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Annotation: This study aimed to: (1) Compare the thyroid function of Down syndrome newborns with matched controls; (2) confirm the incidence of hypothyroidism in Down syndrome infants in the first year of life when treatment is most beneficial; and (3) determine whether the onset of hypothyroidism coincided with elevation of thyroid antibodies in Down syndrome children. The study had a two-part design. The first was a matched control design and the second was longitudinal. 46 Down syndrome newborns diagnosed with hypothyroidism were followed. The study's findings indicate that Down syndrome newborns have an increased incidence of thyroid function compared with the newborn population, and that in the first three years of life, the onset of hypothyroidism in Down syndrome children precedes the detection of elevated antithyroid antibody titers. Future studies should compare the incidence and onset of hypothyroidism and elevation of thyroid antibodies in the same children from birth through adolescence. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Chronically ill, Down Syndrome, High risk infants, Hypothyroidism, Longitudinal studies, Neonatal screening

Annotation: This report summarizes a six-year study that monitored the effects of Proposition 13 on the health care services for mothers and children in California. The research was funded by grants from the Division of Maternal and Child Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the University of California and San Diego State University. It contains a background paper on Proposition 13 and several papers reporting on four surveys on the effects of Proposition 13 on maternal and child health.

Keywords: California, Health care financing, Longitudinal studies, Public health programs, Public health services

Keywords: Adolescents, Children, Early childhood education, Followup studies, High risk populations, Longitudinal studies, Preschool children

Annotation: This report is the product of a collaborative study which assessed the long-term effects of early childhood education experience on children from low-income families. The study addressed two areas: the existence of long-term effects of early childhood programs, and whether the programs were more effective for some subgroups of the low-income population than others.

Keywords: Early childhood education, Early intervention programs, Evaluation, Longitudinal studies, Low income families, Young children

Annotation: This is the report of the New York City Infant Day Care Study, a large scale, interdisciplinary, longitudinal, comparative field study of 31 licensed publicly and privately funded, community-sponsored group and family infant day care programs in New York City, and the effects of these programs on approximately 400 children and their families. The study was funded by the Maternal and Child Health Services and Office of Child Development, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Keywords: Attitudes, Child care, Child health, Family child care, Field studies, Infant health, Longitudinal studies, New York, Surveys

Annotation: This book presents the findings of a follow-up study on adolescents previously involved in a longitudinal study on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. The eighteen year study considers the short- and long-term effects of perinatal stress and a disadvantaged environment and their implications on learning disabilities and behavioral disorders during adolescence.

Keywords: Adolescents, Behavior disorders, Cognitive development, Followup studies, Hawaiians, Learning disabilities, Longitudinal studies, Mental health, Social development, Youth

Annotation: This longitudinal study describes findings about the first decade in the lives of forty deaf children and their families. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Deafness, Education, Intellectual development, Longitudinal studies, Pediatricians

Annotation: This is a longitudinal study conducted in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai from the mid-50s over a ten-year period. A team of pediatricians, psychologists, and public health workers proposed to determine to what degree birth trauma, environment, and race (specifically, the different modes of child-rearing practiced by the various racial subcultures on the island) influence the maturing child. This team followed the course and outcome of several thousand pregnancies. The findings of this study are detailed in this book.

Keywords: Cognitive development, Early childhood development, Hawaii, Longitudinal studies, Physical development, Social development, Young children

Annotation: These proceedings review and discuss research in perinatal studies with an emphasis on the methodological problems encountered in three general categories: 1) demographic, 2) retrospective, and 3) longitudinal or prospective studies. A review of gaps in knowledge of perinatal mortality and morbidity and a plan for future research are included.

Keywords: Demography, Longitudinal studies, Perinatal health, Research, Research methodology, Retrospective studies

Annotation: This study undertook to follow up a group of unmarried mothers in an effort to obtain information about their experiences as parents. This information was sought as an aid to social planning and to practice.

Keywords: Adolescent health, Adolescent mothers, Adolescent parents, Longitudinal studies, New York, Single mothers

Annotation: This resource provides proceedings of the Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics from 1962 (9th) through 1995 (25th) and related documents.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Data, Health care costs, Health programs, Longitudinal studies, Public health, Statistics, Surveys