Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2020, volume 257, articles C

Social capital and disaster preparedness in Oromia, Ethiopia: An evaluation of the “Women Empowered” approach

William T. Story, Halkeno Tura, Jason Rubin, Belaynesh Engidawork, Anwar Ahmed, Feysel Jundi, Teshale Iddosa and Teweldebrhan Hailu Abrha

Evidence suggests a need to rethink social capital and social capital interventions

Alan Shiell, Penelope Hawe and Shane Kavanagh

Does whom you know in the status hierarchy prevent or trigger health limitation? Institutional embeddedness of social capital and social cost theories in three societies

Lijun Song and Philip J. Pettis

Community-level social capital and cognitive decline after a natural disaster: A natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

Hiroyuki Hikichi, Jun Aida, Yusuke Matsuyama, Toru Tsuboya, Katsunori Kondo and Ichiro Kawachi

“We are fierce, independent thinkers and intelligent”: Social capital and stigma management among mothers who refuse vaccines

Jennifer A. Reich

Does social capital moderate the association between children's emotional overeating and parental stress? A cross-sectional study of the stress-buffering hypothesis in a sample of mother-child dyads

Jennifer Mandelbaum, Spencer Moore, Patricia P. Silveira, Michael J. Meaney, Robert D. Levitan and Laurette Dubé

Social capital, social movements and global public health: Fighting for health-enabling contexts in marginalised settings

Catherine Campbell

Measures of personal social capital over time: A path analysis assessing longitudinal associations among cognitive, structural, and network elements of social capital in women and men separately

Spencer Moore and Richard M. Carpiano

2020, volume 256, articles C

Cross-sectoral cooperation at the ministerial level in three Nordic countries - With a focus on health inequalities

Karin Guldbrandsson and Sven Bremberg

California's paid family leave law improves maternal psychological health

Elizabeth L. Doran, Ann P. Bartel, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

Risk aversion and HIV/AIDS: Evidence from Senegalese female sex workers

Aurélia Lépine and Carole Treibich

Trajectories of hospital infection control: Using non-representational theory to understand and improve infection prevention and control

Claire Hooker, Suyin Hor, Mary Wyer, Gwendolyn L. Gilbert, Christine Jorm and Rick Iedema

“I know best:” women caring for kin with dementia

Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano

The effect of tobacco- and alcohol-control policies on household spending patterns in Kenya: An approach using matched difference in differences

Abel Otwori Nyagwachi, Grieve Chelwa and Corné van Walbeek

Gray divorce and mental health in the United Kingdom

Marco Tosi and Thijs van den Broek

A year in the public life of superbugs: News media on antimicrobial resistance and implications for health communications

Mark Davis, Benjamin Lyall, Andrea Whittaker, Mia Lindgren, Monika Djerf-Pierre and Paul Flowers

Perceptions and experiences of stigma among parents of children with developmental disorders in Ethiopia: A qualitative study

Bethlehem Tekola, Mersha Kinfe, Fikirte Girma, Charlotte Hanlon and Rosa A. Hoekstra

Determinants of non-prescription antibiotic dispensing in Chinese community pharmacies from socio-ecological and health system perspectives

Xiaomin Wang, Ziming Xuan, Théo H. Storella and Xudong Zhou

Bureaucracies and power: Examining the Medical Council of India and the development of emergency medicine in India

Veena Sriram, Rama Baru, Adnan A. Hyder and Sara Bennett

Subjunctive medicine: A manifesto

Doug Hardman and Giulio Ongaro

The “unknown territory” of goal-setting: Negotiating a novel interactional activity within primary care doctor-patient consultations for patients with multiple chronic conditions

Jamie Murdoch, Charlotte Salter, John Ford, Elizabeth Lenaghan, Alice Shiner and Nicholas Steel

Caller resistance to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation in emergency calls for cardiac arrest

Marine Riou, Stephen Ball, Austin Whiteside, Sheryl Gallant, Alani Morgan, Paul Bailey and Judith Finn

Economic growth, income inequality and life expectancy in China

Weixiang Luo and Yu Xie

“The state They're in”: Unpicking fantasy paradigms of health improvement interventions as tools for addressing health inequalities

Mhairi Mackenzie, Kathryn Skivington and Gillian Fergie

Spatiotemporal trends and influence factors of global diabetes prevalence in recent years

Junming Li, Sixian Wang, Xiulan Han, Gehong Zhang, Min Zhao and Ling Ma

Cutting out the surrogate: Caesarean sections in the Mexican surrogacy industry

April Hovav

What explains sub-national variation in maternal mortality rates within developing countries? A political economy explanation

Badru Bukenya and Frederick Golooba-Mutebi

2020, volume 255, articles C

How painful is a recession? An assessment of two future-oriented buffering mechanisms

Lindsay R. Wilkinson, Markus H. Schafer and Renae Wilkinson

Longitudinal associations of psychological resilience with mental health and functioning among military personnel: A meta-analysis of prospective studies

Erik van der Meulen, Peter G. van der Velden, Robbie C.M. van Aert and Marc J.P.M. van Veldhoven

Parents’ sensemaking processes in the identification of developmental delays and engagement with early intervention services

Courtney L. Scherr, Hannah J. Getachew-Smith, Laura Sudec, John J. Brooks and Megan Roberts

Shifting medical guidelines: Compliance and spillover effects for revised antibiotic recommendations

Benjamin A. Lyons, Vittorio Merola and Jason Reifler

‘Problem patients and physicians’ failures': What it means for doctors to counsel vaccine hesitant patients in Switzerland

Michael J. Deml, Andrea Buhl, Julia Notter, Paulina Kliem, Benedikt M. Huber, Constanze Pfeiffer, Claudine Burton-Jeangros and Philip E. Tarr

Stigmatisation of those with mental health conditions in the acute general hospital setting. A qualitative framework synthesis

Amanda Perry, Vanessa Lawrence and Claire Henderson

Neural imaginaries at work: Exploring Australian addiction treatment providers’ selective representations of the brain in clinical practice

Anthony I. Barnett, Martyn Pickersgill, Ella Dilkes-Frayne and Adrian Carter

Urban upgrading and levels of interpersonal violence in Cape Town, South Africa: The violence prevention through urban upgrading programme

Richard Matzopoulos, Kim Bloch, Sam Lloyd, Chris Berens, Brett Bowman, Jonny Myers and Mary Lou Thompson

Writing to template: Researchers’ negotiation of procedural research ethics

Anna Chiumento, Atif Rahman and Lucy Frith

Incentives to use primary care and their impact on healthcare utilization: Evidence using a public health insurance dataset in China

Menghan Shen, Wen He and Linyan Li

Physical functioning and survival: Is the link weaker among Latino and black older adults?

Theresa Andrasfay and Noreen Goldman

Care organising technologies and the post-phenomenology of care: An ethnographic case study

Sara E. Shaw, Gemma Hughes, Sue Hinder, Stephany Carolan and Trisha Greenhalgh

The conditional legitimacy of behavior change advice in primary care

Clara Bergen

Negative financial shock increases loneliness in older adults, 2006–2016: Reduced effect during the Great Recession (2008–2010)

Louise C. Hawkley, Boyan Zheng and Xi Song

Estimating the impact of disability onset on employment

Melanie K. Jones and Duncan McVicar

The influence of peer beliefs on nurses' use of new health information technology: A social network analysis

Christina T. Yuan, Ingrid M. Nembhard and Gerald C. Kane

Inequity in physician visits: the case of the unregulated fee market in Australia

Mohammad Habibullah Pulok, Kees van Gool and Jane Hall

International and temporal comparative analysis of UK and US drug safety regulation in changing political contexts

John Abraham and Courtney Davis

The introduction of lifetime community rating in the Irish private health insurance market: Effects on coverage and plan choice

Conor Keegan

Racial/ethnic concordance between patients and researchers as a predictor of study attrition

Irina Mindlis, David Livert, Alex D. Federman, Juan P. Wisnivesky and Tracey A. Revenson

Neighborhood disadvantage, parent-adolescent relationship quality, and type 1 diabetes in late adolescents transitioning to early emerging adulthood

Daniel Mello, Deborah Wiebe, Ashley C. Baker, Jonathan Butner and Cynthia Berg

Choice, coercion, and/or muddling through: Older adults’ experiences in seeking psychological treatment

Lindsay D.H. Berard, Corey S. Mackenzie, Kristin A. Reynolds, Genevieve Thompson, Lesley Koven and Brooke Beatie

Diseases that resolve spontaneously can increase the belief that ineffective treatments work

Fernando Blanco and Helena Matute

Diabetes management at community health centers: Examining associations with patient and regional characteristics, efficiency, and staffing patterns

Maggie Thorsen, Ronald McGarvey and Andreas Thorsen

Stereotyping and the opioid epidemic: A conjoint analysis

Tagart Cain Sobotka and Sheridan A. Stewart

Vaccine hesitancy is strongly associated with distrust of conventional medicine, and only weakly associated with trust in alternative medicine

Matthew J. Hornsey, Josep Lobera and Celia Díaz-Catalán

The socio-material self-care practices of children living with hemophilia or juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Denmark

C.M. Bagge-Petersen, M. Skovdal and H. Langstrup

Voting patterns, revoking article 50 and antidepressant trends in England following the Brexit referendum

Tim Liew, Robin Goodwin and Lukasz Walasek

Structural stigma and sexual orientation disparities in healthcare use: Evidence from Australian Census-linked-administrative data

Karinna Saxby, Sonja de New and Dennis Petrie