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Epidemiological Methods in Life Course Research (Paperback, Parental Adviso)
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Epidemiological Methods in Life Course Research (Paperback, Parental Adviso)
Series: Life Course Approach to Adult Health
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Life course epidemiology is concerned with the origins of risk,
resilience, and the processes of ageing, and how this information
can be of value in a public health context - particularly for
preventive health care. Its challenge is to discover, develop and
analyse sources of data that cover many years of life, especially
the early developmental period when, it is thought, some
fundamental aspects of lifetime health begin. It also analyses
genetic propensity and environmental exposures. The rapid
development of life course epidemiology, in parallel with new work
on developmental biology and the biology of ageing, has bought
innovative and ingenious methods of data collection. These require
new methodological techniques for the design of observational and
quasi-experimental studies of life course pathways to adult health.
This book describes these developments, together with arguments for
improving the measurement of the social environment and its role in
developing individual vulnerability or adaptation. The development
of bio-bank large-scale population studies for the investigation of
genetic effects is discussed, alongside the challenges this creates
for the epidemiologist. The changing design of studies, increasing
flow of longitudinal data, management of data, analytic challenges,
timing, and both traditional and more recent methods of managing
these features in the study of causality, are discussed. Life
course epidemiology has an essential role in developing methods to
evaluate precisely the impact of interacting developmental,
environmental, and genetic effects, knowledge of which is
fundamental for the design of effective prevention strategies in
public health, as well as for the advancement of understanding in
the broader spheres of health and medicine.
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