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This open access handbook synthesizes and analyzes the growing knowledge base on life course health development (LCHD) from the prenatal period through emerging adulthood, with implications for clinical practice and public health. It presents LCHD as an innovative field with a sound theoretical framework for understanding wellness and disease from a lifespan perspective, replacing previous medical, biopsychosocial, and early genomic models of health. Interdisciplinary chapters discuss major health concerns (diabetes, obesity), important less-studied conditions (hearing, kidney health), and large-scale issues (nutrition, adversity) from a lifespan viewpoint. In addition, chapters address methodological approaches and challenges by analyzing existing measures, studies, and surveys. The book concludes with the editors’ research agenda that proposes priorities for future LCHD research and its application to health care practice and health policy.Topics featured in the Handbook include:The prenatal period and its effect on child obesity and metabolic outcomes. Pregnancy complications and their effect on women’s cardiovascular health. A multi-level approach for obesity prevention in children. Application of the LCHD framework to autism spectrum disorder. Socioeconomic disadvantage and its influence on health development across the lifespan. The importance of nutrition to optimal health development across the lifespan.The Handbook of Life Course Health Development is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians/professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology/science; maternal and child health; social work; health economics; educational policy and politics; and medical law as well as many interrelated subdisciplines in psychology, medicine, public health, mental health, education, social welfare, economics, sociology, and law.

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  • Introduction to the Handbook of LifeCourse Health DevelopmentNeal Halfon, Christopher B

  • Particular attention is required for US urban lowincome minority populations that have been disproportionally affected by the obesity and diabetes epidemics, and most likely fall into vicious cycle of transgenerational obesity and diabetes

  • 5.2.1 Epidemiologic research Despite the notion of early life origins of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), there is a particular lack of well-­ powered prospective birth cohort studies to examine to what degree and how early life factors affect pregnancy and infant and child health outcomes across multiple developmental windows in a life course framework, in high-­risk US urban low-income minority populations

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Introduction

Introduction to the Handbook of LifeCourse Health DevelopmentNeal Halfon, Christopher B. Insights and evidence from life course chronic disease epidemiology have converged with research from the fields of developmental biology, neuroscience, and developmental science, with studies of typical and atypical development and with new findings from research examining the developmental origins of chronic disease This wide-ranging research, all focused on understanding how health and disease develop, has involved researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. Such an image of childhood is wholly commensurate with twenty-first century visions of youth as a season of special vulnerability within the human life course health development—a developmental discontinuity from the less susceptible, more defended reaches of adulthood and life in an adult society.

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