Social Science & Medicine

Article	Citations
Stroke survival and the impact of geographic proximity to family members: A population-based cohort study	1911
Comparing the effect of a multisectoral agricultural intervention on HIV-related health outcomes between widowed and married women	340
Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon	311
Grandparental childcare and subjective well-being: The role of activities and reasons for care	266
Will Tomorrow be Better? The Moral Experiments of Three Women with Mental Illness	171
Infant birth weight in Brazil: A cross-sectional historical approach	129
Structural racism and racial disparities in stroke mortality in the United States, 2021	124
How is process tracing applied in health research? A systematic scoping review	115
Association between behavioral jet lag with subjective and objective circadian rhythm among Chinese young adults	107
The experiences in close relationship and internet addiction among college Students: A moderated mediation model of anxiety and information cocoon	106
Rhythmanalysis of care: Daily practices among informal caregivers of children with cancer	103
Social isolation and loneliness increase the risk of coronary heart disease: Insights from a prospective cohort study	102
Maternal adverse childhood experiences and lifetime experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with current household hardships and intergenerational health	101
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	94
Does women empowerment impact child well-being? Evidence from India	91
Women's informal group participation and intimate partner violence in Mwanza, Tanzania: A longitudinal study	85
Framing of sensitive topics in surveys measuring corruption in healthcare	80
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	78
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	75
State-level gender-affirming healthcare policy and depressive symptoms among LGBTQ+ youth	75
Media bias in portrayals of mortality risks: Comparison of newspaper coverage to death rates	72
Prospective relationship between electronic health literacy and health-promoting lifestyle among Chinese older adults: A three-wave longitudinal study	71
The effect of cash transfers on health in high-income countries: A scoping review	70
Easing caregiver strain: The power of health check-ups	69
Context dependent preferences in prestige bias learning about vaccination in rural Namibian pastoralists	65

Racism-related experiences and substance use: A systematic and meta-analytic review	64
Risk factors associated with child maltreatment in the second generation of a prospective longitudinal Australian birth cohort: A MUSP study	60
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	60
Thermal comfort and gender affirmation: A virtual ethnography of extreme heat among trans women in Rio de Janeiro	59
Hazardous alcohol use is associated with food insecurity in adults living alone: Findings from a nationwide study in Korea	57
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	57
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	57
Disparities in quality of life by race, gender, and sexual orientation: An intersectional analysis of population-representative data in Gauteng, South Africa	56
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	56
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the burden of maternal and neonatal disorders: A counterfactual modeling based on the global burden of disease study (2021)	55
Male social embeddedness and intimate partner violence perpetration in Tanzania	53
‘Care as capital’: Developing theory about school investment in mental health and wellbeing	53
Spousal characteristics and unmet care needs: A longitudinal national study of adults aged 50 and over in England	53
Socioeconomic inequality in the outcomes of a psychological intervention for depression for South Africans with a co-occurring chronic disease: A decomposition analysis	53
Borrowing regulatory capacity in middle-income countries during public health crises: Brazil, regulatory reliance, and the politics of COVD-19 vaccine regulation	52
Understanding deep disadvantage at the end of life: A nationwide analysis of unclaimed deaths	52
Intersectional inequities in colorectal cancer screening attendance in Sweden: Using decision trees for intersectional matrix reduction	52
Structural violence as a driver of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and low vaccine uptake among people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada: A qualitative study	51
Age-friendly community environments and the age trajectories of long-term care dependency among Chinese older adults	51
Associations of sexual orientation and state-level antidiscrimination policy protections with alcohol, tobacco, and mental health outcomes in a U.S. sample of adolescents and adults	49
Disparities in depression and anxiety at the intersection of race and gender identity in a large community health sample	49
Observations of teamworking in a multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic: bridging roles of podiatry and technology	48
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	48
