Social Science & Medicine

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2020, volume 265, articles C

The contested meanings of race and ethnicity in medical research: A case study of the DynaMed Point of Care tool

Sachil Singh and Valerie Steeves

A gender framework for understanding health lifestyles

Stefanie Mollborn, Elizabeth M. Lawrence and Robert A. Hummer

Comprehensive sexuality education is ‘not for us’: Rethinking ‘cultural relevance’ through Young Tanzanians' identifications with/against intervention knowledge

Clare Coultas, Catherine Campbell, Ramadhani Mohamedi and Upendo Sanga

Why this clinic now? A context-sensitive aspect of accounting for visits

Shuya Kushida, Michie Kawashima and Tetsuya Abe

Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts

Mariana C. Arcaya, Yael Nidam, Andrew Binet, Reann Gibson and Vedette Gavin

Climate exposures and child undernutrition: Evidence from Indonesia

Brian C. Thiede and Clark Gray

The evolution of social health research topics: A data-driven analysis

Sun Mi Cho, Chan-ung Park and Min Song

Did young women in South African informal settlements display increased agency after participating in the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention? A qualitative evaluation

Samantha Willan, Andrew Gibbs, Nwabisa Shai, Nolwazi Ntini, Inge Petersen and Rachel Jewkes

Mechanisms connecting objective and subjective poverty to mental health: Serial mediation roles of negative life events and social support

Qingsong Chang, Chenhong Peng, Yingqi Guo, Ziyi Cai and Paul S.F. Yip

The grief ritual of extracting and donating human milk after perinatal loss

Ayelet Oreg

Does the Everyday Discrimination Scale generate meaningful cross-group estimates? A psychometric evaluation

João L. Bastos and Catherine E. Harnois

Understanding the composite dimensions of the EQ-5D: An experimental approach

Rebecca McDonald, Timothy L. Mullett and Aki Tsuchiya

Moral hazard effects of supplemental private health insurance in Korea

Hansoo Ko

Capturing modelled and perceived spatial access to ambulatory health care services in rural and urban areas in Germany

Natalie Baier, Jonas Pieper, Jürgen Schweikart, Reinhard Busse and Verena Vogt

Heroin hustles: Drugs and the laboring poor in South Africa

Mark Hunter

When information is not power: Community-elected health facility committees and health facility performance indicators

Jean-Benoit Falisse and Léonard Ntakarutimana

iSAY (incentives for South African youth): Stated preferences of young people living with HIV

Omar Galarraga, Caroline Kuo, Bulelwa Mtukushe, Brendan Maughan-Brown, Abigail Harrison and Jackie Hoare

The effects of neighborhood social ties and networks on mental health and well-being: A qualitative case study of women residents in a middle-class Korean urban neighborhood

Naeun Gu

How health inequalities accumulate and combine to affect treatment value: A distributional cost-effectiveness analysis of smoking cessation interventions

James Love-Koh, Becky Pennington, Lesley Owen, Matthew Taylor and Susan Griffin

“The self-making of the scientific circumciser (fenni sünnetçi):” the medicalization of male circumcision in Turkey

Oyman Başaran

A relational analysis of an invisible illness: A meta-ethnography of people with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) and their support needs

Karen Pilkington, Damien T. Ridge, Chinonso N. Igwesi-Chidobe, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Paul Little, Opeyemi Babatunde, Nadia Corp, Clare McDermott and Anna Cheshire

Is war hard on the heart? Gender, wartime stress and late life cardiovascular conditions in a population of Vietnamese older adults

Kim Korinek, Yvette Young, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc, Miles Kovnick and Zachary Zimmer

Cautionary tails of grip strength in health inequality studies: An analysis from the Canadian longitudinal study on aging

Yukiko Asada, Michel Grignon, Jeremiah Hurley and Susan Kirkland

With a little help from my (Canadian) friends: Health differences between minimal and maximal religiosity/spirituality are partially mediated by social support

David Speed, Caitlin Barry and Ryan Cragun

Resilience and demographic characteristics predicting distress during the COVID-19 crisis

Shaul Kimhi, Hadas Marciano, Yohanan Eshel and Bruria Adini

Associations of religiosity, attitudes towards suicide and religious coping with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in 11 muslim countries

