Social Science & Medicine

Article	Citations
Sample sizes for saturation in qualitative research: A systematic review of empirical tests	1803
How and why patients made Long Covid	578
Health risks and outcomes that disproportionately affect women during the Covid-19 pandemic: A review	382
Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults in Switzerland: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study	362
Associations of COVID-19 risk perception with vaccine hesitancy over time for Italian residents	340
Correlates and disparities of intention to vaccinate against COVID-19	311
Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A social-ecological perspective	266
Vulnerability and resilience to pandemic-related stress among U.S. women pregnant at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic	196
Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review	171
Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities	158
Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The role of pandemic-related stressors	129
SHIFTing artificial intelligence to be responsible in healthcare: A systematic review	119
Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review	115
How do state policies shape experiences of household income shocks and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic?	109
The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis	107
Health outcomes in redlined versus non-redlined neighborhoods: A systematic review and meta-analysis	106
Intersectionality in quantitative health disparities research: A systematic review of challenges and limitations in empirical studies	103
The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework	102
Can a COVID-19 vaccine live up to Americans’ expectations? A conjoint analysis of how vaccine characteristics influence vaccination intentions	101
Evaluating the effect of hierarchical medical system on health seeking behavior: A difference-in-differences analysis in China	98
The disparate impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of female and male caregivers	94
Links between conspiracy beliefs, vaccine knowledge, and trust: Anti-vaccine behavior of Serbian adults	91
Correlates of COVID-19 vaccination intentions: Attitudes, institutional trust, fear, conspiracy beliefs, and vaccine skepticism	89
Why public health framing matters: An experimental study of the effects of COVID-19 framing on prejudice and xenophobia in the United States	88
Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany	85

Long Covid – The illness narratives	80
Neighbourhood deprivation effects on young people's mental health and well-being: A systematic review of the literature	78
Relative food insecurity, mental health and wellbeing in 160 countries	77
The southern rural health and mortality penalty: A review of regional health inequities in the United States	77
COVID-19 information on social media and preventive behaviors: Managing the pandemic through personal responsibility	75
The impact of neighbourhood crime on mental health: A systematic review and meta-analysis	75
COVID-19-related stigma profiles and risk factors among people who are at high risk of contagion	74
Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying and contextualizing variation	72
Reasons for rejecting hormonal contraception in Western countries: A systematic review	71
Changes in social relationships during an initial “stay-at-home” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal survey study in the U.S.	70
An ecological expansion of the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) framework to include threat and deprivation associated with U.S. immigration policies and enforcement practices: An examination of t	69
Globalization and health equity: The impact of structural adjustment programs on developing countries	69
Coping strategies and mental health trajectories during the first 21 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom	65
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation	64
Dutch COVID-19 lockdown measures increased trust in government and trust in science: A difference-in-differences analysis	60
Stigmatize the use, not the user? Attitudes on opioid use, drug injection, treatment, and overdose prevention in rural communities	60
Conspiratorial thinking, selective exposure to conservative media, and response to COVID-19 in the US	59
Crowdfunding as a response to COVID-19: Increasing inequities at a time of crisis	57
Geographic access to COVID-19 healthcare in Brazil using a balanced float catchment area approach	57
Pandemic backsliding: Violations of democratic standards during Covid-19	56
Climate change impacts on the mental health and wellbeing of young people: A scoping review of risk and protective factors	56
Long-term care insurance and the well-being of older adults and their families: Evidence from China	55
Stress, self-compassion, and well-being during the transition to college	54
Understanding at-the-moment stress for parents during COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions	53
A systematic review of suicidal behaviour in men: A narrative synthesis of risk factors	53
Neighborhood built environment associated with cognition and dementia risk among older adults: A systematic literature review	53
Different roles of interpersonal trust and institutional trust in COVID-19 pandemic control	53
Information trust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy amongst middle-aged and older adults in Singapore: A latent class analysis Approach	52
