Drawing from insights into the variability of complex biologic systems we propose that the
health of human populations reflects the interrelationship between underlying vulnerabilities …

Abstract The 2010 Global Burden of Disease estimates indicate a trend toward increasing
years lived with disability from chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Risk factors …

In this chapter we have three purposes. First, we present an overview of current knowledge
regarding the biological pathways by which socioeconomic, psychosocial, and …

Diversity in both biological attributes and the external, lived environment gives rise to
different susceptibilities, exposures, health outcomes, and longevity. Public policy can …

Early-life chronic exposure to environmental contaminants, such as bisphenol-A, particulate
matter air pollution, organophosphorus pesticides, and pharmaceutical drugs, among …

Funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme, the Lifepath research
consortium aimed to investigate the effects of socioeconomic inequalities on the biology of …

Background: In June 2020, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
hosted a virtual workshop focused on integrating the science of aging and environmental …

This Technical Report was retired November 2021. Advances in fields of inquiry as diverse
as neuroscience, molecular biology, genomics, developmental psychology, epidemiology …

Advances in a wide range of biological, behavioral, and social sciences are expanding our
understanding of how early environmental influences (the ecology) and genetic …

During the past two decades, the public health community's attention has been drawn
increasingly to the social determinants of health (SDH)—the factors apart from medical care …