Social Science & Medicine

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2024, volume 359, articles C

Understanding the roles of Alternative Rites of Passage and Public Declarations in FGM/C abandonment: An ethnographic study among the Loita Maasai, Kenya

Hannelore Van Bavel, Seleyian Agnes Partoip, Hellen Topishia Koyie, Sylvester Parkiswa, Daniel Maibayu and Samuel Kimani

Use of a “baby bottle” to allow a “better-than-nothing” death in older adults infected by COVID-19 in Quebec retirement homes – A case study

Andréanne Robitaille, Pierre Marie David and Johanne Collin

The political stakes of cancer epistemics

Shagufta Bhangu, Violeta Argudo-Portal, Luiz Alves Araújo Neto, Thandeka Cochrane, Masha Denisova and Nickolas Surawy-Stepney

Conformity to masculine norms and its association with drinking behaviors and alcohol-related consequences among adult men: A meta-analysis

Byron L. Zamboanga, Amie R. Newins, Kayla Ford and Jessica K. Perrotte

The role of primary healthcare amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the Family Health Strategy in Brazil

Adriano Dutra Teixeira, Fernando Antonio Postali, Natalia Nunes Ferreira-Batista, Maria Dolores Diaz and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra

Social media delivered mental health campaigns and public service announcements: A systematic literature review of public engagement and help-seeking behaviours

Adriana Draganidis, Anne Nileshni Fernando, Madeline L. West and Gemma Sharp

Violent conflict and the demand for healthcare: How armed conflict reduces trust, instills fear, and increases child mortality

Max Schaub

Balancing the scales? Evaluating the impact of results-based financing on maternal health outcomes and related inequality of opportunity in Zimbabwe

Marshall Makate

Anticipated prehospital decision delay in response to different symptom clusters in acute coronary syndrome: Results from the Spanish Cardiobarometer study

Dafina Petrova, Dunia Garrido, Andrés Catena, José Antonio Ramírez-Hernández, Mitti Blakoe, Nicolás Francisco Fernández-Martínez, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, María José Sánchez and Rocio Garcia-Retamero

Access to natural green spaces and their associations with psychological wellbeing for South Asian people in the UK: A systematic literature review

Mohammed Hamza, Rachael C. Edwards, Jordan D. Beaumont, Laura De Pretto and Alison Torn

“The chaos of not knowing”: Embodied experiences of waiting for public housing redevelopment and relocation

Marisa Westbrook, Solange Muñoz and Jeremy Auerbach

Early-life socioeconomic position and later-life cognitive functioning: A meta-analysis

Hanamori F. Skoblow, Christine M. Proulx, Rahmet Akpolat and Francisco Palermo

Corrigendum to “Experiences of loneliness in lower- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of qualitative studies”[Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 340, January 2024, 116438]

Samia C. Akhter-Khan, Willemijn van Es, Matthew Prina, Vanessa Lawrence, Ilayda Piri, Ami Rokach, Luzia C. Heu and Rosie Mayston

Well-informed or misinformed? News-Finds-Me perception in shaping sexual and reproductive health knowledge and behavioral intentions among Chinese women

Lianshan Zhang, Piper Liping Liu, Chervin Lam and Zhongwei Huang

Introduction to: Unequal care: Trans medicine and health in dangerous times

Stef M. Shuster, Carla A. Pfeffer and Anna Kirkland

Decomposition of the wealth gradient in maternal healthcare quality in low- and middle-income countries

Gil Shapira, Sven Neelsen and Patrick Hoang-Vu Eozenou

Artificial intelligence and the politics of avoidance in global health

Leah Shipton and Lucia Vitale

Socioeconomic position during pregnancy and pre-school exposome in children from eight European birth cohort studies

Costanza Pizzi, Giovenale Moirano, Chiara Moccia, Milena Maule, Antonio D'Errico, Martine Vrijheid, Timothy J. Cadman, Serena Fossati, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Andrea Beneito, Lucinda Calas, Liesbeth Duijts, Ahmed Elhakeem, Jennifer R. Harris, Barbara Heude, Vincent Jaddoe, Deborah A. Lawlor, Sandrine Lioret, Rosemary RC. McEachan, Johanna L. Nader, Marie Pedersen, Angela Pinot de Moira, Katrine Strandberg-Larsen, Mikel Subiza-Pérez, Marina Vafeiadi, Marieke Welten, John Wright, Tiffany C. Yang and Lorenzo Richiardi

Feasibility of big data analytics in disaster psychiatry: Impact of Seoul Itaewon tragedy on sentiment distribution on Twitter

