Open AccessLife-Course Accumulation of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Allostatic Load: Empirical Integration of Three Social Determinants of Health Frameworks
Author(s) -
Per E. Gustafsson,
Miguel San Sebastián,
Urban Janlert,
Töres Theorell,
Hugo Westerlund,
Anne Hammarström
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2013.301707
Subject(s) - allostatic load , life course approach , disadvantage , allostasis , demography , gerontology , cohort , psychology , cohort study , operationalization , medicine , developmental psychology , sociology , neuroscience , political science , law , philosophy , epistemology , pathology
We examined if the accumulation of neighborhood disadvantages from adolescence to mid-adulthood were related to allostatic load, a measure of cumulative biological risk, in mid-adulthood, and explored whether this association was similar in women and men.