Diana Kuh / Yoav Ben Shlomo

A Life Course Approach to Chronic Diseases Epidemiology

Herausgeber: Ben Shlomo, Yoav; Shlomo, Yoav Ben; Kuh, Diana

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Produktbeschreibung

The first edition in 1997 of A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology became a classic text for epidemiological and public health researchers interested in the childhood origins of adult chronic disease. Since then the new field of life course epidemiology has expanded rapidly, attracting the interest not only of academics across the health and social sciences but also policy makers, funding bodies, and the general public. Its purpose is to study how biological and social factors during gestation, childhood, adolescence and earlier adult life independently, cummulatively and interactively influence later life health and disease. Contributors to this fully revised second edition capture the excitement of the developing field and asses the latest evidence regarding sources of risk to health across the life course and across generations. The original chapters on life course influences on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, blook pressure, respiratory disease and cancer have been updated and extended. New chapters on life course influences on obesity, biological ageing and neuropsychiatric disorders have been added. Life course explanations for disease trends and for socioeconomic differentials in disease risk are given more attention in this new edition, reflecting recent developments in the field. The section on policy implications has been expanded, assessing the role of interventions to improve childhood social circumstances, as well as interventions to improve early growth. Emerging new research themes and the theoretical and methodological challenges facing life course epidemiology are highlighted.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 848g
• ISBN-13: 9780198578154
• ISBN-10: 0198578156
• Artikelnr.: 21509764

Autorenporträt

DIANA KUH, Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, and YOAV BEN SHLOMO, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I - Background
* 1: Diana Kuh and Yoav Ben-Shlomo: Introduction
* 2: Diana Kuh and George Davey Smith: The life course and adult
chronic disease: an historical perspective with particular reference
to coronary heart disease
* Part II - Life Course Influences on Adult Chronic Disease
* 3: Debbie A. Lawlor, Yoav Ben-Shlomo and David A. Leon: Pre-adult
influences on cardiovascular disease
* 4: George Davey Smith and John Lynch: Life course approaches to
socioeconomic differentials in health
* 5: Clive Osmond and Rebecca Hardy: Ischaemic heart disease and
cerebrovascular disease mortality trends with special reference to
England and Wales: are there cohort effects?
* 6: Jonathan Elford and Yoav Ben-Shlomo: Geography and migration with
special reference to cardiovascular disease
* 7: Nita Forouhi, Elizabeth Hall and Paul McKeigue: A life course
approach to diabetes
* 8: Matthew W. Gillman: A life course approach to obesity
* 9: Peter Whincup, Derek Cook and Johanna M. Geleijnse: A life course
approach to blood pressure
* 10: David P. Strachan and Aziz Sheikh: A life course approach to
respiratory and allergic diseases
* 11: Nancy Potischman, Rebecca Troisei and Lars Vatten: A life course
approach to cancer epidemiology
* 12: Isabel dos Santos Silva: Time trends in cancer incidence and
mortality
* 13: Avan Aihie Sayer and Cyrus Cooper: A life course approach to
biological ageing
* 14: Pam Factor-Litvak and Ezra Susser: A life course approach to
neuropsychiatric outcomes
* Part III - Biological and Social Processes
* 15: Ivan J. Perry and L.H. Lumey: Fetal growth and development: the
role of nutrition and other factors
* 16: Diana Kuh, Chris Power, David Blane and Mel Bartley:
Socioeconomic pathways between childhood and adult health
* Part IV - Implications for Policy and Future Research
* 17: K.S. Joseph and Michael S. Kramer: Should we intervene to improve
fetal and infant growth?
* 18: W. Thomas Boyce and Daniel P. Keating: Should we intervene to
improve childhood circumstances?
* 19: Yoav Ben-Shlomo and Diana Kuh: Conclusions