Disease relevance of Social Sciences

• Models of contagion arise broadly in both the biological and the social sciences, with applications ranging from the transmission of infectious diseases to the spread of cultural fads [1].

Psychiatry related information on Social Sciences

• BACKGROUND: Self-esteem (SE), a widely used construct in the social sciences, is usually conceptualized as a reflection of socialization and interpersonal experiences that may differ considerably between the genders [2].
• The Human Values in Medicine Program (HVM) at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine is composed of 120 required hours in medical humanities, social sciences, and behavioral sciences [3].
• Our frequency analysis of most living family therapy theorists using the Social Science Citation Index yielded a definite increase in frequencies over the last ten years and considerable differences in frequencies among various theorists [4].
• (Biological and Psychological Factors in Cardiovascular Disease, Springer, Berlin, 1986, pp. 104-126; Social Science & Medicine 22 (1986) 247) [5].
• Medical research suggests that testosterone has positive effects on mood (thereby reducing the chances of depression), and social science research finds testosterone to be related to antisocial behavior, risk behavior, unemployment and low paying jobs, and being unmarried--factors known to be positively related to depression [6].

High impact information on Social Sciences

• Respondents reported reviewing papers for 274 other journals in 1987, 81% of which were monitored by the Science Citation Index or the Social Science Citation Index [7].
• The primary objective of the meeting was to foster the exchange of information on the effects of nicotine and tobacco use, as well as factors which influence their use, drawing from biological, behavioral and social sciences [8].
• Studies of the sex ratio in the social sciences and animal behaviour either support or are compatible with the idea that the sex-determining role of X- and Y-chromosome bearing spermatozoa may be preceded by factors under maternal control which provide for differential access of spermatozoa [9].
• The Statistical Package for Social Sciences software (Base 10.0, 1995, SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL) was used for statistical analysis [10].
• Living in the paddies: a social science perspective on how inland valley irrigated rice cultivation affects malaria in Northern Côte d'Ivoire [11].

Biological context of Social Sciences

• The solution to the riddle of pharmacologic, psychological, and social addiction to nicotine, heroin, alcohol, and a high-fat diet, and the discovery and implementation of strategies for spreading healthy "addictions" will aid in solving many major public health and social science problems in the next century [12].
• The following databases were searched: Telemedicine Information Exchange (TIE) database, MEDLINE, Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), Psycinfo, and Citation Index of Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) [13].
• METHODS: Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index databases were used to collate data on ophthalmology research literature from 1980 to 2000 [14].

Associations of Social Sciences with chemical compounds

• Discrimination in Social Science & Medicine [15]?
• With this objective in mind, this paper reviews methylmercury-related data from both physical and social sciences [16].
• The Triangle Programme (1989-1992) aimed at strengthening the institutional capacity for health social science research and intervention in Sri Lanka through the promotion of appropriate international and national partnerships [17].
• This paper examines the probable role of social science data in determining the legal validity of capital punishment, drawing upon approaches already employed by the Supreme Court to analyze the legal significance of studies relating to various aspects of capital punishment [18].
• The second annual meeting of the Partnership for Social Sciences in Malaria Control was held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, from 8 to 10 January 2002 [19].

Gene context of Social Sciences

• Public health measures employed to fight against the spread of SARS need to be guided by biomedical knowledge as well as an understanding of the social science aspects of the disease [20].
• Second, it developed a national/local partnership (Triangle 2) among the Faculties of Arts, Agriculture and Medicine at the University of Peradeniya by involving them in a joint programme of health social science research and training covering the entire range of activities from proposal development to dissemination of research results [17].
• Of 200 libraries in 50 states 130 responded to a survey showing the major CD-ROM databases available: ERIC, PsycLIT, INFOTRAC/INFOTRAC II, Social Science Index, COMPACT DISCLOSURE [21].
• Medicine as social science: the case of Freud on homosexuality [22].
• The results were analyzed using ANOVA of the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) 9.0 version [23].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Social Sciences

• DATA SOURCES: We searched MEDLINE (1966 to October 2003), the Cochrane Clinical Trials Register (all years), Social Science Citation Index (1992 to October 2003), and other databases for studies that described such an intervention and evaluated its effect in patients with CHF [24].

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