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The effect of poverty, stress and immunie function on health across the life-course
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Poverty and Sustainable Livelihoods
The effect of poverty, stress and immunie function on health across the life-course
Sudhanshu Handa, Maxton Tsoka, Peter Mvula
Sep 2019 – Dec 2024
National Institute of Health
Salima and Mangochi
This project examined the effects of the Government of Malawi's Social Cash Transfer Program on disease risk on mature adults. It extended a longituditional RCT and integrated new measures of immune fucntion, disease, stress, and cognitive capacity to identify the physiological pathway through which poverty-induced chronic stress affects disease risk.
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Centre for Social Research · UNIMA
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