Health Effects of Violence Exposure Among Children Living in Urban Environments

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案所要求的资金将用于支持影响神经认知和神经行为发育的物理因素和社会特征暴露评估的跨学科培训，这是儿童环境健康的一个主要焦点。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The funding requested in the current proposal will support interdisciplinary training in exposure assessment for both physical factors and social characteristics that affect neurocognitive and neurobehavioral development, a major focus of pediatric environmental health. Traditionally, research has examined social environmental factors separately from physical environmental factors, potentially missing important interactions between the two . The goal of this research is to examine such interactions using the stress-health paradigm as the framework and focusing on community violence as a specific chronic life stressor. The effects of exposure to community violence on children will be assessed in conjunction with other physical exposures of the environment such as lead and in utero and environmental tobacco smoke exposure. The proposed research involves secondary data analysis conducted withing the Maternal-Infant Smoking Study of East Boston (MISSEB) Cohort (RJ Wright, PI) and will incorporate both social and environmental frameworks.