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- Epidemiologists and researchers use the allostatic load model to link environmental, lifestyle factors, and biological vulnerabilities to chronic disease development.
- The paper draws on Life History (LH) theory to analyze stress-health relationships, emphasizing how disadvantaged families allocate reproductive efforts based on available resources.
- It suggests that chronic degenerative diseases should be viewed as adaptive responses to environmental stressors, influenced by socioemotional and cognitive mechanisms across different life history strategies.
Article Abstract
Epidemiologists and medical researchers often employ an allostatic load model that focuses on environmental and lifestyle factors, together with biological vulnerabilities, to explain the deterioration of human physiological systems and chronic degenerative disease. Although this perspective has informed medicine and public health, it is agnostic toward the functional significance of pathophysiology and health deterioration. Drawing on Life History (LH) theory, the current paper reviews the literature on disadvantaged families to serve as a conceptual model of stress-health relationships in which the allocation of reproductive effort is instantiated in the LH strategies of individuals and reflects the bioenergetic and material resource . We propose that researchers interested in health disparities reframe chronic degenerative diseases as outcomes resulting from strategic calibration of physiological systems to best adapt, survive, and reproduce in response to demands of specific developmental contexts. These effects of adversity on later-age degenerative disease are mediated, in part, by socioemotional and cognitive mechanisms expressed in different life history strategies.
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