of early health habits
School of Medicine researchers have received a four-year, $1.7 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to examine how early choices in work-life and health habits can have long-lasting health effects.
The overall aim of the study, "Work-life, Health Habits and Health: Longitudinal Analysis of Aging," is to examine the dynamic interplay of work-life, health habits and health outcomes throughout life. Researchers will build a life-cycle model using several longitudinal data sets from adolescence to late life. Among the data evaluated will be information on occupation, initiation of smoking and drinking, and obesity.
The study began in March and will continue through February 2010. Jody L. Sindelar, professor and health economist in the School of Medicine's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, serves as project research team leader, principal investigator and director.
"Everyone aspires to a long and healthy life, however policymakers and others do not know precisely how to guide populations toward successful aging," says Sindelar. "A better understanding of the complicated processes that affect health over the life cycle would aid in developing such guidance. Particularly useful would be a clearer understanding of key factors that can be influenced by public and private policy."
Sindelar says the study will focus on work-life and health habits as key determinants of health and examine how they interact with health over the life course.
"Since much of life is spent working, characteristics of work are potentially important risk factors and can be viewed in the same vein as health habits," she adds.
The study is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Aging.
Co-investigators on the study include Tracy Falba, William Gallo and Dr. Mark Cullen.
-- By Karen Peart
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