"The association between poverty and poor health is substantial and the effects are experienced over a lifetime; they are borne most heavily by children. Mitigation requires a public health approach, intervening upstream to increase economic opportunity and invest in early childhood development, healthy communities, education, nutrition, and preventive health services....
"Children are more likely than other age groups to be members of families with incomes at or below the federal poverty guidelines [14]. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study demonstrated a relationship between severe adverse experiences in childhood and the risk behaviors and diseases that are the leading causes of death in adult life, including ischemic heart disease, chronic lung disease, cancer, depression, alcoholism, and smoking [15]."
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