PSYC 2030 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Infant Mortality, Hypothalamus, Rush Hour
28 Jan 2015
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Child poverty is the cause of a variety of social problems, reduced economic productivity, and waste of human potential. 10 things you might not know about poverty in canada october 17, 2013. Poverty in childhood and adverse health outcomes in adulthood. Children who live in poverty are more likely as adults than their peers to develop and die earlier from a range of diseases--cardiovascular disease and type ii diabeties. The later life improvments has little effect. The effects appear to be biologically embedded. Increased child poverty in canada, usa and uk. Risk of asthama, depression, isolation, early mortality, Bloacking access to resoucess in later adulthood. Expeince of social and material depervation leading to adverse health outcomes. The term absolute poverty refers to deprivation so severe as to threaten biological integrity (i. e. , lack of shelter, clothing, and food) and is the stuff of child poverty in developing nations, though also present in wealthy developed nations.
