Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
Announcements
Neighborhood Social and Economic Environments May Raise Heart Disease Risk
Women who live in neighborhoods lacking in close neighborly ties are more likely to have coronary artery calcification, a key marker for underlying heart disease, than those who live in more socially...
Family Abuse in India and South Asia: Changing the Cycle
Child Brides, Child Mothers, Child Victims It’s a tale of two siblings that plays out hundreds of thousands of times every year in rural India. While her older brother completes his education...
African-Americans' Attitudes About Lung Cancer May Hinder Prevention
A new survey has found that African-Americans are more likely than whites to hold mistaken and fatalistic beliefs about lung cancer, as well as being more reluctant to consult a doctor about possible...
Decline in US breast cancer rates after the women?s health initiative: socioeconomic and racial/ethnic differentials.
Between 1992 and 2005, the temporal pattern of rising and then falling US breast cancer incidence rates occurred only among White non-Hispanic women who lived in high-income counties, were aged 50 years...
Workers are people too: societal aspects of occupational health disparities - an ecosocial perspective.
Workers are people too. What else is new? This seemingly self-evident proposition, however, takes on new meaning when considering the challenging and deeply important issue of occupational health disparities--the...
