Lesson 3 of 4 · 20 min

3. Environmental and community factors that shape risk and protection

Identify the environmental-level factors discussed in the editorial—such as poverty, services, social cohesion, socioeconomic disadvantage, housing, and community violence—and explain how the article argues these conditions add risk or protection beyond individual relationships.

Lesson explanation

Environmental and community factors that shape risk and protection In ajph.2018.304636, the authors argue that child maltreatment and other childhood adversity should not be understood only through individual or family relationships. They state that although c...

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