Social Science & Medicine

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2021, volume 272, articles C

A randomized trial of cash incentives for sexual behavior change among female sex workers in Dar es Salaam

Laura J. Packel, Damien de Walque, Kevin C. Feeney, Marianna P. Balampama, Jan E. Cooper, Admirabilis Kalolella, Wendee M. Wechsberg and William Dow

Giving or receiving spouse care and marital satisfaction among older Korean individuals

Heejeong Choi

Pathways to well-being: Untangling the causal relationships among biopsychosocial variables

Nandini Karunamuni, Ikuyo Imayama and Dharshini Goonetilleke

Depicting “the system”: How structural racism and disenfranchisement in the United States can cause dynamics in community violence among males in urban black communities

Marcus Burrell, Ann Marie White, Leah Frerichs, Melanie Funchess, Catherine Cerulli, Lauren DiGiovanni and Kristen Hassmiller Lich

Understanding infection prevention behaviour in maternity wards: A mixed-methods analysis of hand hygiene in Zanzibar

Mícheál de Barra, Giorgia Gon, Susannah Woodd, Wendy J. Graham, Marijn de Bruin, Catherine Kahabuka, A. Jess Williams, Khadidja Konate, Said M. Ali, Rukaiya Said and Loveday Penn-Kekana

Antibiotics, rational drug use and the architecture of global health in Zimbabwe

Justin Dixon, Salome Manyau, Faith Kandiye, Katharina Kranzer and Clare I.R. Chandler

Correlates and disparities of intention to vaccinate against COVID-19

Timothy Callaghan, Ali Moghtaderi, Jennifer A. Lueck, Peter Hotez, Ulrich Strych, Avi Dor, Erika Franklin Fowler and Matthew Motta

Can a COVID-19 vaccine live up to Americans’ expectations? A conjoint analysis of how vaccine characteristics influence vaccination intentions

Matt Motta

“You don't really see the dangers of it at the time.” Risk perceptions and behaviours of older female gamblers

Simone McCarthy, Samantha L. Thomas, Hannah Pitt and Maria E. Bellringer

Motivations and deterrents toward blood donation in Kampala, Uganda

Caroline M. Murtagh and Charles Katulamu

Associations of COVID-19 risk perception with vaccine hesitancy over time for Italian residents

Marta Caserotti, Paolo Girardi, Enrico Rubaltelli, Alessandra Tasso, Lorella Lotto and Teresa Gavaruzzi

Cost-effectiveness analysis of housing first intervention with an independent housing and team support for homeless people with severe mental illness: A Markov model informed by a randomized controlled trial

Coralie Lemoine, Sandrine Loubière, Mohamed Boucekine, Vincent Girard, Aurélie Tinland and Pascal Auquier

The effect of mental health on social capital: An instrumental variable analysis

Michael Lebenbaum, Audrey Laporte and Claire de Oliveira

Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review

Elizabeth McGill, Vanessa Er, Tarra Penney, Matt Egan, Martin White, Petra Meier, Margaret Whitehead, Karen Lock, Rachel Anderson de Cuevas, Richard Smith, Natalie Savona, Harry Rutter, Dalya Marks, Frank de Vocht, Steven Cummins, Jennie Popay and Mark Petticrew

Confronting Structural Inequities: The Limits of Participation when Developing a Community Health Intervention with Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Lebanon

Lara Z. Jirmanus, Micheline Ziadee and Jinan Usta

How migrants get integrated in urban China – The impact of health insurance

Lijian Qin, Chien-Ping Chen, Wei Wang and Hong Chen

Fulfilling food practices: Applying the capability approach to ethnographic research in the Northern Netherlands

Sanne Siete Visser and Hinke Haisma

Clinical guidelines and the pursuit of reducing epistemic uncertainty. An ethnographic study of guideline development panels in three countries

Sietse Wieringa, Eivind Engebretsen, Kristin Heggen and Trish Greenhalgh

Combining patient talk about internet use during primary care consultations with retrospective accounts. A qualitative analysis of interactional and interview data

Fiona A. Stevenson, Maureen Seguin, Geraldine Leydon-Hudson, Rebecca Barnes, Sue Ziebland, Catherine Pope, Elizabeth Murray and Helen Atherton

Playing Russian roulette with their kids: Experts' construction of ignorance in the California and Ohio measles outbreaks

Natalie Kay Fullenkamp

The influence of neighborhood violent crime on child-rearing: Integrating neighborhood ecologies and stratified reproduction approaches

Brooke V. Jespersen, Vanessa M. Hildebrand, Jill E. Korbin and James C. Spilsbury

Reclaiming Mountain Lake: Applying environmental repossession in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg territory, Canada

Elana Nightingale and Chantelle A.M. Richmond

Fundamentally uncaring: The differential multi-scalar impacts of COVID-19 in the U.S

Patricia J. Lopez and Abigail H. Neely

Societal views in the Netherlands on active disinvestment of publicly funded healthcare interventions

A.H. Rotteveel, V.T. Reckers-Droog, M.S. Lambooij, G.A. de Wit and Job van Exel

How does sanitation influence people's quality of life? Qualitative research in low-income areas of Maputo, Mozambique

