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Environmental Health And Pregnancy
Author(s) -
Krulewitch Cara J.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
the journal of midwifery and womens health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.543
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1542-2011
pISSN - 1526-9523
DOI - 10.1016/s1526-9523(01)00202-1
Subject(s) - life span , pregnancy , life course approach , developmental psychology , fetus , psychology , gerontology , medicine , biology , genetics
Above all, we need to look at the entire life span. We can no longer divide life into segments such as fetal, neonatal, childhood adolescence, adulthood, and senescence. Rather, it is a dynamic continuum with the status at any one time being influenced by all that went before and, in turn, having an effect on all that follows (1).