Social Science & Medicine

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2018, volume 215, articles C

Family socioeconomic status and maternal depressive symptoms: Mediation through household food insecurity across five years pp. 1-6

Qiong Wu, Robin L. Harwood and Xin Feng

Measuring income for catastrophic cost estimates: Limitations and policy implications of current approaches pp. 7-15

Sedona Sweeney, Rachel Mukora, Sophie Candfield, Lorna Guinness, Alison D. Grant and Anna Vassall

Forecasting and foreclosing futures: The temporal dissonance of advance care directives pp. 16-22

Tanya Zivkovic

An experimental investigation into the transmission of antivax attitudes using a fictional health controversy pp. 23-27

Ángel V. Jiménez, Joseph M. Stubbersfield and Jamshid J. Tehrani

Policy, paperwork and ‘postographs’: Global indicators and maternity care documentation in rural Burkina Faso pp. 28-35

Andrea Melberg, Abdoulaye Hama Diallo, Katerini T. Storeng, Thorkild Tylleskär and Karen Marie Moland

Digitized patient–provider interaction: How does it matter? A qualitative meta-synthesis pp. 36-44

Hege K. Andreassen, Kari Dyb, Carl R. May, Catherine J. Pope and Line L. Warth

Mass incarceration, race inequality, and health: Expanding concepts and assessing impacts on well-being pp. 45-52

Kim M. Blankenship, Ana Maria del Rio Gonzalez, Danya E. Keene, Allison K. Groves and Alana P. Rosenberg

A life in waiting: Refugees' mental health and narratives of social suffering after European Union border closures in March 2016 pp. 53-60

Pia Juul Bjertrup, Malika Bouhenia, Philippe Mayaud, Clément Perrin, Jihane Ben Farhat and Karl Blanchet

“We were on our own”: Mothers' experiences navigating the fragmented system of professional care for autism pp. 61-68

Alexandra Brewer

Adolescents in crisis: A geographic exploration of help-seeking behavior using data from Crisis Text Line pp. 69-79

Laura K. Thompson, Margaret M. Sugg and Jennifer R. Runkle

The complexities and contradictions in participatory research with vulnerable children and young people: A qualitative systematic review pp. 80-91

Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Louise Isham and Julie Taylor

Investigating inequities in hospital care among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals using social media pp. 92-97

Yulin Hswen, Kara C. Sewalk, Emily Alsentzer, Gaurav Tuli, John S. Brownstein and Jared B. Hawkins

Attitudes toward alcohol use during pregnancy among women recruited from alcohol-serving venues in Cape Town, South Africa: A mixed-methods study pp. 98-106

Olivia V. Fletcher, Philip A. May, Soraya Seedat, Kathleen J. Sikkema and Melissa H. Watt

Gender and the language of pain in chronic and terminal illness: A corpus-based discourse analysis of patients' narratives pp. 107-114

Sylvia Jaworska and Kath Ryan

Inequality and health among foreign-born latinos in rural borderland communities pp. 115-122

Ann M. Cheney, Christine Newkirk, Katheryn Rodriguez and Anselmo Montez

Validation of a new continuous geographic isolation scale: A tool for rural health disparities research pp. 123-132

Nathan J. Doogan, Megan E. Roberts, Mary Ellen Wewers, Erin R. Tanenbaum, Elizabeth A. Mumford and Frances A. Stillman

Ambivalence in digital health: Co-designing an mHealth platform for HIV care pp. 133-141

Benjamin Marent, Flis Henwood and Mary Darking

Sociocultural dynamics that influence Chagas disease health care in Colombia pp. 142-150

Adriana Gisela Martínez-Parra, Maria Yaneth Pinilla-Alfonso and César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero

“We've all had patients who've died …”: Narratives of emotion and ideals of competence among junior doctors pp. 152-159

Sophie Crowe and Ruairi Brugha

2018, volume 214, articles C

A tale of two Harlems: Gentrification, social capital, and implications for aging in place pp. 1-11

H. Shellae Versey

The impact of different types of informal caregiving on cognitive functioning of older caregivers: Evidence from a longitudinal, population-based study in Germany pp. 12-19

Larissa Zwar, Hans-Helmut König and André Hajek

Current and past depressive symptoms and contraceptive effectiveness level method selected among women seeking reproductive health services pp. 20-25

