The report “Implementing a Life-Course Approach to Immunization” provides a policy framework for countries to implement effective policies in order to maximize individual and population-wide health ...

(SALT LAKE CITY)—Diana Kuh, Ph.D., has a simple description for healthy aging: Keeping moving, keeping your marbles, and keeping your spirits up. Kuh, a British academician and researcher who is one ...

Aims: To investigate associations between economic stress in childhood and adulthood, and lack of internal health locus of control (HLC), testing the accumulation and critical period life course ...

Existing research on the life course origins of adult health has extensively examined the influence of childhood socioeconomic conditions, family structure, and exposure to trauma. Left unexplored are ...

Yearly 40 years ago, President Richard M. Nixon declared war on cancer, pledging to discover a cure for this deadly disease. Unfortunately, we’re still fighting that war today. But what if part of the ...

This paper provides clear definitions of health disparities and health equity and consistently applies a health equity lens to oncology research and practice with older adults, particularly within ...

The onset and severity of disability – affecting either physical or mental health – profoundly impacts the lives of people and their families and incurs large economic and societal costs in terms of ...

Anxiety and depression symptoms during pregnancy and postpartum among parous women with a history of infertility Published in Fertility & Sterility. Abstracts were presented at the American Society ...

I. Epistemological and methodological issues -- On the autonomy of the biographical method / Franco Ferrarotti -- From the life-history approach to the transformation of sociological practice / Daniel ...