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Project code: 3-01-447


EUROPEAN LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON PREGNANCY AND CHILDHOOD - ELSPAC


Main researcher: GRGURIĆ, JOSIP (73216)


Assistants
Type of research: applied
Duration from: 09/01/91. to 12/31/96.
Papers on project (total): 10
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 3
Institution name: Institut za zaštitu majki i djece, Zagreb (72)
Department/Institute: Department of Pediatrics
Address: Klaićeva 16
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
Communication
Phone: 385 (0)41-440455
Phone: 385 (0)41-441611
Fax: 385 (0)41-451308
Summary: The study was initiated by the WHO Regional Office for Europe in l985, to improve the epidemiological knowledge about factors influencing child health in European countries. The outcome of the study will be the basic information needed to identify strategies for the improvement of children s health, in terms of survival, morbidity, growth and development. The aim of the study is to determine whether certain biological, enviromental, social, technological and psychological factors are associated with the survival, health and ability of the fetus, infant and child to asses whether the same factors appear to be influential to a similar degree in different countries. The study is designed to cover various aspects of the life and enviroment of the pregnant woman and child, fetus enabling researches to address a large number of specific research questions. It is a prospective, geographicaly based epidemiological study designed to start as early in pregnancy as possible and to follow the cohort of births until the age of 7 years. The cohort sample in each country comprises all births in one or more geographical areas. The information is being collected by means of self completed questionnaires or from medical records at various points of time. During the preparation phase (l985-l989) the questionnaires were developed and tested in participating countries. Special attention was paid with regard to standardization. The recommended number of births to be covered by each centre is 5ooo. Czech Republic, Greece, Russia, Spain and 2 centres in UK have been members of ELSPAC from the beginning of the study. Ukraine (4 centres) and Slovakia have recently joined the study. Croatia started with the pilot study. Sweden and Estonia are making serious efforts to start the study.

Keywords: pregnancy, factors influencing the growth and development of child, morbidity, mortality

Research goals: The aim is to determine whether certain biological, enviromental, social, psycho-social and psychological factors are associated with the survival, health and ability of the fetus, infant and child to asses whether the same factors appear to be influential to a similar degree in different countries. The study itself will not bring any health care system measures, but it is designed to discover all possibilities that could improve children health and to examine them through it s own methods. Fields of interest: health, growth, development, behaviour, biological processes, morbidity, mortality, accidents, disorders of the sight, hearing and speach, adverse outcomes of the pregnancy, pregnancy itself, parents, diets, breast feeding. All results will be analysed in relation with the number of discovered factors in different countries. That will include: enviroment, characteristics of parents, social factors, physiological factors, psychosocial enviroment, behavioral toward health care, statesments, fetal enviroment, enviromental changes.

COOPERATION - PROJECTS


  1. Name of project: The use of a multinational study of pregnancy and childhood to screen for possible adverse action of drugs commonly taken during pregnancy
    Name of institution: Institute of Child Health Royal Hospital for Sick Children
    City: BS2 8BJ - Bristol, United Kingdom

  2. Name of project: Preterm delivery in Europe: Do the same risk factors predominate in different cultures?
    Name of institution: Institute of Child Health Royal Hospital for Sick Children
    City: BS2 8BJ - Bristol, United Kingdom

  3. Name of project: Natural Radon levels in the home and the development of the child: A multinational project using the ELSPAC initiative
    Name of institution: Institute of Child Health Royal Hospital for Sick Children
    City: BS2 8BJ - Bristol, United Kingdom
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