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1 Boundaries and Populations
1.1 Health Authorities and Local Authorities in West Midlands
1.2 Geography of Primary Care Groups in the West Midlands
1.3 Populations
2 Inequalities and Deprivation
2.1 Deprivation Indices
2.2 Townsend Score
2.3 Index of local deprivation
2.4 Underprivileged Area Score
2.5 Carstairs Index
2.6 Rural Deprivation
2.7 Government area based initiatives for local deprivation
2.7.1 Health Action Zones
2.7.2 Education Action Zones
2.7.3 Employment Zones
2.7.4 Single Regeneration Budget
3 Ethnicity and Health
3.1 Ethnic map of the West Midlands
3.2 Quality of Coding
3.3 Admission Rates by ethnic group
4 Environmental Hazards
4.1 Industrial Processes
4.2 Drinking water quality (lead)
5 Health related behaviour of young people
5.1 Smoking
5.2 Drug use
5.3 Alcohol Consumption
5.4 Rates by area for smoking, drug taking and alcohol consumption
6 Accidents
6.1 Health Survey of England
6.2 Accidents and school absence
6.3 Road Traffic Accidents
6.4 Hospital Admissions
6.5 Mortality from all accidents
7 Cancer Rates for all sites, breast, colorectal and lung cancers
8 Teeth and Fluoridation
8.1 The 'debate' on fluoridation
8.2 West Midlands public opinion on, and knowledge of fluoridation of the water supply
8.2.1 Knowledge of fluoridation of household water supply
8.2.2 Public opinion on whether fluoride should be added to the water supply
9 Coronary Heart Disease
9.1 Hospital Admissions
9.2 Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease
9.3 Mortality and hospital admissions by PCG
9.4 Variations in Trust activity
10 Communicable Diseases
10.1 Meningococcal Infection
10.2 Tuberculosis
10.3 H.I.V.


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