Social Science & Medicine

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2024, volume 362, articles C

Economic policy uncertainty, health status, and mortality

Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei and Miao Yu

Does receipt of social housing impact mental health? Results of a quasi-experimental study in the Greater Toronto Area

James R. Dunn, Katherine L.W. Smith, Paula Smith, Rahim Moineddin, Flora I. Matheson, Stephen W. Hwang, Carles Muntaner, Magdalena Janus and Patricia O'Campo

Dengue fever is not just urban or rural: Reframing its spatial categorization

James A. Trostle, Charlotte Robbins, Betty Corozo Angulo, Andrés Acevedo, Josefina Coloma and Joseph N.S. Eisenberg

The double disadvantage faced by adolescents from low socioeconomic backgrounds with mental health problems affects earnings up to mid-life

Sara Evans-Lacko, Paulino Font Gilabert and Martin Knapp

The effect of cash transfers on health in high-income countries: A scoping review

Robbie Brydon, Saud Bin Haseeb, Gum-Ryeong Park, Carolyn Ziegler, Stephen W. Hwang, Evelyn L. Forget, Navindra Persaud, Arjumand Siddiqi and James R. Dunn

State cigarette taxes, smoking cessation, and implications for the educational gradient in mortality

Alicia R. Riley

Risk factors associated with child maltreatment in the second generation of a prospective longitudinal Australian birth cohort: A MUSP study

Claudia Bull, Mike Trott, Jake Moses Najman, Natasha Reid and Steve Kisely

Interventions addressing systemic racism in the US: A scoping review

Lisvel Matos, Shewit Jaynes, Yolanda M. VanRiel, Nadine J. Barrett, Leila Ledbetter, Allen A. Cadavero, Ernest A. Grant, Michelle A. Webb and Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda

Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is uniquely linked to suicidality beyond posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults with childhood maltreatment: A multinational study across four countries

Dennis Chong, Diyang Qu, Yingjun Xi and Runsen Chen

Mlambe economic and relationship-strengthening intervention for alcohol use decreases violence and improves relationship quality in couples living with HIV in Malawi

Amy A. Conroy, Allison Ruark, Nancy Mulauzi, James Mkandawire, Lynae A. Darbes, Judith A. Hahn, Torsten B. Neilands, Scott Tebbetts and Fred M. Ssewamala

The role of toilets in public spaces: An interview study with individuals experiencing gastrointestinal issues

Anja Fleten Nielsen

Ukrainian women's maternity care strategies in Poland after the outbreak of the full-scale war: Understanding unequal access to quality care

Maria Węgrzynowska, Nina Sahraoui, Ilona Nenko, Beata Szlendak and Barbara Baranowska

The journey of a living statue: Structural violence and a Honduran migrant woman's pathway toward asylum and wellbeing

Brenda K. Wilson, Cristina Calderon, Ash Cornejo and Thomas J. Csordas

Associations between the urban neighbourhood built and social environment characteristics with physical functioning among mid- and older-aged adults: A systematic review

Pouya Molaei, Mehdi Alidadi, Hannah Badland and Lucy Gunn

From risk factors to disease situations: A socio-spatial analysis of COVID-19 experiences in Lima, Peru

Claudia Nieto-Sanchez, Stefanie Dens, Jesus Cisneros, Karla Solari, Mario De Los Santos, Victor Vega, Alfonso Silva-Santiesteban, Larissa Otero, Koen Peeters Grietens and Kristien Verdonck

Suicide variations between English neighbourhoods over 2017-21: The role of spatial scale

Peter Congdon

One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Mitsuri Pacheco-Zapata, Fernanda Pérez-Lombardini, Benjamin Roche, Audrey Arnal, Erika Marcé and Gerardo Suzán

Association between husband's participation in household work and the onset of depressive symptoms in married women: A population-based longitudinal study in South Korea

Seong-Uk Baek, Yu-Min Lee, Jong-Uk Won and Jin-Ha Yoon

Childhood mental health and educational attainment: Within-family associations in a late 20th Century U.S. birth cohort

Joshua Klugman, Jason Schnittker and Victoria Vazquez

Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia

Mari Tvaliashvili, Lela Sulaberidze, Catherine Goodman, Kara Hanson and George Gotsadze

Trajectories of physiological stress markers over time among Latinx immigrants in the United States: Influences of acculturative stressors and psychosocial resilience

R.M. Gonzalez-Guarda, W. Pan, P. Buzelli, B. Mack, B.E. McCabe, A. Stafford, A. Tana and J.K.L. Walker

The adoption and implementation of local government planning policy to manage hot food takeaways near schools in England: A qualitative process evaluation

S. Hassan, C. Thompson, J. Adams, M. Chang, D. Derbyshire, M. Keeble, B. Liu, O.T. Mytton, J. Rahilly, B. Savory, R. Smith, M. White, T. Burgoine and S. Cummins

