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. 2021 Mar 17:372:m4784.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.m4784.

Optimising child and adolescent health and development through an integrated ecological life course approach

Mark Tomlinson  1   2 , Xanthe Hunt  1 , Bernadette Daelmans  3 , Nigel Rollins  3 , David Ross  3 , Frank Oberklaid  4
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Optimising child and adolescent health and development through an integrated ecological life course approach

Mark Tomlinson et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Fully realising the potential of children and adolescents will require an ecological life course approach, together with multisectoral, coordinated, integrated action for the provision of care and services for children and adolescents, argue Mark Tomlinson and colleagues

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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare. Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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Proximal and distal risk factors in a life course ecological approach (adapted from Lund et al6)
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