Social Science & Medicine

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Framing of sensitive topics in surveys measuring corruption in healthcare	2329
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	195
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	155
Prospective relationship between electronic health literacy and health-promoting lifestyle among Chinese older adults: A three-wave longitudinal study	122
Easing caregiver strain: The power of health check-ups	121
A low-cost digital first aid tool to reduce psychological distress in refugees: A multi-country randomized controlled trial of self-help online in the first months after the invasion of Ukraine	118
Thermal comfort and gender affirmation: A virtual ethnography of extreme heat among trans women in Rio de Janeiro	109
Hazardous alcohol use is associated with food insecurity in adults living alone: Findings from a nationwide study in Korea	101
Borrowing regulatory capacity in middle-income countries during public health crises: Brazil, regulatory reliance, and the politics of COVD-19 vaccine regulation	95
Disparities in depression and anxiety at the intersection of race and gender identity in a large community health sample	94
Problems with NICE's severity weights	93
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	91
Disrupted family reunification: Mental health, race, and state-level factors	89
‘Kindling the fire’ of NHS patient data exploitations: The care.data controversy in news media discourses	85
Interprovincial spatial distribution patterns and socioeconomic factors on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) service utilization in China	85
Grandparental childcare and subjective well-being: The role of activities and reasons for care	82
Rhythmanalysis of care: Daily practices among informal caregivers of children with cancer	80
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	78
‘Care as capital’: Developing theory about school investment in mental health and wellbeing	77
Infant birth weight in Brazil: A cross-sectional historical approach	73
The wording matters: Gender equality laws and women's attitudes towards domestic violence in Africa	69
Administrative burden for patients in U.S. health care settings Post-Affordable Care Act: A scoping review	69
Does Bundling Reminders with Messages Debunking Misconceptions Improve the Demand for Preventive Health Services? A Randomized Controlled Trial among Adults with Hypertension in Punjab, India	69
Association between behavioral jet lag with subjective and objective circadian rhythm among Chinese young adults	64
Social isolation and loneliness increase the risk of coronary heart disease: Insights from a prospective cohort study	64

The impact of the minimum wage on suicide rates in Hong Kong	63
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the burden of maternal and neonatal disorders: A counterfactual modeling based on the global burden of disease study (2021)	63
Social media delivered mental health campaigns and public service announcements: A systematic literature review of public engagement and help-seeking behaviours	62
Observations of teamworking in a multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic: Bridging roles of podiatry and technology	61
The demand for private telehealth services in low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from South Africa	61
Effects of separating drug sales from treatment on medical disputes	60
Causally-informative analyses of the effect of job displacement on all-cause and specific-cause mortality from the 1990s Finnish recession until 2020: A population registry study of private sector emp	60
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	59
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	58
A virtual assistant can persuade you to get vaccinated against the flu. Online dialogue as a tool of social influence in promoting vaccinations	58
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	58
Expanding contexts of medicalization: The role of policy legacies, race, and class in the prevalence of treatment courts	58
Corrigendum to “Decolonising the field of violence against women and girls: A scoping review and recommendations for research and programming” [Soc. Sci. Med. Volume 357, September 2024, 117168]	57
The effect of public tolerance towards corruptive behaviour on healthcare efficiency and equity – The case of the UK's COVID-19 vaccination programme	57
Resistance, tensions and consent to digital working in healthcare	57
The impact of China's low-carbon city pilot program on the health of children	56
Undertaking risk and relational work to manage vulnerability: Acute medical patients’ involvement in patient safety in the NHS	55
Eating-related pathology at the intersection of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and weight status: An intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminat	54
Obstetric experiences of young black mothers: An intersectional perspective	54
Syndemic effects in complex humanitarian emergencies: A framework for understanding political violence and improving multi-morbidity health outcomes	54
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity	53
Is austerity a cause of slower improvements in mortality in high-income countries? A panel analysis	52
Testing mediating pathways between school segregation and health: Evidence on peer prejudice and health behaviors	52
Misrepresenting Pragmatism: Response to Greenhalgh and Engebretsen	52
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context	51
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	51
Experiencing birth trauma: Individualism and isolation in postpartum	51
Impact of the 2009 WIC revision on infant and maternal health: A quasi-experimental multi-state study	51
Understanding low mobilization for non-communicable diseases among people living with NCDs: A qualitative study on hypertension in urban South India	51
The work of composition: Situated articulation of visible and invisible work within patient organisations	51
Disparities in quality of life by race, gender, and sexual orientation: An intersectional analysis of population-representative data in Gauteng, South Africa	50
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	49
Experiences of sexist discrimination as a potential explanatory factor for alcohol and drug misuse among Latina young adult women	48
Life expectancies across congressional districts in the United States	48
