Life course perspectives demonstrate that current health is shaped by earlier exposures (even decades before) to physical, environmental, and psychosocial factors.

Jul 3, 2025 · A life course approach acknowledges that health and well-being depend on the interaction of multiple protective and risk factors, particularly during sensitive and critical …

Dec 12, 2025 · Investing strategically in health across the entire life course is not merely sound medicine; it is the cornerstone of societal resilience, economic productivity, and human dignity …

A life course approach (LCA) provides high-impact, evidence- and rights-based strategies applying the perspective that understands health in today’s context and prioritizes the health of …

Jul 23, 2025 · The life course approach provides a framework for designing effective public health interventions and informing social policies. By understanding how health develops across the …

Aug 1, 2025 · This chapter shows how the integration of the life course perspective into health and medical sociology opens renewed avenues for research, thanks to the expansion of …

The life course approach, also known as the life course perspective or life course theory, refers to an approach developed in the 1960s for analyzing people's lives within structural, social, and …

May 2, 2025 · In this Comment, we discuss the importance of life-course approaches and actions needed to support their adoption.

Dec 5, 2024 · Healthy People Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) reflect major causes of death and disease in the United States. They track health conditions like diabetes, cancer, and obesity, …

Nov 21, 2017 · In this section, we present the seven principles of the Life Course Health Development framework that emerged from our analysis of the network of theories, concepts, …