Social Science & Medicine

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2019, volume 234, articles C

Loneliness and subjective physical health among war veterans: Long term reciprocal effects pp. -

Noga Tsur, Jacob Y. Stein, Yafit Levin, Alana Siegel and Zahava Solomon

Effects of urbanization on metabolic syndrome via dietary intake and physical activity in Chinese adults: Multilevel mediation analysis with latent centering pp. -

Ted Chun Tat Fong, Rainbow Tin Hung Ho and Paul Siu Fai Yip

Can inequalities in political participation explain health inequalities? pp. -

Aaron Reeves and Johan P. Mackenbach

Managing uncertainty in medicine quality in Ghana: The cognitive and affective basis of trust in a high-risk, low-regulation context pp. -

Heather Hamill, Kate Hampshire, Simon Mariwah, Daniel Amoako-Sakyi, Abigail Kyei and Michele Castelli

Disparities in trajectories of changes in the unhealthy food environment in New York City: A latent class growth analysis, 1990–2010 pp. -

Nicolas Berger, Tanya K. Kaufman, Michael D.M. Bader, Andrew G. Rundle, Stephen J. Mooney, Kathryn M. Neckerman and Gina S. Lovasi

The intersectional risk environment of people who use drugs pp. -

Alexandra B. Collins, Jade Boyd, Hannah L.F. Cooper and Ryan McNeil

Oocyte provision as a (quasi) social market: Insights from Spain pp. -

Sara Degli Esposti and Vincenzo Pavone

2019, volume 233, articles C

Mapping knowledge domains of non-biomedical modalities: A large-scale co-word analysis of literature 1987–2017 pp. 1-12

Dang Nguyen

Goals for living with a chronic condition: The relevance of temporalities, dispositions, and resources pp. 13-20

Marika Franklin, Sophie Lewis, Karen Willis, Anne Rogers, Annie Venville and Lorraine Smith

What does it mean to be exposed to suicide?: Suicide exposure, suicide risk, and the importance of meaning-making pp. 21-27

Sanja Miklin, Anna S. Mueller, Seth Abrutyn and Katherine Ordonez

Investigating the relative value of health and social care related quality of life using a discrete choice experiment pp. 28-37

Brendan Mulhern, Richard Norman, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Juliette Malley, Deborah Street and Rosalie Viney

The commensuration of pain: How nurses transform subjective experience into objective numbers pp. 38-46

Lars E.F. Johannessen

The effect of agency on women's mental distress: A prospective cohort study from rural Rajasthan, India pp. 47-56

Robin A. Richardson, Sam Harper, Lisa M. Bates and Arijit Nandi

Which is riskier for mental health, living alone or not participating in any social activity? Evidence from a population-based eleven-year survey in Japan pp. 57-63

Takashi Oshio and Mari Kan

Unhealthy weight control behaviors and substance use among adolescent girls: The harms of weight stigma pp. 64-70

Melissa Simone, Laura Hooper, Marla E. Eisenberg and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

Higher child-raising costs due to maternal social isolation: Large population-based study in Japan pp. 71-77

Yukiko Honda, Takeo Fujiwara and Ichiro Kawachi

Caring for or caring with?Production of different caring relationships and the construction of time pp. 78-86

Yves Habran and Nicolas Battard

Predicting intention to receive a seasonal influenza vaccination using Protection Motivation Theory pp. 87-92

Mathew Ling, Emily J. Kothe and Barbara A. Mullan

Is women's empowerment a pathway to improving child nutrition outcomes in a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program?: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Burkina Faso pp. 93-102

Jessica Heckert, Deanna Olney and Marie Ruel

Urbanisation, dietary change and traditional food practices in Indonesia: A longitudinal analysis pp. 103-112

David Colozza and Mauricio Avendano

A systematic review of the association between the childhood sexual abuse experiences of mothers and the abuse status of their children: Protection strategies, intergenerational transmission, and reactions to the abuse of their children pp. 113-137

