Social Science & Medicine

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2018, volume 201, articles C

Antimicrobial stigmatization: Public health concerns about conventional pig farming and pig farmers' experiences with stigmatization pp. 1-8

Lars Fynbo and Carsten Strøby Jensen

“These African stories”: Life, labor, and dying in northern Zambia pp. 9-17

Joshua Garoon

How health behaviors link romantic relationship dysfunction and physical health across 20 years for middle-aged and older adults pp. 18-26

Patricia N.E. Roberson, Rebecca L. Shorter, Sarah Woods and Jacob Priest

Ghana's community-based primary health care: Why women and children are ‘disadvantaged’ by its implementation pp. 27-34

Roger A. Atinga, Irene Akua Agyepong and Reuben K. Esena

Medical provision and urban-rural differences in maternal mortality in late nineteenth century Scotland pp. 35-43

Alice Reid and Eilidh Garrett

Talking about male body-based contraceptives: The counseling visit and the feminization of contraception pp. 44-50

Katrina Kimport

Workplace assimilation and professional jurisdiction: How nurses learn to blur the nursing-medical boundary pp. 51-58

Lars E.F. Johannessen

Crushing hope: Short term responses to tragedy vary by hopefulness pp. 59-62

Jason Fletcher

An instrumental variables approach to assess the effect of class size reduction on student screen time pp. 63-70

Alison K. Cohen

The becoming of methadone in Kenya: How an intervention's implementation constitutes recovery potential pp. 71-79

Tim Rhodes

Embodiment of social roles and thinness as a form of capital: A qualitative approach towards understanding female obesity disparities in Chile pp. 80-86

Jossiana Robinovich, Ximena Ossa, Bernardita Baeza, Anja Krumeich and Bart van der Borne

Clinic access and teenage birth rates: Racial/ethnic and spatial disparities in Houston, TX pp. 87-94

Megan M. Wisniewski and Heather A. O'Connell

The impact of vitamin A supplementation in childhood on adult outcomes: An exploration of mechanisms, timing of exposure, and heterogeneous effects pp. 95-102

Yubraj Acharya

The link between income inequality and health in Europe, adding strength dimensions of primary care to the equation pp. 103-110

Jens Detollenaere, Ann-Sophie Desmarest, Pauline Boeckxstaens and Sara Willems

Linking financial hardship throughout the life-course with psychological distress in old age: Sensitive period, accumulation of risks, and chain of risks hypotheses pp. 111-119

Alexander Darin-Mattsson, Ross Andel, Roger Keller Celeste and Ingemar Kåreholt

Stress-buffering effects of volunteering on salivary cortisol: Results from a daily diary study pp. 120-126

Sae Hwang Han, Kyungmin Kim and Jeffrey A. Burr

Health care experiences of pregnant, birthing and postnatal women of color at risk for preterm birth pp. 127-135

Monica R. McLemore, Molly R. Altman, Norlissa Cooper, Shanell Williams, Larry Rand and Linda Franck

Inequity in out-of-pocket payments for hospitalisation in India: Evidence from the National Sample Surveys, 1995–2014 pp. 136-147

Anamika Pandey, Lynda Clarke, Lalit Dandona and George B. Ploubidis

2018, volume 200, articles C

Improvement in access to safe water, household water insecurity, and time savings: A cross-sectional retrospective study in Kenya pp. 1-8

Elijah Bisung and Susan J. Elliott

The impact of social expenditure on health inequalities in Europe pp. 9-18

Javier Álvarez-Gálvez and Antonio Jaime-Castillo

Pathways linking war and displacement to parenting and child adjustment: A qualitative study with Syrian refugees in Lebanon pp. 19-26

Amanda Sim, Mina Fazel, Lucy Bowes and Frances Gardner

Neighborhood built environment and cognition in non-demented older adults: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis pp. 27-35

Lilah M. Besser, Daniel A. Rodriguez, Noreen McDonald, Walter A. Kukull, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, Stephen R. Rapp and Teresa Seeman

Health disparities, politics, and the maintenance of the status quo: A new theory of inequality pp. 36-43

Javier M. Rodriguez

Gender matters in cardiac rehabilitation and diabetes: Using Bourdieu's concepts pp. 44-51

Jan E. Angus, Craig M. Dale, Lisa Seto Nielsen, Marnie Kramer-Kile, Jennifer Lapum, Cheryl Pritlove, Beth Abramson, Jennifer A. Price, Susan Marzolini, Paul Oh and Alex Clark

The infant disorganised attachment classification: “Patterning within the disturbance of coherence” pp. 52-58

Sophie Reijman, Sarah Foster and Robbie Duschinsky

Health care input constraints and cost effectiveness analysis decision rules pp. 59-64

Pieter van Baal, Alec Morton and Johan L. Severens

Representing autism: Challenges of collective representation in German and Israeli associations for and of autistic people pp. 65-72

