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Chronic Diseaes in Canada. 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, cumulatively and 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 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.

   INDICE: 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 apporach 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 developement: 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.

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Epidemiologists, public health researchers, public health policy makers for developed and developing countries, sociologists and biologists, psychiatrists and social and chronic disease epidemiologists

Detalles del artículo

• Páginas : 352
• Editorial : Oxford University Press
• Idioma : Inglés
• Fecha de Publicación : 01/04/2004
• ISBN: 9780198578154
• Encuadernación : Rústica
• Nº Volúmenes : 1
• Nº Edición : 2
• País de Publicación : Reino Unido (INGLATERRA)
• Lugar de Publicación : Oxford