TY - JOUR
T1 - Conceptualizing and identifying cumulative adversity and protective resources
T2 - implications for understanding health inequalities
AU - Hatch, Stephani L
PY - 2005/10
Y1 - 2005/10
N2 - This article focuses on cumulative adversity and protective resources, both social and biological, that interrupt or deflect individuals from optimal life-course trajectories and contribute to widening gaps in health. Under the guiding framework of cumulative adversity and/or advantage, this narrative discusses the theoretical framework of cumulative adversity, presents identified sources of cumulative adversity and protective resources, and highlights the utilization of the life-course approach. Numerous social and biological adverse conditions are identified across multiple domains. Utilizing the life-course perspective in identifying early life determinants and the paucity of information regarding identified protective factors are discussed. Understanding health inequalities requires attention paid to heterogeneity in the impact of social statuses as well as sources of cumulative adversity and protective resources within diverging trajectories across the life course. Intervention implications are discussed, and suggestions for future research are made.
AB - This article focuses on cumulative adversity and protective resources, both social and biological, that interrupt or deflect individuals from optimal life-course trajectories and contribute to widening gaps in health. Under the guiding framework of cumulative adversity and/or advantage, this narrative discusses the theoretical framework of cumulative adversity, presents identified sources of cumulative adversity and protective resources, and highlights the utilization of the life-course approach. Numerous social and biological adverse conditions are identified across multiple domains. Utilizing the life-course perspective in identifying early life determinants and the paucity of information regarding identified protective factors are discussed. Understanding health inequalities requires attention paid to heterogeneity in the impact of social statuses as well as sources of cumulative adversity and protective resources within diverging trajectories across the life course. Intervention implications are discussed, and suggestions for future research are made.
U2 - 10.1093/geronb/60.Special_Issue_2.S130
DO - 10.1093/geronb/60.Special_Issue_2.S130
M3 - Article
C2 - 16251584
SN - 1079-5014
VL - 60
SP - S130-S134
JO - Journals of Gerontology Series. B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
JF - Journals of Gerontology Series. B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
IS - Special Issue 2
M1 - N/A
ER -