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" A life course approach to women's health / "
edited by Diana Kuh and Rebecca Hardy.
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BL
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1038575
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b792945
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| Title & Author
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A life course approach to women's health /\ edited by Diana Kuh and Rebecca Hardy.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, ©2002.
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| Series Statement
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Life course approach to adult health ;; no. 1
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xvi, 419 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0192632892
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: 9780192632890
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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A life course approach to women's health : does the past predict the present? / Diana Kuh and Rebecca Hardy -- A life course approach to women's reproductive health / Janet Rich-Edwards -- Commentary / Susan Morton -- Breast cancer aetiology : where do we go from here? / Isabel dos Santos Silva and Bianca L. De Stavola -- Commentary / Nancy Potischman -- Menopause and gynaecological disorders : a life course perspective / Rebecca Hardy and Diana Kuh -- Commentary / Sybil Crawford and Catherine Johannes -- A life course approach to coronary heart disease and stroke / Debbie A. Lawlor, Shah Ebrahim, and George Davey Smith -- Commentary / Catherine Law -- A life course approach to diabetes / Helen M. Colhoun and Nish Chaturvedi -- Commentary / Janet Rich-Edwards -- A life course approach to musculoskeletal ageing : muscle strength, osteoporosis, and osteoarthritis / Joan Bassey, Avan Aihie Sayer, and Cyrus Cooper -- Commentary / Jane Cauley -- Depression and psychological distress : a life course perspective / Barbara Maughan -- Commentary / Bryan Rodgers -- Body image : a life course perspective / Lindsay McLaren and Jane Wardle -- Commentary / J. Kevin Thompson -- Endocrine pathways in differential well-being across the life course / Carol M. Worthman -- Commentary / Elizabeth Barrett-Connor -- Social and economic trajectories and women's health / Mel Bartley, Amanda Sacker, and Ingrid Schoon -- Commentary / Kate Hunt -- Life course influences on women's social relationships at midlife / Nadine F. Marks and Kristy Ashleman -- Commentary / Stephen Stansfeld and Rebecca Fuhrer -- A life course perspective on women's health behaviours / Mary Schooling and Diana Kuh -- Commentary / Hilary Graham -- Overweight and obesity from a life course perspective / Chris Power and Tessa Parsons -- Commentary / William H. Dietz -- Sexually transmitted infections and health through the life course / Ronald H. Gray, Maria J. Wawer, and David Serwadda -- Commentary / Andrew J. Hall -- Disease trends in women living in established market economies : evidence of cohort effects during the epidemiological transition / Diana Kuh, Isabel dos Santos Silva, and Elizabeth Barrett-Connor -- Commentary / David A. Leon -- The life course of Black women in South Africa in the 1990s : generation, age, and period in the decade of HIV and political liberation / Zena Stein, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, and Mervyn Susser -- Commentary / Yoav Ben-Shlomo and George Davey Smith -- A life course approach to women's health : linking the past, present, and future / Diana Kuh and Rebecca Hardy.
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| Abstract
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How far is the health of middle-aged and older women shaped by biological, social, and psychological processes that begin in pre-natal development, childhood, adolescence, or early adult life? In this book, a group of international experts critically review the latest scientific evidence.
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Epidemiology, Longitudinal studies.
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Health promotion.
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Lifestyles-- Health aspects, Longitudinal studies.
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Women-- Health and hygiene.
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Women-- Health risk assessment.
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Epidemiology.
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Health promotion.
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Lifestyles-- Health aspects.
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Women-- Health and hygiene.
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Women-- Health risk assessment.
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Women's Health.
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Gezondheid.
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Levensloop.
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Vrouwen.
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Attitude to Health.
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Life Style.
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Risk Assessment.
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| Dewey Classification
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613/.04244
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| LC Classification
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RA564.85.L54 2002
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WA 309L7219 2002
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44.10bcl
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| Added Entry
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Hardy, Rebecca.
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Kuh, Diana.
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