Life Course Dynamics after Preterm Birth. Protective Factors for Social and Educational Transitions, Health, and Prosperity

在欧洲，早产是造成不平等的一个日益重要的原因。在过去的几十年里，早产的发病率和存活率有所上升，而在教育、健康、生活质量、伴侣关系、就业机会和一生中的繁荣等方面的不良后果的比率仍然存在。该项目将调查哪些因素为早产儿的生命过程结果提供保护和提高复原力。它将考虑个人(如具体的教育技能)、微观系统(包括父母的社会经济地位、育儿质量和同伴关系)和宏观系统(包括各国教育制度、福利制度和收入不平等方面的差异)的保护性/复原力因素。通过研究生命周期到老年的所有阶段的过渡，该项目正在贯穿呼吁的主题。该合作小组由欧洲早产儿发育方面的领先研究人员组成，将根据特定早产儿队列和人口纵向和小组研究(来自芬兰、德国、瑞士和英国)和芬兰国家社会和健康登记机构的现有数据开展工作。这项合作研究汇集了总部设在英国、芬兰和德国的四个研究小组，涉及心理学、经济学和公共卫生学科，涵盖互补的优势。这一结果将为未来的干预设计提供信息，以促进早产儿生命周期所有阶段的健康、繁荣和福祉。已经与各利益攸关方团体建立了密切的交流与合作。

Preterm birth is an increasingly important cause of inequality in Europe. Incidence rates and survival after preterm birth have increased over the last decades while rates of adverse outcomes regarding education, health, quality of life, partnering, employment chances, and prosperity across the lifespan remain. This project will investigate what factors provide protection and increase resilience for preterm children's life course outcomes. It will consider protective/resiliency factors at the individual (such as specific educational skills), micro-system (including parental socio-economic status, quality of parenting, and peer relations) and macro-system level (including differences regarding the countries' educational systems, welfare systems, and income inequality). By studying transitions at all stages of the life cycle up to old age, the project is crosscutting the themes of the call. The collaborative group consists of leading researchers on preterm children's development in Europe and will work on existing data from specific preterm cohorts and population longitudinal and panel studies (from Finland, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK) and the National Social and Health registers from Finland. The collaborative study brings together four research groups based in the UK, Finland, and Germany across the disciplines of Psychology, Economics, and Public Health covering complementary strengths. The results will inform the future design of interventions to promote the health, prosperity, and wellbeing of those born preterm at all stages of their lifecycle. Close exchange and collaboration with various stakeholder groups has already been established.