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Usage of the Welsh Health Survey
This page contains information from users who have downloaded the WHS data and who have agreed to have their project information shared. You can opt to be included or to amend the details held for you by changing your project registration.
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The role of community-level factors in determining vaccine uptake – Dr Giles Greene (Cardiff University – Dept of Primary Care & Public Health). July 2011
The requested data will be matched up to vaccine uptake take provided by the HPA combining the geographical data from the UK census to examine the role of community-level factors such as variations in neighbourhood social capital to explain uptake of vaccines, in particular MMR. The research aims to establish a link between the individual's perceptions of their community and their health choices for their children. Multilevel logistic models will be used due to the clustered nature of the BHPS sample to account for the non-independence of observations within neighbourhoods.
Other surveys used: BHPS HBAI GHS BCS70 USOC.
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Calculation of Health Expectancies – Mr Andrew Yeap (Office for National Statistics (ONS) – Centre for Health Analysis and Life Events). July 2011
Calculation of health expectancies on a national and sub-national level. Users and stakeholders include the Deparment of Health; the Department for Work and Pensions; and various health-related organisations across Great Britain.
Other surveys used: NICHS GHS HSE BSA FRS SHES EHS NORTHERN IRELAND HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELLBEING SURVEY; 2005-2006 SILC LIW.
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Monitoring poverty and social exclusion – Mr Guy Palmer. December 2010
Maintenance of 100 key indicators of poverty and social exclusion both for the UK as a whole and for regions within it. Subjects covered include income, work, education, health, housing, crime and neighbourhoods. See www.poverty.org.uk
Other surveys used: LFS NICHS EFS HSE FRS APS LIW BCS SCS Omnibus HBAI FES EHS NSW.
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Pain In Wales – Dr Paul Jarvis (University of Glamorgan – Health Sport and Science). August 2010
An exploratory analysis of pain prevalence in Wales conducted by the University of Glamorgan. This is with aim of creating a publishable work that will include descriptive analysis of various aspects of pain and relationships with demographic data and health usage.
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Service use amongst those for whom English is not their first language – Mr Martin Hyde (Sheffield Hallam University – Psychology; sociology and politics). April 2010
The data will be used to do some preliminary analyses on the number of potential service users have difficulty speaking English.
Other surveys used: HSE LIW SHES ELSA.
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Epidemiology of Multi-morbidity – Dr Mark Hann (University of Manchester – National Primary Care Research & Development Centre). March 2010
This study will address questions around multi-morbidity through secondary analysis of existing cross-sectional and longitudinal datasets. Cross-sectionally we will look at the impact of co-morbidity on health status and health service use controlling for demographics: longitudinally we will attempt to determine how co-morbid chronic conditions ‘develop’ over time.
Other surveys used: HSE.
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Calculation of Welsh Norms for the SF36 – Mr Paul Nash (Swansea University – Centre for Innovative Ageing). January 2010
I am looking to obtain the raw data scores for the SF36 on the Welsh Health Survey broken down by Gender; Social Class; and Age. We require these so that we can create a set of welsh norms to use in the scoring of the sf 36 for a more accurate reflection of our data.
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Reference data for study of cystic fibrosis – Professor Gillian Raab (University of St Andrews – Geography). December 2009
To act as reference standards for height, weight and fev1 for a study of these in cystic fibrosis. The cystic fibrosis data are taken from a national UK register covering England, Wales, Scotland and NI.
Other surveys used: SHES.
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Estimating the number of deaf blind people in the UK – Dr Janet Robertson (Lancaster University – Division of Health Research). October 2009
A review of existing estimates of the number of deafblind people in the UK by the Investigator for the Sponsor (SENSE).
Other surveys used: FRS HSE GHS NTS SHES ELSA BHPS APS HBAI LFS NICHS LIW MCS.
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DAMES – Professor Vernon Gayle (University of Stirling – Applied Social Science). June 2009
Data management in e-social science. The data will be used in initial analyses relating to the DAMES data management theme in education. Those interested should contact the project directly at www.dames.org.uk/
Other surveys used: GHS APS BHPS LSYPE.
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Migration, geography and the health and social status of infants and young children – Dr Helena Tunstall (University of York – Health Sciences). January 2009
Data will be used to analyse the relationship between migration and infant and child health and socio-economic status. Analysis will, if possible, compare the characteristics of the families of movers and non movers and of their areas of residence at waves 1 and 2 of data collection.
