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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...
Publications04/04/2023Social 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 ...