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 Ageing, ...

Financial stress may age your heart as much as high blood pressure or smoking. Financial strain and food insecurity were the ...

Eileen Crimmins receives funding from the National Institute on Aging . Jessica Faul receives funding from the National Institute on Aging. University of Michigan provides funding as a founding ...

For assistant professor of sociology James Doucet-Battle, diabetes research is personal. His grandmother was diabetic, and that’s part of what inspired him to delve into the issue through the lens of ...

The interplay of a quartet of sex, marital status, education, and race is linked to an 18 year lifespan gap for US citizens, and while no one factor is more influential than any of the others, the ...

Social determinants of health (SDH) are defined as the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age. In a new study, researchers found that unfavorable SDH conditions may lead to ...

Financial decisions are rarely made based solely on an objective look at the numbers. People are social creatures, and therefore social factors influence actions when it comes to handling and ...

Suggested Citation: "2 Social Risk Factors: Definitions and Data." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment. Washington, ...

Economic analysis can shine a revealing light on the causes and consequences of social unrest The past decade was marked by a series of high-profile social protests—the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter ...

The first step to understanding what socioeconomic factors are is to understand social economics. This is a specialized branch of economics that concerns itself with studying the intimate relationship ...