Health inequalities in the life course perspective
1997
44
6
859-869
human development ; social class ; social conditions ; health status ; social inequality
Occupational safety and health
English
Bibliogr.
"Life history approaches to the study of inequalities in health provide evidence that the biological and the social beginnings of life carry important aspects of the child's potential for adult health. Biological programming may set the operational parameters for certain organs and processes. Social factors in childhood influence the processes of biological development, and are the beginnings of socially determined pathways to health in adult life. Life history studies of health are beginning to show the important factors associated with the development of these pathways, and the life stages at which intervention to reduce adult health inequalities may be most effective."
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