- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introducing the history of epidemiology
- Chapter 2 Important concepts in epidemiology
- Chapter 3 Study design
- Chapter 4 Statistics in epidemiology
- Chapter 5 Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods
- Chapter 6 Questionnaires in epidemiology
- Chapter 7 Environment
- Chapter 8 Occupational epidemiology
- Chapter 9 Life course epidemiology
- Chapter 10 Pharmacoepidemiology
- Chapter 11 Nutritional epidemiology
- Chapter 12 Genetic epidemiology
- Chapter 13 Teaching molecular epidemiology
- Chapter 14 Social inequalities in health
- Chapter 15 Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom
- Chapter 16 Infectious disease epidemiology
- Chapter 17 Cancer epidemiology
- Chapter 18 Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology
- Chapter 19 Neurologic diseases
- Chapter 20 Reproductive epidemiology
- Chapter 21 Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology
- Chapter 22 Epidemiology of injuries
- Chapter 23 Dental epidemiology
- Chapter 24 Clinical epidemiology
- Chapter 25 Study of clustering and outbreaks
- Chapter 26 Medical databases
- Chapter 27 Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom
- Chapter 28 Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology
- Index
Life course epidemiology
Life course epidemiology
- Chapter:
- (p.120) Chapter 9 Life course epidemiology
- Source:
- Teaching Epidemiology
- Author(s):
Yoav Ben-Shlomo
Diana Kuh
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Understanding the etiology of chronic diseases as well as behavioural patterns is enhanced by using a life course approach that specifically examines and tests for the effects of critical or sensitive periods of exposure and accumulation of risk models. It makes students appreciate the natural history of phenotypic traits by encouraging one to construct life course trajectories for continuous traits and then testing how these could be modified. Such an approach presents challenges to students in terms of study design, exposure measurement, and statistical methods. These ideas can also be used to consider social and gender inequalities in health and the relative importance of different public health interventions as well as time trends or cohort effects. This chapter present ideas at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels as to how a life course approach can be integrated with teaching materials from more conventional epidemiological and public health curricula.
Keywords: life course approach, chronic disease, etiology, trajectories, sensitive periods, accumulation of risk
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introducing the history of epidemiology
- Chapter 2 Important concepts in epidemiology
- Chapter 3 Study design
- Chapter 4 Statistics in epidemiology
- Chapter 5 Teaching a first course in epidemiologic principles and methods
- Chapter 6 Questionnaires in epidemiology
- Chapter 7 Environment
- Chapter 8 Occupational epidemiology
- Chapter 9 Life course epidemiology
- Chapter 10 Pharmacoepidemiology
- Chapter 11 Nutritional epidemiology
- Chapter 12 Genetic epidemiology
- Chapter 13 Teaching molecular epidemiology
- Chapter 14 Social inequalities in health
- Chapter 15 Climate change and human health: issues for teacher and classroom
- Chapter 16 Infectious disease epidemiology
- Chapter 17 Cancer epidemiology
- Chapter 18 Teaching a course in psychiatric epidemiology
- Chapter 19 Neurologic diseases
- Chapter 20 Reproductive epidemiology
- Chapter 21 Teaching chronic respiratory disease epidemiology
- Chapter 22 Epidemiology of injuries
- Chapter 23 Dental epidemiology
- Chapter 24 Clinical epidemiology
- Chapter 25 Study of clustering and outbreaks
- Chapter 26 Medical databases
- Chapter 27 Teaching epidemiology inside and outside the classroom
- Chapter 28 Guide for teaching assistants in a methods course at a department of epidemiology
- Index