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Pages 184-189

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From page 184...
... HIGH-PRIORITY HUMAN AND ANIMAL POPULATIONS It is essential to develop a mechanism for sustained core support of human and animal study populations, data bases, and laboratory animal colonies that can be used to study the integrated biopsychosocial pathways to diverse outcomes of both positive and negative valence. The relevant human populations are of two interrelated kinds: (1)
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From page 185...
... A variety of possibilities need to be considered in 2The data are available electronically National Longitudinal survey http /Istats.bls.govl nlshome.htm; Panel Study of Income Dynamics http //www.isr.umich.edu/src/psid/; Health and Retirement survey http //www.umich.edu/~hrswww/; National survey of Families and Households http //www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/home.htm; survey of Income and Program Participation http //www.sipp.census.gov/sipp/. 3The data are available electronically Framingham Study http //www.framingham.com/ heart/; National Health Interview survey http//csa.berkeley.edu 7502/cgi.binl2/hsda?
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From page 186...
... Additional people from such settings might also be enrolled in subsequent waves of the larger study. Shifting to the United States, multiple satellite studies of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States4 might serve as core populations for future biobehavioral research initiatives.
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From page 187...
... This provides a major avenue to integrate social and behavioral sciences with biology and clinical medicine, thereby fostering symbiotic relationships and greatly enriched research programs between GCRCs and the social sciences. COMMUNITIES AND INTERVENTIONS Health promotion and primary disease prevention intervention programs are frequently centered around communities.
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From page 188...
... Both incentive structures and an institutional presence will greatly facilitate such collaborative strides. As a first step the committee recommends that NIH create an internal mechanism for developing consensus on the most promising research opportunities within and across the thematic priorities, as well as a locus for strategic planning for future trans-institute initiatives.
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From page 189...
... 1997 "Childhood influences on adult health: A review of recent work from the British 1946 national birth cohort study, the MRC National Survey of Health and Development" Pediatric Perinatal Epidemiology 11:2-20.
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Key Terms

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  • national longitudinal
  • birth cohorts

  • biopsychosocial pathways
  • study populations
  • thematic priorities
  • ambulatory blood
  • birth cohort

  • blood pressure
  • health interview
  • nutrition examination
  • allostatic load
  • integrative studies

  • community studies
  • integrated biopsychosocial
  • angeles family
  • county study
  • integrative research

  • longitudinal study
  • multiple levels
  • animal colonies
  • british birth
  • laboratory animal

  • intervention programs
  • neighborhood study
  • biomedical sciences
  • midlife development
  • research initiatives


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