Social Science & Medicine

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2021, volume 269, articles C

Fast food restaurant density and weight status: A spatial analysis among Filipina migrant workers in Macao (SAR), People's Republic of China

Brian J. Hall, Lei Huang, Grace Yi and Carl Latkin

Judicial bypass attorneys’ experiences with abortion stigma in Texas courts

Kate Coleman-Minahan, Amanda Jean Stevenson, Emily Obront and Susan Hays

Stress, self-compassion, and well-being during the transition to college

Emily Kroshus, Matt Hawrilenko and Anne Browning

Investigating change in the food environment over 10 years in urban New Zealand: A longitudinal and nationwide geospatial study

Matthew Hobbs, Joreintje Dingena Mackenbach, Jesse Wiki, Lukas Marek, Geraldine F.H. McLeod and Joseph M. Boden

Towards a collaborative structure of interpreter-mediated medical consultations: Complementing functions between healthcare interpreters and providers

Cristina Álvaro Aranda, Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez and Shuangyu Li

The role of combinatorial health technologies in supporting older people with long-term conditions: Responsibilisation or co-management of healthcare?

Sandra Varey, Mandy Dixon, Alejandra Hernández, Ceu Mateus, Tom M. Palmer and Christine Milligan

How do state policies shape experiences of household income shocks and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Rachel Donnelly and Mateo P. Farina

Conceptualizing Pain and Personhood in the Periviable Period: Perspectives from Reproductive Health and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Clinicians

Elise Andaya and Lisa Campo-Engelstein

Intersectional environmental justice and population health inequalities: A novel approach

Camila H. Alvarez and Clare Rosenfeld Evans

Emergency Department visits for depression following police killings of unarmed African Americans

Abhery Das, Parvati Singh, Anju K. Kulkarni and Tim A. Bruckner

Is the grass greener on the other side? The health impact of providing informal care in the UK and the Netherlands

Judith Bom and Jannis Stöckel

“You're nobody without a piece of paper:” visibility, the state, and access to services among women who use drugs in Ukraine

Jill Owczarzak, Asiya K. Kazi, Alyona Mazhnaya, Polina Alpatova, Tatyana Zub, Olga Filippova and Sarah D. Phillips

Social determination, health selection or indirect selection? Examining the causal directions between socioeconomic status and obesity in the Chinese adult population

Hania Fei Wu

HIV stigma beliefs in context: Country and regional variation in the effects of instrumental stigma beliefs on protective sexual behaviors in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa

Katie R. Billings, David A. Cort, Tannuja D. Rozario and Derek P. Siegel

Emotions over five years after denial of abortion in the United States: Contextualizing the effects of abortion denial on women's health and lives

Corinne H. Rocca, Heidi Moseson, Heather Gould, Diana G. Foster and Katrina Kimport

Shelter in place? Depends on the place: Corruption and social distancing in American states

Oguzhan Dincer and Robert Gillanders

Exploring the macroeconomic and socioeconomic determinants of simultaneous over and undernutrition in Asia: An analysis of stunted child - overweight mother households

Jonas Fooken and Linh K. Vo

Why public health framing matters: An experimental study of the effects of COVID-19 framing on prejudice and xenophobia in the United States

Lindsay Y. Dhanani and Berkeley Franz

Does the UK-public's aversion to inequalities in health differ by group-labelling and health-gain type? A choice-experiment

Simon McNamara, Aki Tsuchiya and John Holmes

Social network influences on new mothers’ infant sleep adjustments

Benjamin Cornwell, Xuewen Yan, Rebecca F. Carlin, Linda Fu, Jichuan Wang and Rachel Y. Moon

Understanding professional stakeholders’ active resistance to guideline implementation: The case of Canadian breast screening guidelines

Zhicheng Wang, Lisa Bero and Quinn Grundy

Social movements and the contested institutional identity of the hospital

Gro Kvåle and Dag Olaf Torjesen

Cancer risk among individuals of migrant origin in Belgium during the 2000s – Evidence of migration as a ‘cancer risk transition’?

Wanda M.J. Van Hemelrijck, Michael Rosskamp, Harlinde De Schutter, Freija Verdoodt and Katrien Vanthomme

Early origins of socioeconomic inequalities in chronic inflammation: Evaluating the contributions of low birth weight and short breastfeeding

Thomas W. McDade and Stephanie M. Koning

The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework

Glorian Sorensen, Jack T. Dennerlein, Susan E. Peters, Erika L. Sabbath, Erin L. Kelly and Gregory R. Wagner

I tweet, they follow, you eat: Number of followers as nudge on social media to eat more healthily

Karine Charry and Tina Tessitore

Ethics of care and selective organisational caregiving by private employers for employees with chronic illness in a middle-income country

Lavanya Vijayasingham, Uma Jogulu and Pascale Allotey

2021, volume 268, articles C

Market characteristics and zoonotic disease risk perception in Cameroon bushmeat markets

Karen E. Saylors, Moctar M. Mouiche, Ashley Lucas, David J. McIver, Annie Matsida, Catherine Clary, Victorine T. Maptue, Jason D. Euren, Matthew LeBreton and Ubald Tamoufe

Pharmaceuticals as a market for “lemons”: Theory and practice

Donald W. Light and Joel R. Lexchin

Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults in Switzerland: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study

Amy Nivette, Denis Ribeaud, Aja Murray, Annekatrin Steinhoff, Laura Bechtiger, Urs Hepp, Lilly Shanahan and Manuel Eisner

Grandparenthood and risk of mortality: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study

Lea Ellwardt, Karsten Hank and Carlos F. Mendes de Leon

Evaluating the effect of hierarchical medical system on health seeking behavior: A difference-in-differences analysis in China

