Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2019, volume 237, articles C

Diagnosis: From classification to prediction pp. -

David Armstrong

‘Homemade’: Building, mending, and coordinating a care network pp. -

Attila Bruni, Francesco Miele and Enrico Maria Piras

Precarious sleep? Nonstandard work, gender, and sleep disturbance in 31 European countries pp. -

Quan D. Mai, Anna W. Jacobs and Scott Schieman

Avoidable, amenable, and preventable mortalities in South Korea, 2000–2017: Age-period-cohort trends and impact on life expectancy at birth pp. -

Sang Jun Eun

Congruent relations between perceived neighbourhood social cohesion and depressive symptoms among older European adults: An East-West analysis pp. -

Milagros Ruiz, Sofia Malyutina, Andrzej Pajak, Magdalena Kozela, Ruzena Kubinova and Martin Bobak

A good “doctor” is hard to find: Assessing uncredentialed expertise in assisted injection pp. -

Sarah Brothers

The tools at their fingertips: How settler colonial geographies shape medical educators’ strategies for grappling with Anti-Indigenous racism pp. -

Paul Sylvestre, Heather Castleden, Jeff Denis, Debbie Martin and Amy Bombay

Close relationships as a contributor to chronic pain pathogenesis: Predicting pain etiology and persistence pp. -

Sarah B. Woods, Jacob B. Priest, Veronica Kuhn and Tara Signs

Father involvement in the first year of life: Associations with maternal mental health and child development outcomes in rural Pakistan pp. -

Joanna Maselko, Ashley K. Hagaman, Lisa M. Bates, Sonia Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli, John A. Gallis, Karen O'Donnell, Siham Sikander, Elizabeth L. Turner and Atif Rahman

Why mental disorders flourish and wither: Extending the theory of ecological niches pp. -

Baptiste Brossard

Community disadvantage, inequalities in adolescent subjective well-being, and local social relations: The role of positive and negative social interactions pp. -

James Laurence

The contribution of mental health and gender attitudes to intimate partner violence in the context of war and displacement: Evidence from a multi-informant couple survey in Iraq pp. -

Katharina Goessmann, Hawkar Ibrahim, Laura Bebra Saupe, Azad Ali Ismail and Frank Neuner

The moralization of obesity pp. -

Megan M. Ringel and Peter H. Ditto

Does economic recession impact newborn health? Evidence from Greece pp. -

Ilias Kyriopoulos, Zlatko Nikoloski and Elias Mossialos

Public preferences for health care facilities in rural China: A discrete choice experiment pp. -

Yun Liu, Qingxia Kong and Esther W. de Bekker-Grob

Learning from partnership tensions in transcultural interdisciplinary case discussion seminars: A qualitative study of collaborative youth mental health care informed by game theory pp. -

Janique Johnson-Lafleur, Garine Papazian-Zohrabian and Cécile Rousseau

Measuring, valuing and including forgone childhood education and leisure time costs in economic evaluation: Methods, challenges and the way forward pp. -

Lazaros Andronis, Mandy Maredza and Stavros Petrou

Executive function and probabilities of engaging in long-term sedentary and high calorie/low nutrition eating behaviors in early adolescence pp. -

Christopher Cappelli, James Russell Pike, Nathaniel R. Riggs, Christopher M. Warren and Mary Ann Pentz

Associations between school and neighbourhood ethnic density and physical activity in adolescents: Evidence from the Olympic Regeneration in East London (ORiEL) study pp. -

Nicolas Berger, Daniel Lewis, Matteo Quartagno, Edmund Njeru Njagi and Steven Cummins

Feeling misidentified: Understanding migrant's readiness to engage in health care screening pp. -

Jane Hendy, Tushna Vandrevala, Ayesha Ahmed, Claire Kelly, Lucy Gray and Aftab Ala

Cuts without conflict: The use of political strategy in local health system retrenchment in Sweden pp. -

Mio Fredriksson, Inga-Britt Gustafsson and Ulrika Winblad

Getting what you deserve: How notions of deservingness feature in the experiences of employees with cancer pp. -

Jen Remnant

Research on media framing of public policies to prevent chronic disease: A narrative synthesis pp. -

Samantha Rowbotham, Merryn McKinnon, Leah Marks and Penelope Hawe

Social identity differentiation predicts commitment to sobriety and wellbeing in residents of therapeutic communities pp. -

