Social Science & Medicine

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Science & Medicine is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Implementing age-friendly policies in China: Assessing the impact on older adults’ self-rated health2945
“This family and the Games are my world”: Conceptualizing the British and European Transplant Games as therapeutic landscapes210
Moving beyond a figurative psychedelic literacy: Metaphors of psychiatric symptoms in ayahuasca narratives197
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency: Evidence from a British online market research survey133
Long-term changes in endemic threshold populations for pertussis in England and Wales: A spatiotemporal analysis of Lancashire and South Wales, 1940-69131
Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India118
A happiness approach to valuing health states for children112
‘A platform for goodness, not for badness’: The heuristics of hope in patients' evaluations of online health information108
Seeking help for atrial fibrillation: the role of the body in distributed decision making108
One health and social research in disease ecology: A social contextual study of vector-borne diseases in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico107
Cognition in context: Pathways and compound risk in a sample of US non-Hispanic whites106
Adopting the risk information seeking and processing model to examine the impact of personality on vaccination intentions in Taiwan103
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Vital mobilities of medical oxygen: Theorising oxygen justice101
“No one will come and help me make my life”: Ecological-transactional model approach to resilience among people with a history of childhood adversity84
Navigating payment and policy barriers to gender-affirming care for transmasculine individuals: A qualitative study and policy assessment80
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 attainment78
Caring for care: Online feedback in the context of public healthcare services75
Managing disruption at a distance: Unequal experiences of people living with long-term conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic74
Compulsion and redistribution remain key tenets for financing universal health coverage72
Infrahealth politics: Leveraging bartenders’ expertise in alcohol management - An ethnography71
Investigating the relationship between unmet need and utilisation of health care in European countries71
How does the school built environment impact students’ bullying behaviour? A scoping review70
How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review69
Unlocking the night: Exploring the health impacts of night-time walking environments on health outcomes of older adults69
The burden of mental health and somatic disorders among people experiencing incarceration later in life: A 13-year cohort study69
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]68
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990–2020: Evidence from a global dataset66
The road to equitable healthcare: A conceptual model developed from a qualitative study of Syrian refugees in Norway66
Charting public views on the meaning of illness severity64
Interpreting technology: Use and non-use of doctor-patient video consultations in Danish general practice62
“We are a rehabilitation unit, at least on paper” – Competing representations of recovery-oriented rehabilitation in dual diagnosis treatment policy and practice62
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 trajectories61
Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development61
A scoping review of qualitative geographic information systems in studies addressing health issues61
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 Ghana61
The vasovagal reaction experience among blood donors: A qualitative study of factors that affect donor return59
Re-imagining ‘the patient’: Linked lives and lessons from genomic medicine59
Do financial barriers to access to primary health care increase the risk of poor health? Longitudinal evidence from New Zealand57
Life Course Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Persistent Infection Burden: Links to Cellular Immunosenescence in U.S. Young Adults57
Carceral heat exposure as harmful design: An integrative model for understanding the health impacts of heat on incarcerated people in the United States56
Will tomorrow be better? The moral experiments of three women with mental illness55
Believing in conspiracy theories in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Drivers and public health implications54
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial54
Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis54
Healthcare staff's racialized talk: The perpetuation of racism in healthcare54
The gendered playing field: Family socioeconomic status and national gender inequality in adolescents’ out-of-school physical activity53
Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers COVID-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample53
Loneliness and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with social media identity bubbles51
Associations of health care staff burnout with negative health and organizational outcomes in the U.S. military health system51
Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits50
Multigenerational immigrant trajectories and children's unequal exposure to fine particulate matter in the US50
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 members50
Public health and harmful advertising: The nature and extent of children's real-time exposure to unhealthy commodity marketing50
‘Online boundary-work’: How people with diabetes negotiate what counts as legitimate knowledge in Facebook peer support groups50
“The highest decision-making level” – Multidisciplinary team meetings as boundary spaces50
Return to sender: Unraveling the role of structural and social network ties in patient sharing networks50
Physiological linkage during interactions between doctors and cancer patients49
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice49
Longitudinal attenuation in political polarization: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination adherence in Brazil49
Balancing hope at the end of life organisational conditions for spiritual care in palliative homecare in Sweden48
Dynamic prediction of lung cancer suicide risk based on meteorological factors and clinical characteristics:A landmarking analysis approach48
