Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization.

Social change produces alterations in society that necessitate changes in sociological theories. Two significant changes affecting health lifestyle theory are the behaviors associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and the digitalization of society. The health-protective practices emerging from the ongoing pandemic and the recent parade of other newly emerging infectious diseases need to be included in the theory's framework.

Small Bowel Intussusception Secondary to Malignant Melanoma 11 Years After Melanoma-In-Situ Excision.

Small bowel is a well-described site of malignant melanoma; however, it is a rare cause of intussusception. A patient presented with malignant melanoma causing jejunojejunal intussusception 11 years after resection of melanoma-in-situ. The patient was managed with exploration and resection.

Political ideology and pandemic lifestyles: the indirect effects of empathy, authoritarianism, and threat.

Background: In this paper, we integrate theory and research from sociology, psychology, and political science to develop and test a mediation model that helps to explain political conservatism is often associated with pandemic behaviors and lifestyles that are inconsistent with public health recommendations for COVID-19.

Methods: Using national data from the 2021 (n = 1743), we formally test the indirect effects of political conservatism (an index of Republican party identification, conservative political orientation, right-wing news media consumption, and 2020 Trump vote) on pandemic lifestyles (an index of social distancing, hand sanitizing, mask usage, and vaccination) through the mechanisms of empathy (concern about the welfare of others), authoritarian beliefs (authoritarian aggressiveness and acquiescence to authority), and pandemic threat perceptions (threats to self and to the broader society).

Result: Our results confirm that political conservatism is associated with riskier pandemic lifestyles.

Theoretical Approaches to Research on the Social Determinants of Obesity.

This article reviews selected theoretical approaches explaining the social determinants of obesity. The significance of this topic for medicine, public health, and other areas of obesity-related research is the growing body of evidence showing that the social environment is often key to understanding the risk of obesity. A review of relevant literature and analysis of empirical evidence linking theory to data in studies of obesity was performed.

Obesity-Related Health Lifestyles of Late-Middle Age Black Americans: The Jackson Heart Study.

Introduction: This article examines the obesity-related health lifestyle practices of a late-middle age cohort of socioeconomically diverse Black Americans. Black people have the highest prevalence of obesity of any racial group in the U.S.