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The HSE was set up in 1991 to provide information about life-style and behaviour choices with the aim of improving the targeting of national health policies. From 1991 to 1994, the survey was conducted by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys which is now part of the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s and formerly the Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood, is a cohort study of children born in the former county of Avon, England during 1991 and 1992. [1] It is used by researchers in health, education and other social science disciplines.
16 July – A government survey of children's school reading reveals that Roald Dahl, who died eight months earlier, has now overtaken Enid Blyton as the most popular author of children's books. 17 July – The Ultimate steel roller coaster, Europe's longest, opens at Lightwater Valley theme park in North Yorkshire.
The first wave of ELSA achieved a sample comprising 11,050 respondents aged 50 and over on 1 March 2002. Sample members are drawn from respondents to the Health Survey For England (HSE) and the initial data collected for that survey are subsequently linked to the ongoing ELSA measurements. For waves 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 refreshment samples selected ...
Data from the Health Survey for England (HSE) conducted in 2018 indicated that 31% of adults in the England were recognised as clinically obese with a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 30. [3] 63% of adults were classified as overweight or obese (a body mass index of 25 or above), a 10 percent increase 1993. [3]
England aimed to introduce interventions to reduce health inequalities, the strategy was based on two steps. [13] In 1999, the first step which involved the Department of Health publishing "Reducing health inequalities: an action inequalities in Health", which was the governments response to recommendations made in the "independent inquiry into ...
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Health in the United Kingdom refers to the overall health of the population of the United Kingdom. This includes overall trends such as life expectancy and mortality rates , mental health of the population and the suicide rate , smoking rates , alcohol consumption , prevalence of diseases within the population and obesity in the United Kingdom.