Social Science & Medicine Journal Issues Research Articles in Part 2 of January 2020 Edition

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Feb. 10 -- Social Science and Medicine, a peer-reviewed academic journal from Elsevier, published research articles on the following topics in Part 2 of its January 2020 edition:

* "It was all taken away": Lactation, embodiment, and resistance among mothers caring for their very-low-birth-weight infants in the neonatal intensive care unit

* "The doctor said formula would help me": Health sector influences on use of infant formula in peri-urban Lima, Peru

* Biographical disruption or cohesion?: How parents deal with their child's autism diagnosis

* Care providers, access to care, and the Long-term Care Nursing Insurance in China: An agent-based simulation

* Children's conformity to social norms to eat healthy: A developmental perspective

* Critical content analysis of media reporting on opioids: The social construction of an epidemic

* Culture moderates the link between perceived obligation and biological health risk: Evidence of culturally distinct pathways for positive health outcomes

* Defining and measuring health poverty

* Diagnosing uncertainty: The challenges of implementing medical screening programs for minority sub-populations in Canada

* Early-life socioeconomic status, adolescent cognitive ability, and cognition in late midlife: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

* Empowerment for civic engagement and well-being in emerging adulthood: Evidence from cross-regional and cross-lagged analyses

* Gender and age differences in the associations between family social roles and excessive alcohol use

* Health status changes with transitory disability over time

* Hospital side hustles: Funding conundrums and perverse incentives in Tanzania's publicly-funded health sector

* Making a murderer: Media renderings of brain injury and Aaron Hernandez as a medical and sporting subject

* Mental health and ethnic density among adolescents in England: A cross-sectional study

* Political competition and public healthcare expenditure: Evidence from Indian states

* Psychological processes of ACL-patients' post-surgery rehabilitation: A prospective test of an integrated theoretical model

* Structural stigma and all-cause mortality among sexual minorities: Differences by sexual behavior?

* Testing the theoretical similarities between food and water insecurity: Buffering hypothesis and effects on mental wellbeing

* The (Agri-)Cultural origins of obesity

* Underemployment and psychological distress: Propensity score and fixed effects estimates from two large UK samples

* When and how do surgeons initiate noticings of additional concerns?

The January 2020 edition of Social Science & Medicine can be viewed at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/social-science-and-medicine/vol/244/suppl/C