Social Science & Medicine

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2020, volume 264, articles C

How are frames generated? Insights from the industry lobby against the sugar tax in Ireland

Norah Campbell, Melissa Mialon, Kathryn Reilly, Sarah Browne and Francis M. Finucane

An empirical investigation of the relationship between business performance and suicide in the US

Rawayda Abdou, Damien Cassells, Jenny Berrill and Jim Hanly

Estimating the causal effects of private health insurance in Brazil: Evidence from a regression kink design

Naercio Menezes-Filho and Ricardo Politi

The strain of sons' incarceration on mothers’ health

Catherine Sirois

Education, immigration and rising mental health inequality in Sweden

Anna Linder, Devon Spika, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Sara Fritzell and Gawain Heckley

Psychosocial consequences of transitioning into informal caregiving in male and female caregivers: Findings from a population-based panel study

Larissa Zwar, Hans-Helmut König and André Hajek

Understanding coastal public health: Employment, behavioural and psychosocial factors associated with geographical inequalities. The HUNT study, Norway

Sofie L. Hjorthen, Erik R. Sund, Věra Skalická and Steinar Krokstad

Neither mad nor bad? The classification of antisocial personality disorder among formerly incarcerated adults

Jason Schnittker, Savannah H. Larimore and Hedwig Lee

Advances in the methodological approach to friction period estimation: A European perspective

Paul Hanly, Marta Ortega Ortega, Alison Pearce, Isabelle Soerjomataram and Linda Sharp

Investigating spatial variation and change (2006–2017) in childhood immunisation coverage in New Zealand

Lukas Marek, Matthew Hobbs, John McCarthy, Jesse Wiki, Melanie Tomintz, Malcolm Campbell and Simon Kingham

Impact of disaster exposure severity: Cascading effects across parental distress, adolescent PTSD symptoms, as well as parent-child conflict and communication

Kaitlin E. Bountress, Amanda K. Gilmore, Isha W. Metzger, Steven H. Aggen, Rachel L. Tomko, Carla Kmett Danielson, Vernell Williamson, Vladimir Vladmirov, Kenneth Ruggiero and Ananda B. Amstadter

Waiting for care: Chronic illness and health system uncertainties in the United States

Amanda A. Lee, Aimee S. James and Jean M. Hunleth

Using an ethics of care lens to understand the place of community health workers in Rwanda's maternal healthcare system

Germaine Tuyisenge, Valorie A. Crooks and Nicole S. Berry

“What's a normal weight?” – Origin and receiving country influences on weight-status assessment among 1.5 and 2nd generation immigrant adolescents in Europe

Matthias Robert Kern, Andreas Heinz, Gonneke W.J.M. Stevens, Sophie D. Walsh and Helmut Willems

Relationship trajectories of women experiencing alcohol-related intimate partner violence: A grounded-theory analysis of women's voices

Ingrid M. Wilson, Kathryn Graham, Anne-Marie Laslett and Angela Taft

Longitudinal changes in well-being of parents of individuals with developmental or mental health problems

Carlie J. Sloan, Marsha R. Mailick, Jinkuk Hong, Jung-Hwa Ha, Jan S. Greenberg and David M. Almeida

Team-based primary care practice and physician's services: Evidence from Family Health Teams in Ontario, Canada

N.H. Somé, Rose Anne Devlin, Nirav Mehta, G.S. Zaric and Sisira Sarma

“We are all under the same roof”: Coping and meaning-making among older Bhutanese with a refugee life experience

Rochelle L. Frounfelker, Tej Mishra, Srishity Dhesi, Bhuwan Gautam, Narad Adhikari and Theresa S. Betancourt

Parental social-cognitive correlates of preschoolers’ oral hygiene behavior: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Stephanie R. Smith, Jeroen Kroon, Ralf Schwarzer and Kyra Hamilton

Rhetorical work and medical authority: Constructing convincing cases in insurance medicine

Erik Børve Rasmussen

Life-course trajectories of employment quality and health in the U.S.: A multichannel sequence analysis

Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot, Trevor Peckham, Sarah B. Andrea, Vanessa Oddo, Noah Seixas and Anjum Hajat

An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: “How is this all getting done in silos, and why?”

