Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2021, volume 290, articles C

Recommending no further treatment: Gatekeeping work of generalists at a Japanese university hospital

Shuya Kushida, Michie Kawashima and Tetsuya Abe

Arriving at no: Patient pressure to prescribe antibiotics and physicians’ responses

Tanya Stivers and Stefan Timmermans

Going shopping or consulting in medical visits: Caregivers’ roles in pediatric antibiotic prescribing in China

Nan Christine Wang and Yuetong Liu

Negative stance towards treatment in psychosocial assessments: The role of personalised recommendations in promoting acceptance

Clara Bergen and Rose McCabe

When patients and clinician (dis)agree about the nature of the problem: The role of displays of shared understanding in acceptance of treatment

Rose McCabe

Patients’ use of the internet to negotiate about treatment

Fiona A. Stevenson, Geraldine Leydon-Hudson, Elizabeth Murray, Maureen Seguin and Rebecca Barnes

Women's (limited) agency over their sexual bodies: Contesting contraceptive recommendations in Brazil

Ana Cristina Ostermann

When do patients exercise their right to refuse treatment? A conversation analytic study of decision-making trajectories in UK neurology outpatient consultations

Merran Toerien

2021, volume 289, articles C

The misunderstanding of vaccine efficacy

K. Tentori, A. Passerini, B. Timberlake and S. Pighin

Dropdown rights: Categorizing transgender discrimination in healthcare technologies

Anna Kirkland

Discussing mental health difficulties in a “diagnosis free zone”

Elina Weiste, Melisa Stevanovic, Taina Valkeapää, Kaisa Valkiaranta and Camilla Lindholm

A social history of racial disparities in breastfeeding in the United States

Kristen Kirksey

“Reflection and soul searching”: Negotiating nursing identity at the fault lines of palliative care and medical assistance in dying

David Kenneth Wright, Lisa S. Chan, Jennifer R. Fishman and Mary Ellen Macdonald

The reemergence of Engels’ concept of social murder in response to growing social and health inequalities

Stella Medvedyuk, Piara Govender and Dennis Raphael

Longitudinal associations among adolescents’ internalizing problems, well-being, and the quality of their relationships with their mothers, fathers, and close friends

Chantie C. Luijten, Daphne van de Bongardt, Joran Jongerling and Anna P. Nieboer

Maternal depression is the predominant persistent risk for child cognitive and social-emotional problems from early childhood to pre-adolescence: A longitudinal cohort study

Elizabeth L. Prado, Susy K. Sebayang, Siti R. Adawiyah, Katherine J. Alcock, Michael T. Ullman, Husni Muadz and Anuraj H. Shankar

Conflicting diagnostic and prognostic framing of epidemics? Newspaper representations of dengue as a public health problem in Peru

Maria I. Espinoza

Persistent institutional breaches: Technology use in healthcare work

Athanasia Daskalopoulou and Mark Palmer

Negotiating ADHD: Pragmatic medicalization and creolization in urban India

M. Nienke Slagboom, Christian Bröer and Jonathan Berg

Navigating with logics: Care for women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in a tertiary hospital in Ghana

Asra Vestering, Bregje C. de Kok, Joyce L. Browne and Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh

Do cognitive styles affect vaccine hesitancy? A dual-process cognitive framework for vaccine hesitancy and the role of risk perceptions

Mauro Martinelli and Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri

The ruling of weight: An institutional ethnography investigating young people's body weight surveillance work

Alexa R. Ferdinands, Tara-Leigh F. McHugh, Kate E. Storey and Kim D. Raine

Cumulative stress: A general “s” factor in the structure of stress

Frank D. Mann, Adolfo G. Cuevas and Robert F. Krueger

State-level structural sexism and cesarean sections in the United States

Amanda Nagle and Goleen Samari

Lifetime cumulative adversity and physical health deterioration in old age: Evidence from a fourteen-year longitudinal study

Michal Levinsky and Miriam Schiff

Dispositional characteristics in firearm ownership and purchasing behavior during the 2020 purchasing surge

Joye C. Anestis, Michael D. Anestis, Olivia C. Preston and Taylor R. Rodriguez

Factors associated with post-traumatic growth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from a national sample of U.S. military veterans

Peter J. Na, Jack Tsai, Steven M. Southwick and Robert H. Pietrzak

Vaccine uptake and constrained decision making: The case of Covid-19

Leonardo Becchetti, Paolo Candio and Francesco Salustri

Wilderness as therapeutic landscape in later life: Towards an understanding of place-based mechanisms for wellbeing through nature-adventure activity

Christine Milligan, Garuth Chalfont, Alex Kaley and Fiona Lobban

Area level deprivation and monthly COVID-19 cases: The impact of government policy in England

Karyn Morrissey, Fiona Spooner, James Salter and Gavin Shaddick

Estimating the costs of non-medical consumption in life-years gained for economic evaluations

Klas Kellerborg, Bram Wouterse, Werner Brouwer and Pieter van Baal

The pilot of a new patient classification-based payment system in China: The impact on costs, length of stay and quality

Mengcen Qian, Xinyu Zhang, Yajing Chen, Su Xu and Xiaohua Ying

Anticipating pride or regret? Effects of anticipated affect focused persuasive messages on intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19

Miriam Capasso, Daniela Caso and Mark Conner

Symbolic disempowerment and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election: Mental health responses among Latinx and white populations

