Scottish Health Survey
The Scottish Health Survey commissioned
by the Scottish Executive Health Department, is closely modelled on the Health
Survey for England and is carried out by the Joint Health Surveys Unit of the
National Centre for Social Research and University College London (which also
carries out the Health Survey for England). There have been three previous Scottish
Health Surveys in 1995, 1998 and 2003. The aim of the SHeS is to gain knowledge
about the health of the population of Scotland. Currently the Scottish Health
Survey is running continuously from 2008-2011.
The 2008-2011 survey will still have
a two stage process - a personal interview followed by a nurse visit - but the
nurse visit will only be offered to around one sixth of the sample whereas it
was previously offered to the whole sample. The survey now has a core and modular
structure with a core set of questions going to the whole sample and two modules
of questions which go to a proportion of the sample. Module A contains a range
of questions on cardiovascular disease, asthma, eating habits, physical activity,
mental health, dental health and accidents. Most of these questions will be
asked every second year although some will be asked annually. Module B contains
questions on knowledge, attitudes and motivations to health and is a replacement
for the Health Education Population Survey (HEPS) which was previously run by
NHS Health Scotland.
More information can be found on the Scottish Government web site.
Scottish Morbidity Linked
Dataset
The Scottish Morbidity Linked Dataset
is a new powerful research database which encompasses Scottish Health Survey
records, linked to NHS acute and psychiatric hospital records, cancer, and death
registrations. A selection of SPSS minimum datasets providing summarised linked
morbidity and mortality information are available on request from Catherine.storey@isd.csa.scot.nhs.uk
or David.clark@isd.csa.scot.nhs.uk. More information is available in the following
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