The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on March 8, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(3):230; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl030
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The life course perspective: a challenge for public health research and prevention
Merete Osler** Institute of Public Health/Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Correspondence: Merete Osler, Professor, Institute of Public Health/Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark, JB Winsøwsvej 9B, 5000 Odense C, Denmark, e-mail: Mosler@health.sdu.dk
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Recently, there has been a growing awareness in public health research of the long-term impact on health of various events and exposures earlier in life. Last year this journal introduced a section with several papers applying such a life course perspective, which illustrated the contributions that this perspective is already making to the field of