Junhyung Kim, Myung Ki, Jihooon Yang, Cheolwoong Na, Jinseop Kim and Changsu Han

Impacts of women's work and childcare on child illness among Bangladeshi Shodagor communities

Kathrine Starkweather, Monica Keith, Fatema tuz Zohora and Nurul Alam

Indirect victims of violence: Mental health and the close relatives of serious assault victims in England

Elizabeth A. Cook and Sally McManus

Convalescing from SAM: The pitfalls and possibilities of caring for vulnerable children in Harare's high-density neighbourhoods

Tim Brown, Kavita Datta, Shamiso Fernando, Jacqueline Kabongo, Andrew J. Prendergast and Mutsa Bwakura-Dangarembizi

Mobility ideation due to water problems during historic 2022 drought associated with livestock wealth, water and food insecurity, and fingernail cortisol concentration in northern Kenya

Asher Y. Rosinger, Justin Stoler, Leslie B. Ford, Amanda McGrosky, Srishti Sadhir, Matthew Ulrich, Madeleine Todd, Nicole Bobbie, Rosemary Nzunza, David R. Braun, Emmanuel K. Ndiema, Matthew J. Douglass and Herman Pontzer

Instant messengers and health professionals’ agency in Russian clinical settings

Ekaterina Borozdina

The Googling Effect on patient co-creation in physiotherapy service exchange

Waheed Akbar Bhatti, Agnieszka Chwialkowska, Nazim Hussain and Mario Glowik

Persistent low job control and subsequent major depression: A prospective cohort study of Australian working males

Yamna Taouk, Zoe Aitken, Anthony D. LaMontagne and Tania King

“My children will grow up more healthy than me because of the vaccinations they received”: Using the migrant health trajectory model to understand Vietnamese American parents’ attitudes towards vaccinations and the U.S. healthcare system

Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu

Prevalence, incidence, and recovery of metabolic syndrome after the fukushima nuclear power plant disaster: A 10-year longitudinal study

Maiko Fukasawa, Atsushi Shirafuji, Enbo Ma, Kenta Matsuzaki and Tetsuya Ohira

Reconfiguration of uncertainty: Introducing AI for prediction of mortality at the emergency department

Daniel Tyskbo and Jens Nygren

2024, volume 358, articles C

Individual, social and area level factors associated with older people's walking: Analysis of an UK household panel study (Understanding Society)

Jonathan R. Olsen, Elise Whitley, Emily Long, Benjamin P. Rigby, Laura Macdonald, Grace O. Dibben, Victoria J. Palmer, Michaela Benzeval, Kirstin Mitchell, Mark McCann, Martin Anderson, Meigan Thomson, Laurence Moore and Sharon A. Simpson

Prevention of, and response to, sexual harassment at secondary school: A system map

Carolyn Blake, Ruth Lewis, Julie Riddell, Malachi Willis, Laura Wylie, Kathryn Dawson, Laurence Moore and Kirstin R. Mitchell

Resistance and the regimen: The microthanatopolitics of Venezuelan antiretroviral scarcity and HIV drug adherence failures

Rebecca Irons

Why some homeless individuals are unsheltered: A narrative review of self-reported reasons

Jack Tsai, Gabrielle Haley and Rebecca L. Kinney

Transgender lives at the population level: Evidence from Danish administrative data

Morten Kjær Thomsen, Matvei Andersen and Jane Greve

Navigating artificial intelligence in care homes: Competing stakeholder views of trust and logics of care

Barbara Barbosa Neves, Maho Omori, Alan Petersen, Mor Vered and Adrian Carter

Did the COVID-19 pandemic reshape equity in healthcare use in Europe?

Louis Arnault, Florence Jusot and Thomas Renaud

Communication quality predicts patients’ colorectal cancer screening behavior

Allison M. Scott, Lauren Jodi Van Scoy, Vernon M. Chinchilli, Mack T. Ruffin, Emily Wasserman and Masahito Jimbo

Trajectories of sleep problems and the longitudinal associations with mental health difficulties among Chinese adolescents

Xiaoting Liu

The role of Contact-Tracing Mobile Apps in pandemic prevention: A multidisciplinary perspective on health beliefs, social, and technological factors

Imed Ben Nasr, Galina Kondrateva, Tatiana Khvatova and Wissal Ben Arfi

Impact of the South African Child Support Grant on memory decline and dementia probability in rural and low-income mothers, 2014–2021

Erika T. Beidelman, Rishika Chakraborty, Janet Jock, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Meredith L. Phillips, Kathleen Kahn, Katherine Eyal, Darina T. Bassil, Lisa Berkman, Lindsay C. Kobayashi and Molly Rosenberg

