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Physiological wear-and-tear and later subjective health in mid-life: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort
(2016)
Our body adapts continuously to environmental challenges and stressful conditions. Allostatic load (AL) is a concept that aims to capture the overall physiological wear-and-tear of the body triggered by the repeated ...
Características sociodemográficas asociadas a la prevalencia del consumo de tabaco en Costa Rica
(2020)
Objetivo. Determinar las asociaciones existentes entre las características sociodemográficas y la prevalencia
del consumo actual de tabaco en Costa Rica, según los resultados de la Encuesta Global de Tabaquismo en
Adultos ...
Adverse childhood experiences and physiological wear-and-tear in midlife: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort
(2015)
Allostatic load (AL) is a measure of overall physiological wear-and-tear over the life course, which could partially be the consequence of early life exposures. AL could allow a better understanding of the potential ...
Social gradient in cancer incidence in Costa Rica: Findings from a national population-based cancer registry
(2020)
Background: The main evidence regarding social inequalities in cancer risk comes from industrialized countries. The aim of this manuscript was to analyze the association between cancer incidence and socioeconomic position ...
Measuring Socioeconomic Position From The Social Inequalities In Health Perspective?: The Case of Costa Rica
¿Cómo medir la posición socioeconómica en el marco de las inequidades sociales de salud?: El caso de Costa Rica
(2019-05-20)
Introduction: Measuring socioeconomic position (SEP) is central in the analysis of social inequalities in health (SIH). It requires the use of updated instruments, adapted to a particular conceptual framework, taking into ...
Determinantes de la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud oral en adultos mayores de un centro diurno costarricense: Resultados de un estudio piloto
Oral Health-Related Quality of Life Determinants in the Elderly from a Costa Rican Day Center: Findings of a Pilot Study
(2021)
El cambio de la distribución demográfica en Costa Rica establece a las personas adultas mayores (PAM) como una prioridad de salud pública. La salud oral es un indicador multidimensional, que incluye dimensiones biológicas, ...
Origins of health inequalities: the case for Allostatic Load
(2016)
n an opening paper Cyrille Delpierre, Cristina Barbosa-Solis, Jerome Torrisani, Muriel Darnaudery, Melanie Bartley, David Blane and Michelle Kelly-Irving explore the concept of Allostatic Load as a way of examining health ...
Mediating pathways between parental socio-economic position and allostatic load in mid-life: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort
(2016)
Understanding how human environments affect our health by “getting under the skin” and penetrating the cells, organs and physiological systems of our bodies is a key tenet in public health research. Here, we examine the ...
Social inequalities in cancer survival: A population-based study using the Costa Rican Cancer Registry
(2020)
Background: Social inequalities in survival after cancer diagnosis have been described in several high-income
countries, all cancer sites combined and for several specific cancer sites. The objective of this study was ...
Les adversités durant l’enfance et la charge allostatique à l’âge adulte : résultats de la cohorte de naissances britannique de 1958
(2016-04-01)
Introduction: La charge allostatique (CA) est une mesure de l’usure physiologique globale qui pourrait être en partie le résultat des expositions précoces de la vie. La CA pourrait permettre de mieux comprendre les chemins ...