Social Science & Medicine

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2021, volume 277, articles C

Perception of peer advice in online health communities: Access to lay expertise

Jasmina Rueger, Wilfred Dolfsma and Rick Aalbers

Drivers of successful implementation of integrated care for multi-morbidity: Mechanisms identified in 17 case studies from 8 European countries

Willemijn Looman, Verena Struckmann, Julia Köppen, Erik Baltaxe, Thomas Czypionka, Mirjana Huic, Janos Pitter, Sabine Ruths, Jonathan Stokes, Roland Bal and Maureen Rutten-van Mölken

Factors associated with medical help-seeking for infertility in developed countries: A narrative review of recent literature

Jasmin Passet-Wittig and Arthur L. Greil

Economic-related inequalities in child health interventions: An analysis of 65 low- and middle-income countries

Zhihui Li, Rockli Kim and S.V. Subramanian

Telephone delivery of psychological interventions: Balancing protocol with patient-centred care

P. Drew, A. Irvine, M. Barkham, C. Faija, J. Gellatly, K. Ardern, J.C. Armitage, H. Brooks, K. Rushton, C. Welsh, P. Bower and P. Bee

Decolonizing Indigenous health: Generating a productive dialogue to eliminate Rheumatic Heart Disease in Australia

Emma Haynes, Roz Walker, Alice G. Mitchell, Judy Katzenellenbogen, Heather D'Antoine and Dawn Bessarab

Explaining the Black-white depression paradox: Interrogating the Environmental Affordances Model

John R. Pamplin, Katrina L. Kezios, Eleanor Hayes-Larson, Katherine M. Keyes, Ezra S. Susser, Pam Factor-Litvak, Bruce G. Link and Lisa M. Bates

What makes AI ‘intelligent’ and ‘caring’? Exploring affect and relationality across three sites of intelligence and care

Giulia De Togni, Sonja Erikainen, Sarah Chan and Sarah Cunningham-Burley

Does Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme provide financial protection to tuberculosis patients and their households?

Debora Pedrazzoli, Daniel J. Carter, Josephine Borghi, Samia Laokri, Delia Boccia and Rein MGJ. Houben

Intersectionality in quantitative health disparities research: A systematic review of challenges and limitations in empirical studies

Lexi Harari and Chioun Lee

Roles of effort and reward in well-being for police officers in Singapore: The effort-reward imbalance model

Eunae Cho, Miaohua Chen, Shi Min Toh and Jansen Ang

Structural competency and the future of firearm research

Jonathan M. Metzl, Tara McKay and Jennifer L. Piemonte

Lay participation with medical expertise in online self-care practices: Social knowledge (co)production in the Running Mania injury forum

Patricia A. Campbell

The role of professional elites in healthcare governance: Exploring the work of the medical director

Lorelei Jones and Naomi Fulop

How information about race-based health disparities affects policy preferences: Evidence from a survey experiment about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Allison Harell and Evan Lieberman

Gender differences in physician decisions to adopt new prescription drugs

Susan Mendez, Anthony Scott and Yuting Zhang

Parenting in poor health: Examining associations between parental health, prescription drug use, and child maltreatment

Jennifer Price Wolf, Bridget Freisthler and Karla Shockley McCarthy

Implementing practices focused on workplace health and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review

Kevin Daniels, David Watson, Rachel Nayani, Olga Tregaskis, Martin Hogg, Abasiama Etuknwa and Antonina Semkina

Explanatory models and help-seeking for symptoms of PTSD and depression among Syrian refugees

V. Aarethun, G.M. Sandal, E. Guribye, V. Markova and H.H. Bye

The extent and predictors of discrepancy between provider and recipient reports of informal caregiving

Sean Urwin, Yiu-Shing Lau, Gunn Grande and Matt Sutton

Public values and plurality in health priority setting: What to do when people disagree and why we should care about reasons as well as choices

Rachel Baker, Helen Mason, Neil McHugh and Cam Donaldson

Does Lolland-Falster make people sick, or do sick people move to Lolland-Falster? An example of selective migration and mortality in Denmark, 1968-2017

Therese Lucia Friis Holmager, Søren Nymand Lophaven, Laust Hvas Mortensen and Elsebeth Lynge

Analytic autoethnography of familial and institutional social identity construction of My Dad with Alzheimer's: In the emergency room with Erving Goffman and Oliver Sacks

Robert Courtney Smith

Examining the associations between oral health and social isolation: A cross-national comparative study between Japan and England

Shihoko Koyama, Masashige Saito, Noriko Cable, Takaaki Ikeda, Taishi Tsuji, Taiji Noguchi, Hazem Abbas, Isao Miyashiro, Ken Osaka, Katsunori Kondo, Richard G. Watt and Jun Aida

Current perceptions of cancer nurses in France about their role and the evolution of nursing practices: Findings and perspectives

