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Simone Sandier
Simone Sandier is a French health economist who spent her career at CREDES, studying physician payment, health spending, and rationing under French national health insurance.
Sina Hospital
Sina Hospital (بیمارستان سینا) is a public teaching hospital in central Tehran, founded under Naser al-Din Shah Qajar in the early 1870s and generally described as the oldest hospital in Tehran.
Single-blind study
A single-blind study is a randomized trial design in which participants do not know which treatment they were assigned, while researchers do, reducing biased self-reporting of outcomes.
Single-payer healthcare
Single-payer healthcare: one public entity finances and pays for universal health coverage, as in Canada's Medicare and Taiwan's National Health Insurance; defined by CBO's four features, contrasted with multipayer systems.
SINUS-52 trial
SINUS-52 (LIBERTY NP SINUS-52, NCT02898454), a 52-week phase 3 trial of dupilumab 300 mg in 448 adults with severe CRSwNP, met co-primary nasal polyp score and congestion endpoints versus placebo.
SIR model
The SIR model, or SIR epidemic model, is a compartmental model in mathematical epidemiology that divides a population into susceptible, infected, and recovered individuals to predict how disease spreads.
Siriraj Hospital
Siriraj Hospital (โรงพยาบาลศิริราช), Bangkok Noi, Thailand's first modern hospital, opened 26 April 1888 by King Chulalongkorn; teaching hospital of Mahidol University's Faculty of Medicine, with private wing SiPH, about 2,044 beds, and the Bangpho Medical Hub expansion.
SIS model
The SIS model is a compartmental epidemic model where individuals move from susceptible to infected and back to susceptible on recovery, with no lasting immunity; it suits gonorrhea and computer viruses.
SITA-one trial
SITA-one (NCT05219409) is a University of Milan phase 2/3 randomized, double-blind trial testing whether the DPP-4 inhibitor sitagliptin delays progression from stage 2 to stage 3 type 1 diabetes in autoantibody-positive relatives with dysglycemia.
SJLIFE study
SJLIFE (St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study), NCT00760656, is a longitudinal cohort of childhood cancer survivors treated at St. Jude since 1962, with 3–4-day clinical assessments every 5 years, genomic sequencing, and findings on late effects and subsequent neoplasms.
SK2 study
STRONG Kids 2 (SK2) is a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign birth cohort study (NCT03341858) following 468 mother-child pairs from 2013 to examine biology, family, and child care influences on early childhood diet and weight trajectories.
SLIT trial
SLIT trial (NCT05570383): randomized double-blind Chinese trial at People's Hospital of Anshun City, Guizhou, comparing Dermatophagoides farinae sublingual immunotherapy drops with mometasone furoate nasal spray in 60 adults with perennial allergic rhinitis, studying ILC1/2/3 mechanisms.
Small-area analysis
Small-area analysis, also known as small-area variation, is an epidemiological method comparing health care utilization and spending across small geographic areas, founded by John Wennberg in Vermont in 1973.
Smallpox epidemics in Brazil
Smallpox epidemics in Brazil, known in Portuguese as varíola, or bexigas, were recurrent outbreaks from the 1560s until eradication in 1973, shaping the country's public health institutions.
Smallpox eradication in West Africa
Smallpox eradication in West Africa was a 1966 CDC and WHO campaign across 20 countries of West and Central Africa that ended smallpox transmission there by May 1970.
SMARTT study
SMARTT (Surveillance Monitoring for ART Toxicities) is a PHACS prospective cohort study, since 2007 at 22 US sites, monitoring safety of in utero antiretroviral exposure in HIV-exposed uninfected children using a trigger-based design.
SMC study
SMC study: the Swedish Mammography Cohort, a population-based prospective cohort of 61,433 women recruited via mammography screening in Uppsala and Västmanland counties from 1987, now part of SIMPLER with COSM.
SNAP trial
SNAP trial names several clinical trials: the weight-gain prevention RCT (NCT01183689) in 599 young adults, the Staphylococcus aureus Network Adaptive Platform trial (NCT05137119), a nab-paclitaxel breast cancer phase II trial, a pregnancy nicotine-replacement trial, and the SNaPP anesthesia trial.
SOAR-CSNI trial
SOAR-CSNI (NCT04890925) is a UBC randomized, double-masked, three-arm trial of a community support network intervention (cognitive training, aerobic exercise, mindfulness, counselling) for women with intimate partner violence-related traumatic brain injury, enrollment 78, started May 2022.
Social Conditions
Social Conditions is a MeSH descriptor (D012924) meaning the state of society as it exists or in flux, also called Living Conditions; closely tied to the WHO social determinants of health and health inequities.
Social determinants of health
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the non-medical conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, plus the wider forces shaping them; they drive health inequities, including an 18-year life expectancy gap between high- and low-income countries.
Social distancing
Social distancing, also called physical distancing, is a public health measure reducing disease transmission by limiting contact between people. Covers its 1963 term origin, 1377 quarantine roots, 1918 flu evidence, WHO 1-meter guidance, and measured COVID-19 effects.
Social Marketing
Social marketing is the application of commercial marketing concepts and tools to influence voluntary behavior for social good rather than profit, widely used in public health campaigns judged against eight benchmark criteria.
Social medicine
Social medicine is an approach to health that analyzes how social conditions such as poverty, inequality, and racism shape disease, and seeks to act on those conditions.
Social needs screening
Social needs screening is a health care method that uses standardized questionnaires to identify unmet needs such as food insecurity, housing instability, and transportation problems for referral.
Social norms approach
The social norms approach is a health promotion method that surveys a population and communicates true majority norms to reduce risky behavior, most commonly student drinking.
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), founded 1989 by merger of UAEM and STEM, is the US academic emergency medicine society, headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois, publishing Academic Emergency Medicine and running grants, academies, and the SAEM annual meeting.
Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer
The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) is a nonprofit medical professional society founded in 1984, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, whose mission is improving cancer outcomes through immunotherapy.
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), founded 1970 in Los Angeles, is the largest nonprofit medical society for critical care, with 17,000+ members in over 100 countries, publishing Critical Care Medicine journal and ICU guidelines.
Socioeconomic Factors
Socioeconomic factors are the social and economic characteristics, including income, education, occupation, and wealth, that position people within a society and shape health, producing a social gradient in illness and avoidable health inequities.