Social Science & Medicine

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2021, volume 285, articles C

A dominance approach to analyze the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures in Iran

Justine Hsu, Reza Majdzadeh, Anne Mills and Kara Hanson

Is there an association between public spending on health and choice of healthcare providers across socioeconomic groups in India? - Evidence from a national sample

Patrick Mulcahy, Ajay Mahal, Barbara McPake, Sumit Kane, Ghosh Prabir Kumar and John Tayu Lee

Co-regulation and alcohol industry political strategy: A case study of the Public Health England-Drinkaware Drink Free Days Campaign

Benjamin Hawkins, Anna Durrance-Bagale and Helen Walls

Emergence of knowledge communities and information centralization during the COVID-19 pandemic

Pier Luigi Sacco, Riccardo Gallotti, Federico Pilati, Nicola Castaldo and Manlio De Domenico

Changing emotions in the COVID-19 pandemic: A four-wave longitudinal study in the United States and China

Ying Li, Shenghua Luan, Yugang Li and Ralph Hertwig

Public attitudes toward pandemic triage: Evidence from conjoint survey experiments in Switzerland

Carlo Michael Knotz, Mia Katharina Gandenberger, Flavia Fossati and Giuliano Bonoli

Pandemic backsliding: Violations of democratic standards during Covid-19

Amanda B. Edgell, Jean Lachapelle, Anna Lührmann and Seraphine F. Maerz

How do people understand overtesting and overdiagnosis? Systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research

Tomas Rozbroj, Romi Haas, Denise O'Connor, Stacy M. Carter, Kirsten McCaffery, Rae Thomas, Jan Donovan and Rachelle Buchbinder

Home Alone: Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health

Jayash Paudel

Do socio-structural factors moderate the effects of health cognitions on COVID-19 protection behaviours?

Benjamin Schüz, Mark Conner, Sarah Wilding, Rana Alhawtan, Andrew Prestwich and Paul Norman

‘Known to be unhealthy’: Exploring how social epidemiological research constructs the category of low socioeconomic status

Ilse Dijkstra and Klasien Horstman

Narrative arcs and shaping influences in long-term medication adherence

Cheryl Nakata, Lisa K. Sharp, Jelena Spanjol, Anna Shaojie Cui, Elif Izberk-Bilgin, Stephanie Y. Crawford and Yazhen Xiao

Exploring the dynamic relationships between risk perception and behavior in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak

Hua Qin, Christine Sanders, Yanu Prasetyo, Muh. Syukron and Elizabeth Prentice

Mental and physical health of international humanitarian aid workers on short-term assignments: Findings from a prospective cohort study

K. De Jong, S.E. Martinmäki, H. Te Brake, J.F.G. Haagen and R.J. Kleber

Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample

Jennifer W. Robinette, Georgiana Bostean, Laura M. Glynn, Jason A. Douglas, Brooke N. Jenkins, Tara L. Gruenewald and David A. Frederick

The impacts of multiple healthcare reforms on catastrophic health spending for poor households in China

Kai Liu, Qian Zhang and Alex Jingwei He

Volunteering and health: The role of social network change

Noah J. Webster, Kristine J. Ajrouch and Toni C. Antonucci

Mental health inequalities increase as a function of COVID-19 pandemic severity levels

Joseph Maffly-Kipp, Nikolett Eisenbeck, David F. Carreno and Joshua Hicks

Understanding the maternal and child health system response to payment for performance in Tanzania using a causal loop diagram approach

Rachel Cassidy, Andrada Tomoaia-Cotisel, Agnes Rwashana Semwanga, Peter Binyaruka, Zaid Chalabi, Karl Blanchet, Neha S. Singh, John Maiba and Josephine Borghi

Caring for care: Online feedback in the context of public healthcare services

Fadhila Mazanderani, Susan F. Kirkpatrick, Sue Ziebland, Louise Locock and John Powell

Spaces for women: Rethinking behavior change communication in the context of women's groups and nutrition-sensitive agriculture

Carly E. Nichols

Vital personality scores and healthy aging: Life-course associations and familial transmission

Jasmin Wertz, Salomon Israel, Louise Arseneault, Daniel W. Belsky, Kyle J. Bourassa, HonaLee Harrington, Renate Houts, Richie Poulton, Leah S. Richmond-Rakerd, Espen Røysamb, Terrie E. Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi

Longitudinal study of the earliest pilot of tiered healthcare system reforms in China: Will the new type of chronic disease management be effective?

