Examining life-course influences on chronic disease: the importance of birth cohort studies from low- and middle- income countries. An overview
Document title: Examining life-course influences on chronic disease: the importance of birth cohort studies from low- and middle- income countries. An overview
Journal: Brazilian journal of medical and biological research
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000351882
ISSN: 0100-879X
Authors: 1
2
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3
Institutions: 1University of Glasgow, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, Lanark. Reino Unido
2Instituto Materno Infantil Professor Fernando Figueira, Recife, Pernambuco. Brasil
3University of Bristol, Department of Social Medicine, Bristol, Avon. Reino Unido
Year:
Season: Sep
Volumen: 40
Number: 9
Pages: 1277-1286
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, descriptivo
English abstract The objectives of this overview are to describe the past and potential contributions of birth cohorts to understanding chronic disease aetiology; advance a justification for the maintenance of birth cohorts from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC); provide an audit of birth cohorts from LMIC; and, finally, offer possible future directions for this sphere of research. While the contribution of birth cohorts from affluent societies to understanding disease aetiology has been considerable, we describe several reasons to anticipate why the results from such studies might not be directly applied to LMIC. More than any other developing country, Brazil has a tradition of establishing, maintaining and exploiting birth cohort studies. The clear need for a broader geographical representation may be precipitated by a greater collaboration worldwide in the sharing of ideas, fieldwork experience, and cross-country cohort data comparisons in order to carry out the best science in the most efficient manner. This requires the involvement of a central overseeing body - such as the World Health Organization - that has the respect of all countries and the capacity to develop strategic plans for `global' life-course epidemiology while addressing such issues as data-sharing. For rapid progress to be made, however, there must be minimal bureaucratic entanglements
Disciplines: Medicina
Keyword: Salud pública,
Estudios de cohorte,
Enfermedades crónicas,
Epidemiología,
Países en desarrollo
Keyword: Medicine,
Public health,
Cohort studies,
Chronic diseases,
Epidemiology,
Developing countries
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