Social Science & Medicine

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2024, volume 361, articles C

The effect of public tolerance towards corruptive behaviour on healthcare efficiency and equity – The case of the UK's COVID-19 vaccination programme

Franziska Sohns, Stefano Ghinoi and Magdalena Langosch

Racism and health and wellbeing among children and youth–An updated systematic review and meta-analysis

Naomi Priest, Kate Doery, Chiao Kee Lim, Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Georgia Zoumboulis, Gabriella King, Dewan Lamisa, Fan He, Rushani Wijesuriya, Camila M. Mateo, Shiau Chong, Mandy Truong, Ryan Perry, Paula Toko King, Natalie Paki Paki, Corey Joseph, Dot Pagram, Roshini Balasooriya Lekamge, Gosia Mikolajczak, Emily Darnett, Brigid Trenerry, Shloka Jha, Joan Gakii Masunga, Yin Paradies, Yvonne Kelly, Saffron Karlsen and Shuaijun Guo

Cannabis vaping use in emerging adulthood: Characterizing transitions between stages of vaping among a diverse cohort in Texas

Dale S. Mantey, Stephanie L. Clendennen, Baojiang Chen, Sana Amin and Melissa B. Harrell

What matters beyond particle matter?: Examining air pollution's synergistic effects on bodies and health through Bio3Science in Medellin

Luz Adriana Muñoz Duque, Rosa Amelia Estrada Acuña, Tyler Munn, Luis Carlos Bañol Muñoz, Sterling Johnson, Melissa R Gilbert and Allison Hayes-Conroy

Social medicine education towards structural transformation in Palestine

David Mills, Ramya Kumar, Bram Wispelwey, Yara Asi, Osama Tanous, Layth Hanbali, Benjamin Bouquet and Weeam Hammoudeh

Racial discrimination predicts subjective cognitive decline: Perceived relationship support buffers the association

Man-Kit Lei, Stephanie L. Hanus, Leslie G. Simons, Ronald L. Simons and Steven R.H. Beach

Prospective relationships between patterns of religious belief/non-belief and mental health in adults: A UK cohort study

Isaac Halstead, Jon Heron, Connie Svob and Carol Joinson

Improving the management of hospital waiting lists by using nudges in letters: A Randomised controlled trial

Robert P. Murphy, Carol Taaffe, Molly Byrne, Liam Delaney, Pete Lunn, Deirdre A. Robertson, Helen Ryan and Alex M. Wood

Adjusting the risk-adjustment: Accounting for variation between organisations in the responsiveness of their expenditure to need

Sean Urwin, Laura Anselmi, Emmanouil Mentzakis, Yiu-Shing Lau and Matt Sutton

Consubstantialities of resistance: Labor process, (bio)materialities, and pathogenicity

Roberto Rubem da Silva-Brandao

Unplanned births and their effects on maternal Health: Findings from the Constances Cohort

Anna Barbuscia, Ariane Pailhé and Anne Solaz

“The mother seems to traumatize her child”: Examining empathy, denial, and responsibility in day-to-day encounters of families and staff in immigration detention in Canada

Rachel Kronick, Janet Cleveland, Mary Bosworth and Cécile Rousseau

“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity

G. Nduku Wambua, Sanja Kilian and Bonga Chiliza

Measuring the effect of historical structural racism on community firearm violence in US cities

Ariana N. Gobaud, Christopher N. Morrison, Charles C. Branas, Sara Jacoby, Michael Kramer and Paris B. Adkins-Jackson

Own depression, partner's depression, and childlessness: A nationwide register-based study

Sanna Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, Heta Moustgaard, Pekka Martikainen and Mikko Myrskylä

The healthcare support program and healthcare utilization of older adults in ethnic minority areas in Vietnam

Khiem Phuong Huu and Thao Bui

‘All the dykes I know drink beer’: Sexuality and gender performance through alcohol consumption among lesbian, bisexual, and queer women in Australia

