Social Science & Medicine

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Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	2472
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	201
Towards healthy China 2030: Modeling health care accessibility with patient referral	164
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	126
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	123
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities	121
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	111
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	104
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	99
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	97
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	96
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	95
Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69	95
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	93
The ‘good life’, personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda	90
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	85
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway	81
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	80
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	77
Mental health spillovers from serious family illness: Doubly robust estimation using EQ-5D-5L population normative data	71
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	69
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	69
Professional regulation, profession-state relations and the pandemic response: Australia, Canada, and the UK compared	68
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	66
Cognition in context: Pathways and compound risk in a sample of US non-Hispanic whites	64

‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	64
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	63
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	63
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	63
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	62
Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine	62
From fathers to peers: Association between paternal violence victimization and peer violence perpetration among youth in Malawi, Nigeria, and Zambia	61
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Multigenerational immigrant trajectories and children's unequal exposure to fine particulate matter in the US	60
The vasovagal reaction experience among blood donors: A qualitative study of factors that affect donor return	60
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	60
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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]	59
Caring for care: Online feedback in the context of public healthcare services	59
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey	59
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	58
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	58
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	57
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	55
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	55
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	55
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	54
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon	54
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	53
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	52
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	52
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	52
Decomposition of inequalities in out-of-pocket health expenditure burden in Saudi Arabia	51
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	51
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	51
Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana	50
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	50
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research	50
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective	49
Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients	49
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset	49
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity	49
Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample	48
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	48
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	48
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods	48
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	48
Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway	47
The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia	46
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context	45
Do financial barriers to access to primary health care increase the risk of poor health? Longitudinal evidence from New Zealand	45
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care	45
The role of workplace accommodations in explaining the disability employment gap in the UK	45
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	45
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial	44

Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	44
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors	44
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	44
Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography	44
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review	44
Patient participation in priority setting: Co-existing participant roles	44
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	44
A sociological autopsy lens on older adult suicide in rural Australia: Addressing health, psychosocial factors and care practices at the intersection of policies and institutions	43
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	43
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles	43
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	43
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	43
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study	42
“Dirty looks”: A critical phenomenology of motorized mobility scooter use	42
Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis	42
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities	42
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States	41
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status	41
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	41
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	41
Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices	41
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	40
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review	40
Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies	40
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
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	39
The central role of social support in the health of Chinese and Korean American immigrants	39
Biosocial Vulnerabilities Amidst the Pandemic: Instrumentalizing Social Life for Biological Control in Denmark's COVID-19 Response	39
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism	39
Understanding cooperative contact tracing: Factors explored through privacy management theories	38
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	38
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	38
Social networks and posttraumatic stress symptoms five to ten years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster	38
Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review	38
A critical analysis of newspaper accounts of violence against doctors in India	38
Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services	38
Telephone delivery of psychological interventions: Balancing protocol with patient-centred care	38
Attitudes to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests for population-based screening: A qualitative study in Great Britain	38
Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis	38
Positive life experiences and mortality: Examination of psychobiological pathways	37
Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data	37
The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation	37
Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support	37
Syndemics and the history of disease: Towards a new engagement	37
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach	36
Exposure to gun violence and handgun carrying from adolescence to adulthood	36
The cultural sensitivity continuum of mental health interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review	36
Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity	36
Journey mapping long COVID: Agency and social support for long-hauling	36
The adverse effects of policing on population health: A conceptual model	35
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence	35
The social construction of the patient-physician relationship in the clinical encounter: Media frames on shared decision making in Germany	35
The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States	35
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of the long-term treatment and support of substance use disorders	35
Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime	35
Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts	35
Sexuality and aging: Is it time for a new sexual revolution?	35
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass	35
Discursive trends in New York Times coverage of Evusheld access: A case study in the social production of ignorance	34
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Nurses' perspectives on assisted suicide: Challenges and support needs	34
Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth	34
Corrigendum to “Early life programming of adult ischemic heart disease within and across generations: The role of the socioeconomic context” [Soc. Sci. Med. 275 (2021) 113811]	34
Assessing associations between insecure income and US workers’ health: An IPUMS-MEPS analysis	34
Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study	33
Community vulnerability and mobility: What matters most in spatio-temporal modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic?	33
Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care	33
Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography	33
Theory and empiricism: A comment on “Interrogating the environmental affordances model” by Pamplin and colleagues	33
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What factors drive state firearm law adoption? An application of exponential-family random graph models	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
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	32
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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	32
Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation	32
“You just want to feel safe when you go to a healthcare professional:” Intimate partner violence and patient safety	32
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Intergroup relationships with people who use drugs: A personal network approach	31

