The mother grabbed a couple slices of bread and scraped the last of the peanut butter out of the jar. While handing the sandwich to her son, she said, "This needs to hold you until you get breakfast ...

In a recent study published in Frontiers in Medicine, a group of researchers investigated whether the combination of chronic inflammation and poverty synergistically increases the 15-year risk of ...

What determines mental health, school performance, and even cognitive development? A new review in De Gruyter's Reviews in the Neurosciences suggests that poverty and low socioeconomic status (SES) ...

Neighborhood environments are increasingly thought to affect emergency department (ED) use. However, because people decide where to live based on a range of factors, it can be challenging to identify ...

Childhood trauma can have lasting psychological effects. A new study has found that early childhood stress from racism, poverty and other traumas can change the structure of children’s developing ...

Poverty, neglect, housing instability, violence, food insecurity and separation from parents all affect childhood development – and thus, lifelong health. Although children are born ready to learn and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. On March 14, 2002, in a speech at the Inter-American Development Bank ...

In a nationwide study, UCLA researchers have found that health inequities can be measured in children as young as 5 years old. The research, published in Health Affairs, contributes to a growing body ...