Collections and calls for papers

In early 2020, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the world, everyone's life has been dramatically affected. Faced with this unprepared crisis, how did the citizens, markets, and societal and econ...

Gender can have powerful influence over people’s life. Worldwide, differential patterns of health and well-being exist for women and men, girls and boys, and gender non-conforming, non-binary people. In this...

This Topical Collection focuses on leveraging big data from multiple countries to shed light on the vast array of factors affecting mental health globally. Our aim is to draw on cross-disciplinary data to in...

The healthcare sector dedicates significant time and resources to address the consequences of high-risk behaviors prevalent in society, such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, insufficient exercise, ...

Social and behavioral scientists have made important contributions to our understanding of gene-environment interplay for more than a century. Drawing on this tradition, human social genomics is an emerging ...

Human health — including access to and use of services, health behaviors, morbidities, and mortality — is unevenly distributed across geographic regions and populations. Such disparities frequently have been...

This topical collection seeks contributions that analyse the consequences of adverse (or challenging) reproductive experiences (including, but not limited to, miscarriage, infertility, assisted reproduction ...