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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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