Child Development and Public Health

             There is one public health measure that impacts children and their development and that would be stressor in their environment one stress that can impact a child would be poverty. This is one stressor that someone I know has experienced as a child. My grandfather’s mother died when he was little, leaving my great grandfather to take care of four boys by himself.  The way in which my grandfather was able to cope with this stressor was by becoming close with his brothers. The region of the world that I would like to learn more about would be inner cities, more specifically, Chicago. The stressors that impact the development of the children in this region are many, there is poverty, violence, environmental pollution, chaos, noise, and in some cases even racism. There are programs that have been developed over the years to try and help with these stressors, but there are still very prevalent today.