Wagner, Cornelia; Carmeli, Cristian; Jackisch, Josephine; Kivimäki, Mika; van der Linden, Bernadette W A; Cullati, Stéphane; Chiolero, Arnaud (2024). Life course epidemiology and public health. The lancet. Public health, 9(4), e261-e269. Elsevier 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00018-5
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Life course epidemiology aims to study the effect of exposures on health outcomes across the life course from a social, behavioural, and biological perspective. In this Review, we describe how life course epidemiology changes the way the causes of chronic diseases are understood, with the example of hypertension, breast cancer, and dementia, and how it guides prevention strategies. Life course epidemiology uses complex methods for the analysis of longitudinal, ideally population-based, observational data and takes advantage of new approaches for causal inference. It informs primordial prevention, the prevention of exposure to risk factors, from an eco-social and life course perspective in which health and disease are conceived as the results of complex interactions between biological endowment, health behaviours, social networks, family influences, and socioeconomic conditions across the life course. More broadly, life course epidemiology guides population-based and high-risk prevention strategies for chronic diseases from the prenatal period to old age, contributing to evidence-based and data-informed public health actions. In this Review, we assess the contribution of life course epidemiology to public health and reflect on current and future challenges for this field and its integration into policy making.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Review Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Medical Education > Institute of General Practice and Primary Care (BIHAM) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Chiolero, Arnaud |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services |
ISSN: |
2468-2667 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Funders: |
[4] Swiss National Science Foundation |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
02 Apr 2024 09:20 |
Last Modified: |
02 Apr 2024 16:03 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00018-5 |
PubMed ID: |
38553145 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/195433 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/195433 |
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