How chronic stress weathers our health How healthy we are in part depends on the many different exposures we've had over our life – including to physical, psychological and social factors.
Chronic exposure to psychosocial stress – for example, poverty or other disadvantage – leads to prolonged strain on the body. This weathering can make us physically ill before our time and prematurely age us.
So what is psychosocial stress, how does it harm our health and what can be done about it? Podcast from The Health Foundation.
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