| 2026-10-29 | The political economy of health and imperialism: A conceptual model of pathways and mechanisms | Social Science & Medicine | Juan Cruz Ferre | Rowan University |
| 2026-10-29 | “I always thought I was fertile”: Reproductive uncertainty, bodily doubt and andarooni kami in North India | Social Science & Medicine | Rashmi Patel | Department of Health Research |
| 2026-10-28 | An ecosystem of gendered violence experienced by child forced migrants: Extending the concept of a violence continuum | Social Science & Medicine | Karen Block, Jenny Phillimore, Andrea Cuesta‐García et al. | The University of Melbourne; University of Birmingham; Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| 2026-10-27 | (Un)making caregiving experts: Embodied expertise and the professionalization of postnatal care in China | Social Science & Medicine | Siyi Chen, Yiming Zhang | Beijing City University; Zhejiang University |
| 2026-10-27 | Recovering from stigmatised loss following child removal into state care: a realist synthesis of institutional mechanisms shaping maternal health and inequality | Social Science & Medicine | Ruth McGovern, C. Smiles, C. Grant et al. | Newcastle University; Teesside University; King's College London; … |
| 2026-10-27 | The good participant paradox: Benevolent Misrepresentation as a response to research exclusion | Social Science & Medicine | Melissa Kramer, Molly Bradbury, Aileen K. Ho et al. | University of Reading |
| 2026-10-25 | Making medicine sacred, making religion healthy: Navigating medical pluralism among Christian African immigrants in the United States | Social Science & Medicine | Moses O. Biney | Rice University |
| 2026-10-24 | When biological explanations undermine confidence in psychotherapy: Identifying and countering causal discounting | Social Science & Medicine | Annalise M. Perricone, Woo‐kyoung Ahn | Yale University |
| 2026-10-24 | From urban decay to responsibilized citizenship: Visualizing the racialized geographies of water insecurity in Southwest Illinois, United States | Social Science & Medicine | Carlye Chaney, A. E. Samsonov, Victoria Christianson Galina et al. | Washington University in St. Louis; University of Missouri; Baylor University |
| 2026-10-23 | Armed conflict exposure and violent discipline of children at home: Panel evidence from Ethiopia | Social Science & Medicine | Workineh Ayenew, Andreas Kotsadam, Charlotte Ringdal et al. | OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University; Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research; Chr. Michelsen Institute |
| 2026-10-23 | When prevention constrains cure: Institutional lock-in and gene therapy access for beta-thalassemia | Social Science & Medicine | Qixian Huang | Zunyi Medical University |
| 2026-10-21 | The impact of diabetes on formal and informal care | Social Science & Medicine | Katerina Gousia, Olena Y. Nizalova, Gintarė Mališauskaitė et al. | University of Kent |
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| 2026-10-20 | Refractions of tuberculosis and migration in the northern suburb of Paris: Exposure, adherence, and semantic recalcitrance | Social Science & Medicine | M. Castaldo, F. Méchaï, N. Hassold-Rugolino et al. | Inserm; Université Paris Cité; Université Sorbonne Paris Nord; … |
| 2026-10-20 | Making public health guidance trustworthy: Public Health Sensegiving under uncertainty | Social Science & Medicine | Marco Tulio Zanini, Masao Kikuchi | Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas; Fundação Getulio Vargas; Meiji University |
| 2026-10-19 | In the streets “you must be hardened”: Gendered and structural drivers of violence against women and children among families in street situations in Kenya | Social Science & Medicine | Kathleen Murphy, Jamie M. Lachman, Sheila Kirwa et al. | University of Toronto; University of Oxford; University of Cape Town; … |
| 2026-10-19 | Early life adversity and alcohol misuse in mid and later life: The moderating role of adult residential characteristics | Social Science & Medicine | Blakelee R. Kemp, W. Alex Mason, Promise A. Emmanuel et al. | University of Nebraska–Lincoln; University of Southern California |
