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When one's main effect is another's error: Material vs. psychosocial explanations of health disparities. A commentary on Macleod et al., "Is subjective social status a more importa...

Adler, Nancy - In: Social Science & Medicine 63 (2006) 4, pp. 846-850

Two pathways by which socioeconomic factors result in health disparities are the material and the psychosocial. Recently, Macleod and colleagues reported on data showing that a subjective measure of workplace status was not as strongly related to mortality as were objective indicators and that...

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The Way

Adler, Nancy - In: Management and Organization Review 8 (2012) 2, pp. 422-422

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Socioeconomic status, health behavior, and leukocyte telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2002

Needham, Belinda L.; Adler, Nancy; Gregorich, Steven; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 85 (2013) C, pp. 1-8

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and leukocyte telomere length (LTL) – a marker of cell aging that has been linked to stressful life circumstances – in a nationally representative, socioeconomically and ethnically diverse sample of...

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Place matters: Neighborhood deprivation and cardiometabolic risk factors in the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE)

Laraia, Barbara A.; Karter, Andrew J.; Warton, E. Margaret - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 7, pp. 1082-1090

While neighborhood deprivation is associated with prevalence of chronic diseases, it is not well understood whether neighborhood deprivation is also associated with cardiometabolic risk factors among adults with chronic disease. Subjects (n = 19,804) from the Diabetes Study of Northern...

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