| Session |
Topic |
Readings |
| 1 |
The Life Course, Human Development, and Health; Contexts, Causation, and Conceptualization |
Anderson,
N.
B.
(1998).
Levels
of
Analysis
in
Health
Science:
A
Framework
for
Integrating
Sociobehavioral
and
Biomedical
Research.
Annals
of
the
New
York
Academy
of
Sciences,
840(1),
563-576.
Ben-Shlomo,
Y.
&
Kuh,
D.
(2002).
A
Life
Course
Approach
to
Chronic
Disease
Epidemiology:
Conceptual
Models,
Empirical
Challenges
and
Interdisciplinary
Perspectives.
International
Journal
of
Epidemiology,
31,
285-293.
Elder,
G.
H.,
Johnson,
M.
K.,
&
Crosnoe,
R.
(2003).
The
Emergence
and
Development
of
Life
Course
Theory.
In
J.
T.
Mortimer
&
M.
J.
Shanahan
(Eds.),
Handbook
of
the
Life
Course
(pp.
3-19).
New
York:
Kluwer
Academic/Plenum
Publishers.
|
| 2 |
Cross
Cutting
Themes,
Methodology
and
the
Life
Course
Perspective
in
Public
Health |
Halfon,
N.
&
Hochstein,
M.
(2002).
Life
Course
Health
Development:
An
Integrated
Framework
for
Developing
Health,
Policy,
and
Research.
Milbank
Q,
80(3),
433-479.
Wise,
P.
H.
(2003).
Framework
as
metaphor:
the
promise
and
peril
of
MCH
life-course
perspectives.
Maternal
and
Child
Health
Journal,
7(3),
151-156.
|
| 3 |
Multilevel
and
Life
Course
Approaches
to
Obesity |
Bordage,
G.
(2009).
Conceptual
Frameworks
to
Illuminate
and
Magnify.
Medical
Education,
43(4),
312-319.
Earp,
J.
A.
&
Ennett,
S.
T.
(1991).
Conceptual
Models
for
Health
Education
Research
and
Practice.
Health
Education
Research,
6(2),
163-171.
Harris,
K.
M.
(2010).
An
Integrative
Approach
to
Health.
Demography,
47(1),
1-22.
|
| 4 |
Fetal Health and Development |
Required
Armstrong,
V.
L.,
Brunet,
P.
M.,
He,
C.,
Nishimura,
H.,
&
Spector,
F.
J.
(2006).
What
Is
so
Critical?
A
Commentary
on
the
Reexamination
of
Critical
Periods.
Developmental
Psychobiology,
326-331.
Discussion
332-6.
Hertzman,
C.,
&
Boyce, T.
(2010).
How
Experience
Gets
Under
the
Skin
to
Create
Gradients
in
Developmental
Health.
Annual
Review
of
Public
Health,
31,
329-347.
Recommended
Haas,
J.
S.,
Fuentes-Afflick,
E.,
Stewart,
A.
L.,
Jackson,
R.
A.,
Dean,
M.
L.,
Brawarsky,
P.,
et
al.
(2005).
Prepregnancy
Health
Status
and
the
Risk
of
Preterm
Delivery.
Archives
of
Pediatric
and
Adolescent
Medicine,
159,
58-63.
Snyder,
U.
(2004).
Preterm
Birth
as
a
Social
Disease.
Medscape
Ob/Gyn
&
Women's
Health,
9(2).
Epub
2004
6
July.
|
| 5 |
Early Childhood: Survival, Growth, and Development |
Required
Bronfenbrenner,
U.
&
Morris,
P.
A.
(1998).
The
Ecology
of
Developmental
Processes.
In
W.
Damon
&
R.
M.
Lerner
(Eds.),
Handbook
of
Child
Psychology:
Volume
1:
Theoretical
Models
of
Human
Development
(5th
Ed.).
(pp.
993-1028).
Hoboken
NJ:
John
Wiley
&
Sons
Inc.
Rutter,
M.,
O'Connor,
T.
G.,
&
English
and
Romanian
Adoptees
(ERA)
Study
Team
(2004).
Are
There
Biological
Programming
Effects
for
Psychological
Development?
Findings
from
a
Study
of
Romanian
Adoptees.
Developmental
Psychology,
40(1),
81-94.
Recommended
Shonkoff,
J.
P.,
Boyce,
W.
T.,
&
McEwen,
B.
S.
(2009).
Neuroscience,
Molecular
Biology,
and
the
Childhood
Roots
of
Health
Disparities:
Building
a
New
Framework
for
Health
Promotion
and
Disease
Prevention.
JAMA,
301(21),
2252-2259.
Tough,
P.
The
Poverty
Clinic,
The
New
Yorker,
March
21,
2011,
pgs
25-32.
|
| 6 |
Health and Development of School Age Children |
Required
Werner, E. (1995). Resilience in Development. Current Directions in
Psychological Science, Vol:81-85.
