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Aims and Objectives

The Young Lives Public Health Group aims to provide the Young Lives project team with health advise as necessary and to contribute to health and development related research.

The Young Lives data affords inherent advantages for health research, namely:

✦its prospective cohort design which enables the establishment of temporal relationship between

various risk factors and health and the relationship between health and welfare;

✦the utilisation of both quantitative and qualitative information;

✦the breadth of the data;

✦the various levels of information collected from individual to country level; and,

✦the inclusion of children’s perspectives.

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Health Health Service Service

UtilisationUtilisation

Health Health Seeking Seeking

BehaviourBehaviour

Subjective Subjective HealthHealth

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MorbidityMorbidity

Predictors

✦child labour✦anthropometry✦access to water and sanitation✦caregiver’s education✦education✦household size✦economic status✦birth order✦gender✦social network✦amount of sleep✦vaccination status✦season/climate✦access to information

Morbidity

✦long term illness✦serious injuries✦serious illness✦other illnesses (qualitative research)

Outcome

✦anthropometry✦cognitive impairment✦effects on education✦effects on social networks✦ability to work✦subjective health✦economic status of household (costs for treatment, income)

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The Young Lives Public Health Group is composed of:

Proochista Ariana

Inka Batnett

Laura Camfield

Lucy Carpenter

Stavros Petrou

Emma Plugge

Premila Webster

Steven Allender



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Proochista ArianaProochista specializes in the interaction between processes of development and health. Within this framework, she uses the

capability approach to understand health and its multidimensional nature. She has a masters in International Health from Harvard

University and a doctorate in International Development from University of Oxford. Her doctoral research focused on indigenous

populations in Southern Mexico and she is currently working on research examining transitions and health in China. She has been a

researcher with OPHI since its beginning and involved in organizing the past three Human Development Training Courses in

conjunction with UNDP-HDRO.

Proochista ArianaInka BarnettInka Barnett

LauLaura CamfieldLucy CarpenterStavrous Petrou

Emma PluggeEmma PluggePPremila WebsterSteven AllendeSteven Allender

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Inka BatnettInka Barnett has an MSc in Public Health Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BSc in Nutritional

Sciences from the University of Bonn. Before joining Young Lives, she worked on HIV/AIDS and nutrition for the German

Development Service (DED) in South Africa. She has also held various positions as research assistant in health projects in Kenya,

Uganda, Benin, and Germany.



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Laura CamfieldLaura Camfield has a PhD and MA in Anthropology from University of London, and her research focuses on experiences of poverty,

resilience, and methodologies for exploring and measuring subjective well-being in developing countries. She was a research fellow

with the Wellbeing in Developing Countries Group from 2002-2007, and also coordinated their research in Thailand. Laura is one of

the Young Lives Child Research Coordinators based in Oxford, working closely on the theme of 'Risk, Protective Processes, and

Wellbeing' and has particular responsibility for coordinating research with the qualitative research teams in Ethiopia and Vietnam.

Selected publications

L. Camfield and D. Ruta (2007) '”Translation is Not Enough”: Using the Global Person Generated Index (GPGI) to assess Individual

Quality of Life in Bangladesh, Thailand, and Ethiopia’, Quality of Life Research 16(6): 1039-51

L. Camfield, K. Choudhury and J. Devine (2007) ‘Well-being, Happiness and Why Relationships Matter: Evidence from Bangladesh’,

Journal of Happiness Studies (online as DOI 10.1007/s10902-007-9062-5).

I. Gough, I, J.A. McGregor and L. Camfield (2007) ‘Introduction: Conceiving Well-being in Development Contexts’ in I. Gough and J.A.

