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GP practices at strategic health authority (SHA) and primary care organisation (PCO) level in five year age bands by gender, for England and Wales.

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Trend data for Children 1995-2000 including tables on smoking behaviour, alcohol consumption, height, weight, BMI, blood pressure, self-assessed health, longstanding illness and acute sickness.

(formerly known as the United Kingdom Voluntary Register for Public Health Specialists - UKVRPHS). The UK Voluntary Register for Public Health Specialists (UKVRPHS) now known as the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR), opened in May 2003 with the aim of promoting public confidence in specialist public health practice in the UK through independent regulation. It provides public protection by ensuring that only competent public health professionals are registered and that high standards of practice are maintained.

How does SASPAC make access to Census data easier for the user? Where is the data? What's the code for the variable I want? How can I make the data available in an easily readable form?

Presented 13/10/08 to the PH surveillance: information for action workshop.

Presented 13/10/08 to the PH surveillance: information for action workshop.

**UPDATE: Now includes all-cause mortality trend data for 2001 to 2006** The objective of reducing health inequalities lies at the very heart of Department of Health policy and is a key NHS objective. Yet information on the nature and extent of local health inequalities is often limited. To try and address this information gap, the South East Public Health Group has produced a Health Inequalities Gap Measurement Tool which aims to increase understanding in the NHS and Local Authorities of their inequalities gap. The Gap Measurement Tool aims to provide a standardised approach to measuring these local inequalities based on cause-specific mortality rates for deprivation score derived quintiles of super output areas. The rates are based on the underlying cause of death from ONS 2002-6 mortality files and ONS 2004 SOA population estimates, and the tool shows the gaps in mortality rates for a range of user-selectable Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007-based quintiles, 17 ICD-10 cause of death categories, and quinary age and sex groups. The results can be displayed for any combination of the two SHAs, 17 PCTs and 19 Unitary Authorities and County Councils in the South East using a range of chart formats and data tables. Using data for the slightly longer period 2001 to 2006, the tool can also be used to review the trends and gaps in all-age, all-cause mortality rates. Maps showing the location of the least and most deprived SOA quintiles are provided, as are full methodological and data source notes. The Gap Measurement Tool can be used alongside the APHO Health Inequalities Intervention Tool – an interactive tool which allows users to model the impact of different interventions on their gap (http://tinyurl.com/ysx72a) – to provide a comprehensive picture of the causes of death, age and sex groups and geographic areas driving the health inequalities gap in their local area. (The Gap Measurement Tool and the APHO Intervention Tool do similar things, but there are a number of differences: the Gap Measurement Tool allows users more flexibility in choosing which areas and deprivation quintiles to compare (including PCTs, which are not included in the APHO tool), includes a detailed age and sex breakdown of the inequalities gap, and provides a larger number of chart and table display options. The data in the South East tool is also more up-to-date as it includes deaths that occured in 2006. The APHO Intervention Tool, in contrast, provides less detail on the nature of local health inequalities, but does allow users to model the likely effects of different interventions on their gap.) For further information contact: Robert Kyffin Senior Public Health Intelligence Officer South East Public Health Group e. robert.kyffin@dh.gsi.gov.uk t. 01483 882 264 NB. The Gap Measurement Tool is based on data only available to the NHS so is not available to non-NHS staff and should not be circulated outside the NHS.