In recent years, there has been considerable research on the relation between weight
stigma and mental health, but no quantitative synthesis of the empirical evidence is …

BACKGROUND The social environment shapes human health, producing strong
relationships between social factors, disease risk, and survival. The strength of these links …

Objective There is limited evidence of work-related transmission in the emerging coronaviral
pandemic. We aimed to identify high-risk occupations for early coronavirus disease 2019 …

The Covid-19 pandemic in the winter and spring of 2020 represents a major challenge to the
world health care system that has not been seen perhaps since the influenza pandemic in …

Behavioral measures, such as the wearing of facemasks and maintaining of distance to
other people, have been central in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to be …

Racial disparities in health tend to be more pronounced at the upper ends of the
socioeconomic (SES) spectrum. Despite having access to above average social and …

Drawing from cumulative inequality theory, we examine the relationship between childhood
disadvantage and health problems in adulthood. Using two waves of data from Midlife …

Married individuals are healthier and live longer than those who are never married,
divorced, or widowed. But not all marriages are equal: unhappy marriages provide fewer …

In the past three decades, incarceration has become an increasingly powerful force for
reproducing and reinforcing social inequalities. A new wave of sociological research details …

Population health tends to be better in societies where income is more equally distributed.
Recent evidence suggests that many other social problems, including mental illness …