A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
This open access book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, adulthood and later life. It provides findings that assess the role of biological and social transitions on health status over time. The essays examine a wide range...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Series: | Life Course Research and Social Policies,
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20484-0 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Stéphane Cullati, Amanda Sacker and David Blane
- Trajectories and transitions in childhood and adolescent obesity: Laura Howe, Riz Firestone, Kate Tilling and Debbie Lawlor
- Oral health over the life course: Anja Heilmann, Georgios Tsakos and Richard Watt
- A life course perspective on body size and cardio-metabolic health: William Johnson, Diana Kuh and Rebecca Hardy
- Health trajectories in people with cystic fibrosis in the UK: exploring the effect of social deprivation: David Taylor-Robinson, Peter Diggle, Rosalind Smith and Margaret Whitehead
- Moving towards a better understanding of socioeconomic inequalities in preventive health care use: a life course perspective: Sarah Missine
- In Inter-Cohort Variation in the Consequences of U.S. Military Service on Men’s Body Mass Index Trajectories in Mid- to Late-Life: Janet Wilmoth, Andrew London and Christine Himes
- Linear mixed-effects and latent curve models for longitudinal life course analyses: Paolo Ghisletta, Olivier Renaud, Nadège Jacot and Delphine Courvoisier
- The analysis of individual health trajectories across the life course: Latent class growth models versus mixed models: Trynke Hoekstra and Jos Twisk
- Age, period and cohort processes in longitudinal and life course analysis: a multilevel perspective: Andrew Bell and Kelvyn Jones.