Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian

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2019, volume 239, articles C

How do grandparents influence child health and development? A systematic review

Aalyia F.A. Sadruddin, Liliana A. Ponguta, Anna L. Zonderman, Kyle S. Wiley, Alyssa Grimshaw and Catherine Panter-Brick

Barriers to mammography screening among racial and ethnic minority women

Brittany C. Miller, Jennifer M. Bowers, Jackelyn B. Payne and Anne Moyer

On the limitations of barriers: Social visibility and weight management in Cuba and Samoa

Hanna Garth and Jessica Hardin

The interaction between district-level development and individual-level socioeconomic gradients of cardiovascular disease risk factors in India: A cross-sectional study of 2.4 million adults

Lara Jung, Jan-Walter De Neve, Simiao Chen, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Daniel J. Corsi, Ashish Awasthi, S.V. Subramanian, Sebastian Vollmer, Till Bärnighausen and Pascal Geldsetzer

International trade and the neoliberal diet in Central America and the Dominican Republic: Bringing social inequality to the center of analysis

Marion Werner, Pavel Isa Contreras, Yeeli Mui and Hannah Stokes-Ramos

Perceived interpersonal and institutional discrimination among persons with disability in the U.S.: Do patterns differ by age?

Eun Ha Namkung and Deborah Carr

Mortality in parents after the death of a child

Jieun Song, Marsha R. Mailick, Jan S. Greenberg and Frank J. Floyd

Transmitted trauma as badge of honor: Phenomenological accounts of Holocaust descendant resilient vulnerability

Carol A. Kidron, Dan M. Kotliar and Laurence J. Kirmayer

“Like a mother-daughter relationship”: Community health intermediaries' knowledge of and attitudes to abortion in Karnataka, India

Rishita Nandagiri

Armed conflict and maternal mortality: A micro-level analysis of sub-Saharan Africa, 1989–2013

Andreas Kotsadam and Gudrun Østby

Associations between food environment typologies and body mass index: Evidence from Yorkshire, England

M. Hobbs, Green, M.,A., E. Wilkins, K.E. Lamb, J. McKenna and C. Griffiths

Health, environment and colonial legacies: Situating the science of pesticides, bananas and bodies in Ecuador

Ben W. Brisbois, Jerry M. Spiegel and Leila Harris

“I was obligated to accept”: A qualitative exploration of contraceptive coercion

Leigh Senderowicz

Purging and the body in the therapeutic use of ayahuasca

Evgenia Fotiou and Alex K. Gearin

Do comprehensive school reforms impact the health of early school leavers? Results of a comparative difference-in-difference design

Katrijn Delaruelle, Herman van de Werfhorst and Piet Bracke

Spatial heterogeneity in non-parametric efficiency: An application to Italian hospitals

M. Auteri, Calogero Guccio, Fabio Pammolli, Giacomo Pignataro and Francesco Vidoli

Using community health workers to deliver a scalable integrated parenting program in rural China: A cluster-randomized controlled trial

Renfu Luo, Dorien Emmers, Nele Warrinnier, Scott Rozelle and Sean Sylvia

The relationship between cognitive decline and a genetic predictor of educational attainment

Xuejie Ding, Nicola Barban, Felix C. Tropf and Melinda C. Mills

From decision to incision: Ideologies of gender in surgical cancer care

Piper Sledge

Circularity, psychiatry & biomarkers: The operationalisation of Alzheimer's & stress in research

James Rupert Fletcher and Rasmus Hoffman Birk

Authenticity, ambivalence and recognition in caring at the end of life and beyond

Alex Broom, Rhiannon B. Parker and Katherine Kenny

Ethnic boundary-making in health care: Experiences of older Pakistani immigrant women in Norway

Sanjana Arora, Melanie Straiton, Bernd Rechel, Astrid Bergland and Jonas Debesay

School-based programs for Supporting the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of adolescent forced migrants in high-income countries: A scoping review

Cyril Bennouna, Nicole Khauli, Mashal Basir, Carine Allaf, Michael Wessells and Lindsay Stark

2019, volume 238, articles C

Survey measures versus incentivized measures of risk preferences: Evidence from sex workers' risky sexual transactions pp. -

Asad Islam, Russell Smyth, HongQi Alexis Tan and Liang Wang

Effects of tuition-free primary education on women's access to family planning and on health decision-making: A cross-national study pp. -

Bijetri Bose and Jody Heymann

Expectations of telemedicine health service adoption in rural Bangladesh pp. -

Khondker Mohammad Zobair, Louis Sanzogni and Kuldeep Sandhu

Group walking as a “lifeline”: Understanding the place of outdoor walking groups in women's lives pp. -

Stephanie Morris, Cornelia Guell and Tessa M. Pollard

A conditional cash transfer and Women's empowerment: Does Bolsa Familia Influence intimate partner violence? pp. -

Ashley Litwin, Elizaveta Perova and Sarah Anne Reynolds

International accreditation, linguistic proximity and trade in medical services pp. -

