Social Science & Medicine

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2021, volume 287, articles C

Assessing competition in the hip implant industry in the light of recent policy guidance

Charlotte Davies and Stephen Davies

On-time, late, or never: Incorporating intersectionality to predict age-specific probabilities of initiating the HPV vaccine series

Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu

Macro-level efficiency of health expenditure: Estimates for 15 major economies

Simiao Chen, Michael Kuhn, Klaus Prettner, David E. Bloom and Chen Wang

The crafting of hope: Contextualising add-ons in the treatment trajectories of IVF patients

Manuela Perrotta and Josie Hamper

“What are you signing up for?”: Pre-medical students' perception of physicians' risk and responsibility during COVID-19

Jenny K. Leigh

When parents are not present: Decision-making dynamics for young children's health and illness in migrant-sending households in rural Cambodia

Emily Treleaven and Chanrith Ngin

Campania and cancer mortality: An inseparable pair? The role of environmental quality and socio-economic deprivation

Massimiliano Agovino, Massimiliano Cerciello and Gaetano Musella

Cultivation or enabling? Day-to-day associations between self-efficacy and received support in couples

Philipp Schwaninger, Corina Berli, Janina Lüscher and Urte Scholz

Physical pain, gender, and the state of the economy in 146 nations

Lucía Macchia and Andrew Oswald

Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany

Jutta Mata, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Katja Möhring, Ulrich Krieger, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel, Carina Cornesse, Annelies G. Blom and Elias Naumann

Can individual, dyadic, or collaborative planning reduce sedentary behavior? A randomized controlled trial

Zofia Szczuka, Ewa Kulis, Monika Boberska, Anna Banik, Magdalena Kruk, Jan Keller, Nina Knoll, Urte Scholz, Charles Abraham and Aleksandra Luszczynska

Safety net, gateway, market, sport, and war: Exploring how emergency physicians conceptualize and ascribe meaning to emergency care

Yu-Che Chang, Nothando S. Nkambule, Xaviera Xiao, Roy Y.L. Ngerng and Lynn V. Monrouxe

Does unemployment lead to greater levels of loneliness? A systematic review

N. Morrish and A. Medina-Lara

Group-based parent support during the transition to parenthood: Primary outcomes from a randomised controlled trial

Tea L. Trillingsgaard, Rikke D. Maimburg and Marianne Simonsen

Time to care - An ethnographic study of how temporal structuring affects caring relationships in clinical nursing

Hanna Marie Ihlebæk

Health, an ageing labour force, and the economy: Does health moderate the relationship between population age-structure and economic growth?

Jonathan Cylus and Lynn Al Tayara

Global collective action in mental health financing: Allocation of development assistance for mental health in 142 countries, 2000–2015

Valentina Iemmi

Older adults' embodied experiences of aging and their perceptions of societal stigmas toward sexuality in later life

Lauren B. Towler, Cynthia A. Graham, F.L. Bishop and Sharron Hinchliff

Psychosocial factors associated with preventive pediatric care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sara J. Weston, David M. Condon and Philip A. Fisher

The Dyadic Cancer Outcomes Framework: A general framework of the effects of cancer on patients and informal caregivers

Tess Thompson, Dana Ketcher, Tamryn F. Gray and Erin E. Kent

Medically underserved areas: are primary care teams efficient at attracting and retaining general practitioners?

Guillaume Chevillard and Julien Mousquès

Supporting family carers of people with dementia: A discrete choice experiment of public preferences

Áine Teahan, Sharon Walsh, Edel Doherty and Eamon O'Shea

Public preferences for the allocation of donor organs for transplantation: A discrete choice experiment

Carina Oedingen, Tim Bartling, Harald Schrem, Axel C. Mühlbacher and Christian Krauth

Individual and community social capital, mobility restrictions, and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multilevel analysis of a representative US survey

James Laurence and Harris Hyun-soo Kim

From writing tasks to a public service announcement: Experimentally assessing savoring as a means of increasing help-seeking for depression

Tasha Straszewski and Jason T. Siegel

Barriers and facilitators to father involvement in early child health services: A qualitative study in rural Mozambique

Joshua Jeong, Marilyn N. Ahun, Lilia Bliznashka, Daan Velthausz, Rotafina Donco and Aisha K. Yousafzai

Absorbing it all: A meta-ethnography of parents’ unfolding experiences of newborn screening

Ashley L. White, Felicity Boardman, Abigail McNiven, Louise Locock and Lisa Hinton

Correlates of early stimulation activities among mothers of children under age two in Siaya County, Kenya: Maternal mental health and other maternal, child, and household factors

Eunsoo Timothy Kim, Margaret Lillie, John Gallis, John Hembling, Elena McEwan, Tobias Opiyo, Pauline Acayo and Joy Noel Baumgartner

Student returnees from China's COVID-19 epicenter: Spatio-temporal movement and impact of tracing

Ding Fei, Chuan Liao and Huan Yang

Mobility-based environmental justice: Understanding housing disparity in real-time exposure to air pollution and momentary psychological stress in Beijing, China

Yinhua Tao, Yanwei Chai, Xue Zhang, Jie Yang and Mei-Po Kwan

Formal home care use and spousal health outcomes

Judite Gonçalves, Francisco von Hafe and Luís Filipe

The mental health effects of a Universal Basic Income: A synthesis of the evidence from previous pilots

