The Shasta County Department of Public Health is looking at a new way to address healthiness, and it starts by looking back at childhood experiences.
Adverse Childhood Experiences, also known as ACEs, are childhood experiences that are unhappy, unhealthy and hurtful before age 18. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looking at ACEs suggests that these "experiences are major risk factors for the leading causes of illness and death as well as poor quality of life in the United States."
The Shasta County Department of Public Health is looking at a new way to address healthiness, and it starts by looking back at childhood experiences.
Adverse Childhood Experiences, also known as ACEs, are childhood experiences that are unhappy, unhealthy and hurtful before age 18. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looking at ACEs suggests that these "experiences are major risk factors for the leading causes of illness and death as well as poor quality of life in the United States."
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