Health Information Frameworks

Divide Data sources either by:

1. Population Data
  • Census
  • Births & Deaths register
  • ONS longitudinal survey
  • Public Health common data set
2. Health Events
  • Death certificate
  • HES
  • Korner data
  • GP data (EMIS)
  • PACT data
  • Registers (cancer, malformations etc.)
3. Population Based Surveys
  • General household survey, National Health survey, Food survey (these are patchy and often incomplete)

OR by :
 

1. Mortality
2. Morbidity
  • hospital (HES and regional data)
  • Primary Care
  • Registers - cancer, malformations etc.
3. Surveys - done regularly such as the National Health
Survey or one-off OPCS Disability Survey (85 & 95)
4. Research - literature via medline
5. Non-NHS sources such as fire, police other registers

A bit about each of these sources with their advantages and disadvantages would be helpful to know. Most of the detail of this is in Donaldson & Donaldson