Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

2024, volume 363, articles C

Absenteeism and presenteeism among caregivers of chronic diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Neha Das, Ishani K. Majumdar, Paul A. Agius, Peter Lee, Suzanne Robinson and Lan Gao

Difficult decisions and possible choices: Rare diseases, genetic inheritance and reproduction of the family

Waleska Aureliano

Investigation of the health economic analysis of informal care for people living with a chronic neurological disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the global evidence for multiple sclerosis

Tadele G. Adal, Ingrid van der Mei, Bruce V. Taylor, Barbara de Graaff, Andrew J. Palmer, Gang Chen, Glen J. Henson, Jessica Roydhouse and Julie A. Campbell

Assessing momentary stress responses to dynamic real-time greenspace exposure: Unveiling algorithmic uncertainty and the temporality of exposure context

Changda Yu, Mei-Po Kwan and Yang Liu

Chinese minimum wages and health

Yihong Bai, Qiaoge Li, Qian Liu and Michael Veall

Racial discrimination and cognitive function: An instrumental variable analysis

Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Yu-Tien Hsu, Hannah J. Cory and Ichiro Kawachi

The emergence of birth territory theory: Understanding the experience of giving birth in the home versus the hospital setting in Baringo and Nakuru counties of Kenya

Jenna Marie Randolph

The liminal experience of awaiting for a cadaveric kidney donation: “I would not wish it on even my enemy!”

Hicran Karataş and Şener Balas

Media coverage of antimicrobial resistance in Germany and Switzerland: An interpretation through the multiple streams framework

Wyser Josefine, Puran Tanja, Hornung Johanna and Fischer Manuel

Valuing mortality risk reductions in a fast-developing society: A meta-analysis of stated preference studies in China from 1998 to 2019

Yanying Wang, Yana Jin, Huan Lin, Wei Wan and Shiqiu Zhang

Patterns of shared meaning across personal narratives surrounding experiences with palliative care, serious illness, and the end of life

Marjolein Matthys, Kenneth Chambaere, Benedicte Deforche, Joachim Cohen, Luc Deliens, Kim Beernaert, Leen Van Brussel and Naomi Dhollander

Looking to the past: Investigating 10-year place histories as a determinant of home food environments in the Healthy Communities Study

Ian-Marshall Lang, Yeonwoo Kim, Lorrene D. Ritchie, Lauren E. Au and Natalie Colabianchi

‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups

Emilie Mølholm Kjærulff, Mette Andersen Nexø, Chrysanthi Papoutsi and Henriette Langstrup

The cards they're dealt: types of gambling activity, online gambling, and risk of problem gambling in European adolescents

Gabriele Lombardi, Sabrina Molinaro, Rodolfo Cotichini, Sonia Cerrai, Marco Scalese and Elisa Benedetti

Dilemmas of care: Healthcare seeking behaviours and antibiotic use among women in rural communities in Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam

Yen Hong Thi Nguyen, Rogier van Doorn, Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil and Sonia Lewycka

The socioecology of sexual minority stigma: Advancing theory on stigma-based mechanisms underlying sexual orientation-based disparities in health

Arjan van der Star

Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach

Pratik Singh and Alok Kumar Mishra

Pain and the risk of social isolation and loneliness in older Chinese adults: Do gender, age, and education make a difference?

Dan Zhang

From one death to another: The relationship between familial deaths and one’s own mortality risk among an urban Black American cohort

Elaine E. Doherty, Kerry M. Green and Brittany A. Bugbee

Assessing disease self-management in multi-ethnic patients with chronic conditions and evaluating psychometric properties of the Partners in Health scale

Yiyun Shou, David Smith, Jun Xuan Ng, Malcolm Battersby, Cynthia Chen and Ngan Phoon Fong

Effectiveness of community-based participatory research (CBPR) interventions on mental health outcomes: A systematic review

