Social Science & Medicine

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2018, volume 219, articles C

Migration and depression: A cross-national comparison of Mexicans in sending communities and Durham, NC pp. 1-10

Edith Gutierrez-Vazquez, Chenoa Flippen and Emilio Parrado

Beyond fatalism: Information overload as a mechanism to understand health disparities pp. 11-18

A. Susana Ramírez and Kimberly Arellano Carmona

Tracking the Werther Effect on social media: Emotional responses to prominent suicide deaths on twitter and subsequent increases in suicide pp. 19-29

Robert A. Fahey, Tetsuya Matsubayashi and Michiko Ueda

The relationship between social capital and self-rated health: A gendered analysis of 17 European countries pp. 30-35

Sara Pinillos-Franco and Ichiro Kawachi

Epistemic struggles: The role of advocacy in promoting epistemic justice and rights in mental health pp. 36-44

Karen Newbigging and Julie Ridley

Professionalism lapses and hierarchies: A qualitative analysis of medical students' narrated acts of resistance pp. 45-53

Malissa Kay Shaw, Charlotte E. Rees, Nina Bjerre Andersen, Lori Faye Black and Lynn V. Monrouxe

Are you better off? Perceptions of social mobility and satisfaction with care among Latina immigrants in the U.S pp. 54-60

Sonia Mendoza, Adria N. Armbrister and Ana F. Abraído-Lanza

Distribution and disavowal: Managing the parental stigma of Children's weight and weight loss pp. 61-69

Jenny L. Davis, Carla Goar, Bianca Manago and Bobbi Reidinger

Managing type 1 diabetes in the context of work life: A matter of containment pp. 70-77

Ulla Møller Hansen, Bryan Cleal, Ingrid Willaing and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen

Depression in a depressed area: Deservingness, mental illness, and treatment in the contemporary rural U.S pp. 78-86

Claire Snell-Rood and Elizabeth Carpenter-Song

2018, volume 218, articles C

Communicating quantitative evidence of policy effectiveness and support for the policy: Three experimental studies pp. 1-12

J.P. Reynolds, M. Pilling and T.M. Marteau

Clinical forecasting: Towards a sociology of prognosis pp. 13-20

Stefan Timmermans and Tanya Stivers

Understanding barriers to health care access through cultural safety and ethical space: Indigenous people's experiences in Prince George, Canada pp. 21-27

Sarah E. Nelson and Kathi Wilson

Biographical suspension and liminality of Self in accounts of severe sciatica pp. 28-36

Benjamin Saunders, Bernadette Bartlam, Majid Artus and Kika Konstantinou

Personal subjectivity in clinician discussion about retirement from sport post-concussion pp. 37-44

Emily Kroshus, Christine M. Baugh, William P. Meehan and Kasisomayajula Viswanath

Conversations about pictorial cigarette pack warnings: Theoretical mechanisms of influence pp. 45-51

Jennifer C. Morgan, Shelley D. Golden, Seth M. Noar, Kurt M. Ribisl, Brian G. Southwell, Michelle Jeong, Marissa G. Hall and Noel T. Brewer

Avoiding a "big" baby: Local perceptions and social responses toward childbirth-related complications in Menabe, Madagascar pp. 52-61

Dolorès Pourette, Carole Pierlovisi, Ranjatiana Randriantsara, Elliot Rakotomanana and Chiarella Mattern

Does genetic risk for common adult diseases influence reproductive plans? Evidence from a national survey experiment in the United States pp. 62-68

Candas Pinar, Rene Almeling and Shana Kushner Gadarian

The co-construction of medical disposals in emergency medicine consultations pp. 69-81

Fiona Stevenson, Caroline Pelletier, William Gibson, Sophie Park and Vasilki Chrysikou

2018, volume 217, articles C

Rhetorical and regulatory boundary-work: The case of medical cannabis policy-making in Israel pp. 1-9

Dana Zarhin, Maya Negev, Simon Vulfsons and Sharon R. Sznitman

Evaluation of a teacher-led, life-skills intervention for secondary school students in Uganda pp. 10-17

John D. McMullen and Nadia McMullen

Richer, wiser and in better health? The socioeconomic gradient in hypertension prevalence, unawareness and control in South Africa pp. 18-30

Ranjeeta Thomas, Ronelle Burger and Katharina Hauck

The effect of affordable daycare on women's mental health: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial in rural India pp. 32-41

Robin A. Richardson, Sam Harper, Norbert Schmitz and Arijit Nandi

Neighborhood effects on body mass: Temporal and spatial dimensions pp. 45-54

Tse-Chuan Yang and Scott J. South

An analysis of the nutrition status of neighboring Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in Kanungu District, southwestern Uganda: Close proximity, distant health realities pp. 55-64

Jeffery Sauer, Lea Berrang-Ford, Kaitlin Patterson, Blanaid Donnelly, Shuaib Lwasa, Didas Namanya, Carol Zavaleta, James Ford and Sherilee Harper

Association between family members and risk of postpartum depression in Japan: Does “who they live with” matter? -The Japan environment and Children's study pp. 65-72

Kaori Honjo, Takashi Kimura, Sachiko Baba, Satoyo Ikehara, Naomi Kitano, Takuyo Sato and Hiroyasu Iso

