Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2025, volume 364, articles C

Prospective relationship between electronic health literacy and health-promoting lifestyle among Chinese older adults: A three-wave longitudinal study

Luyao Xie and Phoenix K.H. Mo

Embracing anti-racism: Co-creating recommendations with Black people for how addiction treatment needs to change

Natrina L. Johnson, Corinne A. Beaugard, Daneiris Heredia-Perez, Kaku So-Armah, Phillip Reason, Amy M. Yule, Christina S. Lee, Sheila E. Chapman, Avik Chatterjee, Craig McClay, Tayla Weeden, Carolina Becerril, Dana Thomas and Miriam Komaromy

Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice

Stephanie Sodero, Nimesh Dhungana and Felix Sandoe

Indigenous Australian perspectives on the perinatal period: Social well-being, culture and early infant attachments

Jodie A. Mottram and James A. Dimmock

The navigation of good care for forensic psychiatric inpatients who face mandatory repatriation from the Netherlands: An ethnographic study

Anniek van Weeghel, Charlotte Clous, Else Vogel, Hannah Jongsma and Wim Veling

Breaking the cycle between caregiver mental health and child behavioral issues: Does food insecurity matter?

Jun-Hong Chen, Jesse J. Helton, Chien-Jen Chiang, Chi-Fang Wu, Melissa Jonson-Reid and Brett Drake

State-level anti-Asian hate crimes and mental health among Asian and other racial groups in the US

Kokoro Harii, Kosuke Inoue, Adrian M. Bacong and Naoki Kondo

Aversion to income, ethnic, and geographic related health inequality: Evidence from Australia

Marie-Anne Boujaoude, Kim Dalziel, Richard Cookson, Nancy Devlin and Natalie Carvalho

Does volunteering reduce epigenetic age acceleration among retired and working older adults? Results from the Health and Retirement Study

Seoyoun Kim, Cal Halvorsen, Claire Potter and Jessica Faul

‘No manner of hurt was found upon him’. The role of religiousness in the mental health effect of job insecurity

Peter Douwe van der Meer, Thomas van Huizen and Janneke Plantenga

Fire and fury: North Korean threats and South Korean adolescent health

Dirk Bethmann and Jae Il Cho

Psychosocial challenges of Ukrainian healthcare professionals in wartime: Addressing the need for management support

Anastasiia Yuriivna Sydorenko, Lennart Kiel and Helle Spindler

Rumination, loneliness, and non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents with major depressive disorder: The moderating role of resilience

Hong Wang, Sili Wen, Yang Wang, Yongjie Zhou and Ben Niu

Women's informal group participation and intimate partner violence in Mwanza, Tanzania: A longitudinal study

Shruti Shukla, Neema R. Mosha, Sarah R. Meyer, Sheila Harvey, Shelley Lees, Gerry Mshana and Heidi Stöckl

Framing of sensitive topics in surveys measuring corruption in healthcare

Iva Parvanova and Mylene Lagarde

Blocked paths, unequal trajectories: Examining the career outcomes of health professions graduates by race, gender, and place of education

Rebecca Anna Schut

Searching for equity: White normativity in online skin cancer images

Ashley C. Rondini, Genab Diallo, Foster Bryant and Rachel H. Kowalsky

“Vaccines protect both you and your newborn:” A discourse analysis of risk and uncertainty in information about vaccination in pregnancy

Terra Manca

Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study

Liyong Lu, Sicheng Li, Ting Chen, Wenqiang Zhang, TianFu Gao and Tianjiao Lan

Beyond social determinants: Fiscal determinants of overdose death in U.S counties, 2017–2020

Zoe Lindenfeld, Diana Silver, Amanda I. Mauri and Michah W. Rothbart

Financial strain measures and associations with adult health: A systematic literature review

Laura J. Samuel, Martha Abshire Saylor, Monica Y. Choe, Rhonda Smith Wright, Boeun Kim, Manka Nkimbeng, Fernando Mena-Carrasco, Jieun Beak and Sarah L. Szanton

State-level gender-affirming healthcare policy and depressive symptoms among LGBTQ+ youth

Laura M. Houghtaling, Marla E. Eisenberg, Carrie Henning-Smith, Toben Nelson and Theresa L. Osypuk

Healthcare inequity arising from unequal response to need in the older (45+ years) population of India: Analysis of nationally representative data

Sanjay K. Mohanty, Junaid Khan, Suraj Maiti, Fabrice Kämpfen, Jürgen Maurer and Owen O'Donnell

Unpacking access barriers through the health providers' lens among the Arab Bedouin population in Israel