Ruby Grant, Jennifer Power, Julie Mooney-Somers, Amy Pennay, Ruth McNair and Adam Bourne

Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults

Hang Li, Huijun Liu and Liqiang Zhao

Sources and processes of social influence on health-related choices: A systematic review based on a social-interdependent choice paradigm

L. Pilli, J. Veldwijk, J.D. Swait, Bas Donkers and E.W. de Bekker-Grob

Estimating exercisality on urban trails using physical exercise trajectory data and network-constrained approach

Cailin Qiu, Jianquan Cheng, Yi Lu and Tianjie Zhang

Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition

Sounman Hong, Suho Ji, Byoung Jai Kim and Hyung Jun Park

Accessing breast cancer care in a protracted conflict: Qualitative exploration of the perspectives of women with breast cancer in northwest Syria

Manar Marzouk, Mohamed Hamze, Jamil Debel, Alaa Alshemali, Boushra Alhussein Alameen, Mariam Bakkour, Bayan Galal, Anees B. Chagpar, Bassel Atassi, Kaveh Khoshnood and Aula Abbara

The mitigating effect of social protection on undernourishment during economic downturns: A longitudinal study of 46 low- and middle-income countries over the last two decades

G. Barreix Sibils, N. Brachowicz, N.J. Silva, E. Landin, I. Macicame, M. Naidoo, G. de Sampaio Morais and D. Rasella

Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community

Jinhui Li and Wen Shi

Food for thought: The intersection between SNAP stigma, food insecurity, and gender

C. Ross Hatton, Carolyn Bresnahan, Anna Claire Tucker, Joelle Johnson, Sara John and Julia A. Wolfson

Prenatal testing technologies in Australia: Unintended clinical and emotional complexities in underprepared systems

Belinda Johnson, Pieta Shakes and Chris Maylea

Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth

Douglas Tharp, Brent M. Kious, Amanda Bakian, Simon Brewer, Scott Langenecker, Mindy Schreiner, Andrey Shabalin, Hilary Coon, Robert C. Welsh and Richard M. Medina

Applying CFIR to assess multi-level barriers to PrEP delivery in rural South Africa: Processes, gaps and opportunities for service delivery of current and future PrEP modalities

Deborah Baron, Hannah H. Leslie, Denny Mabetha, Nozipho Becker, Kathleen Kahn and Sheri A. Lippman

A triple trust penalty? The majority-minority gap in subjective wellbeing

Cary Wu and Ichiro Kawachi

The built environment and its association with type 2 diabetes mellitus incidence: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

Tesfaye Regassa Feyissa, Sarah M. Wood, Krishna Vakil, Kevin MC Namara, Neil T. Coffee, Saad Alsharrah, Mark Daniel and Vincent L. Versace

Corrigendum to Grandparents' educational attainment is associated with grandchildren's epigenetic-based age acceleration in the National Growth and Health Study [Soc. Sci. Med. 355 (2024) 117142]

Agus Surachman, Elissa Hamlat, Anthony S. Zannas, Steve Horvath, Barbara Laraia and Elissa Epel

Corrigendum to “Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement [Soc. Sci. Med. 344 (2024) 116616]”

Katherine Bristowe, Liadh Timmins, Alexandra Pitman, Debbie Braybrook, Steve Marshall, Katherine Johnson, Michael King, Anna Roach, Deokhee Yi, Kathryn Almack, Elizabeth Day, Paul Clift, Ruth Rose and Richard Harding

Types of genetic determinism in direct-to-consumer genetic testing for health

Asia Friedman and Tammy L. Anderson

Risk perception and reappraisal during the COVID-19 pandemic in southeast Alaska: Self-identified determinants of risk and protective health behaviors

Taylor P. van Doren, Ryan A. Brown, Max Izenberg, Callie Simmons, Ron Heintz and Lisa Busch

The impact of place on multimorbidity: A systematic scoping review

Chunyu Zheng, Clare MacRae, Laurence Rowley-Abel, Stella Arakelyan, Eleojo Abubakar, Chris Dibben, Bruce Guthrie, Alan Marshall and Jamie Pearce

Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors

Micaela L. Riethmuller, Elizabeth A. Newnham and Peter M. McEvoy

Depression risk and resilience in a diverse sample of older adults in the United States

Jennifer W. Robinette and Belinda Campos

Open and opaque? The performativity of open priorities in a Norwegian hospital

Andrea Melberg

Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex

Shin-Yii Pua and Rwei-Ling Yu

Friends, neighbors, country, and respect: Status ladders and health behaviors in the United States

Matthew A. Andersson and Bruce G. Link

Socio-economic inequalities in health-related quality of life and the contribution of cognitive impairment in Australia: A decomposition analysis

Rezwanul Haque, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow, Christine Neville and Syed Afroz Keramat

Investigating the links between objective social media use, attentional control, and psychological distress

Chloe N. Jones, Daniel Rudaizky, Tamsin Mahalingham and Patrick J.F. Clarke

Locus of control and the long-term effects of parental smoking on mental health

Rejoice E.A. Churchill and Augustine Asante

From ignorance to awareness: Quality of collaborative governance enhances public awareness of AMR

Daniel Carelli

2024, volume 360, articles C

Associations between historical and contemporary measures of structural racism and leukocyte telomere length: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Elleni M. Hailu, Xing Gao, Belinda L. Needham, Teresa Seeman, Tené T. Lewis and Mahasin S. Mujahid

Heating or eating? The framing of food and fuel poverty in UK news media

Sarah N. Champagne, Jennie I. Macdiarmid, Omotayo Olusola, Euan Phimister and Aravinda Meera Guntupalli

Away from home, into the fields: Assessing the health of undocumented and indigenous farmworkers

Christina J. Diaz, Erick Samayoa, Sergio Chavez and Victoria Bejarano

Re-municipalising sociospatial infrastructure: A journeying ethnography of Greater Manchester's dementia (un)friendly buses

James Rupert Fletcher

Perceptions of impure innovation: Health professionals’ experiences and management of stigmatization when working as digital innovators

Michael J. Gill, Bernard D. Naughton, Megan Field and Sara E. Shaw

Trust in government, social media and willingness to vaccinate

Nicky Nicholls, Michelle Pleace and Eleni Yitbarek

Renegotiation, uncertainty, imagination: Assemblage perspectives on reproductive and family planning with an Inborn Error of immunity

Hannah R. Davidson, Leila Jamal, Rebecca Mueller, Morgan Similuk and Jill Owczarzak

Pandemic communication in times of populism: Politicization and the COVID communication process in Brazil, Poland, Serbia and the United States

Daniel C. Hallin, Sabina Mihelj, Paulo Ferracioli, Nithyanand Rao, Katarzyna Vanevska, Ana Stojiljković, Beata Klimkiewicz, Danilo Rothberg and Václav Štětka

The development of a capability wellbeing measure in economic evaluation for children and young people aged 11-15

Samantha Husbands, Paul Mark Mitchell, Philip Kinghorn, Sarah Byford, Katie Breheny, Cara Bailey, Paul Anand, Tim J. Peters, Isabella Floredin and Joanna Coast

Contested quantification for planetary health – A sociotechnical analysis of Bangladesh's water salinity monitoring infrastructure

Paula Hepp, Mohammed Nadiruzzaman and Anja Krumeich

Bridging social capital among Facebook users and COVID-19 cases growth in Arizona

Maria Boby, Hyunsung Oh, Flavio Marsiglia and Li Liu

The transmission of social inequalities through economic difficulties and lifestyle factors on body mass index: An intersectional mediation analysis in the Swedish population

Antonio Moreno-Llamas, Miguel San Sebastián and Per E. Gustafsson

Financial struggles and coping with the aftermath of breast cancer care: An ethnographic study in Vietnam

