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Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2000

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  List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
 
1
The Geography of the West Midlands
 
2
Inequalities and Health
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Council Tax Benefit
2.3 Housing Benefit
2.4 Income Support
2.5 Disability Living Allowance
2.6 Attendance Allowance
 
3
The Burden of Disease
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Methods
3.2.1 Years of Life Lost (YLL)
3.2.2 Years of Life lived with a Disability (YLD)
3.2.3 Disability Weightings
3.2.4 Age Weighting and Discounting
3.2.5 Expenditure
3.2.6 Cost per DALY
3.3 Results
 
4
Communicable Disease
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Tuberculosis
4.3 Food Poisoning
4.4 HIV
4.5 Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia
 
5
Environment and Health
5.1 Private Water Supplies
5.1.1 Introduction
5.1.2 Types of private Water Supplies and the Health Risk
5.1.3 Standards
5.2 Noise and Nuisance
5.2.1 Introduction
5.2.2 Local Authority Data
 
6
Progress on targets set by "Our Healthier Nation"
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Accidents
6.3 Cancers
6.4 Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke
6.5 Mental Health
 
7
Crime and Health
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Response to Crime
7.3 Crime in the Region
 
8
Drug Misuse
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Summary of Database
8.3 Individuals and Episodes
8.4 Health Authority of Presentation and Residence
8.5 Drugs of Misuse
8.6 Injecting and Sharing
8.7 Employment Status and Ethnic Origin
 
 
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