Wright, M. & Masten, A. (2005). Resilience Processes in Development:
Fostering Positive Adaptation in the Context of Adversity. In: Handbook of
Resilience in Children (pp. 17-37). New York, NY. Kluwer Academic/Penguin
Publishers.
Recommended
Graber, J. A. & Brooks-Gunn, J. (1996). Transitions and Turning Points:
Navigating the Passage from Childhood through Adolescence. Developmental
Psychology, 32(4), 768-776.
|
| 7 |
Adolescent Development |
Required
Johnson, M. K., Crosnoe, R., & Elder, G. H. (2011). Insights on Adolescence
from a Life Course Perspective. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21, 273-280.
Marmot, M. Social Determinants and Adolescent Health. Int J Public
Health 2009;S125-127
|
| 8 |
Health in Adulthood |
Required
Gouin, J. P., Carter, C. S., Pournajafi-Nazarloo, H., Glaser, R., Malarkey, W. B.,
Loving, T. J., et al. (2010). Marital Behavior, Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and
Wound Healing. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 35(7), 1082-1090.
Jackson, J. S., Knight, K. M., & Rafferty, J. A. (2010). Race and Unhealthy
Behaviors: Chronic Stress, the HPA Axis, and Physical and Mental Health
Disparities over the Life Course. Am J Public Health, 100(5), 933-939.
Recommended
Marmot, M. G., Davey Smith, G., Stansfeld, S. A., Patel, C., North, F., & Head,
J. (1991). Health Inequalities among British Civil Servants: The Whitehall II
Study. Lancet, 337, 1387-1393.
|
| 9 |
Health and Functioning in Later Life |
Required
Fried, L. P., Tangen, C. M., Walston, J., Newman, A. B., Hirsch, C., Gottdiener,
J., et al. (2001). Frailty in older adults: evidence for a phenotype. Journals of
Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 56(3), M146-M156.
Vaupel, J. W. (2009). Lively Questions for Demographers About Death at
9
Older Ages. Population and Development Review, 35(2), 347-356.
Recommended
Executive Summary and Summary Tables from United Nations. (2009). World
Population Ageing 2009. New York: United Nations.
|
| 1 |
Low Birth Weight |
Jasienska,
G.
(2009).
Low
Birth
Weight
of
Contemporary
African
Americans:
An
Intergenerational
Effect
of
Slavery?
American
Journal
of
Human
Biology,
21(1),
16-24.
Lu,
M.
C.,
&
Halfon,
N.
(2003).
Racial
and
Ethnic
Disparities
in
Birth
Outcomes:
A
Life
Course
Perspective.
Maternal
&
Child
Health
Journal,
7(1),
13-30.
|
| 2 |
Early
Language
Development:
Determining
the
Future |
Durham,
R.
E.,
Farkas
G,
Scheffner
Hammer
C.,
Tomblin
J.
B.,
&
Catts,
H.
W.
J.
(2007).
Kindergarten
Oral
Language
Skill:
A
Key
Variable
in
the
Intergenerational
Transmission
of
Socioeconomic
Status.
Research
in
Social
Stratification
and
Mobility,
24(4):
294-305. |
| 3 |
The Weathering Hypothesis |
Geronimus, A. T. (2003 ). Damned If You Do: Culture, Identity, Privilege, and
Teenage Childbearing in the United States. Social Science & Medicine 57, 881-893.
Geronimus, A. T. (2004). Teenage Childbearing as Cultural Prism. British
Medical Bulletin, 69, 155-166.
|
| 4 |
Allostatic Load |
Required
McEwen, B. S. (1998). Protective and Damaging Effects of Stress Mediators.
New England Journal of Medicine, 338(3), 171-179.
Chyu, L., & Upchurch, D. M. (2011). Racial and ethnic patterns of allostatic
load among adult women in the United States: findings from the National
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2004. J Womens Health, 20(4),
575-583.
Recommended
Steptoe, A., Hamer, M., Butcher, L., Lin, J., Brydon, L., Kivimaki, M., et al.
(2011). Educational attainment but not measures of current socioeconomic
circumstances are associated with leukocyte telomere length in healthy older
men and women. Brain Behav Immun.
|
| 5 |
Dementia: Life Course Determinants and Late Interventions |
Required
Whalley, L. J., Dick, F. D., & McNeill, G. (2006). A Life-Course Approach to the
Aetiology of Late-Onset Dementias. Lancet Neurol, 5(1), 87-96.
Wilson, R. S., Bennett, D. A., Bienias, J. L., Aggarwal, N. T., Mendes De Leon, C.
F., Morris, M. C., et al. (2002). Cognitive Activity and Incident Ad in a
Population-Based Sample of Older Persons. Neurology, 59(12), 1910-1914.
Recommended
Lautenschlager NT, e. a. (2008). Effect of physical activity on cognition
function in older adults at risk for Alzheimer disease: a randomized trial.
JAMA , 300 (9), 1027-37.
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