Health Education Monitoring Survey
- Abstract
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The purpose of the 1995 Health Education Monitoring Survey (HEMS) was to provide a baseline measure of a set of health promotion indicators relating to health-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviour (which were developed by the Health Education Authority) of a sample of adults aged 16-74. The aim of subsequent surveys is to measure any change against this baseline.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Household characteristics; socio-demographic characteristics of respondents; general health; skin cancer; smoking; alcohol drinking; physical activity; nutrition; sexual health.
- Variables
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Household characteristics, socio-demographic characteristics of respondents, general health, skin cancer, smoking, alcohol drinking, physical activity, nutrition, sexual health.
- Keywords
- England, advice, age, AIDS (disease), air pollution, alcohol consumption, alcoholic drinks, appointment to job, attitudes, building maintenance, cardiovascular diseases, care of dependants, cereal products, cereals, children, cohabitation, contraceptive devices, diet and nutrition, disabilities, disabled persons, diseases, domestic responsibilities, economic activity, edible fats, employees, employment, employment history, ethnic groups, examinations, exercise, exposure to the sun, food, food additives, frequency, fruit, furnished accommodation, gardening, gender, heads of household, health, health foods, health professionals, health promotion and education, heart diseases, HIV infections, home ownership, homosexuality, household head's economic activity, household head's occupation, households, housework, housing, housing tenure, income, industries, information, interpersonal relations, job description, job hunting, knowledge (awareness), leisure time activities, life styles, lung cancer, managers, marital status, milk, mortgages, motor vehicles, nutrients, occupations, partnerships (personal), physical activities, physicians, pollution, potatoes, pregnancy, professional consultations, qualifications, rented accommodation, retirement
- Identifier Variables
- Standard regions
- Area of Health System
- Public health
- Disease Area
- Cancer
- Data Available
- Risk behaviours, Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Office for National Statistics
- Data Type
- Survey (cross-sectional)
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
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Adults aged 16-74 years living in private households in England. 1995 Weighted sample size: 9,210
1996 Weighted sample size: 8,928
1997 Weighted sample size: 8,250
1998 Weighted sample size: 10,955 - Availability
- ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive
- Conditions of Access
- Free registration access
- Link
- 1995 http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/snDescription.asp?sn=3562
1996 http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/snDescription.asp?sn=3781
1997 http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/snDescription.asp?sn=4136
1998 http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/snDescription.asp?sn=4137 - Contact
- help@esds.ac.uk
- Publications
- Gore SM. Effective monitoring of young people's use of illegal drugs: meta-analysis of UK trends and recommendations. The British Journal of Criminology 1999; 39: 575-584