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Low birth weight has been found to increase the problem behavior of children. Yet, little attention has been given to adequately account for the impact of the child's neighborhood on this relation. The residential neighborhood is a choice, based on factors that are usually not observed that may also influence birth weight and problem behavior.
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Community-based interventions that target families and their social contexts are very important, as problem behavior in children are observed in neighborhood contexts
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This page is a summary of: Disadvantaged neighborhoods, birth weight, and problem behavior in five- and six-year-old pre-school children: Evidence from a cohort born in Amsterdam, Social Science & Medicine, November 2020, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113400.
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