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Life course epidemiology and public health
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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.
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“Life-course epidemiology is a field of study that examines the long-term effects of biological, behavioral, and social exposures during gestation, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood on the development of chronic diseases later in life [1].”
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- Authors
- Wagner, C., Carmeli, C., Jackisch, J., Kivimäki, M., van der Linden, B. W. A., Cullati, S., & Chiolero, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Fribourg (CH)
- Venue
- The Lancet Public Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2024-04
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- e261-e269
- ISSN
- 2468-2667 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4393246597
- Cited by
- 188
- References
- 94
- Citations by year
- 2026: 102 · 2025: 68 · 2024: 18
- FWCI
- 17.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- The Lancet Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja (submittedVersion)
- Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern
- Funders
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (208205)
- Medical Research Council (R024227)
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG062553, R01AG056477)
- Wellcome Trust (221854/Z/20/Z)
- Research Council of Finland (350426)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Historical and modern epidemiology studies
- Keywords
- life course epidemiology, chronic disease prevention, primordial prevention, hypertension, breast cancer, dementia, causal inference, social determinants of health, health behavior, socioeconomic conditions, prenatal exposure, public health policy
- MeSH terms
- Chronic Disease, Female, Humans, Life Change Events, Pregnancy, Public Health, Risk Factors, Causality
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