A new study by the Harvard GenderSci Lab in Social Science and Medicine has found large variations in the magnitude and direction of sex differences in COVID-19 outcomes across localities and over time during the pandemic ...
Jan 18, 2022
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A Penn State researcher testing a new way to assess tobacco use with a neighborhood mapping platform and in-person interviews has found that community engagement is key to addressing risky health behaviors.
Jan 3, 2022
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Canada's stringent eligibility screenings for medical transition—to prevent "regret" or detransition—ignore trans people's gender related perspectives and experiences, says York Professor Kinnon R. MacKinnon, lead author ...
Dec 1, 2021
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A pair of researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has proposed a new model of "cultural trauma" that describes how traumas such as colonization, hate crimes, and recent anti-immigrant media and policies may ...
Nov 23, 2021
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A family's socioeconomic status affects children's health long into adulthood. Individuals growing up in low-income families have much higher risk of obesity and obesity-related diseases later in life. That's especially true ...
Sep 27, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the way people make decisions about their health and the influence that the people in our lives have on those decisions.
Sep 8, 2021
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A new study by Queen Mary University of London, published in Social Science and Medicine warns both private and publicly funded clinics should take responsibility for what IVF add-on treatments they offer and how these are ...
Sep 6, 2021
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During an ice storm, a person with a disability living in Canada's largest city didn't know where she would get her next meal. If she didn't have the money on hand to get food delivered, her plan was to drink a glass of water ...
Aug 19, 2021
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A specific police action, an arrest or a shooting, has an immediate and direct effect on the individuals involved, but how far and wide do the reverberations of that action spread through the community? What are the health ...
Jul 10, 2021
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New research from the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, The Ohio State University, and San Jose State University finds that during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, parental stress ...
Jun 1, 2021
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