Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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

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2020, volume 254, articles C

Narratives of responsibility: Maternal mortality, reproductive governance, and midwifery in Mexico

Sarah A. Williams

What post-abortion care indicators don't measure: Global abortion politics and obstetric practice in Senegal

Siri Suh

Tool of economic development, metric of global health: Promoting planned families and economized life in Nepal

Jan Brunson

Incorporating mammography into an overseas referral metric: Tongan doctors’ assessments of patient eligibility for medical travel

Zakea Boeger

Homebirth fines and health cards in rural Tanzania: On the push for numbers in maternal health

Megan D. Cogburn

Numbering others: Religious demography, identity, and fertility management experiences in contemporary India

Holly Donahue Singh

Behind the measures of maternal and reproductive health: Ethnographic accounts of inventory and intervention

Jan Brunson and Siri Suh

2020, volume 253, articles C

Socio-spatial inequalities in smoking among young adults: What a ‘go-along’ study says about local smoking practices

N.M. Glenn, K.L. Frohlich and J. Vallée

Atmospheres of engagement within a German drug consumption room

Tristan Duncan, Bernadette Sebar, Jessica Lee and Cameron Duff

Morality in sugar talk: Presenting blood glucose levels in routine diabetes medical visits

Roberto E. Montenegro and Gonen Dori-Hacohen

Depression treatment preferences by race/ethnicity and gender and associations between past healthcare discrimination experiences and present preferences in a nationally representative sample

Rajan Anthony Sonik, Timothy B. Creedon, Ana Maria Progovac, Nicholas Carson, Jonathan Delman, Deborah Delman and Benjamin Lê Cook

Stigma interdependence among pregnant HIV-infected couples in a cluster randomized controlled trial from rural South Africa

J.M. Abbamonte, S. Ramlagan, T.K. Lee, N.V. Cristofari, S.M. Weiss, K. Peltzer, S. Sifunda and D.L. Jones

Protecting the mental health of future adults: Disentangling the determinants of adolescent bullying victimisation

Georgios Chrysanthou and Chrysovalantis Vasilakis

Socioeconomic disparities in self-rated health in two East Asian countries: Comparative study between Japan and Korea

Shiho Kino, Soong-nang Jang, Shuko Takahashi, Daniel K. Ebner and Ichiro Kawachi

Resisting governance and the production of trust in early psychosis intervention

Elaine Stasiulis, Barbara E. Gibson, Fiona Webster and Katherine M. Boydell

Predictors of anxiety and depressive symptoms among teachers in Ghana: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Morgan Peele and Sharon Wolf

Rural life and suicide: Does the effect of the community context vary by country of birth? A Swedish registry-based multilevel cohort study

Mariko Kanamori, Naoki Kondo, Sol Juarez, Andrea Dunlavy, Agneta Cederström and Mikael Rostila

Association between visual status and social participation in older Japanese: The JAGES cross-sectional study

Yuto Yoshida, Yoshimune Hiratsuka, Ichiro Kawachi, Akira Murakami, Katsunori Kondo and Jun Aida

Covariance in diurnal patterns of suicide-related expressions on Twitter and recorded suicide deaths

Robert A. Fahey, Jeremy Boo and Michiko Ueda

A mixed-methods systematic review of patients' experience of being invited to participate in surgical randomised controlled trials

Emma Elizabeth Phelps, Elizabeth Tutton, Xavier Griffin and Janis Baird

Childhood socioeconomic hardship, family conflict, and young adult hypertension: The Santiago Longitudinal Study

Patricia East, Jenalee Doom, Erin Delker, Estela Blanco, Raquel Burrows, Paulina Correa-Burrows, Betsy Lozoff and Sheila Gahagan

Spatial patterns and social-economic influential factors of population aging: A global assessment from 1990 to 2010

Shaobin Wang

Inequalities in life expectancy: An analysis of 201 countries, 1950–2015

Lathan Liou, William Joe, Abhishek Kumar and S.V. Subramanian

Health in widowhood: The roles of social capital and economic resources

Claryn S.J. Kung

Education, adult children's education, and depressive symptoms among older adults in rural China

Yaolin Pei, Zhen Cong and Bei Wu

Missing Mayberry: How whiteness shapes perceptions of health among white Americans in a rural Southern community

Caroline R. Efird and Alexandra F. Lightfoot

Gender and sex independently associate with common somatic symptoms and lifetime prevalence of chronic disease

Aranka V. Ballering, Irma J. Bonvanie, Tim C. Olde Hartman, Rei Monden and Judith G.M. Rosmalen

Effects of welfare entry and exit on adolescent mental health: Evidence from panel data in China

Xuan Huo, Qin Gao, Fuhua Zhai and Mingang Lin

Volunteering, polygenic risk for Alzheimer's disease, and cognitive functioning among older adults

Sae Hwang Han, J. Scott Roberts, Jan E. Mutchler and Jeffrey A. Burr

Longitudinal associations between reading for pleasure and child maladjustment: Results from a propensity score matching analysis

Hei Wan Mak and Daisy Fancourt

Longitudinal associations between parent-child relationship quality and insomnia for aging parents: The mediating role of depressive symptoms

Haowei Wang, Kyungmin Kim, Jeffrey A. Burr and Bei Wu

Mental health disorders and adolescent peer relationships

Emily Long, Maria Gardani, Mark McCann, Helen Sweeting, Mark Tranmer and Laurence Moore

Social, ethical, and other value judgments in health economics modelling

Stephanie Harvard, Gregory R. Werker and Diego S. Silva

Abrahamic traditions and egg freezing: Religious Women's experiences in local moral worlds

Marcia C. Inhorn, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Mira D. Vale and Pasquale Patrizio

Failing the metric but saving lives: The protocolization of sepsis treatment through quality measurement

Rosalie Winslow

2020, volume 252, articles C

Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey

Alexander Miething, Jan Mewes and Giuseppe N. Giordano

Heterogeneous peer effects on marijuana use: Evidence from a natural experiment

Yi Li and Guang Guo

Effect of a national primary care reform on avoidable hospital admissions (2000–2015): A difference-in-difference analysis

Klára Dimitrovová, Julian Perelman and Manuel Serrano-Alarcón

Typologies of postnatal support and breastfeeding at two months in the UK: Research participant commentary

Ruth Ann Harpur and Susanna J. Haddon

“You see, we women, we can't talk, we can't have an opinion…”. The coloniality of gender and childbirth practices in Indigenous Wixárika families

Jennie B. Gamlin

What's past is prologue: Recalled parenting styles are associated with childhood cancer survivors' mental health outcomes more than 25 years after diagnosis

Mareike Ernst, Elmar Brähler, Eva M. Klein, Claus Jünger, Philipp S. Wild, Jörg Faber, Astrid Schneider and Manfred E. Beutel

Minority stress and health: A grounded theory exploration among men who have sex with men in China and implications for health research and interventions

Shufang Sun, Stephanie Budge, Wenxuan Shen, Ge Xu, Muqing Liu and Siqi Feng

Power, powerlessness and the politics of mobility: Reconsidering mental health geographies

James Lowe and Geoffrey DeVerteuil

Gender inequalities in poor self-rated health: Cross-national comparison of South Korea and Japan

Shuko Takahashi, Soong-nang Jang, Shiho Kino and Ichiro Kawachi

Relationship of public health with continued shifting of party voting in the United States

Jason H. Wasfy, Emma W. Healy, Jinghan Cui and Charles Stewart

Use of long-term care services in a universal welfare state - On the importance of age at migration

Hanna Mac Innes

Negotiating risk and choice in multifetal pregnancies

Navjotpal Kaur and Rosemary Ricciardelli

Neighbourhoods as relational places for people living with dementia

Andrew Clark, Sarah Campbell, John Keady, Agneta Kullberg, Kainde Manji, Kirstein Rummery and Richard Ward

Coopetition in healthcare: Heresy or reality? An exploration of felt outcomes at an intra-organizational level

Anne Albert-Cromarias and Catherine Dos Santos

“Red is not the only color of a rainbow”: The making and resistance of the “MSM” subject among gay men in China

Chuncheng Liu

Accomplishing an adaptive clinical trial for cancer: Valuation practices and care work across the laboratory and the clinic

Julia Swallow, Anne Kerr, Choon Key Chekar and Sarah Cunningham-Burley