Haneen Shibli, Limor Aharonson-Daniel, Nihaya Daoud and Paula Feder-Bubis

“Rest of the folks are tired and weary”: The impact of historical lynchings on biological and cognitive health for older adults racialized as Black

Paris B. Adkins-Jackson, César Higgins Tejera, Dejania Cotton-Samuel, Carla L. Foster, Lauren L. Brown, Kenjus T. Watson, Tiffany N. Ford, Tahlia Bragg, Betselot B. Wondimu and Jennifer J. Manly

Healthcare access in humanitarian settings: Mobile services successes and limits in Afghanistan

Francesco Iacoella, Nabamallika Dehingia, Miguel Almanzar, Uyen Kim Huynh and Zlata Bruckauf

Media bias in portrayals of mortality risks: Comparison of newspaper coverage to death rates

Calvin Isch

The role of individual and environmental socio-economic resources for cognitive change in very old age

Gizem Hülür and Jaroslava Zimmermann

How do older adults react to social robots’ offspring-like voices

Cheng Zhou and Wanqing Dong

The long-term impact of family economic empowerment on viral suppression and mental health outcomes among adolescents living with HIV in low-income settings: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Southern Uganda

Samuel Kizito, Fred M. Ssewamala, Josephine Nabayinda, Flavia Namuwonge, Torsten B. Neilands, Proscovia Nabunya, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Vicent Ssentumbwe and Jennifer Nattabi

The connection between social and emotional wellbeing and Indigenous language use varies across language ecologies in Australia

Yonatan Dinku, Francis Markham, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson

Gazing into the crystal ball: Do adolescent survival expectations predict premature mortality risk in the United States?

Carlyn Graham, Robert A. Hummer and Carolyn T. Halpern

Violence as an obstacle to HIV medication adherence and viral suppression: A daily diary investigation among adolescent boys

Elizabeth M. Inman, Xiaoyue Zhang, Phumla Madi, Candice W. Ramsammy, Amy C. Hammock, Avy Violari and Rachel Kidman

Drink like a man? Modified Poisson analysis of adolescent binge drinking in the US, 1976–2022

Jiaxin Gu, Minheng Chen, Yue Yuan, Xin Guo, Tian-Yi Zhou and Qiang Fu

Canadian cannabis researcher perspectives on the conduct and sponsorship of scientific research by the for-profit cannabis industry

Daniel Z. Buchman, Brooke Magel, Rowen Shier, Titilayo Esther Davies, Abhimanyu Sud, Shreya Mahajan, Roberta K. Timothy, Sophie Soklaridis and Quinn Grundy

More doctors, better health? Consolidating evidence from Brazil's Mais Médicos program

Rudi Rocha

The role of artificial intelligence in enhancing healthcare for people with disabilities

David Bamidele Olawade, Obasanjo Afolabi Bolarinwa, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi and Sinegugu Shongwe

Paying the price: Financial hardship and its association with psychological distress among different population groups in the midst of Great Britain's cost-of-living crisis

Sarah E. Jackson, Sharon Cox, John Holmes, Colin Angus, Deborah Robson, Leonie Brose and Jamie Brown

Balancing work and earnings: The long-term impact on mental health

Jun-Hong Chen, Yuanyuan Yang, Cao Fang, Chieh-Hsun Huang, Chien-Jen Chiang, Chi-Fang Wu, Melissa Jonson-Reid and Brett Drake

2024, volume 363, articles C

Absenteeism and presenteeism among caregivers of chronic diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Neha Das, Ishani K. Majumdar, Paul A. Agius, Peter Lee, Suzanne Robinson and Lan Gao

Difficult decisions and possible choices: Rare diseases, genetic inheritance and reproduction of the family

Waleska Aureliano

Investigation of the health economic analysis of informal care for people living with a chronic neurological disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the global evidence for multiple sclerosis

Tadele G. Adal, Ingrid van der Mei, Bruce V. Taylor, Barbara de Graaff, Andrew J. Palmer, Gang Chen, Glen J. Henson, Jessica Roydhouse and Julie A. Campbell

Assessing momentary stress responses to dynamic real-time greenspace exposure: Unveiling algorithmic uncertainty and the temporality of exposure context

Changda Yu, Mei-Po Kwan and Yang Liu

Chinese minimum wages and health

Yihong Bai, Qiaoge Li, Qian Liu and Michael Veall

Racial discrimination and cognitive function: An instrumental variable analysis

Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Yu-Tien Hsu, Hannah J. Cory and Ichiro Kawachi

The emergence of birth territory theory: Understanding the experience of giving birth in the home versus the hospital setting in Baringo and Nakuru counties of Kenya

Jenna Marie Randolph

The liminal experience of awaiting for a cadaveric kidney donation: “I would not wish it on even my enemy!”

