McDade Thomas W, Harris Kathleen Mullan
Department of Anthropology and Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA.
Department of Sociology and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 USA.
Discov Soc Sci Health. 2022;2(1):4. doi: 10.1007/s44155-022-00007-z. Epub 2022 Mar 9.
A new generation of community- and population-based research is combining measures of social context, experience, and behavior with direct measures of physiology, gene sequence and function, and health. Studies drawing on models and methods from the social and biological sciences have the potential to illuminate the multilevel mechanisms through which experience becomes biology, and to move past decontextualized and reductionistic approaches to human development, behavior, and health. In this perspective we highlight challenges and opportunities at the biosocial interface, and briefly discuss COVID-19 as a case study demonstrating the importance of linking across levels of analysis.
新一代基于社区和人群的研究正在将社会背景、经历和行为的测量与生理学、基因序列与功能以及健康的直接测量相结合。借鉴社会科学和生物科学模型与方法的研究，有潜力阐明经验转化为生物学特征的多层次机制，并超越脱离背景和简化的人类发展、行为及健康研究方法。在这一视角下，我们强调生物社会交叉领域的挑战与机遇，并简要讨论将2019冠状病毒病作为一个案例研究，以说明跨分析层面联系的重要性。