Chung-Ping A. Loh and Russell E. Triplett

Adolescent body dissatisfaction and disordered eating: Predictors of later risky health behaviours pp. -

Anna Bornioli, Helena Lewis-Smith, Andrew Smith, Amy Slater and Isabelle Bray

Evidence-making interventions in health: A conceptual framing pp. -

Tim Rhodes and Kari Lancaster

Parent psychology and the decision to delay childhood vaccination pp. -

Timothy Callaghan, Matthew Motta, Steven Sylvester, Kristin Lunz Trujillo and Christine Crudo Blackburn

Access to cancer care among Indigenous peoples in Canada: A scoping review pp. -

Tara C. Horrill, Janice Linton, Josée G. Lavoie, Donna Martin, Allison Wiens and Annette S.H. Schultz

What types of activities increase participation in community “salons”? pp. -

Keisuke Nakagawa and Ichiro Kawachi

Police contact and health among urban adolescents: The role of perceived injustice pp. -

Michael J. McFarland, Amanda Geller and Cheryl McFarland

Household water insecurity may influence common mental disorders directly and indirectly through multiple pathways: Evidence from Haiti pp. -

Alexandra Brewis, Neetu Choudhary and Amber Wutich

What the Puerto Rican hurricanes make visible: Chronicle of a public health disaster foretold pp. -

Joan Benach, Marinilda Rivera Díaz, Nylca J. Muñoz, Eliana Martínez-Herrera and Juan Manuel Pericàs

Do remittances alleviate negative impacts of disaster on mental health? A case of the 2015 Nepal earthquake pp. -

Towa Tachibana, Rie Goto, Takeshi Sakurai, Santosh Rayamajhi, Angel Adhikari and William Dow

A critical realist exploration of the vulnerability of staff to sexual harassment in residential long-term care pp. -

Alisa Grigorovich and Pia Kontos

Collective self-experimentation in patient-led research: How online health communities foster innovation pp. -

Joanna Kempner and John Bailey

Contact and role modeling predict bias against lesbian and gay individuals among early-career physicians: A longitudinal study pp. -

Natalie M. Wittlin, John F. Dovidio, Sara E. Burke, Julia M. Przedworski, Jeph Herrin, Liselotte Dyrbye, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, Sean M. Phelan and Michelle van Ryn

Nicotine addiction as a moral problem: Barriers to e-cigarette use for smoking cessation in two working-class areas in Northern England pp. -

Frances Thirlway

Assessing associational strength of 23 correlates of child anthropometric failure: An econometric analysis of the 2015-2016 National Family Health Survey, India pp. -

Rockli Kim, Sunil Rajpal, William Joe, Daniel J. Corsi, Rajan Sankar, Alok Kumar and S.V. Subramanian

Health conditions, payments, proximity, and opportunity costs: Examining delays in seeking inpatient and outpatient care in the Philippines pp. -

Joseph Capuno, Aleli D. Kraft, Louisa Camille Poco, Stella Luz Quimbo and Carlos Antonio R. Tan

Information and power: Women of color's experiences interacting with health care providers in pregnancy and birth pp. -

Molly R. Altman, Talita Oseguera, Monica R. McLemore, Ira Kantrowitz-Gordon, Linda S. Franck and Audrey Lyndon

Predicting women's height from their socioeconomic status: A machine learning approach pp. -

Adel Daoud, Rockli Kim and S.V. Subramanian

Disentangling residential self-selection from impacts of built environment characteristics on travel behaviors for older adults pp. -

Peng Zang, Yi Lu, Jing Ma, Bo Xie, Ruoyu Wang and Ye Liu

The effects of community-based distribution of family planning services on contraceptive use: The case of a national scale-up in Malawi pp. -

Steven P. Masiano, Tiffany L. Green, Bassam Dahman and April D. Kimmel

Skin color as a predictor of mental health in young Latinx children pp. -

Esther J. Calzada, Yeonwoo Kim and Jaimie L. O'Gara

The countervailing forces behind France's low Ritalin consumption pp. -

Manuel Vallée

The efficiency-equity trade-off, self-interest, and moral principles in health and safety valuation pp. -

Danae Arroyos-Calvera, Judith Covey, Graham Loomes and Rebecca McDonald

Milk donation after losing one's baby: Adopting a donor identity as a means of coping with loss pp. -

Ayelet Oreg

Melancholy or mahjong? Diversity, frequency, type, and rural-urban divide of social participation and depression in middle- and old-aged Chinese: A fixed-effects analysis pp. -

Ruoxi Wang, Zhuo Chen, Yongjie Zhou, Lining Shen, Zhiguo Zhang and Xiang Wu

Assessing quality of care in nursing homes using discrete choice experiments: How does the level of cognitive functioning impact upon older people's preferences? pp. -

Rachel Milte, Elisabeth Huynh and Julie Ratcliffe

Sugar-based beverage taxes and beverage prices: Evidence from South Africa's Health Promotion Levy pp. -

Nicholas Stacey, Caroline Mudara, Shu Wen Ng, Corné van Walbeek, Karen Hofman and Ijeoma Edoka