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Social Insecurity: COVID-19, Unemployment Insurance, and the Case for Reform in the Eastern Caribbean
With unemployment insurance (UI) offered by only two CARICOM countries, the significant loss of jobs across the region occasioned by the COVID-19...
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Social Exclusion and Anti-Immigration Attitudes in Europe: The mediating role of Interpersonal Trust
Managing immigration is a challenge at the political, economic, and social levels. Clarifying the social psychological antecedents behind the onset...
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Everyone for Himself and All Together? Thinking “Race” Between Social Science, Epidemiology, and Medicine
This chapter investigates the new insights that social sciences can bring to the question of racial categorizations by examining the etiology of...
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Networks of Global Social Policy Diffusion: The Effects of Culture, Economy, Colonial Legacies, and Geographic Proximity
The introductory chapter to the volume by Mossig, Windzio, Seitzer and Besche-Truthe defines the core concepts, such as diffusion and contagion, and...
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The Limits of Public Health Approaches and Discourses of Masculinities in Violence Against Women Prevention
This chapter critically interrogates the public health framing of violence against women and the social ecological model of violence prevention...
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The Spatio-temporal Epidemiology of Child Maltreatment: Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Assess Neighborhood Influences
Bayesian spatio-temporal models are an emerging research approach to the study of the ecological variations of child maltreatment at the neighborhood...
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Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research Epistemological and Practical Issues
Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures...
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Families, Life Courses and the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Disadvantage in Australia
In this chapter, we describe the life course approach and explain key concepts and principles. We also review variations in life course theory across...
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Airs, Waters, Places… and the Exposome: Steps Toward an Integrative Health
A decade ago, US medical historian Charles E. Rosenberg wrote about the return of an “epidemiology of place” with roots in the Hippocratic tradition...
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Social Distancing, Safe Spaces and the Demand for Quarantine
Social distance has been a topic of interest in sociology for more than a century before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas in the past...
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Develo** Approaches to Detect and Mitigate COVID-19 Misinfodemic in Social Networks for Proactive Policymaking
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, people have grown more reliant on social media for obtaining news, information, and entertainment. However, the...
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Understanding Relations between Access to Healthcare, Social Capital, and Health-Related Well-Being of Street-Involved Children in Ghana
The phenomenon of street-involved children continues to plague cities in both low- and high-income countries. While measures are needed to eliminate...
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Factors related to the accumulation of healthy behavior among older adults attending primary Health Care
The adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviors contribute for its accumulation throughout life, which require more than information disclosure and...
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Allostatic load: historical origins, promises and costs of a recent biosocial approach
This article provides a critical and genealogical analysis of the allostatic load research framework. AL research is used as a case study to analyse...
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Sport Participation and Happiness Among Older Adults: A Mediating Role of Social Capital
As the global population ages rapidly, from a positive aging view, promoting later life through sport participation has been recognized as strategies...
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Social and Structural Determinants of Self-Rated Health in Gentrifying Neighborhoods in Austin Texas: A Cross-Sectional Quantitative Analysis
Association between neighborhood change and health exists in the literature with mixed evidence. This study examined the association between...
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Racial Logics, Colonial Lingerings, and the Knowledge in the Blood: A Generative Synthesis
Among many other social discomfits, the novel coronavirus rattled our faith in medical knowledge. Yaun and Vinci (2021) were pondering the pandemic...
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Social Implications of the Epigenetics ‘Revolution’
This chapter critically engages with the field of environmental epigenetics and discusses the social implications of this relatively new field of...
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Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the core discipline underlying health research. Measuring health, identifying causes of ill health, and intervening to improve health...