Books in the Life Course Approach to Adult Health series

This updated volume is concerned with tracing the origins of ill health, from early months through to adult life. Providing a review of the latest scientific evidence, it has great relevance for the understanding of the development of chronic diseases which are the consequence of cumulative exposure to damaging physical and social environments.

Life course epidemiology considers how adult health is affected by a variety of factors and influences over the entire life-course. This book provides the reader with the knowledge and skills to design, analyse, and correctly interpret family-based studies, which are increasingly being used to explore life course epidemiology.

Life course epidemiology is concerned with how factors from the early development period, alongside genetic and environmental influences, can shape the future health of a person. This book explains the methods behind such research.

A Life Course Approach to Healthy Age investigates the lifetime determinants of healthy ageing and their implications for policy and practice, bringing together authorities in ageing research and knowledge transfer from across the world in one wide-ranging volume.