Coronary heart disease and stroke.

  • Great Britain. Department of Health.
Date:
[1993]
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Coronary heart disease and stroke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1.7 @ Infant Feeding Survey data on pregnant women - The Infant Feeding Survey regional breakdown of smoking data. @ Family Expenditure Survey - The Family Expenditure Survey carried out annually includes household expenditure on tobacco at a regional level. @ HEA MORI surveys - Regular tracking surveys of smoking habits and attitudes among 11-15 year olds have been carried out by MORI for the HEA since 1989. A limited regional breakdown of data is available. @ HEA Health and Lifestyle survey - The HEA Health and Lifestyle Survey consists of two parts, a general population sample and a black and ethnic minority sample. Data collected includes morbidity, prevention, cessation support, workplace and other policies. Some of the 1992 data will be available broken down by health region. @ Annual reports by General Practitioners - where records of smoking have been included. From 1994, more detailed information on smoking prevalence in individual practices will be available as a result of changes in the health promotion arrangements under the GP contract. Managers should discuss with GPs locally ways which this information might be aggregated to provide a useful resource. Local needs assessment RHAs/DHAs/FHSAs should consider their further information requirements in conducting local ‘needs assessment’ analysis. The DHA Project paper “Moving Forward — Needs, Services and Contracts” (available from the Purchasing Unit, PMD3B, NHSME) highlighted a number of issues for NHS authorities to consider in determining local priorities: @ epidemiological assessments; ®@ comparative assessments; @ a corporate view taking account of a range of local views and interests. In addition, the DHA Project document on lung cancer (publication pending) provides a valuable reference point for work in this area. It includes modelling processes to calculate the percentage reduction in smoking in the local population needed to achieve the lung cancer mortality target. 86 CORONARY HEART DISEASE AND STROKE