Where children grow up matters.
The environment to which people are exposed in their childhood plays a significant role in their adult life, according to health leaders who presented at the 12th annual Children’s Summit of Merced County.
Wednesday’s summit gathered local health and education leaders, as well as community members interested in learning more about how people can work together to improve the lives of children.
Keynote speaker Dr. Dayna Long, a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, discussed the importance of assessing all factors of health. Education, gender, income, culture and housing, for example, all have a direct relation to children’s health.
“When you see a person that’s had a rough life, they just look so much older than expected,” Long said.
This can be explained by the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) study, an investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente Health, which suggests that adults have physical manifestations of their childhood experiences, Long explained.
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