Last spring, I had the opportunity to talk with a fellow health journalist, Jane Ellen Stevens, editor of ACEs Too High, a news site that reports on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and our society. ACEs refer to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kaiser Permanente’s Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego, California, USA. The ACE Study investigated associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being.
The results suggest that certain adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, are major risk factors for the leading causes of illness and death as well as poor quality of life in the United States. The theory is that ACEs form the foundation for social, emotional and cognitive impairment that then lead to adoption of health-risk behaviors, which then lead to disease, disability and social problems.
[For more of this story, written by Rita Brhel, go to http://blogs.psychcentral.com/...ur-health-as-adults/]
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