassey Ebenso, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Reinhard Huss and Tolib Mirzoev

Labeling, causal attributions, and social network ties to people with mental illness

Erin Pullen, Emily A. Ekl, Elizabeth Felix, Christopher Turner, Brea L. Perry and Bernice A. Pescosolido

The perspective of professional caregivers working in generalist palliative care on ‘good dying’: An integrative review

Alexander Lang, Elisabeth Frankus and Katharina Heimerl

“Dedicated to being healthy”: Young adults’ deployments of health-focused cultural capital

Stefanie Mollborn and Adenife Modile

Coming together after standing apart: What predicts felt safety in the post-coronavirus crowd?

Thomas A. Morton and Séamus A. Power

“I let others speak about condoms:” Muslim religious leaders’ selective engagement with an NGO-Led family planning project in rural Tanzania

Mohamed Yunus Rafiq, Hannah Wheatley, Rashid Salti, Aloisia Shemdoe, Jitihada Baraka and Hildegalda Mushi

Hopeful adaptation after acquired brain injury: The case of late referrals in the Netherlands

Louise Meijering and Ant Lettinga

Innovative methods to analyse the impact of gender norms on adolescent health using global health survey data

Beniamino Cislaghi, Ann M. Weber, Holly B. Shakya, Safa Abdalla, Amiya Bhatia, Benjamin W. Domingue, Iván Mejía-Guevara, Lindsay Stark, Ilana Seff, Linda M. Richter, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes, Cesar G. Victora and Gary L. Darmstadt

Neighborhood structural disadvantage and biological aging in a sample of Black middle age and young adults

Man-Kit Lei, Mark T. Berg, Ronald L. Simons and Steven R.H. Beach

The sociocultural mechanism of obesity: The influence of gender role attitudes on obesity and the gender gap

Jun He and Yongxiang Xie

Effects of integrated psychosocial stimulation (PS) and Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) on Children's development in rural Bangladesh: A cluster randomized controlled trial

Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Bharaty Rani Roy, Hasan Mahmud Sujon, Thach Tran, Jane Fisher, Fahmida Tofail, Shams El Arifeen and Jena Derakhshani Hamadani

Indigenous-specific cultural safety within health and dementia care: A scoping review of reviews

Christina Chakanyuka, Juanita-Dawne R. Bacsu, Andrea DesRoches, Jessy Dame, Leah Carrier, Paisly Symenuk, Megan E. O'Connell, Lynden Crowshoe, Jennifer Walker and Lisa Bourque Bearskin

Long term impact of Hurricane Sandy on hospital admissions of older adults

Laura P. Sands, Quyen Do, Pang Du, Yunnan Xu and Rachel Pruchno

Spatiotemporal trends in life expectancy and impacts of economic growth and air pollution in 134 countries: A Bayesian modeling study

Shaobin Wang, Zhoupeng Ren, Xianglong Liu and Qian Yin

Changes in social relationships by the initiation and termination of public assistance in the older Japanese population: A JAGES panel study

Shiho Kino, Daisuke Nishioka, Keiko Ueno, Masashige Saito and Naoki Kondo

To what extent do citizens support the disinvestment of healthcare interventions? An exploration of the support for four viewpoints on active disinvestment in the Netherlands

Adriënne H. Rotteveel, Mattijs S. Lambooij, Job van Exel and G. Ardine de Wit

The gender responsiveness of social entrepreneurship in health – A review of initiatives by Ashoka fellows

Shazmin Khalid, Shrijna Dixon and Lavanya Vijayasingham

How do social and economic vulnerabilities shape the work of participating in care? Everyday experiences of people living with kidney failure in Argentina

Javier Roberti, Juan Pedro Alonso, Leandro Blas and Carl May

Reducing the burdens of forced abortion travel: Referrals, financial and emotional support, and opportunities for positive experiences in traveling for third-trimester abortion care

Katrina Kimport

Becoming skeptical towards vaccines: How health views shape the trajectories following health-related events

Josje ten Kate, Willem de Koster and Jeroen van der Waal

Sociomaterialities of health, risk and care during COVID-19: Experiences of Australians living with a medical condition

Deborah Lupton and Sophie Lewis

Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context

Cameron W. Piercy and Angela N. Gist-Mackey

Cannabis decriminalization and racial disparity in arrests for cannabis possession

Christian Gunadi and Yuyan Shi

Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles

Rita Latikka, Aki Koivula, Reetta Oksa, Nina Savela and Atte Oksanen

The consequences of early menopause and menopause symptoms for labour market participation

