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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
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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)
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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 Jul
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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, effe
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Publications04/04/2023Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research (2022)
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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 redu...
Publications04/04/2023Prevalence of SARS-Cov-2 antibodies and living conditions: the French national random population-based EPICOV cohort (2022)
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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 n...
Publications04/04/2023The social specificities of hostility toward vaccination against Covid-19 in France (2022)
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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 i...
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Social inequalities and dynamics of the early COVID-19 epidemic: a prospective cohort study in France (2021)
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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 evolut
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Publications04/04/2023Publication – Réparer les cerveaux (Repairing Brains): Sociology of Post-Stroke Loss and Recovery (2021)
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Stroke is the leading cause of acquired disability in adults. It can abruptly eliminate or prevent, temporarily or permanently, a large number of everyday abilities in a wide variety of physical and intellectual domains: walking, swallowi...
Publications30/03/2023Do general practitioners overestimate the health of their patients with lower education? (2011)
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This study sought to ascertain whether disagreement between patients and physicians on the patients’ health status varies according to patients’ education level. INTERMEDE is a cross-sectional multicentre study. Data were collected fro...
Publications29/11/2021Framework for understanding health inequalities over the life course: the embodiment dynamic and biological mechanisms of exogenous and endogenous origin (2021)
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Understanding how structural, social and psychosocial factors come to affect our health resulting in health inequalities is more relevant now than ever as trends in mortality gaps between rich and poor appear to have widened over the past ...