Social Science & Medicine

Article	Citations
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	183
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	170
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	144
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	123
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	109
‘Mum feels that the decision has already been made’: From shared decision-making to negotiated compromise in adult social care	106
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	89
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors	86
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	77
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	76
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	71
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research	69
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	68
Revisiting the education-HIV gradient in Africa: Cohort variation analysis of a temporal shift and speculation on causes	68
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	68
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	66
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]	66
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/	64
Corrigendum to “The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile” [Soc. Sci. Med., Volume 329, July 2023, 116030]	64
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	61
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	60
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	60
Vouchers to increase fruit affordability in Nigeria and Vietnam	56
Between relief and estrangement: Family experiences of involuntary treatment for psychosis in South Africa	55
Being and becoming spouseless in later life: Social support and participation as moderators of psychological well-being	55

Using leisure to find meaning: Perspectives from youth in Stockholm	55
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities	52
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	52
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey	51
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	50
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	49
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	49
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	48
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	48
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	48
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	48
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	48
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	47
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	47
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	46
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	46
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	46
Early effects of cognitive-impairment friendly community on health care utilization in China: Evidence from administrative data in Shanghai	46
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	44
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity	44
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	44
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective	43
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	43
The affective organisation of social infrastructures	42
Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners	41
The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality: An experiment in China	41
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	41
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	40
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	40
Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices	40
Residential segregation of Black and Latinx older adults and brain imaging outcomes	40
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	40
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial	39
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care	39
Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis	39
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	39
Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis	39
Gender disparities in water-related knowledge, perceptions, and governance in rural Ghana: insights from a qualitative study augmented by Natural Language Processing	39
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	39
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset	38
The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education	37
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	37
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	37
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	37
Intergenerational occupational mobility and health in the United States	37
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	37
Socioeconomic disparities in hypertension and diabetes among older adults in South Korea: a trend analysis from a national survey, 2011–2023	36
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review	35
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	35
Credibility work in disenfranchising patient-clinician conversations for Mono/Multiracial women of color with autoimmune disease in the U.S.	35

Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States	35
Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies	35
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	35
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review	35
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	34
Bridging the digital divide in the pharmaceutical industry: A future research agenda	34
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	33
Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway	33
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	33
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	33
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	33
The role of housing in patient health: Practitioner insights and protocol review	33
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status	33
Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana	33
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	33
A good rest makes a caring doctor: Linking physicians’ nonwork time recovery to patient-centered communication with nonwork-to-work enrichment and empathy	32
Food insecurity through the lens of multidimensional poverty: Evidence from Chile	32
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	32
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Impacts of chronic suicidal ideation on parenting and child development: A longitudinal mother-child cohort study in Pakistan	32
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	32
Patient choice and socioeconomic disparities in the quality of healthcare: Evidence from Swedish registry data	32
Contextualizing cognition: Socio-environmental factors shape how momentary stress predicts memory	32
Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and persistent infection burden: Links to cellular immunosenescence in U.S. young adults	32
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	31
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study	31
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities	31
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	31
Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents	30
Social interventions in times of crisis: Community perceptions of integrating social determinants and equity into the COVID-19 response	30
Triggered: Qualitatively exploring structural and social drivers of firearm violence exposure among LGBTQ+ young adults of color in Detroit	30
At the crossroads of policy and technological logics: Audiologists practicing hearing-aid fitting in Israel	30
Can unlocking the potential of peripheral public health workers improve healthcare outcomes? A trial of intervention on enhancing elderly health literacy in China	30
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism	30
Editorial Board	29
The neuro-fiction of addiction immunizations	29
Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime	29
Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts	29
Exploring gender disparities in cognitive performance in later life: The role of social participation across European welfare regimes	29
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence	29
Understanding cooperative contact tracing: Factors explored through privacy management theories	29
Centralized drug procurement and inequality: Therapeutic and geographic spillovers from China's national volume-based procurement	29
Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach	29
Editorial Board	29
Navigating healthcare during the pandemic: Experiences of racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario's Peel Region	29
Urbanicity and child health in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: Settlement type and its association with mortality and morbidity	29
Bringing back the political apparatus to medicine: A commentary on Reinhart (2025)	29
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence	29
Discursive trends in New York Times coverage of Evusheld access: A case study in the social production of ignorance	28
The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States	28
The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation	28
Voices from the water(s): Developing a salutogenic trace through swimming	28
Trends and associations between preferred institutional influence, expectations and emotional outcomes among adolescents in the US: Results from monitoring the future	28
Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care	28
Beyond LGBTQ+: Centering QT2S lived experiences in body image research	28
Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity	28
Positive life experiences and mortality: Examination of psychobiological pathways	28
The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents	28
Interactive experience design evaluation of community emotional healing installations based on analytic hierarchy process method	27
Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review	27
Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women's and girls' reproductive autonomy in Nigeria	27
From ‘parallel world’ to ‘trading zone’: How diabetes-related information from social media is (not) discussed in clinical consultations	27
Adults with sickle-cells in a migration-driven rare disease setting: Therapeutic remoteness and graphic medicine in Austria	27
Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study	27
Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance	27
“Feeling your emotions is an act of rebellion:” How climate cafés across Canada support youth wellbeing during the climate crisis	27
Decomposition analysis to assess intervention strategies for reducing health-related exposure disparities in Michigan public drinking water systems	27
Attitudes to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests for population-based screening: A qualitative study in Great Britain	27
Social networks and posttraumatic stress symptoms five to ten years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster	27
Editorial Board	27
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	26
Trading in harms: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state	26
Editorial Board	26
Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography	26
“Good mothers, lazy mothers”: Analyzing impacts of individual responsibility discourse in maternal and child healthcare in Vanuatu	26
The ambivalence of radiotherapy: Re-framing effects and their temporalities in treatment for gynaecological cancer	26
Editorial Board	26
Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes	26
Nurses' perspectives on assisted suicide: Challenges and support needs	26
Social pension expansion and suicidal behaviour of older adults in Korea: A quasi-experimental study	26

The racialized logics of clinical policing of pregnant bodies in the United States	26
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	26
Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement	26
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Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth	25
The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era	25
Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions	25
Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?	25
Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’	25
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach	25
Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic: Instrumentalizing social life for biological control in Denmark's COVID-19 response	25
“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	25
Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy	25
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	25
Unlocking the importance of perceived governance: The impact on COVID-19 in NUTS-2 European regions	25
Economic evaluation of participation in community led organisations for individuals living in disadvantaged areas in the UK	24
Exposure to gun violence and handgun carrying from adolescence to adulthood	24
A conditional indirect effect model of racism and depressive and anxiety symptoms by ethnicity among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic	24
The association between tree canopy cover over streets and elderly pedestrian falls: A health disparity study in urban areas	24
“We are not the ethics police”: The professionalization of clinical ethicists and the regulation of medical decision-making	24
Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex	24
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	24
A sense of injustice in care networks: An intersectional exploration of the collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background.	24
Journey mapping long COVID: Agency and social support for long-hauling	24
Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation	24