Alex Bryson, Gabriella Conti, Rebecca Hardy, Darina Peycheva and Alice Sullivan

Different roles of interpersonal trust and institutional trust in COVID-19 pandemic control

Hang Yuan, Qinyi Long, Guanglv Huang, Liqin Huang and Siyang Luo

2022, volume 292, articles C

Altruism and vaccination intentions: Evidence from behavioral experiments

Maria Cucciniello, Paolo Pin, Blanka Imre, Gregory A. Porumbescu and Alessia Melegaro

Sexual violence and Australian women: A longitudinal analysis of psychosocial and behavioral outcomes

Robyn Brunton and Rachel Dryer

Toward intersectional and culturally relevant sex and gender analysis in health research

Sarah Rotz, Johnathan Rose, Jeff Masuda, Diana Lewis and Heather Castleden

Social and built neighborhood environments and blood pressure 6 years later: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos and the SOL CASAS ancillary study

Kimberly L. Savin, Scott C. Roesch, Eyal Oren, Jordan A. Carlson, Matthew A. Allison, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, James F. Sallis, Marta M. Jankowska, Gregory A. Talavera, Tasi M. Rodriguez, Earle C. Chambers, Martha Daviglus, Krista M. Perreira, Maria M. Llabre and Linda C. Gallo

Is urban green space associated with lower mental healthcare expenditure?

Thomas Astell-Burt, Michael Navakatikyan, Simon Eckermann, Maree Hackett and Xiaoqi Feng

An EQ-5D-5L value set for Italy using videoconferencing interviews and feasibility of a new mode of administration

Aureliano Paolo Finch, Michela Meregaglia, Oriana Ciani, Bram Roudijk and Claudio Jommi

Resistant bugs, porous borders and ecologies of care in India

Alex Broom and Assa Doron

‘Poverty can break a home’: Exploring mechanisms linking cash plus programming and intimate partner violence in Ghana

Clare Barrington, Amber Peterman, Akalpa J. Akaligaung, Tia Palermo, Marlous de Milliano and Raymond A. Aborigo

Estimating the late-life effects of social and emotional skills in childhood using midlife mediators

Alex J. Turner, Eleonora Fichera and Matt Sutton

Sample sizes for saturation in qualitative research: A systematic review of empirical tests

Monique Hennink and Bonnie N. Kaiser

Keeping in balance on the multimorbidity tightrope: A narrative analysis of older patients’ experiences of living with and managing multimorbidity

Nina Fudge and Deborah Swinglehurst

Opposite nonlinear effects of unemployment and sentiment on male and female suicide rates: Evidence from Australia

Ferdi Botha and Viet Hoang Nguyen

Longer-term impacts of the Oakland, California, sugar-sweetened beverage tax on prices and volume sold at two-years post-tax

Julien Leider and Lisa M. Powell

COVID-19: Early evening curfews and mobility

Alina Velias, Sotiris Georganas and Sotiris Vandoros

Opportunities for technologically driven dialogical health communication for participatory interventions: Perspectives from male peer navigators in rural South Africa

Andrew Gibbs, Dumsani Gumede, Manono Luthuli, Zakhele Xulu, Laura Washington, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Oluwafemi Adeagbo and Maryam Shahmanesh

The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway

Jasmin Haj-Younes, Eirik Abildsnes, Bernadette Kumar and Esperanza Diaz

Trends in absolute and relative educational inequalities in health during times of labour market restructuring in coastal areas: The HUNT Study, Norway

Sofie L. Hjorthen, Erik R. Sund, Věra Skalická, Terje Andreas Eikemo, Linn Okkenhaug Getz and Steinar Krokstad

Longitudinal associations between objective and perceived healthy food environment and diet: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Xing Gao, Joseph Engeda, Latetia V. Moore, Amy H. Auchincloss, Kari Moore and Mahasin S. Mujahid

Revealing the racial and spatial disparity in pediatric asthma: A Kansas City case study

Natalie Kane

Childhood eviction and cognitive development: Developmental timing-specific associations in an urban birth cohort

Gabriel L. Schwartz, Kathryn M. Leifheit, Jarvis T. Chen, Mariana C. Arcaya and Lisa F. Berkman

Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography

Louise Foley, Anna Brugulat-Panés, James Woodcock, Ishtar Govia, Ian Hambleton, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Ebele R.I. Mogo, Alice Charity Awinja, Philip M. Dambisya, Sostina Spiwe Matina, Lisa Micklesfield, Safura Abdool Karim, Lisa Jayne Ware, Marshall Tulloch-Reid, Felix Assah, Caitlin Pley, Nadia Bennett, Georgina Pujol-Busquets, Kufre Okop, Tanmay Anand, Camille M. Mba, Haowen Kwan, Gudani Mukoma, Megha Anil, Lambed Tatah and Lee Randall

A simulation of allocation of participants engaging in group activities at community salons: Accessibility and self-stigma

Hongjik Kim, Hiroyuki Usui, Yasushi Asami and Kimihiro Hino

Restricting the advertising of high fat, salt and sugar foods on the Transport for London estate: Process and implementation study

Rebecca Meiksin, Vanessa Er, Claire Thompson, Jean Adams, Emma Boyland, Thomas Burgoine, Laura Cornelsen, Frank de Vocht, Matt Egan, Amelia A. Lake, Karen Lock, Oliver Mytton, Martin White, Amy Yau and Steven Cummins

Racial disparities for COVID19 mortality in Georgia: Spatial analysis by age based on excess deaths

Jerry Shannon, Amanda Abraham, Grace Bagwell Adams and Mathew Hauer

Exploring equity in accessing diabetes management treatment: A healthcare gap analysis

Ina Tapager, Kim Rose Olsen and Karsten Vrangbæk

Mechanisms for racial separation and inequitable maternal care in hospital maternity wards

Nihaya Daoud, Sirat Abu-Hamad, Alexandra Berger-Polsky, Nadav Davidovitch and Sharon Orshalimy

Cultural reproduction of mental illness stigma and stereotypes

Susan Jacobs and Joseph Quinn

“It's no good but at least I've always got it round my neck”: A postphenomenological analysis of reassurance in assistive technology use by older people

Jennifer Lynch, Gemma Hughes, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Joseph Wherton and Christine A'Court

Modeling epidemic recovery: An expert elicitation on issues and approaches

Monica Schoch-Spana, Sanjana J. Ravi and Elena K. Martin

Contraceptive trajectories postpartum: A longitudinal qualitative study of women living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa

Georgiana McTigue, Alison Swartz, Kirsty Brittain, Zanele Rini, Christopher J. Colvin, Abigail Harrison, Landon Myer and Jennifer Pellowski

The relative value of carer and patient quality of life: A person trade-off (PTO) study

Hareth Al-Janabi, Eve Wittenberg, Cam Donaldson and Werner Brouwer

How active can preschoolers be at home? Parents' and grandparents' perceptions of children's day-to-day activity, with implications for physical activity policy

Sabine Parrish, Anna Lavis, Caroline M. Potter, Stanley Ulijaszek, Paulina Nowicka and Karin Eli

Pathways from exposure to racial/ethnic discrimination to depression: Testing a social-cognitive model

Emilia E. Mikrut, Luke H. Keating, Patrick V. Barnwell, Loriann Cioffi, Destiny Vega, Richard J. Contrada and Elizabeth Brondolo

Parents and coaches as transformational leaders: Motivating high school athletes’ intentions to report concussion symptoms across socioeconomic statuses

Dee Warmath, Andrew P. Winterstein and Susan Myrden

Neighborhood built environment associated with cognition and dementia risk among older adults: A systematic literature review

Xi Chen, Chanam Lee and Hao Huang

Nudges for COVID-19 voluntary vaccination: How to explain peer information?

Shusaku Sasaki, Tomoya Saito and Fumio Ohtake

Frames that matter: Increasing the willingness to get the Covid-19 vaccines

Sean M. Diament, Ayse Kaya and Ellen B. Magenheim

“Whatever you hide, also hides you”: A discourse analysis on mental health and service use in an American community of Somalis

Georgia J. Michlig, Crista Johnson-Agbakwu and Pamela J. Surkan

Two sides to every coin: Assessing the effects of moving physicians to employment contracts

Rachel Gifford, Eric Molleman and Taco van der Vaart

Interactions between parental and personal socioeconomic resources and self-rated health: Adjudicating between the resource substitution and resource multiplication theories

Gerry Veenstra and Adam Vanzella-Yang

Understanding suicide clusters through exploring self-harm: Semi-structured interviews with individuals presenting with near-fatal self-harm during a suicide cluster

Ann John, Amanda Marchant, Keith Hawton, David Gunnell, Louise Cleobury, Susan Thomson, Sarah Spencer, Michael Dennis, Keith Lloyd and Jonathan Scourfield

