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- Publications09/09/2025
Social inequalities in medical appointment cancellations and reschedulings at the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic in France (2024)
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Inconsistent results are found regarding social inequalities related to healthcare appointment cancellations during the COVID-19 crisis. Whether rescheduling was associated with social status is unknown. By studying both cancellations an
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- Publications09/09/2025
Depressive symptomatology from a network perspective: Differences in the experience of symptoms involved in the self-recognition of depression and the diagnosis process by social position (2024)
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Background
While social disparities in depression are well-documented, the symptom experience across social positions remains less studied.Aims
This study examines the connections between depressive symptoms and self-recognizing a...
- Publications09/09/2025
How do men and women differ in their depressive symptomatology? A gendered network analysis of depressive symptoms in a French population-based cohort (2024)
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Background
The experience of depressive manifestations and the presentation of symptoms in clinical settings may differ in men and women. Despite the extensive literature, it remains unclear how depressive manifestations interact at sym...
- Publications09/09/2025
La beauté de son enfant. Les cultures esthétiques dans les consultations en chirurgie maxillo-faciale pédiatrique (2024)
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À partir d’un terrain ethnographique d’un an dans un service de chirurgie maxillo-faciale d’un hôpital pédiatrique parisien, cet article analyse les enjeux esthétiques des opérations sur le visage d’enfants et montre des diff...
Publications09/09/2025Publication – Health Inequality : An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Methods, 3rd Edition (2024)
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The persistence of stark health inequalities in today’s world is painfully clear to see, not least in the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and falling life expectancy in many parts of the world. How can we advance our understanding of t...
- Publications09/09/2025
The influence of sex and/or gender on the occurence of colorectal cancer in the general population in developed countries: a scoping review (2024)
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Objective
Gender as the “sociocultural role of sex” is underrepresented in colorectal cancer incidence studies, potentially resulting in underestimated risk factors’ consequences and inequalities men/women. We aim to explore how lit...
- Publications08/09/2025
Sex and gender bias in chronic coronary syndromes research: analysis of studies used to inform the 2019 European Society of Cardiology guidelines (2024)
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Background
Sex and gender inequalities in ischemic heart diseases persist. Although ischemic heart disease is less common in women, they experience worse clinical outcomes and are less likely to receive guideline-recommended treatments. T...
Publications08/09/2025Publication – Déconstruire les différences de sexe : Le sexe biologique et le genre à l’épreuve de la méthode scientifique (2024)
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Aujourd’hui, l’intelligence artificielle serait capable de distinguer un cerveau de femme de celui d’un homme. Pour certain·e·s, cela constituerait la preuve irréfutable de la pertinence indépassable de ces deux catégories figé...
- Publications08/09/2025
Le genre de la dépression: perspectives de recherches sociologiques (2023)
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La forte progression des symptômes dépressifs et anxieux en 2020 lors des confinements décrétés pour endiguer l’épidémie de Covid-19 [1] a placé en haut de l’agenda médiatique la question de la santé mentale de la population. Parmi le...
- Publications08/09/2025
Les patients dits « non urgents » aux urgences Priorisation, orientation et sélection au prisme des sciences sociales (2023)
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Emergency departments overcrowding is often attributed to inappropriate use by patients who ought to be treated in primary care. This article challenges this assertion by examining the articulation of medical and social definitions of non-...
- Publications08/09/2025
Avoiding overadjustment bias in social epidemiology through appropriate covariate selection: a primer (2022)
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Obtaining accurate estimates of the causal effects of socioeconomic position (SEP) on health is important for public health interventions. To do this, researchers must identify and adjust for all potential confounding variables, while a...
- Publications08/09/2025
Trends in social exposure to SARS-Cov-2 in France. Evidence from the national socio-epidemiological cohort-EPICOV (2022)
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Background
We aimed to study whether social patterns of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection changed in France throughout the year 2020, in light to the easing of social contact restrictions.
Methods
A population-based cohort of i
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