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News20/11/2023Workshop: Ethics in Practice: Health, an Exception in Sociology?
Read more...Date: Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers
Location: June 25, 2024, at Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers
For the past twenty years, there has been a proliferation of works addressing ethical issues in social sciences, as evidenced by va
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Publications25/09/2023Analysing hypertension in France : A call for an intersectional approach of the cascade of care (2023)
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In metropolitan France, estimates suggest that more than one in three adults has hypertension. Low-cost treatments are available, yet fewer than one in four hypertensive adults has a controlled level of hypertension below 140/90 mmHg. T
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News12/09/2023The Gendhi team reunited at Royaumont!
Read more...For its first edition, the Gendhi residential seminar brought together the entire team (PhD students, post-docs and PIs) and researchers associated with the Gender and health inequalities ERC project at Royaumont Abbey on 11 and 12 July 2023.
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Publications31/08/2023The level of education is associated with an anxiety-depressive state among men and women – findings from France during the first quarter of the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
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Context
It is widely recognised that the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted individuals’ mental health. However, little emphasis has been put on the possible influence of socio-economic factors in the relationship. In the contex
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News31/08/2023Seth Holmes invited to EHESS
Read more...Seth Holmes, anthropologist and physician, is Chancellor's Professor at UC Berkeley. He works on the social uses and variations of the body, and social inequalities in health and medicine, issues that are at the heart of the Gendhi ERC.
He took pa...
Publications04/04/2023Explaining biological differences between men and women by gendered mechanisms (2023)
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Background
The principal aim of this study was to explore if biological differences between men and women can be explained by gendered mechanisms.
Methods
We used data from the 1958 National Child Development Study, including all the l
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Publications04/04/2023When Lack of Trust in the Government and in Scientists Reinforces Social Inequalities in Vaccination Against COVID-19 (2022)
Read more...Objective: To assess whether lack of trust in the government and scientists reinforces social and racial inequalities in vaccination practices.
Design: A follow-up of the EpiCov random population-based cohort survey.
Setting: In July 2021, in Franc
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Publications04/04/2023Considering sex and gender in Epidemiology: A challenge beyond terminology. From conceptual analysis to methodological strategies (2022)
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Background
Epidemiologists need tools to measure effects of gender, a complex concept originating in the social sciences which is not easily operationalized in the discipline. Our aim is to clarify useful concepts, measures, paths, effec
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Publications04/04/2023Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research (2022)
Read more...Persistent health inequalities pose a challenge to researchers and policymakers. Decades of research have illuminated mechanisms that underlie health inequalities, now we must move beyond these observations to enable policies that can reduce them. In...
Publications04/04/2023Prevalence of SARS-Cov-2 antibodies and living conditions: the French national random population-based EPICOV cohort (2022)
Read more...Background
We aimed to estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in France and to identify the populations most exposed during the first epidemic wave.
Methods
Random selection of individuals aged 15 years or over, from the national tax...
Publications04/04/2023The social specificities of hostility toward vaccination against Covid-19 in France (2022)
Read more...Equal Access to the COVID-19 vaccine for all remains a major public health issue. The current study compared the prevalence of vaccination reluctance in general and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and social and health factors associated with intentions t...
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Social inequalities and dynamics of the early COVID-19 epidemic: a prospective cohort study in France (2021)
Read more...Objective Although social inequalities in COVID-19 mortality by race, gender and socioeconomic status are well documented, less is known about social disparities in infection rates and their shift over time. We aim to study the evolution of social
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