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 …

Children who experience chronic stressors are vulnerable to emotional and physical health
problems across the lifespan. This phenomenon raises questions for scientists and …

Diabetes and depression occur together approximately twice as frequently as would be
predicted by chance alone. Comorbid diabetes and depression are a major clinical …

Socioeconomic status (SES), often conceptualized as income, education, or occupation, is
associated with risk for disease morbidity and psychopathology. Recent research has …

Psychological stress during childhood and adolescence increases risk of health problems
across the lifecourse, and inflammation is implicated as an underlying mechanism. To …

More than one billion children–half of all children in the world–are exposed to violence
every year. The violence children are exposed to includes both direct experiences of …

This report is one in a series of reports examining the prevalence of Adverse Childhood
Experiences (ACEs) in the Welsh adult population and their impact on health and well-being …

The immune system evolved to require input from at least three sources that we collectively
term the 'old friends':(i) the commensal microbiotas transmitted by mothers and other family …

Objective: Children exposed to severe, chronic stress are vulnerable to mental and physical
health problems across the lifespan. To explain how these problems develop, the …

Building on the weathering hypothesis, we advance health disparities research by
assessing racial-ethnic differences in low-grade inflammation, a marker of chronic stress …