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Transactions: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of BIOLOGY and BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Transactions ID Number: 20-236
Full Name: Anna Phillips
Position: Researcher
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: University of Birmingham
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: 01214144398
Tel prefix: 44
Fax: 01214144121
E-mail address: A.C.Phillips@bham.ac.uk
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Title of the Paper: Psychosocial variables and vaccination: a life course approach
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Anna C. Phillips
Email addresses of all the authors: A.C.Phillips@bham.ac.uk
Number of paper pages: 8
Abstract: Abstract— It is a widely held view that experiences and emotions can affect our health. However, only over the past twenty years or so has research shown how psychosocial factors such as stress, social support, and personality directly influence the body. The immune system was historically thought to act independently of other bodily systems, but it is now known that psychosocial factors can influence numbers of immune cells and even the function of the immune system. This paper will present contemporary evidence for an association between immunity and sources of chronic stress, social support, and personality using the antibody response to vaccination as a model. It will illustrate that the specific psychosocial factors which influence immunity, and thereby health, vary across the life course and act in synergy with ageing to influence the effectiveness of the immune system.
Keywords: Immunity, Stress, Social support, Vaccination
EXTENSION of the file: .doc
Special (Invited) Session: Psychological factors and vaccination response across the life course.
Organizer of the Session: 650-234
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