Health advocacy through translational science: an experimental model to quantify the impact of human social stressors on health outcomes

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1-2025

Publication Title

Seminars in pediatric surgery

Abstract

Health status and outcomes are known to be impacted by social stressors, yet social-political change to improve health outcomes through social determinants of health is stagnant. The well understood associations between social stressors and health are often chronic in nature and are without causal evidence. A new model that demonstrates a clear cause and effect between food insecurity and accelerated tumor growth has the potential to change the way public health scientists and advocates frame their arguments for change. This model provides a novel framework for ethically sound, controllable, and translatable social determinants of health research based in objective science. Implementation of this model across other human stressors and pathologies will lay the groundwork for irrefutable evidence to support social-political change for improved health outcomes.

Medical Subject Headings

Humans; Social Determinants of Health; Translational Research; Biomedical; Translational Science; Biomedical; Stress; Psychological; Patient Advocacy; Food Insecurity

PubMed ID

40784038

Volume

35

First Page

151516

Last Page

151516

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