Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2020, volume 251, articles C

Social trust and satisfaction with life: A cross-lagged panel analysis based on representative samples from 18 societies

Robert Jiqi Zhang

What effect do local political elites have on infant and child death? Elected and chiefly authority in South Africa

Carol Mershon

Clinical empathy as emotional labor in medical work

Alexandra H. Vinson and Kelly Underman

Beyond the orthodox/CAM dichotomy: Exploring therapeutic decision making, reasoning and practice in the therapeutic landscapes of elite sports medicine

Catherine Coveney, Alex Faulkner, Jonathan Gabe and Michael McNamee

Formal social participation protects physical health through enhanced mental health: A longitudinal mediation analysis using three consecutive waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Ziggi Ivan Santini, Paul E. Jose, Ai Koyanagi, Charlotte Meilstrup, Line Nielsen, Katrine R. Madsen and Vibeke Koushede

Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy

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

Individual and community-level impact of infertility-related stigma in Malawi

Marta Bornstein, Jessica D. Gipson, Gates Failing, Venson Banda and Alison Norris

The effect of California's paid family leave policy on parent health: A quasi-experimental study

Bethany C. Lee, Sepideh Modrek, Justin S. White, Akansha Batra, Daniel F. Collin and Rita Hamad

2020, volume 250, articles C

Population-based preference weights for the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) for service users for Austria: Findings from a best-worst experiment

Assma Hajji, Birgit Trukeschitz, Juliette Malley, Laurie Batchelder, Eirini Saloniki, Ismo Linnosmaa and Hui Lu

The implications of ridehailing for risky driving and road accident injuries and fatalities

David S. Kirk, Nicolo Cavalli and Noli Brazil

Effects of a sister's death in childbirth on reproductive behaviors: Difference-in-difference analyses using sisterhood mortality data from Indonesia

Amy Finnegan

Diversity of adverse childhood experiences among adolescent mothers and the intergenerational transmission of risk to children's behavior problems

Lauren E. Stargel and M. Ann Easterbrooks

A disconnected policy network: The UK's response to the Sierra Leone Ebola epidemic

James Georgalakis

Reducing mental illness stigma in healthcare settings: Proof of concept for a social contact intervention to address what matters most for primary care providers

Brandon A. Kohrt, Elizabeth L. Turner, Sauharda Rai, Anvita Bhardwaj, Kathleen J. Sikkema, Adesewa Adelekun, Manoj Dhakal, Nagendra P. Luitel, Crick Lund, Vikram Patel and Mark J.D. Jordans

County-level jail incarceration and preterm birth among non-Hispanic Black and white U.S. women, 1999–2015

Jaquelyn L. Jahn, Jarvis T. Chen, Madina Agénor and Nancy Krieger

Building an interdisciplinary framework to advance conceptual and technical aspects of population-environment research focused on women's and children's health

Kathryn Grace, Sunnee Billingsley and David Van Riper

Opportunities for, and implications of, skill mix changes in health care pathways: Pay, productivity and practice variations in a needs-based planning framework

Stephen Birch, Jon Gibson and Anne McBride

Racial discrimination and child and adolescent health in longitudinal studies: A systematic review

Leah Cave, Matthew N. Cooper, Stephen R. Zubrick and Carrington C.J. Shepherd

Serving on multiple fronts: A grounded theory model of complex decision-making in military mental health care

Erika L. King and David L. Snowden

“It was my obligation as mother”: 18-Month completion of Early Infant Diagnosis as identity control for mothers living with HIV in Kenya

Emily A. Hurley, Beryne Odeny, Catherine Wexler, Melinda Brown, Alexander MacKenzie, Kathy Goggin, May Maloba, Brad Gautney and Sarah Finocchario-Kessler

Transgender stigma: A critical scoping review of definitions, domains, and measures used in empirical research

Wesley M. King, Jaclyn M.W. Hughto and Don Operario

Environmental disasters and birth outcomes: Impact of a tailings dam breakage in Brazil

Matias Mrejen, Julian Perelman and Danielle Carusi Machado

Psychological distress by age at migration and duration of residence in Sweden

Helena Honkaniemi, Sol Pía Juárez, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi and Mikael Rostila

The economic gradient of obesity in Mexico: Independent predictive roles of absolute and relative wealth by gender

Lucio Esposito, Adrián Villaseñor, Enrique Cuevas Rodríguez and Christopher Millett

Family income and self-rated health in Canada: Using fixed effects models to control for unobserved confounders and investigate causal temporality

Gerry Veenstra and Adam Vanzella-Yang

Childhood vaccinations and adult schooling attainment: Long-term evidence from India's Universal Immunization Programme

Arindam Nandi, Santosh Kumar, Anita Shet, David E. Bloom and Ramanan Laxminarayan

Bringing in critical frameworks to investigate agenda-setting for the social determinants of health: Lessons from a multiple framework analysis

Belinda Townsend, Lyndall Strazdins, Patrick Harris, Fran Baum and Sharon Friel

A critical review of intervention and policy effects on the health of older people in sub-Saharan Africa

Peter Lloyd-Sherlock and Mary Amoakoh-Coleman

Agreeing the allocation of scarce resources in the English NHS: Ostrom, common pool resources and the role of the state

Marie Sanderson, Pauline Allen, Valerie Moran, Imelda McDermott and Dorota Osipovic

The knowledge and attitude of Ghanaian decision-makers and researchers towards health technology assessment

Rebecca Addo, Jane Hall, Marion Haas and Stephen Goodall

Gender and secular trends in adolescent mental health over 24 years – The role of school-related stress

Björn Högberg, Mattias Strandh and Curt Hagquist

2020, volume 249, articles C

How organizations shape medical technology allocation: Insulin pumps and pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes

Cassidy Puckett, Jenise C. Wong, Tanicia C. Daley and Kristina Cossen

Education and adult health: Is there a causal effect?

Pedro Albarrán, Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo and Inigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe

Physician-leaders and hospital performance revisited

Florian Kaiser, Andreas Schmid and Jörg Schlüchtermann

Mediating effects of self-esteem in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: The roles of sex and only-child status

Shanshan Wang, Huiqiong Xu, Shichen Zhang, Yuhui Wan and Fangbiao Tao

Social causation or social selection? The longitudinal interrelationship between poverty and depressive symptoms in China

Yinzi Jin, Dawei Zhu and Ping He

Immigrant apprehensions and birth outcomes: Evidence from California birth records 2008–2015

Annie Ro, Tim A. Bruckner and Lauren Duquette-Rury

Race, death of a child, and mortality risk among aging parents in the United States

Rachel Donnelly, Debra Umberson, Robert A. Hummer and Michael A. Garcia

Distressed or not distressed? A mixed methods examination of reactions to weight stigma and implications for emotional wellbeing and internalized weight bias

Ellen V. Pudney, Mary S. Himmelstein, Rebecca M. Puhl and Gary D. Foster

Determinants of soft budget constraints: How public debt affects hospital performance in Austria

Michael Berger, Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann and Thomas Czypionka

U.S. county “food swamp” severity and hospitalization rates among adults with diabetes: A nonlinear relationship

Aryn Z. Phillips and Hector P. Rodriguez

Effects of objective and subjective environmental pollution on well-being in urban China: A structural equation model approach

Fan Li and Tao Zhou

Exploring the geography of suicide threats and suicide attempts: An application of Risk Terrain Modeling

Kim M. Lersch

Reassessing mental illness stigma in mental health care: Competing stigmas and risk containment

Kerry M. Dobransky

2020, volume 248, articles C

Emotions and decision rightness over five years following an abortion: An examination of decision difficulty and abortion stigma

Corinne H. Rocca, Goleen Samari, Diana G. Foster, Heather Gould and Katrina Kimport

Affirming cultural values for health: The case of firearm restriction in suicide prevention

Christopher Wolsko, Elizabeth Marino and Susan Keys

A novel low-cost method for assessing intra-urban variation in night time light and applications to public health

Carolyn Côté-Lussier, Anders Knudby and Tracie A. Barnett

Seeking health below the radar: Undocumented People's access to healthcare in two Dutch cities

Helen M. Hintjens, Karin A. Siegmann and Richard H.J.M. Staring

Is healthy eating too expensive?: How low-income parents evaluate the cost of food

Caitlin Daniel

Strife of Interests: Constraints on integrated and co-ordinated comprehensive PHC in Australia

Fran Baum, Anna Ziersch, Toby Freeman, Sara Javanparast, Julie Henderson and Tamara Mackean

The mask of autism: Social camouflaging and impression management as coping/normalization from the perspectives of autistic adults

Iris Schneid and Aviad E. Raz

Health for all? A qualitative study of NGO support to migrants affected by structural violence in northern France

Benita Pursch, Alexandra Tate, Helena Legido-Quigley and Natasha Howard

Credibility work and moral evaluation at the ED

Marius Wamsiedel