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods	52
Highlighting COVID-19 racial disparities can reduce support for safety precautions among White U.S. residents	52
Power, paradox and pessimism: On the unintended consequences of digital health technologies in primary care	51
Effects of social security policy reforms on mental health and inequalities: A systematic review of observational studies in high-income countries	49
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles	49
Exploring the dynamic relationships between risk perception and behavior in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak	49
Sleep characteristics of U.S. adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	48
Social factors and worry associated with COVID-19: Evidence from a large survey in China	48
Accumulation of economic hardship and health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Social causation or selection?	48
Gendered syndemic of intimate partner violence, alcohol misuse, and HIV risk among peri-urban, heterosexual men in South Africa	48
An EQ-5D-5L value set for Italy using videoconferencing interviews and feasibility of a new mode of administration	48
The interplay between time spent gaming and disordered gaming: A large-scale world-wide study	47
Nudges for COVID-19 voluntary vaccination: How to explain peer information?	47
Mental health inequalities increase as a function of COVID-19 pandemic severity levels	46
Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness: Perspectives from Africa in a Covid-19 era	46
Do personal health concerns and trust in healthcare providers mitigate privacy concerns? Effects on patients’ intention to share personal health data on electronic health records	46
Does unemployment lead to greater levels of loneliness? A systematic review	46
The politics of COVID-19 vaccination in middle-income countries: Lessons from Brazil	45
Changing emotions in the COVID-19 pandemic: A four-wave longitudinal study in the United States and China	45
The contested meaning of “long COVID” – Patients, doctors, and the politics of subjective evidence	45
Using syndemic theory to understand food insecurity and diet-related chronic diseases	45
The evolution of the association between community level social capital and COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the United States	44

Intersectional environmental justice and population health inequalities: A novel approach	44
Intergenerational trauma in Latinxs: A scoping review	44
Natural outdoor environments’ health effects in gentrifying neighborhoods: Disruptive green landscapes for underprivileged neighborhood residents	44
Risk factors for loneliness: A literature review	44
The impact of the consumer and neighbourhood food environment on dietary intake and obesity-related outcomes: A systematic review of causal impact studies	44
The politics of mask-wearing: Political preferences, reactance, and conflict aversion during COVID	43
Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities	43
A realist review to assess for whom, under what conditions and how pay for performance programmes work in low- and middle-income countries	43
Depression in women and men, cumulative disadvantage and gender inequality in 29 European countries	43
Covid-19 vaccination, fear and anxiety: Evidence from Google search trends	43
“And we just have to keep going”: Task shifting and the production of burnout among overdose response workers with lived experience	42
The relation between conspiracism, government trust, and COVID-19 vaccination intentions: The key role of motivation	42
Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: A field experiment in India	42
Area level deprivation and monthly COVID-19 cases: The impact of government policy in England	42
A multi-national test on self-reported compliance with COVID-19 public health measures: The role of individual age and gender demographics and countries’ developmental status	41
Better together: How group-based physical activity protects against depression	41
Power and the people's health	41
Social prescribing and classed inequality: A journey of upward health mobility?	41
The role of financial conditions for physical and mental health. Evidence from a longitudinal survey and insurance claims data	41
Intersectional migration-related health inequalities in Europe: Exploring the role of migrant generation, occupational status & gender	40
Community-level factors and incidence of gun violence in the United States, 2014–2017	40
Pre-loss grief and preparedness for death among caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients: A systematic review	40
The syndemic effects of food insecurity, water insecurity, and HIV on depressive symptomatology among Kenyan women	40
HPV Vaccine Promotion: The church as an agent of change	40
Engagement in leisure activities and depression in older adults in the United States: Longitudinal evidence from the Health and Retirement Study	40
The second pandemic: Examining structural inequality through reverberations of COVID-19 in Europe	39
The impact of food insecurity on mental health in Africa: A systematic review	39
Incorporating Social Determinants of Health into Modelling of COVID-19 and other Infectious Diseases: A Baseline Socio-economic Compartmental Model	39
Educational stressors and secular trends in school stress and mental health problems in adolescents	39
Pathways to well-being: Untangling the causal relationships among biopsychosocial variables	39
Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, mood, and substance use among young adults in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area: Findings from project EAT	38
