Social Science & Medicine

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2021, volume 291, articles C

Organizing end of life in hospital palliative care: A Canadian example

Marian Krawczyk

About face: Relationalities of ageing and dying in Chinese migrant families

Tanya Zivkovic

Emotionally reflexive labour in end-of-life communication

Rebecca E. Olson, Alexandra Smith, Phillip Good, Emily Neate, Cody Hughes and Janet Hardy

Biomedicalization of end-of-life conversations with medically frail older adults - Malleable and senescent bodies

Celina Carter, Shan Mohammed, Ross Upshur and Pia Kontos

Placing death and dying: Making place at the end of life

Annelieke Driessen, Erica Borgstrom and Simon Cohn

Comparing the regulation and incentivization of e-cigarettes across 97 countries

Brooke Campus, Patrick Fafard, Jessica St. Pierre and Steven J. Hoffman

Subjective social status and physical health: The role of negative affect and reappraisal

Daniel O'Leary, Ahmet Uysal, David H. Rehkopf and James J. Gross

What doesn't kill you makes you “smarter”: The long-term association between exposure to epidemic and cognition

Sha Wen, Hong Zou and Hongwei Xu

Changes in accessibility to emergency and community food services during COVID-19 and implications for low income populations in Hamilton, Ontario

Christopher D. Higgins, Antonio Páez, Gyoorie Kim and Jue Wang

Payment mechanism and hospital admission: New evidence from Thailand healthcare reform

Kannika Damrongplasit and Kadir Atalay

Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?

Sabina Alkire, Ricardo Nogales, Natalie Quinn and Nicolai Suppa

Public understandings of potential policy responses to health inequalities: Evidence from a UK national survey and citizens’ juries in three UK cities

K.E. Smith, A.K. Macintyre, S. Weakley, S.E. Hill, O. Escobar and G. Fergie

Piloting a spatial mixed method for understanding neighborhood tobacco use disparities

Louisa M. Holmes, Julia McQuoid, Aekta Shah, Tessa Cruz, Antwi Akom and Pamela M. Ling

A dynamic microsimulation model for epidemics

Fiona Spooner, Jesse F. Abrams, Karyn Morrissey, Gavin Shaddick, Michael Batty, Richard Milton, Adam Dennett, Nik Lomax, Nick Malleson, Natalie Nelissen, Alex Coleman, Jamil Nur, Ying Jin, Rory Greig, Charlie Shenton and Mark Birkin

Social-spatial network structures and community ties of egocentric sex and confidant networks: A Chicago case study

Marynia A. Kolak, Yen-Tyng Chen, Qinyun Lin and John Schneider

Community-level integration of health services and community health workers’ agency in Malawi

Chikosa Ngwira, Susannah H. Mayhew and Eleanor Hutchinson

The gendered relationship between maternal depression and adolescent internalizing symptoms

Michelle Sarah Livings

Medicalization and manhood: Is an ADHD diagnosis emerging for allegedly troublesome boys in Accra, Ghana?

Christian Bröer and Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum

What is ‘sibling support’? Defining the social support sector serving siblings of people with disability

Ariella Meltzer

Negotiating uncertainty in clinical encounters: A narrative exploration of naturally occurring primary care consultations

Olaug S. Lian, Sarah Nettleton, Åge Wifstad and Christopher Dowrick

“We have to respect that option”: The abortion aversion complex in safety-net healthcare organizations

Emily Kim, Sachika Singh, Aalap Bommaraju, Alison H. Norris and Danielle Bessett

Social media enabled interactions in healthcare: Towards a taxonomy

Edin Smailhodzic, Albert Boonstra and David J. Langley

Theorising the hospice gaze: A Foucauldian collaborative ethnography of a palliative day care service

Maurice Nagington, David Holman, Clare Mumford and Leo McCann

Hopeful dying? The meanings and practice of hope in palliative care family meetings

Emma Kirby, Alex Broom, John MacArtney, Sophie Lewis and Phillip Good

Understanding low mobilization for non-communicable diseases among people living with NCDs: A qualitative study on hypertension in urban South India

Carolin Kroeger, Shuba Kumar, Rani Mohanraj, Sripriya Kundem, Kate Bärnighausen and Nikkil Sudharsanan

The role of trust in health-seeking for non-communicable disease services in fragile contexts: A cross-country comparative study

Stella Arakelyan, Kanykey Jailobaeva, Arek Dakessian, Karin Diaconu, Lizzie Caperon, Alison Strang, Ibrahim R. Bou-Orm, Sophie Witter and Alastair Ager

Social solidarity in healthcare: The Israeli case

Amir Shmueli

How do women, men, and health providers perceive interventions to influence men's engagement in maternal and newborn health? A qualitative evidence synthesis