Mehmet Eskin, Nazlı Baydar, Mayssah El-Nayal, Nargis Asad, Isa Multazam Noor, Mohsen Rezaeian, Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek, Fadia Al Buhairan, Hacer Harlak, Motasem Hamdan, Anwar Mechri, Ulker Isayeva, Yousef Khader, Aqeel Khan, Alaa Al Sayyari, Albaraa Khader, Bahareh Behzadi, Cennet Şafak Öztürk, Hazem Agha, Laifa Annisa Hendarmin and Murad Moosa Khan

Estimating the influence of adolescent delinquent behavior on adult health using sibling fixed effects

Jinho Kim, Rockli Kim, Hannah Oh, Adam M. Lippert and S.V. Subramanian

The long-term effect of intra-European migration on cognitive abilities in later life

Stefan Gruber

Disadvantaged neighborhoods, birth weight, and problem behavior in five- and six-year-old pre-school children: Evidence from a cohort born in Amsterdam

Unnati Rani Saha, Govert Bijwaard, Nazeem Muhajarine and Tanja GM. Vrijkotte

Health technology assessment and judicial deference to priority-setting decisions in healthcare: Quasi-experimental analysis of right-to-health litigation in Brazil

Daniel Wang, Natália Pires de Vasconcelos, Mathieu JP Poirier, Ana Chieffi, Cauê Mônaco, Lathika Sritharan, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk and Steven J Hoffman

The relationship of opioid prescriptions and the educational performance of children

Chad D. Cotti, John M. Gordanier and Orgul Ozturk

Time of pandemic: Temporal perspectives related to compliance with public health regulations concerning the COVID-19 pandemic

Małgorzata Sobol, Agata Blachnio and Aneta Przepiórka

Accessibility to First-Mile health services: A time-cost model for rural Uganda

Roberto Moro Visconti, Alberto Larocca and Michele Marconi

Suicide and apparent temperature in the two capitals cities in the iberian peninsula

Ana Santurtún, Ricardo Almendra, Giovani L. Silva, Pablo Fdez-Arroyabe, Maite Santurtún and Paula Santana

Studying physical and mental health status among hijra, kothi and transgender community in Kolkata, India

Shamayeta Bhattacharya and Debarchana Ghosh

The French public's attitudes to a future COVID-19 vaccine: The politicization of a public health issue

Jeremy K. Ward, Caroline Alleaume and Patrick Peretti-Watel

Neighborhood social capital and adolescents’ individual health development

Jaap Nieuwenhuis

The effect of budget cuts on C-section rates and birth outcomes: Evidence from Spain

Paola Bertoli, Veronica Grembi, Catalina Llaneza Hesse and Judit Vall Castello

Health system reforms in China a half century apart: Continuity but adaptation

Beibei Yuan, Weiyan Jian, Melisa Martinez-Alvarez, Martin McKee and Dina Balabanova

Role of health insurance and neighborhood-level social deprivation on hypertension control following the affordable care act health insurance opportunities

Angier H, Green Bb, Fankhauser K, Marino M, Huguet N, Larson A and DeVoe Je

Where has democracy helped the poor? Democratic transitions and early-life mortality at the country level

Antonio P. Ramos, Martin J. Flores and Michael L. Ross

Neighbourhood greenspace and smoking prevalence: Results from a nationally representative survey in England

Leanne Martin, Mathew P. White, Sabine Pahl, Jon May and Benedict W. Wheeler

Stigma of persons with disabilities in South Africa: Uncovering pathways from discrimination to depression and low self-esteem

Jean-Francois Trani, Jacqueline Moodley, Paul Anand, Lauren Graham and May Thu Thu Maw

Health insurance as a state institution: The effect of single-payer insurance on expenditures in OECD countries

Nicolas Bichay

The Amish health culture and culturally sensitive health services: An exhaustive narrative review

Cory Anderson and Lindsey Potts

Comparing loneliness in England and the United States, 2014–2016: Differential item functioning and risk factor prevalence and impact

Louise C. Hawkley, Andrew Steptoe, L. Philip Schumm and Kristen Wroblewski

The tired hero and her (il)legitimation: Reworking Parsons to analyse experiences of burnout within the Dutch employment system and lifeworld