McGregor (eds) Well-being in Developing Countries: New Approaches and Research Strategies, Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press

L. Camfield and J.A. McGregor (2005) ‘Resilience and Well-being in Developing Countries’ in M. Ungar (ed.) Handbook for Working

with Children and Youth: Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts, London: Sage Publications

L. Camfield (2004) ‘Measuring SWB in Developing Countries’ in W. Glatzer, S. Von Below and M. Stoffregen (eds) Challenges for the

Quality of Life in Contemporary Societies, Amsterdam: Kluwer



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Lucy CarpenterLucy Carpenter holds the permanent academic post of Reader in Statistical Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health,

University of Oxford where she has been employed since 1992. She is also a Fellow of Nuffield College which focuses on research in

the social sciences. Her research interests are encompassed by the specific public health arena of epidemiology and these primarily

involve observational studies of cancer and infectious diseases. She also has interests in methodological issues arising from

epidemiological research, including study design and analytical methods. One research topic on which she has published recently

concerns a common type of childhood cancer in Ugandan children, Burkitt lymphoma. This project looked at a range of risk factors

for this cancer, including two infections which are particularly widespread in this part of East Africa: Epstein Barr virus and malaria.

Between 1996 and 1999, Lucy was based at the MRC Programme on AIDS in Uganda and was involved in a range of different

projects studying risk factors for HIV. This included being actively involved in a community randomised intervention trial studying the

potential benefits of behaviour change and treatment for other sexually transmitted infections in reducing HIV transmission. Since

returned from Uganda to Oxford, she has also pursued research in an area which she had formerly been highly active: occupational

epidemiology. This involved an historical cohort study of cause-specific mortality and cancer morbidity in 18,000 military veterans

who were exposed to chemicals in human experiments carried out at Porton Down between 1941 and 1989.

Prior to coming to Oxford in 1992, Lucy worked for 7 years with the Epidemiological Monitoring Unit at the London School of Hygiene

and Tropical Medicine. During this period, her major research activities focussed on studying cancer in nuclear industry workers

particularly in relation to their exposure to ionising radiation. She also pursued doctoral research during this time and addressed the

methodological issue of health related selection effects in cohort studies of occupational groups such as these. Prior to working at the

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she spent 3 years based at Wellington Clinical School of Medicine and 3 years at

the Royal Free Hospital in London. The latter job involved her in her first epidemiological research projects, studying cancer risks in

association with type of water source. Her first degree was in economics and statistics from the University of Exeter. Her MSc and

PhD degrees are in epidemiology, both from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.



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Stavros PetrouStavros Petrou graduated in economics at University College London, after which he received an MPhil in economics and a PhD in

health economics from the University of St Andrews. The subject of his doctoral dissertation was the use of health status

measurement methods in economic evaluations of health care. Following completion of his PhD, he was employed as a research

fellow in health economics at the Academic Department of Public Health, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London. Stavros was

appointed as the core Health Economist at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, in March 1997 with

responsibility for designing, conducting and supervising research on questions relevant to health economics. This includes

descriptions of resource availability, accessibility and use in maternity and neonatal care; questions concerning the relative costs and

benefits of using perinatal health care resources in different ways; and investigation of different methods for economic evaluation

within the perinatal context. Stavros is also employed as a Senior Research Officer at the Health Economics Research Centre

(HERC), University of Oxford. Within HERC he has responsibility for all economic research broadly related to the fields of perinatal

and paediatric health care. He has recently been awarded a Medical Research Council Senior Non-Clinical Research Fellowship to

conduct a 5 year programme of methodological and applied research on economic aspects of perinatal and paediatric health care. He

has been conferred the title of Reader by the University of Oxford’s Distinctions Committee.



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Emma PluggeEmma Plugge trained as a medical doctor and after qualifying worked as a clinician in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has

practised as a public health doctor since 1996 and whilst working at the European headquarters of WHO in Copenhagen in 2001 she

worked on a project examining urban health and poverty and authored a number of working papers. She now focuses solely on

teaching and research. She has expertise in both qualitative and quantitative health research methods and is the course director for

the MSc in Global Health Science. Her areas of interest are gender, poverty and inequality in health. Her current work examines the

health of some of the most socially marginalised groups: asylum seekers, offenders and those at risk of offending (sex workers, the

homeless, those who use illegal drugs) in the UK and Russia.



