Editors' acknowledgements

We wish to thank, first of all, all those who gave up their time to be interviewed and who welcomed interviewers and nurses into their homes. We would also like to acknowledge the debt the survey's success owes to the commitment and professionalism of the interviewers and nurses who worked on the survey throughout the year.

We would like to thank all those colleagues who contributed to the survey and this report. In particular, we would like to thank:

• The chapter authors: Madhavi Bajekal, Harriet Becher, Richard Boreham, Marion Brookes, Lisa Calderwood, Emanuela Falaschetti, Vasant Hirani, Saffron Karlsen, Yvonne Kelly, Christos Korovessis, Johanna Laiho, Anne McMunn, Sally McManus, James Nazroo, Susan Purdon, Clare Tait and Rebecca Teers.
  
  
• Other research colleagues, in particular Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Dr Martin Jarvis, Barry Hedges, Trish Prescott-Clarke, Laura Pitson and Joanne Rennison.
  
  
• Operations staff, especially Marian Bolden, Sue Body, Audrey Hale, Pamela Huggett and the Area Managers.
  
  
• The principal programmers: Jo Periam, Sven Sjodin and Ian McAleese

We would also like to express our thanks to the staff of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne for their helpfulness and efficiency.

Last, but certainly not least, we wish to express our appreciation of the work of Department of Health staff at all stages of the project and in particular the contribution made by Antonia Roberts, Dr Sunjai Gupta, Tony Boucher and Richard Bond.

Bob Erens, Paola Primatesta and Gillian Prior

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