Biology and Health Inequality

Intriguing parallels between civil servant and nonhuman primate hierarchies suggest that highly stratified societies foster health inequalities. Determining how social differences translate into chronic disease remains a challenge, but neuroendocrine pathways appear to play a role.

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Autor principal: Brunner, Eric
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2039769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17958470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050267
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spelling pubmed-20397692007-10-23 Biology and Health Inequality Brunner, Eric PLoS Biol Essay Intriguing parallels between civil servant and nonhuman primate hierarchies suggest that highly stratified societies foster health inequalities. Determining how social differences translate into chronic disease remains a challenge, but neuroendocrine pathways appear to play a role. Public Library of Science 2007-11 2007-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2039769/ /pubmed/17958470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050267 Text en © 2007 Eric Brunner. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2039769/
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