Pre-emptive Medicine: Public Health Aspects of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Explores epigenetic processes caused by environmental factors and developmental plasticity

Introduces readers to the latest concepts and findings on public health aspects of DOHaD research regarding early prevention of NCDs

Provides recommendations, practical methods and protocols, and future goals concerning public health aspects, as well as brief profiles of individual cohorts and consortia

Autorentext
Editors;
Fumihiro SataChuo University Health Center, Tokyo, Japan

Hideoki FukuokaWaseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Mark Hanson
Academic Unit of Human Development and Health, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom

Inhalt
Part 1 General Remarks.- 1 Maternal exposure to environmental chemicals and health outcomes later in life.- 2 DOHaD cohort studies and public health implications in Japan.- 3 DOHaD interventions: Opportunities during adolescence and the periconceptional period.- 4 Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) Cohorts and Interventions: Status and Perspective.- 5 Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: Proposal of Preemptive/Precision Medicine Strategy (including DOHaD Part 2 Public Health Aspect in Each Cohort or Consortium.- 6 The Origins Project.- 7 Growing Up in New Zealand a pre-birth cohort study of child wellbeing and development.- 8 Public Health Aspect of the Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) mother-offspring cohort.- 9 Hokkaido Study on Environment and Children's Health.- 10 Chiba study of Mother and Children's Health (C-MACH).- 11 Hamamatsu Birth Cohort for Mothers and Children (HBC Study).- 12 Birth Cohort Consortium of Asia (BiCCA): CurrentChildren's Environmental Health Issues in Asia and Future Perspectives.