Social Science & Medicine

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Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	246
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	180
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	165
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	146
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review	141
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	118
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	106
Bridging the digital divide in the pharmaceutical industry: A future research agenda	101
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	89
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	87
Looking through the cracks: vulnerabilities and deprivation in the Brazilian open drug scenes	84
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	74
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	72
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research	72
Revisiting the education-HIV gradient in Africa: Cohort variation analysis of a temporal shift and speculation on causes	70
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]	69
Corrigendum to “The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile” [Soc. Sci. Med., Volume 329, July 2023, 116030]	68
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/	67
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	66
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors	65
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	64
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective	63
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	63
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	62
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status	61

Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies	59
Food insecurity through the lens of multidimensional poverty: Evidence from Chile	57
Life course socioeconomic disadvantage and persistent infection burden: Links to cellular immunosenescence in U.S. young adults	57
Contextualizing cognition: Socio-environmental factors shape how momentary stress predicts memory	56
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	55
Impacts of chronic suicidal ideation on parenting and child development: A longitudinal mother-child cohort study in Pakistan	53
The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education	52
A good rest makes a caring doctor: Linking physicians’ nonwork time recovery to patient-centered communication with nonwork-to-work enrichment and empathy	52
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	52
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	52
Socioeconomic disparities in hypertension and diabetes among older adults in South Korea: a trend analysis from a national survey, 2011–2023	50
Gender disparities in water-related knowledge, perceptions, and governance in rural Ghana: insights from a qualitative study augmented by Natural Language Processing	49
Intergenerational occupational mobility and health in the United States	49
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States	48
Credibility work in disenfranchising patient-clinician conversations for Mono/Multiracial women of color with autoimmune disease in the U.S.	48
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism	48
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	47
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods	47
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	47
Patient choice and socioeconomic disparities in the quality of healthcare: Evidence from Swedish registry data	47
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review	46
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	46
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	46
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	46
Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana	46
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	45
Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway	45
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	44
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	44
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	43
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	42
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	42
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities	42
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	41
Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis	40
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	40
Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis	40
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	40
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	40
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	40
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	40
At the crossroads of policy and technological logics: Audiologists practicing hearing-aid fitting in Israel	39
‘Mum feels that the decision has already been made’: From shared decision-making to negotiated compromise in adult social care	38
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	38
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	38
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	38
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	37
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset	37
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study	37
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	37

Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices	37
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	36
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	36
The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality: An experiment in China	36
Vouchers to increase fruit affordability in Nigeria and Vietnam	36
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial	36
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	36
Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners	36
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities	36
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	35
The affective organisation of social infrastructures	35
Between relief and estrangement: Family experiences of involuntary treatment for psychosis in South Africa	35
Residential segregation of Black and Latinx older adults and brain imaging outcomes	35
Using leisure to find meaning: Perspectives from youth in Stockholm	35
Being and becoming spouseless in later life: Social support and participation as moderators of psychological well-being	35
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	34
Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	34
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	34
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	34
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	33
Triggered: Qualitatively exploring structural and social drivers of firearm violence exposure among LGBTQ+ young adults of color in Detroit	33
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	33
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	33
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	33
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	32
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity	32
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care	32
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	32
Can unlocking the potential of peripheral public health workers improve healthcare outcomes? A trial of intervention on enhancing elderly health literacy in China	32
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey	32
Early effects of cognitive-impairment friendly community on health care utilization in China: Evidence from administrative data in Shanghai	31
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	31
Night shift work and sleep duration among middle and older age adults: The role of individual, social, and environmental moderators	31
Social interventions in times of crisis: Community perceptions of integrating social determinants and equity into the COVID-19 response	31
Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents	31
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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	31
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Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data	30
“You just want to feel safe when you go to a healthcare professional:” Intimate partner violence and patient safety	30
Disentangling the complexities of modelling when high social capital contributes to indicating good health	30
Exploring gender disparities in cognitive performance in later life: The role of social participation across European welfare regimes	30
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass	30
The role of detention officers in the provision of jail healthcare in the Southeastern United States	30
Understanding cooperative contact tracing: Factors explored through privacy management theories	30
Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic: Instrumentalizing social life for biological control in Denmark's COVID-19 response	30
Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography	30
The neuro-fiction of addiction immunizations	30
Attitudes to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests for population-based screening: A qualitative study in Great Britain	30
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology	29
Interactive experience design evaluation of community emotional healing installations based on analytic hierarchy process method	29
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
Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation	29
Serious psychological distress, unmet mental health treatment needs, and help-seeking among Asian American adults in New York City: A population-based study	29
Urbanicity and child health in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: Settlement type and its association with mortality and morbidity	29
Adults with sickle-cells in a migration-driven rare disease setting: Therapeutic remoteness and graphic medicine in Austria	29
Voices from the water(s): Developing a salutogenic trace through swimming	28
Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?	28
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Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach	28
Trading in harms: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state	28
“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	28
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	28
“Feeling your emotions is an act of rebellion:” How climate cafés across Canada support youth wellbeing during the climate crisis	28
Beyond LGBTQ+: Centering QT2S lived experiences in body image research	28
Lived experience of State-sponsored intra-national overseas therapeutic mobility for stem cell transplantation	28
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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	28
Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth	28
Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care	28
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	28
The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era	28
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Discursive trends in New York Times coverage of Evusheld access: A case study in the social production of ignorance	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	27
Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia	27
Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’	27
Housing crowding and sleep health in urban China: A mediation analysis of psychosocial pathways using nationally representative data	27
Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy	27
Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services	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
The cultural sensitivity continuum of mental health interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review	27
A post-lockdown study of burnout risk amongst New Zealand essential workers	27
From ‘parallel world’ to ‘trading zone’: How diabetes-related information from social media is (not) discussed in clinical consultations	27
Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance	27
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women	27
Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime	26
Viewpoints of local decision-makers on what matters in the allocation of scarce social care resources in the Netherlands	26
Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes	26
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence	26
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach	26
Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts	26
Sexuality and aging: Is it time for a new sexual revolution?	26
Unlocking the importance of perceived governance: The impact on COVID-19 in NUTS-2 European regions	26
Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement	26
What factors drive state firearm law adoption? An application of exponential-family random graph models	25
Positive life experiences and mortality: Examination of psychobiological pathways	25
Decomposition analysis to assess intervention strategies for reducing health-related exposure disparities in Michigan public drinking water systems	25
Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity	25
The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents	25
A critical analysis of newspaper accounts of violence against doctors in India	25
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence	25
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Overconfidence at the time of COVID-19:Does it lead to laxer attitudes?	25
Intergroup relationships with people who use drugs: A personal network approach	25
Social networks and posttraumatic stress symptoms five to ten years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster	25
Navigating healthcare during the pandemic: Experiences of racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario's Peel Region	25
The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States	25
Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation	24
Assessing associations between insecure income and US workers’ health: An IPUMS-MEPS analysis	24
Journey mapping long COVID: Agency and social support for long-hauling	24
Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women's and girls' reproductive autonomy in Nigeria	24
Making disordered bodies in the context of male eating disorders	24
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	24
The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation	24
Perceived social position, active engagement with life, and depressive symptoms among older adults	24
Multi-group data versus dual-side theory: On race contrasts and police-caused homicides	24
Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community	24
Examining the social prescription process: Barriers, facilitators, and the role of health information technology	24
Trends and associations between preferred institutional influence, expectations and emotional outcomes among adolescents in the US: Results from monitoring the future	24
Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support	24
A sense of injustice in care networks: An intersectional exploration of the collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background.	24
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department	24
How is power reflected in the patient centred care literature? A critical review of power in the centredness literature through a social science lens	23
A conditional indirect effect model of racism and depressive and anxiety symptoms by ethnicity among Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Recovery in mental health: An international Delphi study from a recovery-oriented professional perspective	23
Loss, inflammation, and cognition: Understanding the lifecourse impact of early life parental disruption	23
Individual and environmental stressors in life course cognitive health disparities: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study	23
Substance use among transgender and gender nonconforming youth and young adults living in the US: A systematic review	23
Social inequality in health as a political topic in Denmark in the 21st century	23
Economic evaluation of participation in community led organisations for individuals living in disadvantaged areas in the UK	23
The ambivalence of radiotherapy: Re-framing effects and their temporalities in treatment for gynaecological cancer	23
Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions	22
Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation	22
Social pension expansion and suicidal behaviour of older adults in Korea: A quasi-experimental study	22
Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study	22
Pain by proxy: An ethnographic study on the relational co-construction of the agency of young children in healthcare encounters	22
Different health systems – Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992–2019	22
Differences in health utilities between cancer patients and the general population: The case of Quebec using the SF-6Dv2	22
Social network-structural position and obesity: Evidence from a national study	22
Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex	22
The association between tree canopy cover over streets and elderly pedestrian falls: A health disparity study in urban areas	22
The racialized logics of clinical policing of pregnant bodies in the United States	22
Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis	22
Momentary health behaviour cues are moderated by educational attainment: Findings from two ecological momentary assessment studies	22
The precariousness of living with, and caring for people with, dementia: Insights from the IDEAL programme	22
How should regulatory schemes be optimized to enhance deterrence against medical insurance fraud by enrollees? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in China	22
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Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review	22
Nurses' perspectives on assisted suicide: Challenges and support needs	22
“Good mothers, lazy mothers”: Analyzing impacts of individual responsibility discourse in maternal and child healthcare in Vanuatu	22
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	22
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation	22
Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: A microsimulation study of the UK during the COVID-19 economic crisis	22
“We are not the ethics police”: The professionalization of clinical ethicists and the regulation of medical decision-making	22
Exposure to gun violence and handgun carrying from adolescence to adulthood	22
Corrigendum to “The effect of public tolerance towards corruptive behaviour on healthcare efficiency and equity – The case of the UK's COVID-19 vaccination programme” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 361, Novem	21
Attuning to uncertainty: Enacting health in platformised taxicab driving	21
The political stakes of cancer epistemics	21
How states engage in and exercise power in global health: Indonesian and Japanese engagement in the conceptualization of Sustainable Development Goal 3	21
Immigrants’ health empowerment and access to health coverage in France: A stepped wedge randomised controlled trial	21
Preferences for investment in and allocation of additional healthcare capacity	21
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Our hands are tied: abortion bans and hesitant medicine	21
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	21
The Identity Vitality-Pathology model: A novel theoretical framework proposing “identity state” as a modulator of the pathways from structural to health inequity	21
“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	21
Engaging patients in blood systems: A qualitative study on immune globulin recipient perspectives	21
Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the mortality profiles of the foreign-born in France during the first pandemic wave	21
Heterogeneous associations between early-life religious upbringing and late-life health: Evidence from a machine learning approach	21
Multidimensional intergenerational mobility	21
The WHO Foundation in global health governance: Depoliticizing corporate philanthropy	21
'We've got a present for you’: Hepatitis C elimination, compromised healthcare subjects and treatment as a gift	21
Prospective relationships between patterns of religious belief/non-belief and mental health in adults: A UK cohort study	21
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