HLTH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Income Distribution, Pseudobulbar Affect, Gestational Age
31 Jan 2017
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Barker hypothesis: postulates low-birth weight (or generalized failure to thrive limited infant growth and weight gain in the first few months following birth) predisposes the child for serious negative health outcomes later in life. Latent, cumulative and pathway effects: latent effects. Latent effects of early experiences and contexts affect adult health independently of what happens later. Intellectually and emotionally impoverished early years may impair learning and social functioning over the individual"s entire life: cumulative effects. The longer one is exposed to negative environmental, social or dietary factors. Alternatively, the more intense the exposure to those negative factors, the worse the health effects. The deeper the poverty and the longer it lasts, the worse the results. Effects vary between childhood social and economic conditions from adult ones: pathway effects. Contributions from psychology: children develop critical attachments to other people, usually their mother, around six months of age, attachment theory.
