Social Science & Medicine

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2024, volume 360, articles C

Associations between historical and contemporary measures of structural racism and leukocyte telomere length: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Elleni M. Hailu, Xing Gao, Belinda L. Needham, Teresa Seeman, Tené T. Lewis and Mahasin S. Mujahid

Heating or eating? The framing of food and fuel poverty in UK news media

Sarah N. Champagne, Jennie I. Macdiarmid, Omotayo Olusola, Euan Phimister and Aravinda Meera Guntupalli

Away from home, into the fields: Assessing the health of undocumented and indigenous farmworkers

Christina J. Diaz, Erick Samayoa, Sergio Chavez and Victoria Bejarano

Re-municipalising sociospatial infrastructure: A journeying ethnography of Greater Manchester's dementia (un)friendly buses

James Rupert Fletcher

Perceptions of impure innovation: Health professionals’ experiences and management of stigmatization when working as digital innovators

Michael J. Gill, Bernard D. Naughton, Megan Field and Sara E. Shaw

Trust in government, social media and willingness to vaccinate

Nicky Nicholls, Michelle Pleace and Eleni Yitbarek

Renegotiation, uncertainty, imagination: Assemblage perspectives on reproductive and family planning with an Inborn Error of immunity

Hannah R. Davidson, Leila Jamal, Rebecca Mueller, Morgan Similuk and Jill Owczarzak

Pandemic communication in times of populism: Politicization and the COVID communication process in Brazil, Poland, Serbia and the United States

Daniel C. Hallin, Sabina Mihelj, Paulo Ferracioli, Nithyanand Rao, Katarzyna Vanevska, Ana Stojiljković, Beata Klimkiewicz, Danilo Rothberg and Václav Štětka

The development of a capability wellbeing measure in economic evaluation for children and young people aged 11-15

Samantha Husbands, Paul Mark Mitchell, Philip Kinghorn, Sarah Byford, Katie Breheny, Cara Bailey, Paul Anand, Tim J. Peters, Isabella Floredin and Joanna Coast

Contested quantification for planetary health – A sociotechnical analysis of Bangladesh's water salinity monitoring infrastructure

Paula Hepp, Mohammed Nadiruzzaman and Anja Krumeich

Bridging social capital among Facebook users and COVID-19 cases growth in Arizona

Maria Boby, Hyunsung Oh, Flavio Marsiglia and Li Liu

The transmission of social inequalities through economic difficulties and lifestyle factors on body mass index: An intersectional mediation analysis in the Swedish population

Antonio Moreno-Llamas, Miguel San Sebastián and Per E. Gustafsson

Financial struggles and coping with the aftermath of breast cancer care: An ethnographic study in Vietnam

Trang T. Do, Andrea Whittaker and Mark DM. Davis

Time preference shifts in medical decision-making after serious illness

Biao Xu, Yi-Fan Shao, Hai-Ling Xi, Shi-Yun Chang and Zhi-Qiang Ge

Social mechanisms behind the poor health of marginalized Roma: Novel insights and implications from four ethnographic studies in Slovakia

Andrej Belak, Jitse P. van Dijk and Sijmen A. Reijneveld

White privilege, ethnic disadvantage, and stigmatized linguistic capital: COVID-19 infection rates and lockdown law enforcement in Hong Kong

Vera W.H. Yuen

Racism, not race: Quantitative analysis of the use of race and racism in the addiction literature

Spencer Dunleavy, Jeremiah Douchee, Tina Liu, Natrina L. Johnson, Miriam Komaromy and Avik Chatterjee

Healthcare compassion interventions co-design and feasibility inquiry with clinicians and healthcare leaders in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Alina Pavlova, Sarah-Jane Paine, Amelie Tuato'o and Nathan S. Consedine

Adolescent depressive symptoms and memory performance in young adulthood: Testing critical period, accumulation, and pathway models using a sibling comparison design

Jinho Kim, Gum-Ryeong Park and Hayun Jang

Explainability of artificial neural network in predicting career fulfilment among medical doctors in developing nations: Applicability and implications

Dara Thomas, Ying Li, Chiagoziem C. Ukwuoma and Joel Dossa

Towards a better understanding of inequity and the psychological processes underlying the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status

Roy Otten and Thao Ha

A comparison of heat effects on road injury frequency between active travelers and motorized transportation users in six tropical and subtropical cities in Taiwan

Cheng-Kai Hsu and Daniel A. Rodríguez

Understanding the motivations behind deliberate lightening of skin among burkinabe women through a socio-anthropological analysis

