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Health Profile: Glasgow, United Kingdom

van Ameijden, Erik; Koster, Emmy; de Gelder, Rianne; van Buren, Laurens; Verma, Arpana

Manchester, UK: The University of Manchester; 2012.

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Glasgow is one of the urban areas chosen for EURO-URHIS 2 (European Urban Health Indicator System Part 2), a project that aims to identify health problems in urban areas. The EURO-URHIS 2 project describes health and health determinants specific to urban areas in Europe, covering cities in North, East, South, and West Europe. This project may add to information that is already locally available, in that it is the first study to enable reliable comparisons of health status between different cities in Europe. Policy makers can use the information to prioritise topics for urban health policy and for interventions in an evidence-based way.EURO-URHIS 2 gathered information by collecting data from routinely available registration data, and by conducting youth and adult surveys at the end of 2010. In total, data from 26 urban areas in Europe were available for between-city comparisons and benchmarking. The routinely available registration data relate to the most recently available year (2006-2008). The youth survey was a school-based survey of 14-16 year olds. In Glasgow, 296 students completed a valid questionnaire. Because of a very low response rate in the adult survey in Glasgow, these results are not included in the health profile.

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Glasgow is one of the urban areas chosen for EURO-URHIS 2 (European Urban Health Indicator System Part 2), a project that aims to identify health problems in urban areas. The EURO-URHIS 2 project describes health and health determinants specific to urban areas in Europe, covering cities in North, East, South, and West Europe. This project may add to information that is already locally available, in that it is the first study to enable reliable comparisons of health status between different cities in Europe. Policy makers can use the information to prioritise topics for urban health policy and for interventions in an evidence-based way.EURO-URHIS 2 gathered information by collecting data from routinely available registration data, and by conducting youth and adult surveys at the end of 2010. In total, data from 26 urban areas in Europe were available for between-city comparisons and benchmarking. The routinely available registration data relate to the most recently available year (2006-2008). The youth survey was a school-based survey of 14-16 year olds. In Glasgow, 296 students completed a valid questionnaire. Because of a very low response rate in the adult survey in Glasgow, these results are not included in the health profile.
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uk-ac-man-scw:171717
Created by:
Verma, Arpana
Created:
28th September, 2012, 10:55:07
Last modified by:
Verma, Arpana
Last modified:
24th October, 2012, 20:34:02

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