Whitehall Study
- Abstract
- The original Whitehall Study investigated social determinants of health, specifically the cardiorespiratory disease prevalence and mortality rates among British male civil servants between the ages of 20 and 64. The initial study, the Whitehall I Study, examined over 18,000 male civil servants, and was conducted over a period of ten years, beginning in 1967.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Cardiorespiratory disease prevalence, social determinants, mortality rates, smoking, car ownership, leisure, diabetes
- Variables
- Poverty, social determinants, employment, status, cardiovascular disease, ECG measurements, respiratory disease, diabetes, mortality, mortality rates, obesity, smoking, leisure time, high blood pressure, physical activity.
- Keywords
- Poverty, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, employment, high blood pressure, leisure time, mortality rates, obesity, physical activity, respiratory disease, smoking, social determinnats
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Employment, Labour
- Area of Health System
- Public health
- Disease Area
- Cardiovascular diseases, Diabetes, Respiratory diseases
- Data Available
- Demographic, Risk behaviours, Socio-economic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
- Data Type
- Survey (longitudinal)
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
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1967 - 18,000 men in British civil service
- Availability
- ESRC, UCL
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/whitehallII/
- Contact
- Tel: 020 7679 5621 Fax: 020 7419 6732 email: whitehall2@public-health.ucl.ac.uk
- Publications
- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/whitehallII/publications