Social Science & Medicine

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A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	3836
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	242
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	229
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	146
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	142
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	139
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	133
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	129
Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis	126
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	99
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study	95
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	94
Socioeconomic disparities in hypertension and diabetes among older adults in South Korea: a trend analysis from a national survey, 2011–2023	93
Intergenerational occupational mobility and health in the United States	91
The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education	84
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	83
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	81
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	81
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	80
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	79
Corrigendum to “The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile” [Soc. Sci. Med., Volume 329, July 2023, 116030]	76
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	75
Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway	75
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context	69
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	69

Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States	67
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	65
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	65
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	64
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]	63
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	62
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	61
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	61
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	61
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	61
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	61
Social interventions in times of crisis: Community perceptions of integrating social determinants and equity into the COVID-19 response	60
Early effects of cognitive-impairment friendly community on health care utilization in China: Evidence from administrative data in Shanghai	58
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	58
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	58
Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners	56
The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality: An experiment in China	56
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	55
Patient participation in priority setting: Co-existing participant roles	55
Can unlocking the potential of peripheral public health workers improve healthcare outcomes? A trial of intervention on enhancing elderly health literacy in China	54
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	54
Triggered: Qualitatively exploring structural and social drivers of firearm violence exposure among LGBTQ+ young adults of color in Detroit	54
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	54
Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis	54
At the crossroads of policy and technological logics: Audiologists practicing hearing-aid fitting in Israel	53
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status	53
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	51
Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies	51
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	51
Gender disparities in water-related knowledge, perceptions, and governance in rural Ghana: insights from a qualitative study augmented by Natural Language Processing	51
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial	50
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	50
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	50
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	49
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities	49
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset	49
“Dirty looks”: A critical phenomenology of motorized mobility scooter use	48
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	48
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care	48
Patient choice and socioeconomic disparities in the quality of healthcare: Evidence from Swedish registry data	47
Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana	47
Impacts of chronic suicidal ideation on parenting and child development: A longitudinal mother-child cohort study in Pakistan	46
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods	45
A good rest makes a caring doctor: Linking physicians’ nonwork time recovery to patient-centered communication with nonwork-to-work enrichment and empathy	45
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	45
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	44
Professional regulation, profession-state relations and the pandemic response: Australia, Canada, and the UK compared	44
Contextualizing cognition: Socio-environmental factors shape how momentary stress predicts memory	44
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	43
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	43

Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	43
Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine	42
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	42
Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and persistent infection burden: Links to cellular immunosenescence in U.S. young adults	42
The ‘good life’, personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda	41
Food insecurity through the lens of multidimensional poverty: Evidence from Chile	41
Vouchers to increase fruit affordability in Nigeria and Vietnam	40
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	40
Bridging the digital divide in the pharmaceutical industry: A future research agenda	40
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	40
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	40
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities	40
Credibility work in disenfranchising patient-clinician conversations for Mono/Multiracial women of color with autoimmune disease in the U.S.	39
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/	39
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research	39
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	39
Being and becoming spouseless in later life: Social support and participation as moderators of psychological well-being	39
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey	39
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	39
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors	39
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective	38
Revisiting the education-HIV gradient in Africa: Cohort variation analysis of a temporal shift and speculation on causes	38
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	38
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review	38
Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography	38
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	37
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	37
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	37
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review	37
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon	36
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	36
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity	36
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles	35
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	35
Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents	35
Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices	35
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	35
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway	35
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
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism	35
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Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity	34
Decomposition analysis to assess intervention strategies for reducing health-related exposure disparities in Michigan public drinking water systems	34
A sense of injustice in care networks: An intersectional exploration of the collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background.	34
Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography	34
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology	34
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Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth	33
The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States	33
Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation	33
“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	33
What factors drive state firearm law adoption? An application of exponential-family random graph models	33
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	33
Discursive trends in New York Times coverage of Evusheld access: A case study in the social production of ignorance	33
Voices from the water(s): Developing a salutogenic trace through swimming	33
Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community	33
Social pension expansion and suicidal behaviour of older adults in Korea: A quasi-experimental study	33
“Good mothers, lazy mothers”: Analyzing impacts of individual responsibility discourse in maternal and child healthcare in Vanuatu	32
Syndemics and the history of disease: Towards a new engagement	32
Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance	32
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	32
The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents	32
Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’	32
Overconfidence at the time of COVID-19:Does it lead to laxer attitudes?	32
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	31
Unlocking the importance of perceived governance: The impact on COVID-19 in NUTS-2 European regions	31
The ambivalence of radiotherapy: Re-framing effects and their temporalities in treatment for gynaecological cancer	31
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	31
The racialized logics of clinical policing of pregnant bodies in the United States	31
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Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?	31
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department	31
“You just want to feel safe when you go to a healthcare professional:” Intimate partner violence and patient safety	31
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
“We are not the ethics police”: The professionalization of clinical ethicists and the regulation of medical decision-making	30
Multi-group data versus dual-side theory: On race contrasts and police-caused homicides	30
Assessing associations between insecure income and US workers’ health: An IPUMS-MEPS analysis	30
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Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study	30

