A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions

1. Introduction
Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Stéphane Cullati, Amanda Sacker, David Blane

2. Trajectories and Transitions in Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
Laura D. Howe, Riz Firestone, Kate Tilling, Debbie A. Lawlor

3. Oral Health Over the Life Course
Anja Heilmann, Georgios Tsakos, Richard G. Watt

4. A Life Course Perspective on Body Size and Cardio-metabolic Health
William Johnson, Diana Kuh, Rebecca Hardy

5. Health Trajectories in People with Cystic Fibrosis in the UK: Exploring the Effect of Social Deprivation
David Taylor-Robinson, Peter Diggle, Rosalind Smyth, Margaret Whitehead

6. Moving Towards a Better Understanding of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Preventive Health Care Use: A Life Course Perspective
Sarah Missinne

7. Inter-Cohort Variation in the Consequences of U.S. Military Service for Men’s Mid- to Late-Life Body Mass Index Trajectories
Janet M. Wilmoth, Andrew S. London, Christine L. Himes

8. Linear Mixed-Effects and Latent Curve Models for Longitudinal Life Course Analyses
Paolo Ghisletta, Olivier Renaud, Nadège Jacot, Delphine Courvoisier

9. The Analysis of Individual Health Trajectories Across the Life Course: Latent Class Growth Models Versus Mixed Models
Trynke Hoekstra, Jos W. R. Twisk

10. Age, Period and Cohort Processes in Longitudinal and Life Course Analysis: A Multilevel Perspective
Andrew Bell, Kelvyn Jones

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Public Health, Sociology, general, Epidemiology