Household and community-level adverse childhood experiences and adult health outcomes in a diverse urban population

TL;DR: A 10% reduction in ACE prevalence could equate to annual savings of 3 million DALYs or $105 billion and relieve pressures on health-care systems, according to the findings of this systematic review and meta-analysis.

TL;DR: Prospective ACE records confirm associations between childhood adversity and negative life outcomes found previously using retrospective ACE reports, however, more agreeable and neurotic dispositions may, respectively, bias retrospective ACE measures toward underestimating the impact of adversity on objectively measured life outcomes and overestimating theimpact of adversityon self-reported outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review trends in adoption of new digital technologies (eg, mobile and interactive media) by families with young children (ages 0-8 years), continued use of television and video games, and the evidence for learning from digital versus hands-on play.

TL;DR: ACEs during childhood were significantly associated with risk behaviors and poor health outcomes in adulthood, and different ACE components had different long-term effects on health outcomes during childhood and in adulthood.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of the variance inflation factor (VIF) on the results of regression analyses, and found that threshold values of the VIF need to be evaluated in the context of several other factors that influence the variance of regression coefficients.

TL;DR: An ecobiodevelopmental framework is presented that suggests that many adult diseases should be viewed as developmental disorders that begin early in life and that persistent health disparities associated with poverty, discrimination, or maltreatment could be reduced by the alleviation of toxic stress in childhood.

TL;DR: In this paper, a computer-based search, supplemented by hand searches, was used to identify studies reported between 1980 and 2001 in which there was a quantified assessment of the validity of retrospective recall of major adverse experiences in childhood.

TL;DR: Reducing SES disparities in health will require policy initiatives addressing the components of socioeconomic status (income, education, and occupation) as well as the pathways by which these affect health.