People are interconnected, and so their health is interconnected. In recognition of this social
fact, there has been growing conceptual and empirical attention over the past decade to the …

Network analysis is an approach to research that is uniquely suited to describing, exploring,
and understanding structural and relational aspects of health. It is both a methodological tool …

Introduction: In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, considerable effort is going into identifying
and protecting those at risk. Criminalization, stigmatization and the psychological, physical …

Relationships and the pattern of relationships have a large and varied influence on both
individual and group action. The fundamental distinction of social network analysis research …

Public discourses on health increasingly emphasise the environment. While harm reduction
has developed in parallel with the new public health movement, and both seek to encourage …

This article describes the structure of the adolescent romantic and sexual network in a
population of over 800 adolescents residing in a midsized town in the midwestern United …

There is increasing appreciation of the need to understand how social and structural factors
shape HIV risk. Drawing on a review of recently published literature, we seek to describe the …

Formal models used to study the resilience of social-ecological systems have not explicitly
included important structural characteristics of this type of system. In this paper, we propose …

A wide range of communicable human diseases can be considered as spreading through a
network of possible transmission routes. The implied network structure is vital in determining …

MATERIALS AND METHODS We searched the published literature to identify conceptual
and empirical research reports on the social epidemiology of HIV/AIDS. Five databases …