| 2026-10-17 | Jurisdictional learning: When serious errors in healthcare trigger divergent responses in professional roles | Social Science & Medicine | John Richmond, Thomas Grisold, Adrian Klammer | University of Leicester; Vienna University of Economics and Business; University of Liechtenstein |
| 2026-10-17 | Measuring social norms related to violent child discipline in Uganda: Mixed-methods scale development and validation | Social Science & Medicine | Kathryn M. Barker, Anslem Wandega, Dennis Nabembezi et al. | University of California San Diego; Makerere University |
| 2026-10-17 | Resilience as social practice: Negotiating long COVID at the intersection of illness and ageing | Social Science & Medicine | Chao Fang, Alastair Comery, Sarah Akhtar Baz et al. | University of Liverpool; Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; University of Manchester; … |
| 2026-10-17 | The long-term and spillover effects of a radio drama on HIV knowledge, expressed stigma, willingness to disclose, and political priorities: Evidence from a cluster-randomized trial in Tanzania | Social Science & Medicine | Dylan W. Groves, Alphoncina Kagaigai, Constantine Manda et al. | Lafayette College; Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences; University of California, Irvine; … |
| 2026-10-16 | Public preferences and willingness to pay for a net zero National Health Service: A discrete choice experiment in England and Scotland | Social Science & Medicine | Luis Enrique Loría‐Rebolledo, Hangjian Wu, Michael Abbott et al. | University of Aberdeen; Newcastle University; University of Edinburgh; … |
| 2026-10-16 | What can the Independent Panel on Evidence for Action against Antimicrobial Resistance learn from science policy-interfaces in global environmental governance? A scoping review and conceptual framework | Social Science & Medicine | Lauren Jean Wallace, Sahran Shafaque, Tracey Wagner-Rizvi et al. | York University; University of Copenhagen; University of Ottawa |
| 2026-10-16 | Custody arrangements and the mental health of adolescents and their parents in the United Kingdom: A longitudinal analysis using understanding society | Social Science & Medicine | Dawid Gondek, Laura Bernardi | University of Lausanne |
| 2026-10-15 | Dutch policymakers’ views on what justifies involving children in health state valuation: A Q-methodology study | Social Science & Medicine | Ava F H Hoogenboom, P.P.M. Mos, Vivian Reckers‐Droog et al. | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 2026-10-15 | Adhering to the brief: Global health images as repeated icons | Social Science & Medicine | Arsenii Alenichev, Jonathan D. Shaffer, Sonya de Laat et al. | Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde; University of Vermont; McMaster University; … |
| 2026-10-15 | Speaking up, stepping back: Expertise, authority and the social negotiation of overdiagnosis | Social Science & Medicine | Shavez Jeffers, Alison Pilnick, Natalie Armstrong | University of Leicester; Leicester General Hospital; National Institute for Health and Care Research; … |
| 2026-10-15 | Health citizenship, universalism, and unequal care: Brazil and Mozambique in comparative historical perspective | Social Science & Medicine | Walter Ataalpa de Freitas Neto, Glória Macassa, José da Cruz Francisco | Universidade Federal da Bahia; Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana; Universidade do Porto; … |
| 2026-10-14 | Augmenting workers and new technologies of care | Social Science & Medicine | Caleb Johnston, Geraldine Pratt | Newcastle University; University of British Columbia |
| 2026-10-14 | The mediating effect of loneliness in the relationship between disability and health-related quality of life | Social Science & Medicine | Nia Morrish, A. Medina-Lara | University of Exeter |
| 2026-10-14 | “I get anxious about looking anxious”: A qualitative study of anxiety, depression, and workplace productivity among professional workers | Social Science & Medicine | Grace Lordan | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 2026-10-13 | Unemployment and mental health: Evidence of effect heterogeneity by social class in the UK | Social Science & Medicine | Richard Carrere, Pieter‐Paul Verhaeghe, Eva Van Belle | Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Research Foundation - Flanders |
