Socially disadvantaged individuals are at greater risk for simultaneously being exposed to adverse social and environmental conditions. Although the mechanisms underlying joint effects remain unclear, one hypothesis is that toxic social and environmental exposures have synergistic effects on inflammatory processes that underlie the development of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, and certain types of cancer. In the present review, we examine how exposure to two risk factors that commonly occur with social disadvantage—early life stress and air pollution—affect health. Specifically, we identify neuroimmunologic pathways that could link early life stress, inflammation, air pollution, and poor health, and use this information to propose an integrated, multi-level model that describes how these factors may interact and cause health disparity across individuals based on social disadvantage. This model highlights the importance of interdisciplinary research considering multiple exposures across domains and the potential for synergistic, cross-domain effects on health, and may help identify factors that could potentially be targeted to reduce disease risk and improve lifespan health.

社会弱势群体同时面临不利的社会和环境条件的风险更大。尽管联合效应的机制尚不清楚，但一种假设是，有毒的社会和环境暴露对炎症过程具有协同作用，而炎症过程是慢性疾病发展的基础，包括心血管疾病、糖尿病、抑郁症和某些类型的癌症。在本综述中，我们研究了暴露于两种通常伴随社会劣势而出现的风险因素——早期生活压力和空气污染——如何影响健康。具体来说，我们确定了可能将早期生活压力、炎症、空气污染和健康状况不佳联系起来的神经免疫学途径，并利用这些信息提出一个综合的、多层次的模型，描述这些因素如何相互作用并导致个体之间的健康差异。社会劣势。该模型强调了跨学科研究的重要性，考虑到跨领域的多重暴露以及对健康产生协同、跨领域影响的潜力，并可能有助于确定可能降低疾病风险和改善寿命健康的潜在因素。