Medical sociology examines how social, cultural, political and economic factors shape health in ways that medicine alone ...

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 ...

Social inclusion clusters in first-episode psychosis were identified among patients, linking higher participation to better quality of life.

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 ...

The settings in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age are known as social determinants of health or SDOH. These non-medical elements influence a wide range of health, functional, and ...

Contrôler les variables dans les systèmes sociaux - Une approche de modélisation structurelle. En sciences sociales, lors de l’étude de relations causales, il n’est en général pas évident de choisir ...

The first step to understanding what socioeconomic factors are is to understand social economics. This is a specialized branch of economics that concerns itself with studying the intimate relationship ...

The effects of natural disasters and climate change vary widely by state, county, and community. Although social variables such as income and age do not determine who will be hit by a natural disaster ...