Informatics Methodology Used in the Web-Based Portal of the NASCITA Cohort Study: Development and Implementation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many diseases occurring in adults can be pinned down to early childhood and birth cohorts are the optimal means to study this connection. Birth cohorts have contributed to the understanding of many diseases and their risk factors.

Objective

To improve the knowledge of the health status of Italian children early on and how it is affected by social and health determinants, we set up a longitudinal, prospective, national-level, population-based birth cohort, the NASCITA study (NAscere e creSCere in ITAlia). The main aim of this cohort is to evaluate physical, cognitive, and psychological development; health status; and health resource use in the first 6 years of life in newborns, and potential associated factors. A web-based system was set up with the aim to host the

SUBMITTER: Zanetti M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7998320 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature