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Analysis of COVID-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement on Social Media in Nigeria
Health promotion messages, especially in pandemics like COVID-19 with its massive global health, social and economic impacts, are designed to reduce...
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How are social origin, destination and mobility linked to physical, mental, and self-rated health? Evidence from the United States
For decades, scholars have been exploring persistent inequalities in health by studying the roles of origin and destination socioeconomic positions...
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A Systematic Review and Case Studies of Health and Social Services Provided for Community-Dwelling Older Adults
In Singapore, rapid population aging is generating increased research and policy attention toward promoting aging in place. Individuals who grow...
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Desiderata: Social Networks and Health Inequalities: Which Questions Remain Open?
“Tell me how much your friends earn, and I’ll tell you if you smoke, what diseases you have and how long your life will be!” With this somewhat...
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Older Persons in Indonesia: Sources of Income and Social Protection
Indonesia is on the threshold of population ageing as it is approaching 10% of the total population, which will bring social, health, and economic...
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Structural determination and social practice: towards a new understanding of ‘structure’ in health inequality research
The relationship between social position and health is a central issue in medical sociology. While researchers typically agree that health...
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Young Adults’ Perceptions of Intimate Partner Cyberstalking: Behaviors, Severity, and Associations with Depressive Symptoms and Social Isolation
The technology-facilitated behaviors that are considered intimate partner cyberstalking (IPC) remain unclear due to inconsistencies in the...
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Catholic Social Teaching, Global Public Health, and White-Collar Crime During COVID-19
Utilizing some insights from the sociology of science and technology, primarily from the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), and moral principles of Catholic...
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The social gradient in smoking: individual behaviour, norms and nicotine dependence in the later stages of the cigarette epidemic
The cigarette epidemic tends to develop in a similar pattern across diverse populations in different parts of the world. First, the prevalence of...
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From the Patient’s Point of View: An Anthropological Response to Medicine’s Social Responsibility in Canadian Medical Education
In Canada, where both health care and medical education are publicly funded, medical curricula reflect educators’ social responsibilities to their...
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Transcultural Psychiatry: Cultural Difference, Universalism and Social Psychiatry in the Age of Decolonisation
In the mid-twentieth century, in the aftermath of WWII and the Nazi atrocities and in the midst of decolonisation, a new discipline of transcultural...
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Are Albinos People like Us? Albinism and Social Exclusion in Ghana
Albinism, an inherited condition from birth as a result of the lack of melanin pigment which usually changes the colour of the skin, hair, and eyes,...
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Measuring Well-Being: Trial of the Neighbourhood Thriving Scale for Social Well-Being Among Pro-Social Individuals
We report on a trial of the neighbourhood thriving framework (NTF), a conceptual framework from psychology and social science for measuring...
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Social Networks and Health Inequalities: A New Perspective for Research
“Tell me how much your friends earn and I’ll tell you whether you smoke, what diseases you have and how old you’re going to become!” Part of this...
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Can evidence drive health equity in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond?
Using sco** review methods, we systematically searched multiple online databases for publications in the first year of the pandemic that proposed...
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Social, Health, and Environmental Impacts of the Mandatory Lockdown in Underprivileged Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires
Latin America is the second most urbanised region in the world. However, the growth of cities in the region has been characterised by an uneven...
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Medical Education for What?: Neoliberal Fascism Versus Social Justice
In her 2018 book, What the Eyes Don’t See, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha wrote that it is the duty of doctors to speak out against injustice. In fact, no...