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A birth cohort study sets out to describe in depth the characteristics of a generation that is making contact with contemporary medical, educational, and social services; experiencing contemporary living conditions; and absorbing contemporary attitudes toward life. Each generation carries the impress of these encounters, which help to determine its patterns of illness and levels of achievement. The entry of each new cohort provides potentialities for change; the extent to which it shows or fails to show change reflects the success or failure of our policies and our services and the dynamic state of our society.
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Douglas, J.W.B. (1981). The Value of Birth Cohort Studies. In: Schulsinger, F., Mednick, S.A., Knop, J. (eds) Longitudinal Research. Longitudinal Research in the Behavioral, Social, and Medical Studies, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8147-8_11
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