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The biological consequences of socioeconomic inequalities / Barbara Wolfe, William Evans, and Teresa E. Seeman, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--Social aspects.
- Poverty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Social scientists have repeatedly uncovered a disturbing feature of economic inequality: people with larger incomes and better education tend to lead longer, healthier lives.This pattern holds across all ages and for virtually all measures of health, apparently indicating a biological dimension of inequality.
- Contents:
- Preface
- The SES and health gradient :a brief review of the literature / Barbara Wolfe, William Evans, and Nancy Adler
- Promise of biomarkers in assessing and predicting health / Arun Karlamangla, Tara L. Gruenewald, and Teresa Seeman
- Biological imprints of social status : socioeconomic gradients in biological markers of disease risk / Tara L. Gruenewald, Teresa E. Seeman, Arun S. Karlamangla, Elliot Friedman, William Evans
- Dissecting pathways for socioeconomic gradients in childhood asthma / Edith Chen, Hannah M. C. Schreier, Meanne Chan
- The biological consequences of socioeconomic inequalities / David Rehkopf, William Dow, Tara Gruenewald, Arun Karlamangla, Catarina Kiefe, Teresa Seeman
- Cognitive neuroscience and SES disparities / Jamie Hanson and Daniel Hackman
- Brain development and poverty : a first look / Jamie Hanson, Nicole Hair, Amitabh Chandra, Ed Moss, Jay Bhattacharya, Seth Pollak, and Barbara Wolfe
- Reversing the impact of ses disparities over the life course on cognitive and brain aging / Michelle C. Carlson, Christopher L. Seplaki, and Teresa Seeman
- Conclusions / William Evans, Teresa Seeman and Barbara Wolfe
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-793-X
- OCLC:
- 861793492
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