Social Science & Medicine

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Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	2638
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	204
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities	176
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	128
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	125
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	112
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	101
Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69	101
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	100
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	100
The ‘good life’, personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda	100
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	98
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	98
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	85
Cognition in context: Pathways and compound risk in a sample of US non-Hispanic whites	82
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	76
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	72
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Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine	70
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	70
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	68
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	67
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	67
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon	66
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	64

Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	64
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	64
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	64
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	64
Decomposition of inequalities in out-of-pocket health expenditure burden in Saudi Arabia	63
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	62
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	62
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	61
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	60
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	60
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	60
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	59
“Dirty looks”: A critical phenomenology of motorized mobility scooter use	59
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	59
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study	58
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	55
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	55
Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies	55
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	54
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review	54
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities	54
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	53
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	52
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	52
Multigenerational immigrant trajectories and children's unequal exposure to fine particulate matter in the US	52
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	51
Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients	51
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	50
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context	49
The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia	49
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	49
From fathers to peers: Association between paternal violence victimization and peer violence perpetration among youth in Malawi, Nigeria, and Zambia	49
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	49
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey	49
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity	49
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	49
The vasovagal reaction experience among blood donors: A qualitative study of factors that affect donor return	49
Do financial barriers to access to primary health care increase the risk of poor health? Longitudinal evidence from New Zealand	48
The central role of social support in the health of Chinese and Korean American immigrants	47
Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis	47
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors	47
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care	47
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research	46
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	46
Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway	46
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	46
Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana	46
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	45
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective	45
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	45

The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset	45
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism	45
Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices	44
Caring for care: Online feedback in the context of public healthcare services	44
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway	44
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	44
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	44
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review	43
Professional regulation, profession-state relations and the pandemic response: Australia, Canada, and the UK compared	43
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods	43
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial	42
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	42
Patient participation in priority setting: Co-existing participant roles	41
Mental health spillovers from serious family illness: Doubly robust estimation using EQ-5D-5L population normative data	41
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	41
The role of workplace accommodations in explaining the disability employment gap in the UK	41
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	41
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	41
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	40
Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography	40
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]	40
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status	40
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	40
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles	40
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States	40
Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample	40
Positive life experiences and mortality: Examination of psychobiological pathways	39
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	39
Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data	39
Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services	39
Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support	39
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility and Health in the United States	39
Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity	38
Perceived social position, active engagement with life, and depressive symptoms among older adults	38
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass	38
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach	38
“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	37
Disentangling the complexities of modelling when high social capital contributes to indicating good health	37
A critical analysis of newspaper accounts of violence against doctors in India	36
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Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts	36
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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	36
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]	36
Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents	36
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The role of detention officers in the provision of jail healthcare in the Southeastern United States	35
Expectations about pain and analgesic treatment are shaped by medical providers’ facial appearances: Evidence from five online clinical simulation experiments	35
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Dropdown rights: Categorizing transgender discrimination in healthcare technologies	35
Intergroup relationships with people who use drugs: A personal network approach	35
The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents	35
A sense of injustice in care networks: An intersectional exploration of the collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background.	35
Elder abuse and cognitive function among community-Dwelling older adults: Does abuse history matter?	34
Trading in harms: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state	34
A longitudinal study of parents' expectations about infants’ emerging behaviors and their safety strategies to moderate injury risk	34
Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia	34
Safety net, gateway, market, sport, and war: Exploring how emergency physicians conceptualize and ascribe meaning to emergency care	33
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department	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
Decomposition analysis to assess intervention strategies for reducing health-related exposure disparities in Michigan public drinking water systems	33
Overconfidence at the time of COVID-19:Does it lead to laxer attitudes?	33
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	33
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence	33
Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy	32
Do standard classifications still represent European welfare typologies? Novel evidence from studies on health and social care	32
Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions	32
Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement	32
The ambivalence of radiotherapy: Re-framing effects and their temporalities in treatment for gynaecological cancer	32
Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance	32
Absorbing it all: A meta-ethnography of parents’ unfolding experiences of newborn screening	32
Lived experience of State-sponsored intra-national overseas therapeutic mobility for stem cell transplantation	32
Preventing transition “regret”: An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada	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	32
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Social pension expansion and suicidal behaviour of older adults in Korea: A quasi-experimental study	32
The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation	31

Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women's and girls' reproductive autonomy in Nigeria	31
Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach	31
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	31
Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation	31
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology	31
Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation	31
Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?	31
Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography	31
The role of trust in health-seeking for non-communicable disease services in fragile contexts: A cross-country comparative study	31
The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era	31
Unlocking the importance of perceived governance: The impact on COVID-19 in NUTS-2 European regions	31
Discursive trends in New York Times coverage of Evusheld access: A case study in the social production of ignorance	30
“You just want to feel safe when you go to a healthcare professional:” Intimate partner violence and patient safety	30
Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth	30
Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime	30
Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study	30
“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	30
Social networks and posttraumatic stress symptoms five to ten years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster	30
The association between tree canopy cover over streets and elderly pedestrian falls: A health disparity study in urban areas	30
The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States	30
Multi-group data versus dual-side theory: On race contrasts and police-caused homicides	30
Understanding cooperative contact tracing: Factors explored through privacy management theories	30
Theory and empiricism: A comment on “Interrogating the environmental affordances model” by Pamplin and colleagues	30
Community vulnerability and mobility: What matters most in spatio-temporal modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic?	30
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	29
What factors drive state firearm law adoption? An application of exponential-family random graph models	29
Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’	29
A post-lockdown study of burnout risk amongst New Zealand essential workers	29
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	29
Assessing associations between insecure income and US workers’ health: An IPUMS-MEPS analysis	29
Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation	29
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
COVID-19 vulnerability and perceived norm violations predict loss of social trust: A pre-post study	28
The cultural sensitivity continuum of mental health interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review	28
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of the long-term treatment and support of substance use disorders	28
The social construction of the patient-physician relationship in the clinical encounter: Media frames on shared decision making in Germany	28
Exposure to gun violence and handgun carrying from adolescence to adulthood	28
“We are not the ethics police”: The professionalization of clinical ethicists and the regulation of medical decision-making	28
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women	28
Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care	28
Nurses' perspectives on assisted suicide: Challenges and support needs	28
Journey mapping long COVID: Agency and social support for long-hauling	28
Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes	28
Urbanicity and child health in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: Settlement type and its association with mortality and morbidity	28
Sexuality and aging: Is it time for a new sexual revolution?	28
Peer support as a protective factor against suicide in trans populations: A scoping review	27
Ageing as well as you can in place: Applying a geographical lens to the capability approach	27
The adverse effects of policing on population health: A conceptual model	27
Attitudes to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests for population-based screening: A qualitative study in Great Britain	27
Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis	27
From ‘parallel world’ to ‘trading zone’: How diabetes-related information from social media is (not) discussed in clinical consultations	27
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	27
Syndemics and the history of disease: Towards a new engagement	27
Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review	27
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence	27
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation	27
Making disordered bodies in the context of male eating disorders.	27
Multidimensional intergenerational mobility	26
Infrastructuring precision medicine: Making gene therapies for rare diseases workable in practice	26
Promoting COVID-19 vaccine confidence through public responses to misinformation: The joint influence of message source and message content	26
Corrigendum to ‘Making epistemic citizens: Young people and the search for reliable and credible sexual health information’ [Social Science & Medicine 276 (2021) 113817]	26
“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	26
Arts and cultural engagement and subsequent social deficits among older adults: A three-year longitudinal study using the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study	26
Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex	26
Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: A microsimulation study of the UK during the COVID-19 economic crisis	26
Promoting COVID-19 booster vaccines in Macao: A psychological reactance perspective	26
Intracommunity intersectional discrimination and its impact on psychological distress and smoking behavior among sexual minority men from minority ethnic backgrounds	26
Pain by proxy: An ethnographic study on the relational co-construction of the agency of young children in healthcare encounters	25
Water insecurity is associated with gender-based violence: A mixed-methods study in Indonesia	25
Contextual fallacy in MLMs with cross-level interaction: A critical review of neighborhood effects on psychiatric resilience	25
Perinatal mortality among pregnant undocumented migrants in Norway 1999–2020: A register-based population study	25
Discharge readiness as an infrastructure: Negotiating the transfer of care for elderly patients in medical wards	25
“We do not stop being Indigenous when we are in pain”: An integrative review of the lived experiences of chronic pain among Indigenous peoples	25
Medicine, structural racism, and systems	25
The Identity Vitality-Pathology model: A novel theoretical framework proposing “identity state” as a modulator of the pathways from structural to health inequity	25
Momentary health behaviour cues are moderated by educational attainment: Findings from two ecological momentary assessment studies	25
Coparenting, mental health, and the pursuit of dignity: A systems-level analysis of refugee father-mother narratives	25
Is contributory health insurance indeed an addiction to a bad idea? A comment on its relevance for low- and middle-income countries	25
How states engage in and exercise power in global health: Indonesian and Japanese engagement in the conceptualization of Sustainable Development Goal 3	25
Preferences for investment in and allocation of additional healthcare capacity	24
The WHO Foundation in global health governance: Depoliticizing corporate philanthropy	24
Brains exposed: How new imaging technology reconfigures expertise coordination in neurosurgery	24
‘Progression capitals’: How homeless health peer advocacy impacts peer advocates	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
When patients demur: Resisting diagnostic closure in US primary care	24
Differences in health utilities between cancer patients and the general population: The case of Quebec using the SF-6Dv2	24
Why did this happen to me? Causal attributions of illness and cultural health capital	24
Compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and mindfulness among healthcare professionals: A meta-analysis of correlational studies and randomized controlled trials	24
Characteristics of geographic environments that support the health and wellbeing of young people with disability: A scoping review	24
Promoter or barrier? Assessing how social media predicts Covid-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy: A systematic review of primary series and booster vaccine investigations	24
State-level structural sexism and cesarean sections in the United States	24
Rurality and opioid prescribing rates in U.S. counties from 2006 to 2018: A spatiotemporal investigation	24
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How epigenetic inheritance fails to explain the Black-White health gap	24