作者
Melanie C Matheson, Michael J Abramson, Katrina Allen, Geza Benke, John A Burgess, James G Dowty, Bircan Erbas, Iain H Feather, Peter A Frith, Graham G Giles, Lyle C Gurrin, Garun S Hamilton, John L Hopper, Alan L James, Mark A Jenkins, David P Johns, Caroline J Lodge, Adrian J Lowe, James Markos, Stephen C Morrison, Jennifer L Perret, Melissa C Southey, Paul S Thomas, Bruce R Thompson, Richard Wood-Baker, Eugene Haydn Walters, Shyamali C Dharmage, TAHS Investigator Group
发表日期
2017/4/1
期刊
International journal of epidemiology
卷号
46
期号
2
页码范围
407-408i
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
The Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study (TAHS), originally named the Tasmanian Asthma Survey, was initiated to examine the prevalence and natural history of asthma in childhood. 1 In 1967 the Tasmanian Health Minister, who was the head of the School Health Service, gave his approval to carry out the survey on all children born in 1961 and attending school in the island state of Tasmania, Australia. The original aims of the survey were to provide an epidemiological description of childhood asthma, which has a variable natural history requiring:(i) an estimate of its prevalence among children of a suitable age;(ii) an estimate of the probability that an individual will change disease status during any given period; and (iii) an estimate of any secular trend, specifically any tendency for the incidence to vary over time.
The original study cohort consisted of all Tasmanian school children born in 1961, who would be …
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