Aug 23, 2017 | Announcements, eNews
POLICY BRIEFS: Sleep Disturbance, Social Isolation, and Systemic Inflammation; Religious Restrictions on Women’s Health Referrals; SERVICE DELIVERY INNOVATIONS: Advanced v. Basic Life Support Outcomes; ANNOUNCEMENTS: CHAS Welcomes Four New Fellows; MISC:...
Aug 22, 2017 | Journal Publications
It is suspected that systemic inflammation is the mechanism for how both sleep disturbance and social isolation increase an individual’s risk for morbidity and mortality. That said, little research has been done regarding the complex relationships between these...
Jul 20, 2017 | Journal Publications
Where a person falls within a society’s social stratification is directly related to that person’s health. This association has been well-proven on a macro level, but few researchers have checked to see whether the pattern continues on smaller scales....
Jun 20, 2017 | Journal Publications
CHAS Fellow Robert D. Gibbons and colleagues have developed a new tool for suicide risk screening which claims accurate results in approximately two minutes. The Computerized Adaptive Test Suicide Scale (CAT-SS) is an automated assessment which was able to...
Jun 17, 2017 | Journal Publications
CHAS Fellow Alan Zarychta has connected social context to individual health in Honduras. Through a spatially-based research approach, Zarychta observed that reciprocal trust among neighbors is necessary for the development of psychological and material mechanisms...
