Early health risk factors for violence: Conceptualization, evidence, and implications

Aggression and Violent Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-73

  Liu, Jianghong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Alcohol during pregnancy; Biosocial interaction; Birth complications; Brain dysfunction; Child behavior problems; Head injury during early childhood; Health risk factors; Malnutrition during early postnatal years; Malnutrition of the pregnant mother; Mediating factors; Protective factors; Teenage pregnancy; Tobacco during pregnancy; Toxicity and drugs during pregnancy; Violence prevention

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LEAD POISONING; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL STRESS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 79951674951     PISSN: 13591789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2010.12.003     Document Type: Review

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