Genevieve A. Dingle, Catherine Haslam, David Best, Gary Chan, Petra K. Staiger, Michael Savic, Melinda Beckwith, Jock Mackenzie, Ramez Bathish and Dan I. Lubman

Relationship satisfaction, communication self-efficacy, and chronic fatigue syndrome-related fatigue pp. -

Sara F. Milrad, Daniel L. Hall, Devika R. Jutagir, Emily G. Lattie, Sara J. Czaja, Dolores M. Perdomo, Gail Ironson, Brian D. Doss, Armando Mendez, Mary Ann Fletcher, Nancy Klimas and Michael H. Antoni

From courts to markets: New evidence on enforcement of pharmaceutical bans in India pp. -

Chirantan Chatterjee, Debi Prasad Mohapatra and Manuel Estay

Terrorism and early childhood health outcomes: Evidence from Pakistan pp. -

Daniel Grossman, Umair Khalil and Arijit Ray

Cancer, chemotherapy, and HIV: Living with cancer amidst comorbidity in a South African township pp. -

Emily Mendenhall, Edna N. Bosire, Andrew Wooyoung Kim and Shane A. Norris

Mind-body therapy use and magical thinking pp. -

Laura G. Kiken

2019, volume 236, articles C

How community and healthcare provider perceptions, practices and experiences influence reporting, disclosure and data collection on stillbirth: Findings of a qualitative study in Afghanistan pp. -

Aliki Christou, Ashraful Alam, Sayed Murtaza Sadat Hofiani, Mohammad Hafiz Rasooly, Adela Mubasher, Mohammad Khakerah Rashidi, Michael J. Dibley and Camille Raynes-Greenow

Cultural engagement and mental health: Does socio-economic status explain the association? pp. -

Daisy Fancourt and Andrew Steptoe

Political ideology and health risk perceptions of food pp. -

Benjamin Boeuf

Social capital and physical health: An updated review of the literature for 2007–2018 pp. -

Justin Rodgers, Anna V. Valuev, Yulin Hswen and S.V. Subramanian

Disentangling public preferences for health gains at end-of-life: Further evidence of no support of an end-of-life premium pp. -

Lise Desireé Hansen and Trine Kjær

How do actors with asymmetrical power assert authority in policy agenda-setting? A study of authority claims by health actors in trade policy pp. -

Belinda Townsend, Ashley Schram, Ronald Labonté, Fran Baum and Sharon Friel

Personality trait predictors and mental well-being correlates of exercise frequency across the academic semester pp. -

Lara Kroencke, Gabriella M. Harari, Marko Katana and Samuel D. Gosling

Perceived discrimination and risk of preterm birth among Turkish immigrant women in Germany pp. -

Laura Scholaske, Annette Brose, Jacob Spallek and Sonja Entringer

Public acceptability of nudging and taxing to reduce consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and food: A population-based survey experiment pp. -

J.P. Reynolds, S. Archer, M. Pilling, M. Kenny, G.J. Hollands and T.M. Marteau

Spatial access to sport facilities from the multiple places visited and sport practice: Assessing and correcting biases related to selective daily mobility pp. -

Samjhana Shrestha, Yan Kestens, Frédérique Thomas, Tarik El Aarbaoui and Basile Chaix

U.S. combat veterans’ responses to suicide and combat deaths: A mixed-methods study pp. -

Pauline Lubens and Roxane Cohen Silver

2019, volume 235, articles C

Well-off but powerless? Status incongruence and psychological well-being in contemporary China pp. -

Lei Jin, Tony Tam and Lin Tao

Six mechanisms behind carer wellbeing effects: A qualitative study of healthcare delivery pp. -

Hareth Al-Janabi, Carol McLoughlin, Jan Oyebode, Nikolaos Efstathiou and Melanie Calvert

On being outdoors: How people with dementia experience and deal with vulnerabilities pp. -

Ruth Bartlett and Tula Brannelly

Drug use in the year after prison pp. -

Bruce Western and Jessica T. Simes

Does social capital and a healthier lifestyle increase mental health resilience to disability acquisition? Group-based discrete trajectory mixture models of pre-post longitudinal data pp. -

A.H.M. Mehbub Anwar, Thomas Astell-Burt and Xiaoqi Feng

Relationship between healthcare utilization and household out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure: Evidence from an emerging economy with a free healthcare policy pp. -

