GLOSSARY

Life course epidemiology

D Kuh¹, Y Ben-Shlomo², J Lynch³, J Hallqvist⁴ and C Power⁵

¹ Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London and Royal Free Medical School, UK
² Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
³ Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA
⁴ Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
⁵ Institute of Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London, UK

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Correspondence to:
Dr D Kuh
Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London and Royal Free Medical School, Gower Street Campus, 1–19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK; d.kuh{at}ucl.ac.uk

The aim of this glossary is to encourage a dialogue that will advance the life course perspective.

Keywords: cohort studies; critical periods; life course; risk accumulation

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