Post Tagged with: "Epidemics"

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  [Article] A Socionomic View of Epidemic Disease

  Negative social mood increases stress and disrupts routines, sanitation, households, social relationships, and, ultimately, human immunity.
   
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  [Audio] Alan Hall on Epidemic Disease

  Swine flu is a global pandemic. The World Health Organization warns that nations should prepare for a second wave of the virus. Socionomist Alan Hall talks to journalist Tom Jeffries about how periods of negative social mood are conducive to disease outbreaks. Running Time: 14 min 17 sec Download Audio […]
   
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  [Article] A Socionomic View of Epidemic Disease

  It’s widely believed that epidemics make people fearful, but as you will see in this report, socionomic causality better explains the data, which show that fearful people are more susceptible to epidemics.
   
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  [Article] A Socionomic Study of Epidemic Disease

  Alan Hall’s two-part in-depth study, “A Socionomic Study of Epidemic Disease,” shows how negative social mood establishes conditions precipitating outbreaks of epidemic diseases. Part 1 explores a 600-year history of diseases in bear markets and how society becomes vulnerable. Part 2 focuses on the psychological and physiological mechanisms by which negative social mood compromises human immunity, charts illustrating the timing and similarity of epidemics to financial manias and more potential threats on the horizon.
   
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  [Audio] Part II: Alan Hall on Epidemic Disease

  Socionomist Alan Hall continues his discussion with radio journalist Tom Jeffries about negative social mood and epidemics. Part II explores how changes in mood impact human immunity. Hall discusses potential threats on the horizon and provides charts that illustrate the timing of epidemics and their similarity to financial manias. Running […]
   
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  [Audio] Harvard Medical School and the New England Journal of Medicine Weigh-in on the Obesity Crisis – It’s a Virus!

  What causes obesity? Apparently fat friends  — you catch it from them like a virus – or at least that is what a Harvard Medical School professor has published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Socionomics has some ideas on the subject, too. Unconscious social mood and herding are […]