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- Publications09/09/2025
Le « syndrome méditerranéen » : les ressorts d’une catégorie racialisante à l’hôpital (2025)
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This article explores the effects of race-based social relations on pain management in emergency departments in metropolitan France. Socialized to the use of racializing categories and faced with deteriorating working conditions, doctors a...
- Publications09/09/2025
“I don’t have a crystal ball”. Time and power during colorectal cancer treatment (2025)
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This article explores the relationship between time and power in the context of colorectal care. How can institutions and their workers (the hospital and doctors) control the time of others (patients)? Using ethnographic methods in hospi...
- Publications09/09/2025
Inégalités de genre et de classe sociale dans le développement psychomoteur des enfants : une approche sociologique (2024)
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Au cours de la petite enfance, les apprentissages corporels, langagiers et moteurs varient selon les caractéristiques sociales des enfants et de leurs familles. Cet article propose une description des inégalités dans les apprentissages ...
- Publications09/09/2025
Knowledge gaps in existing research exploring sexual fluidity and mental health among young adults (2024)
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While there is a large body of evidence indicating that sexual minority youth experience inequitably high rates of mental health problems (eg, depression, suicidality), we know little about how temporal changes in sexual attractions, ident
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- Publications09/09/2025
When in the lifecourse? Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and biological health score (2024)
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Purpose
Educational attainment is associated with multiphysiological wear and tear. However, associations with measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) across different life-stages are not established.Methods
Using regression mod...
- 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...