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The foundations of lifelong health are built in early childhood

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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 236 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Early childhood.

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The Effects of Poverty on the Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health of Children and Youth: Implications for Prevention.

TL;DR: It is illustrated how a better understanding of the mechanisms of effect by which poverty impacts children's mental, emotional, and behavioral health is valuable in designing effective preventive interventions for those in poverty.
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Early childhood adversity, toxic stress, and the role of the pediatrician: translating developmental science into lifelong health.

TL;DR: A supporting technical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics presents an integrated ecobiodevelopmental framework to assist in translating dramatic advances in developmental science into improved health across the life span.
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Adolescence as a Sensitive Period of Brain Development

TL;DR: Rodent studies, neuroimaging, and large-scale behavioural studies in humans that have yielded data that are consistent with heightened neuroplasticity in adolescence are described.
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Growing up in the Shadows: The Developmental Implications of Unauthorized Status.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a conceptual framework to systematically examine the ways in which unauthorized status affects the millions of children, adolescents, and emerging adults caught in its wake, and elucidate the various dimensions of documentation status.
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Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study

TL;DR: For example, this article found a strong relationship between the breadth of exposure to abuse or household dysfunction during childhood and multiple risk factors for several of the leading causes of death in adults.
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Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy

TL;DR: Multilevel analyses showed that a measure of collective efficacy yields a high between-neighborhood reliability and is negatively associated with variations in violence, when individual-level characteristics, measurement error, and prior violence are controlled.
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Protective and Damaging Effects of Stress Mediators

TL;DR: The long-term effect of the physiologic response to stress is reviewed, which I refer to as allostatic load, which is the ability to achieve stability through change.
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Socioeconomic disadvantage and child development

TL;DR: The link between socioeconomic disadvantage and children's socioemotional functioning appears to be mediated partly by harsh, inconsistent parenting and elevated exposure to acute and chronic stressors.
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The neighborhoods they live in: the effects of neighborhood residence on child and adolescent outcomes.

TL;DR: This article provides a comprehensive review of research on the effects of neighborhood residence on child and adolescent well-being and suggests the importance of high socioeconomic status for achievement and low SES and residential instability for behavioral/emotional outcomes.
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