Social Science & Medicine

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Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health	3093
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives	214
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes	214
Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69	131
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children	119
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making	116
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information	114
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One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	113
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice	112
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity	109
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment	103
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	87
Caring for care: Online feedback in the context of public healthcare services	81
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage	78
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries	78
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]	74
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography	74
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice	73
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	72
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	72
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues	71
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare	70
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis	68
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system	67

Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample	67
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits	64
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	63
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing	63
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups	62
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks	62
Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients	60
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice	59
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil	59
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics：A landmarking analysis approach	58
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey	58
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood	57
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden	56
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems	56
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations	55
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being	55
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context	54
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices	54
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition	54
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study	54
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’	53
Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners	53
Do financial barriers to access to primary health care increase the risk of poor health? Longitudinal evidence from New Zealand	53
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors	52
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective	52
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research	52
Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis	51
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?	51
The ‘good life’, personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda	51
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities	50
The central role of social support in the health of Chinese and Korean American immigrants	50
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities	50
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
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development	50
Professional regulation, profession-state relations and the pandemic response: Australia, Canada, and the UK compared	49
The role of workplace accommodations in explaining the disability employment gap in the UK	49
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care	49
Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway	49
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status	48
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial	47
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces	47
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review	47
The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia	47
The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education	46
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice	46
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review	46
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began	45
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness	45
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment	45
The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality: An experiment in China	45

Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods	45
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan	45
Social Interventions in Times of Crisis: Community Perceptions of Integrating Social Determinants and Equity into the COVID-19 Response	45
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic	44
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States	44
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon	44
Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana	44
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset	43
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles	43
Triggered: Qualitatively exploring structural and social drivers of firearm violence exposure among LGBTQ+ young adults of color in Detroit	43
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study	43
“Dirty looks”: A critical phenomenology of motorized mobility scooter use	43
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey	43
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity	43
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults	42
Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis	42
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study	41
Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography	41
Decomposition of inequalities in out-of-pocket health expenditure burden in Saudi Arabia	40
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India	39
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism	39
Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices	39
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway	39
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity	39
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications	39
Positive life experiences and mortality: Examination of psychobiological pathways	38
Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine	38
Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services	38
Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies	38
Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data	38
Patient participation in priority setting: Co-existing participant roles	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
Decomposition analysis to assess intervention strategies for reducing health-related exposure disparities in Michigan public drinking water systems	37
Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity	37
A critical analysis of newspaper accounts of violence against doctors in India	37
Disentangling the complexities of modelling when high social capital contributes to indicating good health	37
The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States	36
A sense of injustice in care networks: An intersectional exploration of the collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background.	36
Overconfidence at the time of COVID-19:Does it lead to laxer attitudes?	36
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	36
Lived experience of State-sponsored intra-national overseas therapeutic mobility for stem cell transplantation	36
Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts	36
COVID-19 vulnerability and perceived norm violations predict loss of social trust: A pre-post study	36
Perceived social position, active engagement with life, and depressive symptoms among older adults	36
Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’	36
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department	36
Attitudes to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests for population-based screening: A qualitative study in Great Britain	35
The role of trust in health-seeking for non-communicable disease services in fragile contexts: A cross-country comparative study	35
Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy	35
Ageing as well as you can in place: Applying a geographical lens to the capability approach	35
Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation	35
Sexuality and aging: Is it time for a new sexual revolution?	35
The social construction of the patient-physician relationship in the clinical encounter: Media frames on shared decision making in Germany	34
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology	34
Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography	34
The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation	34
Safety net, gateway, market, sport, and war: Exploring how emergency physicians conceptualize and ascribe meaning to emergency care	34
The association between tree canopy cover over streets and elderly pedestrian falls: A health disparity study in urban areas	33
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Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions	33
Preventing transition “regret”: An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada	33
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of the long-term treatment and support of substance use disorders	33
Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement	33
A longitudinal study of parents' expectations about infants’ emerging behaviors and their safety strategies to moderate injury risk	32
The role of detention officers in the provision of jail healthcare in the Southeastern United States	32
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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	32
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Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents	32
Intergroup relationships with people who use drugs: A personal network approach	32
The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents	32
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Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach	31
Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community	31
Trading in harms: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state	31
Syndemics and the history of disease: Towards a new engagement	31
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	31
Elder abuse and cognitive function among community-Dwelling older adults: Does abuse history matter?	31

