Vulnerability, Risk, and Protection  

Oleh:

Blum, Robert William ; McNeely, Clea ; Nonnemaker, James

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Adolescent Risk and Vulnerability: Concepts and Measurement, page 50-72.
Topik: Vulnerability; Risk; Protection
Fulltext: Adolescent (3).pdf (586.3KB)

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As the morbidities of youth have shifted from primarily biophysiologic and infectious to social and behavioral, our thinking has changed regarding etiologies. Historically, both medicine and public health have sought to identify the biologic factors and infectious agents that predispose young people to morbidity and death. With mapping of the human genome, our ability to identify genetic factors that create vulnerabilities to a range of life-threatening conditions has reached a heretofore incomprehensible level of sophistication and specification. Likewise, ever since cholera was traced to the Broad Street pump in London, infectious disease epidemiologists have traced disease first to invasive organisms and more recently to behaviors. Thus, over the past generation we have come to understand the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, dietary practices and heart disease, and a range of other associations between behavior and health outcomes.

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