A Life Course Approach to Chronic Diseases Epidemiology by Kuh, Diana New<-

A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease EpidemiologyAuthor(s): Diana Kuh, Yoav Ben Shlomo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198578154, 978-0198578154\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\nContributors to this fully revised second edition capture the excitement of the developing field .