South West Public Health Observatory
Updates from the Internet  16 August 2002 No. 28

 

 Department of Health

Hospital Waiting Times and List Statistics: Quarter one - 2002-03   09 August 2002

National Specification for Integrated Care Records Service Consultation Draft  09 August 2002; Response Deadline 31 August 2002

Number of young people aged 10 to under 18 cautioned or convicted, by police force area. Denominator for PAF C18 for twelve months ending 30 September 2001. Excel file. From: OC2 outcome indicators for looked after children 13 August 2002

Modern Social Services a commitment to reform Chief Inspector of Social Services 11th Ann. Report 2001/02. 08 August 2002

Health effects of climate change ' report of the Expert Group on Climate Change and Health in the UK 02 August 2002

First phase of chlamydia screening programme announced  14 August 2002

National Service Frameworks: A practical aid to implementation in primary care   12 August 2002

 National Statistics

National population projections: 2000-based pdf 15 August 2002

Labour Market Statistics: August 2002 - South West pdf 14 August 2002

 Department for Transport

  The 2002 Quality Review of STATS19 Road Accident Injury Statistics   08 August 2002

Road Safety Research Compendium 2001-02   14 August 2002

Notice of projects which the Committee hopes to commission in 2002/03. Includes: Socially Inclusive and Accessible Transport The Link between Transport and Other Areas of Policy e.g. "UG496 Travel to Cancer Services in Rural Areas:"  July 2002

 Department for Work and Pensions

08 August 2002

   Press release 15 August 2002

  pdf 25 July 2002

  pdf 25 July 2002

Statistics on smoking cessation services in health authorities: England - April 2001-March 2002 statistical press release 8 August 2002

 Link Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHR)

W eb page    Funded projects August 2002

 Health Development Agency

Development and Evaluation of Public Health Networks: Draft project brief 14 August 2002

pdf

09 August 2002

Map of the Developing Public Health System  PowerPoint presentation

09 August 2002

  Examines the use of social capital to improve health and reduce health inequalities. 07 August 2002

 NHS Information Authority

CDP Lessons Learned Report - Gynae (v4b) 14 August and Cancer Dataset and Cancer Data Manuals 02 August, both available from Cancer Dataset information update page

 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

 Journal articles

Tobacco giant undermined Nicorette campaign.
Ray Moynihan. BMJ 325: 353. [Full text]  
 
Risk of breast cancer increases with number of years' smoking.
Roger Dobson. BMJ 325: 298d. [Full text]

Housing and inequalities in health P Howden-Chapman J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56 645-646 [Full text] **

A glossary for health inequalities I Kawachi, et al. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56 647-652 [Full text] **

Persistence of lower birth weight in second generation South Asian babies born in the United Kingdom B M Margetts, et al. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56 684-687 [Full text]  **

Gender differences in weight related concerns in early to late adolescence H Sweeting and P West. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56 700-701 [Full text] ** 

Risk of cancer in patients treated with human pituitary growth hormone in the UK, 1959-85: a cohort study Swerdlow AJ, et al. Lancet. 2002 Jul 27;360(9329):273-7. Abstract (Full-text requires registration) 
 

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