Problems with NICE's severity weights	48
Moving Opportunistically: Interstate Migration after Medicaid Expansion	48
Effects of communicating health disparities using social comparison framing: A comprehensive review	48
Interprovincial spatial distribution patterns and socioeconomic factors on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) service utilization in China	47
Disrupted family reunification: Mental health, race, and state-level factors	47
Are digital technologies an effective inhibitor of depression among middle-aged and older adults? Micro-level evidence from a panel study	46
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	46
Vaccine rhetoric on social media and COVID-19 vaccine uptake rates: A triangulation using self-reported vaccine acceptance	46
‘Kindling the fire’ of NHS patient data exploitations: The care.data controversy in news media discourses	46
Caring for care: Online feedback in the context of public healthcare services	45
The transgender-specific intimate partner violence scale for research and practice: Validation in a sample of transgender women	45
Administrative burden for patients in U.S. health care settings Post-Affordable Care Act: A scoping review	45
Opioid abuse and austerity: Evidence on health service use and mortality in England	45
“If I knew you were a travesti, I wouldn't have touched you”:Iatrogenic violence and trans necropolitics in Turkey	45
The impact of the minimum wage on suicide rates in Hong Kong	44
Social media delivered mental health campaigns and public service announcements: A systematic literature review of public engagement and help-seeking behaviours	44
The demand for private telehealth services in low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from South Africa	44
Did the COVID-19 pandemic reshape equity in healthcare use in Europe?	44
Epidemic in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: News media framing of the MMR vaccination controversy in Serbia	44
Direct-to-consumer detection of atrial fibrillation in a smartwatch electrocardiogram: Medical overuse, medicalisation and the experience of consumers	43
Hybrid health regimes: Access to primary care physicians and COVID-19 vaccine uptake across municipalities in Romania	43
Highlighting COVID-19 racial disparities can reduce support for safety precautions among White U.S. residents	43
COVID-19 lockdowns and changes in loneliness among young people in the U.K.	43
Socioeconomic position during pregnancy and pre-school exposome in children from eight European birth cohort studies	42
Prevalence, incidence, and recovery of metabolic syndrome after the fukushima nuclear power plant disaster: A 10-year longitudinal study	42
Legitimizing evidence: The trans-institutional life of evidence-based practice	42
Is austerity a cause of slower improvements in mortality in high-income countries? A panel analysis	42

Online student culture as site for negotiating assessment in medical education	41
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity	41
Mechanisms for community prevention of violence against women in low- and middle-income countries: A realist approach to a comparative analysis of qualitative data	41
(Re)arranging “systems of care” in the early Ebola response in Sierra Leone: An interdisciplinary analysis	40
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	40
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	40
Misrepresenting Pragmatism: Response to Greenhalgh and Engebretsen	40
A dynamic microsimulation model for epidemics	39
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities	39
Antibiotic assemblages and their implications for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance	39
Understanding low mobilization for non-communicable diseases among people living with NCDs: A qualitative study on hypertension in urban South India	39
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context	39
Conceptualizing culture in (global) mental health: Lessons from an urban American Indian behavioral health clinic	38
Estimating the health impact of delayed elective care during the COVID -19 pandemic in the Netherlands	38
Reciprocal relationships between time pressure and mental or physical health in Australian mothers of preschool aged children	38
A national longitudinal study of marital quality and cognitive decline among older men and women	38
Community-level factors and incidence of gun violence in the United States, 2014–2017	38
“I don't know what home feels like anymore”: Residential spaces and the absence of ontological security for people returning from incarceration	38
Navigating fear and care: The lived experiences of community-based health actors in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic	38
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status	37
Genetic influences on depression and selection into adverse life experiences	37
The reproductive journeys of French women over 40 seeking assisted reproductive technology treatments in Spain	37
Cross-level group density interactions on mental health for cultural, but not economic, components of social class	37
Defining equity, its determinants, and the foundations of equity science	37
