Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: A Challenge for Nurses

Doria K. Thiele; Cindy M. Anderson

doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2015.10.020

Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: A Challenge for Nurses

Doria K. Thiele, Cindy M. Anderson

School of Nursing

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Abstract

Prevention of disease is a cornerstone of nursing care. Through our endeavors in research, teaching, and clinical care, nurses consistently seek to change the trajectory of disease development. The theoretical framework known as the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) offers a new lens that shifts the current disease prevention paradigm upstream, encouraging intensified care of pregnant girls/women, neonates, and infants. This new focus parallels other emerging ecobiodevelopmental, life-course theories, which identify the long-term impact of early environments and stressors on the later risk of chronic adult diseases. Nurses have the potential to influence the health of multiple generations by incorporating DOHaD perspectives and interventions into their research and patient care.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	42-46
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of pediatric nursing
Volume	31
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2015.10.020
State	Published - Jan 1 2016

Keywords

ACEs
Developmental origins
Epigenetics
Fetal programming
Genetics
Obstetric nursing
Pediatric nursing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Pediatrics

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