Child and Adolescent Health in a Life-Course Perspective

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue on Child and Adolescent Health in a Life-Course Perspective in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.

The relevance of a life-course perspective on health and disease has become widely accepted in research and has recently found its way into policy. The approach is supported by both sociological and biomedical theories and evidence. Common to both sociological and biomedical theories is the exposure to environmental factors at the time of conception, in utero or in early life. The environment encompasses sociocultural, economic, and political, as well as the physical environment people are exposed to. The potential of a life-course perspective to health and disease lies in the potential of early prevention and health promotion, underlining the high impact it can have for public health, as well as in an increased understanding of pathways to disease and of intra- and transgenerational factors of health, providing a basis for personalized as well as public health benefit.

This Special Issue is open to any research addressing a life-course perspective to child and adolescent public health, both from a sociological as well as biomedical point of view or a combination of both and other theoretical concepts supporting the life-course perspective.

The following key words are only a selection of possible topics.

Prof. Dr. Julia Dratva
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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