From developmental origins of adult disease to life course research on adult disease and aging: insights from birth cohort studies [0.03%]
从成人疾病的发育起源研究到生命历程的成人疾病和衰老研究——出生队列研究的新视角
Chris Power,Diana Kuh,Susan Morton
Chris Power
Maturation of long-running birth cohort studies has fostered a life course approach to adult health, function, and disease and related to conceptual frameworks. Using broad concepts of human development including physical, cognitive, and em...
Peter Rabinowitz,Lisa Conti
Peter Rabinowitz
In the face of growing world human and animal populations and rapid environmental change, the linkages between human, animal, and environmental health are becoming more evident. Because animals and humans have shared risk to health from cha...
Todd Litman
Todd Litman
This article investigates various ways that transportation policy and planning decisions affect public health and better ways to incorporate public health objectives into transport planning. Conventional planning tends to consider some publ...
Sara J Singer,Timothy J Vogus
Sara J Singer
Hospital errors are a seemingly intractable problem and continuing threat to public health. Errors resist intervention because too often the interventions deployed fail to address the fundamental source of errors: weak organizational safety...
Energy and human health [0.03%]
能源与人类健康
Kirk R Smith,Howard Frumkin,Kalpana Balakrishnan et al.
Kirk R Smith et al.
Energy use is central to human society and provides many health benefits. But each source of energy entails some health risks. This article reviews the health impacts of each major source of energy, focusing on those with major implications...
Leslie Stayner,Laura S Welch,Richard Lemen
Leslie Stayner
Asbestos-related diseases are still a major public health problem. The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that 107,000 people worldwide die each year from mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis. We review what is known about a...
HIV prevention among women in low- and middle-income countries: intervening upon contexts of heightened HIV risk [0.03%]
发展中国家妇女的艾滋病预防：对高危环境的有效干预措施
Steffanie A Strathdee,Wendee M Wechsberg,Deanna L Kerrigan et al.
Steffanie A Strathdee et al.
Women's vulnerability to HIV infection is influenced by contextual factors in the risk environment that operate at multiple levels (i.e., physical, social, economic, policy). We present three case studies that illustrate combination approac...
Commentary on the symposium: biological embedding, life course development, and the emergence of a new science [0.03%]
关于学术研讨会的评论：生物嵌入性、生命历程发展以及新科学的出现
Clyde Hertzman
Clyde Hertzman
A new science of human development is emerging, which has the capacity to transform the way we understand the origins of health and disease; to increase the public health significance of early child development; and to call into question ho...
The impact of labor policies on the health of young children in the context of economic globalization [0.03%]
经济全球化背景下劳动政策对幼儿健康的影响研究
Jody Heymann,Alison Earle,Kristen McNeill
Jody Heymann
Globalization has transformed the workplace at the same time that increasing numbers of children live in families in which all adults work for pay outside the home. Extensive research evidence demonstrates the importance of parental involve...
Searching for a balance of responsibilities: OECD countries' changing elderly assistance policies [0.03%]
寻找责任的平衡点：经合组织国家长期照护政策的变化趋势
Katherine Swartz
Katherine Swartz
The rapid aging of OECD country populations and the now five-year-long financial crisis in Europe are causing many OECD countries to reconfigure their assistance programs for the elderly, particularly their long-term care (LTC) policies. De...