Titre :
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Poverty-alleviation program participation and salivary cortisol in very low-income children. (2009)
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Auteurs :
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FERNALD (Lia-Ch) : USA. School of Public Health. University of California. Berkeley. Berkeley. CA. ;
GUNNAR (Megan-R) : USA. University of Minnesota. Minnesota.
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 68, n° 12, 2009)
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Pagination :
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2180-2189
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Pauvreté
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Programme
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Participation
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Salive
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Facteur socioéconomique
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Revenu
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Enfant
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Mexique
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Statut social
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Médicament antiinflammatoire
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Homme
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Amérique
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Corticostéroïde
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Amérique centrale
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 97pBmR0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Correlational studies have shown associations between social class and salivary cortisol suggestive of a causal link between childhood poverty and activity of the stress-sensitive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) system. Using a quasi-experimental design, we evaluated the associations between a family's participation in a large-scale, conditional cash transfer program in Mexico (Oportunidades, formerly Progresa) during the child's early years of life and children's salivary cortisol (baseline and responsivity). We also examined whether maternal depressive symptoms moderated the effect of program participation. Low-income households (income
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