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Data and Associated Administrative and Regulatory Records, 1970-1980

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Data and Associated Administrative and Regulatory Records, 1970-1980
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BFQJQ7
 
Creator Harvard School of Public Health. Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

This dataset represents a group of paper records (a "series") within the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development records, 1918-2015 (inclusive), 1930-1989 (bulk), which can be accessed on-site at the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. The series consists primarily of raw, coded, analyzed, and summarized research data generated during the forty-year follow-up study of the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development. Data consists of: anthropometric examination records; health history summaries and surveys; examination records; data tables and charts; and various medical test results, such as electrocardiographs, echocardiographs, audiograms, and exercise tolerance tests. Research areas include: anthropometric measurements; health and illness; blood pressure and cardiac health; nutrition; and social functioning, among other topics. Subseries also includes occasional codebooks, reports, subject lists, and administrative correspondence.



Data and associated records are accessible onsite at the Center for the History of Medicine per the conditions governing access described below.



Conditions Governing Access to Original Collection Materials: The series represented by this dataset includes longitudinal patient information that is restricted for 80 years from the most recently dated records in the collection, and Harvard University records that are restricted for 50 years from the date of record creation. Researchers should contact Public Services for more information.



The Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development records were processed with grant funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as awarded and administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in 2016. An online finding aid to the collection may be accessed here: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.Count:med00211
 
Subject Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
Social Sciences
Anthropometry.
Blood pressure.
Child development.
Children – Health and hygiene.
Diseases – Longitudinal studies.
Health surveys – United States.
Human growth – Longitudinal studies.
Longitudinal method.
Nutrition – Longitudinal studies.
Periodic health examinations.
Psychology – Longitudinal studies.Psychology – Longitudinal studies.
Public health – Research – United States.
Public health – Research grants – United States.
Social interaction – Longitudinal studies.
Social psychology – Longitudinal studies.
Social skills – Longitudinal studies.
Anthropometry
Blood Pressure
Child Development
Child Health
Disease
Growth
Interpersonal relations
Longitudinal Studies
Nutrition Assessment
Physical Examination
Psychology
Psychology, Social
Social Skills
 
Language English
 
Contributor Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Reed, Robert (Robert B.).
Bookstein, Fred L., 1947-.
Valadian, Isabelle.
 
Type Analyzed data.
Coded data.
Examination records.
Health histories.
Raw data.
Summarized data.