The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood48
Diverging mental health after Brexit: Evidence from a longitudinal survey48
The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care47
Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems47
Supporting mental health in farming communities where and when it is needed most: A longitudinal analysis of risk and protective factors47
Decomposition of inequalities in out-of-pocket health expenditure burden in Saudi Arabia47
Economic and health implications of early COVID-19 lockdown exits: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis47
Ownership of change: Participatory development of a novel latent construct for neighborhoods and health equity research46
Health improvements of older adults based on benefit duration: Lessons from Korean social pension policies45
Spoken word poetry in nursing education: A concept analysis45
Professional regulation, profession-state relations and the pandemic response: Australia, Canada, and the UK compared45
The ‘good life’, personal appearance, and mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda and Uganda45
Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities45
Eliciting preferences and respecting values: Why ask?45
The central role of social support in the health of Chinese and Korean American immigrants44
The role of workplace accommodations in explaining the disability employment gap in the UK44
Promoting equitable sexual health communication among patients with minoritized racial/ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identities: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities44
A sociological autopsy lens on older adult suicide in rural Australia: Addressing health, psychosocial factors and care practices at the intersection of policies and institutions44
Is the disability wage gap a gendered inequality? Evidence from a 13-year full population study from Norway44
Addressing health workforce shortages as a precursor to attaining universal health coverage: A comparative policy analysis of Nigeria and Ghana43
Mechanism mapping: A qualitative study of how different forms of instability mediate the relationship between legal status and immigrant mental well-being43
Religious trauma and moral injury from LGBTQA+ conversion practices43
Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study43
Market access for medicines treating rare diseases: Association between specialised processes for orphan medicines and funding recommendations43
Association between childhood life circumstances and chronic diseases in middle-aged and elderly individuals: A population-based retrospective study42
Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods42
Performance feedback in healthcare organizations: The role of accountability measures and competition42
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context42
Ecosyndemics: The potential synergistic health impacts of highways and dams in the Amazon41
“Dirty looks”: A critical phenomenology of motorized mobility scooter use41
Does delivery matter? Examining pandemic vaccination preferences across time and countries using a discrete choice experiment41
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices40
Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism40
Public trust of physicians in China improved since the COVID-19 pandemic Began40
The embodiment of water insecurity: Injuries and chronic stress in lowland Bolivia40
Patient participation in priority setting: Co-existing participant roles39
Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography39
Associations between epigenetic age acceleration and longitudinal measures of psychosocioeconomic stress and status39
Using spatial Bayesian models to estimate associations between structural racial discrimination and disparities in severe maternal morbidity38
Women's political participation and disease prevention: Evidence from access to water and sanitation services38
Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data38
Parental education and epigenetic aging in middle-aged and older adults in the United States: A life course perspective38
Exploring the myth of the chubby gamer: A meta-analysis on sedentary video gaming and body mass38
Positive life experiences and mortality: Examination of psychobiological pathways38
“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’38
Attitudes to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests for population-based screening: A qualitative study in Great Britain37
Decomposition analysis to assess intervention strategies for reducing health-related exposure disparities in Michigan public drinking water systems37
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department37
“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 people37
A critical analysis of newspaper accounts of violence against doctors in India37
COVID-19 vulnerability and perceived norm violations predict loss of social trust: A pre-post study37
Disentangling the complexities of modelling when high social capital contributes to indicating good health37
Overconfidence at the time of COVID-19:Does it lead to laxer attitudes?37
Lived experience of State-sponsored intra-national overseas therapeutic mobility for stem cell transplantation36
A sense of injustice in care networks: An intersectional exploration of the collaboration between professionals and carers with a migration background.36
Making patients political: Narrating, curating, enacting, and navigating the ‘idealised policy patient’36
Substance Use Among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth and Young Adults Living in the US: A Systematic Review36
The social construction of the patient-physician relationship in the clinical encounter: Media frames on shared decision making in Germany36
Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation36
Social norms relating to gender and dating and relationship violence in English secondary schools: Exploring student, staff and parent/carer accounts36
Corrigendum to “Early life programming of adult ischemic heart disease within and across generations: The role of the socioeconomic context” [Soc. Sci. Med. 275 (2021) 113811]35
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The TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States35
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Perceived social position, active engagement with life, and depressive symptoms among older adults35