The effect of job loss on pharmaceutical prescriptions pp. 73-83

Lorenzo Rocco, Angela Crema, Lorenzo Simonato and Laura Cestari

Long-term effects of disaster on depressive symptoms: Type of exposure matters pp. 84-91

Maureen Wilson-Genderson, Allison R. Heid and Rachel Pruchno

Prenatal exposure to air pollution and intergenerational economic mobility: Evidence from U.S. county birth cohorts pp. 92-96

Rourke L. O'Brien, Tiffany Neman, Kara Rudolph, Joan Casey and Atheendar Venkataramani

Before the here and now: What we can learn from variation in spatiotemporal patterns of changing heart disease mortality by age group, time period, and birth cohort pp. 97-105

Adam S. Vaughan, Linda Schieb, Harrison Quick, Michael R. Kramer and Michele Casper

Substance abuse in parents and subsequent risk of offspring psychiatric morbidity in late adolescence and early adulthood: A longitudinal analysis of siblings and their parents pp. 106-111

Pekka Martikainen, Kaarina Korhonen, Heta Moustgaard, Mikko Aaltonen and Hanna Remes

Unexpected death in ill old age: An analysis of disadvantaged dying in the English old population pp. 112-120

Diana Teggi

Exploring the relationship between sanitation and mental and social well-being: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis pp. 121-134

G.D. Sclar, G. Penakalapati, B.A. Caruso, E.A. Rehfuess, J.V. Garn, K.T. Alexander, M.C. Freeman, S. Boisson, K. Medlicott and T. Clasen

The impact of publicly subsidised health insurance on access, behavioural risk factors and disease management pp. 135-151

Marisa Miraldo, Carol Propper and Rachael I. Williams

Health of parents of individuals with developmental disorders or mental health problems: Impacts of stigma pp. 152-158

Jieun Song, Marsha R. Mailick and Jan S. Greenberg

2018, volume 216, articles C

The past is prologue? The long arc of childhood trauma in a multigenerational study of teen mothering pp. 1-9

Lee SmithBattle

Constraints to healthcare access among commercial fishers pp. 10-19

Rachel A. Turner, Lucy Szaboova and Gwynedd Williams

Equity of a government subsidised exercise referral scheme: A population study pp. 20-25

Melinda Craike, Glen Wiesner, Joanne Enticott, Jason A. Bennie and Stuart J.H. Biddle

Combining task shifting and community-based care to improve maternal health: Practical approaches and patient perceptions pp. 26-32

Jennifer J.F. Hosler, Jasmine A. Abrams and Surbhi Godsay

Parallel worlds: An ethnography of care in an Afghan maternity hospital pp. 33-40

Rachel Arnold, Edwin van Teijlingen, Kath Ryan and Immy Holloway

Public/private ownership and quality of care: Evidence from Danish nursing homes pp. 41-49

Ulf Hjelmar, Yosef Bhatti, Ole Helby Petersen, Tine Rostgaard and Karsten Vrangbæk

Heterogeneous effects of patient choice and hospital competition on mortality pp. 50-58

Giuseppe Moscelli, Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani and Rita Santos

Work environment mediates a large part of social inequalities in the incidence of several common cardiovascular risk factors: Findings from the Gazel cohort pp. 59-66

Pierre Meneton, Nicolas Hoertel, Emmanuel Wiernik, Cédric Lemogne, Céline Ribet, Sébastien Bonenfant, Joël Ménard, Marcel Goldberg and Marie Zins

Narratives of recovery after floods: Mental health, institutions, and intervention pp. 67-73

Catherine Butler, Kate Walker-Springett and W. Neil Adger

‘Recurrent losers unite’: Online forums, evidence-based activism, and pregnancy loss pp. 74-80

Olga Kuchinskaya and Lisa S. Parker

Watch for motorcycles! The effects of texting and handheld bans on motorcyclist fatalities pp. 81-87

Michael T. French and Gulcin Gumus

Parental recognition of preadolescent mental health problems: Does stigma matter? pp. 88-96

Alice P. Villatoro, Melissa J. DuPont-Reyes, Jo C. Phelan, Kirstin Painter and Bruce G. Link

Political cycles in physician employment: A case of Japanese local public hospitals pp. 97-106

Reo Takaku and Shun-ichiro Bessho

Social support and chronic disease management among older adults of Mexican heritage: A U.S.-Mexico perspective pp. 107-113

Arturo Vargas Bustamante, Mireya Vilar-Compte and Adriana Ochoa Lagunas

Racial discrimination and leukocyte glucocorticoid sensitivity: Implications for birth timing pp. 114-123

Shannon L. Gillespie and Cindy M. Anderson

Connection, meaning, and distraction: A qualitative study of video game play and mental health recovery in veterans treated for mental and/or behavioral health problems pp. 124-132

Michelle Colder Carras, Anna Kalbarczyk, Kurrie Wells, Jaime Banks, Rachel Kowert, Colleen Gillespie and Carl Latkin

Adolescents' multiple and individual risk behaviors: Examining the link with excessive sugar consumption across 26 industrialized countries pp. 133-141

Zlata Bruckauf and Sophie D. Walsh