Social Science & Medicine

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2018, volume 212, articles C

LGBT people and suicidality in youth: A qualitative study of perceptions of risk and protective circumstances pp. 1-8

Ian Rivers, Cesar Gonzalez, Nuno Nodin, Elizabeth Peel and Allan Tyler

‘A smile is most important.’ Why chains are not currently the answer to quality concerns in the Indian retail pharmacy sector pp. 9-16

Rosalind Miller, Eleanor Hutchinson and Catherine Goodman

The effects of culturally targeted patient decision aids on medical consultation preparation for Hispanic women in the U.S.: Results from four randomized experiments pp. 17-25

Dana L. Alden, John Friend, Liana Fraenkel and Maria Jibaja-Weiss

The 1967 Abortion Act fifty years on: Abortion, medical authority and the law revisited pp. 26-32

Ellie Lee, Sally Sheldon and Jan Macvarish

Friend or frenemy? Experiential homophily and educational track attrition among premedical students pp. 33-42

Matthew K. Grace

Complex narratives of health, stigma and control: Antimicrobial resistance screening among non-hospitalized refugees pp. 43-49

A. Kamenshchikova, P.F.G. Wolffs, C.J. Hoebe, J. Penders and K. Horstman

Legacy and social media respectively influence risk perceptions and protective behaviors during emerging health threats: A multi-wave analysis of communications on Zika virus cases pp. 50-59

Man-pui Sally Chan, Kenneth Winneg, Lauren Hawkins, Mohsen Farhadloo, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Dolores Albarracín

Rabies response, One Health and more-than-human considerations in Indigenous communities in northern Australia pp. 60-67

Chris Degeling, Victoria Brookes, Tess Lea and Michael Ward

Discursively framing physicians as leaders: Institutional work to reconfigure medical professionalism pp. 68-75

Mathilde A. Berghout, Lieke Oldenhof, Isabelle N. Fabbricotti and Carina G.J.M. Hilders

Rural - urban differences in determinants of patient satisfaction with primary care pp. 76-85

Ines Weinhold and Sebastian Gurtner

“Like you failed at life”: Debt, health and neoliberal subjectivity pp. 86-93

Elizabeth Sweet

How does psychiatric diagnosis affect young people's self-concept and social identity? A systematic review and synthesis of the qualitative literature pp. 94-119

Cliodhna O'Connor, Irini Kadianaki, Kristen Maunder and Fiona McNicholas

An interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people's self-harm in the context of interpersonal stressors and supports: Parents, peers, and clinical services pp. 120-128

Ruth Wadman, Panos Vostanis, Kapil Sayal, Pallab Majumder, Caroline Harroe, David Clarke, Marie Armstrong and Ellen Townsend

Experience of stigma and discrimination in families of persons with schizophrenia in the Czech Republic pp. 129-135

D. Krupchanka, D. Chrtková, M. Vítková, D. Munzel, M. Čihařová, T. Růžičková, P. Winkler, M. Janoušková, E. Albanese and N. Sartorius

The trade-off between equity and efficiency in population health gain: Making it real pp. 136-144

P. Sandiford, D. Vivas Consuelo, P. Rouse and D. Bramley

“We have to be mythbusters”: Clinician attitudes about the legitimacy of patient concerns and dissatisfaction with contraception pp. 145-152

Lindsay M. Stevens

Towards an interdisciplinary approach to wellbeing: Life histories and Self-Determination Theory in rural Zambia pp. 153-160

Sarah C. White and Shreya Jha

Ageing and dying in the contemporary neoliberal prison system: Exploring the ‘double burden’ for older prisoners pp. 161-167

Mary Turner, Marian Peacock, Sheila Payne, Andrew Fletcher and Katherine Froggatt

How and why studies disagree about the effects of education on health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies of compulsory schooling laws pp. 168-178

Rita Hamad, Holly Elser, Duy C. Tran, David H. Rehkopf and Steven N. Goodman

Supporting active school travel: A qualitative analysis of implementing a regional safe routes to school program pp. 181-190

Adrian N. Buttazzoni, Stephanie E. Coen and Jason A. Gilliland

Leveraging smallholder livestock production to reduce anemia: A qualitative study of three agroecological zones in Ghana pp. 191-202

Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Esi K. Colecraft, Raphael Baffour Awuah, Leonard Kofi Adjorlolo, Mark L. Wilson and Andrew D. Jones

Social capital interventions in public health: A systematic review pp. 203-218

E. Villalonga-Olives, T.R. Wind and I. Kawachi

Childhood socioeconomic status and genetic risk for poorer cognition in later life pp. 219-226

