Maternal and pediatric health and disease: Integrating biopsychosocial models and epigenetics

Pediatric Research

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 127-135

  Rubin, Lewis P ^a  

^a Paul L Foster School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOSTASIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC REGULATION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; MEXICAN; MEXICAN AMERICAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RACISM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS ASSESSMENT; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; INFANT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ALLOSTASIS; CHILD; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84956872685     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2015.203     Document Type: Review

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