Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Contributions of biological anthropology to the study of hormones, health, and behavior
- 2 Hormonal correlates of personality and social contexts: from non-human to human primates
- 3 Epidemiology of human development
- 4 Family environment, stress, and health during childhood
- 5 Work and hormonal variation in subsistence and industrial contexts
- 6 Reproductive ecology and reproductive cancers
- 7 Diet, hormones, and health: an evolutionary–ecological perspective
- 8 Modernization, psychosocial factors, insulin, and cardiovascular health
- Index
1 - Contributions of biological anthropology to the study of hormones, health, and behavior
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Contributions of biological anthropology to the study of hormones, health, and behavior
- 2 Hormonal correlates of personality and social contexts: from non-human to human primates
- 3 Epidemiology of human development
- 4 Family environment, stress, and health during childhood
- 5 Work and hormonal variation in subsistence and industrial contexts
- 6 Reproductive ecology and reproductive cancers
- 7 Diet, hormones, and health: an evolutionary–ecological perspective
- 8 Modernization, psychosocial factors, insulin, and cardiovascular health
- Index
Summary
Current issues linking hormones, health, and behavior
This book concerns the relationship of human biology and human society, as viewed by examining the interconnections among behavior, hormones, and health. There is both scientific excitement and practical urgency behind the ideas and findings presented here, as the need for a socioecological view of function and well-being has become ever more apparent. During the past two decades, a paradox has emerged in worldwide patterns of health and health risk. On the one hand, international initiatives have succeeded in dramatically increasing life expectancy for many populations by means of interventions that reduce early mortality through technology-based measures such as vaccination, provision of clean water, provision of health care, and improvements in nutrition. On the other hand, a set of health issues has emerged that is less tractable to such measures. These health issues include the emergence of chronic degenerative diseases as major sources of mortality for aging populations, increases in age-specific rates of such diseases concomitant with lifestyle change, and the appearance or resurgence of major infectious diseases with behaviorally-dependent transmission. A common thread running through all these ascendant challenges to health is the importance of patterns of everyday behavior and social relationships in their etiology or transmission.
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- Hormones, Health and BehaviourA Socio-ecological and Lifespan Perspective, pp. 1 - 17Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998
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