Health Survey for England: Trend Tables - 2014
The Health Survey for England is a series of annual surveys designed to measure health and health related behaviours in adults and children, in England. Core topics are included every year and other topics are included in selected years. The trend tables present time series data for the available years at England level by sex. Some tables present data by age group and sex. The topics covered include height, weight, BMI, smoking, alcohol, physical activity, general health, long-standing illness, fruit and vegetable consumption. For adults there are also tables about well-being, blood pressure and the prevalence of diabetes and cardio-vascular disease.
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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 certain risk factors and combinations 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 and many of the factors that affect health.
Each survey in the series includes core questions and measurements (such as blood pressure, height and weight, and analysis of blood and saliva samples), and modules of questions on topics that vary from year to year. These trend tables focus on key changes in core topics and measurements.
All surveys have covered the adult population aged 16 and over living in private households in England. Since 1995, the surveys have included children who live in households selected for the survey; children aged 2-15 were included from 1995, and infants under two years old were added in 2001.
The Health Survey for England has 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 UCL (University College London).