Abusive and neglectful parenting is an established determinant of adult mental illness, but longitudinal studies of the impact of less severe problems with parenting have yielded inconsistent findings. In the face of growing interest in mental health promotion, it is important to establish the impact of this potentially remediable risk factor. Participants: 8,405 partici…

The prevalence of childhood stress and psychosomatic and emotional symptoms (PES) has increased in parallel, indicating that adverse, stressful circumstances and PES in children might be associated. This study describes the prevalence of PES in European children, aged 4–11 years old, and examines the relationship among PES, negative life events (NLE) and familial or social

The health of adolescents is strongly affected by social factors at personal, family, community, and national levels. Nations present young people with structures of opportunity as they grow up. Since health and health behaviours correspond strongly from adolescence into adult life, the way that these social determinants affect adolescent health are crucial to the health…

Self-harm and suicide are major public health problems in adolescents, with rates of self-harm being high in the teenage years and suicide being the second most common cause of death in young people worldwide. Important contributors to self-harm and suicide include genetic vulnerability and psychiatric, psychological, familial, social, and cultural factors. The effects o…

Sometimes we have to look at the obvious. Modifiable risk factors for stroke have been identified and their control has been proven to be effective. Although frequent risk factors, such as hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes mellitus, contribute strongly to stroke incidence, they do not explain all incident cases. Therefore, the search of new risk…

Studies are increasingly exposing relationships between childhood trauma and the emergence of health damaging behaviours and poor health and social outcomes in adulthood. The first large-scale adverse childhood experiences (ACE) study in the USA began to quantify the impacts of ACEs on health and behaviour throughout the life course. This and subsequent studies have iden…

En Save the Children contemplamos a diario los rostros de la pobreza infantil en nuestro país. Las caras de los más de 16.806 niños y niñas a los que atendimos desde nuestros programas de intervención en 2012. El trabajo cotidiano de nuestros profesionales con estos niños y con sus familias nos ha permitido entender, más…