Posted: November 11th, 2015

discussion

These studies report a direct effect of psychological stress on health outcomes:
Marmot MG, Smith GD, Stansfeld S, Patel C, North F, Head J, White I, Brunner E, Feeney A. Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study. Lancet. 1991 Jun 8;337(8754):1387-93. http://web.b.ebscohost.com.une.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=fc2a2d86-f6b5-40eb-b82d-c67318bfce52%40sessionmgr113&hid=123&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=9107080526&db=a9h
Joensuu M, Kivimäki M, Pentti J, Virtanen M, Väänänen A, Vahtera J. Jun Components of job control and mortality: the Finnish Public Sector Study. Occup Environ Med. 2014 Aug;71(8):536-42. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102111. Epub 2014 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24891558
Lund R, Christensen U, Nilsson CJ, Kriegbaum M, Hulvej Rod N. Stressful social relations and mortality: a prospective cohort study. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2014 Aug;68(8):720-7. doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-203675. Epub 2014 May http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24811775
An article on the effect of environmental exposures:
Deguen S, Petit C, Delbarre A, Kihal W, Padilla C, Benmarhnia T, Lapostolle A, Chauvin P, Zmirou-Navier D. PLoS One. Neighbourhood Characteristics and Long-Term Air Pollution Levels Modify the Association between the Short-Term Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations and All-Cause Mortality in Paris. 2015 Jul 21;10(7):e0131463. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131463. eCollection 2015. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4510557/
How to evaluate and assess relative contribution of factors:
Kruize H, Droomers M, van Kamp I, Ruijsbroek A. What causes environmental inequalities and related health effects? An analysis of evolving concepts. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2014 May 30;11(6):5807-27. doi: 10.3390/ijerph110605807. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4078549/
Articles exploring how lifestyle is associated with SES:
Whitley E, Batty GD, Hunt K, Popham F, Benzeval M. The role of health behaviours across the life course in the socioeconomic patterning of all-cause mortality: the west of Scotland twenty-07 prospective cohort study. Ann Behav Med. 2014 Apr;47(2):148-57. doi: 10.1007/s12160-013-9539-x. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964290/
• For this week’s assignment, you will need to consider how the investigators in this week’s readings evaluate the relative impact on health of stress, lifestyle factors, inadequate healthcare, and environmental exposures. In your discussion post discuss the major biopsychosocial and physical mechanisms that mediate the health impact on social factors and health outcomes. In other words, how do stress, lifestyle factors, inadequate healthcare, and environmental exposures affect health?