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Ethnic–Racial Discrimination Exposure and Anxiety in Latina Girls: Amygdala Volume as an Indirect Neurobiological Pathway
Ethnic–racial discrimination, the differential treatment of individuals based on ethnic or racial group membership, predicts poor mental health...
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Denmark: Disability Sports Policy at Arm’s Length
In this chapter we combine existing knowledge into a coherent narrative about disability sport in Denmark. Our chapter shows that the ‘arm’s length...
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Feasibility and Validity of Using Item Response Theory to Assess Cumulative Social Risk
Social risks are patient-level effects of social determinants of health. Cumulative social risk, the total of multiple risks, predicts health...
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Urbanicity and Depression among Chinese Youth: a Cross-Sectional Study Based on the China Labor-Force Dynamic Survey
Many of China’s youth are struggling with mental health problems, and 24.6% of them were threatened by depression in 2022. Although various factors,...
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Public health and nuclear winter: addressing a catastrophic threat
Despite the end of the Cold War, the world still has thousands of nuclear weapons and adversarial relations between the countries that possess them....
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Masculinity, Perceived Vulnerability to COVID-19, and Adoption of Protective Behaviors
Epidemiological data show that men and women have similar probabilities of contracting COVID-19. However, men with COVID-19 tend to have more severe...
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Self-perceived Mate Value is Predicted by Biological and self-reported Indices of Health in Young Adults
Immunocompetence can influence an organism’s reproductive fitness, and thus presumably their desirability as a mate (i.e., mate value). In humans,...
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Introduction
The purpose of this book is to describe the multidisciplinary model of care delivered by a long stay high severity psychiatric unit for adolescents....
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Child Maltreatment Profiles among Children and Adolescents in the Spanish Child Welfare System
Maltreatment is a complex and multidimensional construct. Several types of maltreatment exist, but not all of them necessarily co-occur. In the last...
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Rethinking Child Maltreatment: Children’s Perceptions of Physical and Emotional Maltreatment—Initial Findings
The definition of child maltreatment (CM) has a direct impact on operationalization in research, on practice, and on policy formulation. While...
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Mixed-Method Investigations Uncovering Tension, PTSD Symptoms, and Trauma-Related Difficulties Among Indian Women from Slums Reporting Gender-Based Violence
Indian women exposed to gender-based violence (GBV) report experiencing cultural concepts of distress, such as tension , and trauma-related...
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In the ‘Shadow’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Naming Gendered Violence in the Era of a Global Health Crisis
Globally, an increased incidence of violence against women and girls accompanied a number of mitigation measures which were implemented to limit the...
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Patterns and correlates of old-age social exclusion in the Balkan states
Social exclusion (SE), or the separation of individuals and groups from mainstream society, is associated with poor health and wellbeing, yet a...
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The Social Cost of Unemployment by Types of Workers
The social cost of unemployment is an evaluation protocol proposed by Gorjón et al. (Social Indicators Research, 150:955–976, 2020), which integrates...
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Macro-level Socio-economic factors and children’s View on Physical and Emotional Maltreatment
The association between socio-economic variables and Child Maltreatment (CM) has been analyzed until now through an epidemiological lens, with the...
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Extent and spread of malnutrition among children under five in Indian states
Children are the most vulnerable victims of undernutrition. Undernutrition increases a child's risk of contracting common infections and also...
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Network Structure among Optimism, Social Interaction, and Psychological Wellbeing during COVID-19 Lockdown: Findings from Four UK Cohort Studies
Though prior studies have found that optimism and social interactions are negatively associated with psychological distress during the COVID-19...
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Perceptions of Risks Related to Climate Change in Agroecosystems in a Semi-arid Region of Brazil
Small-scale farmers who depend on natural resources for subsistence in rural areas are especially vulnerable to climate change and may develop...
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The importance of child characteristics: children’s health and mothers’ subsequent childbearing
Existing literature rarely includes child characteristics as a predictor variable when investigating family life events. Using data from the Danish...
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Exploring Legal Avenues for the Protection of Environmental Migrants Through a Rights Lens
The increased severity of climate change has upended many set ways and also uprooted many lives. Climate-induced migration and displacement is an...