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Cancer dataset and data model version 1.6 now available for download.   http://www.nhsia.nhs.uk/cancer/dataset/pages/cancerdataset.asp
   http://nww.nhsia.nhs.uk/cancer/dataset/pages/cancerdataset.asp (NHSnet version)Version 2 of MHMDS Data Manual now available in Word Format   http://www.nhsia.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/dataset/
   http://nww.nhsia.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/dataset/ (NHSnet version)

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

Airpollution - what it means for your health (Information Leaflet) Updated 23August 2001
HealthImpact section

 FromDETLR   (Department for Transport, Local Government and theRegions) 

Urban regeneration companies off to a winning start

Health in AircraftCabins 4 September 2001  

PedestrianProtection (Consultation Paper) 3 September 2001

 Home Office 

 

Arrest-referral - an intervention scheme that may reducedependent drug use and drug-related crime.

 Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CARE)  (older reports, new to this bulletin)

Indicators of Progress: a discussion of approaches to monitor the Government's strategy to tackle poverty and social exclusion

Places Apart? The initial report of CASE's areas study Ruth Lupton
    All CASE reports here

 FromNational Statistics (ONS) 

  pdf file - includes news on output timetable; new data on Neighbourhood Statistics Service; Small Area Income Estimates. NB: Census Output Roadshow SW - Bristol City Centre 26 September .

 BBC News

Variant CJD cases 'on the increase'
 

  Journal articles

Sex matters: secular and geographical trends in sex differences in coronary heart disease mortality
D A Lawlor, S Ebrahim, and G Davey Smith BMJ 2001; 323: 541-545. [Abstract] [Full text]

Barriers to uptake of services for coronary heart disease: qualitative study.
BMJ. 2001 Jul 28;323(7306):214.

Social deprivation and the causes of stillbirth and infantmortality
Guildea,-Z-E-S etal Archivesof Disease in Childhood, London, vol 84, no 4, Apr 2001.
The aims of the study were to investigate the relation between social deprivation and causes of stillbirth and infant mortality. Stillbirths and infant deaths in 6, 347 enumeration districts in Wales were linked with the Townsend score of social deprivation. In 1993-98 there were 211, 072 live births, 1, 147 stillbirths, and 1, 223 infant deaths. Poisson regression analysis was used to estimate the magnitude of effect for associations between the Townsend score and categories of death by age and the causes of death. The relative risk of death between most and least deprived enumeration districts was derived. Collaborative public health action at national and local level to target resources in deprived communities and reduce these inequalities in child health is required. Early neonatal mortality rates and deaths from intrapartum asphyxia and prematurity are not significantly associated with deprivation and may be more appropriate quality of clinical care indicators than stillbirth, perinatal, and neonatal mortality rates. Cites 17 references. [Journal abstract - aims, methods and conclusions only]

 

 

 

Callum MacLeod 07 September 2001
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