How are social determinants of health integrated into epigenetic research? A systematic review	38
“Fat broken arm syndrome”: Negotiating risk, stigma, and weight bias in LGBTQ healthcare	38
Comparing the regulation and incentivization of e-cigarettes across 97 countries	38
Altruism and vaccination intentions: Evidence from behavioral experiments	38
“If a rabbi did say ‘you have to vaccinate,’ we wouldn't”: Unveiling the secular logics of religious exemption and opposition to vaccination	38
Racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in U.S. Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy during vaccine rollout and factors that explain them	38
Age disparities in mental health during the COVID19 pandemic: The roles of resilience and coping	38
Alcohol use and the COVID-19 pandemic: Historical trends in drinking, contexts, and reasons for use among U.S. adults	37
“People need them or else they're going to take fentanyl and die”: A qualitative study examining the ‘problem’ of prescription opioid diversion during an overdose epidemic	37
Bowling alone or distancing together? The role of social capital in excess death rates from COVID19	37
Evidence that loneliness can be reduced by a whole-of-community intervention to increase neighbourhood identification	37
The immediate impact of lockdown measures on mental health and couples’ relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic - results of a representative population survey in Germany	37
Why does abortion stigma matter? A scoping review and hybrid analysis of qualitative evidence illustrating the role of stigma in the quality of abortion care	37
Rethinking the relationship between sex work, mental health and stigma: a qualitative study of sex workers in Australia	37
Health, an ageing labour force, and the economy: Does health moderate the relationship between population age-structure and economic growth?	36
The limitations of patient-centered care: The case of early long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) removal	36
Evaluating hypothesized explanations for the Black-white depression paradox: A critical review of the extant evidence	36
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass	36
Providing care under extreme adversity: The impact of the Yemen conflict on the personal and professional lives of health workers	36
Health-tech startups in healthcare service delivery: A scoping review	36
Is austerity a cause of slower improvements in mortality in high-income countries? A panel analysis	35
Placing death and dying: Making place at the end of life	34
Understanding the policy dynamics of COVID-19 in the UK: Early findings from interviews with policy makers and health care professionals	34
Exponential-growth prediction bias and compliance with safety measures related to COVID-19	34
Widowhood, widowhood duration, and loneliness among older adults in China	34
Syndemic theory, methods, and data	34
COVID-19 blues: Lockdowns and mental health-related google searches in Latin America	33
Peer support as a protective factor against suicide in trans populations: A scoping review	33
Market characteristics and zoonotic disease risk perception in Cameroon bushmeat markets	33
Diversified demand for health tourism matters: From a perspective of the intra-industry trade	33
Diverging ideas of health? Comparing the basis of health ratings across gender, age, and country	32
Global capitalism as a societal determinant of health: A conceptual framework	32
Applying an intersectional framework to understand syndemic conditions among young Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men	32
Examining the associations between oral health and social isolation: A cross-national comparative study between Japan and England	32
Racialized algorithms for kidney function: Erasing social experience	32
Is the grass greener on the other side? The health impact of providing informal care in the UK and the Netherlands	32
Location-allocation modelling for rational health planning: Applying a two-step optimization approach to evaluate the spatial accessibility improvement of newly added tertiary hospitals in a metropoli	32
Qualitative study of candidacy and access to secondary mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Change in psychological distress in response to changes in reduced mobility during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence of modest effects from the U.S.	32
Longitudinal interrelationships of mental health discrimination and stigma with housing and well-being outcomes in adults with mental illness and recent experience of homelessness	31
Reduced social activities and networks, but not social support, are associated with cognitive decline among older chinese adults: A prospective study	31
The effects of education on cognition in older age: Evidence from genotyped Siblings	31
Ethnic/racial and gender differences in disordered eating behavior prevalence trajectories among women and men from adolescence into adulthood	31
Two Indias: The structure of primary health care markets in rural Indian villages with implications for policy	31
Associations between self-rated health and depressive symptoms among older adults: Does age matter?	31
Perception of peer advice in online health communities: Access to lay expertise	31
The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia	31
The health impacts of eviction: Evidence from the national longitudinal study of adolescent to adult health	31
