Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2022, volume 305, articles C

Police killings and suicide among Black Americans

Ilias Kyriopoulos, Sotiris Vandoros and Ichiro Kawachi

Spatial spillovers, living environment and obesity in France: Evidence from a spatial econometric framework

Céline Bonnet, Cecile Detang-Dessendre, Valérie Orozco and Elodie Rouvière

Public health in the making: Dietary innovators and their on-the-job sociology

Caroline Cupit

The development of Afghanistan's Integrated Package of Essential Health Services: Evidence, expertise and ethics in a priority setting process

Isabelle L. Lange, Ferozuddin Feroz, Ahmad Jan Naeem, Sayed Ataullah Saeedzai, Fatima Arifi, Neha Singh and Karl Blanchet

Maternal depression and economic well-being: A quasi-experimental approach

Mark McGovern, Slawa Rokicki and Nancy E. Reichman

Eviction, intimate partner violence and HIV: Expanding concepts and assessing the pathways through which sexual partnership dynamics impact health

Allison K. Groves, Patrick D. Smith, Luwam T. Gebrekristos, Danya E. Keene, Alana Rosenberg and Kim M. Blankenship

Age disparities in mental health during the COVID19 pandemic: The roles of resilience and coping

Ling Na, Lixia Yang, Peter G. Mezo and Rong Liu

Prescribing antibiotics: Factors driving decision-making in general practice. A discrete choice experiment

Rikke Vognbjerg Sydenham, Dorte Ejg Jarbøl, Malene Plejdrup Hansen, Ulrik Stenz Justesen, Verity Watson and Line Bjørnskov Pedersen

Individual, interpersonal, and neighborhood measures associated with opioid use stigma: Evidence from a nationally representative survey

Qinyun Lin, Marynia Kolak, Beth Watts, Luc Anselin, Harold Pollack, John Schneider and Bruce Taylor

“You become a slightly better doctor”: Doctors adopting integrated medical expertise through interactions with E-patients

Leeor Shachar

Stratified medicalization of schooling difficulties

Rachel Elizabeth Fish

Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices

Timothy W. Jones, Jennifer Power and Tiffany M. Jones

Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence

Oscar Claveria

State-level changes in health insurance coverage and parental substance use-associated foster care entry

Haley Stritzel

Pathways linking maternal mental health and child health in a dual burden context: Evidence from Galapagos, Ecuador

Amanda L. Thompson, Johanna R. Jahnke, Enrique Teran and Margaret E. Bentley

Deported, homeless, and into the canal: Environmental structural violence in the binational Tijuana River

Alhelí Calderón-Villarreal, Brendan Terry, Joseph Friedman, Sara Alejandra González-Olachea, Alfonso Chavez, Margarita Díaz López, Lilia Pacheco Bufanda, Carlos Martinez, Stephanie Elizabeth Medina Ponce, Rebeca Cázares-Adame, Paola Fernanda Rochin Bochm, Georgia Kayser, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Gabriela Muñoz Meléndez, Seth M. Holmes, Ietza Bojorquez, Marc Los Huertos and Philippe Bourgois

Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime

Robert A. Blair, Travis Curtice, David Dow and Guy Grossman

Do we agree or disagree? A systematic review of the application of preference-based instruments in self and proxy reporting of quality of life in older people

Claire Hutchinson, Anthea Worley, Jyoti Khadka, Rachel Milte, Jenny Cleland and Julie Ratcliffe

Towards the decolonisation of disability: A systematic review of disability conceptualisations, practices and experiences of First Nations people of Australia

Stefanie Puszka, Corinne Walsh, Francis Markham, Jody Barney, Mandy Yap and Tony Dreise

Exploring the complexity of firearm homicides in Harris County, Texas, from 2009 to 2021: Implications for theory and prevention

Stacy A. Drake, Michael K. Lemke and Yijiong Yang

Legal restrictions and mitigation strategies amongst a disabled population during COVID-19

Tarandeep S. Kang and Robin Goodwin

The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity

Sangsoo Lee and Youngshin Lim

How viable is social health insurance for financing health in Zambia? Results from a national willingness to pay survey

Oliver Kaonga, Felix Masiye and Joses Muthuri Kirigia

Mechanisms for community prevention of violence against women in low- and middle-income countries: A realist approach to a comparative analysis of qualitative data

Hattie Lowe, Laura Brown, Ayesha Ahmad, Nayreen Daruwalla, Lu Gram, David Osrin, Krishna Panchal, Daniella Watson, Cathy Zimmerman and Jenevieve Mannell

Why did performance-based financing in Burkina Faso fail to achieve the intended equity effects? A process tracing study

Julia Lohmann, Jean-Louis Koulidiati, Paul Jacob Robyn, Paul-André Somé and Manuela De Allegri

The post-colonialist condition, suspicion, and social resistance during the West African Ebola epidemic: The importance of Frantz Fanon for global health

S. Harris Ali and Jarrett Robert Rose

Selling under stigma: The relational gender dynamics of becoming biolaborers in China

Yan Long

Costs and economies of scale in repeated home-based HIV counselling and testing: Evidence from the ANRS 12249 Treatment as Prevention trial in South Africa

Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah, Collins Iwuji, Nonhlanhla Okesola, Joanna Orne-Gliemann, Deenan Pillay, François Dabis, Joseph Larmarange and Sylvie Boyer

