A life course approach to the epidemiology of chronic diseases and ageing /
This resource outlines how biological and social factors during gestation, childhood, adolescence and earlier adult life influence later life health and disease.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | Life course approach to adult health series.
Oxford medicine online. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This resource outlines how biological and social factors during gestation, childhood, adolescence and earlier adult life influence later life health and disease. Life course epidemiology is the study of long-term biological, behavioural, and psychosocial processes that link physical and social exposures and experiences during gestation, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and across generations, to chronic diseases and ageing. During a time of rapidly changing physical and social environments across the world, life course epidemiologists should expand collaborations with other biomedical and social scientists and with policymakers to investigate and act on the lifetime health consequences of global, inter-related, environmental challenges. This fully revised third edition, with 55 world-class contributors, brings a life course approach to health in an age of pandemics, climate change, and widening lifetime social inequalities. It examines the current and potential use of new technologies, methods and collaborative approaches in life course studies and provides updated reviews of the latest life course evidence for age-related chronic diseases. It discusses how life course research is being used, and could be used, to improve population health in high, middle, and low-income countries, identifying how and when interventions may be most effective. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191998027 0191998028 9780198895992 0198895992 9780198896005 019889600X |