Life-Course Changes and Parent–Adult Child Contact

Women Through the Life Course Maternal and Child Health Facts

The Family Planning Program provides affordable, confidential family planning and related preventive health services in accordance with nationally recognized standards where evidence exists that these services should lead to improvement in the overall health of individuals, with a priority for services to low-income individuals. The program expands access to a broad range of acceptable and effe...

Life course impacts of parenting a child with a disability.

We contrasted parents who had a child with a developmental disability, a serious mental health problem, and a normative comparison group with respect to parental attainment and well-being at mid-life. Data are from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, collected when the respondents were 18, 36, and 53 or 54, on average. Although similar at age 18, group patterns of attainment and well-being diverg...

The LIFE child study: a life course approach to disease and health

BACKGROUND Profound knowledge about child growth, development, health, and disease in contemporary children and adolescents is still rare. Epidemiological studies together with new powerful research technologies present exciting opportunities to the elucidation of risk factor-outcome associations with potentially major consequences for prevention, diagnosis and treatment. AIM To conduct a uni...

Life Course, Environment Change, and Life Span

Time Course of Changes in Goblet Cell Density in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Contact Lens Wearers.

PURPOSE To investigate longitudinal changes in goblet cell density (GCD) in contact lens (CL) wearers who do and do not develop symptoms of dry eye (DE). METHODS Sixty healthy individuals fitted with daily disposable hydrogel CLs and 23 age-balanced non-CL-wearing controls underwent assessment using the 5-item dry eye questionnaire, noninvasive tear film break-up time measurement, ocular surf...