Handbook of Life Course Health Development / edited by Neal Halfon, Christopher B. Forrest, Richard M. Lerner, Elaine M. Faustman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neal Halfon

Contributor:

Halfon, Neal, Editor.

Forrest, Christopher B., Editor.

Lerner, Richard M., Editor.

Faustman, Elaine M., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health.

Developmental psychology.

Social service.

Medical economics.

Education and state.

Medical laws and legislation.

Public Health.

Developmental Psychology.

Social Work.

Health Economics.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Medical Law.

Local Subjects:

Public Health.

Developmental Psychology.

Social Work.

Health Economics.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Medical Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXIV, 664 p. 48 illus., 22 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Springer Nature 2018

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This 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.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Handbook of Life Course Health-Development Science

SECTION I: EMERGING FRAMEWORKS

Chapter 2. The Emerging Theoretical Framework of Life Course Health-Development

SECTION II: LIFE STAGES

Chapter 3. Preconception and Prenatal Factors and Metabolic Risk

Chapter 4. Early Childhood and the Life Course: The State of the Science and Proposed Research Priorities

Chapter 5. Middle Childhood: An Evolutionary-Developmental Synthesis

Chapter 6. Adolescent Health: A Relational Developmental Systems Perspective

Chapter 7. Emerging Adulthood as a Critical Stage in the Life Course

Chapter 8. Pregnancy Characteristics and Women’s Cardiovascular Health

SECTION III: LIFE COURSE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF MAJOR HEALTH CONDITIONS AND ISSUES

Chapter 9. Early in the Life Course: Time for Obesity Prevention

Chapter 10. Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes: Prevention and Treatment through a Life Course Health-Development Framework

Chapter 11. Life Course Health-Development in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Chapter 12. Self-Regulation

Chapter 13. A Life Course Health-Development Perspective on Oral Health

Chapter 14. Life Course Health-Development Outcomes after Prematurity: Developing a Community, Clinical, and Translational Research Agenda to Optimize Health, Behavior and Functioning

Chapter 15. A Life Course Approach to Hearing Health

Chapter 16. Chronic Kidney Disease: A Life Course Health-Development Perspective

SECTION IV: CROSS-CUTTING TOPICS IN LIFE COURSE HEALTH-DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 17. Growth and Life Course Health-Development

Chapter 18. From Epidemiology to Epigenetics: Evidence for the Importance of Nutrition to Optimal Health-Development across the Life Course

Chapter 19. How Socioeconomic Disadvantages Get Under the Skin and Into the Brain to Influence Health-Development across the Lifespan

Chapter 20. Health Disparities: A Life Course Health-Development Perspective and Future Research Directions

SECTION V: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES

Chapter 21. Core Principles of Life Course Health-Development Methodology and Analytics

Chapter 22. Epidemiological Study Designs: Traditional and Novel Approaches to Advance Life Course Health-Development Research

Chapter 23. Using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY) to Conduct Life Course Analyses

Chapter 24. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to Conduct Life Course Health-Development Analysis

Chapter 25. Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) in Life Course Health-Development Research

SECTION VI: FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Chapter 26. Life Course Research Agenda (LCRA), Version 1.0.

Notes:

CC BY

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ISBN:

9783319471433

3319471430

OCLC:

1053986939