Background Growing evidence indicates that the residential neighbourhood contributes to
the complex aetiology of mental disorders. Although local crime and violence, key …

Background Researchers use both subjective self‐report and objective measures, such as
official records, to investigate the impact of childhood adversity on psychopathology …

Purposes Mental disorders are responsible for 16% of the global burden of disease in
adolescents. This review focuses on one contextual factor called community violence that …

Purpose Exposures early in life, beginning in utero, have long-term impacts on mental and
physical health. The ECHO prenatal and early childhood pathways to health consortium …

There is a dearth of research exploring the moderating role of the social environment on
neighborhood structural disadvantage and depressive symptoms, particularly among …

Stress has been shown to adversely affect pregnancy outcomes. Neighborhood crime rates
may serve as one publicly available social determinant of health for pregnancy studies that …

Maternal adversity and prenatal stress confer risk for child behavioral health problems. Few
studies have examined this intergenerational process across multiple dimensions of stress; …

Maternal psychosocial stress increases the risk of adverse birth and postnatal outcomes for
the mother and child, but the role of maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events (CTE) …

Childhood stress has a deleterious impact on youth behavior and brain development.
Resilience factors such as positive parenting (eg expressions of warmth and support) may …

Exposure to socioeconomic disadvantages (SED) can have negative impacts on mental
health, yet SED are a multifaceted construct and the precise processes by which SED confer …