title: [International scientific project: the investigation of pregnancy and childhood].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Sotrudnichaiushchii s VOZ Rossiiskii ELSPAC tsentr, Moskva-Iaroslavl'
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Ignat'eva
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D012426:Russia; D016387:Women's Health
vernacular_title: Mezhdunarodnyi nauchnyi proekt ERB/VOZ -- issledovanie beremennoski i detstva.