Taya A. Collyer and Katherine E. Smith

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good? The impact of a soda tax on prices and consumption

Judite Gonçalves and João Pereira Dos Santos

Intergenerational communities: A systematic literature review of intergenerational interactions and older adults’ health-related outcomes

Sinan Zhong, Chanam Lee, Margaret J. Foster and Jiahe Bian

Causal effect of deteriorating socioeconomic circumstances on new-onset arthritis and the moderating role of access to medical care: A natural experiment from the 2011 great east Japan earthquake and tsunami

Takaaki Ikeda, Jun Aida, Ichiro Kawachi, Katsunori Kondo and Ken Osaka

A longitudinal study of height gaps among Mexican children: Disparities and social inequity

Mireya Vilar-Compte, Graciela Teruel, Diana Flores, Ida C. García-Appendini and Adriana Ochoa-Lagunas

Differences in how spouses influence each other's alcohol use in same- and different-sex marriages: A daily diary study

Amanda M. Pollitt, Rachel Donnelly, Sara E. Mernitz and Debra Umberson

The experiences of cancer patients within the material hospital environment: Three ways that materiality is affective

Gareth Wiltshire, Emma Pullen, Frankie F. Brown, Mike Osborn, Sarah Wexler, Mark Beresford, Mark Tooley and James E. Turner

Changing frames of obesity in the UK press 2008–2017

Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Dimitrinka Atanasova and Stuart W. Flint

2020, volume 263, articles C

When people living with dementia say ‘no’: Negotiating refusal in the acute hospital setting

Rebecca O'Brien, Suzanne Beeke, Alison Pilnick, Sarah E Goldberg and Rowan H Harwood

Socioeconomic inequalities in waiting times for primary care across ten OECD countries

Steve Martin, Luigi Siciliani and Peter Smith

Strengths-based inquiry of resiliency factors among refugees in Metro Vancouver: A comparison of newly-arrived and settled refugees

John Liu, Yasmeen Mansoor, Jasper Johar, Sophia Kim, Ahmad Sidiqi and Videsh Kapoor

Personality and self-rated health across eight cohort studies

Yannick Stephan, Angelina R. Sutin, Martina Luchetti, Louis Hognon, Brice Canada and Antonio Terracciano

Association between provincial income levels and drug prices in China over the period 2010–2017

Wunan Shi, Olivier J. Wouters, Gordon Liu, Elias Mossialos and Xiuyun Yang

Mental health discourse and social media: Which mechanisms of cultural power drive discourse on Twitter

Alina Pavlova and Pauwke Berkers

Parenting and the vaccine refusal process: A new explanation of the relationship between lifestyle and vaccination trajectories

Kerrie E. Wiley, Julie Leask, Katie Attwell, Catherine Helps, Chris Degeling, Paul Ward and Stacy M. Carter

Incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: A cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971–2015

Alexander Testa, Mateus Rennó Santos and Douglas B. Weiss

Lifestyle behaviors, psychological distress, and well-being: A daily diary study

Austen R. Anderson and Blaine J. Fowers

Frailty and depression: Reciprocal influences or common causes?

Hannes Mayerl, Erwin Stolz and Wolfgang Freidl

Food insecurity in households with young children: A test of contextual congruence

Justin T. Denney, Mackenzie Brewer and Rachel Tolbert Kimbro

The contingencies of medical restratification across inter-organisational care networks

Justin Waring, Bridget Roe, Amanda Crompton and Simon Bishop

Linking adolescent future expectations to health in adulthood: Evidence and mechanisms

Taehoon Kim and Jinho Kim

Comparison of 30-day readmission and emergency department revisit rates among homeless patients at teaching versus non-teaching hospitals

Atsushi Miyawaki, Laura G. Burke, Dhruv Khullar and Yusuke Tsugawa

Patient chosen gap payments in primary care: Predictions of patient acceptability, uptake and willingness to pay from a discrete choice experiment

