Adult health & human capital : impact of birth weight and childhood growth /

Chronicles the five-decade journey of the New Delhi Birth Cohort, founded in an era when the nature and sustainability of such investigation was considered unthinkable.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bhargava, Santosh K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2017.
Temas:
Medical geography.
Birth weight.
Topography, Medical
Birth Weight
Géographie médicale.
Poids de naissance.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Marketing page
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • PART 1 Background ofthe Study
  • 1 Genesis
  • 2 Launching of the Stu
  • 3 Demography
  • PART 2 The Cohort
  • 1 Pregnancy
  • 2 Birth and Outcome of Cohort
  • 3 Low Birth Weight
  • 4 Child Survival, Health, and Disease
  • PART 3 Growth, Cognitive Development, and Nutrition
  • 1 Growth
  • 2 Cognitive Development
  • 3 NutritionPART 4 Transition to Adult Phase
  • 1 Assembling the Cohort
  • 2 The Beginning of the Adult Period
  • 3 Re-establishing the New Delhi Birth Cohort
  • 4 Environments, Social and Cultural Changes
  • PART 5 Childhood Growth, Adult Health, and Human Capital
  • 1 Body Growth, Adult Health, and Disease
  • 2 Size at Birth, BMI, Body Composition, and Chronic Adult Diseases
  • 3 Body Growth and Human Capital Development
  • 4 Parental Influences on Adult Health
  • 5 Body Growth, Genetic Studies, and Adult Health Outcome
  • PART 6 Intergenerational and Trans-generational Studies1 The Intergenerational Change in F1 and F2 Generation
  • 2 The Third Generation
  • PART 7 Community Expectation and Challenges
  • 1 Attrition or Loss to Follow-Up
  • 2 Cohort Participation
  • PART 8 Implicationsand Impact
  • 1 Public Health and Policies
  • 2 The NDBC Research
  • 3 Childhood Growth, Adult Health, and Human Capital
  • 4 Intergeneration and Trans-generational Changes
  • 5 Challenges to Community Participation
  • PART 9 Summation
  • Introduction
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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