The ambivalence of radiotherapy: Re-framing effects and their temporalities in treatment for gynaecological cancer	31
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence	31
Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support	30
Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care	30
Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex	30
Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime	30
Multi-group data versus dual-side theory: On race contrasts and police-caused homicides	30
Dropdown rights: Categorizing transgender discrimination in healthcare technologies	30
A post-lockdown study of burnout risk amongst New Zealand essential workers	30
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women	30
Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance	30
From ‘parallel world’ to ‘trading zone’: How diabetes-related information from social media is (not) discussed in clinical consultations	30
Exposure to gun violence and handgun carrying from adolescence to adulthood	30
Making disordered bodies in the context of male eating disorders	29
Absorbing it all: A meta-ethnography of parents’ unfolding experiences of newborn screening	29
Discursive trends in New York Times coverage of Evusheld access: A case study in the social production of ignorance	29
Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach	29
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	29
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	29
Unlocking the importance of perceived governance: The impact on COVID-19 in NUTS-2 European regions	29
Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation	29
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Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation	29
What factors drive state firearm law adoption? An application of exponential-family random graph models	28
Social networks and posttraumatic stress symptoms five to ten years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster	28
“You just want to feel safe when you go to a healthcare professional:” Intimate partner violence and patient safety	28
Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth	28
Community vulnerability and mobility: What matters most in spatio-temporal modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic?	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
Theory and empiricism: A comment on “Interrogating the environmental affordances model” by Pamplin and colleagues	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
Navigating healthcare during the pandemic: Experiences of racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario's Peel Region	27
Urbanicity and child health in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: Settlement type and its association with mortality and morbidity	27
Understanding cooperative contact tracing: Factors explored through privacy management theories	27
Nurses' perspectives on assisted suicide: Challenges and support needs	27
Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis	27
Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic: Instrumentalizing social life for biological control in Denmark's COVID-19 response	27
“Feeling your emotions is an act of rebellion:” How climate cafés across Canada support youth wellbeing during the climate crisis	27
Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review	27
Assessing associations between insecure income and US workers’ health: An IPUMS-MEPS analysis	27
“We are not the ethics police”: The professionalization of clinical ethicists and the regulation of medical decision-making	27
Voices from the water(s): Developing a salutogenic trace through swimming	27
Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study	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
Journey mapping long COVID: Agency and social support for long-hauling	26
Recovery in mental health: An international Delphi study from a recovery-oriented professional perspective	26
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass	26
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation	26
Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women's and girls' reproductive autonomy in Nigeria	26
The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era	26
The cultural sensitivity continuum of mental health interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review	26
Housing Crowding and Sleep Health in Urban China: A Mediation Analysis of Psychosocial Pathways Using Nationally Representative Data	26
Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes	26
Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?	26
Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia	25
“I let others speak about condoms:” Muslim religious leaders’ selective engagement with an NGO-Led family planning project in rural Tanzania	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
Discharge readiness as an infrastructure: Negotiating the transfer of care for elderly patients in medical wards	25
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence	25
“Nowhere else to be found”: Drawing on peer support experiences among transgender and gender-diverse people to substantiate community-driven gender-affirming care	25
Medicine, structural racism, and systems	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
Pain by proxy: An ethnographic study on the relational co-construction of the agency of young children in healthcare encounters	25
Social pension expansion and suicidal behaviour of older adults in Korea: A quasi-experimental study	25
State-level structural sexism and cesarean sections in the United States	25
Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: A microsimulation study of the UK during the COVID-19 economic crisis	25
Assessing the impact of caregiving for older parents on caregivers' health: Initial health status and trajectories of physical and mental health among midlife caregivers for parents and parents-in-law	25
How do social and economic vulnerabilities shape the work of participating in care? Everyday experiences of people living with kidney failure in Argentina	24
Preferences for investment in and allocation of additional healthcare capacity	24
Why did this happen to me? Causal attributions of illness and cultural health capital	24
Correlates of longitudinal patterns of racial discrimination in midlife and older Black adults: Evidence from the health and retirement study	24
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How epigenetic inheritance fails to explain the Black-White health gap	24
Risk factors for deaths of despair in England: An ecological study of local authority mortality data	24
Brains exposed: How new imaging technology reconfigures expertise coordination in neurosurgery	24
How states engage in and exercise power in global health: Indonesian and Japanese engagement in the conceptualization of Sustainable Development Goal 3	24
Positive school climate and strong school identification as protective factors of adolescent mental health and learning engagement: A longitudinal investigation before and during COVID-19	24
Heterogeneous associations between early-life religious upbringing and late-life health: Evidence from a machine learning approach	24
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Neighborhood gentrification, displacement, and severe maternal morbidity in California	24
‘Progression capitals’: How homeless health peer advocacy impacts peer advocates	24
The Identity Vitality-Pathology model: A novel theoretical framework proposing “identity state” as a modulator of the pathways from structural to health inequity	24
Infrastructuring precision medicine: Making gene therapies for rare diseases workable in practice	24
Investigating the spatial and temporal variation of vape retailer provision in New Zealand: A cross-sectional and nationwide study	24
Rurality and opioid prescribing rates in U.S. counties from 2006 to 2018: A spatiotemporal investigation	24
Characteristics of geographic environments that support the health and wellbeing of young people with disability: A scoping review	24
Arts and cultural engagement and subsequent social deficits among older adults: A three-year longitudinal study using the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study	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
Prescribing antibiotics: Factors driving decision-making in general practice. A discrete choice experiment	23
“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	23
Organizing precision medicine: A case study of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's engagement in/with genomics	23
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	23
The social patterning of vicarious discrimination: Implications for health equity	23
The precariousness of living with, and caring for people with, dementia: Insights from the IDEAL programme	23