Focussing and funding a birth cohort study over 20 years: The British 1946 national birth cohort study from 16 to 36 years

Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 79-92

  Wadsworth, Michael ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Data collection; History of epidemiology; History of social science; Longitudinal birth cohort study; Research funding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898751816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17579597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14301/llcs.v5i1.261     Document Type: Article

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