Naomi Wilson and Shari McDaid

Why do systems for responding to concerns and complaints so often fail patients, families and healthcare staff? A qualitative study

Graham P. Martin, Sarah Chew and Mary Dixon-Woods

Seeking transnational social protection during a global pandemic: The case of Chinese immigrants in the United States

Xuemei Cao and Ken Chih-Yan Sun

Understanding racial differences in attitudes about public health efforts during COVID-19 using an explanatory mixed methods design

Paige Nong, Minakshi Raj, Marie Grace Trinidad, Zachary Rowe and Jodyn Platt

In search of an appropriate mix of taxes and subsidies on nutrients and food: A modelling study of the effectiveness on health-related consumption and mortality

Sanjib Saha, Jonas Nordström, Peter Scarborough, Linda Thunström and Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Theories of self-care and self-management of long-term conditions by community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review and meta-ethnography

Michael T. Lawless, Matthew Tieu, Rebecca Feo and Alison L. Kitson

Did parental care in early life affect height? Evidence from rural Spain (19th-20th centuries)

Francisco Marco-Gracia and Ángel Luis González-Esteban

Community vulnerability and mobility: What matters most in spatio-temporal modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Rachel Carroll and Christopher R. Prentice

The impact of providing end-of-life care during a pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of health and social care staff: Systematic review and meta-synthesis

Bryony Porter, Amy Zile, Guy Peryer, Morag Farquhar and Kristy Sanderson

“Theyabduct usand rapeus”: Adolescents’ participatory visual reflections of their vulnerability to sexual violence in South African townships

Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi, Relebohile Moletsane and Zaynab Essack

2021, volume 286, articles C

Hospital reorganization and its effects on physicians’ network churn: The role of past ties

Luca Giorgio, Daniele Mascia and Americo Cicchetti

The dynamics of TCAM integration in the Indian public health system: Medical dominance, countervailing power and co-optation

Gupteswar Patel, Caragh Brosnan, Ann Taylor and Surekha Garimella

Demanding devices – Living with diabetes devices as a pre-teen

Regitze Anne Saurbrey Pals, Pernille Hviid, Bryan Cleal and Dan Grabowski

Examining policy intentions and actual implementation practices: How organizational factors influence health management information systems in Uttar Pradesh, India

Ankita Meghani, Daniela C. Rodríguez, Huzaifa Bilal, Anand B. Tripathi, Vasanthakumar Namasivayam, Ravi Prakash, David H. Peters and Sara Bennett

Linking poverty-targeted social protection and Community Based Health Insurance in Ethiopia: Enrolment, linkages, and gaps

Essa Mussa, Frank Otchere, Vincenzo Vinci, Abduljelil Reshad and Tia Palermo

Light at the end of the tunnel: Influence of vaccine availability and vaccination intention on people’s consideration of the COVID-19 vaccine

Haoran Chu and Sixiao Liu

Hospital market competition and health technology diffusion: An empirical study of laparoscopic appendectomy in China

Xiaojun Lin, Liyong Lu and Jay Pan

“I talked to a couple of friends that had it”: Informal feminized health networks and contraceptive method choices

Cristen Dalessandro, Rachael Thorpe and Jessica Sanders

Health decisions amidst controversy: Prenatal alcohol consumption and the unequal experience of influence and control in networks

Elaine M. Hernandez and Jessica McCrory Calarco

Effectiveness of nudges as a tool to promote adherence to guidelines in healthcare and their organizational implications: A systematic review

Onyi Nwafor, Rahul Singh, Cassie Collier, Dereck DeLeon, Jim Osborne and Jon DeYoung

Decomposition of inequalities in out-of-pocket health expenditure burden in Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Khaled Al-Hanawi

Value judgments in a COVID-19 vaccination model: A case study in the need for public involvement in health-oriented modelling

Stephanie Harvard, Eric Winsberg, John Symons and Amin Adibi

Good night: Experimental evidence that nighttime curfews may fuel disease dynamics by increasing contact density

Philipp Sprengholz, Regina Siegers, Laura Goldhahn, Sarah Eitze and Cornelia Betsch

Educational attainment of offspring and obesity among older adults in China

Yaoyue Li, Guixin Wang and Guofeng Li

Long Covid – The illness narratives

Alex Rushforth, Emma Ladds, Sietse Wieringa, Sharon Taylor, Laiba Husain and Trisha Greenhalgh

Gender differences in the relationship between perceived discrimination and personality traits in young adulthood: Evidence using sibling fixed effects

Jinho Kim, Kyungeun Song and Angelina R. Sutin

Reasons for indoor tanning use and the acceptability of alternatives: A qualitative study

Stephanie Lyons, Paul Lorigan, Adele C. Green, Ashley Ferguson and Tracy Epton

A multi-national test on self-reported compliance with COVID-19 public health measures: The role of individual age and gender demographics and countries’ developmental status

Tian Lin, Elizabeth A. Harris, Amber Heemskerk, Jay J. Van Bavel and Natalie C. Ebner

Better together: How group-based physical activity protects against depression

Mark Stevens, Jacqueline Lieschke, Tegan Cruwys, Diana Cárdenas, Michael J. Platow and Katherine J. Reynolds