Social Science & Medicine

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2021, volume 283, articles C

Designing a couple-based relationship strengthening and health enhancing intervention for pregnant women living with HIV and their male partners in Zambia: Interview findings from the target community

K. Hampanda, T.F.L. Matenga, S. Nkwemu, P. Shankalala, B.H. Chi, L.A. Darbes, J.M. Turan, W. Mutale, S. Bull and L. Abuogi

Ensuring the ordinary: Politics and public service in municipal primary care in India

Radhika Gore

Using locational data in a novel mixed-methods sequence design: Identifying critical health care barriers for people with disabilities in Malawi

Thomas Halvorsen, Alister Munthali, Stine Hellum Braathen, Jan Ketil Rød and Arne Henning Eide

Visualizing drivers of gender health disparities: Ongoing participatory action research following the 2011 disaster in Japan

Mieko Yoshihama

Do personal health concerns and trust in healthcare providers mitigate privacy concerns? Effects on patients’ intention to share personal health data on electronic health records

Emna Cherif, Nora Bezaz and Manel Mzoughi

Stress-related health depreciation: Using allostatic load to predict self-rated health

L.E. Barry, S. O'Neill, L.G. Heaney and C. O'Neill

Detecting suicide risk using knowledge-aware natural language processing and counseling service data

Zhongzhi Xu, Yucan Xu, Florence Cheung, Mabel Cheng, Daniel Lung, Yik Wa Law, Byron Chiang, Qingpeng Zhang and Paul S.F. Yip

Pushing them to the edge: Suicide in immigrant detention centers as a product of organizational failure

Beatriz Aldana Marquez, Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde, John M. Eason and Linda Aldana

Childhood socioeconomic status, adulthood obesity and health: The role of parental permanent and transitory income

Yilan Xu and Tansel Yilmazer

Widowhood, widowhood duration, and loneliness among older adults in China

Fang Yang and Danan Gu

The mark of mental health problems. A field experiment on hiring discrimination before and during COVID-19

Vegar Bjørnshagen

Family socioeconomic status and child telomere length among the Samburu of Kenya

Belinda L. Needham, Bilinda Straight, Charles E. Hilton, Charles Owuor Olungah and Jue Lin

Cognition in context: Pathways and compound risk in a sample of US non-Hispanic whites

Jennifer W. Robinette and Jason D. Boardman

Intersectional inequalities in mental health across multiple dimensions of inequality in the Swedish adult population

Nadja Fagrell Trygg, Anna Månsdotter and Per E. Gustafsson

Children's perceptions of environment and health in two Scottish neighbourhoods

Niamh K. Shortt and Chris Ross

Duration of subjective poverty in relation to subsequent cognitive performance and decline among adults aged ≥64 in China, 2005–2018

Xuexin Yu, Wei Zhang and Lindsay C. Kobayashi

How democracy alters our view of inequality — and what it means for our health

Alexi Gugushvili and Aaron Reeves

Challenging categorical thinking: A mixed methods approach to explaining health inequalities

Laura Sochas

Effectiveness of clinic-based cardiovascular disease prevention: A randomized encouragement design experiment in the Philippines

Joseph Capuno, Aleli Kraft and Owen O'Donnell

The isolation paradox: A comparative study of social support and health across migrant generations in the U.S

Başak Bilecen and Raffaele Vacca

Effect of healthcare system reforms on public hospitals’ revenue structures: Evidence from Beijing, China

Lu Gao, Leiyu Shi, Qingyue Meng, Xiangrong Kong, Moning Guo and Feng Lu

What is the role of firearms in nonfatal intimate partner violence? Findings from civil protective order case data

Julie M. Kafka, Kathryn E. Moracco, Deanna S. Williams and Claire G. Hoffman

Developing a framework identifying the outcomes, principles and enablers of ‘gathering places’: Perspectives from Aboriginal people in Victoria, Australia

Jonathan Kingsley, Emily Munro-Harrison, Anne Jenkins and Alister Thorpe

2021, volume 282, articles C

The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis

Ronald L. Simons, Man-Kit Lei, Eric Klopack, Steven R.H. Beach, Frederick X. Gibbons and Robert A. Philibert

Trends in survival of older care home residents in England: A 10-year multi-cohort study

Ferran Espuny Pujol, Ruth Hancock and Marcello Morciano

Faith-based provision of sexual and reproductive healthcare in Malawi

Wiktoria Tafesse and Martin Chalkley

Women's suicide in low-, middle-, and high-income countries: Do laws discriminating against women matter?

Ziyi Cai, Silvia Sara Canetto, Qingsong Chang and Paul S.F. Yip

Unpacking the “black box” of global food insecurity and mental health

Lesley Jo Weaver, Caroline Owens, Fasil Tessema, Ayantu Kebede and Craig Hadley

The mediating role of vaccine hesitancy between maternal engagement with anti- and pro-vaccine social media posts and adolescent HPV-vaccine uptake rates in the US: The perspective of loss aversion in emotion-laden decision circumstances

Young Anna Argyris, Yongsuk Kim, Alexa Roscizewski and Won Song

Does rental assistance improve mental health? Insights from a longitudinal cohort study

Whitney Denary, Andrew Fenelon, Penelope Schlesinger, Jonathan Purtle, Kim M. Blankenship and Danya E. Keene

Crowdfunding as a response to COVID-19: Increasing inequities at a time of crisis

Mark Igra, Nora Kenworthy, Cadence Luchsinger and Jin-Kyu Jung

The impact of neighbourhood crime on mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Gergő Baranyi, Martín Hernán Di Marco, Tom C. Russ, Chris Dibben and Jamie Pearce

Multigenerational immigrant trajectories and children's unequal exposure to fine particulate matter in the US

Sara Grineski, Tim Collins, Roger Renteria and Ricardo Rubio

A scoping research literature review to map the evidence on grief triggers

Donna M. Wilson, Leah Underwood and Begoña Errasti-Ibarrondo

Bordering on crisis: A qualitative analysis of focus group, social media, and news media perspectives on the Republic of Ireland-Northern Ireland border during the ‘first wave’ of the COVID-19 pandemic

Cliodhna O'Connor, Nicola O'Connell, Emma Burke, Martin Dempster, Christopher D. Graham, Gabriel Scally, Lina Zgaga, Ann Nolan, Gail Nicolson, Luke Mather, Joseph Barry, Philip Crowley and Catherine D. Darker

Association between social network structure and physical activity in middle-aged Korean adults

So Mi Jemma Cho, Hokyou Lee, Jee-Seon Shim, Yoosik Youm, Sun Jae Jung, Dae Jung Kim and Hyeon Chang Kim

Early childhood parenting and adolescent bullying behavior: Evidence from a randomized intervention at ten-year follow-up

Jun Hyung Kim, Kurt Hahlweg and Wolfgang Schulz

Vaccine hesitancy, state bias, and Covid-19: Evidence from a survey experiment using Phase-3 results announcement by BioNTech and Pfizer

Yoshiharu Kobayashi, Christopher Howell and Tobias Heinrich

Waiting for the wave: Political leadership, policy windows, and alcohol policy change in Ireland

Matthew Lesch and Jim McCambridge

The inverse care law and the significance of income for utilization of longterm care services in a Nordic welfare state

Hanna Mac Innes, Kieran Walsh and Torun Österberg

An ecological expansion of the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) framework to include threat and deprivation associated with U.S. immigration policies and enforcement practices: An examination of the Latinx immigrant experience

R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez, Cecilia Ayón, Kalina Brabeck, Lisseth Rojas-Flores and Carmen R. Valdez

How are inequalities generated in the management and consequences of gastrointestinal infections in the UK? An ethnographic study

Suzanne Rotheram, Jessie Cooper, Ben Barr and Margaret Whitehead

I'm a mother, therefore I question”: Parents' legitimation sources of and hesitancy towards early childhood vaccination

Kezban Çelik, Sevgi Turan and Sarp Üner

Privacy in breast cancer biobank: Chinese patients’ perceptions

Haidan Chen

Turning suffering into side effects: Responses to HPV vaccination in Colombia

Maurizia Mezza and Stuart Blume

Comparing targeting strategies for network-based adolescent drinking interventions: A simulation approach