Other surveys used: MCS Vital Statistics.
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Happiness and health – Professor David Blanchflower (University of Stirling – Economics). December 2008
This continues work I have been doing across countries on health and wellbeing. This includes work on happiness, obesity and depression.
Other surveys used: HSE LFS FRS.
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Health Surveys – Iain Lang (University of Exeter – Pensinsula Medical School). November 2008
My analyses treat Health Survey for England data as an epidemiological and public health resource and are focused on examining associations between health behaviours, and associated factors, and health outcomes. I use the data both cross-sectionally and to look at trends.
Other surveys used: HSE ELSA.
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Wellbeing in Wales – Dr Gindo Tampubolon (University of Manchester – Sociology). October 2008
We are investigating area characteristics and socioeconomic factors which are important in determining individual well being.
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Health and happiness – Professor david blanchflower (University of Stirling – Economics). July 2008
Work on happiness and health and their determinants including blood pressure, obesity and height. These data will also be used to examine depression and mental health.
Other surveys used: HSE BSA SHES NCDS BCS70.
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Correspondence analysis of welsh survey data – Professor Ian Rees Jones (University of Bangor – School of Social Sciences). June 2008
This is a study to examine the potential use of multiple correspondence analysis in the secondary analysis of welsh survey data. Questions to be addressed will include the extent to which social mapping reveals patterns of social distinction in health lifestyles and measures of social cohesion and social and cultural capital.
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Health expectancy – Dr Michael Smith (Office for National Statistics – SEMARD Office for National Statistics). March 2008
Data will be used in the production, analysis and reporting of Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) and Disability free LIFE Expectency (DfLE).
Other surveys used: GHS HSE NICHS SHES.
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Small Area Estimates of Health Outcomes – Dr Ben Anderson (University of Essex – Chimera). January 2008
Exploratory research to investigate the potential for small-area estimation of health outcomes.
Other surveys used: BHPS.
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Deprivation and development – Professor Laurence Moseley (University of Glamorgan – SOCS-HESAS). January 2008
An analysis of data in rural areas in England with a view to trying to uncover the barriers to, and stimulators of, economic progress.
Other surveys used: APS GHS Omnibus HSE MCS.
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International Comparsions of the Social Determinants of Health, 1972-2005 – Mr Robert Hawes. October 2007
A historical review of risk factors for chronic disease in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom for the period 1978 - 2005. Specifically, this analysis will employ a 'social determinants of health' perspective to model the simultaneous contribution of gender, education, income, immigrant status, rural residence and ethnicity in the prediction of chronic disease risk factors. In addition, the proposed analysis requires that the age of the respondent be included as a continuous variable to model the quadratic (squared) function of risk factors over time.
Other surveys used: HSE SHES BHPS.
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Disability and labour market outcomes – Dr Paul Latreille (University of Swansea – Economics). December 2006
To consider from an economics perspective the relationship between health/disability and labour market outcomes in Wales and to examine differences according to the measurement of health/disability.
Other surveys used: LFS.
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Estimation of BMI by demographic variables and by Strategic Health Authorities – Mr James Chambers. November 2006
The Health surveys of England, Wales and Scotland will be used to estimate the BMI by demographic factors by Strategic Health Authorities. This information will then be used for a budget impact model.
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Other surveys used: SHES HSE.
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Denbighshire health needs survey – Ms Sally Baker (North-East Wales Institute of Higher Education – Centre for Health and Community Research). November 2005
Require mean and range of sample for WHS 1998 and denbighshire subset to compare against a the Denbighshire Health needs survey data.
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Further analysis of ELSA health data – Mrs Susan Maisey (University of East Anglia – Medicine, Health Policy and Practice). April 2005
Comparison of disease symptoms with established diagnoses. In-depth analysis of regional and socioeconomic determinants of health and health care delivery.
Other surveys used: ELSA.
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ONS Focus on Health Report – Ms Velda Osborne. January 2005
Focus on Health is one of a series of reports to be published by ONS, both as a paper volume and on the NS web site. Data downloaded from the archive will be used to create tabulations etc not available in published survey reports.
Other surveys used: GHS HSE NICHS SHES NTS EFS.
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Carer quality of life – Mr Simon Dixon (University of Sheffield – ScHARR). December 2004
This work will look at the relationship between care giving and health related quality of life.
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