Department of Human Development, MVR Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401, USA.
Ann Behav Med. 2009 Dec;38 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S74-80. doi: 10.1007/s12160-009-9123-6.
The life course perspective (LCP) has emerged as a powerful organizing framework for the study of health, illness, and mortality. LCP represents a "whole life" analysis perspective which originated in the field of sociology.
Its concepts are increasingly applied to understanding the development of chronic disease over long periods of time in the human life span. A missing link, however, in the adaptation of the LCP to health research, is the insight the LCP may offer into understanding the societal, social network, and family contexts that frame stability and change in dietary behavior.
This paper reviews key concepts that comprise the LCP but primarily focuses on applications that have relevance to food decision making in social context. A case study of chronic work-family stress and perceived time scarcity as barriers to dietary improvement is included.
Illustrative findings are presented on dietary behavior in a diverse sample of lower-income working parents. This paper also offers ideas on increasing the contributions of the LCP to nutritional research.
生命历程视角（LCP）已成为研究健康、疾病和死亡率的强大组织框架。LCP 代表了一种“整个人生”的分析视角，起源于社会学领域。
其概念越来越多地被应用于理解人类寿命中慢性疾病的长期发展。然而，在将 LCP 应用于健康研究方面，存在一个缺失的环节，即 LCP 可能提供的关于理解框定饮食行为稳定性和变化的社会、社交网络和家庭背景的见解。
本文回顾了构成 LCP 的关键概念，但主要侧重于与社会背景下的食物决策相关的应用。包括慢性工作-家庭压力和感知时间稀缺作为改善饮食障碍的障碍的案例研究。
在一个多样化的低收入在职父母样本中，呈现了关于饮食行为的说明性发现。本文还就如何增加 LCP 对营养研究的贡献提出了一些想法。
