Guiding Questions:
How is stress related to social status?
How is social status related to health?
How is social connectedness related to health?
How does neighborhood and social environment impact health?
How is social dysfunction linked to suicide?
Barr Chapter 4: Understanding How Low Social Status Leads to Poor Health
Chapter 4 in the Barr book discusses the biological-psychological-sociological mechanisms that link low social status to health.
In this chapter, you will learn about the following terms and concepts:
· The role of stress in health
· Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis
· Allostatic load
· Effects on the body with chronically elevated allostatic load
· The role of work and stress
· How income inequality affects health
· The role of social capital on health
· How neighborhood social environment relates to health
· The role of social networks and social participation on health
· Defining despair
· Deaths of despair