title: Intersystem Implications of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Advancing Health Promotion in the 21st Century.
abstract: The developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) theory and life course theory (LCT) are emerging fields of research that have significant implications for the public health and health promotion professions. Using a DOHaD/LCT perspective, social determinants of health (SDH) take on new critical meaning by which health promotion professionals can implement DOHaD/LCT guided interventions, including recommended policies. Through these interventions, public health could further address the sources of worldwide chronic disease epidemics and reduce such disease rates substantially if related policy, programs, and interdisciplinary and multi-sector collaboration are emphasized. Additional characteristics of the most effective interventions involve context-specific adaptation and societal structures that impact upstream, early life environments on a broad scale, influencing multiple locations and/or diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA. michael_barnes@byu.edu.
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Barnes
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA. tomlheaton@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Thomas L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Heaton
authors.affiliation: Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA. michael_goates@byu.edu.
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Goates
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA. justin.packer1@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Justin M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Packer
keywords: DOHaD; LCT; developmental origins of health and disease; health policy; health promotion; health systems; life course theory; public health; research translation; social determinants of health