Understanding Health Disparities: The Relevance of the Stress Process Model

Society and Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 170-186

  Turner, R Jay ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

allostatic load; depressive symptoms; race ethnicity; social class; stress process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993804629     PISSN: 21568693     EISSN: 21568731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2156869313488121     Document Type: Article

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