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The Health of Children and Young People
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  Foreword
  Acknowledgements
  Notes
Introduction
  The Health Survey for England
  This report
  Overview of HSE 2002
  Ethical clearance
  Boosting the sample of children and young adults
  Sample design
  Fieldwork design
  Interviewing children
  Response
  Weighting the data
  Age as an analysis variable
1 Cigarette smoking - Heather Wardle and Barry Hedges
  1.1 Introduction
  1.2 Children aged 8-15: self reported cigarette smoking behaviour
  1.3 Self-reported cigarette smoking among young adults aged 16-24
  1.4 Cotinine
  1.5 Other people's smoking: household level and general exposure
  1.6 Cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption by young adults
  1.7 Factors associated with smoking: logistic regression
  1.8 Trends in smoking prevalence over time
  Tables
2 Alcohol consumption - Bob Erens
  2.1 Introduction
  2.2 Alcohol consumption among children aged 8-15
  2.3 Weekly alcohol consumption among young adults aged 16-24
  2.4 Daily alcohol consumption by young adults aged 16-24
  2.5 Level of alcohol consumption for young adults aged 16-24: logistic regression
  Tables
3 Fruit and vegetable consumption - Claire Deverill
  3.1 Background
  3.2 Methodology
  3.3 Comparison of fruit and vegetable consumption between 2001 and 2002
  3.4 Fruit and vegetable consumption by age and sex
  3.5 Type of fruit and vegetable consumed
  3.6 Fruit and vegetable consumption, by socio-demographic group
  3.7 Fruit and vegetable consumption, by alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking
  3.8 Fruit and vegetable consumption, by body mass index and perception of weight
  3.9 Logistic regression of factors associated with eating five or more portions of fruit and vegetables per day
  Tables
4 Physical activity - Emmanuel Stamatakis
  4.1 Introduction
  4.2 The physical activity of children aged 2-15
  4.3 The physical activity of young adults aged 16-24
  4.4 Young adults' physical activity over the last four weeks
  Tables
5 Respiratory health - Paola Primatesta
  5.1 Introduction
  5.2 Methods
  5.3 Prevalence and severity of respiratory symptoms
  5.4 Prevalence of symptoms by indicators of socio-economic status
  5.5 Geographical variation in the prevalence of symptoms
  5.6 Exposure to indoor risk factors
  5.7 Familial characteristics (children 0-15)
  5.8 Logistic regression for wheezing in the last twelve months
  5.9 Trends in respiratory symptoms and asthma
  5.10 Serum IgE and house dust mite specific IgE
  5.11 Lung function
  Tables
6 Non-fatal accidents - Katie Malbut and Emanuela Falaschetti
  6.1 Introduction
  6.2 Methodology
  6.3 Accident rates by age and sex
  6.4 Types of accident
  6.5 Location of accidents
  6.6 Types of injury and part of the body sustaining the injury
  6.7 Source of help or advice
  6.8 Disruption to normal daily activities and time taken off school, college or work as a result of an accident
  6.9 Seasonal variations in major accident rates
  6.10 Accident rates by region
  6.11 Accident rates by socio-economic indicators
  6.12 Accident rates and household composition
  6.13 Children's accident rates by physical activity levels
  6.14 Children's accident rates by SDQ Total Deviance score
  6.15 Factors predictive of major and minor accidents
  6.16 Accident rates: comparisons between 1995-1997 and 2001-2002
  Tables
7 Health status - Melanie Doyle
  7.1 Introduction
  7.2 Self-reported longstanding illness
  7.3 Limiting longstanding illness
  7.4 Self-reported acute sickness
  7.5 Self-assessed general health
  7.6 Health status in 1997 and 2002
  7.7 Self-reported psychological well-being
  7.8 Perceived social support
  7.9 Parental reports of strengths and difficulties of children
  7.10 Use of dental services
  7.11 Use of prescribed medicines
  Tables
8 Blood pressure - Emanuela Falaschetti and Vasant Hirani
  8.1 Introduction
  8.2 Methods
  8.3 Mean blood pressure and blood pressure percentiles, by age, sex and height
  8.4 Systolic blood pressure by socio-economic factors
  8.5 Systolic blood pressure by Government Office Region
  8.6 Systolic blood pressure by BMI
  8.7 Physical activity and blood pressure
  8.8 Familial links in child blood pressure
  8.9 Systolic blood pressure and smoking
  8.10 Change in mean systolic blood pressure between 1997 and 2002
  8.11 Analysis of variance
  Tables
9 Anthropometric measurements, overweight, and obesity - Emmanuel Stamatakis
  9.1 Introduction
  9.2 Response to anthropometric measures
  9.3 Anthropometric measures by age and sex
  9.4 BMI, overweight and obesity among children and young adults
  9.5 Trends over time in height, weight, BMI, overweight and obesity among children and young adults
  9.6 BMI, and overweight and obesity, in relation to psychological indices
  Tables
 
       
 

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