Social Science & Medicine

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2026, volume 390, articles C

A scoping review of variations in psychedelic interventions for psychological suffering associated with the end of life

Sarah Kratina, Carol Strike, Robert Schwartz, Ayah Nayfeh, Sydney Jopling, Chris Lo and Brian Rush

‘Mum feels that the decision has already been made’: From shared decision-making to negotiated compromise in adult social care

Phillip J. Whitehead, Leigh Rooney, Jane Adams-Thomas, Marie Greenup, Anne Raffle, Carole Southall, Stephanie Whittington and Tim Rapley

A scoping review of preference-based instruments for measuring carer outcomes in economic evaluations

Nikki McCaffrey, Lidia Engel, Benjamin Karnon, Julie Ratcliffe, Renske Hoefman, Stacey Rand, Hareth Al-Janabi, David Currow, Madison Frith and Claire Hutchinson

Seeking evidence of intersectional effects in emergency hospital readmissions of adults in England (2016–2019)

Jonathan Spencer, Richard Ward, Mara Bortnowschi, Abeda Mulla, Simon Brake, Steven Wyatt and Paramjit Gill

Beyond saturation: A qualitative framework for operationalizing respondent sampling (Q-FORS) for data adequacy

Clarissa Hsu, Delaney Glass, Stephanie Cruz, Andrea Corage Baden and Kirsten Senturia

Loss, inflammation, and cognition: Understanding the lifecourse impact of early life parental disruption

Erika A. Pugh, Gina Lee, Jeffrey E. Stokes, Emily Briggs, Mónika López-Anuarbe and Amanda N. Leggett

Migration trajectories, uncertainty and health: a conceptual review

Eilin Rast, Bianka Detering, Sven Rohleder and Kayvan Bozorgmehr

Methodological assumptions and limitations of life expectancy estimates for minoritised ethnic groups in the UK: implications for validity, practice, and policy

Harry Taylor, Sarah Stopforth, Dharmi Kapadia, James Nazroo, Chris White and Laia Bécares

Beyond Preferences: Rethinking shared decision-making through the Lens of care

Mauro Turrini, Roberta Valenti, Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox, Aarón Zau NKosi Rio, Mette N. Svendsen and Catherine Bourgain

Market failure in a universal welfare state? Ownership, quality, and regulation in Danish social services

Anders Bach-Mortensen, Benjamin Goodair, Ole Helby Petersen and Jon Kvist

Taking a stance about the inner lives of patients with intellectual disabilities: uncertainty as an interactional resource in Discovery Awareness meetings

Joseph Webb, Alison Pilnick and Jennifer Clegg

Evaluating the effectiveness of an integral neighbourhood-oriented approach for healthy ageing: Findings from a cluster-randomised controlled trial in socioeconomically diverse communities

Lieke J.E. Duijsens, Catherine A.W. Bolman, Denise A. Peels, Peter Verboon, Alissa S. Paas and Lilian Lechner

Hospitalization costs of dementia in elderly population in Jilin, China: a quantile regression analysis

Jing Yuan, Yuheng Yin, Keyao Kang and Xihe Yu

Patients as boundary subjects in home care: How patients and their relatives coordinate (inter-)professional work

Marilena Diel, Clarissa E. Weber, Christiane Müller, Eva Hummers and Indre Maurer

Physician networks and the rise of elective obstetric interventions

Will Schupmann, Julien Teitler, Nancy E. Reichman and Kayuet Liu

Obstetric views on reduced preterm birth rates early in the COVID-19 pandemic

Lucia C. Rejzek, Annette Lee, Zaira P. Leal Hernandez, Ramya M. Rajagopalan and Amy L. Non

Hormones, culture and puberty: How clinicians (don't) see gender in persistent pediatric pain

Henni Alava and Venla Oikkonen

Effects of compressed work schedules on sickness absence

Elisabeth Fevang, Andreas Fidjeland, Karen Hauge and Otto Lillebø

Fostering the concept of “inclusion oral health” through experiential learning: A mixed-methods approach to explaining health inequities to dental students

Sonal Bhatia, Vikrant Mohanty, Aswini Y. Balappanavar, Chaity Sarkar, Sneha Malhotra and Radhika Gupta

Minority stress, community involvement, and cognitive decline in rural SGM older adults: A longitudinal SEM and growth curve approach

