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Bay JL, Vickers MH. Adolescent education: an opportunity to create a Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) circuit breaker. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2016;7(5):501-504doi: 10.1017/S204017441600026X.
Bay, J. L., & Vickers, M. H. (2016). Adolescent education: an opportunity to create a Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) circuit breaker. Journal of developmental origins of health and disease, 7(5), 501-504. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204017441600026X
Bay, J L, and Vickers, M H. "Adolescent education: an opportunity to create a Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) circuit breaker." Journal of developmental origins of health and disease vol. 7,5 (2016): 501-504. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S204017441600026X
Bay JL, Vickers MH. Adolescent education: an opportunity to create a Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) circuit breaker. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2016 Oct;7(5):501-504. doi: 10.1017/S204017441600026X. Epub 2016 Jul 07. PMID: 27383865.
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J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2016 Oct;7(5):501-504. doi: 10.1017/S204017441600026X. Epub 2016 Jul 07.

Adolescent education: an opportunity to create a Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) circuit breaker.

Journal of developmental origins of health and disease

J L Bay, M H Vickers

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  1. 1Liggins Institute,University of Auckland,Auckland,New Zealand.

PMID: 27383865 DOI: 10.1017/S204017441600026X

Abstract

Health before conception, and periconceptional nutritional environments, contribute to conditioning of later-life health and disease. Health behaviors developed during adolescence continue into adulthood. Thus, even when the gap between pregnancy and adolescence is substantial, behaviors developed during adolescence influence later-life non-communicable disease (NCD) vulnerability in offspring. Consequently, adolescence is an important life phase where development of positive health behaviors can contribute to disruption of transgenerational cycles of NCD risk. Schooling is a core activity during adolescence. Modern curricula focus on development of capabilities associated with critical, engaged citizenship, empowering learning that supports action-based engagement in complex issues. Contexts relevant to adolescents and their communities, such as the NCD epidemic, are used to facilitate learning. Thus, engaging the education sector as participants in the work of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease community offers an important strategy to capture the potential of adolescence as a life stage for transgenerational primary prevention of obesity and NCD risk.

Keywords: health literacy; knowledge translation; primary NCD prevention

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