The adverse childhood experiences study and the future of health care: A premier screening of the new ACE study DVD

Friday, March 30, 2012: 1:25 PM-2:45 PM
Sierra H (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Speakers:
David Corwin, MD, University of Utah
Vincent J. Felitti, MD, University of California


Learning Objectives:
  1. Understand the high prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in a middle-class population, their life-long adult damaging effects in terms of health
  2. Understand the connection between adverse childhood experiences and some of our most common public health problems such as depression, obesity, and the various addictions
  3. Understand how to use the ACE DVD as an important teaching tool for health professionals

Description:
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is an in-depth, retrospective and prospective analysis of over 17,000 adult San Diego members of Kaiser Permanente, matching their current health status against 10 categories of adverse childhood experiences that occurred on average a half-century earlier. The ACE Study challenges as needlessly superficial the conventional understanding of depression and addiction, showing these to have a powerful dose-response relationship to antecedent life experiences.

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