Life-course psychiatry: Promoting healthy parenting, childhoods, treatment, and living space

Promoting and Supporting Healthy Living by Design

Chronic diseases are the main causes of premature deaths, and the number of these deaths keeps growing. People often do not understand, however, that by changing their diet and how much they exercise, they can drastically reduce their risk of being affected by chronic disease. The key to moderating people’s behaviour lies in raising awareness of the links between lifestyle and chronic disease a...

Living a happy, healthy and satisfying life

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...

A Life Course Approach to Healthy Ageing.

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...