Health Survey for England - 2014, additional chapters
Supplementary to the 16/12/15 release, this release includes new chapters on mental health included in the 2014 survey for the first time.
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The Health Survey for England series was designed to monitor trends in the nation’s health, to estimate the proportion of people in England who have specified health conditions, and to estimate the prevalence of risk factors associated with these conditions. The surveys provide regular information that cannot be obtained from other sources on a range of aspects concerning the public’s health. The surveys have been carried out since 1994 by the Joint Health Surveys Unit of NatCen Social Research and the Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University College London.
Each survey in the series includes core questions and measurements (such as blood pressure, height and weight, and analysis of blood and saliva samples), as well as modules of questions on topics that vary from year to year. New topics this year include hearing and mental health. The achieved sample for the 2014 survey was 8,077 adults (aged 16 and over) and 2,003 children (aged 0-15).
This year tables are in excel spreadsheets and the way the findings are presented in the report and summary has changed. We would very much like to hear readers’ views about these changes.
A link to the survey can be found at the bottom of this page in Related links.