reviewMilbank QuarterlySep 1, 2002BRONZE OA

Life Course Health Development: An Integrated Framework for Developing Health, Policy, and Research

NHNeal HalfonMHMiles Hochstein

University of California, Los Angeles · Center For Policy Research

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Abstract

T his article describes the L ife C ourse H ealth Development (LCHD) framework, which was created to explain how health trajectories develop over an individual's lifetime and how this knowledge can guide new approaches to policy and research. Using recent research from the fields of public health, medicine, human development, and social sciences, the LCHD framework shows that Health is a consequence of multiple determinants operating in nested genetic, biological, behavioral, social, and economic contexts that change as a person develops. Health development is an adaptive process composed of multiple transactions between these contexts and the biobehavioral regulatory systems that define human functions.…

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  • Life course approach
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  • Health care
  • Health policy
  • Conceptual framework
  • Psychology
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  • Sociology
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Partnerships for the goals
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