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Premila WebsterDr. Premila Webster is a Consultant in Public Health and the Director of Education & Training in the department of Public Health at

Oxford University. Dr. Webster qualified as a doctor at CMC, Vellore, India. She spent a number of years working as a hospital doctor

and started a career in public health in 1991. She worked with the WHO Healthy Cities Project in Copenhagen and is the expert

advisor to the WHO Healthy Cities Project on City Health Profiles and Indicators. Dr Webster’s research interests include screening

and developing health profiles and indicators to provide the evidence base to determine health policy and to identify appropriate

interventions for improving health. She is presently involved in research on childhood obesity specifically in relation to South Asians

and is developing research collaborations with India to study the association between cardio-vascular disease risk factors and levels

of urbanisation and developing the evidence-base to inform the public health strategy to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.



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Steven AllenderSteve joined the British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group in July 2005. Before that he was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Department of Public Health, where he was responsible for the Occupational Health Services in Higher Education study, a UK wide study of occupational health service provision in UK universities. He has also worked on the epidemiological study of Porton Down Veterans and taught research methods, health promotion and discourse analysis on a number of courses.

Steve has been the lead researcher for the Coronary heart disease statistics project since 2005. Steve is also responsible for the www.heartstats.org website, the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of statistics on CVD in the UK. It aims to show variations and trends in CVD mortality, morbidity, treatment, rehabilitation, prevention and risk factors, and is updated on an on-going basis.



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The University of Oxford Department of Public Health has a distinguished record of research and in the last two Research Assessment Exercises in 1996 and 2001, it has received, as part of the University of Oxford's community-based clinical subjects submission, the highest possible rating of 5.

The Department has a number of renowned research groups and units providing a strong environment of multi-disciplinary research, which includes epidemiology of cancer and HIV, occupational epidemiology, epidemiology of diabetes and dyslipidaemias and health status and outcomes measurement. The Head of Department is Professor Harold Jaffe, a prominent specialist in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS. The Deputy Head of Department and Director of Graduate Studies is Professor Ray Fitzpatrick who has an international reputation in the field of health status and outcomes measurement.

In addition to its research activities, the Department is home to the MSc in Global Health Science. Students also come here to undertake research for DPhil and MSc degrees. Teaching is provided for undergraduates reading for Medicine and Public Health, doctors and specialists in training.

The Department’s research units include:

✦Health Economics Research Centre✦National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit✦Health Services Research Unit✦British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Group✦Oxford Centre for Ethics and Communication in Health Care✦Unit of Health Care Epidemiology



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Current Projects

The Young Lives Health Group is currently working on the following projects:

✦Urbanicity and chronic diseases✦Economic status and health outcomes✦Maternal education or education of other household members and child nutritional status in Peru and Vietnam✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh, India✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru



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✦Urbanicity and chronic diseasesIt has been established that living in an urban, compared to a rural, environments in developing countries infers an increased risk of chronic disease but little is known about the mechanisms underpinning these relationships. With colleagues Steve is developing a measure of urbanisation as an exposure for chronic disease risk which can be used to assess which elements of the environment are associated with the emergence of which chronic disease risk factors. In the case of the Young Lives study, led by Steven Allender, this will mean examining which conditions predicate the emergence of unhealthy weight status among the different Young Lives cohorts. This work compliments other ongoing studies in Sri Lanka, India and China.

✦Economic status and health outcomes✦Maternal education or education of other household members and child nutritional status in Peru and Vietnam✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh, India✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru



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✦Economic status and health outcomesblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

✦Urbanicity and chronic diseases✦Maternal education or education of other household members and child nutritional status in Peru and Vietnam✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh, India✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru



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✦Maternal education or education of other household members and child nutritional status in Peru and Vietnam

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

✦Urbanicity and chronic diseases✦Economic status and health outcomes✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh, India✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru



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✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh, India

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

✦Urbanicity and chronic diseases✦Economic status and health outcomes✦Maternal education or education of other household members and child nutritional status in Peru and Vietnam✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru



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✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative studyblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

✦Urbanicity and chronic diseases✦Economic status and health outcomes✦Maternal education or education of other household members and child nutritional status in Peru and Vietnam✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh, India✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Peru



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✦Food security and nutrition transitions in Perublah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

✦Urbanicity and chronic diseases✦Economic status and health outcomes✦Maternal education or education of other household members and child nutritional status in Peru and Vietnam✦The impact of reproductive and child health policies on maternal and child health in Andhra Pradesh, India✦Shocks and child health in DaNang, Vietnam: a qualitative and quantitative study



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