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Geographic Variations in Health

Geographic Variations in Health: Decennial Supplement DS16
Editors: Clare Griffiths Justine Fitzpatrick
The Stationery Office, 2001

This report, Geographic variations in Health , is the latest in a series of decennial supplements in which the Registrar General for England and Wales presents an in-depth review of the geography of health. Previous decennial supplements on geography were restricted to England and Wales and, for many years, largely concentrated on variations in mortality. This report is broader in its focus, covering geographic variations in mortality (including infant mortality and stillbirths), fertility related topics (including conceptions, abortions, live births and congenital anomalies) and cancer incidence. In addition these geographic analyses are extended to cover the whole of the United Kingdom wherever possible. [introd.]

The report may be purchased from the Stationery Office's bookshop (£60.00) or downloaded from the National Statistics web site as 22 pdf files, some of them quite slow to download.
  
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Chapters

01: Introduction to the volume
02: Demographic background
03: Socio-economic characteristics of the people
04: Classifications used in this volume
05: Patterns and trends in fertility
06: Patterns and trends in stillbirths and infant mortality
07: Analysis of infant mortality by risk factors and by cause of death in England and Wales
08: Geographic variation in congenital anomaly notifications in England and Wales
09: Geographic patterns in cancer incidence
10: Descriptive analysis of geographic patterns and trends in adult mortality by cause of death
11: Analysis of mortality by deprivation and cause of death
12: Geographic variation in mortality by social class and alternative social classifications

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