Zhongliang Zhou, Yaxin Zhao, Chi Shen, Sha Lai, Rashed Nawaz and Jianmin Gao

HPV Vaccine Promotion: The church as an agent of change

Ariana Y. Lahijani, Adrian R. King, Mary M. Gullatte, Monique Hennink and Robert A. Bednarczyk

A salutogenic perspective on sport-for-development research

Sabina Super, Kirsten Verkooijen and Maria Koelen

Palliative space-time: Expanding and contracting geographies of US health care

Caitlin Henry

Time-space constraints to HIV treatment engagement among women who use heroin in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A time geography perspective

Haneefa T. Saleem, Samuel Likindikoki, Claire Silberg, Jessie Mbwambo and Carl Latkin

Successes and failures of built environment interventions: Using concept mapping to assess stakeholder perspectives in four Canadian cities

Caislin L. Firth, Zoé Poirier Stephens, Michael Cantinotti, Daniel Fuller, Yan Kestens and Meghan Winters

Producing insecurity: Healthcare access, health insurance, and wellbeing among American Indian elders

Elise Trott Jaramillo and Cathleen E. Willging

How and why patients made Long Covid

Felicity Callard and Elisa Perego

“Not from home”: Cancer screening avoidance and the safety of distance in Eswatini

Nomthandazo Malambo

The southern rural health and mortality penalty: A review of regional health inequities in the United States

Charlotte E. Miller and Ramachandran S. Vasan

Freed from insurance: Health care sharing ministries and the moralization of health care

Carolyn Schwarz

Does ageing alter the contribution of health to subjective well-being?

Clémence Bussière, Nicolas Sirven and Philippe Tessier

The role of alcohol in the link between national football (soccer) tournaments and domestic abuse - Evidence from England

Anna Trendl, Neil Stewart and Timothy L. Mullett

A qualitative exploration of mechanisms of intimate partner violence reduction for Zambian couples receiving the Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA) intervention

Sarah M. Murray, Stephanie Skavenski Van Wyk, Kristina Metz, Saphira Munthali Mulemba, Mwamba M. Mwenge, Jeremy C. Kane, Michelle Alto, Katherine E. Venturo-Conerly, Akash R. Wasil, Shoshanna L. Fine and Laura K. Murray

‘Not at the diagnosis point’: Dealing with contradiction in autism assessment teams

Jennie Hayes, Rose McCabe, Tamsin Ford, Daisy Parker and Ginny Russell

Longitudinal interrelationships of mental health discrimination and stigma with housing and well-being outcomes in adults with mental illness and recent experience of homelessness

Cilia Mejia-Lancheros, James Lachaud, Julia Woodhall-Melnik, Patricia O'Campo, Stephen W. Hwang and Vicky Stergiopoulos

Physician remuneration schemes, psychiatric hospitalizations and follow-up care: Evidence from blended fee-for-service and capitation models

Thyna Vu, Kelly K. Anderson, Rose Anne Devlin, Nibene H. Somé and Sisira Sarma

Rethinking the relationship between sex work, mental health and stigma: a qualitative study of sex workers in Australia

Carla Treloar, Zahra Stardust, Elena Cama and Jules Kim

Stigmatize the use, not the user? Attitudes on opioid use, drug injection, treatment, and overdose prevention in rural communities

Jerel M. Ezell, Suzan Walters, Samuel R. Friedman, Rebecca Bolinski, Wiley D. Jenkins, John Schneider, Bruce Link and Mai T. Pho

Exponential-growth prediction bias and compliance with safety measures related to COVID-19

Ritwik Banerjee, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Priyama Majumdar

The potential impact of an implemented income redistribution package on obesity prevalence in New Zealand

Manisha Morar, Stefanie Vandevijvere and Boyd Swinburn

Challenges of maintaining accountability in networks of health and care organisations: A study of developing Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships in the English National Health Service

Valerie Moran, Pauline Allen, Marie Sanderson, Imelda McDermott and Dorota Osipovic

Understanding the functions of repeated self-harm: A Q methodology approach

Louise D. Bryant, Roseanne O'Shea, Kate Farley, Cathy Brennan, Helen F. Crosby, Elspeth Guthrie and Allan House

Global capitalism as a societal determinant of health: A conceptual framework

Matthew B. Flynn

Perceived neighbourhood characteristics and depressive symptoms: Potential mediators and the moderating role of employment status

Hannah Roberts, Caspar van Lissa and Marco Helbich

Therapeutic landscapes, outdoor programs for veterans, and public lands

David G. Havlick, Lee K. Cerveny and Monika M. Derrien

Racialized algorithms for kidney function: Erasing social experience

Lundy Braun, Anna Wentz, Reuben Baker, Ellen Richardson and Jennifer Tsai

Pay-for-performance reduces bypassing of health facilities: Evidence from Tanzania

Sosina Bezu, Peter Binyaruka, Ottar Mæstad and Vincent Somville

The value of health awareness days, weeks and months: A systematic review

Erin Vernon, Zachary Gottesman and Raechel Warren

Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities

Sean A.P. Clouston, Ginny Natale and Bruce G. Link

Relative food insecurity, mental health and wellbeing in 160 countries

Frank J. Elgar, William Pickett, Timo-Kolja Pförtner, Geneviève Gariépy, David Gordon, Kathy Georgiades, Colleen Davison, Nour Hammami, Allison H. MacNeil, Marine Azevedo Da Silva and Hugo R. Melgar-Quiñonez

Pay to skip the line: The political economy of digital testing services for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections

Kinnon R. MacKinnon, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Catherine Worthington, Oralia Gómez-Ramírez, Mark Gilbert and Daniel Grace

Adverse events as transitional markers - Using liminality to understand experiences of second victims

Katja Schrøder, Astrid Janssens and Elisabeth Assing Hvidt