Ageing with wellbeing: The contributions of psychosocial assets and deficits
Join this event to hear Laura D. Kubzansky examine the epidemiologic evidence suggesting that both negative and positive psychosocial factors matter to human health and ageing.
Ageing with wellbeing: The contributions of psychosocial assets and deficits
28 Feb 2024, 13:00 – 14:00
With a growing share of the population living longer, identifying factors that improve people’s chances of maintaining optimal health later in life is a public health priority. Social stress and other negative psychosocial factors have been increasingly tied to chronic disease, but whether any psychosocial factors confer health benefits is less well understood.
Laura will discuss and evaluate how some of these social and psychological experiences could influence physical health and ageing processes, exploring possible mechanisms behind their links.
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in public health, ageing and wellbeing.
Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined either in-person or online.
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Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Society and Health Laboratory
the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
She has published extensively on the role of psychological and social factors in health, with a particular focus on the effects of stress and emotion on heart disease. She also conducts research on whether stress, emotion and other psychological factors help to explain the relationship between social status and health.
Other interests include a) studying the biological mechanisms linking emotions, social relationships, and health; b) relationships between early childhood environments, resilience, and healthy ageing, and; c) how interactions between psychosocial stress and environmental exposures (e.g., lead, air pollution) may influence health.
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Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes