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SOCIAL INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH IN NONHUMAN PRIMA...

This book provides a comprehensive look atnonhuman primate social inequalities as models for
health differences associated with socioeconomic status in humans. The benefit of the
socially-housedmonkey model is that it provides the complexity of hierarchical structure
andrank affiliation  i.e. both negative and positive aspects of social status. Atthe same time
nonhuman primates are more amenable to controlled experimentsand more invasive studies that can
be used inhuman beings toexamine the effects of low status on brain development 
neuroendocrinefunction  immunity  and eating behavior. Because all of these biological
andbehavioral substrates form the underpinnings of human illness  and are likelyshared among
primates  the nonhuman primate model can significantly advance ourunderstanding of the best
interventions in humans.

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