Open research questions in Historical and modern epidemiology studies
126 gap statements mined from Historical and modern epidemiology studies papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 1,192 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.
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The study highlights the need to consider the social world of consumption in understanding automedication practices.
El fármaco revisitado desde la perspectiva CTS. Estómagos, racionalidades y eficacias en automedicaciones estimulantes · 2026 · DOIThe research highlights the need for further study on the use of pharmaceuticals in these contexts. The paper notes that the use of pharmaceuticals is a complex phenomenon that requires further investigation.
“Oro a la pastilla para que me sane”: intermedicalidad farmacéutica en comunidades guaraníes de Argentina · 2026 · DOIThe paper identifies a gap in the social prescribing literature, which has not adequately addressed the challenge of reaching men. The author argues that traditional social prescribing approaches may not be effective for men, who require masculinity-congruent community programs. The paper highlights the need for further research on the development and evaluation of such programs.
Commentary: The future of U.S. social prescribing: foundations, implementation, and leadership summit insights · 2026 · DOIThe independent associations between cooking and food preparation skills, diet quality, and body weight remain unclear. There is a lack of studies investigating the relationship between culinary skills and health outcomes among Turkish women. The study aims to fill this gap by examining the associations between cooking skills, diet quality, and body weight.
Associations of cooking and food preparation skills with diet quality and body weight among Turkish women · 2026 · DOIThe lack of a lasting consensus on appropriate safety interventions for home accidents. The need for a historical analysis of the development of injury control methods and their impact on home safety. The gap between the development of the epidemiology of accidents and its translation into effective policy.
The epidemiology of accidents: U.S. home safety and the slippages between methods, data, and applications, 1940–1980 · 2026 · DOIThe lack of recognition of the contributions of scholars and physicians of color to the field of social medicine. The need for a better understanding of the history and development of social medicine in the US.
Future research can explore the implications of social medicine's influence on contemporary healthcare policies. The study's findings can inform the development of healthcare systems that prioritize social reform and collective care.
The study seeks to address this gap by examining the emergence and evolution of social medicine in the context of the Scandinavian welfare states.
Future research should examine the impact of the Cold War on the development of social medicine in Latin America. Further studies should analyze the role of international organizations in shaping health policy in the region.
The study highlights the need for a more nuanced analysis of the evolution of social medicine in the region.
To that end, a primary theme of this essay is that while the history of capitalism offers a promising lens through which to explore history, the current lack of consensus about how to periodize and define "capitalism" could impede the bourgeoning subfield's robust development and its usefulness to historians of medicine.
The paper identifies a need for a clear understanding of the concepts and principles of preventive medicine. The author argues that there is a lack of distinction between community medicine and community health.
The author questions whether life expectancy prolongation should be a goal of preventive medicine and suggests cancer prevention extending life expectancy by two years may not be ideal, but offers no framework for determining the optimal distribution of life duration or criteria for selecting which conditions warrant prevention efforts in populations.
The lack of study on the relationship between the report and the Hellenistic tradition. The lack of historical evidence for Hippocrates using fire to cure the plague.
The lack of detail and differentiation in the principles and methods used in political sociology for constructing social groups and stratifying study-populations. The limited relevance of the parameters of social stratification used in medical epidemiology for the purposes of preventive medical research.
The need to balance the recognition of naturopathic medicine with the requirements of scientific academic medicine.
Biomedicine and naturopathic healing in West Germany a historical and ethnomedical view of a stormy relationship · 1985 · DOIThe study is limited to the historical context of the UK. The paper does not provide a comprehensive analysis of the current use of medical techniques in immigration control.
The need for a re-examination of the use of medical techniques in immigration control. The lack of understanding of the historical context of immigration control and the role of medical techniques in this process.
Addressing the lack of empirical data on innovators in the medical field.
The complexity of fully articulating interaction in syndemic structures. The difficulty in isolating, measuring, dissecting, and accounting for causation of social and structural factors. The challenge of addressing issues of inequality/inequity, marginalization, and disparity in future research studies.
Branching out from safety education and mechanical engineering into physics, chemistry, mathematics, economics, psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, architecture, and city planning, - Applying the logic and methods of epidemiology to injuries, - Gathering new statistics and case reports…
The epidemiology of accidents: U.S. home safety and the slippages between methods, data, and applications, 1940–1980 · 2026 · DOIFurther study of the history and development of social medicine in the US. Analysis of the impact of social medicine on healthcare practices and policies. Investigation of the role of social medicine in addressing health threats facing communities.
Adapting sociological stratification principles and theories to medical experience. Adapting descriptions of medical data to sociological groups and class theories.
The history of workers' health in the United States is complex - Other medical efforts glossed over the problem of coordinating the interests and values of labor, business…
Further study of the historical continuity from traditional medicine into Biomedicine. Examination of the contribution of historical and cultural factors to the contemporary situation.
Biomedicine and naturopathic healing in West Germany a historical and ethnomedical view of a stormy relationship · 1985 · DOI
Most-cited papers in Historical and modern epidemiology studies
- Social Conditions As Fundamental Causes of Disease · Journal of Health and Social Behavior · 1995 · 4,601 citations
- The Brazilian health system: history, advances, and challenges · The Lancet · 2011 · 1,604 citations
- Medicalization and Social Control · Annual Review of Sociology · 1992 · 1,228 citations
- Medicine as an Institution of Social Control · The Sociological Review · 1972 · 1,048 citations
- The Construction of Lay Expertise: AIDS Activism and the Forging of Credibility in the Reform of Clinical Trials · Science Technology & Human Values · 1995 · 870 citations
- Systemic racism and U.S. health care · Social Science & Medicine · 2014 · 675 citations
- The Social Construction of Illness: Key Insights and Policy Implications · Journal of Health and Social Behavior · 2010 · 561 citations
- The ORIGINS of Primary Health Care and SELECTIVE Primary Health Care · American Journal of Public Health · 2004 · 447 citations
- You are Dangerous to Your Health: The Ideology and Politics of Victim Blaming · International Journal of Health Services · 1977 · 434 citations
- THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PHARMACEUTICALS: A Biographical Approach · Annual Review of Anthropology · 1996 · 355 citations
Most recent work
- Cancer and Capitalism: Towards a Critical Sociological Agenda · Sociology Lens · 2026
- Dismantling Health by Design: Social Medicine, US-Led Interventions, and the Political Neoliberal Economy of Care in Latin America. · PubMed · 2026
- Redefining social medicine from Latin America: Historical foundations and contemporary directions · PLOS Global Public Health · 2026
- Why epidemiology should not be automated: the case for slow epidemiology · International Journal of Epidemiology · 2026
- El fármaco revisitado desde la perspectiva CTS. Estómagos, racionalidades y eficacias en automedicaciones estimulantes · Alteridades · 2026
- “Oro a la pastilla para que me sane”: intermedicalidad farmacéutica en comunidades guaraníes de Argentina · Alteridades · 2026
- Matt R. Anderson and the Social Medicine Journal · Social medicine · 2026
- Beyond the Living: Death Care and the Boundaries of Social Reproduction · Ethics and Social Welfare · 2026
- In the Liminal · AEM Education and Training · 2026
- Backward Design As a Framework for Strengthening CURE Development · Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research · 2026
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