March 3, 2026Open Access

Cleaning and validating longitudinal maternal and child postcode histories from a national healthcare registry for environmental health research in London, UK

Key Points

Half of the children in the cohort relocated during infancy, stressing the need for accurate longitudinal records.
One-third of mothers moved while pregnant, further highlighting the importance of residential address stability.
Cleaned and validated address data are essential for understanding environmental exposure impacts on health outcomes.
Resource-intensive processes imply challenges for researchers and funding bodies in conducting such studies.

Abstract

One half of children in this London-based cohort moved during infancy, and one third of their mothers moved during pregnancy. This highlights the importance of taking into account changes in residential address in studies examining the association between environmental exposures and health outcomes. Cleaned and validated longitudinal national address records are crucial for environmental health studies. However, they are also resource intensive, with implications for researchers and research funders.

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Hardelid et al. (Thu,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a766f9badf0bb9e87df24e https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v11i1.2990

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