Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each concrete case to the concept it illustrates.
- Damp housing and poor nutrition
- Chronic financial stress with few resources to buffer it
- Cumulative bodily wear from constantly managing stress
- Civil servants' health worsening step-wise down the grades
- Social gradient (Whitehall)
- Allostatic load
- Psychosocial stress
- Material deprivation
Hints
- Reason from each case to the concept it demonstrates.
- Lack of physical resources is material deprivation; bodily wear from stress is allostatic load.
Show the answer
- Damp housing and poor nutrition → Material deprivation
- Chronic financial stress with few resources to buffer it → Psychosocial stress
- Cumulative bodily wear from constantly managing stress → Allostatic load
- Civil servants' health worsening step-wise down the grades → Social gradient (Whitehall)
Why
Poor housing/nutrition is material deprivation, chronic buffered-poorly stress is psychosocial stress, bodily wear from stress is allostatic load, and the step-wise grade gradient is the social gradient. Each case maps to one concept.
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