Childhood racial discrimination and adult allostatic load: The role of Indigenous cultural continuity in allostatic resiliency

Cheryl L. Currie, Jennifer L. Copeland and Gerlinde A. Metz

Social Science & Medicine, 2019, vol. 241, issue C

Abstract: To examine the association between racial discrimination experienced in childhood on allostatic load (AL) in adulthood, and whether this association differed by cultural continuity among Indigenous adults.

Keywords: Canada; Discrimination; Allostatic load; Childhood; Cultural continuity; Indigenous (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112564

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