Why family matters: an introduction

Abstract

Abstract Family characteristics and interactions can directly affect one's health and wellbeing across the life course. In addition to the importance of recruiting and collecting data on family members, including parents, grand-parents, and siblings, for understanding fully the determinants of health and well-being across the life course, family studies (for example, intergenerational, sibling, twin) can help assess causality and underlying mechanisms in life course epidemiology. In this introductory chapter a brief background to the importance of family based studies to life course epidemiology is provided, followed-by a summary of the structure of the book and its overall aims.

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