Assessing smoking status in children, adolescents and adults: cotinine cut-points revisited (2008)
Jarvis, M.J., Fidler, J., Mindell, J., Feyerabend, C., West, R.
Aims: To reassess saliva cotinine cut-points to discriminate smoking status. Cotinine cut-points that are in use were derived from relatively small samples of smokers and non-smokers 20 or more years...
Mindell , J, Klodawski, Ed, Fitzpatrick , Justine, Malhotra , Neeraj, McKee, Martin, Sanderson, Colin
Objective: To investigate the impact of including private sector data on assessments of equity of coronary revascularisation provision using NHS data only. Design: Analyses of Hospital Episodes...
Tipping, S., Hope, S., Pickering, K., Mindell, J., Erens, B.
Summary: As part of its Survey Programme Review, The NHS IC has commissioned NatCen to examine the extent to which results from the Health Survey for England (HSE) 2006 (carried out using...
Objectives: to examine differences between measured height and demi-span equivalent height (DEH) among people aged ≥65 and investigate the impact on body mass index (BMI) of using DEH. Design and...
Background and purpose of LIDNS (2008)
Nelson, M., Bates, B., Erens, B., Mindell, J.
This chapter provides a brief overview of the background, rationale, aims, and limitations of the Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey (LIDNS).Details of the survey design and methods are given in...
This chapter examines the prevalence of, trends in, and factors associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including ischaemic heart disease (IHD), stroke, and other heart conditions. The use of...
Health Survey for England 2006: Volume 1 Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors in Adults (2008)
This report presents detailed findings from the 2006 Health Survey for England. The survey has been commissioned by the Information Centre for health and social care since April 2005 and carried out...
Recommendations for organizing a standardized European Health Examination survey (2008)
Tolonen, H., Koponen, P., Aromaa, A., Conti, S., Graff-Iversen, S., Grøtvedt, L., ...
Introduction: Health examination surveys (HES) based on representative probability samples of the population provide information on health behaviour, health determinants (e.g., obesity, blood...
Recommendations for the Health Examination Surveys in Europe (2008)
Tolonen, H., Koponen, P., Aromaa, A., Conti, S., Graff-Iversen, S., Grøtvedt, L., ...
Introduction: One of the objectives of the Community Public Health Programme 2003-2008 of the European Union (EU) was to establish and operate a sustainable health monitoring system [1]. As a part of...
Review of Health Examination Surveys in Europe (2008)
Tolonen, H., Koponen, P., Aromaa, A., Conti, S., Graff-Iversen, S., Grøtvedt, L., ...
Introduction: Information on the health, health risks and use of health services and medicines of the population are needed for planning and evaluating health policies and health care. Typical data...
Using routine data to measure ethnic differentials in access to coronary revascularisation (2007)
Mindell, J., Klodawski, E., Fitzpatrick, J.
Background: Ethnic inequalities in access to health services are difficult to monitor and address because of limited data. Within the health service, ethnicity data have been poor quality, partly...
Zaninotto, P., Mindell, J., Hirani, V.
Objective: To identify independent risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes for each minority ethnic group and the general population in England and explore the...
The impact of private sector provision on equitable provision of coronary revascularisation (2007)
Mindell, J., Klodawski, E., Fitzpatrick, J., Malhotra, N., McKee, M., Sanderson, C.
Objective: To investigate the impact of including private sector data on assessments of equity of coronary revascularisation provision using NHS data only. Design: Analyses of Hospital Episodes...
Complex causal process diagrams for analyzing the health impacts of policy interventions (2006)
Causal diagrams are rigorous tools for controlling confounding. They also can be used to describe complex causal systems, which is done routinely in communicable disease epidemiology. The use of...
Mathematical modelling of health impacts (2005)
Mathematical modelling is seldom applied to research of global measures of health or health inequalities mainly because of the lack of studies of interventions necessary to underpin modelling...
