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Reflections on the Health Social Sciences—Then and Now

International Journal of Health Services, 2007
After its beginnings in the United States, medical sociology started to take hold in Germany in 1958 with a conference that resulted in the first book on medical sociology published in Germany. From uneasy marginality, the field has grown to include disciplines other than sociology—anthropology, economics, and political economy.
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Understanding the social patterning of health: the role of the social sciences

Journal of Public Health, 1994
Although it is well known that their sex and socio-economic position profoundly influence people's mental and physical health, their use of health care, and their likely length of life, much research uses sex and social class as control variables rather than enquiring into the reasons for their association with health.
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A social science basic for conceptualizing family health

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 1974
The increasing prevalence of emerging programs in family health care and the growing popularity of family medicine as an area of commitment for physicians in the United States invites a careful look at the nature of this new area of specialization and at the assumptions which are implied by this development.
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Drugs, sex and social science: Social science research and health policy in Australia

Social Science and Medicine, 1994
Social science health research in Australia has undergone considerable expansion through government sponsorship of projects that complement or address issues related directly to policy and program concerns. In examining the rationale for supporting social science research, and the difficulties that social scientists often face in return in presenting ...
L Manderson
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Regression for Health and Social Science

2022
This textbook for students in the health and social sciences covers the basics of linear model methods with a minimum of mathematics, assuming only a pre-calculus background. Numerous examples drawn from the news and current events with an emphasis on health issues, illustrate the concepts in an immediately accessible way.
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Social science and health in Canada

Social Science & Medicine, 1984
Merrijoy Kelner, Peter Kong-Ming New
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Health Misinformation Detection in the Social Web: An Overview and a Data Science Approach

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Marco Viviani, Viviani Marco
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Health, history and the social sciences

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 1973
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Understanding and addressing social determinants to advance cancer health equity in the United States: A blueprint for practice, research, and policy

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2020
Carmen Guerra, Kassandra Alcaraz, Richard Wender   +2 more
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The Contributions of Social and Behavioral Sciences to the Health Sciences

Journal of Dental Research, 1965
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