Department of Health

NHS Data Dictionary and Manual: Versions 1.2 and 1.3   17 December 2002

December 2002 Census of Residents of Care Homes Receiving Nursing Care in England 17 December 2002

Preparing Older People's Strategies: Linking Housing to Health, Social Care and Other Local Strategies   07 January 2003

Health events 2003 20 December 2002

 National Statistics

Road Casualties in Great Britain: quarterly provisional estimates - first and second quarter 2002 (experimental) 09 January 2003

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18 December 2002

 Department for Education and Skills  

Qualifications Obtained by and Examination Results of Higher Education Students at Higher Education Institutions in the United Kingdom for the Academic Year 2001-02  07 January 2003

 Cabinet Office

Life Satisfaction: the state of knowledge and implications for government (534 Kb pdf)  08 January 2003

 NHS Information Authority

Cancer Waiting Times User Manual  23 December 2002

Cancer Dataset for Primary Care   Draft version , comments welcomed. 20 December 2002

Home Office Statistical Bulletin 1/03. 09 January 2003

Home Office Statistical Bulletin 2/03. 09 January 2003

(Findings 182) 20 December 2002

 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Survey of English Housing: Live tables 20 December 2002

 National Centre for Social Research

British Social Attitudes Survey (Press release and chapter summaries - Word document) 04 December 2002

 Journal articles

UK improves cancer control - news item. Susan Mayor BMJ 2003; 326: 72. [Full text] [PDF]  

Lager may lower risk of heart attack (News extra) BMJ 2003;326:72  [Full text]

 

Review of deaths related to taking ecstasy, England and Wales, 1997-2000 Fabrizio Schifano, et al.BMJ 2003; 326: 80-81. [Full text] [PDF]

Secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease: four year follow up of a randomised controlled trial in primary care. Peter Murchie, et al.BMJ 2003; 326: 84. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

A glossary for research in occupational health. A M Garcia and H Checkoway. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57 7-10 [Abstract]

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Impact of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic position on cause specific mortality: the Oslo Mortality Study. B Claussen, et al. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57 40-45 [Abstract] **

Is retirement good or bad for mental and physical health functioning? Whitehall II longitudinal study of civil servants.  Mein, et al. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57 46-49 [Abstract] **

Social inequalities in health by individual and household measures of social position in a cohort of healthy people. T Chandola, M Bartley, R Wiggins, and P Schofield. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57 56-62 [Abstract] **  

Health impact assessment of housing improvements: incorporating research evidence. H Thomson, M Petticrew, and M Douglas. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57 11-16 [Abstract] **

Risk of fatal stroke in patients with treated familial hypercholesterolemia: a prospective registry study. Huxley RR, et al. Stroke. 2003 Jan;34(1):22-5. [Abstract] The epidemiology of sudden infant death syndrome. Platt MJ, Pharoah PO. Arch Dis Child. 2003 Jan;88(1):27-9. [Abstract] **

Information from primary care: its importance and value. A comparison of information from Slovenia and England and Wales, viewed from the 'Health 21' perspective. Fleming DM, Pavlic D R. Eur J Public Health. 2002 Dec;12(4):249-53. [Abstract]

Ethnicity, patterns of substance misuse and criminality: a comparative study of White and Asian patient populations in West London.  Karim Dar, Z et al. Journal of Substance Use 2002 7 (4) December  p. 244 [Abstract]

 

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