Elise Verot, Véronique Régnier Denois and Franck Chauvin

Social consequences and contexts of adverse childhood experiences

Jose Eos Trinidad

Exposure to televised political campaign advertisements aired in the United States 2015–2016 election cycle and psychological distress

Jeff Niederdeppe, Rosemary J. Avery, Jiawei Liu, Sarah E. Gollust, Laura Baum, Colleen L. Barry, Brendan Welch, Emmett Tabor, Nathaniel W. Lee and Erika Franklin Fowler

Storylines of research on resource extraction and health in Canada: A modified metanarrative synthesis

Ben Brisbois, Dawn Hoogeveen, Sandra Allison, Donald Cole, Trina M. Fyfe, Henry G. Harder and Margot W. Parkes

Beyond rationality: Expanding the practice of shared decision making in modern medicine

Elizabeth C. Thomas, Sarah Bauerle Bass and Laura A. Siminoff

Racial disparities in provider-patient communication of incidental medical findings

Rebecca A. Schut

The role of causal knowledge in stigma considerations in African genomics research: Views of South African Xhosa people

Olivia P. Matshabane, Megan M. Campbell, Marlyn C. Faure, Paul S. Appelbaum, Patricia A. Marshall, Dan J. Stein and Jantina de Vries

The case for refugee physicians: Forced migration of International Medical Graduates in the 21st century

Susan E. Bell and Lillian Walkover

The puzzle of therapeutic emplotment: creating a shared clinical plot through interprofessional interaction in biopsychosocial pain rehabilitation

Gudrun Songøygard Battin, Grace Inga Romsland and Bjørg Christiansen

Culture of prevention and early disease detection of cancer in Russia

Natalia Rekhter and Natalia Ermasova

From policy to patient: Using a socio-ecological framework to explore the factors influencing safe practice in UK primary care

Ian Litchfield, Katherine Perryman, Anthony Avery, Stephen Campbell, Paramjit Gill and Sheila Greenfield

Adapting the environmental risk transition theory for urban health inequities: An observational study examining complex environmental riskscapes in seven neighborhoods in Global North cities

Helen V.S. Cole, Isabelle Anguelovski, James J.T. Connolly, Melissa García-Lamarca, Carmen Perez-del-Pulgar, Galia Shokry and Margarita Triguero-Mas

Protective effect of adult children's education on parental survival in China: Gender differences and underlying mechanisms

Ying Cui, Hong Liu and Liqiu Zhao

Evidence that loneliness can be reduced by a whole-of-community intervention to increase neighbourhood identification

Polly Fong, Tegan Cruwys, Sam L. Robinson, S. Alexander Haslam, Catherine Haslam, Paula L. Mance and Claire L. Fisher

Facilitating inter-professional integration in palliative care: A service ecosystem perspective

Lynn Sudbury-Riley and Philippa Hunter-Jones

The situation and well-being of custodial grandparents in Myanmar: Impacts of adult children's cross-border and internal migration

Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan and Timothy Qing Ying Low

Politicisation, depoliticisation, and repoliticisation of health care controversies: Vaccination and mental health care reform in the Czech Republic

Dino Numerato, Petra A. Honová and Tereza Sedláčková

“Gummy Bears” and “Teddy Grahams”: Ultrasounds as religious biopower in Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Kendra Hutchens

Becoming a diagnostic agent: A collated ethnography of digital-sensory work in caregiving intra-actions

Sarah Maslen and Anna Harris

COVID-19 information on social media and preventive behaviors: Managing the pandemic through personal responsibility

Piper Liping Liu

Alcohol, drugs and sexual abuse in Cameroon's rainforest

Sandrine Gallois, Tinde Ruth van Andel and Gintare Pranskaityté

Links between conspiracy beliefs, vaccine knowledge, and trust: Anti-vaccine behavior of Serbian adults

J. Milošević Đorđević, S. Mari, M. Vdović and A. Milošević

Adverse intergenerational effects of ethnically-divisive social contexts on children's mental health: A prospective cohort study in the Netherlands

Farah Qureshi, Ivonne P.M. Derks, Michelle A. Williams, Karestan C. Koenen, Henning Tiemeier and Laura D. Kubzansky

Coronavirus awareness, confinement stress, and mental health: Evidence from Honduras, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico and Spain

Miguel Landa-Blanco, Claudio J. Mejía, Ana Lucía Landa-Blanco, Carlos A. Martínez-Martínez, Daniela Vásquez, Gabriela Vásquez, Paulo Moraga-Vargas, Yaraní Echenique, Glenda M. Del Cid and Brayan D. Montoya

Social factors and worry associated with COVID-19: Evidence from a large survey in China

Min Zhou and Wei Guo

2021, volume 276, articles C

The effects of state earned income tax credits on mental health and health behaviors: A quasi-experimental study

Daniel F. Collin, Laura S. Shields-Zeeman, Akansha Batra, Justin S. White, Michelle Tong and Rita Hamad

