Biology and Health Inequality

Eric Brunner

PLOS Biology, 2007, vol. 5, issue 11, 1-4

Abstract: Intriguing parallels between civil servant and nonhuman primate hierarchies suggest that highly stratified societies foster health inequalities. Determining how social differences translate into chronic disease remains a challenge, but neuroendocrine pathways appear to play a role.

Date: 2007
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