Distributive justice in environmental health hazards from industrial contamination: A systematic review of national and near-national assessments of social inequalities	31

Positive and negative perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic: Does personality play a role?	31
Towards healthy China 2030: Modeling health care accessibility with patient referral	31
The effects of India's COVID-19 lockdown on critical non-COVID health care and outcomes: Evidence from dialysis patients	30
Linked fate and mental health among African Americans	30
No new fast-food outlets allowed! Evaluating the effect of planning policy on the local food environment in the North East of England	30
The mental health effects of a Universal Basic Income: A synthesis of the evidence from previous pilots	30
Preferences for long-term care insurance in China: Results from a discrete choice experiment	30
The role of piped water supplies in advancing health, economic development, and gender equality in rural communities	30
Organizational change and everyday health system resilience: Lessons from Cape Town, South Africa	30
Depicting “the system”: How structural racism and disenfranchisement in the United States can cause dynamics in community violence among males in urban black communities	30
Effectiveness of nudges as a tool to promote adherence to guidelines in healthcare and their organizational implications: A systematic review	30
Implementing practices focused on workplace health and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review	30
Frames that matter: Increasing the willingness to get the Covid-19 vaccines	29
The Dyadic Cancer Outcomes Framework: A general framework of the effects of cancer on patients and informal caregivers	29
Trans broken arm syndrome: A mixed-methods exploration of gender-related medical misattribution and invasive questioning	29
“Am I really alive?”: Understanding the role of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in young LGBT+ people's suicidal distress	29
How migrants get integrated in urban China – The impact of health insurance	29
An integrative method for analyzing spatial accessibility in the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system in China	29
Is divisive politics making Americans sick? Associations of perceived partisan polarization with physical and mental health outcomes among adults in the United States	29
Immigration law enforcement, social support, and health for Latino immigrant families in Southeastern Michigan	29
Maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events, but not multi-domain psychosocial stressors, predict placental corticotrophin releasing hormone across pregnancy	29
Emergency Department visits for depression following police killings of unarmed African Americans	29
Momentary loneliness among older adults: Contextual differences and their moderation by gender and race/ethnicity	28
The longitudinal effect of COVID-19 infections and lockdown on mental health and the protective effect of neighbourhood social relations	28
Jab my arm, not my morality: Perceived moral reproach as a barrier to COVID-19 vaccine uptake	28
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway	28
Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission	28
The devolution of eugenic practices: Sexual and reproductive health and oppression of people with intellectual disability	28
The urban public realm and adolescent mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review	27
Gender-related differences in the relationship between social and activity participation and health and subjective well-being in later life	27
How information about race-based health disparities affects policy preferences: Evidence from a survey experiment about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	27
The relationship between rural to urban migration in China and risk of depression in later life: An investigation of life course effects	27
Neighborhood atmosphere modifies the eudaimonic impact of cohesion and friendship among older adults: A multilevel mixed-methods study	27
State abortion policies and Medicaid coverage of abortion are associated with pregnancy outcomes among individuals seeking abortion recruited using Google Ads: A national cohort study	27
Beyond single sleep measures: A composite measure of sleep health and its associations with psychological and physical well-being in adulthood	27
Preventing transition “regret”: An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada	27
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism	27
Health tourism destinations as therapeutic landscapes: Understanding the health perceptions of senior seasonal migrants	27
Drivers of successful implementation of integrated care for multi-morbidity: Mechanisms identified in 17 case studies from 8 European countries	27
Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?	27
Does rental assistance improve mental health? Insights from a longitudinal cohort study	27
What are the challenges for antibiotic stewardship at the community level? An analysis of the drivers of antibiotic provision by informal healthcare providers in rural India	27
Public understandings of potential policy responses to health inequalities: Evidence from a UK national survey and citizens’ juries in three UK cities	27
Stigma and blame related to COVID-19 pandemic: A case-study of editorial cartoons in Canada	26
The crafting of hope: Contextualising add-ons in the treatment trajectories of IVF patients	26
Waiting for the wave: Political leadership, policy windows, and alcohol policy change in Ireland	26