Ajantha Sisira Kumara and Ramanie Samaratunge

The symbolic mediation of patient trust: Transnational health-seeking among Indian-Australians pp. -

Andrew Simon Gilbert, Josefine Antoniades and Bianca Brijnath

Impact of China's referral reform on the equity and spatial accessibility of healthcare resources: A case study of Beijing pp. -

Chen Lu, Zixiao Zhang and Xiuting Lan

Do variations in hospital admission rates bias comparisons of standardized hospital mortality rates? A population-based cohort study pp. -

Rachel Meacock, Laura Anselmi, Søren Kristensen, Tim Doran and Matt Sutton

First do No harm: Medical legal violence and immigrant health in Coral County, USA pp. -

Meredith Van Natta

Impact of improved price transparency on patients' demand of healthcare services pp. -

Daiki Kobayashi, Rei Goto and Yusuke Tsugawa

Details matter: Physician responses to multiple payments for the same activity pp. -

Yan Feng and Hugh Gravelle

Working time mismatches and self-assessed health of married couples: Evidence from Germany pp. -

Anthony Lepinteur

Age, period, cohort trends of suicide in Japan and Korea (1986–2015): A tale of two countries pp. -

Shiho Kino, Soong-nang Jang, Krisztina Gero, Soichiro Kato and Ichiro Kawachi

Workplace violence in Bangladesh's garment industry pp. -

Andrew Gibbs, Rachel Jewkes, Samantha Willan, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Kausar Parvin, Marat Yu and Ruchira Naved

Behaviour settings theory applied to domestic water use in Nigeria: A new conceptual tool for the study of routine behaviour pp. -

Val Curtis, Robert Dreibelbis, Helen Buxton, Nancy Izang, Dara Adekunle and Robert Aunger

Associations between experiences of disrupted attachments and suicidal thoughts and behaviours: An interpretative phenomenological analysis pp. -

Tiago C. Zortea, Adele Dickson, Cindy M. Gray and Rory C. O'Connor

Rising educational gradients in mortality among U.S. whites: What are the roles of marital status and educational homogamy? pp. -

Wen Fan and Yue Qian

Educational expansion and health disparities in Ethiopia, 2005–2016 pp. -

Jeong Hyun Oh

Invisible work and changing roles: Health information technology implementation and reorganization of work practices for the inpatient nursing team pp. -

Meredith R. Bergey, Jennifer C. Goldsack and Edmondo J. Robinson

Doing evidence-based medicine? How NHS managers ration high-cost drugs pp. -

David Hughes and Shane Doheny

From boundary object to boundary subject; the role of the patient in coordination across complex systems of care during hospital discharge pp. -

Simon Bishop and Justin Waring

Socio-economic patterning of expenditures on ‘out-of-home’ food and non-alcoholic beverages by product and place of purchase in Britain pp. -

Laura Cornelsen, Nicolas Berger, Steven Cummins and Richard D. Smith

Dynamic, data-driven typologies of long-term smoking, cessation, and their correlates: Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Netherlands Survey pp. -

Valéria Lima Passos, Rik Crutzen, Johannes T. Feder, Marc C. Willemsen, Paul Lemmens and Karin Hummel

Ethnic discordance: Why do some patients prefer to be treated by physicians from other ethnic groups? pp. -

Yael Keshet

Internal migration and child health in Malawi pp. -

Philip Anglewicz, Rachel Kidman and Sangeetha Madhavan

“I don't see gender”: Conceptualizing a gendered system of academic publishing pp. -

Jamie Lundine, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Ketevan Glonti, Eleanor Hutchinson and Dina Balabanova

Climate shock: Moving to colder climates and immigrant mortality pp. -

Eran Shor and David Roelfs

Tracing medicinal agencies: Antidepressants and life-effects pp. -

Minna Ruckenstein

The psychological burden of baby weight: Pregnancy, weight stigma, and maternal health pp. -

Angela C. Incollingo Rodriguez, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Alexandra Brewis and A. Janet Tomiyama

Interpersonal trust in doctor-patient relation: Evidence from dyadic analysis and association with quality of dyadic communication pp. -

S. Petrocchi, P. Iannello, F. Lecciso, A. Levante, A. Antonietti and P.J. Schulz