Social Science & Medicine

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A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	3473
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	232
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	224
Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners	133
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	132
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	130
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	123
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	121
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	118
‘Mum feels that the decision has already been made’: From shared decision-making to negotiated compromise in Adult Social Care	92
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	92
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	84
Contextualizing cognition: Socio-environmental factors shape how momentary stress predicts memory	84
A good rest makes a caring doctor: Linking physicians’ nonwork time recovery to patient-centered communication with nonwork-to-work enrichment and empathy	83
Patient choice and socioeconomic disparities in the quality of healthcare: Evidence from Swedish registry data	80
Impacts of chronic suicidal ideation on parenting and child development: A longitudinal mother-child cohort study in Pakistan	79
A network analysis of ‘thinking a lot’: Connections to childhood trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder among men who have sex with men in Vietnam	78
Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and persistent infection burden: Links to cellular immunosenescence in U.S. young adults	77
Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis	76
Food insecurity through the lens of multidimensional poverty: Evidence from Chile	76
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	75
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	74
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study	72
Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices	68
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care	68

Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine	66
Early effects of cognitive-impairment friendly community on health care utilization in China: Evidence from administrative data in Shanghai	65
The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia	64
New forms of expertise and their implications for the system of professions in healthcare: the case of the patient safety specialist role in the English NHS	64
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism	63
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	61
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	60
Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography	59
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review	59
“Dirty looks”: A critical phenomenology of motorized mobility scooter use	58
Gender disparities in water-related knowledge, perceptions, and governance in rural Ghana: insights from a qualitative study augmented by Natural Language Processing	58
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity	58
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review	57
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	57
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	56
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	55
Intergenerational occupational mobility and health in the United States	54
Socioeconomic disparities in hypertension and diabetes among older adults in South Korea: a trend analysis from a national survey, 2011–2023	54
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	53
The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education	53
At the crossroads of policy and technological logics: Audiologists practicing hearing-aid fitting in Israel	52
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	52
Social interventions in times of crisis: Community perceptions of integrating social determinants and equity into the COVID-19 response	52
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	52
The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality: An experiment in China	51
Triggered: Qualitatively exploring structural and social drivers of firearm violence exposure among LGBTQ+ young adults of color in Detroit	51
Can unlocking the potential of peripheral public health workers improve healthcare outcomes? A trial of intervention on enhancing elderly health literacy in China	51
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States	50
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities	50
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	49
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	49
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	49
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	48
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors	48
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	48
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	48
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	48
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	48
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	47
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	47
Corrigendum to “Determinants and transition of anaemia among under-five children from different social groups in India from 2005-06 to 2015–16” [Soc. Sci. Med. 320 (2022) 115702]	47
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	47
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	46
Patient participation in priority setting: Co-existing participant roles	46
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	46
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey	45
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	44
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	44
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	44
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial	43

Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	43
How social policies shape the health and well-being of sexual- and gender-minority youth: Pathways of influence, social side effects and implications for life course trajectories	43
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	43
Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies	43
Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway	42
The ‘good life’, personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda	42
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	42
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	41
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective	41
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	41
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	41
Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69	40
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research	40
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context	39
Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in the association between higher state minimum wages and health and mental well-being in US adults with low educational attainment	39
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	39
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	38
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status	38
Corrigendum to “The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile” [Soc. Sci. Med., Volume 329, July 2023, 116030]	38
Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis	38
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	38
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	38
