Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS
Volume 115, Issue -, Pages S3-S5Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7292(11)60003-9
Keywords
Development; Diabetes; Interventions; Life-course; Mismatch; Noncommunicable disease; Obesity
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- British Heart Foundation
- National Research Centre for Growth and Development (NZ)
- Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences
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The rising incidence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), especially in young adults, presents great humanitarian and economic challenges to high-resource and, increasingly, to low-resource countries. No longer considered to be diseases of affluence, NCDs are exacerbated by urbanization and changes in social and lifestyle factors such as diet and family size. New research emphasizes the importance of early life factors in establishing the risk of NCDs through inadequate responses to later challenges, such as an obesogenic environment. A new focus on interventions to promote a good start to life in at-risk populations necessitates revision of public health policy, with implications for the health, education, and empowerment of women and children in particular. (C) 2011 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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