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Consultants: Office for National Statistics (ONS)
The research
The Health Survey for England is a series of annual surveys about the health of people in England. The Health Survey was first proposed in 1990 to improve information of morbidity by the (then) newly created Central Health Monitoring Unit within the Department of Health . This information is used to underpin and improve targeting of nationwide health policies.
Each year the Health Survey for England focuses on a different demographic group and looks at such health indicators as cardio-vascular disease, physical activity, eating habits, oral health, accidents, and asthma. Since 1994 onwards the survey has been carried out by the Joint Survey Unit of the National Centre of Social Research and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.
The Health Survey combines questionnaire answers and physical measurements as well as other objective measures such as analysis of blood samples, ecg readings and lung function tests. The Health Survey for England contains a 'core' which is repeated each year and each survey year has one or more modules on subjects of special interest.
The 'core' includes:
questions on general health and psycho-social indicators
smoking
alcohol
demographic and socio-economic indicators
questions about use of health services and prescribed medicines - the focus for these may vary from year to year to suit the modular content of the survey.
blood pressure
measurements of height, weight and blood pressure
Progress to date: Project completed
Reports:
Health Survey for England 2003 - Sport and Walking (42 Kb) PDF
Further Information: For further information about the Health Survey for England visit the Department of Health website |
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