Jessie Ho-Yin Yau, Edwin Lok Yan Wong, Hotinpo Sky Kanagawa, Tianyin Liu, Gloria Hoi Yan Wong and Terry Yat Sang Lum

‘Public prostitutes and private prostitutes’: A study of women's perceptions of transactional sex in Cameroon

Aurélia Lépine, Charlie Henderson, Emile Nitcheu, Fanny Procureur, Henry Cust, Létitia Toukam, Chimene Chimsgueya, Julienne Noo, Sandie Szawlowski, Eric Defo Tamgno, Silvia Mandop, Stephanie Moyoum, Serge Billong, Iliassou Mfochive and Ubald Tamoufe

Individual & joint associations of sexual stigma and mental distress with PrEP uptake, adherence and persistence among US gay and bisexual men

Udodirim N. Onwubiko, Sarah M. Murray, Amrita Rao, Allison T. Chamberlain, Travis H. Sanchez, David Benkeser, David P. Holland, Samuel M. Jenness and Stefan D. Baral

Navigating parental decision-making: Intersex surgeries in Italy

Daniela Crocetti and Marta Prandelli

“Don't push!” experiences of obstetric violence in U.S. hospital settings

Anna Claire Church

An analysis of intersectional disparities in alcohol consumption in the US

Sophie Bright, Charlotte Buckley, Daniel Holman, George Leckie, Andrew Bell, Nina Mulia, Carolin Kilian and Robin Purshouse

From affordable to accessible: How the pharmaceutical industry transformed patient consumers into charity recipients

Laura Halcomb

Who is helping students? A qualitative analysis of task-shifting and on-campus mental health services in China's university settings

Rui Hou, Isabella Huang, Kenneth Po-Lun Fung, Alan Li, Cunxian Jia, Shengli Cheng, Jianguo Gao, Jingxuan Zhang and Josephine Pui-Hing Wong

2024, volume 362, articles C

Economic policy uncertainty, health status, and mortality

Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei and Miao Yu

Does receipt of social housing impact mental health? Results of a quasi-experimental study in the Greater Toronto Area

James R. Dunn, Katherine L.W. Smith, Paula Smith, Rahim Moineddin, Flora I. Matheson, Stephen W. Hwang, Carles Muntaner, Magdalena Janus and Patricia O'Campo

Dengue fever is not just urban or rural: Reframing its spatial categorization

James A. Trostle, Charlotte Robbins, Betty Corozo Angulo, Andrés Acevedo, Josefina Coloma and Joseph N.S. Eisenberg

The double disadvantage faced by adolescents from low socioeconomic backgrounds with mental health problems affects earnings up to mid-life

Sara Evans-Lacko, Paulino Font Gilabert and Martin Knapp

The effect of cash transfers on health in high-income countries: A scoping review

Robbie Brydon, Saud Bin Haseeb, Gum-Ryeong Park, Carolyn Ziegler, Stephen W. Hwang, Evelyn L. Forget, Navindra Persaud, Arjumand Siddiqi and James R. Dunn

State cigarette taxes, smoking cessation, and implications for the educational gradient in mortality

Alicia R. Riley

Risk factors associated with child maltreatment in the second generation of a prospective longitudinal Australian birth cohort: A MUSP study

Claudia Bull, Mike Trott, Jake Moses Najman, Natasha Reid and Steve Kisely

Interventions addressing systemic racism in the US: A scoping review

Lisvel Matos, Shewit Jaynes, Yolanda M. VanRiel, Nadine J. Barrett, Leila Ledbetter, Allen A. Cadavero, Ernest A. Grant, Michelle A. Webb and Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda

Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is uniquely linked to suicidality beyond posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults with childhood maltreatment: A multinational study across four countries

Dennis Chong, Diyang Qu, Yingjun Xi and Runsen Chen

Mlambe economic and relationship-strengthening intervention for alcohol use decreases violence and improves relationship quality in couples living with HIV in Malawi