Jolanda J. Boersma and Patrick Brown

Dynamics of interprofessional teamwork: Why three logics are better than one

Henriette Lund Skyberg and Simon Innvaer

Associations between parental trauma, mental health, and parenting: A qualitative study in a high-adversity South African community

Hope Christie, Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Filipa Alves-Costa, Mark Tomlinson, Jackie Stewart, Sarah Skeen, Vuyolwethu Notholi, Phumza Gqwaka, Akhona Sambudla and Sarah Halligan

How do gender differences in family responsibilities affect doctors' labour supply? Evidence from Australian panel data

Jia Song and Terence Cheng

Debt stress partly explains the relationship between problem gambling and comorbid mental health problems

Thomas B. Swanton and Sally M. Gainsbury

Confidence in social institutions, perceived vulnerability and the adoption of recommended protective behaviors in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jose Storopoli, Wilson Levy Braga da Silva Neto and Gustavo S. Mesch

Motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online experiment

Pete Lunn, Shane Timmons, Cameron A. Belton, Martina Barjaková, Hannah Julienne and Ciarán Lavin

Men's experiences of pregnancy and childbirth in Sierra Leone: Reexamining definitions of “male partner involvement”

Kristen E. McLean

Economic complexity and health outcomes: A global perspective

Trung Vu

Patterns and effects of social integration on housing stability, mental health and substance use outcomes among participants in a randomized controlled Housing First trial

Maritt Kirst, Rebecca Friesdorf, Martha Ta, Alexandra Amiri, Stephen W. Hwang, Vicky Stergiopoulos and Patricia O'Campo

Adolescent college expectation and nutritional health in adulthood: The hidden power of social position

Miao Li

Assessing and promoting the use of implementation intentions in clinical practice

Paulina Gonzalez Salas Duhne, Andrew J. Horan, Caitlin Ross, Thomas L. Webb and Gillian E. Hardy

Clearing the cobwebs: An analysis of the timing of youth concussion legislation in U.S. states

Thomas Rotolo and Michael Lengefeld

Exploring the role of social capital in managing food insecurity among older women in the United States

Anna M. Leddy, Henry J. Whittle, Jacqueline Shieh, Catalina Ramirez, Ighovwerha Ofotokun and Sheri D. Weiser

News-stimulated public-attention dynamics and vaccination coverage during a measles outbreak: An observational study

Florian Arendt and Sebastian Scherr

Cluster randomized controlled trial of volitional and motivational interventions to improve bowel cancer screening uptake: A population-level study

Sarah Wilding, Anastasia Tsipa, Dawn Branley-Bell, Darren C. Greenwood, Armando Vargas-Palacios, Nahel Yaziji, Caroline Addison, Phil Kelly, Fiona Day, Kate Horsfall, Mark Conner and Daryl B. O'Connor

Geospatial perspectives on health: The PrEP4Love campaign and the role of local context in health promotion messaging

Gregory Phillips , David J. McCuskey, Dylan Felt, Anand B. Raman, Christina S. Hayford, Jim Pickett, Julia Shenkman, Peter T. Lindeman and Brian Mustanski

‘Whole onflow’, the productive event: an articulation through health

Gavin J. Andrews and Cameron Duff

The effect of neighbourhood cohesion on mental health across sexual orientations: A longitudinal study

Celine Teo and Antony Chum

Do small hospitals have lower quality? Evidence from the English NHS

James Gaughan, Luigi Siciliani, Hugh Gravelle and Giuseppe Moscelli

Bowling together by bowling alone: Social capital and COVID-19

Francesca Borgonovi and Elodie Andrieu

When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia

Marte E.S. Haaland, Joseph Mumba Zulu, Karen Marie Moland, Haldis Haukanes and Astrid Blystad,

Thinking about and deciding to be an organ donor: An experimental analysis

Justin Buffat, Lorenz Goette and Simona Grassi

Health information provision, health knowledge and health behaviours: Evidence from breast cancer screening

Peter Eibich and Léontine Goldzahl

Does neighbours' grass matter? Testing spatial dependent heterogeneity in technical efficiency of Italian hospitals

Marina Cavalieri, Paolo Di Caro, Calogero Guccio and Domenico Lisi

Health and hostile hospitality: Understanding asylum applicants’ narratives of life and health in the UK

Louise Tomkow

Orthodox or traditional medicine? Private or public healthcare? Exploring treatment pathways for occupational health problems among informal automobile artisans

Funmilayo Juliana Afolabi, Paul Beer and Joke A. Haafkens

An epidemic of avoidable caesarean deliveries in the private sector in India: Is physician-induced demand at play?

