{"title":"Life expectancy at birth and at age 65 by local areas in the United Kingdom, 2005-07.","authors":"Claudia Wells, Emma Gordon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87183,"journal":{"name":"Health statistics quarterly","volume":" 40","pages":"81-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27909292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geographical variations in premature mortality in England and Wales, 1981-2006.","authors":"Claudia Wells, Emma Gordon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Levels of premature mortality in England and Wales have declined markedly over time, with the probability of survival to age 75 increasing from 38 to 66 per cent for males, and from 54 to 77 per cent for females, between 1950 and 2004. To assess the application of this measure to monitor premature mortality in sub-national geographical areas, this article presents an analysis of the probability of survival at local authority level. Results for 1981-83 and 2004-06 are presented for Government Office Regions in England, Wales and local authorities in England and Wales. Significant differences in premature mortality are described within, and between, regions. Patterns of probability of survival to age 75 for local authorities are compared with other measures of mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":87183,"journal":{"name":"Health statistics quarterly","volume":" 38","pages":"6-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37424276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infant and perinatal mortality in England and Wales by social and biological factors, 2007.","authors":"Kath Moser","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87183,"journal":{"name":"Health statistics quarterly","volume":" 40","pages":"61-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27909289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Excess winter mortality in England and Wales, 2007/08 (provisional) and 2006/07 (final).","authors":"Anita Brock","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87183,"journal":{"name":"Health statistics quarterly","volume":" 40","pages":"66-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27909290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regional differences in male mortality inequalities using the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification, England and Wales, 2001-03.","authors":"Veronique Siegler, Ann Langford, Brian Johnson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article represents the first use by the Office for National Statistics of the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC) to analyse regional variations in inequalities in male mortality. It is part of a serie of articles on social inequalities in mortality by NS-SEC. Deaths in th years 2001-03 among men aged 25-64, from all causes and selected major cause groups, are examined in each of the Government Office Regions of England and in Wales. The results provide insights into both social gradients in mortality within regions, and regional differences in mortality for each NS-SEC class. The socioeconomic differences in mortality were more marked for men in Wales, the North East and the North West. The regional differences in mortality were small for the most advantaged classes and greatest for the least advantaged classes.</p>","PeriodicalId":87183,"journal":{"name":"Health statistics quarterly","volume":" 40","pages":"6-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27909912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Death registrations in England and Wales, 2007, causes.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87183,"journal":{"name":"Health statistics quarterly","volume":" 39","pages":"89-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27691782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cancer incidence and mortality: trends in the United Kingdom and constituent countries, 1993 to 2004.","authors":"Susan Westlake, Nicola Cooper","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines trends in cancer in the UK and constituent countries over the period 1993-2004 for all cancers combined and the four most common cancers: breast, prostate, lung and colorectal. The results show that the UK male incidence rate increased for prostate cancer, and decreased for lung cancer. The UK female incidence rate increased for breast cancer, and decreased for colorectal cancer. The UK mortality rates fell for the three most common cancers in males, and for breast and colorectal in females. These results provide insight into current trends in incidence and mortality to enable services to be directed appropriately.</p>","PeriodicalId":87183,"journal":{"name":"Health statistics quarterly","volume":" 38","pages":"33-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37424278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing quality of NHS Numbers for Babies data and providing gestational age statistics.","authors":"Kath Moser, Lisa Hilder","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper investigates the quality of information in the National Health Service (NHS) Numbers for Babies (NN4B) dataset and provides statistics on gestational age at birth in relation to live/stillbirth status, multiple birth status, age of mother, babies' sex, and birthweight. Gestational age information is not recorded at the registration of live births and the NN4B system provides the opportunity to access this information for all live and stillbirths in England and Wales. All NN4B records for babies born in England and Wales in 2005 were used in this analysis. Data quality was generally good although some aspects need further investigation. The gestational age data are credible, consistent with other U.K. data sources, and the statistics by maternal age, multiplicity and sex are as expected. These data, previously unavailable for England and Wales as a whole, provide a reference against which to monitor trends in preterm births and can inform the planning of neonatal care provision. NN4B is a powerful new data source which can extend</p>","PeriodicalId":87183,"journal":{"name":"Health statistics quarterly","volume":" 37","pages":"15-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27330306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Standardised mortality ratios--the effect of smoothing ward-level results.","authors":"Allan Baker, Martin Ralphs, Clare Griffiths","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Geographical indicators of mortality provide one of the most important means of assessing the health of populations and are particularly effective in identifying inequalities in health. Geographical mortality indicators have regularly been produced by the Office for National Statistics, but not normally for areas smaller than local authorities. In order to allow variations in mortality within local authorities to be examined, in 2006 ONS published Standardised Mortality Ratios (SMRs) for wards in England and Wales, based on deaths in 1999-2003. For mortality indicators for small populations, based on small numbers of deaths, there is however a risk that results will be unstable, making geographical patterns hard to interpret. To examine whether this problem could be overcome, methods for smoothing SMRs in time and space were considered, with conclusions published in a methodology report in 2007. This article presents results from that work, illustrating the geographical patterns in mortality that emerge following smoothing of the ward-level SMRs.</p>","PeriodicalId":87183,"journal":{"name":"Health statistics quarterly","volume":" 40","pages":"30-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27909287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}