Yue Li is a PhD candidate at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the social exposome and its implications for population health. She studies how the structure and composition of individuals’ social environments are associated with health and mortality, using population-scale social network data, linked with administrative and health data. Her background is in social psychology, with expertise in social relationships, quantitative methods, and longitudinal data analysis.
Within Exposome-NL, Yue investigates the role of social networks as an important component of the social exposome. Her PhD project uses population-scale, multiplex social network data covering family, household, neighborhood, school, and workplace relationships in the Netherlands. Her work aims to understand how different dimensions of social connections and network structures relate to health and mortality, and to identify potential pathways linking social environments to population health.
I hope to better understand how our social environments shape health and contribute to healthier lives.
Image: Thijs Rooimans
Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning
Utrecht University
The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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