Michael Wadsworth (sociologist)
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Michael Wadsworth is a British sociologist and socio-medical researcher. Dr Wadsworth was director of the MRC National Survey of Health & Development
(NSHD) from 1982-2006.
Michael Wadsworth worked in the Department of Medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School and in the Department of General Practice at Edinburgh University before joining the MRC National Survey of Health and Development in 1968.
National Survey of Health & Development
The MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing established in 2008 is the new home of the National Survey of Health and Development .The National Survey of Health & Development is a Medical Research Council longitudinal survey of people born in Britain in March 1946...
(NSHD) from 1982-2006.
Michael Wadsworth worked in the Department of Medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School and in the Department of General Practice at Edinburgh University before joining the MRC National Survey of Health and Development in 1968.
Recent publications
- Wadsworth, MEJ, Sands of Time, Oxford UP
- Wadsworth MEJ (1997). Health inequalities in the lifecourse perspective. Social Science and Medicine, 44: 859-870.
- Wadsworth MEJ and Kuh DJ. (1997) Childhood influences on adult health: a review of recent work from the British 1946 national cohort study. Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology, 11, 2-20.
- Marmot MG and Wadsworth MEJ. (1997)(Eds). Fetal and early childhood environment: Long-term health implications. British Medical Bulletin, 53.
- Ferri E, Bynner J and Wadsworth MEJ. (2003) Changing Britain, Changing Lives. London, Institute of Education Press
- Wadsworth, MEJ (2004) Social Medicine & Social Inequality. In Oakley, A. & Barker, J. (eds) Private Complaints and Public Health, Policy Press
- Wadsworth MEJ. (in press) Longitudinal research design. In Jamieson A. and Victor C. (eds) Researching Ageing and Later Life. Buckingham, Open University Press.