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Lauren Gaydosh
Researcher at Vanderbilt University
Publications - 33
Citations - 1083
Lauren Gaydosh is an academic researcher from Vanderbilt University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Young adult. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 27 publications receiving 656 citations. Previous affiliations of Lauren Gaydosh include Princeton University & University of Colorado Boulder.
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Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals
Noah Snyder-Mackler,Joseph R. Burger,Lauren Gaydosh,Daniel W. Belsky,Grace A. Noppert,Fernando A. Campos,Fernando A. Campos,Alessandro Bartolomucci,Yang Claire Yang,Allison E. Aiello,Angela M. O'Rand,Kathleen Mullan Harris,Carol A. Shively,Susan C. Alberts,Jenny Tung +14 more
TL;DR: These findings suggest that some aspects of the social determinants of health—especially those that can be modeled through studies of direct social interaction in nonhuman animals—have deep evolutionary roots and present new opportunities for studying the emergence of social disparities in health and mortality risk.
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Increasing the acceptability of HIV counseling and testing with three C's: convenience, confidentiality and credibility.
TL;DR: It is found that rural Malawians are responsive to door-to-door HIV testing for the following reasons: it is convenient, confidential, and the rapid blood test is credible.
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College completion predicts lower depression but higher metabolic syndrome among disadvantaged minorities in young adulthood.
TL;DR: It is found that college completion predicts lower rates of depression for all racial groups, butCollege completion predicts higher metabolic syndrome among black and Hispanic adults from disadvantaged backgrounds, suggesting upward mobility may come at a health cost to young minorities in America.
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An offer you can’t refuse? Provider-initiated HIV testing in antenatal clinics in rural Malawi
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an account of the perceptions of HIV testing at antenatal clinics in rural Malawi and illustrate the dissonance between global expectations and local realities of the delivery of HIV-testing interventions.
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Does Despair Really Kill? A Roadmap for an Evidence-Based Answer.
Lilly Shanahan,Sherika N. Hill,Lauren Gaydosh,Annekatrin Steinhoff,E. Jane Costello,Kenneth A. Dodge,Kathleen Mullan Harris,William E. Copeland +7 more
TL;DR: The catchy term “deaths of despair” constitutes a hypothesis that deserves conceptual mapping and empirical study with longitudinal, multilevel data, and the role that despair induced by economic decline plays in premature morbidity and mortality.