Ian Ross, Oliver Cumming, Robert Dreibelbis, Zaida Adriano, Rassul Nala and Giulia Greco

Does inequality have a silver lining? Municipal income inequality and obesity in Mexico

Matthieu Clément, Pierre Levasseur, Suneha Seetahul and Lucie Piaser

Social-environmental resiliencies protect against loneliness among HIV-Positive and HIV- negative older men who have sex with men: Results from the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS)

Maria De Jesus, Deanna Ware, Andre L. Brown, James E. Egan, Sabina A. Haberlen, Frank Joseph Palella, Roger Detels, M. Reuel Friedman and Michael W. Plankey

The implications of changing education distributions for life expectancy gradients

Arun S. Hendi, Irma T. Elo and Pekka Martikainen

On the possibility of a disabled life in capitalist ruins: Black workers with sickle cell disorder in England

Simon M. Dyson, Karl M. Atkin, Maria J. Berghs and Anne-Marie Greene

Impacts of anticancer drug parity laws on mortality rates

Yichen Shen and Haruko Noguchi

The importance of surgeons and their peers in adoption and diffusion of innovation: An observational study of laparoscopic colectomy adoption and diffusion in England

Eliana Barrenho, Marisa Miraldo, Carol Propper and Brendan Walsh

Does improved risk information increase the value of cholera prevention? An analysis of stated vaccine demand in slum areas of urban Bangladesh

Sonia Aziz, Emily L. Pakhtigian, Ali S. Akanda, Antarpreet Jutla, Anwar Huq, Munirul Alam, Gias U. Ashan and Rita R. Colwell

Effects of social security policy reforms on mental health and inequalities: A systematic review of observational studies in high-income countries

Julija Simpson, Viviana Albani, Zoe Bell, Clare Bambra and Heather Brown

The role of stress and absence: How household member incarceration is associated with risky sexual health behaviors

Erin J. McCauley

Association between school racial/ethnic composition during adolescence and adult health

R.N. Dudovitz, C. Biely, E.S. Barnert, T.R. Coker, A.D. Guerrero, N. Jackson, A. Schickedanz, P.G. Szilagyi, S. Iyer and P.J. Chung

Antibiotic dispensing patterns and patient interventions for upper respiratory tract infections by hospitals and retail pharmacies: A cross-sectional study based on standardized patients

Jing Wang, Yanhong Gong, Jianxiong Wu, Nan Jiang, Zhenyuan Chen and Xiaoxv Yin

Occupational differences in advance care planning: Are medical professionals more likely to plan?

Deborah Carr, Lucie Kalousova, Katherine Lin and Sarah Burgard

Mortality risk among a sample of sexual minority women: A focus on the role of sexual identity disclosure

Bethany G. Everett, Melanie Wall, Eileen Shea and Tonda L. Hughes

What is the causal effect of income gains on youth obesity? Leveraging the economic boom created by the Marcellus Shale development

Molly A. Martin

“I would want to pay her”: Challenging altruistic egg exchanges in Canada through moral patchworks

Skye A. Miner

“I don't know what home feels like anymore”: Residential spaces and the absence of ontological security for people returning from incarceration

Alana Rosenberg, Danya E. Keene, Penelope Schlesinger, Allison K. Groves and Kim M. Blankenship

Minority stress, psychosocial health, and survival among gay and bisexual men before, during, and after incarceration

Tyler D. Harvey, Danya E. Keene and John E. Pachankis

“It makes it more real”: Examining ambiguous fetal meanings in abortion care

Andréa Becker and Lena R. Hann

Estimating disability prevalence and disability-related inequalities: Does the choice of measure matter?

Anna Amilon, Kasper M. Hansen, Agnete Aslaug Kjær and Tinne Steffensen

A spectrum of (Dis)Belief: Coronavirus frames in a rural midwestern town in the United States

Adam D. Koon, Emily Mendenhall, Lori Eich, Abby Adams and Zach A. Borus

Parental intervention in school, academic pressure, and childhood diagnoses of ADHD

Jayanti Owens

“We are to be like machines…fill the bed before it gets cold”: Exploring the emotional geographies of healthcare providers caring for dying residents in long-term care facilities

Melissa Giesbrecht, Kelli I. Stajduhar, Denise Cloutier and Carren Dujela

Providing care under extreme adversity: The impact of the Yemen conflict on the personal and professional lives of health workers

Shatha Elnakib, Sarah Elaraby, Fouad Othman, Huda BaSaleem, Nagiba A. Abdulghani AlShawafi, Iman Ahmed Saleh Al-Gawfi, Fouzia Shafique, Eman Al-Kubati, Nuzhat Rafique and Hannah Tappis

Actionable data for precision oncology: Framing trustworthy evidence for exploratory research and clinical diagnostics

Niccolò Tempini and Sabina Leonelli

Mass meets mosh: Exploring healthcare professionals' perspectives on social identity processes and health risks at a religious pilgrimage and music festivals

Daniella Hult Khazaie, Clifford Stott and Sammyh S. Khan

The Co-evolution of online social networks and syphilis incidence among young black men who have sex with men

Lindsay E. Young and Kayo Fujimoto