Aviad Raz, Karin R. Jongsma, Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty, Elisabeth Späth, Bosmat Bar-Nadav, Ella Vaintropov and Silke Schicktanz

Improving recruitment to clinical trials during pregnancy: A mixed methods investigation pp. 73-82

Sofia Strömmer, Wendy Lawrence, Taylor Rose, Christina Vogel, Daniella Watson, Joanne N. Bottell, Janice Parmenter, Nicholas C. Harvey, Cyrus Cooper, Hazel Inskip, Janis Baird and Mary Barker

Safety, trust, and disclosure: A qualitative examination of violence against refugee adolescents in Kiziba Camp, Rwanda pp. 83-91

Laura Gauer Bermudez, Lauren Parks, Sarah R. Meyer, Liberata Muhorakeye and Lindsay Stark

Understanding the micro and macro politics of health: Inequalities, intersectionality & institutions - A research agenda pp. 92-98

Anna Gkiouleka, Tim Huijts, Jason Beckfield and Clare Bambra

Returns home by children and changes in parents’ well-being in Europe pp. 99-106

Marco Tosi and Emily Grundy

Political economy of hope as a cultural facet of biomedicalization: A qualitative examination of constraints to hospice utilization among U.S. end-stage cancer patients pp. 107-113

Emily Hammad Mrig and Karen Lutfey Spencer

A systematic review of the methodological and practical challenges of undertaking randomised-controlled trials with cognitive disability populations pp. 114-128

Peter Mulhall, Laurence Taggart, Vivien Coates, Toni McAloon and Angela Hassiotis

“Nothing is going to change three months from now”: A mixed methods characterization of food bank use in Greater Vancouver pp. 129-136

Eleanor Holmes, Jennifer L. Black, Amber Heckelman, Scott A. Lear, Darlene Seto, Adeleke Fowokan and Hannah Wittman

Media coverage of the Zika crisis in Brazil: The construction of a ‘war’ frame that masked social and gender inequalities pp. 137-144

Barbara Ribeiro, Sarah Hartley, Brigitte Nerlich and Rusi Jaspal

Assessing the feasibility of community health insurance in Uganda: A mixed-methods exploratory analysis pp. 145-155

Mario Biggeri, M. Nannini and G. Putoto

Low perceived control over health is associated with lower treatment uptake in a high mortality population of Bolivian forager-farmers pp. 156-165

Sarah Alami, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan and Michael Gurven

Unintended consequences of the ‘bushmeat ban’ in West Africa during the 2013–2016 Ebola virus disease epidemic pp. 166-173

Jesse Bonwitt, Michael Dawson, Martin Kandeh, Rashid Ansumana, Foday Sahr, Hannah Brown and Ann H. Kelly

Gender inequality, economic growth, and the intergenerational transmission of adverse health consequences at birth pp. 174-181

Mengcen Qian, Shin-Yi Chou, Mary E. Deily and Jin-Tan Liu

Rethinking health sector procurement as developmental linkages in East Africa pp. 182-189

Maureen Mackintosh, Paula Tibandebage, Mercy Karimi Njeru, Joan Kariuki Kungu, Caroline Israel and Phares G.M. Mujinja

Getting pain on the table in primary care physical exams pp. 190-198

Amanda McArthur

Trajectories of women's abortion-related care: A conceptual framework pp. 199-210

Ernestina Coast, Alison H. Norris, Ann M. Moore and Emily Freeman

Differentiating the effect of social enterprise activities on health pp. 211-217

Bobby Macaulay, Micaela Mazzei, Michael J. Roy, Simon Teasdale and Cam Donaldson

Negotiating relevance in pre-operative assessments pp. 218-226

Bethan Benwell and Catrin S. Rhys

Is there a ‘pig cycle’ in the labour supply of doctors? How training and immigration policies respond to physician shortages pp. 227-237

Xavier Chojnicki and Yasser Moullan

Unequal interactions: Examining the role of patient-centered care in reducing inequitable diffusion of a medical innovation, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine pp. 238-248

Anny T. Fenton, Marc N. Elliott, David C. Schwebel, Zahava Berkowitz, Nicole C. Liddon, Susan R. Tortolero, Paula M. Cuccaro, Suzy L. Davies and Mark A. Schuster

A longitudinal study into the reciprocal effects of identities and smoking behaviour: Findings from the ITC Netherlands Survey pp. 249-257

E. Meijer, B. Van den Putte, W.A. Gebhardt, C. Van Laar, Z. Bakk, A. Dijkstra, G.T. Fong, R. West and M.C. Willemsen

Rethinking the health consequences of social class and social mobility pp. 258-261

Dragos Simandan

Perceived neighborhood characteristics predict severity and emotional response to daily stressors pp. 262-270

