Biological embedding vs. embodiment of social experiences: How these two concepts form distinct thought styles around the social production of health inequalities

Louvel, Séverine; Soulier, Alexandra

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115470

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“…Giroux shows how, in fact, exposomics renews the historical tension between molecular and social epidemiology (Giroux, 2023), focusing, respectively, on how the internal environment of individual bodies react to exposures (Rappaport, 2011), and on the external environment's biomarkers of health, for example the allostatic load 1 -a biomarker of chronic stress exposure (Serviant-Fine et al, 2023)and their role in chronic conditions' causal pathways, or, in other words, on "the biology of inequalities in health" (Senier et al, 2017;Vineis et al, 2020). In addition, Louvel and Soulier's (2022) review of literature on the social production of inequalities, using the concepts of "biological embedding" and "embodiment of social experiences, " shows the important different meanings of the "social" in both approaches. Furthermore, the extent to which these are reconcilable is still debated (Yates-Doerr, 2020).…”

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Personalized Health and Precision Medicine in Practice

2024

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2024

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“…Biological embedding can be understood as the continual, dynamic interactions of the social and physical environment with biological processes that occur in the body and brain over the life course. [66][67][68][69] As such, the life course-related impact of SDOH should be conceptualized not only as the accumulation of environmental health risk factors but also of biological changes that are associated with increased morbidity and mortality.…”

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“…In addition, adverse experiences during childhood have been shown to impact neurodevelopment, including brain structure (e.g., decreased hippocampal volume and gray matter) and function (e.g., amygdala functional connectivity), 64,65 representing another manifestation of biological embedding. Biological embedding can be understood as the continual, dynamic interactions of the social and physical environment with biological processes that occur in the body and brain over the life course 66–69 . As such, the life course–related impact of SDOH should be conceptualized not only as the accumulation of environmental health risk factors but also of biological changes that are associated with increased morbidity and mortality.…”

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Conceptualizing the Mechanisms of Social Determinants of Health: A Heuristic Framework to Inform Future Directions for Mitigation

2023

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A large body of scientific work examines the mechanisms through which social determinants of health (SDOH) shape health inequities. However, the nuances described in the literature are infrequently reflected in the applied frameworks that inform health policy and programming. We synthesize extant SDOH research into a heuristic framework that provides policymakers, practitioners, and researchers with a customizable template for conceptualizing and operationalizing key mechanisms that represent intervention opportunities for mitigating the impact of harmful SDOH. In light of scarce existing SDOH mitigation strategies, the framework addresses an important research‐to‐practice translation gap and missed opportunity for advancing health equity. Context The reduction of health inequities is a broad and interdisciplinary endeavor with implications for policy, research, and practice. Health inequities are most often understood as associated with the social determinants of health (SDOH). However, policy and programmatic frameworks for mitigation often rely on broad SDOH domains, without sufficient attention to the operating mechanisms, and effective SDOH mitigation strategies remain scarce. To expand the cadre of effective SDOH mitigation strategies, a practical, heuristic framework for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers is needed that serves as a roadmap for conceptualizing and targeting the key mechanisms of SDOH influence. Methods We conduct a critical review of the extant conceptual and empirical SDOH literature to identify unifying principles of SDOH mechanisms and to synthesize an integrated framework for conceptualizing such mechanisms. Findings We highlight eight unifying principles of SDOH mechanisms that emerge from landmark SDOH research. Building on these principles, we introduce and apply a conceptual model that synthesizes key SDOH mechanisms into one organizing, heuristic framework that provides policymakers, practitioners, and researchers with a customizable template for conceptualizing and operationalizing the key SDOH mechanisms that represent intervention opportunities to maximize potential impact for mitigating a given health inequity. Conclusions Our synthesis of the extant SDOH research into a heuristic framework addresses a scarcity of peer‐reviewed organizing frameworks of SDOH mechanisms designed to inform practice. The framework represents a practical tool to facilitate the translation of scholarly SDOH work into evidence‐based and targeted policy and programming. Such tools designed to close the research‐to‐practice translation gap for effective SDOH mitigation are sorely needed, given that health inequities in the United States and in many other parts of the world have widened over the past two decades.

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“… 11 I use the broader term of embodiment, as embedding is more narrow in its reference to timing earlier in the life course and biologic consequences primarily on altered development processes. 12 There are three main life course models that shed light on how embodiment may occur to pattern the health of immigrant populations—(1) the critical period model (also referred to as sensitive period or latency models), (2) the accumulative disadvantage model (accumulation of risk, cumulative, or weathering models), and (3) the pathway model (chain-of-risk, social trajectory, or social mobility models). 13 , 14 …”

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Beyond borders: A commentary on the benefit of promoting immigrant populations in genome-wide association studies

Fernández-Rhodes

2023

Human Genetics and Genomics Advances

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Biological embedding vs. embodiment of social experiences: How these two concepts form distinct thought styles around the social production of health inequalities

Cited by 9 publications

References 58 publications

Personalized Health and Precision Medicine in Practice

Personalized Health and Precision Medicine in Practice

Conceptualizing the Mechanisms of Social Determinants of Health: A Heuristic Framework to Inform Future Directions for Mitigation

Beyond borders: A commentary on the benefit of promoting immigrant populations in genome-wide association studies

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