Sara M. Moorman, Kyle Carr and Emily A. Greenfield

2018, volume 211, articles C

Explaining the increasing disability prevalence among mid-life US adults, 2002 to 2016 pp. 1-8

Anna Zajacova and Jennifer Karas Montez

Effect of a conditional cash transfer program on length-for-age and weight-for-age in Brazilian infants at 24 months using doubly-robust, targeted estimation pp. 9-15

Jeremy A. Labrecque, Jay S. Kaufman, Laura B. Balzer, Richard F. Maclehose, Erin Strumpf, Alicia Matijasevich, Iná S. Santos, Kelen H. Schmidt and Aluísio J.D. Barros

The age-related patterns of preterm birth among urban African-American and non-Latina White mothers: The effect of paternal involvement pp. 16-20

Shayna D. Hibbs, Kristin M. Rankin, Carla DeSisto and James W. Collins

Cross-border ties, nativity, and inflammatory markers in a population-based prospective study of Latino adults pp. 21-30

Jacqueline M. Torres, Elissa S. Epel, Tu My To, Anne Lee, Allison E. Aiello and Mary N. Haan

Effectiveness of public health spending on infant mortality in Florida, 2001–2014 pp. 31-38

Patrick M. Bernet, Gulcin Gumus and Sharmila Vishwasrao

Identifying mental health problems and Idioms of distress among older adult internally displaced persons in Georgia pp. 39-47

Namrita S. Singh, Judith Bass, Nana Sumbadze, George Rebok, Paul Perrin, Nino Paichadze and W. Courtland Robinson

Disability as deprivation of capabilities: Estimation using a large-scale survey in Morocco and Tunisia and an instrumental variable approach pp. 48-60

Jean-Francois Trani, Parul Bakhshi, Derek Brown, Dominique Lopez and Fiona Gall

Negotiating acquired spinal conditions: Recovery with/in bodily materiality and fluids pp. 61-69

Jayne M. Jeffries

Denormalization, smoke-free air policy, and tobacco use among young adults pp. 70-77

Brian C. Kelly, Mike Vuolo, Laura C. Frizzell and Elaine M. Hernandez

Re-entry experiences of Black men living with HIV/AIDS after release from prison: Intersectionality and implications for care pp. 78-86

Shufang Sun, Natasha Crooks, Rebecca Kemnitz and Ryan P. Westergaard

The impact of ethnic density on dispensing of antipsychotic and antidepressant medication among immigrants in the Netherlands pp. 87-94

Fabian Termorshuizen, Eibert R. Heerdink and Jean-Paul Selten

Understanding the health and wellbeing challenges of the food banking system: A qualitative study of food bank users, providers and referrers in London pp. 95-101

C. Thompson, D. Smith and S. Cummins

Social capital, outpatient care utilization and choice between different levels of health facilities in rural and urban areas of Bhutan pp. 102-113

Chantal Herberholz and Sonam Phuntsho

Intended and unintended impacts of price changes for drugs and medical services: Evidence from China pp. 114-122

Hongqiao Fu, Ling Li and Winnie Yip

Data value and care value in the practice of health systems: A case study in Uganda pp. 123-130

Eleanor Hutchinson, Susan Nayiga, Christine Nabirye, Lilian Taaka and Sarah G. Staedke

Life satisfaction, QALYs, and the monetary value of health pp. 131-136

Li Huang, Paul Frijters, Kim Dalziel and Philip Clarke

Sex differential mediation effects of planning within the health behavior change process pp. 137-146

Daniela Lange, Milena Barz, Linda Baldensperger, Sonia Lippke, Nina Knoll and Ralf Schwarzer

The prevalence of persistence and related health status: An analysis of persistently high healthcare costs in the short term and medium term pp. 147-156

Thomas Longden, Chun Yee Wong, Philip Haywood, Jane Hall and Kees van Gool

Weibo friends with benefits for people live with HIV/AIDS? The implications of Weibo use for enacted social support, perceived social support and health outcomes pp. 157-163

Xi Han, Bei Li, Jiabin Qu and Qinghua Zhu

Comparing mortality risk reduction, life expectancy gains, and probability of achieving full life span, as alternatives for presenting CVD mortality risk reduction: A discrete choice study of framing risk and health behaviour change pp. 164-174

José M. Grisolía, Alberto Longo, George Hutchinson and Frank Kee

“There was no love there”: Intergenerational HIV disclosure, and late presentation for antiretroviral therapy in Northern Malawi pp. 175-182

Laura Sikstrom

Loneliness as a mediator of the relationship between shame and health problems in young people exposed to childhood violence pp. 183-189

