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Health Studies User Conference 2018

17 Jul 2018 12:00 am
Conferences
Health

The annual Health Studies User Conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with UCL and NatCen Social Research, is a full-day conference and is free to attend. The conference will allow users to hear updates from the data producers on key UK cross-sectional health surveys and key UK longitudinal studies with health-related content, including:

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

There will also be presentations from researchers based on analysis of these data.

This year the conference includes a panel discussion on “Survey data, admin data: potential and pitfalls” chaired by John Bates, Office of the Chief Analyst, Department of Health.

Follow the event on Twitter: #UKDSHealth18

Event resources

Programme| Wakelet| Presentation: Cross-sectional health surveys, Anne Conolly| Presentation: Inequalities in smoking prevalence trends by occupational group in England, Anne Alarilla| Presentation: Long-term health conditions, multiple conditions and multiple risks: methodological innovations on the Scottish Health Survey, Shanna Christie| Presentation: A comparison of the prevalence and severity of mental disorder between UK ex-serving military personnel and the general population, Rebecca Rhead| Presentation: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS): overview for health researchers, Amanda Hughes| Presentation: Cohort Studies, David Bann| Presentation: Update on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Josiane Breeden| Presentation: Social position and DNA methylation age acceleration across the lifecourse, Amanda Hughes| Presentation: Life course neighbourhood deprivation effects on body mass index: quantifying the importance of selective migration, Emily Murray| Presentation: Newly at risk? Using Health Survey for England data to retrospectively explore the characteristics of newly defined at-risk drinkers following the change to the UK low risk drinking guidelines, Philippa Case| Presentation: Pathways to smoking in LGB populations: A multilevel path analysis, Megan Davies| Presentation: The Scarring Effect of Youth Unemployment on Trajectories of Mental Health and Subjective Wellbeing, Liam Wright| Presentation: Development and validation of sexual network model based on published Natsal-3 data, Fabian Sailer| Presentation: Does breastfeeding cluster with other demographic traits to form distinct reproductive strategies? Laura Brown