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> From: Patricia Crowley [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Subject: ICHS Seminar 19/9
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> International Centre for Health and Society Seminar Series
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> 19 September 2001 - 5pm
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> Carol Worthman
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> Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Director of the
> Labortory for Comparative Human Biology, University of Atlanta, USA
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> 'Hormonal Pathways from Social Inequity to Health Inequity'
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> Abstract
> Although societal and structural factors create the conditions shaping
> population health, the proximal pathways that mediate relationships of
> context to outcome remain poorly specified. This presentation explores the
> role of neuro-endocrine dynamics that mediate relationships of society to
> individual outcomes, and uses a developmental ecological approach to
> operationalize "context" at the individual level in terms of the concept
> of the microniche. For this discussion, data from two population-based
> studies, one of lifestyle and well-being in Nepali children, another of
> developmental epidemiology in North Carolina, will be used to illustrate
> the use of neuroimmunologic, psychophysiologic, and endocrine-regulatory
> markers to trace pathways to differential well-being. Findings from these
> and related studies suggest a potentially more perturbation- robust
> approach to identification of macro-level conditions crucial to
> well-being, with the aim to inform social and health policies.
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> Carol M. Worthman took her Ph.D. degree in biological anthropology from
> Harvard University, with additional training at the University of
> California at San Diego Medical School and at Massachusetts Institute of
> Technology. She joined Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in 1986,
> where she is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and
> Director of the Laboratory for Comparative Human Biology. Her work
> addresses the interface of culture and biology and its role in
> differential well-being, and employs a multi-disciplinary approach
> combined with comparative analyses between populations and species and
> across time (acute, developmental, evolutionary).
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> Patricia Crowley
> Centre Administrator
> International Centre for Health and Society
> Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL
> 1 - 19 Torrington Place
> London WC1E 6BT
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