A Lifecourse Approach to Health Development: Implications for the Maternal and Child Health Research Agenda

• Published in: Maternal and child health journal Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 497 - 510
• Main Authors: Russ, Shirley A., Larson, Kandyce, Tullis, Ericka, Halfon, Neal
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.02.2014; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biomedical Research - organization & administration; Biomedical Research - standards; Birth weight; Causality; Child; Child Welfare; Children; Childrens health; Chronic illnesses; Critical Period (Psychology); Disease; Epigenetics; Epigenomics; Female; Gynecology; Health aspects; Health services administration; Human Development; Humans; Management; Maternal & child health; Maternal and Child Health; Maternal health services; Maternal Welfare; Medical research; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Models, Theoretical; Mortality; Pediatrics; Population Economics; Pregnancy; Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; Program Development - methods; Program Development - standards; Public Health; R&D; Research & development; Risk Assessment; Social Determinants of Health; Sociology; Statistical models; United States; Los Angeles California; United States > US; Lifecourse; Maternal and child health; Health development

Lifecourse-informed models of health fundamentally challenge simple biomedical models, introducing new ways of thinking about how diseases develop. This paper considers the broad implications of lifecourse theory for the maternal and child health (MCH) research agenda. The Lifecourse Health Developm...