Hongwei Hu, Hailun Liang and Hufeng Wang

Trends in psychological distress and COVID-19 incidence across 15 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas in 2020

Yan Yan Wu, Margaret Walkover and Wei Zhang

Unhealthy closets, discriminatory dwellings: The mental health benefits and costs of being open about one's sexual minority status

Alexandra Suppes, Jojanneke van der Toorn and Christopher T. Begeny

“Not a free version of a broken system:” Medical humanitarianism and immigrant health justice in the United States

Erin Hoekstra

Breastfeeding, maternal psychopathological symptoms, and infant problem behaviors among low-income mothers returning to work

Qiong Wu, Tatjana Farley and Ming Cui

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of the long-term treatment and support of substance use disorders

Myriam Beaulieu, Joël Tremblay, Claire Baudry, Jessica Pearson and Karine Bertrand

Aging into disadvantage: Disability crossover among Mexican immigrants in America

Yuliana Levchenko

Invisible and unequal: Unincorporated community status as a structural determinant of health

Cristina Gomez-Vidal and Anu Manchikanti Gomez

Bridging institutional logics: Implementing naloxone distribution for people exiting jail in three California counties

David Showalter, Lynn D. Wenger, Barrot H. Lambdin, Eliza Wheeler, Ingrid Binswanger and Alex H. Kral

“The mind may go, but the heart knows”: Emotional care by ethnic minority carers of people living with dementia

Andrew Simon Gilbert, Josefine Antoniades, Samantha Croy and Bianca Brijnath

Capturing patients, missing inequities: Data standardization on sexual orientation and gender identity across unequal clinical contexts

Taylor M. Cruz and Emily Allen Paine

Countervailing powers in the labor room: The doula–doctor relationship in the United States

Crystal Adams and Mica Curtin-Bowen

Detached co-involvement in interactional care: Transcending temporality and spatiality through mHealth in a social psychiatry out-patient setting

Anna Schneider-Kamp and Barbara Fersch

The modern hospital executive, micro improvements, and the rise of antimicrobial resistance

Alex Broom, Katherine Kenny, Emma Kirby, Mark Davis, Susan Dodds, Jeffrey Post and Jennifer Broom

Digital mediation of candidacy in maternity care: Managing boundaries between physiology and pathology

Nicola Mackintosh, Gong, Qian (Sarah), Michelle Hadjiconstantinou and Nervo Verdezoto

Momentary loneliness among older adults: Contextual differences and their moderation by gender and race/ethnicity

Ellen L. Compernolle, Laura E. Finch, Louise C. Hawkley and Kathleen A. Cagney

The effect of racial discrimination on mental and physical health: A propensity score weighting approach

Shanting Chen and Allen B. Mallory

The role of workplace accommodations in explaining the disability employment gap in the UK

Tarani Chandola and Patrick Rouxel

2021, volume 284, articles C

Is divisive politics making Americans sick? Associations of perceived partisan polarization with physical and mental health outcomes among adults in the United States

Sameera S. Nayak, Timothy Fraser, Costas Panagopoulos, Daniel P. Aldrich and Daniel Kim

Still ready to give up on life? A longitudinal phenomenological study into wishes to die among older adults

Els van Wijngaarden, Michal Merzel, Vera van den Berg, Margot Zomers, Iris Hartog and Carlo Leget

Factors influencing under-five mortality in rural- urban Ghana: An applied survival analysis

Adu Owusu Sarkodie

Social connectedness as a mediator for horticultural therapy's biological effect on community-dwelling older adults: Secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trial

Ted Kheng Siang Ng, Daniel R.Y. Gan, Rathi Mahendran, Ee Heok Kua and Roger C-M Ho

Sense of purpose in life predicts greater willingness for COVID-19 vaccination

Patrick L. Hill, Anthony L. Burrow and Victor J. Strecher

A sociological autopsy lens on older adult suicide in rural Australia: Addressing health, psychosocial factors and care practices at the intersection of policies and institutions

Scott J. Fitzpatrick, Donna Read, Bronwyn K. Brew and David Perkins

“The cops didn't make it any better”: Perspectives on police and guns among survivors of gun violence

Kathleen M. O'Neill, Michelle C. Salazar, Cecilio Vega, Anthony Campbell, Elijah Anderson and James Dodington

“Because the country, it seems though, has turned their back on me”: Experiences of institutional betrayal among veterans living with Gulf War Illness

Katharine Bloeser, Kelly K. McCarron, Vanessa L. Merker, Justeen Hyde, Rendelle E. Bolton, Nicole Anastasides, Beth Ann Petrakis, Drew A. Helmer, Susan Santos, David Litke, Wilfred R. Pigeon and Lisa M. McAndrew

Transnational health protection strategies and other health-seeking behavior among undocumented and indigenous dairy workers in a rural new immigrant destination

Julie C. Keller and Nuria Alishio-Caballero

“We used to get food from the garden.” Understanding changing practices of local food production and consumption in small island states

Cornelia Guell, Catherine R Brown, Viliamu Iese, Otto Navunicagi, Morgan Wairiu and Nigel Unwin

The Tasmanian Conception to Community (C2C) Study Database 2008-09 to 2013-14: Using linked health administrative data to address each piece in the puzzle

