ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

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 of research data and administrative records generated through social functioning research during the forty-year follow-up study and unidentified follow-up studies of the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development.

Forty-year follow-up study records include: committee records for a Family Service Association of America NESD II project; and research reporting guidelines, likely for a social work research grant by the National Institutes of Health. Records from unidentified studies consist of: grant funding records, including proposals, progress reports, and related correspondence; blank and completed data collection worksheets, including raw and analyzed data on routine activity, cooperation, psychological and physical development, energy, and speech; and occasional collected social functioning resources and publications.

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