Health Survey for England is an annual survey designed to measure health and health related behaviours in adults and children in England.
The data are used to estimate the prevalence of specific conditions as well as their associated risk factors at both a national and regional level.
Generally however, the sample size is too small to provide useful information at a sub-national level, and on inequalities between different groups of
the population. Thus, in 2006, the London Boost of the Health survey for England was commissioned to provide an increase in the number of participants
to the survey living in London.
The initial release of findings presented below covers a selection of indicators from the total dataset for adults.
These include smoking, alcohol, body mass index (BMI), fruit and vegetable consumption, participation in sport and exercise, self assessed general
health, limiting long-term illness and GHQ-12 score. Inequalities for those indicators are also presented by gender, age, socio-economic status,
ethnicity and national deprivation quintile.
Further work is planned with this data, but if you have an opinion as to which areas this work should prioritise, or any other comments, please fill
out a short questionnaire available here.