Health, Risk, and Adversity

Health, Risk, and Adversity
Title Health, Risk, and Adversity PDF eBook
Author Catherine Panter-Brick
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 313
Release 2010
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 184545281X

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Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. This volume provides a unique perspective - a comparative approach to the analysis of health disparities and human adaptability - and specifically focuses on the pathways that lead to unequal health outcomes. From an explicitly anthropological perspective situated in the practice and theory of biosocial studies, this book combines theoretical rigor with more applied and practice-oriented approaches and critically examines infectious and chronic diseases, reproduction, and nutrition.

The Deepest Well

The Deepest Well
Title The Deepest Well PDF eBook
Author Nadine Burke Harris
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 273
Release 2018
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 0544828704

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A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems, and what we can do to break the cycle.

Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences

Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences
Title Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Hays-Grudo
Publisher American Psychological Association (APA)
Pages 0
Release 2020
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9781433832116

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This book provides an interdisciplinary lens from which to view the multiple types of effects of enduring childhood experiences, and to recommend evidence-based approaches for protecting and buffering children and repairing the negative consequences of ACEs as adults.

Youth and Adversity

Youth and Adversity
Title Youth and Adversity PDF eBook
Author Michael Tlanusta Garrett
Publisher Nova Science Pub Incorporated
Pages 432
Release 2014-01-01
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9781631175046

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This book offers the most current research and reviews, innovative programs and approaches, developments and directions, and future outlooks and trends from an international perspective by experts in the field on a variety of current topics related to youth facing adversity with implications for creating and maintaining child and adolescent resilience in a constantly changing world. In these chapters are themes and information that embody the stories of the lives of youth today. Topics include the following: parenting, coping, and motivation of Australian at-risk adolescents; religious rejection and resilience among Christian sexual minority youth; the influences from parents, police, and social work on at-risk youth in Hong Kong; resilience among Native American youth; the experience of Australian children who have been diagnosed and treated for pediatric hematology; the effect in adulthood with Serbian youth who grew up in political and economic turmoil; approaches for overcoming adversity among Arab American youth; EcoWellness as a way to connect with at-risk youth using nature as a basis for overcoming adversity; adolescents and gaming; poly-victimization and resilience among Spanish youth; a Liberation psychology approach to working with borderland Mexican children impacted by violence on the U.S.-Mexico border; substance use and resilience among adolescents; use of the Home Interaction Programme for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) as way for enhancing parenting practices to mitigate socioeconomic disadvantages faced by at-risk youth in New Zealand; use of rite of passage programs, specifically, the Louis Armstrong Manhood Development Program (LAMDP), as a way to address the overrepresentation of African American boys in special education; psychosocial factors involved in adolescent self-injury; and nurturing hope and resilience among at-risk middle school youth using a group rap therapy program called Wrapped in Resilience. All chapters provide a better understanding of various areas in which youth face adversity, and offer implications for ways of helping youth develop resilience and positive coping skills. Building upon the knowledge, awareness, and skills that are explored in this text, helping professionals, researchers, and educators who work with youth begin to better understand and more effectively intervene with the lived experience of youth who face adversity in many different forms today, and who survive these experiences in a way that makes them stronger and more resilient

Resilience and Vulnerability

Resilience and Vulnerability
Title Resilience and Vulnerability PDF eBook
Author Suniya S. Luthar
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 610
Release 2003-05-05
Genre Medical
ISBN 9780521001618

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Childhood Disrupted

Childhood Disrupted
Title Childhood Disrupted PDF eBook
Author Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 304
Release 2016-07-26
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 1476748365

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An examination of the link between Adverse Childhood Events (ACE's) and adult illnesses.

Communities in Action

Communities in Action
Title Communities in Action PDF eBook
Author National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher National Academies Press
Pages 583
Release 2017-04-27
Genre Medical
ISBN 0309452961

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.