| 2026-10-13 | “Your health in your hands; doctor's order included”: A critical analysis of consumer-driven care and commodified expertise in marketing for direct-to-consumer laboratory testing | Social Science & Medicine | Annika Nilsson | National Institutes of Health; National Institutes of Health Clinical Center |
| 2026-10-13 | Welfare regimes and the adoption of artificial intelligence in healthcare | Social Science & Medicine | Ritumbra Manuvie, Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici, Mirjam Plantinga | University of Groningen; University Medical Center Groningen |
| 2026-10-13 | Comparing biomedical and psychosocial-cultural models in reducing public stigma toward schizophrenia: A holistic experimental study | Social Science & Medicine | Ben C. L. Yu, Mingjun Yang, Shirley X. Peng et al. | Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2026-10-12 | The ethical labour of overdiagnosis research: Negotiating care in early detection | Social Science & Medicine | Elspeth Davies | University of Oxford |
| 2026-10-12 | When filial duty exceeds capacity: How moral obligations become caregiver distress | Social Science & Medicine | Hongzhi Wang, Xiang Li, Xiaogang Wang et al. | The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; University of Reading; Shandong Academy of Social Sciences |
| 2026-10-12 | Procedural justice in the deceased-donor pathway before computerised organ matching in China | Social Science & Medicine | Huairui Li, Xiayu Wang, Guosheng Deng | China University of Political Science and Law; Tsinghua University |
| 2026-10-12 | Does pain dampen future outlooks? Examining daily and decadal time horizons | Social Science & Medicine | Markus H. Schafer, Laura Upenieks, Hayoung Oh | Baylor University |
| 2026-10-12 | Climate resilience through residential solar energy: Reducing health risks from extreme temperatures | Social Science & Medicine | Yi-Chun Ko, Shinsuke Uchida | Tohoku University; Asian Growth Research Institute; Doshisha University |
| 2026-10-10 | 'The only way out is through': The flexibility and limits of trauma discourse in psychedelic contexts | Social Science & Medicine | Guy Simon, Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli, Michal Pagis | Bar-Ilan University |
| 2026-10-10 | Decentralized governance in tiered healthcare systems: Supporting equity with blockchain | Social Science & Medicine | Yichen Xi, Endrit Kromidha, Eric Shiu | University of Birmingham |
| 2026-10-10 | From exploitation to emergency room: Health care discrimination, utilization, and health outcomes among youth who experienced commercial sexual exploitation | Social Science & Medicine | Amelia Wagner, Amy S. Farrell, Carlos A. Cuevas et al. | Northeastern University |
| 2026-10-10 | Working-time patterns, job-related well-being, and turnover intentions among paid caregivers: a population-based longitudinal study | Social Science & Medicine | Lambert Zixin Li, Xinyuan Xu | National University of Singapore; University of Chicago |
| 2026-10-09 | Bringing it home: Couple health behavior discordance and the physiological returns to social participation in China | Social Science & Medicine | Anqi Chen, Shannon Ang | Nanyang Technological University |
| 2026-10-08 | Medical need or moral hazard? Public insurance transitions and healthcare utilization in South Korea | Social Science & Medicine | Changyon Han, Hyunsub Kum | Seoul National University; Pusan National University |
| 2026-10-08 | Medicines, ‘medication work’ and networks of support in the community following mental health hospital discharge: A qualitative interview study | Social Science & Medicine | Mark Jeffries, Fiona Naylor, Natasha Tyler et al. | University of Manchester; National Institute for Health and Care Research; Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| 2026-10-07 | Unequal returns to effort? Gender differences in health status and lifestyle | Social Science & Medicine | Alexia Bigorne, Sandy Tubeuf | UCLouvain; KU Leuven |
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| 2026-10-06 | Intersectional and territorial exclusion in Brazil's aging policy field: A critical analysis of access to bodily practices and inequalities | Social Science & Medicine | Thiago Medeiros da Costa Daniele, Larissa Oliveira Nascimento, Letticia de Araújo Moura et al. | Universidade de Fortaleza; University of Stavanger; Keio University; … |