The purpose of the study was to examine the modifiable factors affecting how long a patient stays in inpatient treatment for alcohol use disorder. Longer duration of stay is considered to be more ...

Social Factors in Marketing That Influence Products. Small businesses are keenly interested in effective marketing and in the quality of the products and services they sell. But if you're a small ...

A comprehensive systematic review of research across multiple countries reveals significant social inequities that affect older adults' ability to age in place. The study, published in Age and ...

Social determinants of health are defined as a set of environmental and community factors that influence health and well-being. Many of these, like food insecurity, are pervasive problems within ...

A key study, published in 2021 in the Engineering Construction and Architectural Management journal, concluded that: “psychosocial factors indirectly influenced workers' safety performance by ...

Assistant professor of sociology James Doucet-Battle's new book challenges assumptions about race within diabetes research and delves into the issue through the lens of African American experience.

A trio of recent studies highlights the need to incorporate behavioral and social science alongside the study of biological mechanisms in order to slow aging.

Although healthcare plays a role, behavioral and social factors have significantly more influence on longevity of people in the U.S., according to a new ...

Social risk factors such as financial instability and housing insecurity are increasingly recognized as influencing health. But unlike diagnosis codes, prescription information, lab or other test ...

Comparing epigenetic and social factors It has been unclear how well epigenetic age predicts health outcomes compared to other nongenetic factors like demographics and socioeconomic status.