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Health Promotion International, Vol. 14, No. 1, 93-94, March 1999
© Oxford University Press 1999

Resource Reviews

A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Diana Kuh and Yoav Ben-Shlomo (eds) Oxford University Press, 1997

Kerin O'Dea

Professor of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, E-mail: kerin.odea@med.monash.edu.au The initial stimulus for this book was the work of David Barker and his research team at the Medical Research Council's Environmental Epidemiology Unit in Southampton, England, who have conducted extensive studies on the fetal and infant origins of adult disease—in particular, cardiovascular disease, non-insulin-dependent diabetes and chronic bronchitis. Their provocative work has challenged many of the prevailing views on the aetiology of these diseases as being essentially conditions arising in adult life primarily as a result of adult behaviours and risk factors (diet, physical inactivity and smoking etc.). It has provided a framework which may . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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