A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology

This book is concerned with tracing the origins of ill health from early through to adult life. Interest in the fetal and childhood origins of adult chronic disease is expanding rapidly. This book provides a comprehensive and critical review of the latest scientific evidence. It has great relevance for the understanding of the development of chronic disease which are the consequence of cummulative exposure to damaging physical and social environments. It is a complete update of the previous edition and highlights the enormous implications that the new paradigm of a life course approach to adult health studies can have on public health in developed and developing countries.