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“They Don't Want Anything To Do With You”: Patient Views Of Primary Care Management Of Chronic Pain., Gonzalo Bacigalupe
“They Don't Want Anything To Do With You”: Patient Views Of Primary Care Management Of Chronic Pain., Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH
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Community Violence As Psychosocial Stressor: The Case Of Childhood Asthma In Boston, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Takeo Fujiwara, Sabrina Selk, Meghan Woo
Community Violence As Psychosocial Stressor: The Case Of Childhood Asthma In Boston, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Takeo Fujiwara, Sabrina Selk, Meghan Woo
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH
Childhood asthma is a critical public health problem of urban centers in the United States and other industrialized nations. Population-based and laboratory research studies indicate that psychosocial stress differentially affects asthma expression. Witnessing or experiencing community violence is a psychosocial stressor that results in long-term biological changes that may in turn contribute to asthma morbidity. This is a review of the literature that examines the exposure to violence as a psychosocial stressor that is independently associated with asthma morbidity even after adjustment for income, housing, and other adverse life events. In addition to acting as a physiological trigger for the …