Financial health and obesity

Alessandra Guariglia, Mark Monahan, Karen Pickering and Tracy Roberts

Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Eugene T. Richardson, Momin M. Malik, William Darity, A. Kirsten Mullen, Michelle E. Morse, Maya Malik, Aletha Maybank, Mary T. Bassett, Paul E. Farmer, Lee Worden and James Holland Jones

The long-run effects of war on health: Evidence from World War II in France

Olivier Allais, Guy Fagherazzi and Julia Mink

Proliferation or adaptation? Differences across race and sex in the relationship between time served in prison and mental health symptoms

Lauren C. Porter, Meghan Kozlowski-Serra and Hedwig Lee

Making epistemic citizens: Young people and the search for reliable and credible sexual health information

Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Andrea Waling and Adrian Farrugia

Social variations in uptake of disability benefits: A census-based record linkage study

Dermot O'Reilly, Michael Rosato, David M. Wright, Ana Corina Millar, Foteini Tseliou and Aideen Maguire

To pay or not to pay? Cost information processing in the valuation of publicly funded healthcare

Mesfin G Genie, Mandy Ryan and Nicolas Krucien

Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, mood, and substance use among young adults in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area: Findings from project EAT

Rebecca L. Emery, Sydney T. Johnson, Melissa Simone, Katie A. Loth, Jerica M. Berge and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

Increased frequency of participation in civic associations and reduced depressive symptoms: Prospective study of older Japanese survivors of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake

Wen Zhang, Taishi Tsuji, Meiko Yokoyama, Kazushige Ide, Jun Aida, Ichiro Kawachi and Katsunori Kondo

Portfolio frontier analysis: Applying mean-variance analysis to health technology assessment for health systems under pressure

Darrin Baines, Marta Disegna and Christopher Hartwell

A systematic review of suicidal behaviour in men: A narrative synthesis of risk factors

Cara Richardson, Kathryn A. Robb and Rory C. O'Connor

Offspring's labor migration and its implications for elderly parents' emotional wellbeing in Indonesia

Sneha Kumar

Towards healthy China 2030: Modeling health care accessibility with patient referral

Yixiong Xiao, Xiang Chen, Qiang Li, Pengfei Jia, Luning Li and Zhifen Chen

“Why didn't we do it”? Reproductive loss and the problem of post-mortem consent

Kate Reed, Maria Teresa Ferazzoli and Elspeth Whitby

Being a midwife in West Africa: Between sensory experiences, moral standards, socio-technical violence and affective constraints

Yannick Jaffré and Isabelle L. Lange

Health shocks and couples’ labor market participation: A turning point or stuck in the trajectory?

Aart-Jan Riekhoff and Maria Vaalavuo

Outsourced austerity or improved services? A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the experiences of social care providers and commissioners in quasi-markets

Anders Malthe Bach-Mortensen and Jane Barlow

Stressful life events and electronic cigarette use during pregnancy

Alexander Testa, Dylan B. Jackson and Cashen Boccio

Instructional interventions for improving COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, behaviors: Evidence from a large-scale RCT in India

Dinsha Mistree, Prashant Loyalka, Robert Fairlie, Ashutosh Bhuradia, Manyu Angrish, Jason Lin, Amar Karoshi, Sara J. Yen, Jamsheed Mistri and Vafa Bayat

Provider love in an informal settlement: Men's relationships with providing women and implications for HIV in Kampala, Uganda

Megan M. Schmidt-Sane

Your friends, my friends, and our family: Informal social participation and mental health through the lens of linked lives

Shannon Ang

Sleep characteristics of U.S. adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Garrett C. Hisler and Jean M. Twenge

Experimenting with co-development: A qualitative study of gene drive research for malaria control in Mali

Sarah Hartley, Katie Ledingham, Richard Owen, Sabina Leonelli, Samba Diarra and Samba Diop

Psychological outcomes for young adults after disastrous events: A mixed-methods scoping review

Katelyn O'Donohue, Emily Berger, Louise McLean and Matthew Carroll

Positive and negative perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic: Does personality play a role?

Claudia Schmiedeberg and Carolin Thönnissen

A(nother) time for nature? Situating non-human nature experiences within the emotional transitions of sight loss

Sarah L. Bell and Ronan Foley

An ecological study of the relationship between urban built environment and cardiovascular hospital admissions (2004–2016) in an Asian developing country

Soo Chen Kwan, Rohaida Ismail, Nor Halizam Ismail and Norlen Mohamed

Chronic environmental contamination: A narrative review of psychosocial health consequences, risk factors, and pathways to community resilience

Daniel Sullivan, Harrison J. Schmitt, Eric E. Calloway, Whitney Clausen, Pamela Tucker, Jamie Rayman and Ben Gerhardstein

Filipino nurse migration to the UK: Understanding migration choices from an ontological security-seeking perspective

David. M. Smith and Nicola Gillin