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Health Survey results

This section highlights the latest trends from the surveys and summarises adult and child data over the past years by year, age and sex

Health Survey for England 2005: Health of older people

Published: 23 March 2007

This report presents detailed findings from the 2005 Health Survey for England. The report focuses on the health of older people - those aged 65 and over.

Forecasting obesity to 2010

Published: 25/08/2006

The focus of this report is to forecast what levels of obesity in England may be in 2010 if current trends in obesity prevalence continue unchanged.

Health Survey for England: Obesity among children under 11

Published: 29/04/2005

This report presents key information for 1995 to 2003 on obesity among children aged under 11 living in England. Results and analysis are based on data from the Health Survey for England reports published in December 2003. This report uses the data for 2001 and 2002 combined when analysing the relationships between social demographic factors and obesity in greater depth. These analyses are intended to support the development of an evidence-based approach to prevention, management and treatment of obesity in children.

Health Survey for England 2003

The 2003 survey looked at cardiovascular disease and the behavioural risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease such as drinking, smoking and eating habits. The survey also covers health status risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes.

Health Survey for England: Health & lifestyle indicators for Strategic Health Authorities 1994-2002

New analysis of published data from the 1994 to 2002 Health Surveys for England. The aim was to investigate any geographic variations from the national rates and to investigate whether trends for any SHAs differed from the national trends, and in particular to investigate whether there was a consistent pattern in relative rankings of SHAs over time and across health indicators.

Health Survey for England 2002

The 2002 Health Survey for England focused on the health of children and young people, and on the health of infants, aged under one, and their mothers.

Health Survey for England 2001

The survey focused on respiratory disease and atopic conditions, disability and non-fatal accidents. For the first time in the series, questions were asked about fruit and vegetable consumption. The interview also included the question modules which are asked in most years in the Health Survey such as general health and longstanding illnesses, use of health services, cigarette smoking, psycho-social health and social support.

Health Survey for England 2000: The health of older people

Press releases; downloadable tables; link to full report.

Health Survey for England 1999: The health of minority ethnic groups

Published: 31/07/2000

Links to full and summary reports; and feasibility study for health surveys among Black African populations living in the UK.

Health Survey for England 1998: cardiovascular disease

Published: 01/01/1999

Department of Health publication

Health Survey for England 1998: Children's reference tables

Downloadable spreadsheets.

Health Survey for England 1997: Adults' reference tables

The Health Survey for England 1997 focussed on the health of children and young adults. This short report is concerned solely with adults and looks at a selection of the key variables.

Health Survey for England 1995-1997 The health of young people

Published: 14/12/1998

Covers, in addition to the core topics (blood pressure, anthropometry, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and self-assessed general health): respiratory conditions (asthma and asthma-related symptoms), lung function, non-fatal accidents, physical exercise and eating habits, a Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire describing the behaviour of each surveyed child, and children's use of sun protection and the prevalence of sunburn.

Health Survey for England 1996

The 1996 Health Survey for England is the sixth in a series of annual surveys commissioned by the Department of Health.

Health Survey for England: Geographical variation in health indicators by health authority, 1994-1996

This report presents key indicators of general health, prevalence of risk factors and morbidity patterns at District Health Authority (HA) level using HSE data over the period 1994 to 1996.

Health Survey for England 1995

The 1995 Health Survey for England is the fifth in a series of annual surveys commissioned by the Department of Health. All five surveys have covered the adult population aged 16 and over living in private households in England. For the first time, the 1995 survey also covered children aged 2-15 living in households selected for the survey.

Health Survey for England 1994: cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors

The principal focus of the 1994 survey, like that of earlier surveys, was on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and associated risk factors.

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