Amanda L. Neil, Kate Chappell, Fiona Wagg, April Miller and Fiona Judd

Thoughts of social distancing experiences affect food intake and hypothetical binge eating: Implications for people in home quarantine during COVID-19

Yevvon Yi-Chi Chang, Pai-Lu Wu and Wen-Bin Chiou

Linking racism and homonegativity to healthcare system distrust among young men of color who have sex with men: Evidence from the Healthy Young Men's (HYM) study

Loretta Hsueh, Eric K. Layland, Michele D. Kipke and Bethany C. Bray

Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients

Marta Vigier, Katherine R. Thorson, Elisabeth Andritsch, Herbert Stoeger, Leonie Suerth, Clemens Farkas and Andreas R. Schwerdtfeger

Predicting the physical activity of new parents who participated in a physical activity intervention

Ryan E. Rhodes, Mark R. Beauchamp, Alison Quinlan, Danielle Symons Downs, Darren E.R. Warburton and Chris M. Blanchard

Intergenerational transmission of out-of-home care and the role of mental health problems: Findings from Stockholm birth cohort multigenerational study

Viviane S. Straatmann, Josephine Jackisch, Lars Brännström and Ylva B. Almquist

Do emerging adults know what their friends are doing and does it really matter? Methodologic challenges and associations of perceived and actual friend behaviors with emerging adults’ disordered eating and muscle building behaviors

Marla E. Eisenberg, Melanie M. Wall, Nicole Larson, Katherine R. Arlinghaus and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

Association between disability-related budget reductions and increasing drug-related mortality across local authorities in Great Britain

Jonathan Koltai, Martin McKee and David Stuckler

Neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation and cognitive decline in older adults

Oanh L. Meyer, Lilah Besser, Diana Mitsova, Michaela Booker, Elaine Luu, Michele Tobias, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Dan Mungas, Charles DeCarli and Rachel A. Whitmer

Resources in women's social networks for food shopping are more strongly associated with better dietary quality than people: A cross-sectional study

Calum Shand, Sarah Crozier, Ivaylo Vassilev, Daniel Penn-Newman, Preeti Dhuria, Cyrus Cooper, Anne Rogers, Janis Baird and Christina Vogel

The central role of social support in the health of Chinese and Korean American immigrants

Brittany N. Morey, Connie Valencia, Hye Won Park and Sunmin Lee

Re-examining the gap: A critical realist analysis of eye health inequity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

Aryati Yashadhana, Ted Fields, Anthea Burnett and Anthony B. Zwi

“Under great anxiety”: Pregnancy experiences of Vietnamese women with physical disabilities seen through an intersectional lens

Thi Vinh Nguyen, Julie King, Niki Edwards and Michael P. Dunne

“Why can't you sit still?”The effect of daily physical activity on childhood inattention/hyperactivity and the educational gender gap

Kelly Chen and Shelley Phipps

Living with embodied vibrations: Sensory experiences following a traumatic brain injury

Nicole Gombay and Gavin J. Andrews

“Going through it together”: Being accompanied by loved ones during birth and abortion

Anna L. Altshuler, Alison Ojanen-Goldsmith, Paul D. Blumenthal and Lori R. Freedman

Socio-demographic determinants of physical activity and app usage from smartphone data

Francesca Pontin, Nik Lomax, Graham Clarke and Michelle A. Morris

Impacts of internal migration experience on health among middle-aged and older adults—Evidence from China

Nan Sun and Fan Yang

Living the journey to school: Conceptual asymmetry between parents and planners on the journey to school

Ronald Buliung, Paul Hess, Lori Flowers, Fiona J. Moola and Guy Faulkner

Passing as normal: Negotiating boundaries and coping with male breast cancer

Naama Levin-Dagan and Nehami Baum

Pre-loss grief and preparedness for death among caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients: A systematic review

Julia Treml, Viktoria Schmidt, Michaela Nagl and Anette Kersting

Bowling alone or distancing together? The role of social capital in excess death rates from COVID19

Timothy Fraser, Daniel P. Aldrich and Courtney Page-Tan

The urban public realm and adolescent mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review

Paul Fleckney and Rebecca Bentley

Health behavior adherence and emotional adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic in a US nationally representative sample: The roles of prosocial motivation and gratitude

S. Katherine Nelson-Coffey, Mary M. O'Brien, Bailey M. Braunstein, Kristin D. Mickelson and Thao Ha

Effect of accessibility improvement in a national population-based breast cancer screening policy on mammography utilization among women with comorbid conditions in Taiwan

Hui-Min Hsieh

Community engagement and vulnerability in infectious diseases: A systematic review and qualitative analysis of the literature

Jacob Osborne, John Paget, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Ruth Kutalek, David Napier, Christos Baliatsas and Michel Dückers

Reasons for rejecting hormonal contraception in Western countries: A systematic review

Mireille Le Guen, Clémence Schantz, Arnaud Régnier-Loilier and Elise de La Rochebrochard