TY - JOUR
T1 - Cohort profile
T2 - The Tasmanian Longitudinal Health STUDY (TAHS)
AU - Matheson, Melanie C.
AU - Abramson, Michael J.
AU - Allen, Katrina
AU - Benke, Geza
AU - Burgess, John A.
AU - Dowty, James G.
AU - Erbas, Bircan
AU - Feather, Iain H.
AU - Frith, Peter A.
AU - Giles, Graham G.
AU - Gurrin, Lyle C.
AU - Hamilton, Garun S.
AU - Hopper, John L.
AU - James, Alan L.
AU - Jenkins, Mark A.
AU - Johns, David P.
AU - Lodge, Caroline J.
AU - Lowe, Adrian J.
AU - Markos, James
AU - Morrison, Stephen C.
AU - Perret, Jennifer L.
AU - Southey, Melissa C.
AU - Thomas, Paul S.
AU - Thompson, Bruce R.
AU - Wood-Baker, Richard
AU - Walters, Eugene Haydn
AU - Dharmage, Shyamali C.
AU - for the TAHS Investigator Group
PY - 2017/4
Y1 - 2017/4
N2 - 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...
AB - 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...
KW - asthma
KW - follow-up
KW - relationship - sibling
KW - proband
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85032038121&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/NHMRC/299901
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/NHMRC/454425
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/NHMRC/566931
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/NHMRC/628513
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/NHMRC/1021275
U2 - 10.1093/ije/dyw028
DO - 10.1093/ije/dyw028
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27272183
AN - SCOPUS:85032038121
SN - 0300-5771
VL - 46
SP - 407-408i
JO - International journal of epidemiology
JF - International journal of epidemiology
IS - 2
ER -