Sex based differences in depression, anxiety, and quality of life and predictors of quality of life among South Asian individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A Bayesian analysis	48
Estimating the health impact of delayed elective care during the COVID -19 pandemic in the Netherlands	48
Economic policy uncertainty and subjective health: A gender perspective	48
Cross-level group density interactions on mental health for cultural, but not economic, components of social class	48
Navigating fear and care: The lived experiences of community-based health actors in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic	48
Poverty and population health – The need for A Paradigm shift to capture the working poor and better inform public health planning	47
“As a clinician, you have to be passionately involved”: Advocacy and professional responsibility in gender-affirming healthcare	47
Heterogeneity in the mental health cost of caring for others	46
Stepping into the shoes of the policy maker: Results of a Participatory Value Evaluation for the Dutch long term COVID-19 strategy	45
Doctor decision making with time inconsistent patients	45
Theorising mother-baby-assemblages: The vital emergence of maternal health	44
Do they just know more, or do they also have different preferences? An exploratory analysis of the effects of self-reporting serious health problems on health state valuation	44
A life course approach to understanding stress exposures and cognitive function among middle-aged and older adults	44
Examining the role of social vulnerability, neighborhood characteristics, and geospatial patterns of firearm-related injuries and clinical outcomes in Milwaukee county	43
Working around safety net exclusions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study of rural Latinx immigrants	43
State-level desegregation in the U.S. South and mid-life cognitive function among Black and White adults	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
In utero exposure to natural disasters and later-life mortality: Evidence from earthquakes in the early twentieth century	43
Examining individual-level tri-exposure to greenspace and air/noise pollution using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data	43
Food for thought: The intersection between SNAP stigma, food insecurity, and gender	43
The relation between conspiracism, government trust, and COVID-19 vaccination intentions: The key role of motivation	43
State level income inequality affects cardiovascular stress responses: Evidence from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study	43
Evolution of preferences for COVID-19 vaccine throughout the pandemic – The choice experiment approach	43
Horizontal and vertical equity and public subsidies for private health insurance in the U.S.	42
Are grandchildren good for you? Well-being and health effects of becoming a grandparent	42
Did the COVID-19 pandemic reshape equity in healthcare use in Europe?	42
Self-reported psychological symptoms and severe stress events, but not patients' gender, affect illness representation and medical advice by lay-referral network advisors	42
Socioeconomic inequality in the outcomes of a psychological intervention for depression for South Africans with a co-occurring chronic disease: A decomposition analysis	42
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	40
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	40
Social care for disabled elderly women in urban China: The roles of the community	40
Mechanism substitution in preventive innovations: Dissecting the reproduction of health inequalities in the United States	40
Death on the job: The Great Recession and work-related traffic fatalities	40
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(I can't get no) satisfaction: A comparative study of healthcare recommodification in Europe, 2010-18	39
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Legal restrictions and mitigation strategies amongst a disabled population during COVID-19	39
Is mammography screening an effective public health intervention? Evidence from a natural experiment	39
Mediating immediacy in the era of ‘treat all’: The (chrono)logics of HIV treatment initiation in Shinyanga, Tanzania	38
Assessing the World Health Organization: What does the academic debate reveal and is it democratic?	38
Investment in the peace of mind? How private services change the landscape of maternity care in Poland	38
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From fathers to peers: Association between paternal violence victimization and peer violence perpetration among youth in Malawi, Nigeria, and Zambia	38
Reciprocal longitudinal associations of supportive workplace relationships with depressive symptoms and self-rated health: A study of Korean women	37
Hold the phone! A cross-national analysis of Women's education, mobile phones, and HIV infections in low- and middle-income countries, 1990–2018	37
Waiting for medical test results: A delay discounting approach	37
The role of social resources and trajectories of functional health following stroke	37
Transnational health protection strategies and other health-seeking behavior among undocumented and indigenous dairy workers in a rural new immigrant destination	37
Shared decision-making during prostate cancer consultations: Implications of clinician misalignment with patient and partner preferences	36
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Health accidents and wealth decline in old age	36
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Opioids ease my pain: Early-life malnutrition and elderly outcomes	36
Determinants of voluntary compliance: COVID-19 mitigation	36
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then”: A study combining register and self-reported QoL data in assessing how response shift may occur in an injury population	36
Injured black men's perceptions of the recovery environment	36
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Measuring the overall performance of mental healthcare providers	36
The association between the proportion of Brexiters and COVID-19 death rates in England	36
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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	35
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Multigenerational immigrant trajectories and children's unequal exposure to fine particulate matter in the US	35
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Estimating the effect on happiness through question randomization: An application to blood donation	34
The ends of an assemblage of health	34
