Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2020, volume 247, articles C

Expansion of Parson's sick role into cyberspace: Patient information consumerism and subjective health in a representative sample of U.S. internet users

Gül Seçkin

The causal effect of social activities on cognition: Evidence from 20 European countries

Dimitris Christelis and Loretti Dobrescu

The role of labour unions in explaining workers’ mental and physical health in Great Britain. A longitudinal approach

Jacques Wels

Rethinking decision-making in the context of preventive medication: How taking statins becomes “the right thing to do”

Louisa Polak and Judith Green

Beyond awareness: Towards a critically conscious health promotion for rheumatic fever in Aotearoa, New Zealand

Anneka Anderson and Julie Spray

Disentangling the health-crime relationship among adults: The role of healthcare access and health behaviors

Daniel C. Semenza, Deena A. Isom Scott, Jessica M. Grosholz and Dylan B. Jackson

Europeans’ willingness to pay for ending homelessness: A contingent valuation study

Sandrine Loubière, Owen Taylor, Aurelie Tinland, Maria Vargas-Moniz, Branagh O'Shaughnessy, Anna Bokszczanin, Hakan Kallmen, Roberto Bernad, Judith Wolf, Massimo Santinello, Anderson Loundou, Jose Ornelas and Pascal Auquier

Intrinsic and instrumental agency associated with nutritional status of East African women

Rebecca E. Jones, Regine Haardörfer, Usha Ramakrishnan, Kathryn M. Yount, Stephanie S. Miedema, Timmie D. Roach and Amy Webb Girard

A natural disaster and intimate partner violence: Evidence over time

Smitha Rao

Enhancing implementation of smoke-free places: A comparative qualitative study across seven European cities

Martin Mlinarić, Laura Hoffmann, Pirjo Lindfors and Matthias Richter

Cash transfer programs have differential effects on health: A review of the literature from low and middle-income countries

Jan E. Cooper, Tarik Benmarhnia, Alissa Koski and Nicholas B. King

The Management of Unequal Patient Status in Fertility Medicine: Donors' and Intended Parents’ Experiences of Participatory and Imposed Enrollment

Meghna Mukherjee

Epidemiological rage: Population, biography, and state responsibility in trans- health activism

Christoph Hanssmann

Is there scope for mixed markets in the provision of hospital care?

Laura Levaggi and Rosella Levaggi

The collaborative management of antipsychotic medication and its obstacles: A qualitative study

Ángel Martínez-Hernáez, Asun Pié-Balaguer, Mercedes Serrano-Miguel, Nicolás Morales-Sáez, Andrea García-Santesmases, Deborah Bekele and Elisa Alegre-Agís

Has the long-term care insurance resolved disparities in mortality for older Koreans? examination of service type and income level

Minsung Sohn, Patricia O'Campo, Carles Muntaner, Haejoo Chung and Mankyu Choi

Medical technologies and abortion care in Eastern Uganda

Alexander Kagaha and Lenore Manderson

Relative deprivation and suicide risk in South Korea

Tae-Young Pak and Youngjoo Choung

Is there evidence of weathering among women seeking fertility treatments?: Evidence and insights

Katherine Tierney

The effects of household's climate-related displacement on delivery and postnatal care service utilization in rural Bangladesh

Md Rabiul Haque, Nick Parr and Salut Muhidin

Annual transition probabilities of overweight and obesity in older adults: Evidence from World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health

Stella T. Lartey, Lei Si, Petr Otahal, Barbara de Graaff, Godfred O. Boateng, Richard Berko Biritwum, Nadia Minicuci, Paul Kowal, Costan G. Magnussen and Andrew J. Palmer

2020, volume 246, articles C

Guidance for behavioural interventions aiming to support family support providers of people with spinal cord injury: A scoping review

Rhyann C. McKay, Kelsey R. Wuerstl, Shelia Casemore, Teren Y. Clarke, Christopher B. McBride and Heather L. Gainforth

The impact of exposure to gun violence fatality on mental health outcomes in four urban U.S. settings

Melissa E. Smith, Tanya L. Sharpe, Joseph Richardson, Rohini Pahwa, Dominique Smith and Jordan DeVylder

Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis for HTA across four EU Member States: Piloting the Advance Value Framework

A. Angelis, M. Linch, G. Montibeller, T. Molina-Lopez, A. Zawada, K. Orzel, F. Arickx, J. Espin and P. Kanavos

Invoking death: How oncologists discuss a deadly outcome

Alexandra Tate

A new tool for creating personal and social EQ-5D-5L value sets, including valuing ‘dead’

Trudy Sullivan, Paul Hansen, Franz Ombler, Sarah Derrett and Nancy Devlin

Evidence-based leadership development for physicians: A systematic literature review

Jaason M. Geerts, Amanda H. Goodall and Stevie Agius

Personal networks and associations with psychological distress among young and older adults

Stephanie T. Child and Leora E. Lawton

Congregational involvement in HIV: A qualitative comparative analysis of factors influencing HIV activity among diverse urban congregations

Peter Mendel, Harold D. Green, Kartika Palar, David E. Kanouse, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Michael A. Mata, Clyde W. Oden and Kathryn P. Derose

Is another relationship possible? Connoisseurship and the doctor–patient relationship for men who consume performance and image-enhancing drugs

Suzanne Fraser, Renae Fomiatti, David Moore, Kate Seear and Campbell Aitken

Area effects on the level and development of social exclusion in later life

Jennifer Prattley, Tine Buffel, Alan Marshall and James Nazroo

Dealing with the unknown. Functional neurological disorder (FND) and the conversion of cultural meaning

Maddalena Canna and Rebecca Seligman

The relative importance of material and non-material incentives for community health workers: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Western Kenya

Indrani Saran, Laura Winn, Joseph Kipkoech Kirui, Diana Menya and Wendy Prudhomme O'Meara

Minority stress, social integration, and the mental health needs of LGBTQ asylum seekers in North America

Samara D. Fox, Randi H. Griffin and John E. Pachankis

Reacting to social discrimination? Men's individual and social risk behaviors in the context of a male marriage squeeze in rural China

Xueyan Yang, Sasa Wang and Lisa Eklund

Translating healthcare research evidence into practice: The role of linked boundary objects

Sara Melo and Simon Bishop

Challenging the interprofessional epistemic boundaries: The practices of informing in nurse-physician interaction

Letizia Caronia, Marzia Saglietti and Arturo Chieregato

Painful lives: Chronic pain experience among people who use illicit drugs in Montreal (Canada)

Lise Dassieu, Jean-Luc Kaboré, Manon Choinière, Nelson Arruda and Élise Roy

Imperfect biomarkers for adjuvant chemotherapy in early stage breast cancer with good prognosis

Catherine Bourgain, Lionel Pourtau, Chafika Mazouni, Martine Bungener and et Julia Bonastre

Can healthcare choice be predicted using stated preference data?

E.W. de Bekker-Grob, Bas Donkers, Michiel Bliemer, J. Veldwijk and J.D. Swait

Did India's price control policy for coronary stents create unintended consequences?

Sarang Deo, Hanu Tyagi, Chirantan Chatterjee and Himasagar Molakapuri

Why don't health care frontline professionals do more for segregated Roma? Exploring mechanisms supporting unequal care practices

Andrej Belak, Daniela Filakovska Bobakova, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Jitse P. van Dijk and Sijmen A. Reijneveld

Exposure to community violence and Children's mental Health: A quasi-experimental examination

Jorge Cuartas and Tama Leventhal

“Is there a medicine for these tensions?” Barriers to treatment-seeking for depressive symptoms in rural India: A qualitative study

Tessa Roberts, Ritu Shrivastava, Mirja Koschorke, Vikram Patel, Rahul Shidhaye and Sujit D. Rathod

Stigma reduction interventions for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: Systematic review of intervention strategies

Kim Hartog, Carly D. Hubbard, Angelica F. Krouwer, Graham Thornicroft, Brandon A. Kohrt and Mark J.D. Jordans

Immigration and health among non-Hispanic whites: The impact of arrival cohort and region of birth

Jen'nan Ghazal Read, Jessica S. West and Christina Kamis

Anomie or imitation? The Werther effect of celebrity suicides on suicide rates in 34 OECD countries, 1960–2014

Mark Lutter, Karlijn L.A. Roex and Daria Tisch

Community health care workers in pursuit of TB: Discourses and dilemmas

Olajumoke Onazi, Adedeji Olusola Adejumo, Lisa Redwood, Onuka Okorie, Oyewole Lawal, Benedict Azuogu, Mustapha Gidado, Olusoji James Daniel and Ellen M.H. Mitchell

Understanding the LiveLighter® obesity prevention policy processes: An investigation using political science and systems thinking

Brydie Clarke, Boyd Swinburn and Gary Sacks

The legacy of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and the political ecology of urban trees and air pollution in the United States

S. Namin, W. Xu, Y. Zhou and K. Beyer

Explaining the spatial variation in American life expectancy

Elizabeth A. Dobis, Heather M. Stephens, Mark Skidmore and Stephan J. Goetz

Explanatory models of depression in sub-Saharan Africa: Synthesis of qualitative evidence

Rosie Mayston, Souci Frissa, Bethlehem Tekola, Charlotte Hanlon, Martin Prince and Abebaw Fekadu

Mental health effects of long work hours, night and weekend work, and short rest periods

Kaori Sato, Sachiko Kuroda and Hideo Owan

Measuring public preferences in France for potential consequences stemming from re-allocation of healthcare resources

Nicolas Krucien, Sebastian Heidenreich, Amiram Gafni and Nathalie Pelletier-Fleury

Paid work, household work, or leisure? Time allocation pathways among women following a cancer diagnosis

Ni Gao, Mandy Ryan, Nicolas Krucien, Suzanne Robinson and Richard Norman

Incarceration as a unique social stressor during pregnancy: Implications for maternal and newborn health

Alexander Testa, Dylan B. Jackson, Michael G. Vaughn and Jennifer K. Bello

Is there a relationship between welfare-state policies and suicide rates? Evidence from the U.S. states, 2000–2015

Simone Rambotti

Higher exposure, lower vulnerability? The curious case of education, gender discrimination, and Women's health

Matthew A. Andersson and Catherine E. Harnois

Health inequalities: Embodied evidence across biological layers

Paolo Vineis, Cyrille Delpierre, Raphaële Castagné, Giovanni Fiorito, Cathal McCrory, Mika Kivimaki, Silvia Stringhini, Cristian Carmeli and Michelle Kelly-Irving

“Can naughty be healthy?”: Healthism and its discontents in news coverage of orthorexia nervosa

Amy A. Ross Arguedas

Using autoimmune strategically: Diagnostic lumping, splitting, and the experience of illness

Kelly Joyce and Melanie Jeske

‘It's all about time’: Temporal effects of cancer pathway introduction in treatment and care

Kirstine Zinck Pedersen and Anne Roelsgaard Obling

Uncertainty in times of medical emergency: Knowledge gaps and structural ignorance during the Brazilian Zika crisis

Ann H. Kelly, Javier Lezaun, Ilana Löwy, Gustavo Corrêa Matta, Carolina de Oliveira Nogueira and Elaine Teixeira Rabello

Receptionists, doctors, and social workers: Examining undocumented immigrant women's perceptions of health services

Amada Armenta and Heidy Sarabia

Changes in mental health, pain, and drug misuse since the mid-1990s: Is there a link?

Dana A. Glei, Andrew Stokes and Maxine Weinstein

Typologies of postnatal support and breastfeeding at two months in the UK

Emily H. Emmott, Abigail E. Page and Sarah Myers

Childhood adversity and cardiovascular disease risk: An appraisal of recall methods with a focus on stress-buffering processes in childhood and adulthood

Man-Kit Lei, Mark T. Berg, Ronald L. Simons, Leslie G. Simons and Steven R.H. Beach

Examining the transnational health preferences of a group of Eastern European migrants relative to a European host population using the EQ-5D-5L

Dan Kelleher, Luke Barry, Anna Hobbins, Stephen O'Neill, Edel Doherty and Ciaran O'Neill