Harry Barbee and Tara McKay

Finding health in a disadvantaged place: Ethnic differences in multimorbidity by neighbourhood deprivation in England and Wales

Stephen Jivraj, Christopher D. Lloyd, Gemma Catney and David McLennan

Unequal high streets? A spatial analysis of inequalities in health-related amenities in England from 2014-2024

Eman Zied Abozied, Luke Munford, Adam Todd and Clare Bambra

Why is water insecurity so distressing? Evidence from Iran that interpersonal conflict is key

Seyed Ahmad Mir Mohamad Tabar, Alexandra Brewis, Mahmod Teimouri and Maryam Sohrabi

Using leisure to find meaning: Perspectives from youth in Stockholm

Camilla Wasserman and Ulrika Lögdberg

Dual scripts and incongruent innovation: implementing social technology in homecare services

Martin Vinther Bavngaard, Anne Lund and Erik Børve Rasmussen

Structural contradictions in providing opioid use disorder care within the total institution of carceral facilities: Perspectives from patients and community service providers in Maryland

Ashley Q. Truong, Victoria R. Green, Kyle J. Moon, Deborah Agus, Sachini Bandara and Omeid Heidari

“I can't help them like I used to”: Evolving prenatal genetic counseling practices in a post-Roe U.S

Leslie S. Riddle, Julie Harris-Wai, Mary E. Norton, Julia Silver and Galen Joseph

Differential own-price elasticity of demand for prescription drugs by clinical value

Yawen Jiang and Zhanyu Dong

Between relief and estrangement: Family experiences of involuntary treatment for psychosis in South Africa

Alex Freeman, Leslie Swartz and Laila Asmal

Entering medicine “on the wrong side”? Caregiving as a legitimate pathway to medicine

David A. Ansari, Nikki Waltrich, Izziah Thabath, Vivian Nguyen, Vennela Challagondla, Emily R. Via and Joanna Michel

The affective organisation of social infrastructures

Cameron Duff

How social isolation accelerates biological aging: Exploring underlying behavioral and psychological mechanisms

Keun Young Kwon and Jinho Kim

Sustaining healthy food retail: do Australian and New Zealand government policies consider long-term change?

Bettina Backman, Miranda R. Blake, Christina Zorbas, Alexandra Chung, Sally Schulz, Victoria Brown, Päivi Mäki and Serene Yoong

Cognitive function and the social environment: A multilevel approach

Adam R. Roth and Brea L. Perry

The double nexus of clinical management - hybrid doctor-manager roles in Danish hospitals

Amalie M. Hauge, Vibeke Kristine Scheller, Mickael Bech and Marie Henriette Madsen

Evidencing work: implementing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and on-demand dosing in Australia

Martin Holt, Kari Lancaster, Tim Rhodes and Anthony KJ. Smith

The infodemic–pandemic nexus: Cross-national analysis of online misinformation’s impact on population health

Yuxi Wang, Ugofilippo Basellini and Carlo-Giovanni Camarda

Grief and love: Responses to death and disjuncture in homelessness research and practice

Jayne Malenfant

Phenotypes of stigma expressed by people who use drugs on Reddit

Layla Bouzoubaa, Elham Aghakhani and Rezvaneh Rezapour

An infrastructural approach to cross-boundary healthcare access: The case of Hong Kong patients in the Greater Bay Area, China

Xiang Yan, Zixuan Han and Shenjing He

2026, volume 389, articles C

Corrigendum to “Adventurous play for a healthy childhood: Facilitators and barriers identified by parents in Britain” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 323, April 2023, 115828]

Brooke E. Oliver, Rachel J. Nesbit, Rachel McCloy, Kate Harvey and Helen F. Dodd

Economic evaluation of participation in community led organisations for individuals living in disadvantaged areas in the UK

Helen Mason, Nicola Irvine, Sarkis Manoukian, Jack Rendall, Cam Donaldson, Artur Steiner, Michael J. Roy, Jennifer McLean, Michael P. Kelly, Marcello Bertotti, Karen Galway and Rachel Baker

Devolution, health and health inequalities in Greater Manchester

Nicholas Patrick Sweeney

From reporting to relating: Reimagining ePROMs in cancer symptom management

Karen S. Schaepe, Joan M. Griffin, Jennifer L. Ridgeway, Deirdre R. Pachman, Kathryn J. Ruddy, Sarah Minteer, Sandra A. Mitchell, Lila J. Finney-Rutten and Andrea L. Cheville

