Social Science & Medicine

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2021, volume 271, articles C

A behavior-theoretic evaluation of values clarification on parental beliefs and intentions toward genomic sequencing for newborns

Ryan S. Paquin, Susana Peinado, Megan A. Lewis, Barbara B. Biesecker, Christine Rini, Myra Roche, Rita M. Butterfield, Cynthia M. Powell, Jonathan S. Berg and Donald B. Bailey

Affective response to physical activity as an intermediate phenotype

Harold H. Lee, Jessica A. Emerson, Lauren Connell Bohlen and David M. Williams

Genetic effects and gene-by-education interactions on episodic memory performance and decline in an aging population

Jennifer A. Smith, Minjung Kho, Wei Zhao, Miao Yu, Colter Mitchell and Jessica D. Faul

Paternal origins of obesity: Emerging evidence for incorporating epigenetic pathways into the social determinants of health framework

Sam Milliken-Smith and Caroline M. Potter

Developing community-based health education strategies with family history: Assessing the association between community resident family history and interest in health education

Elizabeth C. Prom-Wormley, James S. Clifford, Jessica L. Bourdon, Peter Barr, Courtney Blondino, Kevin M. Ball, Joshua Montgomery, Jonathan K. Davis, Joseph E. Real, Alexis C. Edwards, Dawn L. Thiselton, Gwen Corley Creighton, Wilson, De’Nisha and Cynthia Newbille

Where culture meets genetics: Exploring Latina immigrants’ lay beliefs of disease inheritance

Katie Fiallos, Jill Owczarzak, Joann Bodurtha, Sonia Beatriz Margarit and Lori Erby

Associations between neighborhood, family factors and symptom change in childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Wendy Sharp, Aman Mangalmurti, Carlisha Hall, Saadia Choudhury and Philip Shaw

2021, volume 270, articles C

Lessons from a rural housing crisis: grounded insights for intersectoral action on health inequities

Erica Phipps, Tanya Butt, Nadine Desjardins, Misty Schonauer, Renee Schlonies and Jeffrey R. Masuda

Childhood factors related to diverging body mass index trajectories from childhood into mid-adulthood: A mixed methods study

Melanie J. Sharman, Kim A. Jose, Jing Tian, Alison J. Venn, Jana Canary, Susan Banks, Jennifer Ayton and Verity J. Cleland

Episode detection based on personalized intensity of care thresholds: a schizophrenia case study

Stefan R.A. Konings, Richard Bruggeman, Ellen Visser, Robert A. Schoevers, Jochen Mierau and Talitha L. Feenstra

Men's migration and women's mortality in rural Mozambique

Victor Agadjanian, Sarah R. Hayford and Natalie A. Jansen

Neighbourhood deprivation effects on young people's mental health and well-being: A systematic review of the literature

Kirsten Visser, Gideon Bolt, Catrin Finkenauer, Merel Jonker, Dominic Weinberg and Gonneke W.J.M. Stevens

Efficacy as safety: Dominant cultural assumptions and the assessment of contraceptive risk

Andrea M. Bertotti, Emily S. Mann and Skye A. Miner

Interracial/ethnic marriage and adverse birth outcomes: The effect of neighborhood racial/ethnic composition

Luisa N. Borrell, Hanish Kodali and Elena Rodriguez-Alvarez

A century of sexual abuse victimisation: A birth cohort analysis

Janet Fanslow, Ladan Hashemi, Pauline Gulliver and Tracey McIntosh

“We go to Tijuana to double check everything”: The contemporaneous use of health services in the U.S. and Mexico by Mexican immigrants in a border region

Danielle T. Raudenbush

Using visual stimuli to promote healthy snack choices among children

Juan Miguel Benito-Ostolaza, Rebeca Echávarri, Ariadna Garcia-Prado and Nuria Oses-Eraso

Understanding the effectiveness of advertisements about the long-term harms of alcohol and low-risk drinking guidelines: A mediation analysis

Emily Brennan, Danielle A.J.M. Schoenaker, Kimberley Dunstone, Michael D. Slater, Sarah J. Durkin, Helen G. Dixon, Simone Pettigrew and Melanie A. Wakefield

Age Matters: Determinants of sexual and reproductive health vulnerabilities amongst young women who sell sex (16–24 years) in Zimbabwe

Tamaryn L. Crankshaw, Samantha Chareka, Pemberai Zambezi and Nana K. Poku

The role of piped water supplies in advancing health, economic development, and gender equality in rural communities

James C. Winter, Gary L. Darmstadt and Jennifer Davis

Narrative sexual histories and perceptions of HIV risk among young women taking PrEP in southern Africa: Findings from a novel participatory method

Fiona Scorgie, Nomhle Khoza, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Jennifer Velloza, Nomvuyo Mangxilana, Millicent Atujuna, Miria Chitukuta, Kudzai V. Matambanadzo, Sybil Hosek, Lerato Makhale and Connie Celum

“Fat broken arm syndrome”: Negotiating risk, stigma, and weight bias in LGBTQ healthcare

Emily Allen Paine

“It's a life you're playing with”: A qualitative study on experiences of NHS maternity services among undocumented migrant women in England

