Social Science & Medicine

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2018, volume 198, articles C

Do we consider paid sick leave when deciding to get vaccinated? pp. 1-6

Namhoon Kim and Travis Mountain

Developing an adequate supply of health services: Taiwan's path to Universal Health Coverage pp. 7-13

Jui-fen Rachel Lu and Tung-liang Chiang

Social cure, what social cure? The propensity to underestimate the importance of social factors for health pp. 14-21

S. Alexander Haslam, Charlotte McMahon, Tegan Cruwys, Catherine Haslam, Jolanda Jetten and Niklas K. Steffens

Latent Semantic Analysis: A new measure of patient-physician communication pp. 22-26

Scott R. Vrana, Dylan T. Vrana, Louis A. Penner, Susan Eggly, Richard B. Slatcher and Nao Hagiwara

Integrating social justice concerns into economic evaluation for healthcare and public health: A systematic review pp. 27-35

Vadim Dukhanin, Alexandra Searle, Alice Zwerling, David W. Dowdy, Holly A. Taylor and Maria W. Merritt

The effects of exit from work on health across different socioeconomic groups: A systematic literature review pp. 36-45

Rosanne Schaap, Astrid de Wind, Pieter Coenen, Karin Proper and Cécile Boot

The fluidity of biosocial identity and the effects of place, space, and time pp. 46-52

Daniel Wiese, Jeronimo Rodriguez Escobar, Yohsiang Hsu, Rob J. Kulathinal and Allison Hayes-Conroy

Imagined futures in living with multiple conditions: Positivity, relationality and hopelessness pp. 53-60

Lindsay-Ann Coyle and Sarah Atkinson

Are life-extending treatments for terminal illnesses a special case? Exploring choices and societal viewpoints pp. 61-69

Neil McHugh, Job van Exel, Helen Mason, Jon Godwin, Marissa Collins, Cam Donaldson and Rachel Baker

Neighborhood cohesion, neighborhood disorder, and cardiometabolic risk pp. 70-76

Jennifer W. Robinette, Susan T. Charles and Tara L. Gruenewald

‘Walk like a penguin’: Older Minnesotans' experiences of (non)therapeutic white space pp. 77-84

Jessica M. Finlay

Commercial versus technical cues to position a new product: Do hedonic and functional/healthy packages differ? pp. 85-94

Natalia Vila-López and Inés Küster-Boluda

‘Complexity-compatible’ policy for integrated care? Lessons from the implementation of Ontario's Health Links pp. 95-102

Agnes Grudniewicz, Tim Tenbensel, Jenna M. Evans, Carolyn Steele Gray, G. Ross Baker and Walter P. Wodchis

Is envy harmful to a society's psychological health and wellbeing? A longitudinal study of 18,000 adults pp. 103-111

Redzo Mujcic and Andrew Oswald

Young Africans' social representations of rape in their HIV-related creative narratives, 2005–2014: Rape myths and alternative narratives pp. 112-120

Robyn Singleton, Kate Winskell, Siphiwe Nkambule-Vilakati and Gaëlle Sabben

The stigma associated with bereavement by suicide and other sudden deaths: A qualitative interview study pp. 121-129

Alexandra L. Pitman, Fiona Stevenson, David P.J. Osborn and Michael B. King

Does college major matter for women's and men's health in midlife? Examining the horizontal dimensions of educational attainment pp. 130-138

Jennifer Karas Montez, Wencheng Zhang, Anna Zajacova and Tod G. Hamilton

Mobile phone use among patients and health workers to enhance primary healthcare: A qualitative study in rural South Africa pp. 139-147

Jocelyn Olivia Todd Anstey Watkins, Jane Goudge, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé and Frances Griffiths

Health equity monitoring for healthcare quality assurance pp. 148-156

R. Cookson, Miqdad Asaria, S. Ali, R. Shaw, T. Doran and P. Goldblatt

Taking the heat or taking the temperature? A qualitative study of a large-scale exercise in seeking to measure for improvement, not blame pp. 157-164

Natalie Armstrong, Liz Brewster, Carolyn Tarrant, Ruth Dixon, Janet Willars, Maxine Power and Mary Dixon-Woods

Advancing methods for health priority setting practice through the contribution of systems theory: Lessons from a case study in Ethiopia pp. 165-174

Kadia Petricca, Asfaw Bekele, Whitney Berta, Jennifer Gibson and Clare Pain

The impact of ART initiation on household food security over time pp. 175-184

Bryan N. Patenaude, Natsayi Chimbindi, Deenan Pillay and Till Bärnighausen

2018, volume 197, articles C

Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and maternal depressive symptoms: Moderation by program perception pp. 1-8

Rachel S. Bergmans, Lawrence M. Berger, Mari Palta, Stephanie A. Robert, Deborah B. Ehrenthal and Kristen Malecki