Julia R. Steinberg, Nancy E. Adler, Kirsten M. Thompson, Carolyn Westhoff and Cynthia C. Harper

“Without any indication”: stigma and a hidden curriculum within medical students' discussion of elective abortion pp. 26-34

Benjamin Elliot Yelnosky Smith, Deborah Bartz, Alisa B. Goldberg and Elizabeth Janiak

Experiences of weightism among sexual minority men: Relationships with Body Mass Index, body dissatisfaction, and psychological quality of life pp. 35-40

Scott Griffiths, Leah Brennan, Beth O'Gorman, William C. Goedel, Jeanie Sheffield, Brock Bastian and Fiona Kate Barlow

Is the relationship between subjective age, depressive symptoms and activities of daily living bidirectional? pp. 41-48

Isla Rippon and Andrew Steptoe

Does spirituality reduce the impact of somatic symptoms on distress in cancer patients? Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings pp. 57-66

Anja Visser, Eltica C. de Jager Meezenbroek and Bert Garssen

The effect of unstable housing on HIV treatment biomarkers: An instrumental variables approach pp. 70-82

Omar Galarraga, Aadia Rana, Momotazur Rahman, Mardge Cohen, Adaora A. Adimora, Oluwakemi Sosanya, Susan Holman, Seble Kassaye, Joel Milam, Jennifer Cohen, Elizabeth T. Golub, Lisa R. Metsch and Mirjam-Colette Kempf

‘When I don't have money to buy the drugs, I just manage.’—Exploring the lived experience of persons with physical disabilities in accessing primary health care services in rural Ghana pp. 83-90

Ebenezer Dassah, Heather M. Aldersey, Mary Ann McColl and Colleen Davison

Narrative storytelling as mental health support for women experiencing gender-based violence in Afghanistan pp. 91-98

Jenevieve Mannell, Lida Ahmad and Ayesha Ahmad

Crises and mortality: Does the level of unemployment matter? pp. 99-109

Ioannis Laliotis and Charitini Stavropoulou

Marital infidelity, food insecurity, and couple instability: A web of challenges for dyadic coordination around antiretroviral therapy pp. 110-117

Amy A. Conroy, Stacey A. McKenna, Megan L. Comfort, Lynae A. Darbes, Judy Y. Tan and James Mkandawire

Preference heterogeneity with respect to whole genome sequencing. A discrete choice experiment among parents of children with rare genetic diseases pp. 125-132

Christine Peyron, Aurore Pélissier and Sophie Béjean

Mental health and the jilted generation: Using age-period-cohort analysis to assess differential trends in young people's mental health following the Great Recession and austerity in England pp. 133-143

Rachel M. Thomson and Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi

Risk attitudes of people with ‘manageable’ chronic disease: An analysis under prospect theory pp. 144-153

Thomas Rouyard, Arthur Attema, Richard Baskerville, José Leal and Alastair Gray

Positive mental health and supportive school environments: A population-level longitudinal study of dispositional optimism and school relationships in early adolescence pp. 154-161

Eva Oberle, Martin Guhn, Anne M. Gadermann, Kimberly Thomson and Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl

How might neighborhood built environment influence child maltreatment? Caregiver perceptions pp. 171-178

Bridget M. Haas, Kristen A. Berg, Megan M. Schmidt-Sane, Jill E. Korbin and James C. Spilsbury

The impact of intergenerational financial transfers on health and wellbeing outcomes: A longitudinal study pp. 179-186

Rachel Ong ViforJ, Toan Nguyen and Garth Kendall

Parents who exit and parents who enter. Family structure transitions, child psychological health, and early drinking pp. 187-196

M. Pasqualini, D. Lanari and Luca Pieroni

Do rural incentives payments affect entries and exits of general practitioners? pp. 197-205

Jongsay Yong, Anthony Scott, Hugh Gravelle, Peter Sivey and Matthew McGrail

Varied patterns of catch-up in child growth: Evidence from Young Lives pp. 206-213

Paul Anand, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang and Sam Jones

2018, volume 213, articles C

Frailty in older-age European migrants: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) pp. 1-11

G.J. Walkden, E.L. Anderson, M.P. Vink, K. Tilling, L.D. Howe and Y. Ben-Shlomo

Healthy behaviours and productive activities among Thai older adults: A repeated cross-sectional analysis pp. 12-19

