Social Science & Medicine

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2019, volume 243, articles C

Housing as a determinant of health equity: A conceptual model

Carolyn B. Swope and Diana Hernández

Beijing's diagnosis-related group payment reform pilot: Impact on quality of acute myocardial infarction care

Weiyan Jian, Ming Lu, Guofeng Liu, Kit Yee Chan and Adrienne N. Poon

The effects of political protests on youth human capital and well-being in Egypt

Jenny Liu, Sepideh Modrek and Maia Sieverding

How does reentry get under the skin? Cumulative reintegration barriers and health in a sample of recently incarcerated men

Daniel C. Semenza and Nathan W. Link

Does genetics matter for disease-related stigma? The impact of genetic attribution on stigma associated with rheumatic heart disease in the Western Cape, South Africa

Marlyn C. Faure, Olivia P. Matshabane, Patricia Marshall, Paul S. Appelbaum, Dan J. Stein, Mark E. Engel and Jantina de Vries

The embodied relationality of blood-borne viruses: How families matter in the context of a stigmatised viral infection

Asha Persson, Christy E. Newman, Kylie Valentine, Myra Hamilton, Joanne Bryant and Jack Wallace

Tracking biomedicalization in the media: Public discourses on health and medicine in the UK and Italy, 1984–2017

Federico Neresini, Stefano Crabu and Emanuele Di Buccio

O brother how art thou: Propensity to report self-assessed unmet need

Grant Gibson and Luc Clair

Assessment of the public-private-partnerships model of a national health insurance scheme in India

Sonalini Khetrapal, Arnab Acharya and Anne Mills

What is the relationship between the quality of care experience and quality of life outcomes? Some evidence from long-term home care in England

Juliette Malley, Francesco D'Amico and Jose Luis Fernandez

Mobility impairments and geographic variation in vulnerability to household food insecurity

Naomi Schwartz, Valerie Tarasuk, Ron Buliung and Kathi Wilson

Understanding the population structure of the GHQ-12: Methodological considerations in dimensionally complex measurement outcomes

Gareth J. Griffith and Kelvyn Jones

Maternal employment and childcare during infancy and childhood overweight

Therese McDonnell and Orla Doyle

A typology of social capital and its mixed blessing for suicidal ideation: A multilevel study of college students

Sihui Peng, Xiaozhao Yousef Yang and Ian R.H. Rockett

2019, volume 242, articles C

Discretion, power and the reproduction of inequality in health policy implementation: Practices, discursive styles and classifications of Brazil's community health workers

João Nunes and Gabriela Lotta

Breastfeeding knowledge and health behavior among Mayan women in rural Guatemala

Emily E. Little, Maria Alejandra Polanco, Salvador R. Baldizon, Pascale Wagner and Holly Shakya

Uncovering a health and wellbeing gap among professional nurses: situated experiences of direct care nurses in two Canadian cities

Godfred O. Boateng, Roseanne C. Schuster and Mavis Odei Boateng

‘When you think your neighbour's cooking pot is better than yours’: A mixed-methods exploration of inequality and wellbeing in Ghana

Joseph Kangmennaang, Bryan Smale and Susan J. Elliott

Improving chronic illness self-management with the Apsáalooke Nation: Development of the Báa nnilah program

Suzanne Held, John Hallett, Mark Schure, Alma Knows His Gun McCormick, Sarah Allen, Shauna Milne-Price, Coleen Trottier, Brianna Bull Shows, Lucille Other Medicine and Jillian Inouye

Association between homelessness and opioid overdose and opioid-related hospital admissions/emergency department visits

Ayae Yamamoto, Jack Needleman, Lillian Gelberg, Gerald Kominski, Steven Shoptaw and Yusuke Tsugawa

Genes, depressive symptoms, and chronic stressors: A nationally representative longitudinal study in the United States

Aniruddha Das

Emergency contraception: Links between providers' counseling choices, prescribing behaviors, and sociopolitical context

