PSY 399 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Leg Before Wicket, Teenage Pregnancy, Low Birth Weight
23 Apr 2018
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Risk: probability of a negative outcome within a defined population of subjects. Causal risk factor: risk factor that when altered, impacts likelihood of outcome. Risk factors: characteristics that have been shown to precede the outcome and to be associated with an increase in the likelihood of that outcome over base rates in general population. How risk factors work together to increase likelihood of: mortality, morbidity and risk processes. Resilience: overcoming or not succumbing to risk. Protective: how buffers and adaptive processes work together to mitigate/moderate risk factors/processes. Low birth weight, temperament, cognitive factors, emotional factors. In developed nations, most mortality occurs during first days of birth, mainly by the same cause. Second highest is after their 60s increasing on, from many different causes. 68% of children under 5 who die annually, die within the first month. Within first 30 days of life, every day that a child survives increases likelihood that will stay alive by 6. 3%