Abdramane Berthé

Coping, surviving, or thriving: A scoping review examining social support for migrant care workers through four theoretical lenses

Danni Liao, Manuel D. Pulido and Yang Liu

Associations of childhood household dysfunction and healthy lifestyle with depressive symptoms in adolescents

Weiqing Jiang, Shuyi Peng, Qianyu Liu, Ciyong Lu, Yanyan Ni and Lan Guo

Trapped in a maze: A meta-ethnography of women's experiences of alcohol use in pregnancy

Isabella Pistone, Bente Dahl and Terese Bondas

Biopsychosocial pathways model of early childhood appetite self-regulation: Temperament as a key to modulation of interactions among systems

Sehyun Ju, Brent A. McBride, Merin Oleschuk and Kelly K. Bost

Which comes first? Comorbidity of depression and anxiety symptoms: A cross-lagged network analysis

Hongyu Zou, Junyao Gao, Wanchun Wu, Lijuan Huo and Wei Zhang

Loneliness and social isolation amongst refugees resettled in high-income countries: A systematic review

Thomas P. Nguyen, Mariam Al Asaad, Michelle Sena and Shameran Slewa-Younan

Social determinants of health analysis makes causal inference and requires analytic epidemiology methods

Qiang Xia, Yingjie Zheng, Mei-Chia Fong, Ellen W. Wiewel, Cristina Rodriguez-hart and Lucia V. Torian

The impact of home mechanical ventilation on the time and manner of death for those with Motor neurone disease (MND): A qualitative study of bereaved family members

Glenys Caswell and Eleanor Wilson

Funding priorities and health outcomes in Danish medical research

Emil Bargmann Madsen and Jens Peter Andersen

Obstetric violence in the context of community violence: The case of Mexico

Orsola Torrisi, Signe Svallfors and Maria Gargiulo

The reproductive geography of miscarriages. Social identities, places, and reproductive inequalities

Chiara Chiavaroli

Homes of substance: Drugs and the making of home/lessness for 2S/LGBTQ+ youth

Trevor Goodyear, Emily Jenkins, Danya Fast, John L. Oliffe, Hannah Kia, Iliyah Katriana and Rod Knight

2024, volume 359, articles C

Understanding the roles of Alternative Rites of Passage and Public Declarations in FGM/C abandonment: An ethnographic study among the Loita Maasai, Kenya

Hannelore Van Bavel, Seleyian Agnes Partoip, Hellen Topishia Koyie, Sylvester Parkiswa, Daniel Maibayu and Samuel Kimani

Use of a “baby bottle” to allow a “better-than-nothing” death in older adults infected by COVID-19 in Quebec retirement homes – A case study

Andréanne Robitaille, Pierre Marie David and Johanne Collin

The political stakes of cancer epistemics

Shagufta Bhangu, Violeta Argudo-Portal, Luiz Alves Araújo Neto, Thandeka Cochrane, Masha Denisova and Nickolas Surawy-Stepney

Conformity to masculine norms and its association with drinking behaviors and alcohol-related consequences among adult men: A meta-analysis

Byron L. Zamboanga, Amie R. Newins, Kayla Ford and Jessica K. Perrotte

The role of primary healthcare amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the Family Health Strategy in Brazil

Adriano Dutra Teixeira, Fernando Antonio Postali, Natalia Nunes Ferreira-Batista, Maria Dolores Diaz and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra

Social media delivered mental health campaigns and public service announcements: A systematic literature review of public engagement and help-seeking behaviours

Adriana Draganidis, Anne Nileshni Fernando, Madeline L. West and Gemma Sharp

Violent conflict and the demand for healthcare: How armed conflict reduces trust, instills fear, and increases child mortality

Max Schaub

Balancing the scales? Evaluating the impact of results-based financing on maternal health outcomes and related inequality of opportunity in Zimbabwe

Marshall Makate

Anticipated prehospital decision delay in response to different symptom clusters in acute coronary syndrome: Results from the Spanish Cardiobarometer study

Dafina Petrova, Dunia Garrido, Andrés Catena, José Antonio Ramírez-Hernández, Mitti Blakoe, Nicolás Francisco Fernández-Martínez, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, María José Sánchez and Rocio Garcia-Retamero

Access to natural green spaces and their associations with psychological wellbeing for South Asian people in the UK: A systematic literature review

Mohammed Hamza, Rachael C. Edwards, Jordan D. Beaumont, Laura De Pretto and Alison Torn

