Forty years on: professor Neville Butler and the British Birth Cohort studies.
This paper traces the major contribution made by Professor Neville Butler, over a period of 40 years, to the foundation and subsequent development of two of Britain's three national birth cohort studies: the National Child Development Study, which has monitored the lives of all those in Britain born in the week 3-9 March 1958, and the British Cohort Study 1970, which has similarly followed the development of those born in the week 5-11 April 1970. Some recent findings from the two studies in the areas of health and health behaviour are briefly summarised, as are the plans for their future development.
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Social Statistics Research Unit, City University, London, UK.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D008603:Mental Health; D012907:Smoking; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology