Social Science & Medicine

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2021, volume 281, articles C

Development and validation of the Soweto Stress Scale: Mixed-methods, population-based study of adults living in Soweto, South Africa

Feziwe Mpondo, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Alexander C. Tsai and Emily Mendenhall

COVID-19 blues: Lockdowns and mental health-related google searches in Latin America

Adan Silverio-Murillo, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Abel Rodriguez Tirado and Jose Roberto Balmori de la Miyar

The role of financial conditions for physical and mental health. Evidence from a longitudinal survey and insurance claims data

Piotr Bialowolski, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Matthew T. Lee, Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele and Eileen McNeely

Impact of rural workforce incentives on access to GP services in underserved areas: Evidence from a natural experiment

Megha Swami and Anthony Scott

Body mass and the epidemic of chronic inflammation in early mid-adulthood

Thomas W. McDade, Jess M. Meyer, Stephanie M. Koning and Kathleen Mullan Harris

Failure to take-up public healthcare entitlements: Evidence from the Medical Card system in Ireland

Claire Keane, Mark Regan and Brendan Walsh

Breastfeeding knowledge and practices of working mothers in the informal economy in New Delhi: A formative study to explore new intervention pathways towards improved maternal and child health outcomes

Antara Rai Chowdhury, Aditi Surie and Gautam Bhan

Exploring care of hospital inpatients with substance involvement

Niki Kiepek, Kristen Jones-Bonofiglio, Stacey Freemantle, Mandy Byerley-Vita and Kristine Quaid

“I'm empowered to look after myself” — Mindfulness as a way to manage chronic pain: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of participant experiences in Scotland

Fathima L. Marikar Bawa, Jane W. Sutton, Stewart W. Mercer and Christine M. Bond

Providing universal access to modern contraceptive methods: An extended cost-effectiveness analysis of meeting the demand for modern contraception in Ethiopia

M.R. Enden, M.T. Tolla and O.F. Norheim

Associations of regional racial attitudes with chronic illness in the United States

Eric D. Splan, Adam B. Magerman and Chad E. Forbes

Take a sad song and make it better: Spousal activity limitations, caregiving, and depressive symptoms among couples

Sae Hwang Han, Kyungmin Kim and Jeffrey A. Burr

Relational health: Theorizing plants as health-supporting actors

Sarah Elton

Coping with post-hurricane mental distress: The role of neighborhood green space

Dongying Li, Galen Newman, Tiantian Zhang, Rui Zhu and Jennifer Horney

Evaluating hypothesized explanations for the Black-white depression paradox: A critical review of the extant evidence

John R. Pamplin and Lisa M. Bates

Do standard classifications still represent European welfare typologies? Novel evidence from studies on health and social care

Giovanni Bertin, Ludovico Carrino and Marta Pantalone

Political frames of public health crises: Discussing the opioid epidemic in the US Congress

Max Weiss and Michael Zoorob

Effect of cohabiting partners on the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms after emergency department visits for stroke and transient ischemic attack

Talea Cornelius, Jeffrey L. Birk, Lilly Derby, Julia Ellis and Donald Edmondson

“We at least say we are equal”: Gender equality and class in healthcare professionals’ discursive framing of migrant mothers

Sunna Símonardóttir, Annadís Greta Rúdólfsdóttir and Helga Gottfreðsdóttir

Effectiveness of behaviour change techniques used in hand hygiene interventions targeting older children – A systematic review

Julie Watson, Oliver Cumming, Amy MacDougall, Alexandra Czerniewska and Robert Dreibelbis

Expectations about pain and analgesic treatment are shaped by medical providers’ facial appearances: Evidence from five online clinical simulation experiments

Elizabeth A. Necka, Carolyn Amir, Troy C. Dildine and Lauren Y. Atlas

Eating-related pathology at the intersection of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and weight status: An intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) of the Growing Up Today Study cohorts

Ariel L. Beccia, Jonggyu Baek, S. Bryn Austin, William M. Jesdale and Kate L. Lapane

The politics of COVID-19 vaccination in middle-income countries: Lessons from Brazil

Elize Massard da Fonseca, Kenneth C. Shadlen and Francisco I. Bastos

Navigating in the dark: Meta-synthesis of subjective experiences of gender dysphoria amongst transgender and gender non-conforming youth

Reidar Schei Jessen, Ira Ronit Hebold Haraldsen and Erik Stänicke

Relationship between mindfulness and general health among couples in Mainland China: A crossover perspective

Julan Xie, Dinggen Zhou and Yuxuan Tan

Trauma-related differences in socio-emotional functioning predict housing and employment outcomes in homeless veterans

Kathryn S. Macia, Daniel M. Blonigen, Paige M. Shaffer, Marylène Cloitre and David A. Smelson

Effects of peri-traumatic stress experienced during Hurricane Sandy on functional limitation trajectories for older men and women

Rachel Pruchno, Maureen Wilson-Genderson, Allison R. Heid and Francine P. Cartwright

The ratio of morning cortisol to CRP prospectively predicts first-onset depression in at-risk adolescents

E.R. Landau, M.B. Raniti, M. Blake, J.M. Waloszek, L. Blake, J.G. Simmons, O. Schwartz, G. Murray, J. Trinder, N.B. Allen and M.L. Byrne

Time to retire? A register-based study of GPs’ practice style prior to retirement

Jamie O'Halloran, Anne Sophie Oxholm, Line Bjørnskov Pedersen and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

Emotional distress among frontline research staff

Megan Nguyen, Lloyd Goldsamt, Nonhlanhla Mazibuko, Sanelisiwe Zondo and Rebecca Fielding-Miller

Implications of household tobacco and alcohol use on child health and women's welfare in six low and middle-income countries: An analysis from a gender perspective

Daphne C. Wu, Geordan Shannon, Luz Myriam Reynales-Shigematsu, Belen Saenz de Miera, Blanca Llorente and Prabhat Jha

The adverse effects of policing on population health: A conceptual model

Maayan Simckes, Dale Willits, Michael McFarland, Cheryl McFarland, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar and Anjum Hajat

Preferences for long-term care insurance in China: Results from a discrete choice experiment

Qun Wang, Gilbert Abotisem Abiiro, Jin Yang, Peng Li and Manuela De Allegri

Nuya kankantawa (we are feeling healthy): Understandings of health and wellbeing among Shawi of the Peruvian Amazon

Alejandra Bussalleu, Nia King, Pedro Pizango, James Ford, Cesar P. Carcamo and Sherilee L. Harper

Health risks of natural hazards and resilience resources: Evidence from a U.S. nationwide longitudinal study

Su Hyun Shin and Hyunjung Ji

Understanding how psychosocial factors relate to seeking medical care among older adults using a new model of care seeking

Peter Veazie and Alina Denham

2021, volume 280, articles C

Evaluating potential mediators for the impact of a family-based economic intervention (Suubi+Adherence) on the mental health of adolescents living with HIV in Uganda

Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, William Byansi, Christine Doroshenko, Torsten B. Neilands, Nnenna Anako, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Erin Kasson, Proscovia Nabunya, Claude A. Mellins and Fred M. Ssewamala

Community-level factors and incidence of gun violence in the United States, 2014–2017

Blair T. Johnson, Anthony Sisti, Mary Bernstein, Kun Chen, Emily A. Hennessy, Rebecca L. Acabchuk and Michaela Matos

Death on the job: The Great Recession and work-related traffic fatalities

Michael T. French and Gulcin Gumus

Male out-migration and the health of left-behind wives in India: The roles of remittances, household responsibilities, and autonomy

Lei Lei and Sonalde Desai

Exposure to new smoking environments and individual-level cigarette smoking behavior: Insights from exogenous assignment of military personnel

Michael S. Dunbar, Nancy Nicosia and Beau Kilmer

The effect of public health insurance expansions on the mental and behavioral health of girls and boys

Sarah Hamersma and Jinqi Ye

Racializing infertility: How South/Asian-ness has been constituted as an independent risk factor in infertility research and IVF practice

Sandra Bärnreuther

Citizen preferences regarding the public funding of projects promoting a healthy body weight among people with a low income

Lisanne S. Mulderij, José Ignacio Hernández, Niek Mouter, Kirsten T. Verkooijen and Annemarie Wagemakers

Community perceptions of gendered alcohol misuse in a food insecure context: The case of northwestern Benin

R. Ragetlie, W.A. Hounkpatin and I. Luginaah

The regional effect of the consumer directed care model for older people in Australia

Tran, My (Michelle) and Brenda Gannon

Is a ‘culture of plus-size women’ the independent effect of neighborhood disadvantage on female BMI? A cross-sectional study in two Chilean Municipalities

Jossiana Robinovich, Hans Bosma, Bart van der Borne, Ximena Ossa, Sergio Muñoz and Anja Krumeich

Associations between self-rated health and depressive symptoms among older adults: Does age matter?

Shira Peleg and Gabriel Nudelman

Immigration law enforcement, social support, and health for Latino immigrant families in Southeastern Michigan

Quetzabel Benavides, Monika Doshi, Mislael Valentín-Cortés, Maria Militzer, Spring Quiñones, Ruth Kraut, Raymond Rion, Richard Bryce, William D. Lopez and Paul J. Fleming

Dynamic relationships between different types of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and protective behaviour: A four-wave panel study in Poland

Tomasz Oleksy, Anna Wnuk, Małgorzata Gambin and Agnieszka Łyś

We've got what the NHS ultimately intended for us: Experiences of community engagement in rural primary care services change

Sarah-Anne Munoz and Sara Bradley

Social prescribing and classed inequality: A journey of upward health mobility?

Kate Gibson, Tessa M. Pollard and Suzanne Moffatt

Interdependent pathways between socioeconomic position and health: A Swedish longitudinal register-based study

Johan Rehnberg, Olof Östergren, Ingrid Esser and Olle Lundberg

Reactions of older Swiss adults to the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal survey on the acceptance of and adherence to public health measures

Angela Bearth, Larissa Luchsinger and Michael Siegrist

The effects of education on cognition in older age: Evidence from genotyped Siblings

Jason Fletcher, Michael Topping, Fengyi Zheng and Qiongshi Lu

Structural and intersectional biographical disruption: The case of HIV disclosure among a sample of black gay and bisexual men

Chadwick K. Campbell

The social meanings of choice in living-with advanced breast cancer

Sophie Lewis, Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom, Emma Kirby and Frances Boyle

Valuing patient engagement: Reflexive learning in evidence generation practices for health technology assessment

Callum J. Gunn, Neil Bertelsen, Barbara J. Regeer and Tjerk Jan Schuitmaker-Warnaar

Is there evidence for the racialization of pharmaceutical regulation? Systematic comparison of new drugs approved over five years in the USA and the EU

Shai Mulinari, Andreas Vilhelmsson, Piotr Ozieranski and Anna Bredström

The role of the informal and formal organisation in voice about concerns in healthcare: A qualitative interview study

Frances Wu, Mary Dixon-Woods, Emma-Louise Aveling, Anne Campbell, Janet Willars, Carolyn Tarrant, David W. Bates, Christian Dankers, Imogen Mitchell, Peter Pronovost and Graham P. Martin

“If a rabbi did say ‘you have to vaccinate,’ we wouldn't”: Unveiling the secular logics of religious exemption and opposition to vaccination

Ben Kasstan

Quality over quantity? Using sibling comparisons to examine relations between sleep quality, sleep duration, and delinquency

Eric J. Connolly, Dylan B. Jackson and Daniel C. Semenza

Diagnostic slippage: Medical uncertainty and engaged patienthood in the case of atypical disorders

Eduardo Duran

Resistance as a form of resilience in sexual and gender minorities: Differential moderating roles of collective action on the discrimination–depression relationship among sexual minority men and women

Randolph C.H. Chan and Winnie W.S. Mak

Stuck in the past or living in the present? Temporal focus and the spread of COVID-19

Stuart J. Barnes

Destined for Greatness: A Family-Based Stress Management Intervention for African-American Mothers and their Children

Guido G. Urizar, Vivienne Nguyen, Jason Devera, Alexa J. Saquillo, Lauren A. Dunne, Cynthia Brayboy, Angela Dixon-Hamlett, Veronica Clanton-Higgins and Gwendolyn Manning

The impact of long-term care service on total lifetime medical expenditure among older adults with dementia

Sungje Moon, Hee Jung Park and Minsung Sohn

Life stories of food agency, health, and resilience in a rapidly gentrifying urban centre: Building a multidimensional concept of food access

Vanessa Ong, Kelly Skinner and Leia M. Minaker