Life course epidemiology: recognising the importance of adolescence
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Life course epidemiology: recognising the importance of adolescence
Life course epidemiology may be conceptualised as “the study of long term effects on later health or disease risk of physical or social exposures during gestation, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood and later adult life.” Adolescence, the period between childhood and adulthood defined by the WHO as 10–19 years, has an uneasy status in epidemiology. On the one hand, adolescents, who now num...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0143-005X,1470-2738
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2014-205300