Fertility, family, and health in Nordic countries: A combined genetic-demographic-epidemiological perspective
Reproductive factors and other aspects of people’s family situation likely affect their health, through biological or social pathways, but there is much uncertainty about these effects, not least because the observed relationships may be confounded by genetic and other joint determinants of fertility/family behaviour and health that are hard to control. This project aims to add to the knowledge about these health effects of reproductive and family behavior by combining insights and experiences from genetics, demography and epidemiology. Such knowledge may be helpful to individuals making family decisions, and also serve as important underpinning for political discussions about how to meet the health care needs of a population with increasingly unstable intimate relationships, fewer children and siblings, and later entry into parenthood.
People:
Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen