Social Science & Medicine

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Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	211
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	180
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	149
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	133
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	123
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	96
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	93
Revisiting the education-HIV gradient in Africa: Cohort variation analysis of a temporal shift and speculation on causes	87
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	82
Corrigendum to “The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile” [Soc. Sci. Med., Volume 329, July 2023, 116030]	75
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]	75
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/	74
Vouchers to increase fruit affordability in Nigeria and Vietnam	73
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	73
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	70
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	69
Intergenerational occupational mobility and health in the United States	67
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	64
The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education	64
Credibility work in disenfranchising patient-clinician conversations for Mono/Multiracial women of color with autoimmune disease in the U.S.	63
Socioeconomic disparities in hypertension and diabetes among older adults in South Korea: a trend analysis from a national survey, 2011–2023	63
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	60
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status	59
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	59
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	59

Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	58
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	57
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	56
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	55
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	54
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	54
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	53
Early effects of cognitive-impairment friendly community on health care utilization in China: Evidence from administrative data in Shanghai	53
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	52
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	52
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	51
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	50
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	50
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	48
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	48
Politeness strategies in doctor-patient communication on weight loss: Addressing face-threats in advice delivery	48
Gender disparities in water-related knowledge, perceptions, and governance in rural Ghana: insights from a qualitative study augmented by Natural Language Processing	47
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	47
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial	46
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	46
Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis	46
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	45
Triggered: Qualitatively exploring structural and social drivers of firearm violence exposure among LGBTQ+ young adults of color in Detroit	44
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism	44
At the crossroads of policy and technological logics: Audiologists practicing hearing-aid fitting in Israel	44
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	43
The role of housing in patient health: Practitioner insights and protocol review	43
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	42
Looking through the cracks: vulnerabilities and deprivation in the Brazilian open drug scenes	42
‘Mum feels that the decision has already been made’: From shared decision-making to negotiated compromise in adult social care	41
Between relief and estrangement: Family experiences of involuntary treatment for psychosis in South Africa	41
The affective organisation of social infrastructures	41
Using leisure to find meaning: Perspectives from youth in Stockholm	40
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors	39
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review	39
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research	39
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	39
Bridging the digital divide in the pharmaceutical industry: A future research agenda	38
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	38
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	37
Contextualizing cognition: Socio-environmental factors shape how momentary stress predicts memory	37
Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway	37
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	37
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset	37
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	37
Food insecurity through the lens of multidimensional poverty: Evidence from Chile	37
A good rest makes a caring doctor: Linking physicians’ nonwork time recovery to patient-centered communication with nonwork-to-work enrichment and empathy	36
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	36
Impacts of chronic suicidal ideation on parenting and child development: A longitudinal mother-child cohort study in Pakistan	36
Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and persistent infection burden: Links to cellular immunosenescence in U.S. young adults	36

‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	35
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	35
Can unlocking the potential of peripheral public health workers improve healthcare outcomes? A trial of intervention on enhancing elderly health literacy in China	35
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	35
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	34
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	34
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	34
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities	34
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	34
Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana	34
Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners	34
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care	33
Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis	33
Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies	33
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	33
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	33
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	33
The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality: An experiment in China	33
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities	33
Residential segregation of Black and Latinx older adults and brain imaging outcomes	32
Ranking group-level outcomes with multilevel models: An information-theoretic measure of statistical separation	32
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study	32