Sex-specific co-developmental trajectories of childhood victimization among elementary school students: Relations to social behavior

Ruorong Jin, E. Scott Huebner and Lili Tian

Racism-related experiences and substance use: A systematic and meta-analytic review

Chantel T. Ebrahimi, Hannah Song, Monica Machado, Pamela Segura, Adriana Espinosa and Lillian Polanco-Roman

Healthcare providers’ psychological investment in clinical recommendations: Investigating the role of implicit racial attitudes

Conor M.C. Duffy, Emerson Do Bú, Cícero Roberto Pereira, Filipa Madeira and Nao Hagiwara

Closing the life expectancy gap: An ecological study of the factors associated with smaller regional health inequalities in post-reunification Germany

Julija Simpson, Viviana Albani, Andrew Kingston and Clare Bambra

Social determinants of participation in genetic research among Puerto Ricans and in the Puerto Rican diaspora

Timothy De Ver Dye, Zahira Quiñones Tavárez, Ivelisse Rivera and Nancy Cardona Cordero

Effect of particulate matter on cognitive function among middle-aged and older adults in China: An instrumental variable approach

Qi Zhao, Alessandro Del Ponte, Saima Hilal and Wei Jie Seow

Self-rated health predicts mortality -- but it depends on your age

Emily C. Dore and Ellen Idler

From public health to political repression: COVID-19 lockdown measure in Hong Kong's opposition districts

Vera W.H. Yuen

Do discrepancies between subjective and objective health shift over time in later life? A markov transition model

Bill Calvey, Joanna McHugh Power, Rebecca Maguire, Rafael de Andrade Moral and Idemauro Antonio Rodrigues de Lara

A low-cost digital first aid tool to reduce psychological distress in refugees: A multi-country randomized controlled trial of self-help online in the first months after the invasion of Ukraine

Anastasiya-Mariya Asanov, Igor Asanov and Guido Buenstorf

“They are not even called by name”: Security guards in a South African psychiatric hospital

Saskia Hanft-Robert, Lindokuhle Shongwe, Qhama Cossie, Philasande Sithole, Tessa Roos, Mike Mösko and Leslie Swartz

Person-first and identity-first disability language: Informing client centred care

Lisa B. Grech, Donna Koller and Amanda Olley

Easing caregiver strain: The power of health check-ups

Lin Guo, Bin Sang, Linlin Zhang, Wenqiang Yin, Xiaoping Yuan and Chunxiao Ma

Mind the glass ceiling: The gender gap in how depressive symptoms after age 55 relate to earlier career mobility in CONSTANCES

Constance Beaufils, Emmanuel Wiernik and Emmanuelle Cambois

Association between precarious employment and emergence of food insecurity in Korean adults: A population-based longitudinal analysis (2008–2022)

Seong-Uk Baek and Jin-Ha Yoon

Repairing with a warm heart: How medical practitioners cultivate affective relationships with clients

Dan Liu and Xiaoli Tian

Social and policy characteristics associated with injurious shootings by police in US counties: A multilevel analysis, 2015–2020

Julie A. Ward, Odis Johnson, Javier A. Cepeda, Dylan B. Jackson, Daniel W. Webster and Cassandra K. Crifasi

Context dependent preferences in prestige bias learning about vaccination in rural Namibian pastoralists

Sean Prall, Brooke Scelza and Helen Elizabeth Davis

Hierarchy, class, race and PPE in an American hospital in the early days of COVID-19: What the pandemic stress test can teach us about building equitable health systems

Svea Closser, Erin Cooney, Kaitlyn Atkins, Soim Park, Hannah Fritz, Sarah Schneider-Firestone and Tener Veenema

Later-life social network profiles of male war survivors in Vietnam: Implications for health behaviors

Timothy Qing Ying Low, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Zachary Zimmer and Tran Khanh Toan

Understanding health and illness among incarcerated persons in the Slovenian correctional system: A qualitative study

Mirko Prosen and Aleksandra Lukić

Hazardous alcohol use is associated with food insecurity in adults living alone: Findings from a nationwide study in Korea

Seong-Uk Baek, Yu-Min Lee, Jin-Ha Yoon and Jong-Uk Won

Changes in suicide inequalities in the context of an increase and a decrease in suicide mortality: The case of South Korea, 1995–2020

Minji Hwang, Shu-Sen Chang, Changsu Han, Seung-ah Choe, Jiseun Lim and Myung Ki

Divergence in smoking and drinking trends: Results from age-period-cohort analytical approach

Duyen Nguyen, Michael Donnelly and Ciaran O'Neill

Longitudinal bidirectional relations between psychological maltreatment by teachers and psychosocial adjustment during early adolescence