Laura B. Nellums, Jaynaide Powis, Lucy Jones, Anna Miller, Kieran Rustage, Neal Russell, Jon S. Friedland and Sally Hargreaves

The geography of desperation in America: Labor force participation, mobility, place, and well-being

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Change in psychological distress in response to changes in reduced mobility during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence of modest effects from the U.S

Srikant Devaraj and Pankaj C. Patel

Educational stressors and secular trends in school stress and mental health problems in adolescents

Björn Högberg

A cross-cultural interpersonal model of adolescent depression: A qualitative study in rural Nepal

Kelly Rose-Clarke, Eliz Hassan, Prakash Bk, Jananee Magar, Delan Devakumar, Nagendra P. Luitel, Helen Verdeli and Brandon A. Kohrt

A realist review to assess for whom, under what conditions and how pay for performance programmes work in low- and middle-income countries

Neha S. Singh, Roxanne J. Kovacs, Rachel Cassidy, Søren Kristensen, Josephine Borghi and Garrett W. Brown

Why doesn't God say “enough”? Experiences of living with bipolar disorder in rural Ethiopia

Mekdes Demissie, Charlotte Hanlon, Lauren Ng, Abebaw Fekadu and Rosie Mayston

Trends and projections of universal health coverage indicators in Iraq, 2000–2030: A national and subnational study

Hiroko Taniguchi, Md Mizanur Rahman, Khin Thet Swe, Ashraf Hussain, Kenji Shibuya and Masahiro Hashizume

“And we just have to keep going”: Task shifting and the production of burnout among overdose response workers with lived experience

Michelle Olding, Jade Boyd, Thomas Kerr and Ryan McNeil

Preferences for private long-term care insurance products in a super-ageing society: A discrete choice experiment in Hong Kong

Alex Jingwei He, Jiwei Qian, Wai-sum Chan and Kee-lee Chou

Microcredit as a public health initiative? Exploring mechanisms and pathways to health and wellbeing

Fatma Ibrahim, Neil McHugh, Olga Biosca, Rachel Baker, Tim Laxton and Cam Donaldson

Post-traumatic stress symptomatology and displacement among Hurricane Harvey survivors

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

Industry, experts and the role of the ‘invisible college’ in the dissemination of non-invasive prenatal testing in the US

Kelly Holloway, Fiona Alice Miller and Nicole Simms

Perspectives on sugar consumption expressed on social media by French-speaking and Danish-speaking parents

Andreia Ferreira Moura and Jessica Aschemann-Witzel

The relationship between rural to urban migration in China and risk of depression in later life: An investigation of life course effects

Nan Zhang, James Nazroo and Bram Vanhoutte

Masculinity, resources, and retention in care: South African men's behaviors and experiences while engaged in TB care and treatment

Joseph Daniels, Andrew Medina-Marino, Katherine Glockner, Emily Grew, Nondumiso Ngcelwane and Aaron Kipp

Psychosocial impacts of post-disaster compensation processes: Community-wide avoidance behaviors

Liesel A. Ritchie and Michael A. Long

Long-term effects of housing damage on survivors’ health in rural China: Evidence from a survey 10 Years after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Yang Han, Jianwen Wei and Yandong Zhao

Association between preexisting mental illnesses and mortality among medicaid-insured women diagnosed with breast cancer

Wayne R. Lawrence, Margaret Gates Kuliszewski, Akiko S. Hosler, Matthew C. Leinung, Xiuling Zhang, Wangjian Zhang, Zhicheng Du, Maria J. Schymura and Francis P. Boscoe

Firearm exposure and the health of high-risk intimate partner violence victims

Kellie R. Lynch and Dylan B. Jackson

Do as your neighbours do? Assessing the impact of lockdown and reopening on the active COVID-19 cases in Nigeria

Sagiru Mati

Factors that facilitate patient activation in the self-management of diabetes and depression among participants enrolled in an integrated chronic care model in India

Leslie C.M. Johnson, Nancy J. Thompson, Mohammed K. Ali, Nikhil Tandon, Lydia Chwastiak and Viswanathan Mohan

Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity: A longitudinal study in England 2011–17

Sarah Curtis, Niall Cunningham, Jamie Pearce, Peter Congdon, Mark Cherrie and Sarah Atkinson

COVID-19 does not stop at open borders: Spatial contagion among local authority districts during England's first wave

Denise Laroze, Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plümper

An integrative method for analyzing spatial accessibility in the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system in China

Nan Yang, Liyin Shen, Tianheng Shu, Shiju Liao, Yi Peng and Jinhuan Wang

The role of residential history in cancer research: A scoping review

S. Namin, Y. Zhou, J. Neuner and K. Beyer

Integrated care pathway for breast cancer: A relational and geographical approach

Laurent Mériade and Corinne Rochette

Quality of life of older adults in two contrasting neighbourhoods in Accra, Ghana

Dominic A. Alaazi, Devidas Menon, Tania Stafinski, Stephen Hodgins and Gian Jhangri