Efficacy of theory-based interventions aimed at reducing binge drinking in adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	37
Life expectancies across congressional districts in the United States	37
Evolving narratives on signal functions for monitoring maternal and newborn health services: A meta-narrative inspired review	36
The video window: How video consultation technology reveals and redefines the art of medicine in Danish specialist practice	36
Examining the role of social vulnerability, neighborhood characteristics, and geospatial patterns of firearm-related injuries and clinical outcomes in Milwaukee county	36
The impact of housing insecurity on mental health, sleep and hypertension: Analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study and linked data, 2009–2019	36
Sex based differences in depression, anxiety, and quality of life and predictors of quality of life among South Asian individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A Bayesian analysis	36
Horizontal and vertical equity and public subsidies for private health insurance in the U.S.	36
Experiences of sexist discrimination as a potential explanatory factor for alcohol and drug misuse among Latina young adult women	35
The anti-gender threat: An ethical, democratic, and scientific imperative for NIH research/ers	34
Health systems resilience: is it time to revisit resilience after COVID-19?	34
Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography	34
COVID-19, nutrition, and gender: An evidence-informed approach to gender-responsive policies and programs	33
Workplace gender harassment, illegitimate tasks, and poor mental health: Hypothesized associations in a Swedish cohort	33
Self-reported psychological symptoms and severe stress events, but not patients' gender, affect illness representation and medical advice by lay-referral network advisors	32
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	32
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	32
Sex reconfigured: DIY hormone therapy and vernacular endocrinology in transfeminine communities in China	32
Mechanism substitution in preventive innovations: Dissecting the reproduction of health inequalities in the United States	32
Algorithms and heuristics of health technology assessments: A retrospective analysis of factors associated with HTA outcomes for new drugs across seven OECD countries	32
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	31
Medical maximization: The effect of personality on triage decision-making	31
‘We're kind of like genetic nomads': Parents' experiences of biographical disruption and uncertainty following in/conclusive results from newborn cystic fibrosis screening	31
Mobilizing pilot-based evidence for the spread and sustainability of innovations in healthcare: The role of innovation intermediaries	31
Was lockdown worth it? community perspectives and experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic in remote southwestern Haiti	31
Declining violence and improving birth outcomes in the US: Evidence from birth certificate data	31
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon	31
Social care for disabled elderly women in urban China: The roles of the community	31
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	31
Stepping into the shoes of the policy maker: Results of a Participatory Value Evaluation for the Dutch long term COVID-19 strategy	31
Death on the job: The Great Recession and work-related traffic fatalities	31
Mental and social wellbeing and the UK coronavirus job retention scheme: Evidence from nine longitudinal studies	30
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	30
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	30
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	30
Gendered bodies: A graphic medicine commentary	30
Medically underserved areas: are primary care teams efficient at attracting and retaining general practitioners?	30
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
The role of stress and absence: How household member incarceration is associated with risky sexual health behaviors	30
Benefits and harms adopted by health economic assessments evaluating antenatal and newborn screening programmes in OECD countries: A systematic review of 336 articles and reports	30
How long-term changes in neighborhood and school racial composition shape children's behavior problems	29
The role of administrative categories in the globalisation of a psychiatric concept: Case studies of autism in Japan	29
Intergenerational transmission of out-of-home care and the role of mental health problems: Findings from Stockholm birth cohort multigenerational study	29
Specialty economies of scope in English hospitals: Cost Arguments for colocation	29
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	29
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	29
“Lives versus livelihoods”: Conflict and coherence between policy objectives in the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	29
Status and correlates of micronutrient deficiencies in slum and non-slum areas of India's four metropolitan cities: Investigation from CNNS	28
Lower-class origin professionals in Canadian health and social service professions: “A different level of understanding”	28
