With the advent of the sustainable development goals, the field of global child health has
shifted its focus from reducing mortality to improving health, nutrition and development …

Features of the physical and social environments can influence health across the life course,
and the complex social, behavioral, as well as biological pathways linking these exposures …

The ongoing epidemic of chronic diseases involves a spectrum of clinical entities now
understood to represent late manifestations of progressive metabolic dysfunction initiated in …

We draw on the theory of allostasis to develop an integrative model of the current stress
process that highlights the brain as a dynamically adapting interface between the changing …

Childhood adversity is associated with a host of mental and physical health problems across
the lifespan. Individuals who have experienced childhood adversity (eg, child abuse and …

During the past decade, important steps have been taken globally to improve the status of
children. Concurrently, significant advances have been made toward understanding how …

In the present study, we investigated associations of macro-economic conditions–the Great
Recession–with cellular epigenetic aging, allostatic load, and self-reported health, in a …

BackgroundSocial scientists generally agree that health disparities are produced, at least in
part, by adverse social experiences, especially during childhood and adolescence. Building …

The last decade has witnessed major reductions in child mortality and a focus on saving
lives with key interventions targeting major causes of child deaths, such as neonatal deaths …

This integrative review of research utilizing the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to
Adult Health draws on previous research detailing pathways linking early socioeconomic …