The impact of free healthcare on women's capability: A qualitative study in rural Burkina Faso pp. 9-16

Oumar Mallé Samb and Valery Ridde

How do peers influence BMI? Evidence from randomly assigned classrooms in South Korea pp. 17-23

Jaegeum Lim and Jonathan Meer

Therapeutic landscapes and longevity: Wellness tourism in Bama pp. 24-32

Liyuan Huang and Honggang Xu

Swing voting in the 2016 presidential election in counties where midlife mortality has been rising in white non-Hispanic Americans pp. 33-38

Usama Bilal, Emily A. Knapp and Richard S. Cooper

Hunter-gatherer health and development policy: How the promotion of sedentism worsens the Agta's health outcomes pp. 39-48

Abigail E. Page, Tessa Minter, Sylvain Viguier and Andrea Bamberg Migliano

Supportive environments for physical activity in deprived communities in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study using photo elicitation pp. 49-58

Alexia Sawyer, Marcella Ucci, Russell Jones, Lee Smith and Abi Fisher

Updating Edwin Chadwick's seminal work on geographical inequalities by occupation pp. 59-62

Mark A. Green, Danny Dorling and Richard Mitchell

The consequence of “doing nothing”: Family caregiving for Alzheimer's disease as non-action in the US pp. 63-70

Aaron T. Seaman

“That wasn't really a place to worry about diabetes”: Housing access and diabetes self-management among low-income adults pp. 71-77

Danya E. Keene, Monica Guo and Sascha Murillo

Experiences of connectivity and severance in the wake of a new motorway: Implications for health and well-being pp. 78-86

Amy Nimegeer, Hilary Thomson, Louise Foley, Shona Hilton, Fiona Crawford and David Ogilvie

The symbolic affordances of a video-mediated gaze in emergency psychiatry pp. 87-94

Marianne V. Trondsen, Aksel Tjora, Alex Broom and Graham Scambler

Nourishing networks: A social-ecological analysis of a network intervention for improving household nutrition in Western Kenya pp. 95-103

Autumn L. DeLorme, Erika R. Gavenus, Charles R. Salmen, Gor Ouma Benard, Brian Mattah, Elizabeth Bukusi and Kathryn J. Fiorella

The effect of partners' education on women's reproductive and maternal health in developing countries pp. 104-115

Vissého Adjiwanou, Moussa Bougma and Thomas LeGrand

Marital status integration and suicide: A meta-analysis and meta-regression pp. 116-126

Woo Kyung-Sook, Shin SangSoo, Shin Sangjin and Shin Young-Jeon

High social trust associated with increased depressive symptoms in a longitudinal South African sample pp. 127-135

Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian and Mauricio Avendano

Timing of poverty in childhood and adolescent health: Evidence from the US and UK pp. 136-143

Michael J. Green, Haley Stritzel, Chelsea Smith, Frank Popham and Robert Crosnoe

Safety in stigmatizing? Instrumental stigma beliefs and protective sexual behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 144-152

David A. Cort and Hsin Fei Tu

Adolescent mental health and behavioural problems, and intergenerational social mobility: A decomposition of health selection effects pp. 153-160

Lewis Robert Anderson

“I'm a normal autistic person, not an abnormal neurotypical”: Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis as biographical illumination pp. 161-167

Catherine D. Tan

Self-rated health and endogenous selection into primary care pp. 168-182

Fırat Bilgel and Burhan Karahasan

Contextualizing public stigma: Endorsed mental health treatment stigma on college and university campuses pp. 183-191

S. Michael Gaddis, Daniel Ramirez and Erik L. Hernandez

Household water insecurity after a historic flood: Diarrhea and dehydration in the Bolivian Amazon pp. 192-202

Asher Y. Rosinger

The next Sub Saharan African epidemic? A case study of the determinants of cervical cancer knowledge and screening in Kenya pp. 203-212

Joseph Kangmennaang, Elizabeth O. Onyango, Isaac Luginaah and Susan J. Elliott

The impact of the Great Recession on health-related risk factors, behaviour and outcomes in England pp. 213-225

Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Victoria Serra-Sastre and Sotiris Vandoros

Path analysis of warning label effects on negative emotions and quit attempts: A longitudinal study of smokers in Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the US pp. 226-234

Yoo Jin Cho, James F. Thrasher, Hua-Hie Yong, André Salem Szklo, Richard J. O'Connor, Maansi Bansal-Travers, David Hammond, Geoffrey T. Fong, James Hardin and Ron Borland

Positive emotional well-being, health Behaviors, and inflammation measured by C-Reactive protein pp. 235-243

Gail Ironson, Nikhil Banerjee, Calvin Fitch and Neal Krause

2018, volume 196, articles C

Bringing urban governance back in: Neighborhood conflicts and depression pp. 1-9

Qiang Fu

Going viral in PNG – Exploring routes and circumstances of entry of a rabies-infected dog into Papua New Guinea pp. 10-18

