This booklet is a summary of the report Health Survey for England: The Health of Minority Ethnic Groups 1999, Erens B, Primatesta P and Prior G (eds). London: The Stationery Office, 2001. The full results are available in that report, and also in an anonymised data file that will be lodged with the Data Archive at the University of Essex. Reports and data files from earlier surveys in the series are similarly available.

For the general population, tables showing selected trends from 1993 to 1999 for adults, and from 1995 to 1999 for children, will be found on the Department of Health website (address below).

Contact points

Department of Health
Survey Section
Room 451C
Skipton House
London Road
London SE1 6LW
Telephone 020 7972 5675
Fax 020 7972 5662
Website www.doh.gov.uk/public/summary/html

National Centre for Social Research
35 Northampton Square
London EC1V 0AX
Telephone 020 7250 1866
Fax 020 7250 1524
Website www.natcen.ac.uk

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
at the Royal Free and University College Medical School
1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT
Telephone 020 7679 5646
Website www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology/jhsu/jhsu.html

ESRC Data Archive
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex CO4 3SQ
Telephone 01206 872001
Fax 01206 872003
Website dawww.essex.ac.uk

Findings in this booklet are taken from:

Health Survey for England: The Health of Minority Ethnic Groups '99

Edited by Bob Erens, Paola Primatesta and Gillian Prior

A survey carried out on behalf of the Department of Health

National Centre for Social Research

The National Centre for Social Research is an independent institute specialising in social survey and qualitative research for the development and evaluation of public policy. Research is in areas such as health, housing, employment, crime, education and political and social attitudes. Projects include ad hoc and continuous surveys, using face-to-face, telephone and postal methods; many use advanced applications of computer assisted interviewing. The Centre has over 180 staff, a national panel of over 1,000 interviewers, and 300 nurses who work on health-related surveys.

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Royal Free and
University College Medical School

Including the International Centre for Health and Society the Department houses over 120 staff, in eight main research groups, namely: the Joint Health Surveys Unit; Whitehall II Study; Eurodiab, investigating diabetes; Dental Public Health; MRC National Survey of Health and Development; ICRF funded Health Behaviour Unit; Psychobiology Unit; and Public Health Research Group. Its research programme is concerned particularly with social factors in health and illness, including longitudinal studies of cardiovascular disease (Whitehall studies); international studies of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and contraception; the socio-dental indicators of need; and the socio-economic and policy implications of an ageing population.

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Futher copies of this Summary are available from:

Department of Health
PO Box 777, London SE1 6XH
Fax: 01623 724 524. Email: doh@prologistics.co.uk

Full reports of the Health Survey for England are available from:

The Publications Centre
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PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN
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