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International Centre for Health and Society
2003 Public Seminar Series, UCL
Monday 12 May 5.00pm
(RSVP attendance essential)
Professor Michael Wadsworth
MRC National Survey of Health & Development, UCL
Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health, Royal Free Hospital &
University College Medical School
Intercohort comparisons of health & social circumstances
Abstract
Britain has 3 national birth cohort studies that have followed-up their
samples from birth into adulthood, namely the birth cohorts of 1946,
1958 and 1970. Findings from data collections carried out in all 3
samples in their early thirties, and from the two older cohorts also in
their early forties, will be described in order to illustrate the nature and
use of cross cohort comparisons. The topic areas include health, health
related behaviour, income, home and family circumstances,
employment, and citizenship and community involvement. Findings will
be taken from the recently published Changing Britain, Changing
Lives (ed Elsa Ferri, John Bynner, Michael Wadsworth, Institute of
Education Press, London). The purpose of this seminar is to discuss the
value of intercohort comparisons using existing data, and the potential
value in collecting new data for future intercohort comparisons.
Professor Wadsworth is the Director of the MRC National Survey of
Health & Development (also know as the 1946 British birth cohort
study) which is housed in the Department of Epidemiology and Public
Health, UCL.
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