Racial discrimination and allostatic load among First Nations Australians: a nationally representative cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increased allostatic load is linked with racial discrimination exposure, providing a mechanism for the biological embedding of racism as a psychosocial stressor. We undertook an examination of how racial discrimination interacts with socioecological, environmental, and health conditions to affect multisystem dysregulation in a First Nations population.

Methods

We conducted latent class analysis (LCA) using indicators of life stress, socioeconomic background, and physical and mental health from a nationally representative sample of Australian Aboriginal adults (N = 2056). We used LCA with distal outcomes to estimate the effect of the latent class variable on our derived allostatic load index and conducted a stratified analysis to test whether allostatic load varied

SUBMITTER: Cave L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720631 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature