ArticleMaternal and child health journal2003
Framework as metaphor: the promise and peril of MCH life-course perspectives.
Article in Maternal and child health journal, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Development and Unfolding of the Life Course Movement in the Field of Maternal and Child Health: An Oral History.Maternal and child health journal · 2025Article
- How does the social environment during life course embody in and influence the development of cancer?International journal of public health · 2018Review
- Placing Health Trajectories in Family and Historical Context: A Proposed Enrichment of the Life Course Health and Development Model.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Article
- Development of depression in survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: a multi-level life course conceptual framework.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2017Review
- Home visitation programs: an untapped opportunity for the delivery of early childhood obesity prevention.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017Review
- Lifecourse health development: past, present and future.Maternal and child health journal · 2014Article
- Incorporating the life course model into MCH nutrition leadership education and training programs.Maternal and child health journal · 2013Article
- Implications of Lifecourse Epidemiology for Research on Determinants of Adult Disease.Public health reviews · 2010Article
- Impact of pre-conception health care: evaluation of a social determinants focused intervention.Maternal and child health journal · 2010Article
- Nursing Across the Lifespan: Implications of Lifecourse Theory for Nursing Research.Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & PractitionersArticle
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Abstract
Life-course analytic frameworks expressly link the determinants of health and illness across the lifespan. Such frameworks could serve as a foundation for integrating child and adult health policies by emphasizing the potential that social and biologic processes early in life can find clinical expression as adult-onset disease. However, there are elements of these frameworks that can be misinterpreted in ways that obscure scientific processes and fragment rather than integrate health policies. First, casting early life influences as determining rather than merely influencing adult health obscures the complexity of social and biologic etiologies over a lifetime and diminishes the impact of events in adolescence and adult life. Second, oversimplifying the impact of early influences on adult disease tends to imply that such processes are particularly unamenable to clinical and public health interventions, a suggestion without an empirical basis and likely to undermine pleas for enhanced access to such interventions. Third, exaggerating early life events as being highly deterministic of adult illness in order to shift societal resources from the elderly towards children can generate unnecessary antagonisms between potentially allied constituencies. Together, these considerations suggest that the utility of life-course frameworks will depend upon cautious interpretation and an ongoing process of active refinement.
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