The vasovagal reaction experience among blood donors: A qualitative study of factors that affect donor return	34
"I don't have a telephone to the fetus": Clinicians' conceptions of fetal patienthood in maternal-fetal surgery counseling	34
A locational analytics approach to COVID-19 discrimination and inequality against minorities across the United States	34
School food hero and the battle of the food foes: A story of public health policy, power imbalance and potential	34
The impact of socioeconomic status on health practices via health lifestyles: Results of qualitative interviews with Americans from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds	34
Using curiosity to counter health information avoidance	33
Health emergencies, science contrarianism and populism: A scoping review	33
Exploring the discourses around microdosing psychedelics within the r/microdosing online community	33
Medically underserved areas: are primary care teams efficient at attracting and retaining general practitioners?	32
Gendered bodies: A graphic medicine commentary	32
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Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	32
Hospital market competition and health technology diffusion: An empirical study of laparoscopic appendectomy in China	32
Benefits and harms adopted by health economic assessments evaluating antenatal and newborn screening programmes in OECD countries: A systematic review of 336 articles and reports	32
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care	31
The impact of national legislation on psychosocial risks on organisational action plans, psychosocial working conditions, and employee work-related stress in Europe	31
Neo-traditionalist, egalitarian and progressive masculinities in men's heterosexual intimate partner relationships	31
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	31
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	31
“Lives versus livelihoods”: Conflict and coherence between policy objectives in the COVID-19 pandemic	31
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	31
The role of administrative categories in the globalisation of a psychiatric concept: Case studies of autism in Japan	31
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	31
Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients	31
Machines, journeys, prisons and yo-yos: Metaphors of pain, illness and medicine in consultations with chronic pain patients	31
Specialty economies of scope in English hospitals: Cost Arguments for colocation	31
Measuring negative emotional responses to climate change among young people in survey research: A systematic review	30
A conceptual framework and exploratory model for health and social intervention acceptability among African adolescents and youth	30
From causal loop diagrams to future scenarios: Using the cross-impact balance method to augment understanding of urban health in Latin America	30

Understanding autism and its treatment: The child's perspective	30
Antibiotic geographies and access to medicines: Tracing the role of India's pharmaceutical industry in global trade	30
Maternal adverse childhood experiences and lifetime experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with current household hardships and intergenerational health	30
Loneliness and social isolation amongst refugees resettled in high-income countries: A systematic review	30
Associations between multiple indicators of discrimination and allostatic load among middle-aged adults	30
Spillover effects of anti-sugar-sweetened beverage messages: From consumption decisions to policy preferences	29
Bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure: Assembling the Philippine Government's disciplinary quarantine response to COVID-19	29
The experiences in close relationship and internet addiction among college Students: A moderated mediation model of anxiety and information cocoon	29
Financial health and obesity	29
Structural racism and racial disparities in stroke mortality in the United States, 2021	29
How to effectively communicate health information on social media depending on the audience's personality traits: An experimental study in the context of organ donation in Germany	29
Comfort with and willingness to participate in COVID-19 contact tracing: The role of risk perceptions, trust, and political ideology	29
Revisiting organizational culture in healthcare: Heterogeneity as a resource	29
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	29
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	29
Looks and longevity: Do prettier people live longer?	29
Material hardship level and unpredictability in relation to U.S. households’ family interactions and emotional well-being: Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic	29
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Birth order and health disparities throughout the life course	29
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	28
Racial and gender inequities in the control of arterial hypertension in ELSA-Brasil: An intersectional approach	28
Risk and decision-making: Communication between health professionals and pregnant women at risk of preeclampsia in Catalonia	28
Does women empowerment impact child well-being? Evidence from India	28
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	28
Mapping the current knowledge in syndemic research applied to men who have sex with men: A scoping review	28
Temporal stability and volatility in population-level high-risk illicit polysubstance use by gender and marital status in the United States, 2002–2019	28
Hemophilia Tweets in Turkey: A Rare Disease and Scarce Policies	28
What a boy wants: Transgender men's hidden tran/scripts about the nonprescription use of gender-affirming hormones in mainland China	28
Associations of physical activity and mental health in pregnant women: A cross-sectional isotemporal substitution analysis	28
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States	28
Structural racism and diminished health returns on education among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon	28
Sick of debt: How over-indebtedness is hampering health in rural Cambodia	28
Moving opportunistically: Interstate migration after medicaid expansion	28
Patient participation in priority setting: Co-existing participant roles	27
Direct-to-consumer detection of atrial fibrillation in a smartwatch electrocardiogram: Medical overuse, medicalisation and the experience of consumers	27
