West Midlands Public Health Observatory
- Abstract
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The West Midlands Public Health Observatory one of nine regional public health observatories in England, funded by the Department of Health, to strengthen the availability and use of health information at local level. Local profiles (health data for the local community) for the West Midlands Public Health Observatory contains data on populations, death, hospital admissions, lifestyle, environment and metadat.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Population, deaths, environment, hospital admissions, lifestyle and metadata.
- Variables
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Population estimates by: age and gender, ethnicity, household, IMD. deaths by: cause, infant mortality, life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, hospital admission by type of admission, lifestyle includes: teenage pregnancy, alcohol admissions, alcohol deaths, children's bmi and cervical screening.
- Keywords
- Population, age, gender, ethnicity, households, projections, imd, deaths, infant mortality, mortality, life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, hospital admissions, admissions, emergency admission, cervical screening, teenage pregnancy, BMI, alcohol
- Identifier Variables
- LA, PCT, county councils, unitary authority
- Area of Health System
- Public health
- Data Available
- Risk behaviours
- Data collecting organization (s)
- West Midlands Public Health Observatory
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- Regional
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Unit of Analysis
- Aggregate
- Sample
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Population covered by West Midlands Public Health Observatory
- Availability
- West Midlands Public Health Observatory
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- Alcohol http://www.wmpho.org.uk/localprofiles/
Cancer http://www.wmpho.org.uk/localprofiles/default.aspx
Diabetes http://www.wmpho.org.uk/localprofiles/
Older people http://www.wmpho.org.uk/localprofiles/
Smoking http://www.wmpho.org.uk/localprofiles/
Local profiles http://www.wmpho.org.uk/localprofiles/
Physical environment http://www.wmpho.org.uk/localprofiles/default.aspx - Contact
- Tel: 01214158551
- Publications
- Mant J, et al. Identification of stroke in the community: a comparison of three methods. British Journal of General Practice 2003; 53(492): 520–524