Hicran Karataş and Şener Balas

Media coverage of antimicrobial resistance in Germany and Switzerland: An interpretation through the multiple streams framework

Wyser Josefine, Puran Tanja, Hornung Johanna and Fischer Manuel

Valuing mortality risk reductions in a fast-developing society: A meta-analysis of stated preference studies in China from 1998 to 2019

Yanying Wang, Yana Jin, Huan Lin, Wei Wan and Shiqiu Zhang

Patterns of shared meaning across personal narratives surrounding experiences with palliative care, serious illness, and the end of life

Marjolein Matthys, Kenneth Chambaere, Benedicte Deforche, Joachim Cohen, Luc Deliens, Kim Beernaert, Leen Van Brussel and Naomi Dhollander

Looking to the past: Investigating 10-year place histories as a determinant of home food environments in the Healthy Communities Study

Ian-Marshall Lang, Yeonwoo Kim, Lorrene D. Ritchie, Lauren E. Au and Natalie Colabianchi

‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups

Emilie Mølholm Kjærulff, Mette Andersen Nexø, Chrysanthi Papoutsi and Henriette Langstrup

The cards they're dealt: types of gambling activity, online gambling, and risk of problem gambling in European adolescents

Gabriele Lombardi, Sabrina Molinaro, Rodolfo Cotichini, Sonia Cerrai, Marco Scalese and Elisa Benedetti

Dilemmas of care: Healthcare seeking behaviours and antibiotic use among women in rural communities in Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam

Yen Hong Thi Nguyen, Rogier van Doorn, Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil and Sonia Lewycka

The socioecology of sexual minority stigma: Advancing theory on stigma-based mechanisms underlying sexual orientation-based disparities in health

Arjan van der Star

Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach

Pratik Singh and Alok Kumar Mishra

Pain and the risk of social isolation and loneliness in older Chinese adults: Do gender, age, and education make a difference?

Dan Zhang

From one death to another: The relationship between familial deaths and one’s own mortality risk among an urban Black American cohort

Elaine E. Doherty, Kerry M. Green and Brittany A. Bugbee

Assessing disease self-management in multi-ethnic patients with chronic conditions and evaluating psychometric properties of the Partners in Health scale

Yiyun Shou, David Smith, Jun Xuan Ng, Malcolm Battersby, Cynthia Chen and Ngan Phoon Fong

Effectiveness of community-based participatory research (CBPR) interventions on mental health outcomes: A systematic review

Jessie Ho-Yin Yau, Edwin Lok Yan Wong, Hotinpo Sky Kanagawa, Tianyin Liu, Gloria Hoi Yan Wong and Terry Yat Sang Lum

‘Public prostitutes and private prostitutes’: A study of women's perceptions of transactional sex in Cameroon

Aurélia Lépine, Charlie Henderson, Emile Nitcheu, Fanny Procureur, Henry Cust, Létitia Toukam, Chimene Chimsgueya, Julienne Noo, Sandie Szawlowski, Eric Defo Tamgno, Silvia Mandop, Stephanie Moyoum, Serge Billong, Iliassou Mfochive and Ubald Tamoufe

Individual & joint associations of sexual stigma and mental distress with PrEP uptake, adherence and persistence among US gay and bisexual men

Udodirim N. Onwubiko, Sarah M. Murray, Amrita Rao, Allison T. Chamberlain, Travis H. Sanchez, David Benkeser, David P. Holland, Samuel M. Jenness and Stefan D. Baral

Navigating parental decision-making: Intersex surgeries in Italy

Daniela Crocetti and Marta Prandelli

“Don't push!” experiences of obstetric violence in U.S. hospital settings

Anna Claire Church

An analysis of intersectional disparities in alcohol consumption in the US

Sophie Bright, Charlotte Buckley, Daniel Holman, George Leckie, Andrew Bell, Nina Mulia, Carolin Kilian and Robin Purshouse

From affordable to accessible: How the pharmaceutical industry transformed patient consumers into charity recipients

Laura Halcomb

Who is helping students? A qualitative analysis of task-shifting and on-campus mental health services in China's university settings

Rui Hou, Isabella Huang, Kenneth Po-Lun Fung, Alan Li, Cunxian Jia, Shengli Cheng, Jianguo Gao, Jingxuan Zhang and Josephine Pui-Hing Wong