Health registers as a feasible means of measuring health status in childhood - A 7-year follow-up of the 1987 Finnish birth cohort

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 437-455

  Gissler, Mika ^a   Hemminki, Elina ^a   Louhiala, Pekka ^b   Järvelin, Marjo Riitta ^c  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIOSTATISTICS; CHILD HEALTH; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REGISTER; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 0031733993     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.1998.00126.x     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Kitchen WH, Bowman E, Callanan C, Campbell NT, Carse EA, Charlton M, et al The cost of improving the outcome for infants of birthweight 500-999 g in Victoria. The Victorian Infant Collaborative Study Group. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 1993 29:56-62.
2. Khoshnood B, Lee K, Corpuz M, Koetting M, Hsieh H. Kim BI. Models for determining cost of care and length of stay in neonatal intensive care units. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 1996; 12:62-71.
3. Barker D. (Ed.). Fetal and Infant Origins of Adult Disease London: BMJ Publishing, 1992.
4. Barker D. (Ed.). Mothers, Babies and Disease in Later Life. London: BMJ Publishing, 1994.
5. Amnell G. Mortalitet och kronisk morbiditet i barnåldern (in Swedish). Helsingfors: Samfundet Folkhälsan, 1974.
6. Rantakallio P. A 14-year follow-up of children with normal and abnormal birth weight for their gestational age. Acta Paediatric Scandinavica 1985; 74:62-69.
7. Rantakallio P, von Wendt L. Mental retardation and subnormality in a British birth cohort of 12,000 children in Northern Ireland. American Journal of Mental Deficiency 1986; 4:380-387.
8. Rantakallio P. The longitudinal study of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort of 1966. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 1988; 2:59-88.
9. Rantakallio P, Koiranen M, Möttönen J. Association of perinatal events, epilepsy and central nervous system trauma with juvenile delinquency. Archives of Disease in Childhood 1992; 67:1456-1461.
10. Bakketeig L. Perinatal epidemiology - a Nordic challenge. Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine 1991; 19:145-147.
11. Gissler M, Louhiala P, Hemminki E. Nordic Medical Birth Registers in epidemiological research. European Journal of Epidemiology 1997; 13:169-175.
12. Sosiaali-ja terveyshallitus. Terveyshuollon tietoaineistot 1991 (in Finnish). Helsinki, 1991.
13. Tilastokeskus. Tilasto-opas (in Finnish). Helsinki, 1995.
14. Clayton D, Hills M. Statistical Models in Epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford Science Publications, 1995.
15. Teppo L, Lehtonen M, Pukkala E. Data quality and quality control of a population-based cancer registry. Acta Oncologica 1994; 33:365-369.
16. Stakes and Näkövammaisten Keskusliitto ry. N̈kövammarekisterin Vuosikirja 1994. (in Finnish). Helsinki, 1995.
17. Meriläinen J, Kojo-Austin H, Tuominen K, Hemminki E, Teperi J. Finnish Perinatal Statistics 1987. Lääkintöhallituksen Julkaisuja 158. Helsinki, 1990.
18. Gissler M, Ollila E, Teperi J, Hemminki E. Impact of induced abortions and statistical definitions on perinatal mortality figures. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 1994; 8:391-400.