Birthplace, perinatal loss, and the parity—post-reproductive mortality relationship: Evidence from the Jim Crow-era American South

Cheryl Elman, Andrew S. London and Angela M. O'Rand

Narrating hope among relatives to patients with disorders of consciousness

Hanne Bess Boelsbjerg, Niklas Blond and Mette Terp Høybye

Protective and risk factors for cognitive decline: The role of sex and occupational status

Giulia Sebastianutto, Giovanna Boccuzzo, Sveva Salvi Bentivoglio, Sonia Montemurro, Veronica Pucci and Sara Mondini

Childless and sonless in India: Implications for subjective well-being in mid- and older adulthood

Kriti Vikram, Jinhan Liu and Suhyoon Choi

The contribution of comparative genomics to health geography research: A case study on the identification of sites at which M. ulcerans contamination occurs in Benin

Alexandra Boccarossa, Estelle Marion, Arnaud Lepetit, Martial Briand, Line Ganlonon and Sébastien Fleuret

Promises past and future - Gene therapy and the actualisation of future expectations

Eva Hilberg, Aleksandra Stelmach, Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek and Paul Martin

Rental assistance, housing insecurity, & well-being: Spillover effects of emergency rental assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Vincent A. Fusaro, Christopher Baidoo, Naoka Carey and Rebekah Levine Coley

Moonlighting and subjective wellbeing: Exploring the roles of quality time with children and time stress

Isaac Koomson, Lauren Ball and Amy Kirkegaard

Hegemonic femininity, motherhood, and alcohol in Australia

Maree Patsouras, Gabriel Caluzzi, Cassandra J.C. Wright, Emmanuel Kuntsche, Sarah MacLean and Sandra Kuntsche

Gender, sexuality and viral safety: A mixed-methods examination of the negotiation of risk and precautions through dating apps during a pandemic

Jaime García-Iglesias, Brian Heaphy, Neta Yodovich and Qian Xiong

Understanding patient lived experiences of hospital admission and aftercare following Acute Kidney Injury: A ‘Lifeworld’ perspective

Mark Jeffries, Kelly Howells, Duncan McNab, Caroline Sanders, Robbie Foy and Tom Blakeman

Despite all our rage: An autoethnographic analysis on the role of shared affect in dementia caregiving relationships

Kate Rossiter

Happy mothers, healthy minds: Maternal welfare and children's early development in the global south

Dao Le-Van and Tung Bui

Multiple social positions and well-being among Nordic adolescents: An intersectional MAIHDA analysis of the interplay between gender, age, immigrant background, family structure, and perceived socioeconomic status

Jasmine Gustafsson, Hanna Konttinen, Nelli Lyyra, Nina Simonsen, Charli Eriksson, Anne-Siri Fismen, Einar Thorsteinsson and Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti

Perceptions and misconceptions of PSA screening in Switzerland: A preference epidemiology study

Giovanni Spitale, Federico Germani and Nikola Biller-Andorno

Social inequality in health as a political topic in Denmark in the 21st century

Christopher Jamil de Montgomery and Karsten Vrangbæk

Risk and danger on the rise: Representation of intersex variations of innate sex characteristics in biomedical research

Brian W. King, Carmen Dayrell and Virginia Zorzi

Livable City and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults in China——Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Studies (CHARLS)

Zhixin Feng, Hongyu Chen and Jing Xie

Global, regional, and national burden of DALYs attributable to occupational risks, 1990–2021: Trends and projections to 2030

Xumin Zong, Huai Hu, Haojun Li, Yan Wang, Liqing Du, Chang Xu, Jinhan Wang, Huijuan Song, Ningning He, Manman Zhang, Kaihua Ji, Jingxing Sun, Hongbing Xu, Yeqing Gu and Qiang Liu

Measuring the spatial scale of structural racism and discrimination: Consequences for estimated life expectancy

John R. Hipp, Yuqing Wang, Nisha Gottfredson O'Shea, Robert W. Faris, Dorothy L. Espelage, Alberto Valido and Tamara Taggart

The effects of commuting and working from home arrangements on mental health

Ferdi Botha, Jan Kabátek, Jordy Meekes and Roger Wilkins

Experienced economic segregation and associated mental health inequalities across urbanicity

