Life Course Appr Health Ageing Lcaah: P P

by Marcus Richards, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Rebecca Hardy, et al.

Healthy aging has long been a neglected area of epidemiological research as the traditional focus has been on specific chronic diseases of older life. There is a growing consensus from scientists, research funders and policy makers that ageing itself needs to be studied from an interdisciplinary and life course perspective, to inform strategies for reducing the societal and individual costs of an aging population.

A Life Course Approach to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199656517
• ISBN13: 9780199656516
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"