Brandon G. Wagner, Kelly Cleland, Pelin Batur, Justine Wu and Michael B. Rothberg

Multidisciplinary meetings at the emergency department: A conversation-analytic study of decision-making

Lucas M. Seuren, Wyke Stommel, Dieneke van Asselt, Özcan Sir, Martijn Stommel and Yvonne Schoon

Predicting intention to participate in self-management behaviors in patients with Familial Hypercholesterolemia: A cross-national study

Martin S. Hagger, Kyra Hamilton, Sarah J. Hardcastle, Miao Hu, See Kwok, Jie Lin, Hapizah M. Nawawi, Jing Pang, Raul D. Santos, Handrean Soran, Ta-Chen Su, Brian Tomlinson and Gerald F. Watts

“How do we rally around the one who was positive?” Familial uncertainty management in the context of men managing BRCA-related cancer risks

Emily A. Rauscher, Marleah Dean, Gemme Campbell-Salome and Joshua B. Barbour

Rising to the medication's requirements: The experience of elderly cancer patients receiving palliative chemotherapy in the elective oncogeriatrics field

Rose-Anna Foley, Lucie Lechevalier Hurard, Annick Anchisi and Sandro Anchisi

Can health and health equity be advanced by urban planning strategies designed to advance global competitiveness? Lessons from two Australian case studies

Michael McGreevy, Patrick Harris, Toni Delany-Crowe, Matt Fisher, Peter Sainsbury and Fran Baum

The state of social science research on antimicrobial resistance

Snorre Sylvester Frid-Nielsen, Olivier Rubin and Erik Baekkeskov

Comparing in person and internet methods to recruit low-SES populations for tobacco control policy research

Amelia Greiner Safi, Carolyn Reyes, Emma Jesch, Joseph Steinhardt, Jeff Niederdeppe, Christofer Skurka, Motasem Kalaji, Leah Scolere and Sahara Byrne

Disadvantaged and disenfranchised in bereavement: A scoping review of social and structural inequity following expected death

Kristin Bindley, Joanne Lewis, Joanne Travaglia and Michelle DiGiacomo

Changes in self-esteem and chronic disease across adulthood: A 16-year longitudinal analysis

Sarah Y. Liu, Carsten Wrosch, Alexandre J.S. Morin, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée and Jens C. Pruessner

Intergenerational educational mobility and health satisfaction across the life course: Does the long arm of childhood conditions only become visible later in life?

Nadia Steiber

Twelve years later: The long-term mental health consequences of Hurricane Katrina

Ethan J. Raker, Sarah R. Lowe, Mariana C. Arcaya, Sydney T. Johnson, Jean Rhodes and Mary C. Waters

2019, volume 241, articles C

A randomized controlled trial of public messaging to promote safe firearm storage among U.S. military veterans

Elizabeth Karras, Cara M. Stokes, Sara C. Warfield, Shannon K. Barth and Robert M. Bossarte

A shorter working week for everyone: How much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being?

Daiga Kamerāde, Senhu Wang, Brendan Burchell, Sarah Ursula Balderson and Adam Coutts

The (in)visible health risks of climate change

Luke Parry, Claudia Radel, Susana B. Adamo, Nigel Clark, Miriam Counterman, Nadia Flores-Yeffal, Diego Pons, Paty Romero-Lankao and Jason Vargo

Values, challenges and future directions of big data analytics in healthcare: A systematic review

P. Galetsi, K. Katsaliaki and S. Kumar

Childhood racial discrimination and adult allostatic load: The role of Indigenous cultural continuity in allostatic resiliency

Cheryl L. Currie, Jennifer L. Copeland and Gerlinde A. Metz

Changes in maternity leave coverage: Implications for fertility, labour force participation and child mortality

Salma Ahmed and David Fielding

Longitudinal associations of neighborhood socioeconomic status with cardiovascular risk factors: A 46-year follow-up study

Marcia P. Jimenez, Gregory A. Wellenius, S.V. Subramanian, Stephen Buka, Charles Eaton, Stephen E. Gilman and Eric B. Loucks

How do supply- and demand-side interventions influence equity in healthcare utilisation? Evidence from maternal healthcare in Senegal

Divya Parmar and Aneesh Banerjee

No evidence for a protective effect of education on mental health

Sarah C. Dahmann and Daniel D. Schnitzlein

2019, volume 240, articles C

The pains and reliefs of the transitions into and out of spousal caregiving. A cross-national comparison of the health consequences of caregiving by gender

Damiano Uccheddu, Anne H. Gauthier, Nardi Steverink and Tom Emery

Effectiveness of community organizing interventions on social activities among older residents in Japan: A JAGES quasi-experimental study

Maho Haseda, Daisuke Takagi, Katsunori Kondo and Naoki Kondo

Views of older people in the Netherlands on wellbeing: A Q-methodology study

Mariska Q.N. Hackert, Werner Brouwer, Renske J. Hoefman and Job van Exel

Mind the (inter-rater) gap. An investigation of self-reported versus proxy-reported assessments in the derivation of childhood utility values for economic evaluation: A systematic review

Jyoti Khadka, Joseph Kwon, Stavros Petrou, Emily Lancsar and Julie Ratcliffe

Using deliberative methods to establish a sufficient state of capability well-being for use in decision-making in the contexts of public health and social care

Philip Kinghorn

Center-based childcare expansion and grandparents' employment and well-being

Mengyun Lin and Qing Wang

Paddling the Biigtig: Mino biimadisiwin practiced through canoeing

Kathleen Mikraszewicz and Chantelle Richmond

Systematic Literature Review on the Spread of Health-related Misinformation on Social Media

Yuxi Wang, Martin McKee, Aleksandra Torbica and David Stuckler

“We treat humans, not herds!”: A qualitative study of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers’ individualized approaches to vaccination in Switzerland

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

Displacement contexts and violent landscapes: How conflict and displacement structure women's lives and ongoing threats at the Thai-Myanmar border

Stephanie M. Koning

Parental caregiving trajectories and Metabolic Syndrome: A longitudinal study among Chinese women

Xiaoxiao Lu, Cher M. Dallal, Xin He, Hee-Soon Juon, Ming Qi Wang and Sunmin Lee

Accounts from developers of generic health state utility instruments explain why they produce different QALYs: A qualitative study

Kristen Pickles, Emily Lancsar, Janelle Seymour, David Parkin, Cam Donaldson and Stacy M. Carter

Darker skin color is associated with a lower likelihood of smoking cessation among males but not females

Adam C. Alexander, Nicole L. Nollen, Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, Emily T. Hébert, Michael S. Businelle and Darla E. Kendzor

Affecting care: Maggie's Centres and the orchestration of architectural atmospheres

Daryl Martin, Sarah Nettleton and Christina Buse

Pathways linking combinations of early-life adversities to adult mortality: Tales that vary by gender

Chioun Lee and Carol D. Ryff

Measuring racial segregation in health system networks using the dissimilarity index

Andrea M. Austin, Donald Q. Carmichael, Julie P.W. Bynum and Jonathan S. Skinner

Understanding the low cost business model in healthcare service provision: A comparative case study in Italy

Mariavittoria Cicellin, Adriana Scuotto,, Paolo Canonico, Stefano Consiglio and Lorenzo Mercurio

In sickness or in health? Register-based evidence on partners' mutual receipt of sickness allowance and disability pension

Jan Saarela, Maria Stanfors and Mikael Rostila

Disrupting a cycle of mistrust: A constructivist grounded theory study on patient-provider trust in TB care

Stephanie Law, Amrita Daftary, Carole D. Mitnick, Keertan Dheda and Dick Menzies