Political distrust and confidence in medical institutions in the United States: An institutional spillover perspective	32
Social interventions in times of crisis: Community perceptions of integrating social determinants and equity into the COVID-19 response	32
Being and becoming spouseless in later life: Social support and participation as moderators of psychological well-being	31
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective	31
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	31
Patient choice and socioeconomic disparities in the quality of healthcare: Evidence from Swedish registry data	31
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	31
Explaining donor lapse in voluntary blood donation: A grounded theory study from China	31
Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents	31
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States	31
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	31
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	31
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review	31
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The neuro-fiction of addiction immunizations	30
Bringing back the political apparatus to medicine: A commentary on Reinhart (2025)	30
Understanding cooperative contact tracing: Factors explored through privacy management theories	30
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Exploring gender disparities in cognitive performance in later life: The role of social participation across European welfare regimes	30
Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach	30
Navigating healthcare during the pandemic: Experiences of racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario's Peel Region	30
Urbanicity and child health in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: Settlement type and its association with mortality and morbidity	30
Discursive trends in New York Times coverage of Evusheld access: A case study in the social production of ignorance	30
Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care	29
The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States	29
Decomposition analysis to assess intervention strategies for reducing health-related exposure disparities in Michigan public drinking water systems	29
The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation	29
Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity	29
Social networks and posttraumatic stress symptoms five to ten years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster	29
Positive life experiences and mortality: Examination of psychobiological pathways	29
Voices from the water(s): Developing a salutogenic trace through swimming	29
The ambivalence of radiotherapy: Re-framing effects and their temporalities in treatment for gynaecological cancer	28
Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance	28
“Good mothers, lazy mothers”: Analyzing impacts of individual responsibility discourse in maternal and child healthcare in Vanuatu	28
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Adults with sickle-cells in a migration-driven rare disease setting: Therapeutic remoteness and graphic medicine in Austria	28
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The racialized logics of clinical policing of pregnant bodies in the United States	28
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	28
Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study	28
Interactive experience design evaluation of community emotional healing installations based on analytic hierarchy process method	28
Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?	28
Trading in harms: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state	28
Economic evaluation of participation in community led organisations for individuals living in disadvantaged areas in the UK	27
Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’	27
The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era	27
Social inequality in health as a political topic in Denmark in the 21st century	27
“We are not the ethics police”: The professionalization of clinical ethicists and the regulation of medical decision-making	27
Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation	27
Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy	27
Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic: Instrumentalizing social life for biological control in Denmark's COVID-19 response	27
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	27
“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	27
Disentangling the complexities of modelling when high social capital contributes to indicating good health	27
Warm hands entangled in cold technology? Psychologists’ tinkering expertise in digital psychiatry	27
Unlocking the importance of perceived governance: The impact on COVID-19 in NUTS-2 European regions	27
Making disordered bodies in the context of male eating disorders	26

Overconfidence at the time of COVID-19:Does it lead to laxer attitudes?	26
Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts	26
A sense of injustice in care networks: An intersectional exploration of the collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background.	26
Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data	26
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	26
Night shift work and sleep duration among middle and older age adults: The role of individual, social, and environmental moderators	26
“You just want to feel safe when you go to a healthcare professional:” Intimate partner violence and patient safety	26
Intergroup relationships with people who use drugs: A personal network approach	26
Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions	26
Nurses' perspectives on assisted suicide: Challenges and support needs	25
Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes	25
Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services	25
Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography	25
Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation	25
Attitudes to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests for population-based screening: A qualitative study in Great Britain	25
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach	25
Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community	25
From ‘parallel world’ to ‘trading zone’: How diabetes-related information from social media is (not) discussed in clinical consultations	25
Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement	25
Beyond LGBTQ+: Centering QT2S lived experiences in body image research	25
From information receiver to knowledge constructor: The dynamic construction of health information literacy in treatment practice among people living with HIV	25
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women	24
Serious psychological distress, unmet mental health treatment needs, and help-seeking among Asian American adults in New York City: A population-based study	24
Individual and environmental stressors in life course cognitive health disparities: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study	24
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology	24
Examining the social prescription process: Barriers, facilitators, and the role of health information technology	24
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	24
A critical analysis of newspaper accounts of violence against doctors in India	24
Journey mapping long COVID: Agency and social support for long-hauling	24
Assessing associations between insecure income and US workers’ health: An IPUMS-MEPS analysis	24
The role of detention officers in the provision of jail healthcare in the Southeastern United States	24
A post-lockdown study of burnout risk amongst New Zealand essential workers	24
Social pension expansion and suicidal behaviour of older adults in Korea: A quasi-experimental study	24
Trends and associations between preferred institutional influence, expectations and emotional outcomes among adolescents in the US: Results from monitoring the future	24
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department	24
Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review	24
Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support	23
A conditional indirect effect model of racism and depressive and anxiety symptoms by ethnicity among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Viewpoints of local decision-makers on what matters in the allocation of scarce social care resources in the Netherlands	23
How do community contexts shape relationship dynamics? A case study of young people living in informal settlements in eThekwini municipality, South Africa	23
Perceived social position, active engagement with life, and depressive symptoms among older adults	23
Empowerment or Exclusion? Exploring perspectives on health data sharing through the lens of marginalisation and inequality	23
The cultural sensitivity continuum of mental health interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review	23
Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex	23
Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth	23
Substance use among transgender and gender nonconforming youth and young adults living in the US: A systematic review	23
Exposure to gun violence and handgun carrying from adolescence to adulthood	22
Loss, inflammation, and cognition: Understanding the lifecourse impact of early life parental disruption	22
What motivates (un)satisfied physicians?	22
Multi-group data versus dual-side theory: On race contrasts and police-caused homicides	22
The association between tree canopy cover over streets and elderly pedestrian falls: A health disparity study in urban areas	22
Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis	22
Housing crowding and sleep health in urban China: A mediation analysis of psychosocial pathways using nationally representative data	22
Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia	22
Recovery in mental health: An international Delphi study from a recovery-oriented professional perspective	22
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence	22
The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents	22
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation	22
Dual scripts and incongruent innovation: implementing social technology in homecare services	22
How is power reflected in the patient centred care literature? A critical review of power in the centredness literature through a social science lens	22
Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women's and girls' reproductive autonomy in Nigeria	22
“Feeling your emotions is an act of rebellion:” How climate cafés across Canada support youth wellbeing during the climate crisis	22
Centralized drug procurement and inequality: Therapeutic and geographic spillovers from China's national volume-based procurement	22
Arts and cultural engagement and subsequent social deficits among older adults: A three-year longitudinal study using the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study	21
Momentary health behaviour cues are moderated by educational attainment: Findings from two ecological momentary assessment studies	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
Health—Embodiment of corporeal experiences: Meanings of health among individuals living with comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension in The Gambia	21
Pain by proxy: An ethnographic study on the relational co-construction of the agency of young children in healthcare encounters	21
“I too have a responsibility for my partner's life”: Communal coping among Malawian couples living with HIV and cardiometabolic disorders	21
Socioeconomic inequalities in developing cardiometabolic diseases and transition to depression: A trajectory analysis of large-scale population-based study	21
Multidimensional intergenerational mobility	21
Intersex people's perspectives on affirming healthcare practices: A qualitative study	21
Attuning to uncertainty: Enacting health in platformised taxicab driving	21
Military experience and depression: a prospective multi-cohort analysis across nations	21
Shifts in lifestyle and socioeconomic circumstances predict change—for better or worse—in speed of epigenetic aging: A study of middle-aged black women	21
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Hormones, culture and puberty: How clinicians (don't) see gender in persistent pediatric pain	21
Characteristics of geographic environments that support the health and wellbeing of young people with disability: A scoping review	21
The political stakes of cancer epistemics	21
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Mental health in a digitally fragmented world: Exploring negative and positive associations across spatial contexts and gender	21
Cognitive functioning and depressive symptoms in the aging population: The buffering role of marital status	21
Integrating poverty alleviation and environmental protection efforts: A socio-ecological perspective on menstrual health management	21
Why did this happen to me? Causal attributions of illness and cultural health capital	21
Racial inequities in the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events in ELSA-Brasil cohort: the mediating role of weathering	21
Structural racism and sexual and reproductive healthcare experiences: A qualitative study among undocumented Asian and Latina	21
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Examining the link between housing characteristics and individual mental health within the context of socio-spatial inequality in China	21
Compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and mindfulness among healthcare professionals: A meta-analysis of correlational studies and randomized controlled trials	21
From egg & sperm to reconceiving medical education: Why teaching about metaphor is essential to remedy injustice	21
'We've got a present for you’: Hepatitis C elimination, compromised healthcare subjects and treatment as a gift	21
Creating livable lives: A qualitative exploration of life after homelessness	21
Aging bodies, future technologies: Health insurance coverage and stratified biomedicalization	21
Risk factors for deaths of despair in England: An ecological study of local authority mortality data	21
Infrastructuring precision medicine: Making gene therapies for rare diseases workable in practice	21