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Population ageing research: a family of disciplines

To study life course trajectories and ageing, scientific expertise is needed beyond epidemiology. More specifically, appropriate models of life course require a theoretical micro-foundation, need to incorporate multi-level context conditions and the interplay between them. It also requires the appli...

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Autores principales: Stolk, Ronald P., Hutter, Inge, Wittek, Rafael P. M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19862631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-009-9398-8
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description To study life course trajectories and ageing, scientific expertise is needed beyond epidemiology. More specifically, appropriate models of life course require a theoretical micro-foundation, need to incorporate multi-level context conditions and the interplay between them. It also requires the application of additional social scientific research methods that go beyond the application of statistical methods based on the multi-stage life table. These research theories and methods are available in disciplines like sociology, cultural anthropology, psychology, demography and economics. To effectively study healthy ageing of populations the individual approach of epidemiology has to be extended with the macro-population and socio-cultural approach of (social) demography and the institutional and network approaches of sociology.
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spelling pubmed-27711352009-11-06 Population ageing research: a family of disciplines Stolk, Ronald P. Hutter, Inge Wittek, Rafael P. M. Eur J Epidemiol Commentary To study life course trajectories and ageing, scientific expertise is needed beyond epidemiology. More specifically, appropriate models of life course require a theoretical micro-foundation, need to incorporate multi-level context conditions and the interplay between them. It also requires the application of additional social scientific research methods that go beyond the application of statistical methods based on the multi-stage life table. These research theories and methods are available in disciplines like sociology, cultural anthropology, psychology, demography and economics. To effectively study healthy ageing of populations the individual approach of epidemiology has to be extended with the macro-population and socio-cultural approach of (social) demography and the institutional and network approaches of sociology. Springer Netherlands 2009-10-28 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2771135/ /pubmed/19862631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-009-9398-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2009 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771135/
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