A life course approach to women's health
By: edited by Diana Kuh and Rebecca Hardy.
Contributors: Kuh, Diana.; Hardy, Rebecca.
Series: Life course approach to adult health -- no. 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Women -- Health and hygiene; Health promotion; Epidemiology -- Longitudinal studies; Lifestyles -- Health aspects -- Longitudinal studies; Women -- Health risk assessment; Women's Health; Attitude to Health; Life Style; Risk Assessment
Genres: Longitudinal studies.
Description: How far is the health of middle-aged and older women shaped by biological, social, and psychological processes that begin in pre-natal development, childhood, adolescence, or early adult life? In this book, a group of international experts critically review the latest scientific evidence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A life course approach to women's health : does the past predict the present? / Diana Kuh and Rebecca Hardy; title: A life course approach to women's reproductive health / Janet Rich-Edwards; title: Commentary / Susan Morton; title: Breast cancer aetiology : where do we go from here? / Isabel dos Santos Silva and Bianca L. De Stavola; title: Commentary / Nancy Potischman; title: Menopause and gynaecological disorders : a life course perspective / Rebecca Hardy and Diana Kuh; title: Commentary / Sybil Crawford and Catherine Johannes; title: A life course approach to coronary heart disease and stroke / Debbie A. Lawlor, Shah Ebrahim, and George Davey Smith; title: Commentary / Catherine Law; title: A life course approach to diabetes / Helen M. Colhoun and Nish Chaturvedi; title: Commentary / Janet Rich-Edwards; title: A life course approach to musculoskeletal ageing : muscle strength, osteoporosis, and osteoarthritis / Joan Bassey, Avan Aihie Sayer, and Cyrus Cooper; title: Commentary / Jane Cauley; title: Depression and psychological distress : a life course perspective / Barbara Maughan; title: Commentary / Bryan Rodgers; title: Body image : a life course perspective / Lindsay McLaren and Jane Wardle; title: Commentary / J. Kevin Thompson; title: Endocrine pathways in differential well-being across the life course / Carol M. Worthman; title: Commentary / Elizabeth Barrett-Connor; title: Social and economic trajectories and women's health / Mel Bartley, Amanda Sacker, and Ingrid Schoon; title: Commentary / Kate Hunt; title: Life course influences on women's social relationships at midlife / Nadine F. Marks and Kristy Ashleman; title: Commentary / Stephen Stansfeld and Rebecca Fuhrer; title: A life course perspective on women's health behaviours / Mary Schooling and Diana Kuh; title: Commentary / Hilary Graham; title: Overweight and obesity from a life course perspective / Chris Power and Tessa Parsons; title: Commentary / William H. Dietz; title: Sexually transmitted infections and health through the life course / Ronald H. Gray, Maria J. Wawer, and David Serwadda; title: Commentary / Andrew J. Hall; title: Disease trends in women living in established market economies : evidence of cohort effects during the epidemiological transition / Diana Kuh, Isabel dos Santos Silva, and Elizabeth Barrett-Connor; title: Commentary / David A. Leon; title: The life course of Black women in South Africa in the 1990s : generation, age, and period in the decade of HIV and political liberation / Zena Stein, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, and Mervyn Susser; title: Commentary / Yoav Ben-Shlomo and George Davey Smith; title: A life course approach to women's health : linking the past, present, and future / Diana Kuh and Rebecca Hardy.