Brittany C.L. Lange, Eileen M. Condon and Frances Gardner

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's domains of wellbeing: A comprehensive literature review pp. 138-157

Tamara L. Butler, Kate Anderson, Gail Garvey, Joan Cunningham, Julie Ratcliffe, Allison Tong, Lisa J. Whop, Alan Cass, Michelle Dickson and Kirsten Howard

The impact of employment protection on health: Evidence from fixed-term contract workers in South Korea pp. 158-170

WooRam Park and Jisun Baek

Body-oriented gestures as a practitioner's window into interpreted communication pp. 171-180

Jennifer Gerwing and Shuangyu Li

Patient-reported use of medical cannabis for pain, anxiety, and depression symptoms: Systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 181-192

Jesse D. Kosiba, Stephen A. Maisto and Joseph W. Ditre

Beyond access: Psychosocial barriers to undocumented students’ use of mental health services pp. 193-200

Biblia S. Cha, Laura E. Enriquez and Annie Ro

Perceived job insecurity and self-rated health: Testing reciprocal relationships in a five-wave study pp. 201-207

Ieva Urbanaviciute, Hans De Witte and Jérôme Rossier

Job satisfaction and guideline adherence among physicians: Moderating effects of perceived autonomy support and job control pp. 208-217

Anthony C. Waddimba, David C. Mohr, Howard B. Beckman, Thomas L. Mahoney and Gary J. Young

China's dusty lung crisis: Rural-urban health inequity as social and spatial injustice pp. 218-228

Lee Liu

The social network context of HIV stigma: Population-based, sociocentric network study in rural Uganda pp. 229-236

Sae Takada, Viola Nyakato, Akihiro Nishi, A. James O'Malley, Bernard Kakuhikire, Jessica M. Perkins, David R. Bangsberg, Nicholas A. Christakis and Alexander C. Tsai

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the health sciences: Best practice methods for research syntheses pp. 237-251

Blair T. Johnson and Emily A. Hennessy

The impact of diabetes on labour market outcomes in Mexico: A panel data and biomarker analysis pp. 252-261

Till Seuring, Pieter Serneels and Marc Suhrcke

What can be achieved with a single-payer NHI system: The case of Taiwan pp. 265-271

William C. Hsiao, Shou-Hsia Cheng and Winnie Yip

Managing health expenditure inflation under a single-payer system: Taiwan's National Health Insurance pp. 272-280

Winnie C. Yip, Yue-Chune Lee, Shu-Ling Tsai and Bradley Chen

2019, volume 232, articles C

A comparative review of mobile health and electronic health utilization in sub-Saharan African countries pp. 1-16

Brandford Bervell and Hosam Al-Samarraie

When more is less: What explains the overuse of health care services in China? pp. 17-24

Yi Zhang, Zhongliang Zhou and Yafei Si

Inequality and discrimination in access to urgent care in France Ethnographies of three healthcare structures and their audiences pp. 25-32

Sylvie Morel

Scaling up: The politics of health and place pp. 36-42

Clare Bambra, Katherine E. Smith and Jamie Pearce

Health inequality implications from a qualitative study of experiences of poverty stigma in Scotland pp. 43-49

Greig Inglis, Fiona McHardy, Edward Sosu, John McAteer and Hannah Biggs

Research ethics for mobile sensing device use by vulnerable populations pp. 50-57

Samantha Breslin, Martine Shareck and Daniel Fuller

Family income and nutrition-related health: Evidence from food consumption in China pp. 58-76

Yanjun Ren, Hui Li and Xiaobing Wang

Pursuing dignified food security through novel collaborative governance initiatives: Perceived benefits, tensions and lessons learned pp. 77-85

Sara Edge and Samantha B. Meyer

“The fear of being Black plus the fear of being gay”: The effects of intersectional stigma on PrEP use among young Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men pp. 86-93

Katherine Quinn, Lisa Bowleg and Julia Dickson-Gomez

Liveable for whom? Prospects of urban liveability to address health inequities pp. 94-105