What is in the palliative care ‘syringe’? A systems perspective

Inas S. Khayal and Amber E. Barnato

Are empathic processes mechanisms of pregnancy's protective effect on smoking? Identification of a novel target for preventive intervention

Suena H. Massey, Ryne Estabrook, Leiszle Lapping-Carr, Rebecca L. Newmark, Jean Decety, Katherine L. Wisner and Lauren S. Wakschlag

Do vaccinations reduce inequality in Covid-19 mortality? Evidence from England

Filipa Sá

Is mammography screening an effective public health intervention? Evidence from a natural experiment

Patrick Moran and John Cullinan

Mobile phones, women's physical mobility, and contraceptive use in India

Pallavi Rajkhowa and Matin Qaim

Decision making in a clinical trial for a life-threatening illness: Therapeutic expectation, not misconception

David S. Lawrence, Agnes Ssali, Neo Moshashane, Georgina Nabaggala, Lebogang Maphane, Thomas S. Harrison, David B. Meya, Joseph N. Jarvis and Janet Seeley

(I can't get no) satisfaction: A comparative study of healthcare recommodification in Europe, 2010-18

Pål E. Martinussen and Håvard T. Rydland

Disease-based traumas transform lives: A qualitative study focused on healthcare professionals11This study was produced from the doctoral thesis titled "A Study on the Transformative Role of Health Workers' Disease Traumas in Their Lives" prepared by Dilruba İzgüden and conducted under the supervision of Ramazan Erdem

Dilruba İzgüden and Ramazan Erdem

Reckless spreader or blameless victim? How vaccination status affects responses to COVID-19 patients

Marius C. Claudy, Suhas Vijayakumar and Norah Campbell

Transactional processes among perceived parental warmth, positivity, and depressive symptoms from middle childhood to early adolescence: Disentangling between- and within-person associations

Jiaping Yang, Qiulian Wu, Jianhua Zhou, E. Scott Huebner and Lili Tian

Perceived risk, political polarization, and the willingness to follow COVID-19 mitigation guidelines

Ray Block, Michael Burnham, Kayla Kahn, Rachel Peng, Jeremy Seeman and Christopher Seto

Professional authority and sexual coercion: A paradigmatic case study of doctor abuse

Natasha Mulvihill

Dismantling antibiotic infrastructures in residential aged care: The invisible work of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS)

Julie Hall, Olivia Hawkins, Amy Montgomery, Saniya Singh, Judy Mullan and Chris Degeling

Addressing COVID-19 vaccination equity for Hispanic/Latino communities by attending to aguantarismo: A Californian US–Mexico border perspective

Elisa J. Sobo, Griselda Cervantes, Diego A. Ceballos and Corinne McDaniels-Davidson

Pet ownership and cognitive frailty among Chinese rural older adults who experienced a social loss: Is there a sex difference?

Shimin Zhang, Qiong Wang, Xiyuan Wang, Kaili Qi, Yanxin Zhou and Chengchao Zhou

Public support for unequal treatment of unvaccinated citizens: Evidence from Denmark

Julian Schuessler, Peter Thisted Dinesen, Søren Dinesen Østergaard and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov

What factors drive state firearm law adoption? An application of exponential-family random graph models

Duncan A. Clark, James Macinko and Maurizio Porfiri

“Well in in this neighborhood I have walked, not at all”: Stroke survivors lived experience in the outdoor environment

Erica Twardzik, Natalie Colabianchi, Lilia Duncan, Lynda D. Lisabeth, Susan H. Brown and Philippa J. Clarke

The effects of recent minimum wage increases on self-reported health in the United States

Liam Sigaud, Angela Daley, Jonathan Rubin and Caroline Noblet

The chosen and the unchosen: How eligibility for liver transplant influences the lived experiences of patients with advanced liver disease

Caroline Gray, Jennifer Arney, Jack A. Clark, Anne M. Walling, Fasiha Kanwal and Aanand D. Naik

Clocking out: Nurses refusing to work in a time of pandemic

Yasmin Y. Ortiga, Michael Joseph Diño and Romeo Luis A. Macabasag

2022, volume 304, articles C

Multi-polar scripts: Techno-regulatory environments and the rise of precision oncology diagnostic tests

Alberto Cambrosio, Jonah Campbell, Peter Keating and Pascale Bourret

Plastic diagnostics: The remaking of disease and evidence in personalized medicine

Sara Green, Annamaria Carusi and Klaus Hoeyer

Genomic susceptibility in practice: The regulatory trajectory of non-rare thrombophilia (NRT) genetic tests in the clinical management of venous thrombo-embolism (VTE)

Mauro Turrini and Catherine Bourgain

Framing utility: Regulatory reform and genetic tests in the USA, 1989–2000

Steve Sturdy

The Consultant's intermediary role in the regulation of molecular diagnostics in the US

Kelly Holloway and Fiona A. Miller

Governing the futures of non-invasive prenatal testing: An exploration of social acceptability using the Delphi method

Charles Dupras, Stanislav Birko, Aliya O. Affdal, Hazar Haidar, Marie-Eve Lemoine and Vardit Ravitsky

Non-invasive prenatal testing: A diagnostic innovation shaped by commercial interests and the regulation conundrum

Ilana Löwy

Regulatory niches: Diagnostic reform as a process of fragmented expansion. Evidence from the UK 1990–2018

Stuart Hogarth and Olga Löblová