A cross-national analysis of sociodemographic variation in suffering across 22 countries
Suffering varies across countries and sociodemographic categories. Our findings lay the foundation for population-level monitoring of suffering and a population health agenda to address suffering among vulnerable subpopulations.
Authors
- Dorota Węziak‐Białowolska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2711-2283)
- Byron R. Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3337-3810)
- Thomas Breedlove (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3189-5030)
- Tyler J. VanderWeele (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6112-0239)
- R. Noah Padgett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9114-3896)
- Richard Gregory Cowden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9027-4253)
- Renae Wilkinson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5104-5511)
- Zhuo Job Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0839-1627)
- Craig Gundersen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9264-6914)
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte (US)
- Boston University (US)
- Kozminski University (PL)
- Harvard University (US)
- Baylor University (US)
- Quantitative BioSciences (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Communications Medicine
- Published
- 2025-04-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-00859-x
- Citations
- 9
- Primary Topic
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 19.51
Funders
- John Templeton Foundation
- Fetzer Institute
- Templeton World Charity Foundation
- Templeton Religion Trust