Brittany N. Morey, San Juanita García, Tanya Nieri, Tim A. Bruckner and Bruce G. Link

The effects of relative body weight on socioemotional and schooling outcomes among female adolescents in the United States

Jinho Kim and Jason Fletcher

Power, paradox and pessimism: On the unintended consequences of digital health technologies in primary care

Sue Ziebland, Emma Hyde and John Powell

The social construction of the patient-physician relationship in the clinical encounter: Media frames on shared decision making in Germany

Amyn Vogel, Felix Balzer and Daniel Fürstenau

Pathogenic camps, therapeutic city? Roma, healthcare, and the negotiation of citizenship rights in Rome

Lorenzo Alunni

Reduced social activities and networks, but not social support, are associated with cognitive decline among older chinese adults: A prospective study

Zili Fan, Xiaozhen Lv, Lihui Tu, Ming Zhang, Xin Yu and Huali Wang

Do intersecting identities structure social contexts to influence life course health? The case of school peer economic disadvantage and obesity

Jessica Polos, Stephanie Koning and Thomas McDade

A preference for quality: Australian general public's willingness to pay for home and residential aged care

Billingsley Kaambwa, Gang Chen, Jyoti Khadka, Rachel Milte, Christine Mpundu-Kaambwa, Taylor-Jade Woods and Julie Ratcliffe

“A country boy can survive:” Rural culture and male-targeted suicide prevention messaging

Rebecca Ewert

Quality of care experience in aged care: An Australia-Wide discrete choice experiment to elicit preference weights

Gang Chen, Julie Ratcliffe, Rachel Milte, Jyoti Khadka and Billingsley Kaambwa

Innovation in health care through information technology (IT): The role of incentives

Peter Zweifel

Building readiness for inclusive practice in mainstream health services: A pre-inclusion framework to deconstruct exclusion

Lisa Bourke, Olivia Mitchell, Zubaidah Mohamed Shaburdin, Christina Malatzky, Mujibul Anam and Jane Farmer

Alcohol, cardiovascular disease and industry funding: A co-authorship network analysis of systematic reviews

Susan Golder and Jim McCambridge

The informal governance of public-private partnerships in UK obesity policy: Collaborating on calorie reduction or reducing effectiveness?

Rob Ralston

Caring as curing: Grandparenting and depressive symptoms in China

Seung-won Emily Choi and Zhenmei Zhang

COVID-19 and the Nordic Paradox: a call to measure the inequality reducing benefits of welfare systems in the wake of the pandemic

Joseph Friedman, Alhelí Calderon-Villarreal, Kristian Heggebø, Mirza Balaj, Clare Bambra and Terje Andreas Eikemo

2021, volume 288, articles C

The toxic effects of subjective wellbeing and potential tonics

Sarah Atkinson

If only they had accessed the data: Governmental failure to monitor pulp mill impacts on human health in Pictou Landing First Nation

Diana Lewis, Sheila Francis, Kim Francis-Strickland, Heather Castleden and Richard Apostle

Using the concept of activity space to understand the social health of older adults living with memory problems and dementia at home

Jodi Sturge, Mirjam Klaassens, Debbie Lager, Gerd Weitkamp, Daan Vegter and Louise Meijering

A socio-spatial analysis of pedestrian falls in Aotearoa New Zealand

A. Watkins, A. Curl, S. Mavoa, M. Tomintz, V. Todd and B. Dicker

“How can we make it work for you?” Enabling sporting assemblages for disabled young people

Penelope Carroll, Karen Witten and Cameron Duff

A geospatial analysis of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the food environment in urban New Zealand

Jesse Wiki, Simon Kingham and Malcolm Campbell

Gardens as resources in advanced age in Aotearoa NZ: More than therapeutic

Janine Wiles, Philippa Miskelly, Oneroa Stewart, Anna Rolleston, Merryn Gott and Ngaire Kerse

Blurred in translation: The influence of subjectivities and positionalities on the translation of health equity and inclusion policy initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand

Sandy Lee, Francis L. Collins and Rachel Simon-Kumar

Do financial barriers to access to primary health care increase the risk of poor health? Longitudinal evidence from New Zealand

Santosh Jatrana and Peter Crampton

The influence of peer relationships on young people's sexual health in Sub-Saharan African street contexts

Janine Hunter, Lorraine van Blerk and Wayne Shand

Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69

Alastair D. Munro, Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Adam C. Algar

Ageing as well as you can in place: Applying a geographical lens to the capability approach

Hannah Grove

Unsettling Place(s) at the end of life

Aileen Collier and Alex Broom

Influence of human–surface water interactions on the transmission of urinary schistosomiasis in the Lower Densu River basin, Ghana

Joshua Ntajal, Mariele Evers, Thomas Kistemann and Timo Falkenberg

Agroecology and household production diversity and dietary diversity: Evidence from a five-year agroecological intervention in rural Malawi

Moses Mosonsieyiri Kansanga, Joseph Kangmennaang, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Esther Lupafya, Laifolo Dakishoni and Isaac Luginaah

Examining longitudinal patterns of individual neighborhood deprivation trajectories in the province of Quebec: A sequence analysis application

Laurence Letarte, Pierre Gagnon, Rachel McKay, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, E.O.D. Waygood and Alexandre Lebel