A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions

by Claudine Burton-Jeangros (Editor)

Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Stéphane Cullati, Amanda Sacker and David Blane.- Trajectories and transitions in childhood and adolescent obesity : Laura Howe, Riz Firestone, Kate Tilling and Debbie Lawlor.- Oral health over the life Anja Heilmann, Georgios Tsakos and Richard Watt.- A life course perspective on body size and cardio-metabolic William Johnson, Diana Kuh and Rebecca Hardy.- Health trajectories in people with cystic fibrosis in the exploring the effect of social David Taylor-Robinson, Peter Diggle, Rosalind Smith and Margaret Whitehead.- Moving towards a better understanding of socioeconomic inequalities in preventive health care a life course Sarah Missine.- In Inter-Cohort Variation in the Consequences of U.S. Military Service on Men's Body Mass Index Trajectories in Mid- to Janet Wilmoth, Andrew London and Christine Himes.- Linear mixed-effects and latent curve models for longitudinal life course Paolo Ghisletta, Olivier Renaud, Nadège Jacot and Delphine Courvoisier.- The analysis of individual health trajectories across the life Latent class growth models versus mixed Trynke Hoekstra and Jos Twisk.- Age, period and cohort processes in longitudinal and life course a multilevel Andrew Bell and Kelvyn Jones.

220 pages, Paperback

First published September 14, 2015

Reviews

[Echo Duan · Rating 5 out of 5]

highly recommend. This book briefly discussed the five principles of life course theory, and the empirical examples on how to conduct research which adopted life course approach. In the end of the book, she introduced several longitudinal statistical methods aiming to address the life-course concerns: linear mixed effect model, latent growth curve model, APC model and etc, which helps me to link what I learned from stats class into real-life research. However, the math in the book is not that elaborated--if you are interested in the math behind the statistical approach, you might need to look into other stats books...