Department of Health

NHS Performance Ratings and Indicators: July 2002  24 July 2002

Statistics on young people and drug misuse: England, 2000 and 2001   25 July 2002

General Ophthalmic Services Activity statistics   25 July 2002

Work and Worklessness Among Households: Spring 2002 pdf 24 July 2002

pdf 18 July 2002

  16 July 2002
 

 National Primary Care Research and Development Centre   

National Database for Primary Care Groups and Trusts. Information about: socio-economic and demographic characteristics and general health status. Free, but requires registration.
Database Home Page     Register

 Home Office

Home Office programme of work on TETRA health and safety issues (Mobile radios)
 

 Health and Safety Executive

pdf July 2002

  pdf July 2002

 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 

  pdf 24 July 2002

UK Strategy for radioactive discharges 2001 - 2020 24 July 2002

 The Housing Corporation

Housing costs benefits and measures of affordability for tenants, homebuyers and shared owners. "[Ready reckoner] ...designed to facilitate easy but detailed examination of the relationships between rents, earnings, taxation, benefits and disposable incomes"
Ready reckoner demonstration 2002/03 15 July 2002

 New Online Journal

International Journal of Health Geographics    Published by BioMed Central. [See Board Members]  [ Submit your article online]

 National electronic Library for Health

NeLH Survey - online questionnaire 15 July 2002

 Public Health Laboratory Service

General outbreaks of foodborne illness, England and Wales: laboratory reports, weeks 23-26/02   01 August 2002

 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

No change in status for Ordnance Survey [OS not to be turned into a government-owned public limited company]  Press release 23 July 2002

 Countryside Agency

Two Wheels Work: A good practice guide for developing and implementing Wheels to Work schemes (590 Kb pdf ) 23 July 2002

 BBC Health News

Smoke-free zones 'help quitters'   23 July 2002

HRT safety takes fresh twist Women may actually be protected from womb cancer if they take a particular type of HRT  02 August 2002

 Journal articles

The changing epidemiological pattern of hepatitis A in England and Wales. Morris MC, Gay NJ, et al. Epidemiol Infect. 2002 Jun;128(3):457-63.  Abstract

A community survey of self-reported gastroenteritis undertaken during an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis strongly associated with drinking water after much press interest. Hunter PR, et al. Epidemiol Infect. 2002 Jun;128(3):433-8. Abstract

The burden of Helicobacter pylori infection in England and Wales. Vyse AJ, et al. Epidemiol Infect. 2002 Jun;128(3):411-7. Abstract

Lung cancer: district active treatment rates affect survival. Cartman ML, et al
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2002 Jun;56(6):424-9.  Abstract **

Breast feeding. A Nicoll and A Williams. Arch. Dis. Child. 2002;87 91-92 Abstract **

Parents' accounts of wheeze and asthma related symptoms: a qualitative study. B Young, et al. Arch. Dis. Child. 2002;87 131-134 Abstract

Epidemiology of birthweight Arch. Dis. Child. 2002;87 103 [short article from "Archivist"] Full-text

Analysis of predicted coronary heart disease risk in England based on Framingham study risk appraisal models published in 1991 and 2000. Kiran Nanchahal, et al.  BMJ 2002;325:194-195   Full-text

Alcohol consumption and mortality: modelling risks for men and women at different ages. Ian R White, et al. BMJ 2002; 325: 191. [Abstract] [ Full text]