Titlebook: Understanding Health Determinants; Explanatory Theories Ian McDowell Textbook 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under e

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Health Determinants Cumulate Over the Life Course,w events early in a person’s life have enduring effects on their health. These events vary by socioeconomic status and so offer one explanation for socioeconomic differentials in health. This chapter describes three main perspectives in life course studies. The first shows how biological programming

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Work Environment and Health, of work via generating income and establishing social status; it describes conceptions of work-life balance. The main part of the chapter then focuses on the direct and potentially negative impacts of work situations on health, beginning with the hazards of insecure employment. It reviews the leadi

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Positive Influences on Health: Coping and Control, tax, and perhaps exceed, a person’s perceived resources. The chapter opens with a taxonomy of personal coping responses and traces their effects in modifying psychological and physiological reactions to stressful situations. Adaptive and maladaptive coping responses are compared, and a conceptual m

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Mental Processes and Health: The Mind-Body Connection,s. The current chapter extends this to include the role of the interpretive mind, exploring its links to the brain and to physiological processes that lead to disease. The chapter describes evolving historical conceptions of mind and of mind-body connections, leading up to the dual processing model

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Overall Models for the Influence of Social Determinants on Health,ssembles many of these connections into a set of conceptual models that illustrate how the different influences – economic, political, social, behavioral, and psychological – interact to trigger the biological processes that lead to disease. These explanatory models span different levels of influenc

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Textbook 2023 younger and suffer more illness than the wealthy. Decades of research have documented this reality and yet we lack a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms through which social circumstances ultimately influence the biological processes that lead to disease. Explanations have been proposed f