Siri Thoresen, Helene Flood Aakvaag, Ida Frugård Strøm, Tore Wentzel-Larsen and Marianne Skogbrott Birkeland

Keeping secrets in the cloud: Mobile phones, data security and privacy within the context of pregnancy and childbirth in Tanzania pp. 190-197

Kristy M. Hackett, Mina Kazemi and Daniel W. Sellen

Ethnic and geographic variations in multimorbidty: Evidence from three large cohorts pp. 198-206

Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Ralph C. Ward, David J. Taber, Rebekah J. Walker, Mukoso Ozieh, Clara E. Dismuke, Robert N. Axon and Leonard E. Egede

Navigating the evidentiary turn in public health: Sensemaking strategies to integrate genomics into state-level chronic disease prevention programs pp. 207-215

Laura Senier, Leandra Smollin, Rachael Lee, Lauren Nicoll, Michael Shields and Catherine Tan

A cluster randomized trial of community mobilization to reduce methamphetamine use and HIV risk among youth in Thailand: Design, implementation and results pp. 216-223

Noya Galai, Bangorn Sirirojn, Apinun Aramrattana, Kamolrawee Srichan, Nicholas Thomson, Asieh Golozar, Jose M. Flores, Nancy Willard, Jonathan M. Ellen, Susan G. Sherman and David D. Celentano

Can external interventions crowd in intrinsic motivation? A cluster randomised field experiment on mandatory accreditation of general practice in Denmark pp. 224-233

Line Bjørnskov Pedersen, Merethe Kirstine Kousgaard Andersen, Ulrich Thy Jensen, Frans Boch Waldorff and Christian Bøtcher Jacobsen

Social representations of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and its prevention in narratives by young Africans from five countries, 1997–2014: Implications for communication pp. 234-242

Kate Winskell, Landy Kus, Gaëlle Sabben, Benjamin C. Mbakwem, Georges Tiéndrébéogo and Robyn Singleton

The influence of affective behavior on impression formation in interactions between black cancer patients and their oncologists pp. 243-250

Nicole Senft, Lauren M. Hamel, Louis A. Penner, Felicity W.K. Harper, Terrance L. Albrecht, Tanina Foster and Susan Eggly

Longitudinal associations between work-family conflict and enrichment, inter-parental conflict, and child internalizing and externalizing problems pp. 251-260

Andisheh Vahedi, Isabel Krug, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz and Elizabeth M. Westrupp

The effect of mobility on HIV-related healthcare access and use for female sex workers: A systematic review pp. 261-273

Calum Davey, Frances Cowan and James Hargreaves

Knowing less but presuming more: Dunning-Kruger effects and the endorsement of anti-vaccine policy attitudes pp. 274-281

Matthew Motta, Timothy Callaghan and Steven Sylvester

Objectively-assessed neighbourhood destination accessibility and physical activity in adults from 10 countries: An analysis of moderators and perceptions as mediators pp. 282-293

Ester Cerin, Terry L. Conway, Marc A. Adams, Anthony Barnett, Kelli L. Cain, Neville Owen, Lars B. Christiansen, Delfien van Dyck, Josef Mitáš, Olga L. Sarmiento, Rachel C. Davey, Rodrigo Reis, Deborah Salvo, Grant Schofield and James F. Sallis

Testing competing explanations for graphic warning label effects among adult smokers and non-smoking youth pp. 294-303

Chris Skurka, Sahara Byrne, Julie Davydova, Deena Kemp, Amelia Greiner Safi, Rosemary J. Avery, Michael C. Dorf, Alan Mathios and Jeff Niederdeppe

How do older people achieve well-being? Validation of the Social Production Function Instrument for the level of well-being–short (SPF-ILs) pp. 304-313

Anna P. Nieboer and Jane M. Cramm

Moral injury in relation to public debates: The role of societal misrecognition in moral conflict-colored trauma among soldiers pp. 314-320

Tine Molendijk

Beyond medical humanitarianism - Politics and humanitarianism in the figure of the Mīdānī physician pp. 321-329

Sophie E. Roborgh

When robots care: Public deliberations on how technology and humans may support independent living for older adults pp. 330-337

P. Lehoux and D. Grimard

Financial protection of households against health shocks in Greece during the economic crisis pp. 338-351

Athanasios E. Chantzaras and John N. Yfantopoulos

Embodied disruption: “Sorting out” gender and nonconformity in the doctor's office pp. 352-358

Emily Allen Paine

Quantifying life: Understanding the history of Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs) pp. 359-366

Eleanor MacKillop and Sally Sheard

Does more education cause lower BMI, or do lower-BMI individuals become more educated? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 pp. 370-377

Rebecca Benson, Paul T. von Hippel and Jamie L. Lynch