Amy A. Conroy, Allison Ruark, Nancy Mulauzi, James Mkandawire, Lynae A. Darbes, Judith A. Hahn, Torsten B. Neilands, Scott Tebbetts and Fred M. Ssewamala

The role of toilets in public spaces: An interview study with individuals experiencing gastrointestinal issues

Anja Fleten Nielsen

Ukrainian women's maternity care strategies in Poland after the outbreak of the full-scale war: Understanding unequal access to quality care

Maria Węgrzynowska, Nina Sahraoui, Ilona Nenko, Beata Szlendak and Barbara Baranowska

The journey of a living statue: Structural violence and a Honduran migrant woman's pathway toward asylum and wellbeing

Brenda K. Wilson, Cristina Calderon, Ash Cornejo and Thomas J. Csordas

Associations between the urban neighbourhood built and social environment characteristics with physical functioning among mid- and older-aged adults: A systematic review

Pouya Molaei, Mehdi Alidadi, Hannah Badland and Lucy Gunn

From risk factors to disease situations: A socio-spatial analysis of COVID-19 experiences in Lima, Peru

Claudia Nieto-Sanchez, Stefanie Dens, Jesus Cisneros, Karla Solari, Mario De Los Santos, Victor Vega, Alfonso Silva-Santiesteban, Larissa Otero, Koen Peeters Grietens and Kristien Verdonck

Suicide variations between English neighbourhoods over 2017-21: The role of spatial scale

Peter Congdon

One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Mitsuri Pacheco-Zapata, Fernanda Pérez-Lombardini, Benjamin Roche, Audrey Arnal, Erika Marcé and Gerardo Suzán

Association between husband's participation in household work and the onset of depressive symptoms in married women: A population-based longitudinal study in South Korea

Seong-Uk Baek, Yu-Min Lee, Jong-Uk Won and Jin-Ha Yoon

Childhood mental health and educational attainment: Within-family associations in a late 20th Century U.S. birth cohort

Joshua Klugman, Jason Schnittker and Victoria Vazquez

Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia

Mari Tvaliashvili, Lela Sulaberidze, Catherine Goodman, Kara Hanson and George Gotsadze

Trajectories of physiological stress markers over time among Latinx immigrants in the United States: Influences of acculturative stressors and psychosocial resilience

R.M. Gonzalez-Guarda, W. Pan, P. Buzelli, B. Mack, B.E. McCabe, A. Stafford, A. Tana and J.K.L. Walker

The adoption and implementation of local government planning policy to manage hot food takeaways near schools in England: A qualitative process evaluation

S. Hassan, C. Thompson, J. Adams, M. Chang, D. Derbyshire, M. Keeble, B. Liu, O.T. Mytton, J. Rahilly, B. Savory, R. Smith, M. White, T. Burgoine and S. Cummins

Sex-specific co-developmental trajectories of childhood victimization among elementary school students: Relations to social behavior

Ruorong Jin, E. Scott Huebner and Lili Tian

Racism-related experiences and substance use: A systematic and meta-analytic review

Chantel T. Ebrahimi, Hannah Song, Monica Machado, Pamela Segura, Adriana Espinosa and Lillian Polanco-Roman

Healthcare providers’ psychological investment in clinical recommendations: Investigating the role of implicit racial attitudes

Conor M.C. Duffy, Emerson Do Bú, Cícero Roberto Pereira, Filipa Madeira and Nao Hagiwara

Closing the life expectancy gap: An ecological study of the factors associated with smaller regional health inequalities in post-reunification Germany

Julija Simpson, Viviana Albani, Andrew Kingston and Clare Bambra

Social determinants of participation in genetic research among Puerto Ricans and in the Puerto Rican diaspora

Timothy De Ver Dye, Zahira Quiñones Tavárez, Ivelisse Rivera and Nancy Cardona Cordero

Effect of particulate matter on cognitive function among middle-aged and older adults in China: An instrumental variable approach

