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Health Studies User Conference 2024

1 Jul 2024 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
UCL
Conferences
Health

Booking for the conference has now closed. The morning session is fully booked so please do not turn up if you have not booked a place. There are extra places available for the parallel sessions after lunch. If you would like to attend any of these sessions please email the events team and visit the registration desk on arrival to sign in.

Do you want to know the latest developments in health data from social surveys? Are you interested in research using health data?

This free conference is organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with UCL and the National Centre for Social Research and will be held in London at UCL on 1 July 2024.

Attendees will hear updates from the data producers of key UK social surveys (cross-sectional and longitudinal studies) with health-related content, such as:

  • Health Survey for England
  • Scottish Health Survey
  • English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
  • Understanding Society
  • Birth Cohort Studies
  • and more

There will also be presentations by researchers who have conducted analyses using health data.

We are very pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for this year's conference is Professor Laia Becares, Professor of Social Science and Health at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, who will present on 'Understanding and documenting the fundamental role of racism on ethnic inequities in health: analysis of 30 years of Health Survey data'.

The speaker's slides will be added to this event page in advance of the conference, if they have given permission to add them.

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Note: Photographs and/or video may be taken at this event. These will be used for advertising, communications, social media, training materials and other publicity or training-related purposes. Photos and videos are collected on a 'public task' basis. Attendees should contact us at booking@ukdataservice.ac.uk if they prefer their images not to be used.

Event resources

Programme

Keynote and research paper abstracts

Presentation slides:

Understanding and documenting the fundamental role of racism on ethnic inequities in health: Laia Becares (PDF)

Latest updates on cross-sectional health surveys: Greta Liubertiene (PDF)

Developments in survey content and analysis potential as part of the Scottish Health Survey: Victoria Wilson (PDF)

Updates from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: Lucy Englefield and Bex Williams (PDF)

An introduction to health data in the CLS national longitudinal cohort studies: Richard Silverwood (PDF)

Recent developments in Understanding Society: Meena Kumari (PDF)

Are diabetes and blood sugar control associated with eye disease development?: Stephen Jivraj (PDF)

What can UK Censuses tell us about health inequalities among young people?: Katrin Metsis (PDF)

Examining oral hygiene and dental visits’ impact on adult oral health over 11 years in England: Abdul Azim Abdul Razak (PDF)

Long COVID: Impact on employment and mental health: Darja Reuschke (PDF)

What is the relationship between the stringency of government COVID-19 policies and subjective wellbeing?: Christopher Deeming (PDF)

Gender and education differences in trajectories of physiological ageing: Mikaela Bloomberg (PDF)

Neurodivergence, learning disability and metabolic syndrome conditions, in England: Nicola Shelton (PDF)

Construction of a frailty index using Understanding Society and analysing the influence on ethnicity using a multilevel growth modelling framework: Alexander Labeit (PDF)

Depressive symptoms, socioeconomic position and mortality in older people living with and beyond cancer: Natalie Miller (PDF)

Prevalence and nature of workplace bullying and harassment and associations with mental health conditions in England: Annie Bunce (PDF)

Indirect victims of violence: Mental health and the close relatives of serious assault victims in England: Elizabeth Cook (PDF)