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Stella Yu, ScD, MPH, Associate Editor

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In this issue, several authors present work on the life-course approach to health and disease. Also included herein are a number of studies about exposures in the perinatal period that have long-term effects on health.

Increasingly, the life-course approach is playing an important role in understanding population health and well-being. This perspective views health as the product of risk behaviors, protective factors, and environmental agents that we encounter throughout our entire lives and that have cumulative, additive, and even multiplicative impacts on specific outcomes. It thus provides a construct for interpreting how peoples’ experiences in their early years influence their . . . [Full Text]