Examining the effects of cumulative environmental stressors on Gulf Coast child and adolescent health

• Published in: Population and environment Vol. 45; no. 3; p. 21
• Main Authors: Meltzer, Gabriella Y., Merdjanoff, Alexis A., Xu, Shu, Gershon, Robyn, Emrich, Christopher T., Abramson, David M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescents; Child & adolescent mental health; Children; Childrens health; Chronic illnesses; Community; Demography; Disasters; Emotional distress; Emotional disturbances; Emotions; Environment; Environmental stress; Families & family life; Health status; Households; Housing; Hurricanes; Illnesses; Individual differences; Maternal characteristics; Maternal depression; Medical diagnosis; Mental health; Mothers; Multivariate statistical analysis; Oil spills; Original Paper; Parameterization; Parental stress; Parents & parenting; Population Economics; Psychological distress; Public Health; Self evaluation; Social Sciences; Sociology; Stress; Structural equation modeling; Women; Gulf Coast; Child and adolescent health; Cumulative environmental stress; Family stress; Resilience

This study examines how community-level cumulative environmental stress affects child and adolescent emotional distress and chronic health conditions both directly and indirectly through stressors at the household, family, and individual levels. Data comes from the Women and their Children’s Health...