The interdependence of caring, safety, and health in correctional settings: Analysis of a survey of security staff in a large county jail system

Jody Sundt, Keramet Reiter and Brie Williams

Association of low-quality employment with the development of suicidal thought and suicide planning in workers: A longitudinal study in Korea

Seong-Uk Baek, Jin-Ha Yoon, Yu-Min Lee and Jong-Uk Won

More doctors, better health? A generalised synthetic control approach to estimating impacts of increasing doctors under Brazil's Mais Medicos programme

Rhys Llewellyn Thomas, Christopher Millett, Ricardo de Sousa Soares and Thomas Hone

U.S. physician burnout and the proletarianization of U.S. doctors: A theoretical reframing

Barret Michalec, Monica M. Cuddy, Yvonne Price and Frederic W. Hafferty

Epidemic in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: News media framing of the MMR vaccination controversy in Serbia

Marija Brujić

Carjacking and homicide in Minneapolis after the police killing of George Floyd: Evidence from an interrupted time series analysis

Allison Lind, Ryan P. Larson, Susan M. Mason and Christopher Uggen

“It's very much part of this movement to undermine democracy”: A qualitative study of European Union level opposition strategies against reproductive health and rights

Lynda Gilby and Meri Koivusalo

What can PrEP do for female sex workers? Unpacking the “effectosphere” of biomedical HIV prevention in Dar es Salaam

Hanne Ochieng Lichtwarck, Emmanuel Peter Massawe, Elia John Mmbaga and Kåre Moen

Infrastructures of epidemic response: Mpox and everyday repair work in southwestern Nigeria

Megan Schmidt-Sane, Olufunke Adegoke, Syed Abbas, Akanni O. Lawanson, Michael Kunnuji, Ayodele Jegede and Hayley MacGregor

Inter-relationships among individual views of COVID-19 control measures across multi-cultural contexts

Jianwei Huang, Mei-Po Kwan, Zihan Kan, Minh Kieu, Jiyeong Lee, Tim Schwanen and Ikuho Yamada

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of models of maternity care for women from migrant and refugee backgrounds in high-income countries: A systematic review

Yordanos Gizachew Yeshitila, Lisa Gold, Julie Abimanyi-Ochom, Elisha Riggs, Tadesse Tolossa and Ha N.D. Le

A discourse of african traditional healing tendencies with medicinal plants: An ethnobotanical study of the sukuma of Tanzania, 1922–1960s

Hamisi Yunus Nchimbi and Mikidadi Hamisi Alawi

The relationship between union membership and self-rated health among racially diverse U.S. healthcare workers: The role of control over work schedules and locations

Alein Y. Haro-Ramos, Ray Block and Gabriel Sanchez

Racial capitalism and firearm violence: Developing a theoretical framework for firearm violence research examining structural racism

Mudia Uzzi, Shannon Whittaker, Michael H. Esposito, Lorraine T. Dean, Shani A. Buggs and Keshia M. Pollack Porter

‘Managing values’ in health economics modelling: Philosophical and practical considerations

Stephanie Harvard and Eric B. Winsberg

“Successful” ageing in later older age: A sociology of class and ageing in place

Kate Gibson, Andrew Kingston, Emma McLellan, Louise Robinson and Katie Brittain

Precision medicine in primary care: How GPs envision “old” and “new” forms of personalization

Mirjam Pot, Olivia Spalletta and Sara Green

Identifying vulnerabilities in essential health services: Analysing the effects of system shocks on childhood vaccination delivery in Lebanon

Sharif A. Ismail, Andrada Tomoaia-Cotisel, Aya Noubani, Fouad M. Fouad, Robert Šakić Trogrlić, Sadie Bell, Karl Blanchet and Josephine Borghi

Emotion regulation strategies and coping self-efficacy as moderators of daily associations between transgender and gender diverse (TGD) enacted stigma and affect among TGD young adults assigned female at birth

Christina Dyar, Emily Herry and Sophia Pirog

“Working within broken systems”: Social workers bridge the fractures of U.S. healthcare: A qualitative inquiry on moral injury

Pari Thibodeau, Aprille Arena, Hannah Wolfson, Michael Talamantes and Karen Albright

Spatial solidarity among older adults in age-related housing

Virve Repo

‘What if I get sick?’ Healthcare (non)decisions of overseas Filipino workers in Taiwan

Isaiah Christian Felix Antonio and Po-Han Lee

Examining the perception, frequency, and intensity of domestic violence inflicted by Palestinian wives against their husbands

Oqab Jabali