Trang T. Do, Andrea Whittaker and Mark DM. Davis

Time preference shifts in medical decision-making after serious illness

Biao Xu, Yi-Fan Shao, Hai-Ling Xi, Shi-Yun Chang and Zhi-Qiang Ge

Social mechanisms behind the poor health of marginalized Roma: Novel insights and implications from four ethnographic studies in Slovakia

Andrej Belak, Jitse P. van Dijk and Sijmen A. Reijneveld

White privilege, ethnic disadvantage, and stigmatized linguistic capital: COVID-19 infection rates and lockdown law enforcement in Hong Kong

Vera W.H. Yuen

Racism, not race: Quantitative analysis of the use of race and racism in the addiction literature

Spencer Dunleavy, Jeremiah Douchee, Tina Liu, Natrina L. Johnson, Miriam Komaromy and Avik Chatterjee

Healthcare compassion interventions co-design and feasibility inquiry with clinicians and healthcare leaders in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Alina Pavlova, Sarah-Jane Paine, Amelie Tuato'o and Nathan S. Consedine

Adolescent depressive symptoms and memory performance in young adulthood: Testing critical period, accumulation, and pathway models using a sibling comparison design

Jinho Kim, Gum-Ryeong Park and Hayun Jang

Explainability of artificial neural network in predicting career fulfilment among medical doctors in developing nations: Applicability and implications

Dara Thomas, Ying Li, Chiagoziem C. Ukwuoma and Joel Dossa

Towards a better understanding of inequity and the psychological processes underlying the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status

Roy Otten and Thao Ha

A comparison of heat effects on road injury frequency between active travelers and motorized transportation users in six tropical and subtropical cities in Taiwan

Cheng-Kai Hsu and Daniel A. Rodríguez

Understanding the motivations behind deliberate lightening of skin among burkinabe women through a socio-anthropological analysis

Abdramane Berthé

Coping, surviving, or thriving: A scoping review examining social support for migrant care workers through four theoretical lenses

Danni Liao, Manuel D. Pulido and Yang Liu

Associations of childhood household dysfunction and healthy lifestyle with depressive symptoms in adolescents

Weiqing Jiang, Shuyi Peng, Qianyu Liu, Ciyong Lu, Yanyan Ni and Lan Guo

Trapped in a maze: A meta-ethnography of women's experiences of alcohol use in pregnancy

Isabella Pistone, Bente Dahl and Terese Bondas

Biopsychosocial pathways model of early childhood appetite self-regulation: Temperament as a key to modulation of interactions among systems

Sehyun Ju, Brent A. McBride, Merin Oleschuk and Kelly K. Bost

Which comes first? Comorbidity of depression and anxiety symptoms: A cross-lagged network analysis

Hongyu Zou, Junyao Gao, Wanchun Wu, Lijuan Huo and Wei Zhang

Loneliness and social isolation amongst refugees resettled in high-income countries: A systematic review

Thomas P. Nguyen, Mariam Al Asaad, Michelle Sena and Shameran Slewa-Younan

Social determinants of health analysis makes causal inference and requires analytic epidemiology methods

Qiang Xia, Yingjie Zheng, Mei-Chia Fong, Ellen W. Wiewel, Cristina Rodriguez-hart and Lucia V. Torian

The impact of home mechanical ventilation on the time and manner of death for those with Motor neurone disease (MND): A qualitative study of bereaved family members

Glenys Caswell and Eleanor Wilson

Funding priorities and health outcomes in Danish medical research

Emil Bargmann Madsen and Jens Peter Andersen

Obstetric violence in the context of community violence: The case of Mexico

Orsola Torrisi, Signe Svallfors and Maria Gargiulo

The reproductive geography of miscarriages. Social identities, places, and reproductive inequalities

Chiara Chiavaroli

Homes of substance: Drugs and the making of home/lessness for 2S/LGBTQ+ youth

Trevor Goodyear, Emily Jenkins, Danya Fast, John L. Oliffe, Hannah Kia, Iliyah Katriana and Rod Knight