20,000 children studied for 20 yrs

Researchers will assess young people's health, development and success at school

TWENTY THOUSAND children born this year will be monitored for 20 years in the first French study of its kind.

Elfe (Etude Longitudinale Française depuis l’Enfance) will involve hundreds of researchers from the Ined and Inserm institutes checking on how a multitude of factors affect young people’s health, development and success at school.

They will include diet, pollution, family income, and such life events as the divorce of parents.