Access Full Text INTRODUCTION The life-course approach to health and the critical period model of disease causation posit that adult health is shaped by experiences in early life, specifically during critical developmental periods.1 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are stressful contextual exposures faced in childhood and adolescence that can have lifelong...

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