FromDOH  

Tackling Health Inequalities: Consultation on a plan for delivery 23 August 2001
With link to  Vision to Reality setting out progress so far since the Acheson report.

Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU) study on landfill sites - Full report (pdf)   Committee on Toxicity (COT) statement

Prescriptions Dispensed in the Community: Statistics for 1990 to 2000 - England

 From DEFRA   (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) 

Air quality Expert Group launched 17 August 2001

 FromDETLR   (Department for Transport, Local Government and theRegions) 

New powers to target polluting vehicles   17 August 2001

Central research overview - 2001-02 22 August 2001

  Friends of the Earth 

Citizen's Guide to Municipal Landfills   BMJ review

  Journal article abstracts (from PubMed) 

Incidence and predictors of severe obstetric morbidity: case-control study. Waterstone M, Bewley S, Wolfe C
BMJ. 2001 322:1089-93 ; discussion 1093-4. 

Vision of a rapid, flexible, cost effective, survey-based public health surveillance system [Canadian pilot]
BERNARD C K CHOI and D MOWAT J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55 612
"Routine national health surveys have not always been developed for the purpose of health surveillance. The feasibility of using ongoing sample surveys to supplement national health surveys needs to be further investigated".

Priority setting with Health Inequality Impact Assessment. Lester C, Griffiths S, Smith K, Lowe G
Public Health. 2001 Jul;115(4):272-6.

 

Open verdict v. suicide - importance to research.
Br J Psychiatry. 2001 May;178:465-8. Linsley KR, Schapira K, Kelly TP.
 

Primary health care services for single homeless people: defects and opportunities.
Fam Pract. 2001 Jun;18(3):272-6. Crane M, Warnes AM
 

Practice size: impact on consultation length, workload, and patient assessment of care.
Br J Gen Pract. 2001 Aug;51(469):644-50. Campbell JL, Ramsay J, Green J

 

 

 

Callum MacLeod 23 August 2001
SWPHO