Association between socioeconomic welfare and depression among older adults: Evidence from the China health and Retirement Longitudinal Study	26
Mistrust in public health institutions is a stronger predictor of vaccine hesitancy and uptake than Trust in Trump	26
Post-traumatic stress symptomatology and displacement among Hurricane Harvey survivors	26
Sociopolitical and psychological correlates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States during summer 2021	26
Hospital response to a case-based payment scheme under regional global budget: The case of Guangzhou in China	26
The pilot of a new patient classification-based payment system in China: The impact on costs, length of stay and quality	26
Do we agree or disagree? A systematic review of the application of preference-based instruments in self and proxy reporting of quality of life in older people	26
Household overcrowding trajectories and mental well-being	25
Personality, gender, and age resilience to the mental health effects of COVID-19	25
Beyond rationality: Expanding the practice of shared decision making in modern medicine	25
Plastic diagnostics: The remaking of disease and evidence in personalized medicine	25
Supply-demand adjusted two-steps floating catchment area (SDA-2SFCA) model for measuring spatial access to health care	25
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence	25
Do cognitive styles affect vaccine hesitancy? A dual-process cognitive framework for vaccine hesitancy and the role of risk perceptions	25
Neoliberal discourse, actor power, and the politics of nutrition policy: A qualitative analysis of informal challenges to nutrition labelling regulations at the World Trade Organization, 2007–2019	25
Community engagement and vulnerability in infectious diseases: A systematic review and qualitative analysis of the literature	25
Social connectedness as a mediator for horticultural therapy's biological effect on community-dwelling older adults: Secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trial	25
Anticipating pride or regret? Effects of anticipated affect focused persuasive messages on intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19	25
Open access publishing – noble intention, flawed reality	25
Ageing as well as you can in place: Applying a geographical lens to the capability approach	25
Theories of self-care and self-management of long-term conditions by community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review and meta-ethnography	25
Individual and community social capital, mobility restrictions, and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multilevel analysis of a representative US survey	25
Shelter in place? Depends on the place: Corruption and social distancing in American states	25
Using the concept of activity space to understand the social health of older adults living with memory problems and dementia at home	25
The mediating role of vaccine hesitancy between maternal engagement with anti- and pro-vaccine social media posts and adolescent HPV-vaccine uptake rates in the US: The perspective of loss aversion in	25
What makes AI ‘intelligent’ and ‘caring’? Exploring affect and relationality across three sites of intelligence and care	25
Integrating network theory into the study of integrated healthcare	25
Green space and suicide mortality in Japan: An ecological study	25
Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample	25
A spectrum of (Dis)Belief: Coronavirus frames in a rural midwestern town in the United States	24
Dynamic relationships between different types of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and protective behaviour: A four-wave panel study in Poland	24
Light at the end of the tunnel: Influence of vaccine availability and vaccination intention on people’s consideration of the COVID-19 vaccine	24
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	24
The transgender-specific intimate partner violence scale for research and practice: Validation in a sample of transgender women	24
Conceptualizing the digitalization of healthcare work: A metaphor-based Critical Interpretive Synthesis	24
Associations between childhood adversities and late-life cognitive function: Potential mechanisms	24
The use of Latinx in public health research when referencing Hispanic or Latino populations	24
Cognability: An Ecological Theory of neighborhoods and cognitive aging	24
Psychosocial trajectories before and after spousal loss: Does gender matter?	24
The built environment and mental health among older adults in Dalian: The mediating role of perceived environmental attributes	24
Applying an extended protection motivation theory to predict Covid-19 vaccination intentions and uptake in 50–64 year olds in the UK	24
The violence of uncertainty: Empirical evidence on how asylum waiting time undermines refugee health	24
Body mass and the epidemic of chronic inflammation in early mid-adulthood	23
“I don't know what home feels like anymore”: Residential spaces and the absence of ontological security for people returning from incarceration	23
The Cultivation of Digital Health Citizenship	23
Eating-related pathology at the intersection of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and weight status: An intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminat	23
Caring as curing: Grandparenting and depressive symptoms in China	23
Factors associated with medical help-seeking for infertility in developed countries: A narrative review of recent literature	23
Inequalities of spatial primary healthcare accessibility in China	23