Handbook of Life Course Health Development

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Handbook of Life Course Health-Development Science.- SECTION I: EMERGING FRAMEWORKS.- Chapter 2. The Emerging Theoretical Framework of Life Course Health-Development.- SECTION II: LIFE STAGES.- Chapter 3. Preconception and Prenatal Factors and Metabolic Risk.- Chapter 4. Early Childhood and the Life Course: The State of the Science and Proposed Research Priorities.- Chapter 5. Middle Childhood: An Evolutionary-Developmental Synthesis.- Chapter 6. Adolescent Health: A Relational Developmental Systems Perspective.- Chapter 7. Emerging Adulthood as a Critical Stage in the Life Course.- Chapter 8. Pregnancy Characteristics and Women's Cardiovascular Health.- SECTION III: LIFE COURSE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF MAJOR HEALTH CONDITIONS AND ISSUES.- Chapter 9. Early in the Life Course: Time for Obesity Prevention.- Chapter 10. Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes: Prevention and Treatment through a Life Course Health-Development Framework.- Chapter 11. Life Course Health-Development in Autism Spectrum Disorders.- Chapter 12. Self-Regulation.- Chapter 13. A Life Course Health-Development Perspective on Oral Health.- Chapter 14. Life Course Health-Development Outcomes after Prematurity: Developing a Community, Clinical, and Translational Research Agenda to Optimize Health, Behavior and Functioning.- Chapter 15. A Life Course Approach to Hearing Health.- Chapter 16. Chronic Kidney Disease: A Life Course Health-Development Perspective.- SECTION IV: CROSS-CUTTING TOPICS IN LIFE COURSE HEALTH-DEVELOPMENT.- Chapter 17. Growth and Life Course Health-Development.- Chapter 18. From Epidemiology to Epigenetics: Evidence for the Importance of Nutrition to Optimal Health-Development across the Life Course.- Chapter 19. How Socioeconomic Disadvantages Get Under the Skin and Into the Brain to Influence Health-Development across the Lifespan.- Chapter 20. Health Disparities: A Life Course Health-Development Perspective and Future Research Directions.- SECTION V:

Neal Halfon, M.D., M.P.H., is the director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities. He is also a professor of pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, of health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and of public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Dr. Halfon's research has spanned clinical, health services, epidemiologic and health policy domains. For more than a decade, he has worked with national, state and local initiatives aimed at improving early childhood systems. Dr. Halfon has also played a significant role in developing new conceptual frameworks for the study of health and health care, including the Life Course Health Development (LCHD) framework. In 2006Halfon received the Academic Pediatric Associations Annual Research Award for his life time contributions to child health research. He received his M.D. at the University of California, Davis, and M.P.H. at University of California, Berkeley. He completed his pediatric residency at UC San Diego and UC San Francisco. Dr. Halfon was also Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UC San Francisco.

Christopher Forrest, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Management at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Director of the CHOP Center for Applied Clinical Research, which uses life course health development science to adva^5 million children) that conducts patient-centered outcomes research among children and youth. He is the Chair of the Research Committee for PCORnet, the national clinical research network funded by PCORI. He also chairs the Steering Committee for the NIH program called PEPR, which is conducting longitudinal studies on person-reported outcome measures in children with chronic conditions. Dr. Forrest received his BA and MD degrees from Boston University and completed his PhD in Health Policy and Management