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Child gender and differences in risky health behavior among parents34
The relationship between healthcare satisfaction after miscarriage and perinatal grief symptoms: A cross-sectional study on Portugal residents34
Elder abuse and cognitive function among community-Dwelling older adults: Does abuse history matter?34
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Intergroup relationships with people who use drugs: A personal network approach34
Exploring the risks of fragmentation in health care markets – An analysis of inpatient care in Georgia34
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 coord34
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A longitudinal study of parents' expectations about infants’ emerging behaviors and their safety strategies to moderate injury risk34
The role of detention officers in the provision of jail healthcare in the Southeastern United States34
Debates over the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine on COVID-19: A computational comparison between professionals and laypersons in Chinese online knowledge community33
Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care: A qualitative system dynamics approach33
Costs and economies of scale in repeated home-based HIV counselling and testing: Evidence from the ANRS 12249 Treatment as Prevention trial in South Africa33
Trading in harms: COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health disparities during the first surge in New York state33
The ambivalence of radiotherapy: Re-framing effects and their temporalities in treatment for gynaecological cancer33
Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence33
Syndemics and the history of disease: Towards a new engagement33
Evaluate the health risks and impact pathways of precarious employment in the context of globalization: A national longitudinal research from 2017 to 2023 in Japan32
Structural stigma and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: Policy protection and cultural acceptance32
Deciphering the COVID-19 density puzzle: A meta-analysis approach32
Absorbing it all: A meta-ethnography of parents’ unfolding experiences of newborn screening32
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Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy32
Discursive trends in New York Times coverage of Evusheld access: A case study in the social production of ignorance31
Community vulnerability and mobility: What matters most in spatio-temporal modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic?31
“You just want to feel safe when you go to a healthcare professional:” Intimate partner violence and patient safety31
Unlocking the importance of perceived governance: The impact on COVID-19 in NUTS-2 European regions31
Smoothness as a quality of care: An STS approach to transnational healthcare mediation31
Social networks and posttraumatic stress symptoms five to ten years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster31
The role of shifted television viewing on earlier bedtimes in the streaming era31
Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography31
“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 31
Theory and empiricism: A comment on “Interrogating the environmental affordances model” by Pamplin and colleagues31
Resisting the (re-)medicalisation of dying and grief in the post-digital age: Natural language processing and qualitative analysis of data from internet support forums31
“Feeling your emotions is an act of rebellion:” How climate cafés across Canada support youth wellbeing during the climate crisis30
“We are not the ethics police”: The professionalization of clinical ethicists and the regulation of medical decision-making30
Biosocial vulnerabilities amidst the pandemic: Instrumentalizing social life for biological control in Denmark's COVID-19 response30
Divorce and physical health: A three-level meta-analysis30
Assessing access: Texting hotline app provides mental health crisis care for economically deprived youth30
Navigating healthcare during the pandemic: Experiences of racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario's Peel Region30
Nurses' perspectives on assisted suicide: Challenges and support needs30
What factors drive state firearm law adoption? An application of exponential-family random graph models30
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 weighting30
Voices from the water(s): Developing a salutogenic trace through swimming30
Global economic uncertainty and suicide: Worldwide evidence29
From ‘parallel world’ to ‘trading zone’: How diabetes-related information from social media is (not) discussed in clinical consultations29
The association between tree canopy cover over streets and elderly pedestrian falls: A health disparity study in urban areas29
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology29
Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study29
Urbanicity and child health in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: Settlement type and its association with mortality and morbidity29
Understanding cooperative contact tracing: Factors explored through privacy management theories29
Preventing transition “regret”: An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada29
Safety net, gateway, market, sport, and war: Exploring how emergency physicians conceptualize and ascribe meaning to emergency care29
Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions29
Maternal depression, alcohol use, and transient effects of perinatal paraprofessional home visiting in South Africa: Eight-year follow-up of a cluster randomized controlled trial28
Sexuality and aging: Is it time for a new sexual revolution?28
Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes28
Physician resistance to injustice: A scoping review28
Understanding vaccine scepticism among complementary and alternative medicine users: A comprehensive mixed-methods investigation28
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of the long-term treatment and support of substance use disorders28
Ageing as well as you can in place: Applying a geographical lens to the capability approach28
Assessing associations between insecure income and US workers’ health: An IPUMS-MEPS analysis28
Social pension expansion and suicidal behaviour of older adults in Korea: A quasi-experimental study28
Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?28
