Social Science & Medicine

1979 - 2025

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2018, volume 206, articles C

Tobacco outlet density and tobacco knowledge, beliefs, purchasing behaviours and price among adolescents in Scotland pp. 1-13

Helena Tunstall, Niamh K. Shortt, Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Elizabeth A. Richardson, Richard J. Mitchell and Jamie R. Pearce

Poor mental health among low-income women in the U.S.: The roles of adverse childhood and adult experiences pp. 14-21

Joshua P. Mersky, Colleen E. Janczewski and Jenna C. Nitkowski

How is subjective well-being related to quality of life? Do we need two concepts and both measures? pp. 22-30

S.M. Skevington and J.R. Böhnke

A comparison of clinicians' racial biases in the United States and France pp. 31-37

Natalia N. Khosla, Sylvia P. Perry, Corinne A. Moss-Racusin, Sara E. Burke and John F. Dovidio

Using conversation analytic methods to assess fidelity to a talk-based healthcare intervention for frequently attending patients pp. 38-50

Rebecca K. Barnes, Marcus Jepson, Clare Thomas, Sue Jackson, Chris Metcalfe, David Kessler and Helen Cramer

Social participation and health over the adult life course: Does the association strengthen with age? pp. 51-59

Shannon Ang

China's capacity of hospitals to deal with infectious diseases in the context of climate change pp. 60-66

Michael Xiaoliang Tong, Alana Hansen, Scott Hanson-Easey, Jianjun Xiang, Scott Cameron, Qiyong Liu, Xiaobo Liu, Yehuan Sun, Philip Weinstein, Gil-Soo Han and Peng Bi

The social network of international health aid pp. 67-74

Lu Han, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi and Tore Opsahl

The geography of smallpox in England before vaccination: A conundrum resolved pp. 75-85

Romola Jane Davenport, Max Satchell and Leigh Matthew William Shaw-Taylor

Generosity and compliance: Recruitment-work and the pathways to participation in bone marrow donation pp. 86-92

Kushan Dasgupta

Physical activity among indigenous Australian children and youth in remote and non-remote areas pp. 93-99

John Robert Evans, Rachel Wilson, Clare Coleman, Wing Young Nicola Man and Tim Olds

A realist evaluation of value-based care delivery in home care: The influence of actors, autonomy and accountability pp. 100-109

Katie N. Dainty, Brian R. Golden, Rosemary Hannam, Fiona Webster, Gina Browne, Nicole Mittmann, Anita Stern and Merrick Zwarenstein

Is there synergy in syndemics? Psychosocial conditions and sexual risk among men who have sex with men in India pp. 110-116

Cecilia Tomori, Allison M. McFall, Sunil S. Solomon, Aylur K. Srikrishnan, Santhanam Anand, P. Balakrishnan, Shruti H. Mehta and David D. Celentano

2018, volume 205, articles C

Time cost of child rearing and its effect on women's uptake of free health checkups in Japan pp. 1-7

Hisataka Anezaki and Hideki Hashimoto

Following the patient's orders? Recommending vs. offering choice in neurology outpatient consultations pp. 8-16

Paul Chappell, Merran Toerien, Clare Jackson and Markus Reuber

Doing patient-centredness versus achieving public health targets: A critical review of interactional dilemmas in ART adherence support pp. 17-25

B.C. de Kok, S. Widdicombe, A. Pilnick and E. Laurier

Does welfare stigma exist in China? Policy evaluation of the Minimum Living Security System on recipients’ psychological health and wellbeing pp. 26-36

Di Qi and Yichao Wu

Bereaved relatives' decision about deceased organ donation: An integrated psycho-social study conducted in Spain pp. 37-47

Jorge S. López, José M. Martínez, María Soria-Oliver, Begoña Aramayona, Rubén García-Sánchez, María J. Martín and Carmen Almendros

“It can be challenging, it can be scary, it can be gratifying”: Obstetricians’ narratives of negotiating patient choice, clinical experience, and standards of care in decision-making pp. 48-54

Lauren Diamond-Brown

Voluntary health insurance in Nigeria: Effects on takers and non-takers pp. 55-63

Igna Bonfrer, Ellen Van de Poel, Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Eddy Van Doorslaer

Medical revalidation as professional regulatory reform: Challenging the power of enforceable trust in the United Kingdom pp. 64-71

Zoey Spendlove

“Ne nnipadua mmpe” (the body hates it): Exploring the lived experience of food allergy in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 72-81

