@article{discovery1571823,
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          volume = {10},
         journal = {Global Health Action},
       publisher = {TAYLOR \& FRANCIS LTD},
            year = {2017},
           title = {Understanding and acting on the developmental origins of health and disease in Africa would improve health across generations},
          number = {1},
           month = {July},
        keywords = {Science \& Technology, Life Sciences \& Biomedicine, Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health, Africa, developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), non-communicable disease, life course epidemiology, policy, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), WEIGHT-GAIN, EARLY-LIFE, COUNTRIES, INCOME},
             url = {http://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2017.1334985},
        abstract = {Data from many high- and low- or middle-income countries have linked exposures during key developmental periods (in particular pregnancy and infancy) to later health and disease. Africa faces substantial challenges with persisting infectious disease and now burgeoning non-communicable disease.This paper opens the debate to the value of strengthening the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) research focus in Africa to tackle critical public health challenges across the life-course. We argue that the application of DOHaD science in Africa to advance life-course prevention programmes can aid the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and assist in improving health across generations. To increase DOHaD research and its application in Africa, we need to mobilise multisectoral partners, utilise existing data and expertise on the continent, and foster a new generation of young African scientists engrossed in DOHaD.},
            issn = {1654-9880},
          author = {Norris, SA and Daar, A and Balasubramanian, D and Byass, P and Kimani-Murage, E and Macnab, A and Pauw, C and Singhal, A and Yajnik, C and Akazili, J and Levitt, N and Maatoug, J and Mkhwanazi, N and Moore, SE and Nyirenda, M and Pulliam, JRC and Rochat, T and Said-Mohamed, R and Seedat, S and Sobngwi, E and Tomlinson, M and Toska, E and van Schalkwyk, C}
}