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Continuing professional education
Life course epidemiology
  1. D Kuh1,
  2. Y Ben-Shlomo2,
  3. J Lynch3,
  4. J Hallqvist4,
  5. C Power5
  1. 1Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London and Royal Free Medical School, UK
  2. 2Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
  3. 3Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA
  4. 4Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
  5. 5Institute of Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London, UK
  1. 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.kuhucl.ac.uk

Abstract

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

  • cohort studies
  • critical periods
  • life course
  • risk accumulation

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