Human Early Learning Partnership, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Annu Rev Public Health. 2013;34:1-5. doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031912-114500. Epub 2013 Jan 4.
A new science of human development is emerging, which has the capacity to transform the way we understand the origins of health and disease; to increase the public health significance of early child development; and to call into question how and when society should act on a range of health problems. It builds on the multidisciplinary evidence that social environments and experiences during sensitive periods in brain and biological development affect health for the balance of the life course through a process called biological embedding. Despite the fact that biological embedding has established credibility in the scientific literature, the transformative power of the new science has yet to be fully realized in policy and practice. To further this transformation, this symposium offers a public health perspective on biological embedding.
一个新的人类发展科学正在出现，它有能力改变我们对健康和疾病起源的理解方式；提高儿童早期发展对公共卫生的重要性；并质疑社会应该如何以及何时对一系列健康问题采取行动。它建立在多学科证据的基础上，即社会环境和大脑及生物发育敏感时期的经验通过一个称为生物嵌入的过程影响生命历程中的健康。尽管生物嵌入在科学文献中已经建立了可信度，但这一新科学的变革力量尚未在政策和实践中得到充分体现。为了进一步推动这一转变，本次专题讨论会从公共卫生的角度探讨了生物嵌入。