Intergenerational trauma in Latinxs: A scoping review

Jessica P. Cerdeña, Luisa M. Rivera and Judy M. Spak

Randomized controlled trial of a breast cancer Survivor Stories intervention for African American women

Tess Thompson, Maria Pérez, Yan Yan, Matthew W. Kreuter, Julie A. Margenthaler, Graham A. Colditz and Donna B. Jeffe

Disparities in HIV-related risk and socio-economic outcomes among trans women in the sex trade and effects of a targeted, anti-sex-trafficking policy

Caitlin M. Turner, Sean Arayasirikul and Erin C. Wilson

Will policy to constrain GP referrals damage health? Evidence using practice level NHS emergency admissions administrative data

Barry McCormick, Catia Nicodemo and Stuart Redding

Gender-related differences in the relationship between social and activity participation and health and subjective well-being in later life

Sarah Dury, Lara Stas, Lise Switsers, Daan Duppen, Joan Domènech-Abella, Eva Dierckx and Liesbeth De Donder

Narcan and Narcan't: Implementation factors influencing police officer use of Narcan

Luca Berardi, Sandra Bucerius, Kevin D. Haggerty and Harvey Krahn

Highly vulnerable communities and the Affordable Care Act: Health insurance coverage effects, 2010–2018

Wei Ye and Javier M. Rodriguez

Analysing the intersection between health emergencies and abortion during Zika in Brazil, El Salvador and Colombia

Clare Wenham, Camila Abagaro, Amaral Arévalo, Ernestina Coast, Sonia Corrêa, Katherine Cuéllar, Tiziana Leone and Sandra Valongueiro

Korean mothers’ morality in the wake of COVID-19 contact-tracing surveillance

Eun-Sung Kim and Ji-Bum Chung

The Cultivation of Digital Health Citizenship

Dimitra Petrakaki, Eva Hilberg and Justin Waring

The legal violence of care: Navigating the US health care system while undocumented and illegible

Anthony M. Jimenez

Resisting the racialization of medical deservingness: How Latinx nurses produce symbolic resources for Latinx immigrants in clinical encounters

Ming-Cheng M. Lo and Emerald T. Nguyen

“It was as if I wasn't there” – Experiences of everyday racism in a Swedish medical school

Emelie Kristoffersson, Hanna Rönnqvist, Jenny Andersson, Carita Bengs and Katarina Hamberg

The impact of different patterns of home- and community-based services on nursing home admission: National data from Taiwan

Ying-Chieh Wang, Hsiao-Wei Yu, Shih-Cyuan Wu, Su-Yuan Chan, Ming-Chin Yang, Yue-Chune Lee and Ya-Mei Chen

Parental migration and anemia status of children in China

Feinuo Sun and Zai Liang

Neighborhood atmosphere modifies the eudaimonic impact of cohesion and friendship among older adults: A multilevel mixed-methods study

Daniel R.Y. Gan, John Chye Fung and Im Sik Cho

90 DAYS: An investigation of a short entertainment-education film to improve HIV status disclosure among black women living with HIV in Miami-Dade County

Jazmyne V. Simmons, Nick Carcioppolo, Wei Peng, Qian Huang, Michelle Seelig, Rachel Katz and JoNell Potter

Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A social-ecological perspective

Carl A. Latkin, Lauren Dayton, Grace Yi, Arianna Konstantopoulos and Basmattee Boodram

How effective was England's teenage pregnancy strategy? A comparative analysis of high-income countries

Mr Andrew J Baxter, Ms Ruth Dundas, Dr Frank Popham and Dr Peter Craig

Women's participation in microfinance: Effects on Women's agency, exposure to partner violence, and mental health

Kathryn M. Yount, Yuk Fai Cheong, Zara Khan, Stephanie S. Miedema and Ruchira T. Naved

Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The role of pandemic-related stressors

Jason Zheng, Talia Morstead, Nancy Sin, Patrick Klaiber, Debra Umberson, Shanmukh Kamble and Anita DeLongis

Mixed claims in Health Technology Assessment: The case of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing

Bart Bloemen, Maarten Jansen, Wouter Rijke, Wija Oortwijn and Gert Jan van der Wilt

Impact of price promotion, price, and minimum unit price on household purchases of low and no alcohol beers and ciders: Descriptive analyses and interrupted time series analysis of purchase data from 70, 303 British households, 2015–2018 and first half of 2020

Eva Jané Llopis, Amy O'Donnell and Peter Anderson

Regular employment for people with mental illness – An evaluation of the individual placement and support programme

Tor Helge Holmås, Karin Monstad and Silje Endresen Reme

Investigating associations between physical activity-related neighborhood built environment features and child weight status to inform local practice

Jordan A. Carlson, Robin P. Shook, Ann M. Davis, Amy Papa, Chelsea Steel, Carolina Bejarano, Janelle R. Noel-MacDonnell, Shelly Summar, Kelsey Dean and Sarah E. Hampl

Healing journeys: Indigenous Men's reflections on resources and barriers to mental wellness

C.M. Waddell, M.D. de Jager, J. Gobeil, F. Tacan, R.V. Herron, J.A. Allan and K. Roger

The relational genomics of cognitive function: A longitudinal study

Aniruddha Das