Social Science & Medicine

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2020, volume 258, articles C

Doctors are seen as Godlike: Moral typecasting in medicine

Amelia Goranson, Paschal Sheeran, Julia Katz and Kurt Gray

How can mobile applications support suicide prevention gatekeepers in Australian Indigenous communities?

Kelly Brown, Maree Toombs, Bushra Nasir, Steve Kisely, Geetha Ranmuthugala, Sharon L. Brennan-Olsen, Geoffrey C. Nicholson, Neeraj S. Gill, Noel S. Hayman, Srinivas Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan and Leanne Hides

Mental health consequences of minority political positions: The case of brexit

Christopher W.N. Saville

Measuring the impact of national guidelines: What methods can be used to uncover time-varying effects for healthcare evaluations?

Sarah Price, Xiaohui Zhang and Anne Spencer

An examination of the medicalization trend in female genital cutting in Egypt: How does it relate to a girl's risk of being cut?

Van Eekert Nina, Biegel Naomi, Gadeyne Sylvie and Van De Velde Sarah

Examining associations of food insecurity with major depression among older adults in the wake of the Great Recession

Rachel S. Bergmans and Riley Wegryn-Jones

Patient resistance towards clinicians’ diagnostic test-taking advice and its management in Chinese outpatient clinic interaction

Chunjuan Zhao and Wen Ma

Relationship between costs and clinical benefits of new cancer medicines in Australia, France, the UK, and the US

Sebastian Salas-Vega, Emily Shearer and Elias Mossialos

Incorporating discrete choice experiments into policy decisions: Case of designing public long-term care insurance

Worawan Chandoevwit and Nada Wasi

Poor psychological health and 5-year suicide mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study

Maria Fridh, Maria Rosvall and Martin Lindström

Cross-sectional associations of neighborhood third places with social health among community-dwelling older adults

Anna P. Lane, Yuting Hou, Chek Hooi Wong and Belinda Yuen

“I'm not a freshi”: Culture shock, puberty and growing up as British-Bangladeshi girls

Lauren C. Houghton, Rebecca Troisi, Marni Sommer, Hormuzd A. Katki, Mark Booth, Osul A. Choudhury and Kate R. Hampshire

Children's perspectives on health-promoting living environments: The significance of social capital

Malin Eriksson and Kjerstin Dahlblom

Associations of spatial mobility with sexual risk behaviors among young men who have sex with men in New York City: A global positioning system (GPS) study

Byoungjun Kim, Seann D. Regan, Denton Callander, William C. Goedel, Basile Chaix and Dustin T. Duncan

A crack in the wall: Chronic pain management in integrative group medical visits

Ariana Thompson-Lastad and Sara Rubin

Rural gerontological health: Emergent questions for research, policy and practice

Laura I.L. Poulin, Mark W. Skinner and Neil Hanlon

Associations between structures, processes and outcomes in inter-municipal cooperation in out-of-hours services in Norway: A survey study

Bjørnulf Arntsen, Dag Olaf Torjesen and Tor-Ivar Karlsen

Household energy insecurity: dimensions and consequences for women, infants and children in low- and middle-income countries

Godfred O. Boateng, Mobolanle R. Balogun, Festus O. Dada and Frederick A. Armah

Forced migration experiences, mental well-being, and nail cortisol among recently settled refugees in Serbia

Jelena Jankovic-Rankovic, Rahul C. Oka, Jerrold S. Meyer and Lee T. Gettler

The wazan janch: The body-mass index and the socio-spatial politics of health promotion in rural India

Carly E. Nichols

Impact of extreme weather conditions on healthcare provision in urban Ghana

Samuel N.A. Codjoe, Katherine V. Gough, Robert L. Wilby, Raymond Kasei, Paul W.K. Yankson, Ebenezer F. Amankwaa, Mercy A. Abarike, D. Yaw Atiglo, Sam Kayaga, Peter Mensah, Cuthbert K. Nabilse and Paula L. Griffiths

Challenges to medical ethics in the context of detention and deportation: Insights from a French postcolonial department in the Indian Ocean

Nina Sahraoui

Does long-term care insurance reduce hospital utilization and medical expenditures? Evidence from China

Jin Feng, Zhen Wang and Yangyang Yu

Impostorism, subjective age, and perceived health among aging veterans

Yael Lahav, Jacob Y. Stein, Rachel Hasson and Zahava Solomon

Working toward evidence-based guidelines for cost-of-care conversations between patients and physicians: A systematic review of the literature

Nancy Grant Harrington, Allison M. Scott and Elizabeth A. Spencer

The mediating role of constructs representing reasoned-action and automatic processes on the past behavior-future behavior relationship

Daniel J. Brown, Martin S. Hagger and Kyra Hamilton

‘I am the master key that opens and locks’: Presentation and application of a conceptual framework for women's and girls' empowerment in reproductive health

Celia Karp, Shannon N. Wood, Hadiza Galadanci, Simon Peter Sebina Kibira, Fredrick Makumbi, Elizabeth Omoluabi, Solomon Shiferaw, Assefa Seme, Amy Tsui and Caroline Moreau

Exploring the effect of loneliness on all-cause mortality: Are there differences between older adults and younger and middle-aged adults?