Pharmaceutical messianism and the COVID-19 pandemic

Gideon Lasco and Vincen Gregory Yu

Medical practitioners’ views and experiences of being involved in assisted dying in Victoria, Australia: A qualitative interview study among participating doctors

Marcus Sellars, Ben P. White, Patsy Yates and Lindy Willmott

Social protection expenditure on health in later life in 20 European countries: Spending more to reduce health inequalities

Stefan Sieber, Dan Orsholits, Boris Cheval, Andreas Ihle, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Cyrille Delpierre, Claudine Burton-Jeangros and Stéphane Cullati

Conceptualizing the digitalization of healthcare work: A metaphor-based Critical Interpretive Synthesis

Chiara Carboni, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen and Antoinette de Bont

The vicious cycle of distrust: Access, quality, and efficiency within a post-communist mental health system

Sigita Doblytė

Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities

Andrew M. Subica and Bruce G. Link

What matters to persons living with brain tumors and their informal caregivers? An interview study of qualities in interpersonal relations

Marie Dahlberg, Ami Bylund, Petter Gustavsson, Teresa Herlestam Calero and Carolina Wannheden

Healthcare policy by other means: Cancer clinical research as “oncopolicy”

Alberto Cambrosio, Jonah Campbell, Peter Keating, Jessica B. Polk, Adriana Aguilar-Mahecha and Mark Basik

The German Organ Transplant Scandal - Unwritten rules of organizational wrongdoings

Markus Pohlmann, Kristina Höly and Maria Eugenia Trombini

Research-based Theatre about veterans transitioning home: A mixed-methods evaluation of audience impacts

Jennica Nichols, Susan M. Cox, Christina Cook, Graham W. Lea and George Belliveau

“Thinking with my dad brain, not my man brain”: Understanding Men's and Women's sterilization risk narratives

Alexandra Kissling

Religious attendance and global cognitive function: A fixed-effects cross-lagged panel modeling study of older U.S. adults

Aniruddha Das

What's in the refrigerator? Using an adapted material culture approach to understand health practices and eating habits in the home

Tess Bird and Tenna Jensen

Mental health, family functioning, and sleep in cultural context among American Indian/Alaska Native urban youth: A mixed methods analysis

Alina I. Palimaru, Lu Dong, Ryan A. Brown, Elizabeth J. D'Amico, Daniel L. Dickerson, Carrie L. Johnson and Wendy M. Troxel

Do government responses impact the relationship between age, gender and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic? A comparison across 27 European countries

Michael Koch and Sarah Park

Mandatory employer-sponsored health financing scheme for semiformal workers in Bangladesh: An experimental assessment

Atonu Rabbani, Jeenat Mehareen, Imran Ahmed Chowdhury and Malabika Sarker

An intersectional burden: Gender and sexual stigma against toms in Thailand

Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Irene Browne and Kathryn M. Yount

The missing link: Towards an integrated health and information literacy research agenda

Alison Hicks

“We saw that jealousy can also bring violence”: A qualitative exploration of the intersections between jealousy, infidelity and intimate partner violence in Rwanda and Uganda

Nambusi Kyegombe, Erin Stern and Ana Maria Buller

Women’s Suicide in the First-Year Postpartum: A Population-based Study

Ying-Yeh Chen, Silvia Sara Canetto, Kevin Chien-Chang Wu and Yi-Lung Chen

Hospital response to a case-based payment scheme under regional global budget: The case of Guangzhou in China

Yi Lai, Hongqiao Fu, Ling Li and Winnie Yip

Identifying diverse forms of (un)healthy sleep: Sleep profiles differentiate adults' psychological and physical well-being

Claire E. Smith and Soomi Lee

Determinants of time-trends in exclusivity and continuation of breastfeeding in India: An investigation from the National Family Health Survey

Pritam Ghosh, Pratima Rohatgi and Kaushik Bose

Social isolation, residential stability, and opioid use disorder among older Medicare beneficiaries: Metropolitan and non-metropolitan county comparison

Tse-Chuan Yang, Carla Shoff and Seulki Kim

Masculinity, power and structural constraints: Men's conceptualization of emotional abuse in Mwanza, Tanzania

Gerry Mshana, Esther Peter, Donati Malibwa, Diana Aloyce, Saidi Kapiga and Heidi Stöckl

Financial scarcity undermines health across the globe and the life course

Nicolas Sommet and Dario Spini

Injured black men's perceptions of the recovery environment

Marta M. Bruce, Connie M. Ulrich, Jessica Webster and Therese S. Richmond

What do we measure when we measure perceptions of everyday discrimination?

