Radical
Statistics
OFFICIAL HEALTH STATISTICS: AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDE
edited by Sue Kerrison and Alison MacFarlane (2000)
http://www.arnoldpublishers.com
CONTENTS:
Chapter 1 SETTING THE SCENE
The government statistical service and the collection of official health statistics
Susan Kerrison and Alison Macfarlane
Chapter 2 SURVEYING THE POPULATION
Health topics in censuses and surveys
Mary Shaw, Danny Dorling and Jenny Grundy
Chapter 3 MATTERS OF LIFE, DEATH AND ILLNESS
Births, congenital anomalies, deaths, communicable diseases and cancer
Alison Macfarlane, Azeem Majeed, Neil Vickers, Phil Atkinson, and John Watson
Chapter 4 LOOKING AT HEALTH INEQUALITIES
Social class, disabled people and ethnic origin
Alison Macfarlane, Mel Bartley, Susan Kerrison, and Jenny Head
Chapter 5 MONEY MATTERS
Measuring poverty, wealth and unemployment.
Paul Johnson, Sarah Tanner, and Ray Thomas
Chapter 6 HEALTH AT WORK AND HOME
Occupational ill health, housing and diet
Ben Armstrong, Rebeka Widdowfield, Yoav Ben shlomo, Eric Brunner, and Annette Boaz
Chapter 7 ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
Industrial pollution, air pollution and transport
Mary Taylor, Susan Kerrison, Sue Hare, Stephen Potter, Adrian Davis, and Ben Lane
Chapter 8 HEALTH CARE
Monitoring the NHS
Alison Macfarlane, Susan Kerrison, Declan Gaffney, and Sylvia Godden
Chapter 9 SOCIAL SERVICES STATISTICS
Statistics chasing the policy tail
Nick Miller and Robin Darton