Professional regulation, profession-state relations and the pandemic response: Australia, Canada, and the UK compared	37
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon	37
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset	37
I feel the pains of our past water struggles anytime I turn on the tap: Diaspora perceptions and experiences of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) gendered violence in Ghana	37
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	37
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway	37
Do financial barriers to access to primary health care increase the risk of poor health? Longitudinal evidence from New Zealand	37
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities	37
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods	36
Credibility work in disenfranchising patient-clinician conversations for Mono/Multiracial women of color with autoimmune disease in the U.S.	36
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles	36
Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana	35
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	35
Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach	35
Navigating healthcare during the pandemic: Experiences of racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario's Peel Region	35
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	35
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Resisting the (re-)medicalisation of dying and grief in the post-digital age: Natural language processing and qualitative analysis of data from internet support forums	35
Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents	35
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	35
Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation	35
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology	34
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Decomposition analysis to assess intervention strategies for reducing health-related exposure disparities in Michigan public drinking water systems	34
Understanding cooperative contact tracing: Factors explored through privacy management theories	34
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach	34
Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography	34
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Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation	33
A sense of injustice in care networks: An intersectional exploration of the collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background.	33
Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women's and girls' reproductive autonomy in Nigeria	33
The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era	33
A critical analysis of newspaper accounts of violence against doctors in India	33
Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity	33
Making disordered bodies in the context of male eating disorders	33
Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy	33
Positive life experiences and mortality: Examination of psychobiological pathways	33
Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services	32
Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth	32
Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community	32
Social networks and posttraumatic stress symptoms five to ten years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster	32
Voices from the water(s): Developing a salutogenic trace through swimming	32
“Nobody has written the book about what non-binary people should put forward in relationships”: Exploring gender equity in relationships of queer, trans, and non-monogamous young women and non-binary	32
Discursive trends in New York Times coverage of Evusheld access: A case study in the social production of ignorance	32
Building patient trust in health systems: A qualitative study of facework in the context of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker role in Queensland, Australia	32
A conditional indirect effect model of racism and depressive and anxiety symptoms by ethnicity among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Substance use among transgender and gender nonconforming youth and young adults living in the US: A systematic review	31
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women	31
From ‘parallel world’ to ‘trading zone’: How diabetes-related information from social media is (not) discussed in clinical consultations	31
Commentary on Burns, Nembhard and Shortell, “Integrating network theory into the study of integrated healthcare”: Revisiting and extending research on structural and processual factors affecting coord	31
Viewpoints of local decision-makers on what matters in the allocation of scarce social care resources in the Netherlands	31
Lived experience of State-sponsored intra-national overseas therapeutic mobility for stem cell transplantation	31
COVID-19 vulnerability and perceived norm violations predict loss of social trust: A pre-post study	31
Nurses' perspectives on assisted suicide: Challenges and support needs	31
Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?	31
Unlocking the importance of perceived governance: The impact on COVID-19 in NUTS-2 European regions	31
Ageing as well as you can in place: Applying a geographical lens to the capability approach	30
Assessing associations between insecure income and US workers’ health: An IPUMS-MEPS analysis	30

Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department	30
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The ambivalence of radiotherapy: Re-framing effects and their temporalities in treatment for gynaecological cancer	30
Has Ebola delayed progress on access to routine care and financial protection in Sierra Leone? Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis with propensity score weighting	30
Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime	30
“You just want to feel safe when you go to a healthcare professional:” Intimate partner violence and patient safety	30
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Trading in harms: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state	29
“We are not the ethics police”: The professionalization of clinical ethicists and the regulation of medical decision-making	29
Maternal depression, alcohol use, and transient effects of perinatal paraprofessional home visiting in South Africa: Eight-year follow-up of a cluster randomized controlled trial	29
“It's no good but at least I've always got it round my neck”: A postphenomenological analysis of reassurance in assistive technology use by older people	29
The cultural sensitivity continuum of mental health interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review	29
Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care	29
Housing crowding and sleep health in urban China: A mediation analysis of psychosocial pathways using nationally representative data	28
Elder abuse and cognitive function among community-Dwelling older adults: Does abuse history matter?	28
Disentangling the complexities of modelling when high social capital contributes to indicating good health	28
Intergroup relationships with people who use drugs: A personal network approach	28
Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts	28
Multi-group data versus dual-side theory: On race contrasts and police-caused homicides	28
Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions	28
“Feeling your emotions is an act of rebellion:” How climate cafés across Canada support youth wellbeing during the climate crisis	28