Catherine E. Harnois

‘I'm not interested in research; i'm interested in services': How to better health and social services for transgender women living with and affected by HIV

Avery R. Everhart, Hayden Boska, Hagit Sinai-Glazer, Jia Qing Wilson-Yang, Nora Butler Burke, Gabrielle LeBlanc, Yasmeen Persad, Evana Ortigoza, Ayden I. Scheim and Zack Marshall

What drives beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories? The role of psychotic-like experiences and confinement-related factors

Simão Ferreira, Carlos Campos, Beatriz Marinho, Susana Rocha, Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero and Nuno Barbosa Rocha

“We measure what we can measure”: Struggles in defining and evaluating institutional review board quality

Holly Fernandez Lynch, Whitney Eriksen and Justin T. Clapp

A symphony within: Frequent participation in performing arts predicts higher positive mental health in young adults

Eryn Piper Block, Mitchell David Wong, Sheryl Harumi Kataoka and Frederick J. Zimmerman

Adverse childhood experiences and maternal disability: Findings from the North Dakota and South Dakota PRAMS, 2019

Alexander Testa, Kyle T. Ganson, Dylan B. Jackson, Paola Bojorquez-Ramirez and Jason M. Nagata

Transitions between social network profiles and their relation with all-cause mortality among older adults

Grand H.-L. Cheng, Pildoo Sung, Angelique Chan, Stefan Ma and Rahul Malhotra

Brains exposed: How new imaging technology reconfigures expertise coordination in neurosurgery

Daniel Tyskbo and Anastasia Sergeeva

The contested meaning of “long COVID” – Patients, doctors, and the politics of subjective evidence

Phillip H. Roth and Mariacarla Gadebusch-Bondio

The relative contributions of biomarkers, disease modifying treatment, and dementia severity to Alzheimer's stigma: A vignette-based experiment

Shana D. Stites, Jeanine Gill, Emily A. Largent, Kristin Harkins, Pamela Sankar, Abba Krieger and Jason Karlawish

Dietary advice in chronic care: Comparing traditional Chinese and western medicine practiced in mainland China

Ying Jin and Younhee Kim

The effects of organizational climate on adherence to guidelines for COVID-19 prevention

Philipp Hubert, Sascha Abdel Hadi, Andreas Mojzisch and Jan Alexander Häusser

Social network typology and health among parents of children with developmental disabilities: Results from a national study of midlife adults

Robert S. Dembo, Nick Huntington, Monika Mitra, Abby E. Rudolph, Margie E. Lachman and Marsha R. Mailick

Pay at the pump?: Problems with electric breast pumps

Valerie Leiter, Alexis Agiliga, Evangeline Kennedy and Emma Mecham

“Please, you go first!” preferences for a COVID-19 vaccine among adults in the Netherlands

Niek Mouter, Annamarie de Ruijter, G. Ardine de Wit, Mattijs S Lambooij, Maarten van Wijhe, Job van Exel and Roselinde Kessels

Close enough? Adult child-to-parent caregiving and residential proximity

Robert F. Schoeni, Tsai-Chin Cho and HwaJung Choi

Uncaring landscapes and HIV peer support in the rural Southern United States

Darius Scott

Are Indigenous research principles incorporated into maternal health research? A scoping review of the global literature

Kaitlin Patterson, Jan Sargeant, Seungmi Yang, Tricia McGuire-Adams, Lea Berrang-Ford, Shuaib Lwasa, Batwa Communities, Vivienne Steele and Sherilee L. Harper

Cash transfers and the mental health of young people: Evidence from South Africa's child support grant

E.C. Garman, K. Eyal, M. Avendano, S. Evans-Lacko and C. Lund

The limitations of patient-centered care: The case of early long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) removal

Jamie L. Manzer and Ann V. Bell

The second pandemic: Examining structural inequality through reverberations of COVID-19 in Europe

Amelia Fiske, Ilaria Galasso, Johanna Eichinger, Stuart McLennan, Isabella Radhuber, Bettina Zimmermann and Barbara Prainsack

Patient-accessible online health records: Reconfigurations of clinical rhythms and doctors’ front- and backstage spaces

Jesper Petersson and Christel Backman

Peoples’ expectations of healthcare: A conceptual review and proposed analytical framework

Kimberly Lakin and Sumit Kane

COVID-19 and the labour market outcomes of disabled people in the UK

Melanie Jones