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What are the public health implications of the life course perspective?

What are the public health implications of the life course perspective?
What are the public health implications of the life course perspective?
During the past decades innovative research has shown that exposure to harmful events during pregnancy and early infancy (‘the first 1000 days’) has an impact on health at subsequent stages of the life course and even across generations. Recently it has been shown that even the pre-conception period is of outmost importance, and other scholars have made the case that the 1000 days should be extended to a period of 8000 days post-conception. The present contribution aims to bridge further the gap between research evidence and public health policy by applying a holistic ‘full-cycle’ perspective. Thus, a conceptual framework is suggested for guiding public health prioritization, including the variables of ‘impact on the next generation’, ‘plasticity’ and ‘available interventions with documented impact’. This framework could guide decision makers in selecting at which stages of the life course to invest (and not), and furthermore it points to some pertinent research priorities.
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Aagaard-Hansen, Jens, Norris, Shane A., Terkildsen-Maindal, Helle, Hanson, Mark and Fall, Caroline (2019) What are the public health implications of the life course perspective? Global Health Action, 12 (1), 1-4, [1603491]. (doi:10.1080/16549716.2019.1603491).

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During the past decades innovative research has shown that exposure to harmful events during pregnancy and early infancy (‘the first 1000 days’) has an impact on health at subsequent stages of the life course and even across generations. Recently it has been shown that even the pre-conception period is of outmost importance, and other scholars have made the case that the 1000 days should be extended to a period of 8000 days post-conception. The present contribution aims to bridge further the gap between research evidence and public health policy by applying a holistic ‘full-cycle’ perspective. Thus, a conceptual framework is suggested for guiding public health prioritization, including the variables of ‘impact on the next generation’, ‘plasticity’ and ‘available interventions with documented impact’. This framework could guide decision makers in selecting at which stages of the life course to invest (and not), and furthermore it points to some pertinent research priorities.

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Accepted/In Press date: 27 March 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 May 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 430938
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/430938
ISSN: 1654-9716
PURE UUID: bd4b824b-9a76-4f80-98e7-673a300e6069
ORCID for Shane A. Norris: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7124-3788
ORCID for Mark Hanson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6907-613X
ORCID for Caroline Fall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4402-5552

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Date deposited: 17 May 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:41

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Author: Jens Aagaard-Hansen
Author: Shane A. Norris ORCID iD
Author: Helle Terkildsen-Maindal
Author: Mark Hanson ORCID iD
Author: Caroline Fall ORCID iD

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