“The chaos of not knowing”: Embodied experiences of waiting for public housing redevelopment and relocation

Marisa Westbrook, Solange Muñoz and Jeremy Auerbach

Early-life socioeconomic position and later-life cognitive functioning: A meta-analysis

Hanamori F. Skoblow, Christine M. Proulx, Rahmet Akpolat and Francisco Palermo

Corrigendum to “Experiences of loneliness in lower- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of qualitative studies”[Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 340, January 2024, 116438]

Samia C. Akhter-Khan, Willemijn van Es, Matthew Prina, Vanessa Lawrence, Ilayda Piri, Ami Rokach, Luzia C. Heu and Rosie Mayston

Well-informed or misinformed? News-Finds-Me perception in shaping sexual and reproductive health knowledge and behavioral intentions among Chinese women

Lianshan Zhang, Piper Liping Liu, Chervin Lam and Zhongwei Huang

Introduction to: Unequal care: Trans medicine and health in dangerous times

Stef M. Shuster, Carla A. Pfeffer and Anna Kirkland

Decomposition of the wealth gradient in maternal healthcare quality in low- and middle-income countries

Gil Shapira, Sven Neelsen and Patrick Hoang-Vu Eozenou

Artificial intelligence and the politics of avoidance in global health

Leah Shipton and Lucia Vitale

Socioeconomic position during pregnancy and pre-school exposome in children from eight European birth cohort studies

Costanza Pizzi, Giovenale Moirano, Chiara Moccia, Milena Maule, Antonio D'Errico, Martine Vrijheid, Timothy J. Cadman, Serena Fossati, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Andrea Beneito, Lucinda Calas, Liesbeth Duijts, Ahmed Elhakeem, Jennifer R. Harris, Barbara Heude, Vincent Jaddoe, Deborah A. Lawlor, Sandrine Lioret, Rosemary RC. McEachan, Johanna L. Nader, Marie Pedersen, Angela Pinot de Moira, Katrine Strandberg-Larsen, Mikel Subiza-Pérez, Marina Vafeiadi, Marieke Welten, John Wright, Tiffany C. Yang and Lorenzo Richiardi

Feasibility of big data analytics in disaster psychiatry: Impact of Seoul Itaewon tragedy on sentiment distribution on Twitter

Junhyung Kim, Myung Ki, Jihooon Yang, Cheolwoong Na, Jinseop Kim and Changsu Han

Impacts of women's work and childcare on child illness among Bangladeshi Shodagor communities

Kathrine Starkweather, Monica Keith, Fatema tuz Zohora and Nurul Alam

Indirect victims of violence: Mental health and the close relatives of serious assault victims in England

Elizabeth A. Cook and Sally McManus

Convalescing from SAM: The pitfalls and possibilities of caring for vulnerable children in Harare's high-density neighbourhoods

Tim Brown, Kavita Datta, Shamiso Fernando, Jacqueline Kabongo, Andrew J. Prendergast and Mutsa Bwakura-Dangarembizi

Mobility ideation due to water problems during historic 2022 drought associated with livestock wealth, water and food insecurity, and fingernail cortisol concentration in northern Kenya

Asher Y. Rosinger, Justin Stoler, Leslie B. Ford, Amanda McGrosky, Srishti Sadhir, Matthew Ulrich, Madeleine Todd, Nicole Bobbie, Rosemary Nzunza, David R. Braun, Emmanuel K. Ndiema, Matthew J. Douglass and Herman Pontzer

Instant messengers and health professionals’ agency in Russian clinical settings

Ekaterina Borozdina

The Googling Effect on patient co-creation in physiotherapy service exchange

Waheed Akbar Bhatti, Agnieszka Chwialkowska, Nazim Hussain and Mario Glowik

Persistent low job control and subsequent major depression: A prospective cohort study of Australian working males

Yamna Taouk, Zoe Aitken, Anthony D. LaMontagne and Tania King

“My children will grow up more healthy than me because of the vaccinations they received”: Using the migrant health trajectory model to understand Vietnamese American parents’ attitudes towards vaccinations and the U.S. healthcare system

Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu

Prevalence, incidence, and recovery of metabolic syndrome after the fukushima nuclear power plant disaster: A 10-year longitudinal study

Maiko Fukasawa, Atsushi Shirafuji, Enbo Ma, Kenta Matsuzaki and Tetsuya Ohira

Reconfiguration of uncertainty: Introducing AI for prediction of mortality at the emergency department

Daniel Tyskbo and Jens Nygren