Stacey B. Scott, Elizabeth Munoz, Jacqueline A. Mogle, Alyssa A. Gamaldo, Joshua M. Smyth, David M. Almeida and Martin J. Sliwinski

2018, volume 199, articles C

Racial inequalities in health: Framing future research pp. 11-18

Margaret T. Hicken, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Myles Durkee and James S. Jackson

Racialized legal status as a social determinant of health pp. 19-28

Asad L. Asad and Matthew Clair

State-level immigration and immigrant-focused policies as drivers of Latino health disparities in the United States pp. 29-38

Morgan M. Philbin, Morgan Flake, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler and Jennifer S. Hirsch

From undocumented to lawfully present: Do changes to legal status impact psychological wellbeing among latino immigrant young adults? pp. 39-48

Caitlin Patler and Whitney Laster Pirtle

Area racism and birth outcomes among Blacks in the United States pp. 49-55

David H. Chae, Sean Clouston, Connor D. Martz, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, Hannah L.F. Cooper, Rodman Turpin, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz and Michael R. Kramer

Community-level prejudice and mortality among immigrant groups pp. 56-66

Brittany N. Morey, Gilbert C. Gee, Peter Muennig and Mark L. Hatzenbuehler

At the intersection of place, race, and health in Brazil: Residential segregation and cardio-metabolic risk factors in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) pp. 67-76

Sharrelle Barber, Ana V. Diez Roux, Letícia Cardoso, Simone Santos, Veronica Toste, Sherman James, Sandhi Barreto, Maria Schmidt, Luana Giatti and Dora Chor

Segregation and mortality over time and space pp. 77-86

Trevon Logan and John Parman

The enduring impact of historical and structural racism on urban violence in Philadelphia pp. 87-95

Sara F. Jacoby, Beidi Dong, Jessica H. Beard, Douglas J. Wiebe and Christopher N. Morrison

“We black women have to kill a lion everyday”: An intersectional analysis of racism and social determinants of health in Brazil pp. 96-105

Vijaya K. Hogan, Edna M. de Araujo, Kia L. Caldwell, Sarah N. Gonzalez-Nahm and Kristin Z. Black

Structural racism in the workplace: Does perception matter for health inequalities? pp. 106-114

Courtney L. McCluney, Lauren L. Schmitz, Margaret T. Hicken and Amanda Sonnega

A safe haven for the injured? Urban trauma care at the intersection of healthcare, law enforcement, and race pp. 115-122

Sara F. Jacoby, Therese S. Richmond, Daniel N. Holena and Elinore J. Kaufman

Biocultural citizenship and embodying exceptionalism: Biopolitics for sickle cell disease in Brazil pp. 123-131

Melissa S. Creary

Institutional racism in public health contracting: Findings of a nationwide survey from New Zealand pp. 132-139

H. Came, C. Doole, B. McKenna and T. McCreanor

Exploring how prison-based drug rehabilitation programming shapes racial disparities in substance use disorder recovery pp. 140-147

Erin M. Kerrison

The effects of whiteness on the health of whites in the USA pp. 148-156

Jennifer Malat, Sarah Mayorga-Gallo and David R. Williams

The weight of racism: Vigilance and racial inequalities in weight-related measures pp. 157-166

Margaret T. Hicken, Hedwig Lee and Anna K. Hing

Racial disparities in health among nonpoor African Americans and Hispanics: The role of acute and chronic discrimination pp. 167-180

Cynthia G. Colen, David M. Ramey, Elizabeth C. Cooksey and David R. Williams

Tackling racism as a “wicked” public health problem: Enabling allies in anti-racism praxis pp. 181-188

Heather Came and Derek Griffith

Using a structural competency framework to teach structural racism in pre-health education pp. 189-201

Jonathan M. Metzl, JuLeigh Petty and Oluwatunmise V. Olowojoba

Making a difference in medical trainees' attitudes toward Latino patients: A pilot study of an intervention to modify implicit and explicit attitudes pp. 202-208

Mimi V. Chapman, William J. Hall, Kent Lee, Robert Colby, Tamera Coyne-Beasley, Steve Day, Eugenia Eng, Alexandra F. Lightfoot, Yesenia Merino, Florence M. Simán, Tainayah Thomas, Kari Thatcher and Keith Payne

Health care barriers, racism, and intersectionality in Australia pp. 209-218

João L. Bastos, Catherine E. Harnois and Yin C. Paradies

A decade of studying implicit racial/ethnic bias in healthcare providers using the implicit association test pp. 219-229

Ivy W. Maina, Tanisha D. Belton, Sara Ginzberg, Ajit Singh and Tiffani J. Johnson

Transmitting Trauma: A systematic review of vicarious racism and child health pp. 230-240

N.J. Heard-Garris, M. Cale, L. Camaj, M.C. Hamati and T.P. Dominguez