How is power reflected in the patient centred care literature? A critical review of power in the centredness literature through a social science lens	28
Recovery in mental health: An international Delphi study from a recovery-oriented professional perspective	28
Night shift work and sleep duration among middle and older age adults: The role of individual, social, and environmental moderators	28
Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic: Instrumentalizing social life for biological control in Denmark's COVID-19 response	27
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass	27
Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data	27
Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support	27
A longitudinal study of parents' expectations about infants’ emerging behaviors and their safety strategies to moderate injury risk	27
Dropdown rights: Categorizing transgender discrimination in healthcare technologies	27
Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis	27
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation	27
The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation	26
A post-lockdown study of burnout risk amongst New Zealand essential workers	26
What factors drive state firearm law adoption? An application of exponential-family random graph models	26
Evaluate the health risks and impact pathways of precarious employment in the context of globalization: A national longitudinal research from 2017 to 2023 in Japan	26
Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation	26
Social pension expansion and suicidal behaviour of older adults in Korea: A quasi-experimental study	26
Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance	26
Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex	26
Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement	26
The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States	26
The social construction of the patient-physician relationship in the clinical encounter: Media frames on shared decision making in Germany	26
The role of detention officers in the provision of jail healthcare in the Southeastern United States	26
Interactive Experience Design Evaluation of Community Emotional Healing Installations based on Analytic Hierarchy Process Method	25
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence	25
Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review	25
The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents	25
Syndemics and the history of disease: Towards a new engagement	25
Costs and economies of scale in repeated home-based HIV counselling and testing: Evidence from the ANRS 12249 Treatment as Prevention trial in South Africa	25
Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study	25
Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia	25
Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes	25
Sexuality and aging: Is it time for a new sexual revolution?	25
Overconfidence at the time of COVID-19:Does it lead to laxer attitudes?	25
Urbanicity and child health in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: Settlement type and its association with mortality and morbidity	25
Journey mapping long COVID: Agency and social support for long-hauling	25
The role of trust in health-seeking for non-communicable disease services in fragile contexts: A cross-country comparative study	24
The racialized logics of clinical policing of pregnant bodies in the United States	24
Perceived social position, active engagement with life, and depressive symptoms among older adults	24
Influence of socioeconomic position on the relationship between long COVID and health-related quality of life: A nationwide random sampling survey in France in autumn 2022	24
Correlates of longitudinal patterns of racial discrimination in midlife and older Black adults: Evidence from the health and retirement study	24
Our hands are tied: abortion bans and hesitant medicine	24
Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’	24
The association between tree canopy cover over streets and elderly pedestrian falls: A health disparity study in urban areas	24
Adults with sickle-cells in a migration-driven rare disease setting: Therapeutic remoteness and graphic medicine in Austria	24
Exposure to gun violence and handgun carrying from adolescence to adulthood	24
Arts and cultural engagement and subsequent social deficits among older adults: A three-year longitudinal study using the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study	24
Application of life course trajectory methods to public health data: A comparison of sequence analysis and group-based multi-trajectory modeling for modelling childhood adversity trajectories	24
“Good mothers, lazy mothers”: Analyzing impacts of individual responsibility discourse in maternal and child healthcare in Vanuatu	24
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence	24
Preventing transition “regret”: An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada	24
Pain by proxy: An ethnographic study on the relational co-construction of the agency of young children in healthcare encounters	24
Why did this happen to me? Causal attributions of illness and cultural health capital	24
Attitudes to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests for population-based screening: A qualitative study in Great Britain	24
Integrating poverty alleviation and environmental protection efforts: A socio-ecological perspective on menstrual health management	23
Infrastructuring precision medicine: Making gene therapies for rare diseases workable in practice	23
“It makes you feel worthless.” The lived experience of discrimination in the US food assistance system	23
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The precariousness of living with, and caring for people with, dementia: Insights from the IDEAL programme	23
Health—Embodiment of corporeal experiences: Meanings of health among individuals living with comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension in The Gambia	23
Contextual fallacy in MLMs with cross-level interaction: A critical review of neighborhood effects on psychiatric resilience	23
Promoting blood donation through social media: Evidence from Brazil, India and the USA	23
“Nowhere else to be found”: Drawing on peer support experiences among transgender and gender-diverse people to substantiate community-driven gender-affirming care	23
Perinatal mortality among pregnant undocumented migrants in Norway 1999–2020: A register-based population study	23
Investigation of the health economic analysis of informal care for people living with a chronic neurological disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the global evidence for multiple sclerosi	23
Investigating the spatial and temporal variation of vape retailer provision in New Zealand: A cross-sectional and nationwide study	23
Aging bodies, future technologies: Health insurance coverage and stratified biomedicalization	22
How should regulatory schemes be optimized to enhance deterrence against medical insurance fraud by enrollees? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in China	22
Conditional risk perception and protection behavior: Testing the behavior motivation hypothesis and the risk reappraisal hypothesis	22
“I too have a responsibility for my partner's life”: Communal coping among Malawian couples living with HIV and cardiometabolic disorders	22
Cognitive functioning and depressive symptoms in the aging population: The buffering role of marital status	22
My future-self has (not) quit smoking: An experimental study into the effect of a future-self intervention on smoking-related self-identity constructs	22