UPDATE NEEDED: Graduate training in behavioral and social sciences … 2.0?
Graduate training in the behavioral and social sciences remains largely unchanged from the training I received as a graduate student 35 years ago. While the current curricula reflect new knowledge gleaned from decades of research ...
The importance of social relationships over the life course
Photo Credit: Freeimages.com/Lukasz Brzozowski. Article By Mark C. Pachucki, Ph.D. The World Health Organization now recognizes social relationships as an important social determinant of health throughout our lives ...
Culture: Oft-missed key explanatory variable in health research
By William (Bill) Elwood, Ph.D. Culture informs all human behavior: in it we exist as social animals. Perhaps because culture is inescapable it seems also elusive as a definable construct, and the culture of scientists ...
Older people, healthy communities
By Sara Moorman, Ph.D. My undergraduate class happened upon an interesting puzzle while reading Leisureville by Andrew Blechman: Social gerontologists love intergenerational communities, but older people love ...
Social networks and health among older adults in Lebanon: The important role of support and trust
By Noah J. Webster, Ph.D. The link between social relationships and health has long been established in the United States and other high-income countries. Much less is known, however, about this association in other parts of the world ...
Medical errors: Soft skills ensure a hard bottom line
By Wendy Anson, Ph.D. These are some of the perceptions of nurses and physicians who responded to a 2005 a survey regarding disruptive behavior and clinical outcomes ...
Stress, depression, and the role of unhealthy behaviors among minority older adults
By Erik J. Rodriquez, Ph.D., M.P.H. We have all experienced stress at some point in time. For brief periods of stress, we may figure out a temporary way to cope which would limit the impact of the stressor on our health ...
Resilience may hold the key for alcohol use intervention: Stress, negative emotions, and alcohol use in rural Chinese residents
By Yan Wang, Ph.D. Despite being 900 million strong, rural residents in China remain an extremely understudied and underserved population in many aspects, including alcohol use and alcoholism prevention. Alcohol use ...
A behavioral and neural model for escalated aggression in females
By Laura E. Been, Ph.D. Although many people think of aggression as a negative or undesirable emotion, it is a normal part of many species’ repertoire of social behaviors. In fact, aggressive behaviors typically serve an adaptive function ...
Added sugars and tooth decay in Alaska Native children: opportunities for community-based programs
By Donald Chi, D.D.S., Ph.D. Most people are unaware that tooth decay is the most common global disease. Children with untreated tooth decay frequently have toothaches, miss school, and perform poorly in class, and are even ...
Social pensions could reshape informal old-age care and improve health
By Xi Chen, Ph.D. Social pensions are designed to provide the elderly population, especially those with low lifetime incomes, a basic protection against poverty in old age. In 2009, China introduced government subsidized ...
