| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Marketing page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 Background ofthe Study -- 1 Genesis -- 2 Launching of the Stu -- 3 Demography -- PART 2 The Cohort -- 1 Pregnancy -- 2 Birth and Outcome of Cohort -- 3 Low Birth Weight -- 4 Child Survival, Health, and Disease -- PART 3 Growth, Cognitive Development, and Nutrition -- 1 Growth -- 2 Cognitive Development |
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3 NutritionPART 4 Transition to Adult Phase -- 1 Assembling the Cohort -- 2 The Beginning of the Adult Period -- 3 Re-establishing the New Delhi Birth Cohort -- 4 Environments, Social and Cultural Changes -- PART 5 Childhood Growth, Adult Health, and Human Capital -- 1 Body Growth, Adult Health, and Disease -- 2 Size at Birth, BMI, Body Composition, and Chronic Adult Diseases -- 3 Body Growth and Human Capital Development -- 4 Parental Influences on Adult Health -- 5 Body Growth, Genetic Studies, and Adult Health Outcome |
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PART 6 Intergenerational and Trans-generational Studies1 The Intergenerational Change in F1 and F2 Generation -- 2 The Third Generation -- PART 7 Community Expectation and Challenges -- 1 Attrition or Loss to Follow-Up -- 2 Cohort Participation -- PART 8 Implicationsand Impact -- 1 Public Health and Policies -- 2 The NDBC Research -- 3 Childhood Growth, Adult Health, and Human Capital -- 4 Intergeneration and Trans-generational Changes -- 5 Challenges to Community Participation -- PART 9 Summation -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Chronicles the five-decade journey of the New Delhi Birth Cohort, founded in an era when the nature and sustainability of such investigation was considered unthinkable |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical geography.
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Birth weight.
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Topography, Medical
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Birth Weight
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Birth weight
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Medical geography
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9386446863 |
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9789386446862 |
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