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Trading in harms: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state	30
The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era	29
Exposure to gun violence and handgun carrying from adolescence to adulthood	29
Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach	29
Beyond LGBTQ+: Centering QT2S lived experiences in body image research	28
Night shift work and sleep duration among middle and older age adults: The role of individual, social, and environmental moderators	28
Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime	28
Navigating healthcare during the pandemic: Experiences of racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario's Peel Region	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
Interactive experience design evaluation of community emotional healing installations based on analytic hierarchy process method	28
From ‘parallel world’ to ‘trading zone’: How diabetes-related information from social media is (not) discussed in clinical consultations	28
Recovery in mental health: An international Delphi study from a recovery-oriented professional perspective	28
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence	28
Urbanicity and child health in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: Settlement type and its association with mortality and morbidity	28
The role of detention officers in the provision of jail healthcare in the Southeastern United States	27
Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia	27
Attitudes to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests for population-based screening: A qualitative study in Great Britain	27
Nurses' perspectives on assisted suicide: Challenges and support needs	27
“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	27
Elder abuse and cognitive function among community-Dwelling older adults: Does abuse history matter?	27
Positive life experiences and mortality: Examination of psychobiological pathways	27
The association between tree canopy cover over streets and elderly pedestrian falls: A health disparity study in urban areas	27
Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services	27
Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support	27
Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy	27
Sexuality and aging: Is it time for a new sexual revolution?	27
Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care	27
Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review	27
Examining the social prescription process: Barriers, facilitators, and the role of health information technology	26
Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data	26
Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation	26
Economic evaluation of participation in community led organisations for individuals living in disadvantaged areas in the UK	26
Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts	26
A post-lockdown study of burnout risk amongst New Zealand essential workers	26
Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex	26
Social inequality in health as a political topic in Denmark in the 21st century	26
A critical analysis of newspaper accounts of violence against doctors in India	26
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	26
Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis	26
Disentangling the complexities of modelling when high social capital contributes to indicating good health	26
Understanding cooperative contact tracing: Factors explored through privacy management theories	26
The cultural sensitivity continuum of mental health interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review	25
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women	25
“Feeling your emotions is an act of rebellion:” How climate cafés across Canada support youth wellbeing during the climate crisis	25
Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation	25
Substance use among transgender and gender nonconforming youth and young adults living in the US: A systematic review	25
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	25
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation	25
Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes	25
Social networks and posttraumatic stress symptoms five to ten years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster	25
Viewpoints of local decision-makers on what matters in the allocation of scarce social care resources in the Netherlands	25
Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic: Instrumentalizing social life for biological control in Denmark's COVID-19 response	25
Intergroup relationships with people who use drugs: A personal network approach	25
Perceived social position, active engagement with life, and depressive symptoms among older adults	25
How is power reflected in the patient centred care literature? A critical review of power in the centredness literature through a social science lens	25
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence	25
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass	25
Adults with sickle-cells in a migration-driven rare disease setting: Therapeutic remoteness and graphic medicine in Austria	25
Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement	25
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach	25
A conditional indirect effect model of racism and depressive and anxiety symptoms by ethnicity among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic	25
The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation	25
Journey mapping long COVID: Agency and social support for long-hauling	24
Lived experience of State-sponsored intra-national overseas therapeutic mobility for stem cell transplantation	24
Making disordered bodies in the context of male eating disorders	24
Preferences for investment in and allocation of additional healthcare capacity	24
Health—Embodiment of corporeal experiences: Meanings of health among individuals living with comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension in The Gambia	24
Housing crowding and sleep health in urban China: A mediation analysis of psychosocial pathways using nationally representative data	24
Arts and cultural engagement and subsequent social deficits among older adults: A three-year longitudinal study using the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study	24
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How do social and economic vulnerabilities shape the work of participating in care? Everyday experiences of people living with kidney failure in Argentina	24
Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women's and girls' reproductive autonomy in Nigeria	24
Why did this happen to me? Causal attributions of illness and cultural health capital	24
The precariousness of living with, and caring for people with, dementia: Insights from the IDEAL programme	24
Conditional risk perception and protection behavior: Testing the behavior motivation hypothesis and the risk reappraisal hypothesis	24
Gazing into the crystal ball: Do adolescent survival expectations predict premature mortality risk in the United States?	23
Military experience and depression: a prospective multi-cohort analysis across nations	23
Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: A microsimulation study of the UK during the COVID-19 economic crisis	23
Reducing the burdens of forced abortion travel: Referrals, financial and emotional support, and opportunities for positive experiences in traveling for third-trimester abortion care	23
Characteristics of geographic environments that support the health and wellbeing of young people with disability: A scoping review	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
Multidimensional intergenerational mobility	23
Compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and mindfulness among healthcare professionals: A meta-analysis of correlational studies and randomized controlled trials	23
“I let others speak about condoms:” Muslim religious leaders’ selective engagement with an NGO-Led family planning project in rural Tanzania	23
Our hands are tied: abortion bans and hesitant medicine	23
Momentary health behaviour cues are moderated by educational attainment: Findings from two ecological momentary assessment studies	23
Pain by proxy: An ethnographic study on the relational co-construction of the agency of young children in healthcare encounters	23
‘Progression capitals’: How homeless health peer advocacy impacts peer advocates	23
“It makes you feel worthless.” The lived experience of discrimination in the US food assistance system	22
'We've got a present for you’: Hepatitis C elimination, compromised healthcare subjects and treatment as a gift	22
The WHO Foundation in global health governance: Depoliticizing corporate philanthropy	22
Intracommunity intersectional discrimination and its impact on psychological distress and smoking behavior among sexual minority men from minority ethnic backgrounds	22
Structural racism and sexual and reproductive healthcare experiences: A qualitative study among undocumented Asian and Latina	22