Birth to twenty study
PROJECT LEADER
Richter, L.M. (Prof Linda)
TEAM MEMBERS
De Kock, C.J. (Ms Cilna), Joseph, PK (Mr Philip), Mathambo, N (Ms Nomonde), Nyawane, CL (Ms Lebo)
Department
Research Outputs
- Caring for small children: mutual mental health for caregiver children
- Psychosocial factors in child health
- Exposure to violence, coping resources, and psychological adjustment of South African children
- Birth to twenty
- The many kinds of sexual abuse of young children
- Doing something: the initiation of sexual abuse services in Soweto
- Transition from birth to ten to birth to twenty: the South African cohort reaches 13 years of age
- Strengthening infants and children: South African perspectives
- Very young adolescents: a longitudinal perspective from South Africa: the Birth to Twenty study
- Young adults, the target of below-the-line advertising
- The silent truth of teenage pregnancies: Birth to Twenty cohort's next generation
- Health and social scientists need to weigh in
- Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries
- Cohort profile: Mandela's children: the 1990 birth to twenty study in South Africa
- Field report: panel studies in developing countries: case analysis of sample attrition over the past 16 years within the Birth to Twenty cohort in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital
- Are there short cuts to pubertal assessments? Self-reported and assessed group differences in pubertal development in African adolescents
- Improving the developmental outcome of babies
- "Patterns of residential mobility amongst children in greater Johannesburg: observations from the Birth to Twenty cohort"
- Predictors of postnatal depression in an urban South African cohort
- Factors influencing enrolment: a case study from Birth to Twenty, the 1990 birth cohort in Soweto-Johannesburg
- Low birthweight and subsequent emotional and behavioural outcomes in 12-year-old children in Soweto, South Africa: findings from Birth to Twenty
- Johannesburg - Soweto Child Health Respiratory Study: Methodology and Preliminary Results at 6 months
- Potential risk factors for asbestos exposure amongst six-month-old infants livingin the township of Soweto, South Africa
- Chronic Childhood illness
- The role of care in the health of infants and young children
- Social risks and psychological adjustment: A comparison of African American and South African Children
- Approaches for assessing the role of Household Socioeconomic Status on Child Anthropometric measures in Urban South Africa
- How well do adolescents determine portion sizes of foods and beverages?
- Variety and total number of food items recorded by a true longitudinal group of urban black South African children iat five intercepts between 1995 and 2003 the Birth-to-Twenty (Bt20) study
- Effects of Ethnicity and Sex on the Growth of the Axial and Appendicular Skeleton of Children Living in a Developing Country
- The influence of maternal cigarette smoking, snuff use and passive smoking on pregnancy outcomes: the Birth to Ten Study
- Geographical differences in infant feeding patterns in disadvantaged communities
- Johannesburg - Soweto Child Health Respiratory Study: Methodology and Preliminary results at 6 months
- Potential risk factors for asbestos exposure amongst six-month-old infants living in the township of Soweto, South Africa
- Improving the accuracy of birth notification data: lessons from the Birth to Ten study
- Linking public issues with private troubles: panel studies in developing countries
- "Birth to Ten" - pilot studies to test the feasibility of a birth cohort study investigating the effects of urbanisation in South Africa
- Birth to Ten: child health in South Africa in the 1990's. Rationale and methods of a birth cohort study
- "Birth to Ten": error detection and correction in a longitudinal address database
- Enrolment in Birth to Ten (BTT): population and sample characteristics
- 'Birth to Ten' - a study of children of the 1990's living in the Johannesburg-Soweto area
- Birth to Ten: Methods of a Birth Cohort Study
- Desegregating health statistics and health research in South Africa
- The reliabilty of hand-written and computerised records of birth data collected at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto
- The reliability and validity of self-reported reproductive history and obstetric morbidity amongst Birth to Ten mothers in Soweto
- Improving the accuracy of birth notification data: lessons from the Birth to Ten study
- Factors associated with poor prognosis in very-low-birth-weight infants
- Outcome of Very Low Birth Weight Infants at 12 to 18 months of Age in Soweto, South Africa
- Energy and macronutrient intake of one-year-old South African urban children: The Birth to Ten (BTT) Study
- Determinants of blood pressure in Sowetan infants
- Dietary intake of 1-year-old South African children.
- Indicators of Economic Status and Social Capital in South African Townships. What do they reveal about the material and social conditions in families of poor children?
- Growth in height and weight of South African Urban Infants from Birth to Five Years: The Birth to Ten Study
- Energy, macro and micronutrient intake of 5-year-old urban black South African children in 1984 and 1995
- An inverse relation between blood pressure and birth weight among 5 year old children from Soweto South Africa
- Cardiovascular disease risk factors in 5-year-old urban South African children - the Birth to Ten study
- Children and Tobacco: Birth to Ten Preliminary results
- Caries and micronutrient intake among urban South African children: a cohort study
- Adolescents in the city: material and social living conditions in Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa
- Eating attitudes in a group of 11-year-old urban South African girls
- Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood in South Africa
- Simpson's Paradox: An example from a Longitudinal Study in South Africa
- Segregated health statistics perpetuate racial sterotypes
- Caesarean Section rates in South Africa: evidence of bias among different 'population groups'
- Differences in bone size and bone mass between black and white 10-year-old South African children
- Fracture rates in urban South African children of different ethnic origins : The Birth to Twenty cohort
- The relationship of rapid weight gain in infancy to obesity and skeletal maturity in childhood
- Shoe size, stature and caesarean delivery
- Anenatal and birth factors and their relationship to child growth
- The relationship between socio-economic status and physical activity patterns in South African children
- A review: factors influencing bone mass acquisition in children: new Birth to Ten research initiative investigating such factors in black and white urban children in South Africa
- The transmission of violence in schools: Birth to Ten children's experiences of bullying