The role of trust in health-seeking for non-communicable disease services in fragile contexts: A cross-country comparative study28
Extreme racism-related events and poor sleep in African-American women27
Between loss and restoration: The role of liminality in advancing theories of grief and bereavement27
Night Shift Work and Sleep Duration among Middle and Older Age Adults: The Role of Individual, Social, and Environmental Moderators27
Why do people believe health misinformation and who is at risk? A systematic review of individual differences in susceptibility to health misinformation27
Participation through the lens of care: Situated accountabilities in the codesign of a digital health platform for HIV care27
The cultural sensitivity continuum of mental health interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review27
The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation27
Multi-group data versus dual-side theory: On race contrasts and police-caused homicides27
A post-lockdown study of burnout risk amongst New Zealand essential workers27
An ecological expansion of the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) framework to include threat and deprivation associated with U.S. immigration policies and enforcement practices: An examination of t27
Journey mapping long COVID: Agency and social support for long-hauling27
Loneliness is positively associated with populist radical right support27
Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime27
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, Australia27
Effects of executive function on age-related emotion recognition decline varied by sex27
Exposure to gun violence and handgun carrying from adolescence to adulthood26
Armed conflict, insecurity, and attitudes toward women's and girls' reproductive autonomy in Nigeria26
Dropdown rights: Categorizing transgender discrimination in healthcare technologies26
Arts and cultural engagement and subsequent social deficits among older adults: A three-year longitudinal study using the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study26
Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: A microsimulation study of the UK during the COVID-19 economic crisis26
Intracommunity intersectional discrimination and its impact on psychological distress and smoking behavior among sexual minority men from minority ethnic backgrounds26
Pain by proxy: An ethnographic study on the relational co-construction of the agency of young children in healthcare encounters25
How states engage in and exercise power in global health: Indonesian and Japanese engagement in the conceptualization of Sustainable Development Goal 325
Differences in health utilities between cancer patients and the general population: The case of Quebec using the SF-6Dv225
“We do not stop being Indigenous when we are in pain”: An integrative review of the lived experiences of chronic pain among Indigenous peoples25
Is contributory health insurance indeed an addiction to a bad idea? A comment on its relevance for low- and middle-income countries25
Brains exposed: How new imaging technology reconfigures expertise coordination in neurosurgery25
The Identity Vitality-Pathology model: A novel theoretical framework proposing “identity state” as a modulator of the pathways from structural to health inequity25
Discharge readiness as an infrastructure: Negotiating the transfer of care for elderly patients in medical wards25
Why did this happen to me? Causal attributions of illness and cultural health capital25
Preferences for investment in and allocation of additional healthcare capacity25
Pre-loss grief and preparedness for death among caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients: A systematic review24
How epigenetic inheritance fails to explain the Black-White health gap24
“The machine doesn't judge”: Counternarratives on surveillance among people accessing a safer opioid supply via biometric machines24
Immigrants’ health empowerment and access to health coverage in France: A stepped wedge randomised controlled trial24
Compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and mindfulness among healthcare professionals: A meta-analysis of correlational studies and randomized controlled trials24
Momentary health behaviour cues are moderated by educational attainment: Findings from two ecological momentary assessment studies24
“I let others speak about condoms:” Muslim religious leaders’ selective engagement with an NGO-Led family planning project in rural Tanzania24
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-law24
‘Progression capitals’: How homeless health peer advocacy impacts peer advocates24
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Characteristics of geographic environments that support the health and wellbeing of young people with disability: A scoping review24
Investigation of the health economic analysis of informal care for people living with a chronic neurological disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the global evidence for multiple sclerosi24
The WHO Foundation in global health governance: Depoliticizing corporate philanthropy24
Impact of a link worker social prescribing intervention on non-elective admitted patient care costs: A quasi-experimental study24
Intersex people's perspectives on affirming healthcare practices: A qualitative study24
State-level structural sexism and cesarean sections in the United States24
Coparenting, mental health, and the pursuit of dignity: A systems-level analysis of refugee father-mother narratives24
Medicine, structural racism, and systems24
Assessing risk factors and health impacts across different forms of exchange sex among young women in informal settlements in South Africa: A cross-sectional study24
“It makes you feel worthless.” The lived experience of discrimination in the US food assistance system24
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Best and worst performing health facilities: A positive deviance analysis of perceived drivers of primary care performance in Nepal24
Our hands are tied: abortion bans and hesitant medicine24
How do social and economic vulnerabilities shape the work of participating in care? Everyday experiences of people living with kidney failure in Argentina24
“Nowhere else to be found”: Drawing on peer support experiences among transgender and gender-diverse people to substantiate community-driven gender-affirming care24
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