Supporting health impact assessment in practice (2005)
Health impact assessment (HIA) is a process that aims to predict potential positive and negative effects of project, programme or policy proposals on health and health inequalities. It is recommended...
A tentative step towards healthy public policy (2004)
More consistent attention to implementing healthy public policy, and amassing the evidence for it, are urgently required.
Mindell, J., Sheridan, L., Joffe, M., Samson-Barry, H., Atkinson, S.
Objective: To increase the positive and mitigate the negative health impacts of the mayor’s draft transport strategy for London. Design: A rapid prospective health impact assessment (HIA) of the...
Predicted health impacts of urban air quality management (2004)
Study objective: The 1995 UK Environment Act required local authorities to review air quality and, where UK National Air Quality Strategy objectives (except ozone) are likely to be exceeded in 2005,...
Health impact assessment in relation to other forms of impact assessment (2003)
Health impact assessment (HIA) has many advocates for its use to identify and optimize the health effects of nonhealthcare interventions. It is an assessment of the health effects, positive and...
A framework for the evidence base to support health impact assessment (2002)
Objective: To introduce a conceptual structure that can be used to organise the evidence base for Health Impact Assessment (HIA). Background: HIA can be used to judge the potential health effects of...
The transport sector as a source of air pollution (2001)
Colvile, R.N., Warren, R., Mindell, J., Hutchinson, E.
Transport first became a significant source of air pollution after the problems of sooty smog from coal combustion had largely been solved in western European and North American cities. Since then,...
What do we need for robust and quantitative health impact assessment? (2001)
Mindell, J., Hansell, A., Morrison, D., Douglas, M., Joffe, M.
Health impact assessment (HIA) aims to make the health consequences of decisions explicit. Decision-makers need to know that the conclusions of HIA are robust. Quantified estimates of potential...
Lessons from tobacco control for advocates of healthy transport (For debate) (2001)
Many parallels can be drawn between cigarettes and motor vehicles, smoking and car driving, and the tobacco and the auto/oil industries. Those promoting healthy and sustainable transport policies can...
What do we need for robust, quantitative health impact assessment?
Mindell, J., Hansell, A., Morrison, D., Douglas, M., Joffe, M.
Health impact assessment (HIA) aims to make the health consequences of decisions explicit. Decision-makers need to know that the conclusions of HIA are robust. Quantified estimates of potential...
Cabiaux, V, Mindell, J, Collier, R J
A mutant of diphtheria toxin in which Ile-364 was replaced by Lys was at least 500-fold less toxic to Vero cells than the parental toxin. Its ability to undergo low-pH-triggered translocation across...
Cabiaux, V, Mindell, J, Collier, R J
A mutant of diphtheria toxin in which Ile-364 was replaced by Lys was at least 500-fold less toxic to Vero cells than the parental toxin. Its ability to undergo low-pH-triggered translocation across...
What do we need for robust, quantitative health impact assessment?
Mindell, J., Hansell, A., Morrison, D., Douglas, M., Joffe, M.
Health impact assessment (HIA) aims to make the health consequences of decisions explicit. Decision-makers need to know that the conclusions of HIA are robust. Quantified estimates of potential...
A framework for the evidence base to support Health Impact Assessment
Background: HIA can be used to judge the potential health effects of a policy, programme or project on a population, and the distribution of those effects. Progress has been made in incorporating HIA...
Predicted health impacts of urban air quality management
Study objective: The 1995 UK Environment Act required local authorities to review air quality and, where UK National Air Quality Strategy objectives (except ozone) are likely to be exceeded in 2005,...
Mindell, J, Sheridan, L, Joffe, M, Samson-Barry, H, Atkinson, S
Objective: To increase the positive and mitigate the negative health impacts of the mayor's draft transport strategy for London.
Enhancing the evidence base for health impact assessment
Mindell, J, Boaz, A, Joffe, M, Curtis, S, Birley, M
Health impact assessment differs from other purposes for which evidence is collated in a number of ways, including: