Social Science & Medicine

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2020, volume 245, articles C

“When you have no water, it means you have no peace”: A mixed-methods, whole-population study of water insecurity and depression in rural Uganda

Rumbidzai C. Mushavi, Bridget F.O. Burns, Bernard Kakuhikire, Moran Owembabazi, Dagmar Vořechovská, Amy Q. McDonough, Christine E. Cooper-Vince, Charles Baguma, Justin D. Rasmussen, David R. Bangsberg and Alexander C. Tsai

Who dies early? Education, mortality and causes of death in Norway

Jostein Grytten, Irene Skau and Rune Sørensen

The transnational Sowa Rigpa industry in Asia: New perspectives on an emerging economy

Stephan Kloos, Harilal Madhavan, Tawni Tidwell, Calum Blaikie and Mingji Cuomu

Exploring the relative value of end of life QALYs: Are the comparators important?

Neil McHugh, Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades, Rachel Baker, Helen Mason and Cam Donaldson

Assessing the value for money of an integrated health and wellbeing service in the UK

Shelina Visram, Nick Walton, Nasima Akhter, Sue Lewis and Graham Lister

Adapting the psychological mediation framework for cisgender and transgender sexual minorities in Jamaica: Implications from latent versus observed variable approaches to sexual stigma

Carmen H. Logie, Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, Ying Wang, Kandasi Levermore, Nicolette Jones, Tyrone Ellis, Nicolette Bryan and Daniel Grace

Longitudinal measures of neighborhood poverty and income inequality are associated with adverse birth outcomes in Texas

Catherine Cubbin, Yeonwoo Kim, Shetal Vohra-Gupta and Claire Margerison

Who are Clive's friends? Latent sociality in the emergency department

Bisan A. Salhi

Macro-level determinants of post-retirement health and health inequalities: A multilevel analysis of 18 European countries

Sascha de Breij, Martijn Huisman and Dorly J.H. Deeg

‘Becoming-with’ a repeat healthy volunteer: Managing and negotiating trust among repeat healthy volunteers in commercial clinical drug trials

Shadreck Mwale

The good death and the institutionalisation of dying: An interpretive analysis of the Austrian discourse

Alexander Lang

Questions regarding ‘epistemic injustice’ in knowledge-intensive policymaking: Two examples from Dutch health insurance policy

Floortje Moes, Eddy Houwaart, Diana Delnoij and Klasien Horstman

Public preferences for home care services for people with dementia: A discrete choice experiment on personhood

Sharon Walsh, Eamon O'Shea, Tom Pierse, Brendan Kennelly, Fiona Keogh and Edel Doherty

Beyond the law: Misoprostol and medical abortion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

I.H. Solheim, K.M. Moland, C. Kahabuka, A.B. Pembe and A. Blystad

Precarity and health: Theorizing the intersection of multiple material-need insecurities, stigma, and illness among women in the United States

Henry J. Whittle, Anna M. Leddy, Jacqueline Shieh, Phyllis C. Tien, Ighovwerha Ofotokun, Adaora A. Adimora, Janet M. Turan, Edward A. Frongillo, Bulent Turan and Sheri D. Weiser

Spillover effects of a husband's retirement on a woman's health: Evidence from urban China

Emma Zang

Mechanisms of life-course socioeconomic inequalities in adult systemic inflammation: Findings from two cohort studies

Cristian Carmeli, Johan Steen, Dusan Petrovic, Benoît Lepage, Cyrille Delpierre, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Murielle Bochud, Mika Kivimäki, Paolo Vineis and Silvia Stringhini

The changing landscape of abortion care: Embodied experiences of structural stigma in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

Kathleen Broussard

Boundary spanners: Negotiating connections across primary care and domestic violence and abuse services

Anna Dowrick, Moira Kelly and Gene Feder

The punch-drunk boxer and the battered wife: Gender and brain injury research

Stephen T. Casper and Kelly O'Donnell

Characteristics of place and the rural disadvantage in deaths from highly preventable causes

Adam R. Roth, Justin T. Denney, Solmaz Amiri and Ofer Amram

Subjunctive medicine: Enacting efficacy in general practice

Doug Hardman, Adam W.A. Geraghty, Mark Lown and Felicity L. Bishop

Children's bullying involvement and maternal depressive symptoms

Kei Nomaguchi and Marshal Neal Fettro

ACEs are not equal: Examining the relative impact of household dysfunction versus childhood maltreatment on mental health in adolescence

Sonya Negriff

Quantifying fertility? Direct-to-consumer ovarian reserve testing and the new (in)fertility pipeline

Moira A. Kyweluk

Collective strategies to cope with work related stress among nurses in resource constrained settings: An ethnography of neonatal nursing in Kenya

Jacob McKnight, Jacinta Nzinga, Joyline Jepkosgei and Mike English

Chronic illness and sustainable careers: How individuals with multiple sclerosis negotiate work transitions in a middle-income country

Lavanya Vijayasingham, Uma Jogulu and Pascale Allotey

Self-distancing as a path to help-seeking for people with depression

Sara M. Hollar and Jason T. Siegel

Intensity of community-based programs by long-term care insurers and the likelihood of frailty: Multilevel analysis of older Japanese adults

Koryu Sato, Takaaki Ikeda, Ryota Watanabe, Naoki Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi and Katsunori Kondo

Is accessibility in the eye of the beholder? Social inequalities in spatial accessibility to health-related resources in Montréal, Canada

Julie Vallée, Martine Shareck, Guillaume Le Roux, Yan Kestens and Katherine L. Frohlich

How does Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) promote latrine construction, and can it be improved? A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Ghana

Miriam Harter, Jennifer Inauen and Hans-Joachim Mosler

Effects of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax on prices and affordability of soft drinks in Chile: A time series analysis

Cristóbal Cuadrado, Jocelyn Dunstan, Nicolas Silva-Illanes, Andrew J. Mirelman, Ryota Nakamura and Marc Suhrcke

Borderline well-being: Mental health in a development zone

Chris Lyttleton

Health literacy in persons at risk of and patients with coronary heart disease: A systematic review

Samia Peltzer, Marc Hellstern, Anna Genske, Saskia Jünger, Christiane Woopen and Christian Albus

Refining hand washing interventions by identifying active ingredients: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Zimbabwe

Jennifer Inauen, Jonathan Lilje and Hans-Joachim Mosler

Liveability aspirations and realities: Implementation of urban policies designed to create healthy cities in Australia

Melanie Lowe, Jonathan Arundel, Paula Hooper, Julianna Rozek, Carl Higgs, Rebecca Roberts and Billie Giles-Corti

Trends in access to health services, financial protection and satisfaction between 2010 and 2016: Has China achieved the goals of its health system reform?

Yuqi Ta, Yishan Zhu and Hongqiao Fu

Principle of gradient rationality: Revisiting stigma and conceptualizing its guiding mechanism

Nikhil Tomar and Graham Thornicroft

The weakness of the strong: Examining the squeaky-wheel effect of hospital violence in China

Junqiang Liu, Hui Zhou, Lingrui Liu and Chunxiao Wang

Private management and governance styles in a Japanese public hospital: A story of west meets east

Shahzad Uddin, Yuji Mori and Khandakar Shahadat

Spontaneity and serendipity: Space and time in the lives of people with diabetes

Mark Lucherini

Food insecurity among formerly homeless youth in supportive housing: A social-ecological analysis of a structural intervention

Sarah Brothers, Jess Lin, Jeffrey Schonberg, Corey Drew and Colette Auerswald

Impact of voluntary community-based health insurance on child stunting: Evidence from rural Uganda

Emmanuel Nshakira-Rukundo, Essa Mussa, Nicolas Gerber and Joachim von Braun

2020, volume 244, articles C

When and how do surgeons initiate noticings of additional concerns?

Anne Elizabeth Clark White

“The doctor said formula would help me”: Health sector influences on use of infant formula in peri-urban Lima, Peru

Jessica D. Rothstein, Laura E. Caulfield, Elena T. Broaddus-Shea, John Muschelli, Robert H. Gilman and Peter J. Winch

Testing the theoretical similarities between food and water insecurity: Buffering hypothesis and effects on mental wellbeing

Amanda Maxfield

Political competition and public healthcare expenditure: Evidence from Indian states

Sandip Datta

Structural stigma and all-cause mortality among sexual minorities: Differences by sexual behavior?

Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, Caroline Rutherford, Sarah McKetta, Seth J. Prins and Katherine M. Keyes

The (Agri-)Cultural origins of obesity

Evangelos Dioikitopoulos, Dimitrios Minos and Sotiris Vandoros

Mental health and ethnic density among adolescents in England: A cross-sectional study

Jeun Jun, Stephen Jivraj and Keishia Taylor

Early-life socioeconomic status, adolescent cognitive ability, and cognition in late midlife: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

Zhenmei Zhang, Hui Liu and Seung-won Choi

Making a murderer: Media renderings of brain injury and Aaron Hernandez as a medical and sporting subject

Hollin Gregory

Defining and measuring health poverty

Philip Clarke and Guido Erreygers

Underemployment and psychological distress: Propensity score and fixed effects estimates from two large UK samples

Victoria Mousteri, Michael Daly and Liam Delaney

A critical content analysis of media reporting on opioids: The social construction of an epidemic

Fiona Webster, Kathleen Rice and Abhimanyu Sud

Diagnosing uncertainty: The challenges of implementing medical screening programs for minority sub-populations in Canada

Mark Gaspar, Ron Rosenes, Ann N. Burchell, Troy Grennan, Irving Salit and Daniel Grace

Culture moderates the link between perceived obligation and biological health risk: Evidence of culturally distinct pathways for positive health outcomes

Andree Hartanto, Ivy Yee-Man Lau and Jose C. Yong

Psychological processes of ACL-patients' post-surgery rehabilitation: A prospective test of an integrated theoretical model

Alfred S.Y. Lee, Patrick Shu-Hang Yung, Kam-Ming Mok, Martin S. Hagger and Derwin K.C. Chan

Health status changes with transitory disability over time

Andrew Myers, Bryce Ward, Jennifer Wong and Craig Ravesloot

“It was all taken away”: Lactation, embodiment, and resistance among mothers caring for their very-low-birth-weight infants in the neonatal intensive care unit

Aunchalee E.L. Palmquist, Sarah M. Holdren and Cynthia D. Fair

Hospital side hustles: Funding conundrums and perverse incentives in Tanzania's publicly-funded health sector

Meredith G. Marten and Noelle Sullivan

Gender and age differences in the associations between family social roles and excessive alcohol use

Rebecca J. Evans-Polce, Bohyun Joy Jang, Jennifer L. Maggs and Megan E. Patrick

Children's conformity to social norms to eat healthy: A developmental perspective

Haiming Hang, Iain Davies and Jennifer Schüring

Care providers, access to care, and the Long-term Care Nursing Insurance in China: An agent-based simulation

Shuang Chang, Wei Yang and Hiroshi Deguchi

Biographical disruption or cohesion?: How parents deal with their child's autism diagnosis

Pernille Skovbo Rasmussen, Inge Kryger Pedersen and Anne Katrine Pagsberg

Empowerment for civic engagement and well-being in emerging adulthood: Evidence from cross-regional and cross-lagged analyses

Randolph C.H. Chan and Winnie W.S. Mak