Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "Cultural Anthropology"

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    • Gender Differences in Sustained Attentional Control Relate to Gender Inequality across Countries 

      Riley, Elizabeth; Okabe, Hidefusa; Germine, Laura; Wilmer, Jeremy; Esterman, Michael; DeGutis, Joseph (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Sustained attentional control is critical for everyday tasks and success in school and employment. Understanding gender differences in sustained attentional control, and their potential sources, is an important goal of ...

    • Income and Subjective Well-Being: New Insights from Relatively Healthy American Women, Ages 49-79 

      Wyshak, Grace (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      The interests of economists, psychologists, social scientists and others on the relations of income, demographics, religion and subjective well-being, have generated a vast global literature. It is apparent that biomedical ...

    • Multi-Ethnic Analysis of Lipid-Associated Loci: The NHLBI CARe Project 

      Romaine, Simon P. R.; Lettre, Guillaume; Wilson, James G.; Volcik, Kelly A.; Tsai, Michael Y.; Taylor, Herman A.; Schreiner, Pamela J.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Rich, Stephen S.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Papanicolaou, George J.; Ordovas, Jose M.; Liu, Kiang; Krauss, Ronald M.; Glazer, Nicole L.; Gabriel, Stacey B.; Fornage, Myriam; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Buxbaum, Sarah G.; Boerwinkle, Eric; Ballantyne, Christie M.; Kathiresan, Sekar; Rader, Daniel J.; Musunuru, Kiran; Redline, Susan (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Background: Whereas it is well established that plasma lipid levels have substantial heritability within populations, it remains unclear how many of the genetic determinants reported in previous studies (largely performed ...

    • Workplace Determinants of Social Capital: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence from a Finnish Cohort Study 

      Oksanen, Tuula; Kawachi, Ichiro; Kouvonen, Anne; Takao, Soshi; Suzuki, Etsuji; Virtanen, Marianna; Pentti, Jaana; Kivimäki, Mika; Vahtera, Jussi (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Objective: To examine which contextual features of the workplace are associated with social capital. Methods: This is a cohort study of 43,167 employees in 3090 Finnish public sector workplaces who responded to a survey ...