“Neighborhood effect syndrome” is a term referring to an entire community condition characterized by symptoms of extreme poverty including poor health, housing insecurity, racial segregation, trauma, violence, poorly performing schools, low social cohesion and support and environmental toxins.
Health care providers frequently encounter challenges in caring for children from affected neighborhoods, and these children often experience poorer outcomes compared to peers in unaffected...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/08/05/treating-entire-neighborhood-as-a-patient-can-make-good-things-happen/137585.html
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