Taneia Surles is health and wellness writer and public health professional that has been creating health and wellness content since 2020. Her writing has covered several verticals, including sexual ...

Byline: Ethan M. Stone  As of 2025, stress feels borderline omnipresent. For many people, stress looks different than it did ...

Decisions about the HPV vaccine among adolescents and their families are influenced by a web of social, cultural and ...

For more on global lessons from COVID-19, please see the Health Affairs December 2023 theme issue and associated content. All around the world, there are many stories we tell about health. Some focus ...

In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, per capita mortality varied by more than a hundredfold across countries, despite most implementing similar nonpharmaceutical interventions. Factors ...

Cultural factors can play a crucial role in shaping our behaviors, values, and self-perceptions. For individuals with body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), such as hair pulling, skin picking, or ...

The birth of social medicine is often traced back to the work of German physician and politician Rudolf Virchow. While conducting his work during the 19 th century, Virchow urged physicians to go ...

Can learning another language help you stay younger for longer? Far beyond its cultural and social value, speaking multiple ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The belief among some physicians that patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups will have poorer ...

A novel analysis of medical records for a racially diverse group of more than 6,000 women has added to evidence that some combination of biological, social, and cultural factors—and not race alone—is ...

This post was written by Masumi Pradhan, a second-year BSc Applied Psychology student at NMIMS, Mumbai. Marriages, as social institutions, are almost always profoundly influenced by cultural norms and ...