Reducing the potential negative impact of chronic life stress on women's health and wellbeing

Abstract

Exposure to chronic stressors can negatively impact women's health. Data amassed over several decades has linked chronic stress with a number of health problems including mental health issues (Turner and Lloyd, 2004), somatic complaints, increased chronic disease risk (for example, diabetes and cardiovascular disease) and premature mortality (Cohen et al. 2009; Juster et al. 2010).