Showing papers in "Social Science & Medicine in 2019"

TL;DR: An increasing trend in published articles on health-related misinformation and the role of social media in its propagation is observed, and the most extensively studied topics involving misinformation relate to vaccination, Ebola and Zika Virus, although others, such as nutrition, cancer, fluoridation of water and smoking also featured.

TL;DR: Trust in institutions emerged as a significant theme, with marked differences by race, and most participants distrusted pharmaceutical companies, which were viewed to be motivated by profit.

TL;DR: This work synthesized literature from a diverse array of disciplines to explore the varied aspects of the relationship between housing and health and developed an original conceptual model highlighting these complexities, offering a comprehensive vision for healthy housing that situates housing's impact on health through a historical and social justice lens.

TL;DR: This work argues for the importance of a quantitative analytic intersectionality, and identifies methodological challenges and potential solutions in structuring studies to allow for both intersectional heterogeneity in outcomes and in the ways that processes such as discrimination may cause these outcomes for those at different intersections.

TL;DR: Women of color's experiences during pregnancy and birth were influenced by how they were treated by providers, particularly in how information was shared and withheld, which diminished women's ability to maintain autonomy and make health care decisions for themselves and their children.

TL;DR: This is the first systematic review and meta-analysis of empirical studies of patient-reported symptoms of pain, anxiety, and depression as reasons for medical cannabis use and identified a number of specific methodological limitations of the existing research.

TL;DR: The study is the first to investigate influenza vaccination using all six theorised predictors of intention from the Protection Motivation Theory, and identifies under-utilised constructs in the promotion of vaccine uptake, such as maladaptive response rewards, which should be considered targets for future intervention.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that intersectional stigma is a persistent barrier to PrEP use among young Black men and social and structural interventions are needed to reduce the sources of stigma, including racism, homonegativity, and HIV stigma.

TL;DR: Overall, these studies suggest that social capital may be an important protective factor for some physical health outcomes, but further research is needed to confirm and clarify these findings.

TL;DR: Fixed effects regressions show that mental well-being (GHQ-12) responds in a dose-response fashion to increases in both the quantity and the frequency of fruit and vegetables consumed, which provides further evidence that persuading people to consume more fruits and vegetables may not only benefit their physical health in the long-run, but also their mentalWell-being in the short-run.

TL;DR: The Intersectional Discrimination Index (InDI) is developed for intercategorical intersectionality research, including measures of Anticipated, Day-to-Day, and Major discrimination that do not require attribution to particular grounds.

TL;DR: It is argued that geographical research into health inequalities needs to scale up, moving beyond merely analysing local horizontal drivers to take wider, vertical structural factors into account, and if it is serious about reducing place-based health inequalities, such analysis needs be overtly linked to appropriate policy levers.

TL;DR: This work outlines a framework for conceptualising interventions in health as 'evidence-making interventions', and positions an EMI approach in relation to theories of 'relational materialism', arguing that this affords a more critical, as well as more careful, way of knowing and doing health intervention.

TL;DR: The 'intersectional risk environment' is introduced as an approach to understanding the interconnected ways that social locations converge within the risk environment to produce or mitigate drug-related outcomes.

TL;DR: A global, systematic review of the literature to examine the scope and quality of studies to date on how grandparents influence child health and development and presents a conceptual framework to explicitly measure and theorize pathways of care to inform research design and policy implementation.

TL;DR: The findings suggest domains of wellbeing relevant to and valued by Indigenous Australians that may not be included in existing QOL and wellbeing instruments, domains that may be shared with Indigenous populations globally.

TL;DR: It is shown that it is possible for SRs to satisfy PRISMA standards yet still have poor methodological quality, and limitations of such standards and instruments in the face of the assumptions of the SR process are discussed.

TL;DR: The experiences of addiction treatment professionals illustrate how medical interventions can mark patients and professionals in ways that affect patient care, and thus must be added to the scope of destigmatization efforts operating in the health sector.

TL;DR: It is found that improvements in women's empowerment in the domains of spousal communication, purchasing decisions, healthcare decisions, and family planning decisions contributed to the program's impact on reducing wasting with the largest share being attributable to spoual communication.

TL;DR: The current conceptualization of health systems resilience is too scattered to enable the enhancement of this concept with great potential, opening a large avenue for future research.

TL;DR: The health advantage of caregiving was most pronounced in urban grandfathers whose caregiving conformed to the norm of filial piety and who did so most likely to seek emotional reward instead of an intergenerational time-for-money exchange.

TL;DR: The findings illustrate the specific contributions of task shifting OPS service delivery to peer workers, including how this can enhance service engagement and promote the reduction of harms among PWUD.

TL;DR: It is argued that housing policy in the pre-reform period that integrated work and housing led to the formation of unique Chinese neighborhoods, and that those living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods have strong social ties, which moderate the negative consequences of living in a disadvantaged one.

TL;DR: The findings question the individualistic and rationalistic bias of conventional approaches to health literacy and suggest that health literacy as a social practice is situational, multidimensional - comprised of different sources and forms of knowledge - and co-produced in social relations.

TL;DR: The study reveals that one of the main values created is the development of analytical techniques which provides personalized health services to users and supports human decision-making using automated algorithms, challenging the power issues in the doctor-patient relationship and creating new working conditions.

TL;DR: A cumulative, two pathway model is presented that describes how historical trauma can impact health in contemporary generations and suggests that personal exposure to trauma or stressors, which are more common among populations that have experienced historical trauma, can induce epigenetic modifications that can contribute to the development of poor health.

TL;DR: More diverse and higher frequency of SP was associated with better mental health, while the social significance of SP varied across different types of SP and between rural and urban areas.

TL;DR: It is concluded that a 90% referral rate from the secondary hospitals to tertiary hospitals could be a trade-off when the government strikes a balance between equal chance of access to health services and high accessibility.

TL;DR: The meta-analysis found that perceived disorder was consistently associated with mental health outcomes, as well as substance abuse, and measures of overall health, and supported the psychosocial model of disadvantage.

TL;DR: The study finds that global family planning policies and discourses do appear to incentivize coercive practices, and calls into question the central role of intentionality, by demonstrating how coercion can arise from structural causes as well as interpersonal ones.