Yuxuan Zhou and Yi Lu

Effectiveness of a one-year teacher training program in delivering school-based mindfulness on schoolteachers' mental health: A nationwide cluster-randomized trial

Hanne Landgrebe Axelsen, Anna Glavind Müller, Lone Overby Fjorback, Katinka Goetzsche, Heidi Berg Nielsen and Lise Juul

Enhancing patient value co-creation via AI-enabled cases disclosure: The role of uncertainty reduction, patient empowerment and risk aversion

Limin Xiao and Xiaoyun Han

Testing the healthy immigrant effect on youth alcohol use: A longitudinal study

Lydia Muyingo, Sean P. Mackinnon, Simon B. Sherry, Sherry H. Stewart and Patricia J. Conrod

Predicting and explaining recurrent child abuse using interpretable machine learning: Evidence from national-level child abuse data in South Korea (2017–2020)

Donghun Kim, Ting Jiang, Kihyun Kim, Jae-Won Kim and Yongjun Zhu

Urban parks and public health: A multi-scale assessment of park and Covid-19 dynamics on public health in the US

Mahran Gamal N. Mahran, Haoying Han, Mahmoud Mabrouk and Salma Antar A. AbouKorin

COVID-19, economic downturn, and long-term trajectories of population mental health: Evidence from two nationally representative British birth cohorts at the intersection of gender and socioeconomic position

Darío Moreno-Agostino, George B. Ploubidis and Jayati Das-Munshi

Social participation and cognitive function in Chinese older couples: Urban-rural variations in partner effects

Anqi Chen and Shannon Ang

Bridging the digital divide in the pharmaceutical industry: A future research agenda

Mario Miozza, Salvatore M. Lombardo, Marco Galvagno and Luca Magni

Unequal care, unequal health care? Gender differences in health care use after adult care access

Wanying Wang and Joan Costa-Font

Momentary associations between time-varying social contacts and depressive symptomatology in older adults: A GPS-based mobility survey study

Dan Zou, Giovanna Fancello, Andrea Montanari, Suhong Zhou and Basile Chaix

Revisiting the energy-happiness paradox: Energy hardship, housing tenure, and well-being

Gum-Ryeong Park, Bo Zhang and Haitao Du

“At the mercy of the State”: Transgender and nonbinary young adults’ experiences navigating restrictive healthcare legislation

Shannon K. Carter, J. Scott Carter, Sylvia Stewart, Dahlia Wrubluski, Eric W. Schrimshaw and Lindsay A. Taliaferro

Environmental noise, air pollution, and momentary stress: A context- and mobility-based approach

Wanying Song and Mei-Po Kwan

Adverse childhood experiences partially mediate sexual minority disparities in depression, anxiety, and suicidality in a population-based study

Benjamin D. Smart, John E. Pachankis and Richard Bränström

Post-traumatic stress disorder and memory function in older adults exposed to civilian conflict: Findings from the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA)

Claire Potter, Joanne Feeney, Elizabeth Fowler, Amy Jayne McKnight, Frank Kee and Bernadette McGuinness

Being and becoming spouseless in later life: Social support and participation as moderators of psychological well-being

Wen-Chiung Chang, Shiau-Fang Chao, Hui-Chuan Hsu and Ju-Ping Lin

Vouchers to increase fruit affordability in Nigeria and Vietnam

Kate Ambler, Inge D. Brouwer, Alan de Brauw, Sylvan Herskowitz, Truong Tuyet Mai, Giulia Pastori, Folake Samuel, Oluyemisi Shittu and Elise F. Talsma

Incentivizing co-occurring disorder diagnoses through blended payments

Daniel Baslock, Jennifer I. Manuel and Victoria Stanhope

Migrants' and immigrants' understandings of health and disease. Medical diversity in two diverse urban neighbourhoods

Kevin Becker, Frauke Kraas and Carsten Butsch

User-AI intimacy in digital health

Runyu Shi and Dimitra Petrakaki

Corrigendum to ‘Informal payments in Czech healthcare: The blurry line between greed, need, and gratitude’ [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 384, November 2025, 118519]

Kristyna Basna, Jaroslava Pospisilova and Radim Bures

Corrigendum to ‘Livable city and depressive symptoms among older adults in China——Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Studies (CHARLS)’ [Soc. Sci. Med., volume 389 (2026) 1–12/ 118809]

Zhixin Feng, Hongyu Chen and Jing Xie