Liz Comrie-Thomson, Prerna Gopal, Katherine Eddy, Adama Baguiya, Nina Gerlach, Caroline Sauvé and Anayda Portela

Positive life stories of Stroke-Survivor's spousal caregiving in Hong Kong: Lessons for policy and practice

Esther O.W. Chow, Yuk Yi Wong, Doris Y.H. Fok, Xu Liao and Chaoyu Li

Preventing transition “regret”: An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada

K.R. MacKinnon, F. Ashley, H. Kia, J.S.H. Lam, Y. Krakowsky and L.E. Ross

Associations between childhood adversities and late-life cognitive function: Potential mechanisms

Ruoxi Ding and Ping He

Product patents and access to innovative medicines

Rong Dai and Jayashree Watal

Conspiratorial thinking, selective exposure to conservative media, and response to COVID-19 in the US

Daniel Romer and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

A longitudinal study of parents' expectations about infants’ emerging behaviors and their safety strategies to moderate injury risk

Amanda Cox, Barbara A. Morrongiello and Lindsay Bryant

Alcohol use during pregnancy in rural Lesotho: “There is nothing else except alcohol”

Marguerite Marlow, Hope Christie, Sarah Skeen, Stephan Rabie, Jacobus G. Louw, Leslie Swartz, Shoeshoe Mofokeng, Moroesi Makhetha and Mark Tomlinson

Vicious cycle of emotional maltreatment and bullying perpetration/victimization among early adolescents: Depressive symptoms as a mediator

Xiaofei Li, E. Scott Huebner and Lili Tian

Poor-quality employment and health: How a welfare regime typology with a gender lens Illuminates a different work-health relationship for men and women

Kaori Fujishiro, Emily Q. Ahonen and Megan Winkler

Seeking recognition through carceral health care bureaucracy: Analysis of medical care request forms in a County Jail

Emmeline Friedman, Eliza Burr and Carolyn Sufrin

Importance of socioeconomic factors in predicting tooth loss among older adults in Japan: Evidence from a machine learning analysis

Upul Cooray, Richard G. Watt, Georgios Tsakos, Anja Heilmann, Masanori Hariyama, Takafumi Yamamoto, Isuruni Kuruppuarachchige, Katsunori Kondo, Ken Osaka and Jun Aida

The role of social cohesion in the implementation and coverage of a mass drug administration trial for malaria control in the Gambia: An in-depth comparison of two intervention villages

Alexandra Fehr, Joan Muela, Claudia Nieto-Sanchez, Ebrima Manneh, Dullo Baldeh, Omar Ceesay, Azucena Bardají, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak and Joske Bunders-Aelen

Religious faith and sexual risk taking among adolescents and emerging adults: A meta-analytic review

Goran Koletić, Ivan Landripet, Azra Tafro, Luka Jurković, Goran Milas and Aleksandar Štulhofer

The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia

Asher Y. Rosinger, Hilary J. Bethancourt, Sera L. Young and Alan F. Schultz

Patterns, travel to care and factors influencing obstetric referral: Evidence from Nigeria's most urbanised state

Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, Cephas Avoka, Abimbola Olaniran, Mobolanle Balogun, Ololade Wright, Olabode Ekerin and Lenka Benova

Being good, doing good: The role of honesty and integrity for health

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Piotr Bialowolski and Ryan M. Niemiec

The transgender-specific intimate partner violence scale for research and practice: Validation in a sample of transgender women

Sarah M. Peitzmeier, Andrea L. Wirtz, Elizabeth Humes, Jaclyn M.W. Hughto, Erin Cooney and Sari L. Reisner

A crisis in my community? Local-level awareness of the opioid epidemic and political consequences

Sarah E. Gollust and Jake Haselswerdt

Women's informal surveillance of alcohol consumption in intimate heterosexual relationships during the early parenting period

Serena Vicario, Marian Peacock, Penny Buykx, Petra Sylvia Meier and Paul Bissell

Politicized disease surveillance: A theoretical lens for understanding sociopolitical influence on the monitoring of disease epidemics

Michael P. Fisher

The discursive context of medical aid in dying: A paradox of control?

Jessica E. Young, Chrystal Jaye, Richard Egan, Janine Winters and Tony Egan

Labels matter: Use and non-use of ‘anti-vax’ framing in Australian media discourse 2008–2018

Jay Court, Stacy M. Carter, Katie Attwell, Julie Leask and Kerrie Wiley

Communicative trust in therapeutic encounters: users’ experiences in public healthcare facilities and community pharmacies in Maputo, Mozambique

Carla F. Rodrigues

COVID-19 vulnerability and perceived norm violations predict loss of social trust: A pre-post study

Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten and Arnout van de Rijt