This meeting will provide a forum for the exchange of information and views between users and producers of the key UK health surveys. It is aimed primarily at users and potential users of survey microdata.
| 9.30 |
Coffee and registration |
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Core Health surveys
Chair: Vanessa Higgins, ESDS Government |
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| 10.00 |
Health Survey for England: an update
Rachel Craig and Chloe Robinson, National Centre for Social Research |
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| 10.20 |
Scottish Health Survey: an update
Lisa Given, ScotCen |
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| 10.40 |
Welsh Health Survey: an update
Lisa Walters, Welsh Assembly Government and Katharine Sadler, Natcen |
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| 11.00 |
An update on the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing
Natasha Wood, NatCen
Findings from nurse visit data
Mai Stafford, Paola Zaninotto, Cesar de Oliveira, Meena Kumari, Andrew Steptoe, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL |
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| 11.20 |
Coffee |
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Other key health surveys
Chair: Steve Webster, NHS Information Centre |
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| 11.45 |
Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People
Liz Fuller, NatCen |
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| 12.00 |
Adult Dental Health Survey
Ian O'Sullivan, Office for National Statistics |
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| 12.15 |
National survey of sexual attitudes and lifestyles
Andrew Phelps, NatCen |
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| 12.30 |
Assessment of autism in a survey of adults
Sally McManus, NatCen |
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| 12.45 |
How do time of day and day of week affect survey data?
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London |
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| 13.00 |
Lunch |
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Research papers session 1: Obesity
Chair: Nicola Shelton, University College London |
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| 13.45 |
Research paper 1: Waist not, want not. Changes in adolescent's general and abdominal obesity levels
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London |
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| 14.15 |
Research paper 2: Trends in the prevalence of obesity and overweight in English adults between 1991-2006
Denise Howel, Newcastle University |
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| 14.45 |
Research paper 3: The role of educational attainment and family income on obesity: understanding the risk from socioeconomic status
Niranjan Shekar, London School of Economics |
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15.15 |
Tea |
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Research papers session 2 and resources for health survey users
Chair: Sam Clemens, National Centre for Social Research |
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| 15.35 |
EUHSID: European Health Surveys Database
Antti Tuomi-Nikula, National Institute for Health and Welfare |
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| 16.00 |
Research papers 4 and 5:
The nature of wellbeing and its relationship to Health Inequalities
The value of data reduction as applied to surveys of health and wellbeing
Tom Hennell, Department of Health - North West |
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| 16.45 |
Resources for health survey users
ESDS Government
Alan Marshall, ESDS Government
Survey Resources Network
Bev Botting, Survey Skills workshop |
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| 17.00 |
End |
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