Hannah Badland and Jamie Pearce

The antecedents and consequences of adolescent fatherhood: A systematic review pp. 106-119

Olajide N. Bamishigbin, Chris Dunkel Schetter and Annette L. Stanton

Income inequality is detrimental to long-term well-being: A large-scale longitudinal investigation in China pp. 120-128

Hongfei Du, Ronnel B. King and Peilian Chi

Adapting stigma mechanism frameworks to explore complex pathways between intersectional stigma and HIV-related health outcomes among women living with HIV in Canada pp. 129-138

Carmen H. Logie, Charmaine C. Williams, Ying Wang, Natania Marcus, Mina Kazemi, Lynne Cioppa, Angela Kaida, Kath Webster, Kerrigan Beaver, Alexandra de Pokomandy and Mona Loutfy

Understanding demand for higher quality sanitation in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia through stated and revealed preference analysis pp. 139-147

James B. Tidwell, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Matthew Quaife and Robert Aunger

Putting ‘place’ in its place: Comparing place-based factors in interurban analyses of life expectancy in the United States pp. 148-155

Chad Frederick, Anna Hammersmith and John Hans Gilderbloom

Systematic review of the methods used in economic evaluations of targeted physical activity and sedentary behaviour interventions pp. 156-167

M. Cochrane, P.M. Watson, H. Timpson, Alan Haycox, B. Collins, L. Jones, A. Martin and L.E.F. Graves

Conceptual analysis of health systems resilience: A scoping review pp. 168-180

Charlotte Pailliard Turenne, Lara Gautier, Stéphanie Degroote, Etienne Guillard, Fanny Chabrol and Valéry Ridde

Conscience reconsidered: The moral work of navigating participation in abortion care on labor and delivery pp. 181-189

Danielle Czarnecki, Renee R. Anspach, Raymond G. De Vries, Mercedez D. Dunn, Katrina Hauschildt and Lisa H. Harris

The roles of non-cognitive and cognitive skills in the life course development of adult health inequalities pp. 190-198

Jennifer L. Carter, Marcus Richards, Matthew Hotopf and Stephani L. Hatch

Occupational variation in burnout among medical staff: Evidence for the stress of higher status pp. 199-208

Matthew K. Grace and Jane S. VanHeuvelen

Health financing in fragile and conflict-affected settings: What do we know, seven years on? pp. 209-219

Maria Paola Bertone, Matthew Jowett, Elina Dale and Sophie Witter

Family structure trajectories and early child health in the UK: Pathways to health pp. 220-229

Lidia Panico, Melanie Bartley, Yvonne J Kelly, Anne McMunn and Amanda Sacker

Staff perceptions of competence in a multicultural nursing home in Norway pp. 230-237

Mai Camilla Munkejord and Laila Tingvold

The criterion validity of willingness to pay methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence pp. 238-261

Lucy Kanya, Sabina Sanghera, Alex Lewin and Julia Fox-Rushby

A gender-focused analysis of structural and social precipitators to child institutionalization in Azerbaijan: A qualitative study pp. 262-269

Emily Claypool and Leyla Ismayilova

Declined care and discrimination during the childbirth hospitalization pp. 270-277

Laura B. Attanasio and Rachel R. Hardeman

Women who break the rules: Social exclusion and inequities in pregnancy and childbirth experiences in Zambia pp. 278-288

Laura Sochas

A reproductive justice approach to understanding women's experiences with HPV and cervical cancer prevention pp. 289-297

Beth Sundstrom, Ellie Smith, Cara Delay, John S. Luque, Caroline Davila, Bailey Feder, Vincenza Paddock, Jessie Poudrier, Jennifer Young Pierce and Heather M. Brandt

Measuring perceived mistreatment across diverse social groups: An evaluation of the Everyday Discrimination Scale pp. 298-306

Catherine E. Harnois, João L. Bastos, Mary E. Campbell and Verna M. Keith

It's MY health care program: Enhancing patient adherence through psychological ownership pp. 307-315

Matthieu Mifsud, Mathieu Molines, Anne-Sophie Cases and Gilles N'Goala

Last and least: Findings on intrahousehold undernutrition from participatory research in South Asia pp. 316-323

Erin C. Lentz, Sudha Narayanan and Anuradha De

Intervention stigma: How medication-assisted treatment marginalizes patients and providers pp. 324-331

Erin Fanning Madden

Does corruption kill? Evidence from half a century infant mortality data pp. 332-339

Oguzhan Dincer and Özgür Teoman

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of incentives as a tool for prevention of non-communicable diseases: A systematic review pp. 340-350

Eric A. Finkelstein, Marcel Bilger and Drishti Baid

Life expectancy and parental education pp. 351-365

Mathias Huebener

Boundary spanning practices of community connectors for engaging ‘hardly reached’ people in health services pp. 366-373

Carolyn Wallace, Jane Farmer and Anthony McCosker

The impact of the Ethiopian health extension program and health development army on maternal mortality: A synthetic control approach pp. 374-381

Matthias Rieger, Natascha Wagner, Anagaw Mebratie, Getnet Alemu and Arjun Bedi

Does pooling health & social care budgets reduce hospital use and lower costs? pp. 382-388

Jonathan Stokes, Yiu-Shing Lau, Søren Kristensen and Matt Sutton

Using the critical incident technique for qualitative process evaluation of interventions: The example of the “Let's Move It” trial pp. 389-397

Katri Kostamo, Piia Jallinoja, Kari Mikko Vesala, Vera Araújo-Soares, Falko F. Sniehotta and Nelli Hankonen

Community mobilization for rural suicide prevention: Process, learning and behavioral outcomes from Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) in Northwest Alaska pp. 398-407

Lisa Wexler, Suzanne Rataj, Jerreed Ivanich, Jya Plavin, Anna Mullany, Roberta Moto, Tanya Kirk, Eva Goldwater, Rhonda Johnson and Kirk Dombrowski

Matters of fact and politics: Generating expectations of cancer screening pp. 408-416

Kiran Pienaar, Alan Petersen and Diana M. Bowman

Social network analysis of group position, popularity, and sleep behaviors among U.S. adolescents pp. 417-426

Xiaoyu Li, Ichiro Kawachi, Orfeu M. Buxton, Sebastien Haneuse and Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Linking perceived discrimination during adolescence to health during mid-adulthood: Self-esteem and risk-behavior mechanisms pp. 434-443

Tse-Chuan Yang, I-Chien Chen, Seung-won Choi and Aysenur Kurtulus

A healthy dose of realism: The role of optimistic and pessimistic expectations when facing a downward spiral in health pp. 444-452

Judith G. Chipperfield, Jeremy M. Hamm, Raymond P. Perry, Patti C. Parker, Joelle C. Ruthig and Frieder R. Lang

Diverse socioeconomic processes influencing health and wellbeing across generations in deprived neighbourhoods in Malta pp. 453-459

Bernadine Satariano

Looking beyond the mean in grief trajectories: A prospective, population-based cohort study pp. 460-469

Mette Kjærgaard Nielsen, Anders Helles Carlsen, Mette Asbjoern Neergaard, Pernille Envold Bidstrup and Mai-Britt Guldin

Perspectives on the non-replication of associations of “loneliness” with systolic blood pressure and HbAlc: Methodological and mental health considerations a commentary on Das (2018) pp. 470-472

Randall S. Jorgensen

Laughter-inducing therapies: Systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 473-488

C. Natalie van der Wal and Robin N. Kok

Investigating harmful and helpful effects of watching season 2 of 13 Reasons Why: Results of a two-wave U.S. panel survey pp. 489-498

Florian Arendt, Sebastian Scherr, Josh Pasek, Patrick E. Jamieson and Daniel Romer