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) ...

The stress of poverty has a significantly negative effect on the developing brains of young children. But a growing body of research finds that anti-poverty efforts, such as cash aid, Medicaid and the ...

A framework of poverty-related factors and future consequences, such as delay language development, poor educational attainment, and neural abnormalities. What determines mental health, school ...

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 ...

Childhood trauma can have lasting psychological effects. Now Laura Barron-Lopez reports that a new study has found that early childhood stress from things like poverty and trauma can actually change ...

Though economic growth often contributes to poverty alleviation, growth in certain sectors provides more direct aid to the poor than growth in others, Norman Loayza told a crowded Joukowsky Forum at ...

The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Summer 2018), pp. 27-38 (12 pages) The recurring storm of poverty and food insecurity in the sub-Sahara Africa has continually posed major challenge to ...

A team from Washington University, St. Louis, has reported results from two studies involving mother-child pairs that are part of a larger project to trace the fetal origins of health and disease. The ...