Health Effects of Violence Exposure Among Children Living in Urban Environments

描述(由申请者提供)：当前提案中要求的资金将支持针对影响神经认知和神经行为发育的身体因素和社会特征进行暴露评估的跨学科培训，这是儿科环境健康的一个主要重点。 传统上，研究将社会环境因素与物理环境因素分开考察，可能会遗漏两者之间的重要互动。本研究的目的是以压力-健康范式为框架，将社区暴力作为一种特定的慢性生活应激源来考察这种相互作用。将结合铅、宫内和环境中烟草烟雾暴露等环境的其他物理暴露，评估暴露在社区暴力中对儿童的影响。 这项拟议的研究涉及与东波士顿母婴吸烟研究(MISSEB)队列(RJ Wright，PI)一起进行的二级数据分析，并将纳入社会和环境框架。

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.