M. Bhatia, L.K. Dwivedi, K. Banerjee and P. Dixit

The effects of ageing population on health expenditure and economic growth in China: A Bayesian-VAR approach

Milena Lopreite and Zhen Zhu

Impact of cash incentives for low-income individuals to seek a primary care visit on mental health outcomes: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Cathy J. Bradley and Heather G. Saunders

Work-family spillover stress predicts health outcomes across two decades

Dmitry Tsukerman, Kate A. Leger and Susan T. Charles

Trust, risk perception, and COVID-19 infections: Evidence from multilevel analyses of combined original dataset in China

Maoxin Ye and Zeyu Lyu

Risk factors affecting maternal health outcomes in Rivers State of Nigeria: Towards the PRISMA model

Viviane Chinwah, Frank Nyame-Asiamah and Ignatius Ekanem

Loneliness during a strict lockdown: Trajectories and predictors during the COVID-19 pandemic in 38,217 United Kingdom adults

Feifei Bu, Andrew Steptoe and Daisy Fancourt

Sewing and Inuit women's health in the Canadian Arctic

Kristin Emanuelsen, Tristan Pearce, Jill Oakes, Sherilee L. Harper and James D. Ford

Racism, racialization, and health equity in Canadian residential long term care: A case study in Toronto

Iffath Unissa Syed

Is interpersonal justice related to group and organizational turnover? Results from a Swedish panel study

Constanze Leineweber, Paraskevi Peristera, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel and Constanze Eib

Modes of coordination for health technology adoption: Health Technology Assessment agencies and Group Procurement Organizations in a polycentric regulatory regime

Fiona A. Miller, Pascale Lehoux, Valeria E. Rac, Jessica P. Bytautas, Murray Krahn and Stuart Peacock

Caring through distancing: Spatial boundaries and proximities in the cystic fibrosis clinic

Christina Buse, Nik Brown, Sarah Nettleton, Daryl Martin and Alan Lewis

COVID-19 pandemic, government responses, and public mental health: Investigating consequences through crisis hotline calls in two countries

Florian Arendt, Antonia Markiewitz, Manina Mestas and Sebastian Scherr

Volunteer service and positive attitudes toward aging among Chinese older adults: The mediating role of health

Yiwei Liu, Yanan Duan and Ling Xu

Influence of the urban context on the relationship between neighbourhood deprivation and obesity

T. Feuillet, J.F. Valette, H. Charreire, E. Kesse-Guyot, C. Julia, A. Vernez-Moudon, S. Hercberg, M. Touvier and J.M. Oppert

Differential impact on men in an IPV prevention intervention: A post hoc analysis using latent class analysis of the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention in South Africa

Andrew Gibbs, Nada Abdelatif, Laura Washington, Esnat Chirwa, Samantha Willan, Nwabisa Shai, Yandisa Sikweyiya and Rachel Jewkes

Examining the relationship between community mobility and participation using GPS and self-report data

Eugene Brusilovskiy, Louis A. Klein, Greg Townley, Gretchen Snethen, Bryan McCormick, Shivayogi V. Hiremath and Mark S. Salzer

Changes in daily loneliness for German residents during the first four weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic

Susanne Buecker, Kai T. Horstmann, Julia Krasko, Sarah Kritzler, Sophia Terwiel, Till Kaiser and Maike Luhmann

The Muslim Ban and preterm birth: Analysis of U.S. vital statistics data from 2009 to 2018

Goleen Samari, Ralph Catalano, Héctor E. Alcalá and Alison Gemmill

Open government data, uncertainty and coronavirus: An infodemiological case study

Nikolaos Yiannakoulias, Catherine E. Slavik, Shelby L. Sturrock and J. Connor Darlington

A tale of two generations: Maternal skin color and adverse birth outcomes in Black/African American women

Jaime C. Slaughter-Acey, Tony N. Brown, Verna M. Keith, Rhonda Dailey and Dawn P. Misra