Poverty, Stress, and Autonomic Reactivity

The Oxford Handbook of Poverty and Child Development

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Alkon, Abbey ^a   Wolff, Brian ^b   Boyce, W Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adversity; Autonomic nervous system; Children; Health; Poverty; Psychobiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924561592     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199769100.013.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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