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	28
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care	28
The health cost of reducing hospital bed capacity	28
Public stigma against fentanyl overdose decedents in the United States: A conjoint vignette experiment	28
Kaleidoscopic integration: Advancing the integration of incommensurable knowledge in healthcare guidelines	28
Actionable data for precision oncology: Framing trustworthy evidence for exploratory research and clinical diagnostics	28

Medical, transportation and spiritual out-of-pocket health expenditure on outpatient and inpatient visits in Bhutan	27
Parents and coaches as transformational leaders: Motivating high school athletes’ intentions to report concussion symptoms across socioeconomic statuses	27
Ethnic enclaves and colon cancer stage at diagnosis among New Jersey Hispanics	27
Responsive social support serves important functions in clinical communication: Translating perspectives from relationship science to improve cancer clinical interactions	27
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	27
Health tourism destinations as therapeutic landscapes: Understanding the health perceptions of senior seasonal migrants	27
Parental migration and anemia status of children in China	27
Towards healthy China 2030: Modeling health care accessibility with patient referral	27
Children's bullying victimization and maternal suicidal ideation among multicultural families in South Korea: Heterogeneity by family socioeconomic status	27
Intersectionality and Syndemics: A Reply to Sangaramoorthy and Benton	27
The role of workplace accommodations in explaining the disability employment gap in the UK	27
Neo-traditionalist, egalitarian and progressive masculinities in men's heterosexual intimate partner relationships	27
Theories of self-care and self-management of long-term conditions by community-dwelling older adults: A systematic review and meta-ethnography	27
Heterogeneity in preventive behaviors during COVID-19: Health risk, economic insecurity, and slanted information	27
The post-colonialist condition, suspicion, and social resistance during the West African Ebola epidemic: The importance of Frantz Fanon for global health	26
The situation and well-being of custodial grandparents in Myanmar: Impacts of adult children's cross-border and internal migration	26
Health shocks and couples’ labor market participation: A turning point or stuck in the trajectory?	26
Is mammography screening an effective public health intervention? Evidence from a natural experiment	26
Editorial Board	26
Legal restrictions and mitigation strategies amongst a disabled population during COVID-19	26
(I can't get no) satisfaction: A comparative study of healthcare recommodification in Europe, 2010-18	26
Editorial Board	26
The role of professional elites in healthcare governance: Exploring the work of the medical director	26
A call for epidemic modeling to examine historical and structural drivers of racial disparities in infectious disease	26
Editorial Board	26
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	25
Hold the phone! A cross-national analysis of Women's education, mobile phones, and HIV infections in low- and middle-income countries, 1990–2018	25
Openness to change among COVID misinformation endorsers: Associations with social demographic characteristics and information source usage	25
Cultivation or enabling? Day-to-day associations between self-efficacy and received support in couples	25
Editorial Board	25
Assessing the World Health Organization: What does the academic debate reveal and is it democratic?	25
Public preferences for the allocation of donor organs for transplantation: A discrete choice experiment	25
Mediating immediacy in the era of ‘treat all’: The (chrono)logics of HIV treatment initiation in Shinyanga, Tanzania	25
Reciprocal longitudinal associations of supportive workplace relationships with depressive symptoms and self-rated health: A study of Korean women	25
Effectiveness of a theory-driven mHealth intervention in promoting post-surgery rehabilitation adherence in patients who had anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A randomized clinical trial	25
From fathers to peers: Association between paternal violence victimization and peer violence perpetration among youth in Malawi, Nigeria, and Zambia	25
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	25
Editorial Board	25
Straight-sided beer and cider glasses to reduce alcohol sales for on-site consumption: A randomised crossover trial in bars	25
Spatial patterns of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 mortality across waves of infection in England, Wales, and Scotland	25
Understanding the impact of police brutality on Black sexually minoritized men	25
Investment in the peace of mind? How private services change the landscape of maternity care in Poland	25
A longitudinal study of perceived social position and health-related quality of life	25
Suspicious business: COVID-19 vaccination in Palabek refugee settlement, northern Uganda	25
Seeking care across the US-Mexico border: The experiences of Latinx and Indigenous Mexican caregivers of children with asthma or respiratory distress	25
