Transactional Theory

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Similarities and Contrast - Ecosocial theory and Transactional Theory
In both the theories, we study health effects of racial discrimination. Both the theories evaluate how racial discrimination causes CVD in African Americans.
From the prospective of ecosocial model, the causal mechanism linking racial status and health disadvantage is thought to lie in the harmful effects of chronic experiences with race based discrimination. These experiences are thought to set into motion of process of physiological responses (examples elevated blood pressure and heart rate, production of biochemical reaction) that eventually results in diseases.
From the prospective of transactional theory, factors that were thought to predispose individuals to negative