Meiru Deng, Mao Wen, E. Scott Huebner and Lili Tian

From subsidies to nutrition: Investigating effects among cohort children from the Subsidy Reinvestment programme in Nigeria

Uchenna Efobi, Oluwabunmi Adejumo, Obianuju Nnadozie, Oluwasola Omoju and Adeniyi Ekisola

Thermal comfort and gender affirmation: A virtual ethnography of extreme heat among trans women in Rio de Janeiro

Antonella Mazzone

2024, volume 361, articles C

The effect of public tolerance towards corruptive behaviour on healthcare efficiency and equity – The case of the UK's COVID-19 vaccination programme

Franziska Sohns, Stefano Ghinoi and Magdalena Langosch

Racism and health and wellbeing among children and youth–An updated systematic review and meta-analysis

Naomi Priest, Kate Doery, Chiao Kee Lim, Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Georgia Zoumboulis, Gabriella King, Dewan Lamisa, Fan He, Rushani Wijesuriya, Camila M. Mateo, Shiau Chong, Mandy Truong, Ryan Perry, Paula Toko King, Natalie Paki Paki, Corey Joseph, Dot Pagram, Roshini Balasooriya Lekamge, Gosia Mikolajczak, Emily Darnett, Brigid Trenerry, Shloka Jha, Joan Gakii Masunga, Yin Paradies, Yvonne Kelly, Saffron Karlsen and Shuaijun Guo

Cannabis vaping use in emerging adulthood: Characterizing transitions between stages of vaping among a diverse cohort in Texas

Dale S. Mantey, Stephanie L. Clendennen, Baojiang Chen, Sana Amin and Melissa B. Harrell

What matters beyond particle matter?: Examining air pollution's synergistic effects on bodies and health through Bio3Science in Medellin

Luz Adriana Muñoz Duque, Rosa Amelia Estrada Acuña, Tyler Munn, Luis Carlos Bañol Muñoz, Sterling Johnson, Melissa R Gilbert and Allison Hayes-Conroy

Social medicine education towards structural transformation in Palestine

David Mills, Ramya Kumar, Bram Wispelwey, Yara Asi, Osama Tanous, Layth Hanbali, Benjamin Bouquet and Weeam Hammoudeh

Racial discrimination predicts subjective cognitive decline: Perceived relationship support buffers the association

Man-Kit Lei, Stephanie L. Hanus, Leslie G. Simons, Ronald L. Simons and Steven R.H. Beach

Prospective relationships between patterns of religious belief/non-belief and mental health in adults: A UK cohort study

Isaac Halstead, Jon Heron, Connie Svob and Carol Joinson

Improving the management of hospital waiting lists by using nudges in letters: A Randomised controlled trial

Robert P. Murphy, Carol Taaffe, Molly Byrne, Liam Delaney, Pete Lunn, Deirdre A. Robertson, Helen Ryan and Alex M. Wood

Adjusting the risk-adjustment: Accounting for variation between organisations in the responsiveness of their expenditure to need

Sean Urwin, Laura Anselmi, Emmanouil Mentzakis, Yiu-Shing Lau and Matt Sutton

Consubstantialities of resistance: Labor process, (bio)materialities, and pathogenicity

Roberto Rubem da Silva-Brandao

Unplanned births and their effects on maternal Health: Findings from the Constances Cohort

Anna Barbuscia, Ariane Pailhé and Anne Solaz

“The mother seems to traumatize her child”: Examining empathy, denial, and responsibility in day-to-day encounters of families and staff in immigration detention in Canada

Rachel Kronick, Janet Cleveland, Mary Bosworth and Cécile Rousseau

“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity

G. Nduku Wambua, Sanja Kilian and Bonga Chiliza

Measuring the effect of historical structural racism on community firearm violence in US cities

Ariana N. Gobaud, Christopher N. Morrison, Charles C. Branas, Sara Jacoby, Michael Kramer and Paris B. Adkins-Jackson

Own depression, partner's depression, and childlessness: A nationwide register-based study

Sanna Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, Heta Moustgaard, Pekka Martikainen and Mikko Myrskylä

The healthcare support program and healthcare utilization of older adults in ethnic minority areas in Vietnam

Khiem Phuong Huu and Thao Bui

‘All the dykes I know drink beer’: Sexuality and gender performance through alcohol consumption among lesbian, bisexual, and queer women in Australia

Ruby Grant, Jennifer Power, Julie Mooney-Somers, Amy Pennay, Ruth McNair and Adam Bourne

Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults

Hang Li, Huijun Liu and Liqiang Zhao

Sources and processes of social influence on health-related choices: A systematic review based on a social-interdependent choice paradigm

L. Pilli, J. Veldwijk, J.D. Swait, Bas Donkers and E.W. de Bekker-Grob

Estimating exercisality on urban trails using physical exercise trajectory data and network-constrained approach