Elvira Lara, Darío Moreno-Agostino, Natalia Martín-María, Marta Miret, Laura Alejandra Rico-Uribe, Beatriz Olaya, María Cabello, Josep Maria Haro and José Luis Ayuso-Mateos

Changes in the depression gender gap from 1992 to 2014: Cohort effects and mediation by gendered social position

Jonathan M. Platt, Lisa M. Bates, Justin Jager, Katie A. McLaughlin and Katherine M. Keyes

Gender discrimination in health-care expenditure: An analysis across the age-groups with special focus on the elderly

Bidisha Mondal and Jay Dev Dubey

Using counterframing strategies to enhance anti-stigma campaigns related to mental illness

Bart Vyncke and Baldwin Van Gorp

HIV-related stigma and non-adherence to antiretroviral medications among people living with HIV in a rural setting

Seth C. Kalichman, Harold Katner, Ellen Banas, Marnie Hill and Moira O. Kalichman

Rethinking One Health: Emergent human, animal and environmental assemblages

Alicia Davis and Jo Sharp

Perceived pathways between tourism gentrification and health: A participatory Photovoice study in the Gòtic neighborhood in Barcelona

Esther Sánchez-Ledesma, Hugo Vásquez-Vera, Natàlia Sagarra, Andrés Peralta, Victoria Porthé and Èlia Díez

Documenting the financialisation of the pharmaceutical industry

Joan Busfield

The knife's edge: Masculinities and precarity in East Africa

Danya Fast, David Bukusi and Eileen Moyer

“Talk about it:” changing masculinities and mental health in rural places?

Rachel V. Herron, Mairo Ahmadu, Jonathan A. Allan, Candice M. Waddell and Kerstin Roger

How do pregnant women and new mothers navigate and respond to challenges in accessing health care? Perspectives from rural South Africa

Christina A. Laurenzi, Sarah Skeen, Bronwyne J. Coetzee, Sarah Gordon, Vuyolwethu Notholi and Mark Tomlinson

Excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic: Early evidence from England and Wales

Sotiris Vandoros

A qualitative enquiry into the meaning and experiences of wellbeing among young people living with and without HIV in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Darshini Govindasamy, Giulia Ferrari, Kealeboga Maruping, Paidamoyo Bodzo, Catherine Mathews and Janet Seeley

Promoting BioPsychoSocial health of older adults using a Community for Successful Ageing program (ComSA) in Singapore: A mixed-methods evaluation

Su Aw, Gerald C.H. Koh, Chuen Seng Tan, Mee Lian Wong, Hubertus J.M. Vrijhoef, Susana Concordo Harding, Mary Ann B Geronimo and Zoe J.L. Hildon

Using local knowledge in emerging infectious disease research

Hampton Gray Gaddy

Long-lasting effects of distrust in government and science on mental health eight years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster

Maiko Fukasawa, Norito Kawakami, Maki Umeda, Tsuyoshi Akiyama, Naoko Horikoshi, Seiji Yasumura, Hirooki Yabe, Yuriko Suzuki and Evelyn J. Bromet

The trouble with IVF and randomised control trials: Professional legitimation narratives on time-lapse imaging and evidence-informed care

Manuela Perrotta and Alina Geampana

Epistemic virtues and data-driven dreams: On sameness and difference in the epistemic cultures of data science and psychiatry

Marthe Stevens, Rik Wehrens and Antoinette de Bont

Projected diagnosis, anticipatory medicine, and uncertainty: How medical providers ‘rule out’ potential pregnancy in contraceptive counseling

Eliza Brown

The structural vulnerability of healthcare workers during COVID-19: Observations on the social context of risk and the equitable distribution of resources

Catherine Smith

Sexual risk behaviors and the legacy of colonial violence among Northern plains American Indian youth: A mixed methods exploratory study

Mike Anastario, Paula FireMoon and Elizabeth Rink

Intersectional social control: The roles of incarceration and police discrimination in psychological and HIV-related outcomes for Black sexual minority men

Devin English, Joseph A. Carter, Lisa Bowleg, David J. Malebranche, Ali J. Talan and H. Jonathon Rendina

Soft drink consumption and mental health problems: Longitudinal relations in children and adolescents

Philipp Kadel, Sven Schneider and Jutta Mata

Psychological distress links perceived neighborhood characteristics to longitudinal trajectories of cognitive health in older adulthood

Neika Sharifian, Briana N. Spivey, Afsara B. Zaheed and Laura B. Zahodne

Effects of a trauma-informed curriculum on depression, self-efficacy, economic security, and substance use among TANF participants: Evidence from the Building Health and Wealth Network Phase II

Jerome Dugan, Layla G. Booshehri, Pam Phojanakong, Falguni Patel, Emily Brown, Sandra Bloom and Mariana Chilton

Considerations for employing intersectionality in qualitative health research

Jasmine A. Abrams, Ariella Tabaac, Sarah Jung and Nicole M. Else-Quest

Premature mortality in the US: A convergence study

Konstantinos Christopoulos and Konstantinos Eleftheriou

Managing patient preferences and clinical responses in acute pathophysiological deterioration: What do clinicians think treatment escalation plans do?

Carl May, Michelle Myall, Susi Lund, Natasha Campling, Sarah Bogle, Sally Dace and Alison Richardson