Ignat'eva P K
Sotrudnichaiushchii s VOZ Rossiiskii ELSPAC tsentr, Moskva-Iaroslavl'
Probl Sotsialnoi Gig Istor Med. 1994 Jul-Aug(4):12-20.
ELSPAC, European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood, is the first prospective geographically based series of population studies which was designed to start during pregnancy and to follow up the cohort of births till the age of 7 years. This study was initiated at the WHO(EURO) meeting in 1985 in Moscow. Various centers in Europe contributed to it in the Czeck Republic, Greece, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, Ukraine. The coordination office of ELSPAC is the Division of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology at the Institute of Child Health at the University of Bristol, UK. Extensive piloting and validating of measures enabled the study to go into the field in selected areas at the end of 1990--beginning of 1991. The strength of this survey relies on the fact that different correlations in different countries may be useful in ascertaining casual relationships and the major thrust of research is to assess the impact of psychosocial factors on child health and development.
欧洲孕期与儿童纵向研究（ELSPAC）是首个基于地理位置的前瞻性系列人群研究，旨在从孕期开始，对出生队列进行随访直至7岁。这项研究于1985年在莫斯科召开的世界卫生组织（欧洲区）会议上启动。欧洲的各个中心参与其中，包括捷克共和国、希腊、俄罗斯、斯洛伐克、西班牙、英国、乌克兰。ELSPAC的协调办公室是英国布里斯托尔大学儿童健康研究所的儿科与围产期流行病学部。对测量方法进行了广泛的试点和验证，使得该研究于1990年底至1991年初在选定地区开展。这项调查的优势在于，不同国家的不同相关性可能有助于确定因果关系，并且研究的主要重点是评估社会心理因素对儿童健康与发育的影响。