Nopphol Witvorapong

It's the mother!: How assumptions about the causal primacy of maternal effects influence research on the developmental origins of health and disease pp. 20-27

Gemma C. Sharp, Deborah A. Lawlor and Sarah S. Richardson

Adaptations of the evidence-based Transitional Care Model in the U.S pp. 28-36

Mary D. Naylor, Karen B. Hirschman, Mark P. Toles, Olga F. Jarrín, Elizabeth Shaid and Mark V. Pauly

Pathogenic or health-promoting? How food is framed in healthy living media for women pp. 37-44

Alexandra Rodney

Towards an integrated framework for understanding the links between inequalities and wellbeing of places in low and middle income countries pp. 45-53

Joseph Kangmennaang and Susan J. Elliott

Just relax and you'll get pregnant? Meta-analysis examining women's emotional distress and the outcome of assisted reproductive technology pp. 54-62

Jennifer Nicoloro-SantaBarbara, Cheyanne Busso, Anne Moyer and Marci Lobel

Education is the antidote: Individual- and community-level effects of maternal education on child immunizations in Nigeria pp. 63-71

Rebekah Burroway and Andrew Hargrove

Why do people living with HIV not initiate treatment? A systematic review of qualitative evidence from low- and middle-income countries pp. 72-84

Shahira Ahmed, Jessica Autrey, Ingrid T. Katz, Matthew P. Fox, Sydney Rosen, Dorina Onoya, Till Bärnighausen, Kenneth H. Mayer and Jacob Bor

The reasoned action approach applied to health behavior: Role of past behavior and tests of some key moderators using meta-analytic structural equation modeling pp. 85-94

Martin S. Hagger, Juho Polet and Taru Lintunen

Policing the profession? Regulatory reform, restratification and the emergence of Responsible Officers as a new locus of power in UK medicine pp. 98-105

Marie Bryce, Kayleigh Luscombe, Alan Boyd, Abigail Tazzyman, John Tredinnick-Rowe, Kieran Walshe and Julian Archer

Community participation in general health initiatives in high and upper-middle income countries: A systematic review exploring the nature of participation, use of theories, contextual drivers and power relations in community participation pp. 106-122

Fiona Leh Hoon Chuah, Aastha Srivastava, Shweta Rajkumar Singh, Victoria Haldane, Gerald Choon Huat Koh, Chia Kee Seng, David McCoy and Helena Legido-Quigley

The developmental origins of health and disease in international perspective pp. 123-133

Steven A. Haas and Katsuya Oi

Inequality in access to health care, health insurance and the role of supply factors pp. 134-145

Meliyanni Johar, Prastuti Soewondo, Retno Pujisubekti, Harsa Kunthara Satrio and Ardi Adji

Between empowerment and self-discipline: Governing patients' conduct through technological self-care pp. 146-153

Dimitra Petrakaki, Eva Hilberg and Justin Waring

Using path analysis to investigate the relationships between standardized instruments that measure health-related quality of life, capability wellbeing and subjective wellbeing: An application in the context of spinal cord injury pp. 154-164

Lidia Engel, Stirling Bryan, Vanessa K. Noonan and David G.T. Whitehurst

Why smokers avoid cigarette pack risk messages: Two randomized clinical trials in the United States pp. 165-172

Marissa G. Hall, Jennifer R. Mendel, Seth M. Noar and Noel T. Brewer

The use of video vignettes to measure health worker knowledge. Evidence from Burkina Faso pp. 173-180

Sheheryar Banuri, Damien de Walque, Philip Keefer, Ousmane Diadie Haidara, Paul Jacob Robyn and Maurice Ye

“Anywhere but here": Querying spatial stigma as a social determinant of health among youth of color accessing LGBTQ services in Chicago's Boystown pp. 181-189

Jennifer K. Felner, Terry D. Dudley and Jesus Ramirez-Valles

Six dimensions of research trial acceptability: how much, what, when, in what circumstances, to whom and why? pp. 190-198

Kate Gooding, Mackwellings Phiri, Ingrid Peterson, Michael Parker and Nicola Desmond

A mixed methods systematic review of studies examining the relationship between housing and health for people from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds pp. 199-219

Anna Ziersch and Clemence Due