Qi Zhao, Alessandro Del Ponte, Saima Hilal and Wei Jie Seow

Self-rated health predicts mortality -- but it depends on your age

Emily C. Dore and Ellen Idler

From public health to political repression: COVID-19 lockdown measure in Hong Kong's opposition districts

Vera W.H. Yuen

Do discrepancies between subjective and objective health shift over time in later life? A markov transition model

Bill Calvey, Joanna McHugh Power, Rebecca Maguire, Rafael de Andrade Moral and Idemauro Antonio Rodrigues de Lara

A low-cost digital first aid tool to reduce psychological distress in refugees: A multi-country randomized controlled trial of self-help online in the first months after the invasion of Ukraine

Anastasiya-Mariya Asanov, Igor Asanov and Guido Buenstorf

“They are not even called by name”: Security guards in a South African psychiatric hospital

Saskia Hanft-Robert, Lindokuhle Shongwe, Qhama Cossie, Philasande Sithole, Tessa Roos, Mike Mösko and Leslie Swartz

Person-first and identity-first disability language: Informing client centred care

Lisa B. Grech, Donna Koller and Amanda Olley

Easing caregiver strain: The power of health check-ups

Lin Guo, Bin Sang, Linlin Zhang, Wenqiang Yin, Xiaoping Yuan and Chunxiao Ma

Mind the glass ceiling: The gender gap in how depressive symptoms after age 55 relate to earlier career mobility in CONSTANCES

Constance Beaufils, Emmanuel Wiernik and Emmanuelle Cambois

Association between precarious employment and emergence of food insecurity in Korean adults: A population-based longitudinal analysis (2008–2022)

Seong-Uk Baek and Jin-Ha Yoon

Repairing with a warm heart: How medical practitioners cultivate affective relationships with clients

Dan Liu and Xiaoli Tian

Social and policy characteristics associated with injurious shootings by police in US counties: A multilevel analysis, 2015–2020

Julie A. Ward, Odis Johnson, Javier A. Cepeda, Dylan B. Jackson, Daniel W. Webster and Cassandra K. Crifasi

Context dependent preferences in prestige bias learning about vaccination in rural Namibian pastoralists

Sean Prall, Brooke Scelza and Helen Elizabeth Davis

Hierarchy, class, race and PPE in an American hospital in the early days of COVID-19: What the pandemic stress test can teach us about building equitable health systems

Svea Closser, Erin Cooney, Kaitlyn Atkins, Soim Park, Hannah Fritz, Sarah Schneider-Firestone and Tener Veenema

Later-life social network profiles of male war survivors in Vietnam: Implications for health behaviors

Timothy Qing Ying Low, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Zachary Zimmer and Tran Khanh Toan

Understanding health and illness among incarcerated persons in the Slovenian correctional system: A qualitative study

Mirko Prosen and Aleksandra Lukić

Hazardous alcohol use is associated with food insecurity in adults living alone: Findings from a nationwide study in Korea

Seong-Uk Baek, Yu-Min Lee, Jin-Ha Yoon and Jong-Uk Won

Changes in suicide inequalities in the context of an increase and a decrease in suicide mortality: The case of South Korea, 1995–2020

Minji Hwang, Shu-Sen Chang, Changsu Han, Seung-ah Choe, Jiseun Lim and Myung Ki

Divergence in smoking and drinking trends: Results from age-period-cohort analytical approach

Duyen Nguyen, Michael Donnelly and Ciaran O'Neill

Longitudinal bidirectional relations between psychological maltreatment by teachers and psychosocial adjustment during early adolescence

Meiru Deng, Mao Wen, E. Scott Huebner and Lili Tian

From subsidies to nutrition: Investigating effects among cohort children from the Subsidy Reinvestment programme in Nigeria

Uchenna Efobi, Oluwabunmi Adejumo, Obianuju Nnadozie, Oluwasola Omoju and Adeniyi Ekisola

Thermal comfort and gender affirmation: A virtual ethnography of extreme heat among trans women in Rio de Janeiro

Antonella Mazzone