A review of a major
provincial health database in Australia revealed that people there who contracted any bacterial gastrointestinal infection were 57 percent more likely to develop either ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, another chronic bowel condition, than people born in the same place and era who had not had such infections.
It is possible to construct crosswalks between
health, early child development and education
databases that integrate population - wide, person - specific data at national,
provincial and community levels.60 As such, it is possible to create a historical perspective of developmental trajectories for an entire population of children.