van den Berg B J, Christianson R E, Oechsli F W
Child Health and Development Studies, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 1988 Jul;2(3):265-82. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1988.tb00218.x.
The Child Health and Development Studies are prospective longitudinal studies on medical and social aspects of pregnancies and on the health and development of children. Data have been assembled on about 20,000 pregnancies occurring in one hospital between 1959 and 1967, and on follow-up of the children through adolescence. A currently ongoing project updates certain vital statistics of the entire study population. The data assembled in this longitudinal study supported a wide range of research projects, several of which proved to be important for the health of mothers and children. Notwithstanding, subsets of the assembled data, with potential value for public health, have not yet been explored. The data archive has been made accessible to the research community at large so that other significant research topics can be investigated. In the following article, brief descriptions are given of the history and design of the Child Health and Development Studies, of the contents of the data archive, and of the major areas of research that have been explored. Procedures to obtain access to the data and to the user's manual are explained, and a bibliography is included.
儿童健康与发展研究是关于妊娠的医学和社会方面以及儿童健康与发展的前瞻性纵向研究。已收集了1959年至1967年期间在一家医院发生的约20000例妊娠的数据，以及对儿童直至青春期的随访数据。一个正在进行的项目更新了整个研究人群的某些重要统计数据。这项纵向研究收集的数据支持了广泛的研究项目，其中一些项目被证明对母亲和儿童的健康很重要。尽管如此，已收集数据中具有公共卫生潜在价值的子集尚未得到探索。数据档案已向广大研究界开放，以便能够研究其他重要的研究课题。在下面的文章中，简要介绍了儿童健康与发展研究的历史和设计、数据档案的内容以及已探索的主要研究领域。解释了获取数据和用户手册的程序，并附有一份参考书目。
