The purpose of this Review is to provide evidence for why gender equality in science,
medicine, and global health matters for health and health-related outcomes. We present a …

Social class inequalities in health and mortality have become an increasingly prominent
topic of study among sociologists, demographers, economists, and social epidemiologists …

Background While the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become
increasingly popular in western societies, we do not understand why CAM use is more …

We invite you to join us for this book's journey through the exciting field of community
psychology! As a team of authors, we each came to community psychology because it …

This article examines the long‐term impacts on health and healthy behaviour of two of the
oldest and most widely cited US early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of …

Gender-based inequalities in health have been frequently documented. This paper
examines the extent to which these inequalities reflect the different social experiences and …

Does education improve psychological well-being more for one sex than for the other?
Resource substitution theory hypothesizes that education improves well-being more for …

Recent research on gender and health challenges the prevailing notion of women's
generalized health disadvantage by revealing a more variable pattern of gender differences …

Psychiatric epidemiologists were among the first to use the term “social epidemiology”(1),
and the role of the social environment in the etiology and course of major mental disorders …

Background Few studies have compared socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of
both fatal and non-fatal diseases. This paper aims to give the first international overview for …