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When discussing the contribution of long-term research to social medicine, I shall limit myself to those problems that in my opinion could not be solved by cross-sectional studies or by studies using retrospective data. Moreover, I shall mainly be referring to work based on the 1946 birth cohort and using comparisons between the three British birth cohorts of 1946, 1958, and 1970. This is, of course, only one of many types of long-term research that can contribute to medical knowledge; but it is a type with which I am familiar and which has been particularly productive in recent years.
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Douglas, J.W.B. (1981). The Contribution of Long-Term Research to Social Medicine. 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_18
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