Sentences with phrase «social epidemiology studies»

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«Cancer survivors need healthy social connections, and to the best of our knowledge this is the first published study to quantify social networks of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors compared to their peers,» said I - Chan Huang, Ph.D., an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, who led the study.

Dr Rebecca Lacey, Research Associate in the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and lead author of the study, said: «Our study suggests that it is not parental divorce or separation per se which increases the risk of later inflammation but that it is other social disadvantages, such as how well the child does in education, which are triggered by having experienced parental divorce which are important.»

On 9 September, Cristian Dogaru, a Romanian health and social scientist studying pediatric respiratory epidemiology at the University of Bern's Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, launched an online petition «urging researchers to boycott the conference and thus send a message that the scientific community does not endorse (and has zero tolerance for) academic fraud,» he explains in an e-mail to ScienceInsocial scientist studying pediatric respiratory epidemiology at the University of Bern's Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, launched an online petition «urging researchers to boycott the conference and thus send a message that the scientific community does not endorse (and has zero tolerance for) academic fraud,» he explains in an e-mail to ScienceInSocial and Preventive Medicine, launched an online petition «urging researchers to boycott the conference and thus send a message that the scientific community does not endorse (and has zero tolerance for) academic fraud,» he explains in an e-mail to ScienceInsider.

«These were unique «experiments,» so to speak, that were unfortunately done to those populations at a time when the society was under revolutionary, social and political upheavals.,» said Dr. Simin Liu, the study's co-corresponding author and a professor of epidemiology and of medicine at Brown.

«The holy grail of depression epidemiology is that we want to intervene early to prevent people from having depressive episodes,» says social scientist Stephen Gilman of Harvard University, who was not involved in the study.

The aim of the Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer Research training program is to train young scientists to design and conduct research on significant problems in cancer by combining information and approaches from different scientific disciplines, including basic cellular and molecular biology, epidemiology, clinical trials and studies, and behavioral - social sciences.

Matthew Hickman, Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Bristol's School of Social and Community Medicine and lead author of the study, said: «Scaling up HCV treatment is critical to the prevention of HCV in the population to support and enhance traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange.

The CEER program, established in 2004, is designed to bring together experts in wide - ranging fields - bioethics, law, behavioral and social sciences, epidemiology, public health, public policy, genomics and clinical research - to study the potential societal implications of genomic information and research.

As they progress through the game, students gather information on epidemiology, biology, ecology, history, social studies, and statistical reasoning, which they evaluate to come up with their theory.