Cailin Qiu, Jianquan Cheng, Yi Lu and Tianjie Zhang

Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition

Sounman Hong, Suho Ji, Byoung Jai Kim and Hyung Jun Park

Accessing breast cancer care in a protracted conflict: Qualitative exploration of the perspectives of women with breast cancer in northwest Syria

Manar Marzouk, Mohamed Hamze, Jamil Debel, Alaa Alshemali, Boushra Alhussein Alameen, Mariam Bakkour, Bayan Galal, Anees B. Chagpar, Bassel Atassi, Kaveh Khoshnood and Aula Abbara

The mitigating effect of social protection on undernourishment during economic downturns: A longitudinal study of 46 low- and middle-income countries over the last two decades

G. Barreix Sibils, N. Brachowicz, N.J. Silva, E. Landin, I. Macicame, M. Naidoo, G. de Sampaio Morais and D. Rasella

Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community

Jinhui Li and Wen Shi

Food for thought: The intersection between SNAP stigma, food insecurity, and gender

C. Ross Hatton, Carolyn Bresnahan, Anna Claire Tucker, Joelle Johnson, Sara John and Julia A. Wolfson

Prenatal testing technologies in Australia: Unintended clinical and emotional complexities in underprepared systems

Belinda Johnson, Pieta Shakes and Chris Maylea

Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth

Douglas Tharp, Brent M. Kious, Amanda Bakian, Simon Brewer, Scott Langenecker, Mindy Schreiner, Andrey Shabalin, Hilary Coon, Robert C. Welsh and Richard M. Medina

Applying CFIR to assess multi-level barriers to PrEP delivery in rural South Africa: Processes, gaps and opportunities for service delivery of current and future PrEP modalities

Deborah Baron, Hannah H. Leslie, Denny Mabetha, Nozipho Becker, Kathleen Kahn and Sheri A. Lippman

A triple trust penalty? The majority-minority gap in subjective wellbeing

Cary Wu and Ichiro Kawachi

The built environment and its association with type 2 diabetes mellitus incidence: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

Tesfaye Regassa Feyissa, Sarah M. Wood, Krishna Vakil, Kevin MC Namara, Neil T. Coffee, Saad Alsharrah, Mark Daniel and Vincent L. Versace

Corrigendum to Grandparents' educational attainment is associated with grandchildren's epigenetic-based age acceleration in the National Growth and Health Study [Soc. Sci. Med. 355 (2024) 117142]

Agus Surachman, Elissa Hamlat, Anthony S. Zannas, Steve Horvath, Barbara Laraia and Elissa Epel

Corrigendum to “Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement [Soc. Sci. Med. 344 (2024) 116616]”

Katherine Bristowe, Liadh Timmins, Alexandra Pitman, Debbie Braybrook, Steve Marshall, Katherine Johnson, Michael King, Anna Roach, Deokhee Yi, Kathryn Almack, Elizabeth Day, Paul Clift, Ruth Rose and Richard Harding

Types of genetic determinism in direct-to-consumer genetic testing for health

Asia Friedman and Tammy L. Anderson

Risk perception and reappraisal during the COVID-19 pandemic in southeast Alaska: Self-identified determinants of risk and protective health behaviors

Taylor P. van Doren, Ryan A. Brown, Max Izenberg, Callie Simmons, Ron Heintz and Lisa Busch

The impact of place on multimorbidity: A systematic scoping review

Chunyu Zheng, Clare MacRae, Laurence Rowley-Abel, Stella Arakelyan, Eleojo Abubakar, Chris Dibben, Bruce Guthrie, Alan Marshall and Jamie Pearce

Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors

Micaela L. Riethmuller, Elizabeth A. Newnham and Peter M. McEvoy

Depression risk and resilience in a diverse sample of older adults in the United States

Jennifer W. Robinette and Belinda Campos

Open and opaque? The performativity of open priorities in a Norwegian hospital

Andrea Melberg

Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex

Shin-Yii Pua and Rwei-Ling Yu

Friends, neighbors, country, and respect: Status ladders and health behaviors in the United States

Matthew A. Andersson and Bruce G. Link

Socio-economic inequalities in health-related quality of life and the contribution of cognitive impairment in Australia: A decomposition analysis

Rezwanul Haque, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow, Christine Neville and Syed Afroz Keramat

Investigating the links between objective social media use, attentional control, and psychological distress

Chloe N. Jones, Daniel Rudaizky, Tamsin Mahalingham and Patrick J.F. Clarke

Locus of control and the long-term effects of parental smoking on mental health

Rejoice E.A. Churchill and Augustine Asante

From ignorance to awareness: Quality of collaborative governance enhances public awareness of AMR

Daniel Carelli