Life course epidemiology and its implication for oral health

Epidemiology of Oral Cancer in India – a Life Course Study

Life Course, Green Space and Health: Incorporating Place into Life Course Epidemiology

Researchers interested in the relationships between place and health have been slow to incorporate a life course perspective, probably due to the lack of readily available historical environmental data. This hinders the identification of causal relationships. It also restricts our understanding as to whether there are accumulative effects over the life course and if there are critical periods i...

Early childhood health promotion and its life course health consequences.

OBJECTIVE To explore whether health promotion efforts targeted at preschool-age children can improve health across the life span and improve future economic returns to society. METHODS We selected 4 health topics to review-tobacco exposure, unintentional injury, obesity, and mental health-because they are clinically and epidemiologically significant, and represent the complex nature of health...

Trajectories of Cardiovascular Health: Life Course Epidemiology in Brazil

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20140065 Cardiovascular epidemiology has advanced enormously in the study of risk factors for atherosclerosis1, as evidenced by publications in Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (ABC) in the last years2-4. Based on this information, it is possible to explore new hypotheses and, therefore, new frontiers for prevention. The different perspectives for the study of these risk fac...

The Way Forward for Life-course Epidemiology?

The study of life-course socioeconomic disadvantage and health raises several important conceptual and methodologic problems. Nandi and coauthors attempt to address some of these in this issue of EPIDEMIOLOGY. In this commentary, we review them and discuss whether their proposed solution is sufficiently broad to be invoked more generally in life-course research, and we highlight the caution req...