George A. Atiim, Susan J. Elliott and Ann E. Clarke

The complex challenge of providing patient-centred perinatal healthcare in rural Uganda: A qualitative enquiry pp. 82-89

Nandini D.P. Sarkar, Joske Bunders-Aelen and Bart Criel

Grandparents and Children's stunting in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 90-98

Sandor Schrijner and Jeroen Smits

The effect of copayments on the utilization of the GP service in Norway pp. 99-106

Mari Magnussen Landsem and Jon Magnussen

Does trade liberalization reduce child mortality in low- and middle-income countries? A synthetic control analysis of 36 policy experiments, 1963-2005 pp. 107-115

Pepita Barlow

Impact of change in neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation on cardiovascular health in minority youth attending a park-based afterschool program pp. 116-129

Emily M. D'Agostino, Hersila H. Patel, Zafar Ahmed, Eric Hansen, M. Sunil Mathew, Maria I. Nardi and Sarah E. Messiah

2018, volume 204, articles C

Discrimination hurts: The effect of discrimination on the development of chronic pain pp. 1-8

Timothy T. Brown, Juulia Partanen, Linh Chuong, Vaughn Villaverde, Ann Chantal Griffin and Aaron Mendelson

Putting responsive behaviours in place: Examining how formal and informal carers understand the actions of people with dementia pp. 9-15

R.V. Herron and M.A. Wrathall

Men’s work, Women’s work, and mental health: A longitudinal investigation of the relationship between the gender composition of occupations and mental health pp. 16-22

Allison Milner, Tania King, Anthony D. LaMontagne, Rebecca Bentley and Anne Kavanagh

Culture, economic development, social-network type, and mortality: Evidence from Chinese older adults pp. 23-30

Ting Li, Yang Claire Yang and Yanlong Zhang

Modeling racial disparities in physical health via close relationship functioning: A life course approach pp. 31-38

David Matthew Doyle, Pam Factor-Litvak and Bruce G. Link

Valuing health at the end of life: A review of stated preference studies in the social sciences literature pp. 39-50

Koonal K. Shah, Aki Tsuchiya and Allan J. Wailoo

Does health insurance coverage or improved quality protect better against out-of-pocket payments? Experimental evidence from the Philippines pp. 51-58

Natascha Wagner, Stella Luz Quimbo, Riti Shimkhada and John Peabody

Understanding and alleviating maternal postpartum distress: Perspectives from first-time mothers in Australia pp. 59-66

Kwok Hong Law, Ben Jackson, Kym Guelfi, Thinh Nguyen and James Alexander Dimmock

Cancer mortality rates and spillover effects among different areas: A case study in Campania (southern Italy) pp. 67-83

Massimiliano Agovino, Maria Carmela Aprile, Antonio Garofalo and Angela Mariani

Male-female differences in households' resource allocation and decision to seek healthcare in south-eastern Nigeria: Results from a mixed methods study pp. 84-91

Michael Nnachebe Onah and Susan Horton

Developing religiously-tailored health messages for behavioral change: Introducing the reframe, reprioritize, and reform (“3R”) model pp. 92-99

Aasim I. Padela, Sana Malik, Milkie Vu, Michael Quinn and Monica Peek

Women's asset ownership and children's nutritional status: Evidence from Papua New Guinea pp. 100-107

Yana Rodgers and Alice Louise Kassens

Does the ethno-religious diversity of a neighbourhood affect the perceived health of its residents? pp. 108-116

Kenisha Russell Jonsson and Neli Demireva

Implicit and explicit anti-fat bias: The role of weight-related attitudes and beliefs pp. 117-124

Roni Elran-Barak and Yoav Bar-Anan

2018, volume 203, articles C

Empowering citizens or mining resources? The contested domain of citizen engagement in professional care services pp. 1-8

Ludo Glimmerveen, Sierk Ybema and Henk Nies

Work and family transitions and the self-rated health of young women in South Africa pp. 9-18

Rachel Bennett and Philippa Waterhouse

Fate, morals and rational calculations: Freezing eggs for non-medical reasons in Turkey pp. 19-27

Azer Kılıç and İpek Göçmen

Reproducing whiteness and enacting kin in the Nordic context of transnational egg donation: Matching donors with cross-border traveller recipients in Finland pp. 28-34

Riikka Homanen

“We are the heroes because we are ready to die for this country”: Participants' decision-making and grounded ethics in an Ebola vaccine clinical trial pp. 35-42

Angus Fayia Tengbeh, Luisa Enria, Elizabeth Smout, Thomas Mooney, Mike Callaghan, David Ishola, Bailah Leigh, Deborah Watson-Jones, Brian Greenwood, Heidi Larson and Shelley Lees

Between demarcation and discretion: The medical-administrative boundary as a locus of safety in high-volume organisational routines pp. 43-50

Suzanne Grant and Bruce Guthrie

Beyond the trigger: The mental health consequences of in-home firearm access among children of gun owners pp. 51-59

Jinho Kim

A multilevel approach to modeling health inequalities at the intersection of multiple social identities pp. 64-73

Clare R. Evans, David R. Williams, Jukka-Pekka Onnela and S.V. Subramanian

2018, volume 202, articles C

The social role of C-reactive protein point-of-care testing to guide antibiotic prescription in Northern Thailand pp. 1-12

Marco Haenssgen, Nutcha Charoenboon, Thomas Althaus, Rachel C. Greer, Daranee Intralawan and Yoel Lubell

Is there a “right time” for bad news? Kairos in familial communication on hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk pp. 13-19

Benjamin Derbez

The effect of health insurance on sexual health: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act's dependent coverage mandate pp. 20-27

Melissa Oney

The role of community participation for sustainable integrated neglected tropical diseases and water, sanitation and hygiene intervention programs: A pilot project in Tanzania pp. 28-37

Shirin Madon, Mwele Ntuli Malecela, Kijakazi Mashoto, Rose Donohue, Godfrey Mubyazi and Edwin Michael

Representations of race and skin tone in medical textbook imagery pp. 38-42

Patricia Louie and Rima Wilkes

Generalized and particularized trust for health between urban and rural residents in Japan: A cohort study from the JAGES project pp. 43-53

Yukihiro Sato, Jun Aida, Toru Tsuboya, Kokoro Shirai, Shihoko Koyama, Yusuke Matsuyama, Katsunori Kondo and Ken Osaka

County-level job automation risk and health: Evidence from the United States pp. 54-60

Pankaj C. Patel, Srikant Devaraj, Michael J. Hicks and Emily J. Wornell

Does the sex ratio at sexual maturity affect men's later-life mortality risks? Evidence from historical China pp. 61-69

Emma Zang and Hui Zheng

Shaping the use of psychotropic medicines in nursing homes: A qualitative study on organisational culture pp. 70-78

Mouna Sawan, Yun-Hee Jeon and Timothy F. Chen

Healthy working days: The (positive) effect of work effort on occupational health from a human capital approach pp. 79-88

Ainhoa Urtasun and Imanol Nuñez

A geographically explicit ecological momentary assessment (GEMA) mixed method for understanding substance use pp. 89-98

Julia McQuoid, Johannes Thrul and Pamela Ling

Governing the quality and safety of healthcare: A conceptual framework pp. 99-107

Alison Brown, Helen Dickinson and Margaret Kelaher

Financial circumstances, mastery, and mental health: Taking unobserved time-stable influences into account pp. 108-116

Jonathan Koltai, Alex Bierman and Scott Schieman

Low-intensity violence and the social determinants of adolescent health among three East African pastoralist communities pp. 117-127

Ivy L. Pike, Charles Hilton, Matthias Österle and Owuor Olungah

Brokerage in commercialised healthcare systems: A conceptual framework and empirical evidence from Uttar Pradesh pp. 128-135

Benjamin M. Hunter

The role of place on healthcare quality improvement: A qualitative case study of a teaching hospital pp. 136-142

Sara Melo

“What is meant by public?”: Stakeholder views on strengthening impacts of public reporting of hospital performance data pp. 143-150

Rachel Canaway, Marie Bismark, David Dunt, Khic-Houy Prang and Margaret Kelaher

Ownership and hospital behaviour: Employment and local unemployment pp. 151-161

Andrew Clark and Carine Milcent

Social norms and women's risk of intimate partner violence in Nepal pp. 162-169

Cari Jo Clark, Gemma Ferguson, Binita Shrestha, Prabin Nanicha Shrestha, J. Michael Oakes, Jhumka Gupta, Susi McGhee, Yuk Fai Cheong and Kathryn M. Yount

Benefits of maternal education for mental health trajectories across childhood and adolescence pp. 170-178

Ann-Katrin Meyrose, Fionna Klasen, Christiane Otto, Gabriela Gniewosz, Thomas Lampert and Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer