Open AccessCombined Impacts of Prenatal Environmental Exposures and Psychosocial Stress on Offspring Health: Air Pollution and Metals
Author(s) -
Amy Padula,
Zorimar RiveraNúñez,
Emily S. Barrett
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
current environmental health reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.699
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 2196-5412
DOI - 10.1007/s40572-020-00273-6
Subject(s) - stressor , psychosocial , environmental health , offspring , medicine , population , pregnancy , psychiatry , biology , genetics
Pregnant women and their offspring are vulnerable to the adverse effects of environmental and psychosocial stressors, individually and in combination. Here, we review the literature on how air pollution and metal exposures may interact with structural and individual-level stressors (including poverty and stressful life events) to impact perinatal and child outcomes.