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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:684-687
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Reiterations

Commentary: The longitudinal perspective and cohort analysis

M Susser

Columbia University School of Public Health, 600 W168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA. Email: mws2@columbia.edu

Accepted 27 February 2001

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Cohorts are closed populations defined and bounded by their timepoints of entry, often but not necessarily at birth. In this issue, a classic article by Kermack, McKendrick and McKinley reprinted from the Lancet of 1934 illustrates an early use of cohort analysis. Such analyses follow successive generations of entrants through the life course. The object is to link the pattern of specified outcomes to the particular previous experience defined by membership of a generation. The outcome of interest to Kermack et al. was overall mortality at successive ages; their significant discovery was to demonstrate the potentially large and continuing contribution of experience in the earliest years to rates of death throughout the lifetime of each generation.

This newly-invented approach cast bright light on the longitudinal perspective of health and disease through the life course. It was a latecomer in the history of relevant methods. Halley's life table of 1693 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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