Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The inclusion of social determinants of health variables in randomized controlled trials is lacking in studies ...

Experts long have known that strong social networks and physical activity help older adults stay healthier. Until now, ...

Gaining insights into social factors affecting patients’ lives can be used to augment healthcare delivery in a big way. That’s according to Dr. Courtney Lyles, an associate professor at the University ...

Health and medicine is more than just biological – societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical sociologists like me study these forces by treating society itself as our ...

Asian American adults with more unfavorable factors related to income level, education, housing, access to health care and other social variables had a greater likelihood of having risk factors for ...

Children facing economic instability and poor social support in the USA have higher odds of long COVID. Learn more about the ...

The changes in the perception of personal well-being that could take place in the next three decades, on a global level, depend much more on social factors than on economic ones. The changes in the ...