Cassie McMillan and David R. Schaefer

Green space and suicide mortality in Japan: An ecological study

Wenhao Jiang, Andrew Stickley and Michiko Ueda

Variation in self-identified most stressful life event by outcome of previous pregnancy in a population-based sample interviewed 6–36 months following delivery

Kaitlyn K. Stanhope, Jeff R. Temple, Carla Bann, Corette B. Parker, Donald Dudley and Carol J.R. Hogue

Resilience resources in low-income Black, Latino, and White fathers

Dawn K. Wilson, Olajide N. Bamishigbin , Christine Guardino and Christine Dunkel Schetter

First weeks out: Social support stability and health among formerly incarcerated men

Chantal Fahmy

The vasovagal reaction experience among blood donors: A qualitative study of factors that affect donor return

Amanda Thijsen, Rachel Thorpe, Tanya E. Davison, Lilly Nguyen and Barbara Masser

Social relationship experiences of transgender people and their relational partners: A meta-synthesis

Tom Lewis, David Matthew Doyle, Manuela Barreto and Debby Jackson

Theory utilization in current communication of cancer genetic testing research: Identified gaps and opportunities

Daniel Chavez-Yenter, Jingsong Zhao, Chelsea L. Ratcliff, Kelsey Kehoe, Allison Blumling, Emily Peterson, William M.P. Klein, Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou and Kimberly A. Kaphingst

It takes two to dance the VBHC tango: A multiple case study of the adoption of value-based strategies in Sweden and Brazil

Pedro Ramos, Carl Savage, Johan Thor, Rifat Atun, Karin Solberg Carlsson, Marcia Makdisse, Miguel Cendoroglo Neto, Sidney Klajner, Paolo Parini and Pamela Mazzocato

“It feels like somebody cut my legs off”: Austerity, transportation and the ‘web of dispossession’ in Saskatchewan, Canada

Jacob Albin Korem Alhassan, Sylvia Abonyi, Cordell Neudorf and Lori Hanson

“Old people problems”, uncertainty and legitimacy: Challenges with diagnosing Parkinson's disease in Kenya

Natasha Fothergill-Misbah, Richard Walker, Judith Kwasa, Juzar Hooker and Kate Hampshire

What drives differences in preferences for health states between patients and the public? A qualitative investigation of respondents’ thought processes

Elizabeth Goodwin, Antoinette Davey, Colin Green and Annie Hawton

A national longitudinal study of marital quality and cognitive decline among older men and women

Hui Liu, Zhenmei Zhang and Yan Zhang

The power of potential: Assisted reproduction and the counterstories of women who discontinue fertility treatment

Andrea Carson, Fiona Webster, Jessica Polzer and Sandra Bamford

The violence of uncertainty: Empirical evidence on how asylum waiting time undermines refugee health

Jenny Phillimore and Sin Yi Cheung

Multilevel structures and human agency in relation to email consultations: A strong structuration theory analysis of the Danish general practice setting

Elisabeth Assing Hvidt, Anette Grønning, Matilde Nisbeth Brøgger, Jane Ege Møller and Antoinette Fage-Butler

Avoiding repair, maintaining face: Responding to hard-to-interpret talk from people living with dementia in the acute hospital

Alison Pilnick, Rebecca O'Brien, Suzanne Beeke, Sarah Goldberg and Rowan Harwood

From causal loop diagrams to future scenarios: Using the cross-impact balance method to augment understanding of urban health in Latin America

Ivana Stankov, Andres Felipe Useche, Jose D. Meisel, Felipe Montes, Lidia MO. Morais, Amelia AL. Friche, Brent A. Langellier, Peter Hovmand, Olga Lucia Sarmiento, Ross A. Hammond and Ana V. Diez Roux

Awareness of ethical dilemmas enhances public support for the principle of saving more lives in the United States: A survey experiment based on ethical allocation of scarce ventilators

Birendra Rai, Liang Wang, Simone Pandit, Toby Handfield and Chiu Ki So

Power and the people's health

Sharon Friel, Belinda Townsend, Matthew Fisher, Patrick Harris, Toby Freeman and Fran Baum

Aiming for Universal Health Coverage through insurance in Ethiopia: State infrastructural power and the challenge of enrolment

Tom Lavers