Disentangling the complexities of modelling when high social capital contributes to indicating good health	24
Loss, inflammation, and cognition: Understanding the lifecourse impact of early life parental disruption	24
Viewpoints of local decision-makers on what matters in the allocation of scarce social care resources in the Netherlands	24
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women	24
Recovery in mental health: An international Delphi study from a recovery-oriented professional perspective	23
Examining the social prescription process: Barriers, facilitators, and the role of health information technology	23
Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support	23
Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community	23
Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia	23
Making disordered bodies in the context of male eating disorders	23
Individual and environmental stressors in life course cognitive health disparities: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study	23
Social inequality in health as a political topic in Denmark in the 21st century	23
Multi-group data versus dual-side theory: On race contrasts and police-caused homicides	23
Perceived social position, active engagement with life, and depressive symptoms among older adults	23
The role of detention officers in the provision of jail healthcare in the Southeastern United States	23
Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis	23
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology	23
Serious psychological distress, unmet mental health treatment needs, and help-seeking among Asian American adults in New York City: A population-based study	23
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department	23
Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services	23
Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data	23
Intergroup relationships with people who use drugs: A personal network approach	22
Overconfidence at the time of COVID-19:Does it lead to laxer attitudes?	22
A critical analysis of newspaper accounts of violence against doctors in India	22
The cultural sensitivity continuum of mental health interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review	22
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation	22
“You just want to feel safe when you go to a healthcare professional:” Intimate partner violence and patient safety	22
What factors drive state firearm law adoption? An application of exponential-family random graph models	22
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	22
Warm hands entangled in cold technology? Psychologists’ tinkering expertise in digital psychiatry	22
Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation	22
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	22
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	22
A post-lockdown study of burnout risk amongst New Zealand essential workers	22
Assessing associations between insecure income and US workers’ health: An IPUMS-MEPS analysis	22
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	22
Housing crowding and sleep health in urban China: A mediation analysis of psychosocial pathways using nationally representative data	21
How is power reflected in the patient centred care literature? A critical review of power in the centredness literature through a social science lens	21
The precariousness of living with, and caring for people with, dementia: Insights from the IDEAL programme	21
Authors’ reply to comments: “Financing and provision of healthcare for two billion people in low-income nations: Is the cooperative healthcare model a solution?”	21
Multidimensional intergenerational mobility	21
Differences in health utilities between cancer patients and the general population: The case of Quebec using the SF-6Dv2	21
Digital technologies, economization and professional practice in hospitals: How socio-technical systems shape reliability	21
Social network-structural position and obesity: Evidence from a national study	21
Different health systems – Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992–2019	21
Editorial Board	21
Towards a better understanding of inequity and the psychological processes underlying the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status	21
Editorial Board	21
Momentary health behaviour cues are moderated by educational attainment: Findings from two ecological momentary assessment studies	21
Night shift work and sleep duration among middle and older age adults: The role of individual, social, and environmental moderators	21
Substance use among transgender and gender nonconforming youth and young adults living in the US: A systematic review	21
How should regulatory schemes be optimized to enhance deterrence against medical insurance fraud by enrollees? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in China	21
Editorial Board	21
The WHO Foundation in global health governance: Depoliticizing corporate philanthropy	21
Corrigendum to “The effect of public tolerance towards corruptive behaviour on healthcare efficiency and equity – The case of the UK's COVID-19 vaccination programme” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 361, Novem	21
Editorial Board	21
Preferences for investment in and allocation of additional healthcare capacity	20
Integrating poverty alleviation and environmental protection efforts: A socio-ecological perspective on menstrual health management	20
“I'm not moving from here until you resolve this for me”: mothers of disabled children overcoming barriers to health care	20
Legal but informal abortion: Reproductive governance and health(care) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	20
'We've got a present for you’: Hepatitis C elimination, compromised healthcare subjects and treatment as a gift	20
Engaging patients in blood systems: A qualitative study on immune globulin recipient perspectives	20
“It's a reality that we in medicine should catch up with”: Physician's attitudes about self-sourced and managed abortion in the United States	20
‘Like going to get a facial’: Heterotopic spaces and gendered aesthetics of commercial Australian reproductive clinics	20
Assessing the impact of caregiving for older parents on caregivers' health: Initial health status and trajectories of physical and mental health among midlife caregivers for parents and parents-in-law	20
How states engage in and exercise power in global health: Indonesian and Japanese engagement in the conceptualization of Sustainable Development Goal 3	20
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	20
Birthplace, perinatal loss, and the parity—post-reproductive mortality relationship: Evidence from the Jim Crow-era American South	20
Dual scripts and incongruent innovation: implementing social technology in homecare services	20
“The machine doesn't judge”: Counternarratives on surveillance among people accessing a safer opioid supply via biometric machines	20