Parents' perceptions of their children's mental health during COVID-19: Evidence from Canada	25
The role of social resources and trajectories of functional health following stroke	24
Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients	24
Waiting for medical test results: A delay discounting approach	24
Navigating the quality-of-life impacts of a chronic inflammatory disease (CID) among South Asian children and parents	24
Transnational health protection strategies and other health-seeking behavior among undocumented and indigenous dairy workers in a rural new immigrant destination	24
Comparing disease specific catastrophic cost estimates using longitudinal and cross-sectional designs: The example of tuberculosis	24
Outpatient mental health service use following contact with primary health care among migrants in Norway: A national register study	24
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then”: A study combining register and self-reported QoL data in assessing how response shift may occur in an injury population	24
The influence of parents' and partner's education on own health behaviours	24
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	24
A national longitudinal dyadic analysis of spousal education and cognitive decline in the United States	24
The role of mental health in online gambling decisions: A discrete choice experiment	24
State level income inequality affects cardiovascular stress responses: Evidence from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study	24
Integration of perinatal mental health care into district health services in Uganda: Why is it not happening? The Four Domain Integrated Health (4DIH) explanatory framework	23
Shared decision-making during prostate cancer consultations: Implications of clinician misalignment with patient and partner preferences	23
Episode detection based on personalized intensity of care thresholds: a schizophrenia case study	23
County social isolation and opioid use disorder among older adults: A longitudinal analysis of Medicare data, 2013–2018	23
“Now I just need something sweet”: Racism, emotional eating, and health among African Americans	23
Injured black men's perceptions of the recovery environment	23
Protection, health seeking, or a laissez-passer: Participants’ decision-making in an EVD vaccine trial in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo	23
Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway	23
Syndemic thinking in large-scale studies: Case studies of disability, hypertension, and diabetes across income groups in India and China	23
Editorial Board	23
Birth registration policies in the United States and their relevance to sexual and/or gender minority families: Identifying existing strengths and areas of improvement	23
Age at first birth and women's midlife health: Cohort and race differences across the 20th century	23
The association between the proportion of Brexiters and COVID-19 death rates in England	23
What does the French public consider to be a conflict of interest for medical researchers?	22
Long-term trajectories of suicide ideation and its socioeconomic predictors: A longitudinal 8-year follow-up study	22
Differences between complete and incomplete couples in physical health research: Implications for methods and generalizability	22
Living through and with the global HIV/AIDS pandemic: Distinct ‘pandemic practices’ and temporalities	22
Cognition in context: Pathways and compound risk in a sample of US non-Hispanic whites	22
Editorial Board	22
Spatial spillovers, living environment and obesity in France: Evidence from a spatial econometric framework	22
Opioids ease my pain: Early-life malnutrition and elderly outcomes	22
Fulfilling food practices: Applying the capability approach to ethnographic research in the Northern Netherlands	22
How to present work productivity loss results from clinical trials for patients and caregivers? A mixed methods approach	22
Professional regulation, profession-state relations and the pandemic response: Australia, Canada, and the UK compared	22
Editorial Board	22
The stated preferences of community-based volunteers for roles in the prevention of violence against women and girls in Ghana: A discrete choice analysis	22
The passivists: Managing risk through institutionalized ignorance in genomic medicine	22
Storytelling and affiliation between healthcare staff in Schwartz Round interactions: A conversation analytic study	22
“Dirty looks”: A critical phenomenology of motorized mobility scooter use	22
Does improved risk information increase the value of cholera prevention? An analysis of stated vaccine demand in slum areas of urban Bangladesh	22
Clinician resistance to broaching the topic of weight in primary care: Digging deeper into weight management using strong structuration theory	22
Evolution of preferences for COVID-19 vaccine throughout the pandemic – The choice experiment approach	22
Health accidents and wealth decline in old age	22
Machines, journeys, prisons and yo-yos: Metaphors of pain, illness and medicine in consultations with chronic pain patients	22
Editorial Board	22
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	22