Health and Development Across the Lifespan

The research on health and development across the lifespan primarily focuses on four specific age groups. These divisions are small children, older children, adults and elderly. Life course health development (LCHD) is a framework that explains how the dynamic course of health and illness develops over an individual’s lifetime and how this knowledge can be used to guide new approaches to policy and research. It shows that the health of an individual is a result of multiple determinants such...