A Dynamic Life-course Approach to Genocide

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
Hollie Nyseth Brehm ◽  
Christopher Uggen ◽  
Suzy McElrath
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Life Course Criminology ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
The Life Course

We argue in this article that the study of genocide would benefit from the application and use of theoretical tools that criminologists have long had at their disposal, specifically, conception and theorization surrounding the life course. Using the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi as a case study, we detail how the building blocks of life-course criminology can be effectively used in analyses of (1) risk factors for the onset of genocide, (2) trajectories and duration of genocidal violence, and (3) desistance from genocidal crime and transitions after genocide. We conclude by highlighting the conceptual gains for research on genocide and political conflict by briefly discussing the analytic implications for future genocide research.

A life course approach for understanding later life sustainability

2017 ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Holly Syddall ◽  
Avan Aihie Sayer
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Grip Strength ◽  
Optimal Strategies ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Considerable Evidence ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
The Life Course

This chapter describes a life course approach for understanding later life sustainability, focusing on grip strength as a marker of physical sustainability, and explaining how a life course approach recognizes that muscle strength in later life reflects not only rate of loss in later life, but also the peak attained earlier in life. We present evidence that risk factors operating throughout the life course have an impact on physical sustainability in later life with particular consideration of the effects of body size, socioeconomic position, physical activity, diet, and smoking. We have shown that low birth weight is associated with weaker grip strength across the life course and that there is considerable evidence for developmental influences on ageing skeletal muscle. Finally, a life course approach suggests opportunities for early intervention to promote later life physical sustainability; but optimal strategies and timings for intervention are yet to be identified.

The Life Course

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Moore
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Age Identity ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
Life Phase ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
Life Courses ◽  
The Life Course

Age is more than just a fundamental part of an individual’s personal identity; it is one of the basic building blocks upon which societies are organized. A life-course approach allows us to investigate how age was utilized as an organizational category by identifying the key age stages that were considered socially important and when transitional points were reached that represent a new life phase. This chapter addresses how age identity, as represented in the burial record, can be identified in Roman Britain; it discusses how the evidence for the four visible age stages can be understood and explores the multiplicity of life courses that existed within different regional contexts of the province.

scholarly journals Psoriasis – The Life Course Approach

2014 ◽  
pp. 0 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Linder ◽  
S Piaserico ◽  
M Augustin ◽  
A Fortina ◽  
A Cohen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
The Life Course

The life-course approach to vaccination: Harnessing the benefits of vaccination throughout life

Vaccine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (44) ◽  
pp. 6581-6583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody Tate ◽  
Teresa Aguado ◽  
Jan De Belie ◽  
Daphne Holt ◽  
Emilie Karafillakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
The Life Course

Life course approach to understanding inequalities in health in later life

2017 ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Bell ◽  
Michael Marmot
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Older Age ◽  
Cognitive Changes ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Inequalities In Health ◽  
Biological Ageing ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
The Life Course

A long and healthy life is universally valued. The starkest inequalities in later life are how many years of life remain at an older age such as 65 years, and how many years of life that remain free from disabilities that impede physical, cognitive, and social functioning to the extent that they limit the sense of valuing one’s life. In this chapter we apply the frame of social determinants of health, using the life course approach to understand inequalities in health in later life. Healthy ageing is patterned by degrees of social advantage. Biological ageing, as revealed by physical and cognitive changes, is slower in people in better socioeconomic circumstances. These inequalities in health in later life need to be understood in terms of current social, economic, environmental conditions of living, as well as previous experiences and living conditions across the life course that affect the biological processes of ageing.

scholarly journals Risk factors across the life course and dementia in a Brazilian population: results from the Sao Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH)

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 879-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Scazufca ◽  
P. R Menezes ◽  
R. Araya ◽  
V. D Di Rienzo ◽  
O. P Almeida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Brazilian Population ◽  
Health Study ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Life Course
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