A Critical Realist Translational Social Epidemiology Protocol for Concretising and Contextualising a Theory of Neighbourhood Context Stress Depression and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) Sydney Australia

摘要

Background:We will describe here a translational social epidemiology protocol for confirming a critical realist “Theory of Neighbourhood Context, Stress, Depression, and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD). The approach will include the concretising and contextualising of the above causal theory into programme theories for child and adolescent interventions that aim to break intergenerational cycles of disadvantage and poor life outcomes. In undertaking this work we seek to advance realist translational methodology within the discipline of applied perinatal and paediatric social epidemiology.