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How Psychologists Can Help Achieve Equity in Health Care: Advancing Innovative Partnerships and Models of Care Delivery
Special issue of APA journal American Psychologist, Vol. 78, No. 2, February–March 2023. This issue provides examples of existing equity work and inspires ALL psychologists to engage for the first time or deepen existing health equity work with renewed vigor and reimagined possibilities.
Future directions in the study of early-life stress and physical and emotional health
Highlights implications and future directions for theory and empirical research on early-life stress and its links with physical and emotional health problems.
Childhood Close Family Relationships and Health [PDF]
This article applies a developmental stress-buffering model to examine how aspects of family relationships — such as support, conflict, obligations, and parenting behaviors — evolve over time.
Loneliness, Social Network Size, and Immune Response to Influenza Vaccination in College Freshmen [PDF]
This study assessed the value of social network size and loneliness in predicting immune function by monitoring Ab response to an influenza immunization in a group of college freshmen who reported that this was their first influenza vaccination.
Psychological Stress and the Human Immune System: A Meta-Analytic Study of 30 Years of Inquiry [PDF]
This report meta-analyzes more than 300 empirical articles describing a relationship between psychological stress and parameters of the immune system in human participants.
Chronic Psychological Stress and the Regulation of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines: A Glucocorticoid-Resistance Model [PDF]
This study examined whether chronic stress impairs the immune system's capacity to respond to hormonal signals that terminate inflammation.
