A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
This open access book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, adulthood and later life. It provides findings that assess the role of biological and social transitions on health statu
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Claudine Burton-Jeangros Stéphane Cullati Amanda Sacker David Blane Editors
A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
Life Course Research and Social Policies Volume 4
Series editors Laura Bernardi Dario Spini Michel Oris
Life course research has been developing quickly these last decades for good reasons. Life course approaches focus on essential questions about individuals’ trajectories, longitudinal analyses, cross-fertilization across disciplines like lifespan psychology, developmental social psychology, sociology of the life course, social demography, socio-economics, social history. Life course is also at the crossroads of several fields of specialization like family and social relationships, migration, education, professional training and employment, and health. This Series invites academic scholars to present theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in the analysis of the life course, and to elaborate on possible implications for society and social policies applications.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10158
Claudine Burton-Jeangros • Stéphane Cullati Amanda Sacker • David Blane Editors
A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions
Editors Claudine Burton-Jeangros Swiss National Center of Competence for Research LIVES – Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland
Stéphane Cullati Swiss National Center of Competence for Research LIVES – Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland
Amanda Sacker ESRC International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) University College London London, UK
David Blane ESRC International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) University College London London, UK
ISSN 2211-7776 ISSN 2211-7784 (electronic) Life Course Research and Social Policies ISBN 978-3-319-20483-3 ISBN 978-3-319-20484-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20484-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015946304 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015. The book is published with open access at SpringerLink.com. Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. All commercial rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, eve
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