From child to adult : the Dunedin multidisciplinary health and development study

The DMHDS is an ongoing longitudinal study of the health and development of 1037 babies born in Dunedin between 1/4/1972 and 31/3/1973. The study has been productive; more than 500 publications have appeared, over half in referenced journals published in New Zealand, North America, and the UK.This book offers a description of the overall study and the methods used, and presents selected results in a reasonably non-technical way. The sample is remarkably large; the children were studies at birth and followed up at age 3, then every year until 15, then at 18 and 21. See contents list forfurther details.