Victoria J. Brookes, Chris Degeling and Michael P. Ward

Quasi-experimental evidence on tobacco tax regressivity pp. 19-28

Steven Koch

“It's gym, like g-y-m not J-i-m”: Exploring the role of place in the gendering of physical activity pp. 29-36

Stephanie E. Coen, Mark W. Rosenberg and Joyce Davidson

Autonomy to health care professionals as a vehicle for value-based health care? Results of a quasi-experiment in hospital governance pp. 37-46

Kristian Nørgaard Larsen, Søren Kristensen and Rikke Søgaard

Social interaction and pain: An arctic expedition pp. 47-55

Per Block, Lauren C. Heathcote and Stephanie Burnett Heyes

Green space and cognitive ageing: A retrospective life course analysis in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 pp. 56-65

Mark P.C. Cherrie, Niamh K. Shortt, Richard J. Mitchell, Adele M. Taylor, Paul Redmond, Catharine Ward Thompson, John M. Starr, Ian J. Deary and Jamie R. Pearce

Enhancing handwashing frequency and technique of primary caregivers in Harare, Zimbabwe: A cluster-randomized controlled trial using behavioral and microbial outcomes pp. 66-76

Max N.D. Friedrich, Andreas Kappler and Hans-Joachim Mosler

Peer norms moderate the association between mental health and sexual risk behaviors among young men living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania pp. 77-85

L.M. Hill, J. Moody, N.C. Gottfredson, L.J. Kajula, B.W. Pence, V.F. Go and S. Maman

Health care at birth and infant mortality: Evidence from nighttime deliveries in Nigeria pp. 86-95

Edward N. Okeke and Amalavoyal Chari

Synthetic social support: Theorizing lay health worker interventions pp. 96-105

Nicola K. Gale, Sara Kenyon, Christine MacArthur, Kate Jolly and Lucy Hope

“Do-it-yourself”: Vaccine rejection and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) pp. 106-114

Katie Attwell, Paul R. Ward, Samantha B. Meyer, Philippa J. Rokkas and Julie Leask

Social capital, income inequality and the social gradient in self-rated health in Latin America: A fixed effects analysis pp. 115-122

Natalia Vincens, Maria Emmelin and Martin Stafström

From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices: A scoping review pp. 123-130

Sarah L. Bell, Ronan Foley, Frank Houghton, Avril Maddrell and Allison M. Williams

Government health insurance and spatial peer effects: New evidence from India pp. 131-141

Chirantan Chatterjee, Radhika Joshi, Neeraj Sood and P. Boregowda

The possible worlds of global health research: An ethics-focused discourse analysis pp. 142-149

Ben Brisbois and Katrina Plamondon

Female garment workers’ experiences of violence in their homes and workplaces in Bangladesh: A qualitative study pp. 150-157

Ruchira Naved, Tabassum Rahman, Samantha Willan, Rachel Jewkes and Andrew Gibbs

State-level climate, anti-discrimination law, and sexual minority health status: An ecological study pp. 158-165

Alexa Solazzo, Tony N. Brown and Bridget K. Gorman

Private or public hospital ownership: Does it really matter? pp. 166-174

Afsaneh Bjorvatn

Research altruism as motivation for participation in community-centered environmental health research pp. 175-181

Jennifer S. Carrera, Phil Brown, Julia Green Brody and Rachel Morello-Frosch

“One of the greatest medical success stories:” Physicians and nurses’ small stories about vaccine knowledge and anxieties pp. 182-189

Terra Manca

Courtesy stigma: A concealed consternation among caregivers of people affected by leprosy pp. 190-196

Mavis Dako-Gyeke

Longitudinal analysis of the impact of economic empowerment on risk for intimate partner violence among married women in rural Maharashtra, India pp. 197-203

Anita Raj, Jay G. Silverman, Jeni Klugman, Niranjan Saggurti, Balaiah Donta and Holly B. Shakya

50 years of medical health geography(ies) of health and wellbeing pp. 206-208

Susan J. Elliott

Fifty years of sociological leadership at Social Science and Medicine pp. 209-215

Stefan Timmermans and Caroline Tietbohl

Health policy: A reflection and look forward pp. 216-217

Winnie C. Yip

What are the keys to a longer, happier life? Answers from five decades of health psychology research pp. 218-226

Blair T. Johnson and Rebecca L. Acabchuk

A history that goes hand in hand: Reflections on the development of health economics and the role played by Social Science & Medicine, 1967–2017 pp. 227-232

Joanna Coast

The field of medical anthropology in Social Science & Medicine pp. 233-239

Catherine Panter-Brick and Mark Eggerman

Social epidemiology for the 21st century pp. 240-245

Ichiro Kawachi and S.V. Subramanian