Legitimizing evidence: The trans-institutional life of evidence-based practice	27
Clinician resistance to broaching the topic of weight in primary care: Digging deeper into weight management using strong structuration theory	27
The built environment and its association with type 2 diabetes mellitus incidence: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	27
Comparing disease specific catastrophic cost estimates using longitudinal and cross-sectional designs: The example of tuberculosis	27
Does attracting FDI affect population health? New evidence from a multi-dimensional measure of health	27
“It was just one moment that I felt like I was being judged”: Pregnant and postpartum black Women's experiences of personal and group-based racism during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Competitiveness, country economic inequality and adolescent well-being: Analysis of 60 countries	27
The regional effect of the consumer directed care model for older people in Australia	27
Vulnerability and resilience to the harmful health consequences of weight discrimination in Black, Latina, and sexual minority women	27
Experiences of loneliness in lower- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of qualitative studies	27
Effects of economic support, comprehensive sexuality education and community dialogue on sexual behaviour: Findings from a cluster-RCT among adolescent girls in rural Zambia	27
Mitigating the influence of message features on health misinformation sharing intention in social media: Experimental evidence for accuracy-nudge intervention	26
The role of mental health in online gambling decisions: A discrete choice experiment	26
Prosocial behavior in emergencies: Evidence from blood donors recruitment and retention during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Positive life stories of Stroke-Survivor's spousal caregiving in Hong Kong: Lessons for policy and practice	26
Implications of household tobacco and alcohol use on child health and women's welfare in six low and middle-income countries: An analysis from a gender perspective	26
Do cognitive styles affect vaccine hesitancy? A dual-process cognitive framework for vaccine hesitancy and the role of risk perceptions	26
Ubuntu as a mediator in coping with multimorbidity treatment burden in a disadvantaged rural and urban setting in South Africa	26
The COVID-19 curtain: Can past communist regimes explain the vaccination divide in Europe?	26
Long-term improvement of psychological well-being in the workplace: What and how	26
How do housing asset and income relate to mortality? A population-based cohort study of 881220 older adults in Canada	26
Men smoke less under the COVID-19 closure policies: The role of altruism	26
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Hospital reorganization and its effects on physicians’ network churn: The role of past ties	25
Clear as a bell? Policy stringency and elderly health during Covid-19	25
Stress-related health depreciation: Using allostatic load to predict self-rated health	25
“They're forcing people to have children that they can't afford”: a qualitative study of social support and capital among individuals receiving an abortion in Georgia	25
Reciprocal associations between social media use and self-perception of aging among older adults: Do men and women differ?	25
‘All the dykes I know drink beer’: Sexuality and gender performance through alcohol consumption among lesbian, bisexual, and queer women in Australia	25
Opt-out policy and its improvements promote COVID-19 vaccinations	25
Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices	25
Understanding posthumous sperm retrieval during war through a terror management theory perspective	25
Road traffic mortality and economic uncertainty: Evidence from the United States	25
Investigating the links between objective social media use, attentional control, and psychological distress	25
Influence of human–surface water interactions on the transmission of urinary schistosomiasis in the Lower Densu River basin, Ghana	25
Empowered but abused? A moderated mediation analysis to explore the relationship between wife's relative resources, relational empowerment and physical abuse	25
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	24
Coping, surviving, or thriving: A scoping review examining social support for migrant care workers through four theoretical lenses	24
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon	24
The syndemic effects of food insecurity, water insecurity, and HIV on depressive symptomatology among Kenyan women	24
Social determinants of health analysis makes causal inference and requires analytic epidemiology methods	24
Understanding the motivations behind deliberate lightening of skin among burkinabe women through a socio-anthropological analysis	24
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles	24
Trapped in a maze: A meta-ethnography of women's experiences of alcohol use in pregnancy	24
Prenatal testing technologies in Australia: Unintended clinical and emotional complexities in underprepared systems	24
Therapeutic landscape experiences of everyday geographies within the wider community: A scoping review	24
Why some homeless individuals are unsheltered: A narrative review of self-reported reasons	24
Embodying or resisting social normativity? A carnal inquiry into exercise addiction experiences	23
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	23
The reemergence of Engels’ concept of social murder in response to growing social and health inequalities	23
Gender health equity: The case for including men's health	23
Restricting the advertising of high fat, salt and sugar foods on the Transport for London estate: Process and implementation study	23
Long Covid – The illness narratives	23
Access to emergency care in Egypt: Tiered health care and manifestations of inequity	23
Declining violence and improving birth outcomes in the US: Evidence from birth certificate data	23
Self-reported childhood adversity, unhealthy lifestyle and risk of new-onset chronic kidney disease in later life: A prospective cohort study	23
Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample	23
The “celebrity canary in the coal mine for the coronavirus”: An examination of a theoretical model of celebrity illness disclosure effects	23
The weight of culture: Societal individualism and flexibility explain large global variations in obesity	23
Mobilizing pilot-based evidence for the spread and sustainability of innovations in healthcare: The role of innovation intermediaries	23