D.S. Epstein, C. Barton, D. Mazza, Maame Woode and Duncan Mortimer

Spatial heterogeneity of the associations of economic and health care factors with infant mortality in China using geographically weighted regression and spatial clustering

Shaobin Wang and Jun Wu

Addressing sexually transmitted infections in the sociocultural context of black heterosexual relationships in the United States

Natasha Crooks, Akilah Wise and Tyralynn Frazier

The contribution of the immigrant population to the U.S. long-term care workforce

Thomas Rapp and Jonathan Sicsic

Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S

Daniel Romer and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of social capital, income inequality, and COVID-19 deaths in 84 countries

Frank J. Elgar, Anna Stefaniak and Michael J.A. Wohl

2020, volume 262, articles C

Investigating Google's suicide-prevention efforts in celebrity suicides using agent-based testing: A cross-national study in four European countries

Florian Arendt, Mario Haim and Sebastian Scherr

Investment in local health-shaping institutions: Reconsidering the role of the religious environment

Joseph Clark

“We're people of the snow:” Weather, climate change, and Inuit mental wellness

Jacqueline Middleton, Ashlee Cunsolo, Andria Jones-Bitton, Inez Shiwak, Michele Wood, Nathaniel Pollock, Charlie Flowers and Sherilee L. Harper

The relationship between Jim Crow laws and social capital from 1997–2014: A 3-level multilevel hierarchical analysis across time, county and state

Yulin Hswen, Qiuyuan Qin, David R. Williams, K. Viswanath, John S. Brownstein and S.V. Subramanian

Roles of attitudes and injunctive norms in decisional conflict and disclosure following receipt of genome sequencing results

Allecia E. Reid, Rebecca A. Ferrer, Sanjana Kadirvel, Barbara B. Biesecker, Katie L. Lewis, Leslie G. Biesecker and William M.P. Klein

Perceived social support and health-related quality of life in older adults who have multiple chronic conditions and their caregivers: a dyadic analysis

Maddalena De Maria, Semira Tagliabue, Davide Ausili, Ercole Vellone and Maria Matarese

Parenting, mental health and economic pathways to prevention of violence against children in South Africa

L. Cluver, Y. Shenderovich, F. Meinck, M.N. Berezin, J. Doubt, C.L. Ward, J. Parra-Cardona, C. Lombard, J.M. Lachman, C. Wittesaele, I. Wessels, F. Gardner and J.I. Steinert

Mapping the maternal health research landscape in Nunavut: A systematic search & critical review of methodology

Laura Jane Brubacher, Cate E. Dewey, Ashlee Cunsolo, Sally Humphries, Gwen K. Healey Akearok, Crystal Gong and Sherilee L. Harper

Communal therapeutic mobility in group walking: A meta-ethnography

Tessa M. Pollard, Cornelia Guell and Stephanie Morris

The long-term financial and psychological resettlement outcomes of pre-migration trauma and post-settlement difficulties in resettled refugees

Alexander W. O'Donnell, Jaimee Stuart and Karlee J. O'Donnell

Unintended consequences of institutionalizing peer support work in mental healthcare

Wallis E. Adams

Understanding antibiotic overprescribing in China: A conversation analysis approach

Nan Christine Wang

Balancing hospital governance: A systematic review of 15 years of empirical research

Melissa De Regge and Kristof Eeckloo

Antenatal care utilization in the fragile and conflict-affected context of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bianca R. Ziegler, Moses Kansanga, Yuji Sano, Joseph Kangmennaang, Daniel Kpienbaareh and Isaac Luginaah

Understanding integrated care at the frontline using organisational learning theory: A participatory evaluation of multi-professional teams in East London

Mirza Lalani, Sonia Bussu and Martin Marshall

Non-market strategy as a framework for exploring commercial involvement in health policy: A primer

Elizabeth Eastmure, Steven Cummins and Leigh Sparks

Psychological resilience, depression, anxiety, and somatization symptoms in response to COVID-19: A study of the general population in China at the peak of its epidemic

Liuyi Ran, Wo Wang, Ming Ai, Yiting Kong, Jianmei Chen and Li Kuang