Expectations about pain and analgesic treatment are shaped by medical providers’ facial appearances: Evidence from five online clinical simulation experiments	31
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Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents	31
Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes	31
“We are not the ethics police”: The professionalization of clinical ethicists and the regulation of medical decision-making	31
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A post-lockdown study of burnout risk amongst New Zealand essential workers	31
A sense of injustice in care networks: An intersectional exploration of the collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background.	31
“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	30
Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia	30
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence	30
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	30
Trading in harms: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state	30
Dropdown rights: Categorizing transgender discrimination in healthcare technologies	30
A longitudinal study of parents' expectations about infants’ emerging behaviors and their safety strategies to moderate injury risk	30
Overconfidence at the time of COVID-19:Does it lead to laxer attitudes?	30
Decomposition analysis to assess intervention strategies for reducing health-related exposure disparities in Michigan public drinking water systems	30
The role of detention officers in the provision of jail healthcare in the Southeastern United States	30
Elder abuse and cognitive function among community-Dwelling older adults: Does abuse history matter?	30
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department	30
Safety net, gateway, market, sport, and war: Exploring how emergency physicians conceptualize and ascribe meaning to emergency care	30
The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents	30
Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women's and girls' reproductive autonomy in Nigeria	29
COVID-19 vulnerability and perceived norm violations predict loss of social trust: A pre-post study	29
Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance	29
Multi-group data versus dual-side theory: On race contrasts and police-caused homicides	29
Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community	29
The ambivalence of radiotherapy: Re-framing effects and their temporalities in treatment for gynaecological cancer	29
Absorbing it all: A meta-ethnography of parents’ unfolding experiences of newborn screening	29
Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement	29
Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach	29
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women	29
Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’	29
Do standard classifications still represent European welfare typologies? Novel evidence from studies on health and social care	29
The role of trust in health-seeking for non-communicable disease services in fragile contexts: A cross-country comparative study	29
The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era	28
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	28
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology	28
Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?	28
Social pension expansion and suicidal behaviour of older adults in Korea: A quasi-experimental study	28
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation	28
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Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex	28
Ageing as well as you can in place: Applying a geographical lens to the capability approach	28
Perceived social position, active engagement with life, and depressive symptoms among older adults	28
An ecological expansion of the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) framework to include threat and deprivation associated with U.S. immigration policies and enforcement practices: An examination of t	28
Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation	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
Preventing transition “regret”: An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada	28
Lived experience of State-sponsored intra-national overseas therapeutic mobility for stem cell transplantation	28
Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation	28
Disentangling the complexities of modelling when high social capital contributes to indicating good health	28
From ‘parallel world’ to ‘trading zone’: How diabetes-related information from social media is (not) discussed in clinical consultations	27
Peer support as a protective factor against suicide in trans populations: A scoping review	27
Do we agree or disagree? A systematic review of the application of preference-based instruments in self and proxy reporting of quality of life in older people	27
Differences in health utilities between cancer patients and the general population: The case of Quebec using the SF-6Dv2	27
Unlocking the importance of perceived governance: The impact on COVID-19 in NUTS-2 European regions	27
Multidimensional intergenerational mobility	27
Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: A microsimulation study of the UK during the COVID-19 economic crisis	27
Why did this happen to me? Causal attributions of illness and cultural health capital	27
The association between tree canopy cover over streets and elderly pedestrian falls: A health disparity study in urban areas	27
Urbanicity and child health in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: Settlement type and its association with mortality and morbidity	27
Corrigendum to ‘Making epistemic citizens: Young people and the search for reliable and credible sexual health information’ [Social Science & Medicine 276 (2021) 113817]	27
“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	27
Rurality and opioid prescribing rates in U.S. counties from 2006 to 2018: A spatiotemporal investigation	26
Promoting COVID-19 booster vaccines in Macao: A psychological reactance perspective	26
My future-self has (not) quit smoking: An experimental study into the effect of a future-self intervention on smoking-related self-identity constructs	26
Health-tech startups in healthcare service delivery: A scoping review	26
Immigrants’ health empowerment and access to health coverage in France: A stepped wedge randomised controlled trial	26
Intracommunity intersectional discrimination and its impact on psychological distress and smoking behavior among sexual minority men from minority ethnic backgrounds	26
Promoting COVID-19 vaccine confidence through public responses to misinformation: The joint influence of message source and message content	26
Integrating poverty alleviation and environmental protection efforts: A socio-ecological perspective on menstrual health management	26
Promoting blood donation through social media: Evidence from Brazil, India and the USA	26
Our hands are tied: abortion bans and hesitant medicine	26
Infrastructuring precision medicine: Making gene therapies for rare diseases workable in practice	26
Positive school climate and strong school identification as protective factors of adolescent mental health and learning engagement: A longitudinal investigation before and during COVID-19	26
Arts and cultural engagement and subsequent social deficits among older adults: A three-year longitudinal study using the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study	26
Is contributory health insurance indeed an addiction to a bad idea? A comment on its relevance for low- and middle-income countries	26
Medicine, structural racism, and systems	25
The WHO Foundation in global health governance: Depoliticizing corporate philanthropy	25
“It makes you feel worthless.” The lived experience of discrimination in the US food assistance system	25
“Nowhere else to be found”: Drawing on peer support experiences among transgender and gender-diverse people to substantiate community-driven gender-affirming care	25
First weeks out: Social support stability and health among formerly incarcerated men	25
Discharge readiness as an infrastructure: Negotiating the transfer of care for elderly patients in medical wards	25
Pain by proxy: An ethnographic study on the relational co-construction of the agency of young children in healthcare encounters	25
Perinatal mortality among pregnant undocumented migrants in Norway 1999–2020: A register-based population study	24
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Characteristics of geographic environments that support the health and wellbeing of young people with disability: A scoping review	24
The mental health benefits and costs of critical consciousness: A longitudinal investigation of the co-occurring positive and negative effects of critical consciousness among sexual minorities	24
“We do not stop being Indigenous when we are in pain”: An integrative review of the lived experiences of chronic pain among Indigenous peoples	24
Brains exposed: How new imaging technology reconfigures expertise coordination in neurosurgery	24
Assessing risk factors and health impacts across different forms of exchange sex among young women in informal settlements in South Africa: A cross-sectional study	24
The Identity Vitality-Pathology model: A novel theoretical framework proposing “identity state” as a modulator of the pathways from structural to health inequity	24
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	24
How epigenetic inheritance fails to explain the Black-White health gap	24