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9780198578154

A Life Course Approach to Chronic Diseases Epidemiology

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    9780198578154

  • ISBN10:

    0198578156

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-05-20
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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, cumulativelyand interactively influence later life health and disease. Contributors to this fully revised second edition capture the excitement of the developing field and assess 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,blood 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 aregiven 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 themesand the theoretical and methodological challenges facing life course epidemiology are highlighted.

Table of Contents

Contributors xvii
Part I BACKGROUND
Introduction
3(12)
Diana Kuh
Yoav Ben-Shlomo
The life course and adult chronic disease: an historical perspective with particular reference to coronary heart disease
15(26)
Diana Kuh
George Davey Smith
Part II LIFE COURSE INFLUENCES ON ADULT CHRONIC DISEASE
Pre-adult influences on cardiovascular disease
41(36)
Debbie A. Lawlor
Yoav Ben-Shlomo
David A. Leon
Life course approaches to socioeconomic differentials in health
77(39)
George Davey Smith
John Lynch
Ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease mortality trends with special reference to England and Wales: are there cohort effects?
116(28)
Clive Osmond
Rebecca Hardy
Geography and migration with special reference to cardiovascular disease
144(21)
Jonathan Elford
Yoav Ben-Shlomo
A life course approach to diabetes
165(24)
Nita Forouhi
Elizabeth Hall
Paul McKeigue
A life course approach to obesity
189(29)
Matthew W. Gillman
A life course approach to blood pressure
218(22)
Peter H. Whincup
Derek G. Cook
Johanna M. Geleijnse
A life course approach to respiratory and allergic diseases
240(20)
David P. Strachan
Aziz Sheikh
A life course approach to cancer epidemiology
260(21)
Nancy Potischman
Rebecca Troisi
Lars Vatten
Time trends in cancer incidence and mortality
281(25)
Isabel dos Santos Silva
A life course approach to biological ageing
306(18)
Avan Aihie Sayer
Cyrus Cooper
A life course approach to neuropsychiatric outcomes
324(21)
Pam Factor-Litvak
Ezra Susser
Part III BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL PROCESSES
Fetal growth and development: the role of nutrition and other factors
345(26)
Ivan J. Perry
L. H. Lumey
Socioeconomic pathways between childhood and adult health
371(28)
Diana Kuh
Chris Power
David Blane
Mel Bartley
Part IV IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY AND FUTURE RESEARCH
Should we intervene to improve fetal and infant growth?
399(16)
K.S. Joseph
Michael S. Kramer
Should we intervene to improve childhood circumstances?
415(31)
W. Thomas Boyce
Daniel P. Keating
Conclusions
446(19)
Yoav Ben-Shlomo
Diana Kuh
Index 465

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