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1. 'Long-standing' is used in relation to the SHeS measures in the report. It is equivalent to 'long-term'.
2. Delivering for Health (2005: Section 2.2) http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/02102635/26356
3. Aims taken from http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16002
4. Adapted from http://isdscotland.org/isd/2491.html
5. The Scottish Health survey 2003: Summary of Key Findings http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/924/0019811.pdf
6. Prior to April 2003, the random adult could only answer yes or no. The implications for this change in wording for the analysis presented in the current report can be seen in the Technical Note in the Appendix.
7. See Social Focus on Disability (2004).
8. Long-standing is used in relation to the SHeS measures throughout the report. It is equivalent to 'long-term'.
9. The differences between the surveys arise because of different sample sizes.
10. SHS (2003/04) user guide is available from http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/doc/5020/mrdoc/pdf/5020userguide.pdf
    SHeS user guide is available from http://www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5318#doc
11. The wording of the question was changed in April (Q2) 2003. See Technical Note in Appendix for the implications of this for the figures presented.
12. See Social Focus on Disability (2004: 81) for full details. The current analyses have been conducted in the same way as those for 2001/02 data.
13. National Statistics Socio-economic Classification.
14. See SHS 2003/2004 Data User Guide (page 18) for a description of the groupings.
15. This index was first published in 2004 and was updated in 2006. It measures deprivation across seven domains: income, employment, health, education skills and training, geographic access to services, housing and crime. Details of SIMD 2006 by local authority area can be found at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/10/13142739/3
16. See Social Focus on Disability (2004: 10) for explanation of this classification.
17. Social Focus on Disability (2004) distinguished between households containing persons with disabilities and persons with long-term illnesses. However, as can be seen from Chapter 2 of Social Focus on Disability, there were few differences between these two categories, and they have been conflated for the present analysis.
18. This again reflected the levels of deprivation as defined by SIMD 2006.
19. Devised in the 1960s as an indicator of occupation density, this measure calculates a notional standard number of bedrooms for each household based upon the number of occupants, their age, sex, marital status and their relationship with each other. This standard is then compared to the actual number of bedrooms available. See Social Focus on Disability (2004: 18) for a full discussion of the measure.
20. This is the definition of low household income adopted by the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group http://www.litrg.org.uk
21. This account can only be used to receive benefit, state pensions and tax credit payments.
22. Only asked in Quarters 1 and 2 (January-June) 2005.
23. Bathing and showering was excluded from this calculation because of a lower base.
24. The question about care included help or care required for an elderly person as well as care because of a disability or long-term illness. However, it is highly likely that these categories overlap.
25. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/10/05115110/0
26. This differs from the analysis presented in SHeS Report (2005: 216, Table 6.4) in that it considers those with a limiting long-standing illness separately, and reports % of each group, not rate per 1000.
27. Measured by NS- SEC: based on the current or former occupation of the household reference person; classifies socio-economic status according to five categories (managerial & professional, intermediate; small employers & own account workers, lower supervisory, technical & semi-routine & routine occupations.
28. Measured using 'equivalised household income', which takes into account number of people in the household. Divided into quintiles.
29. Measured using the Scottish Executive's official measure of area-based multiple deprivation. Divided into quintiles.
30. Respondents achieve a score of between zero and 12. A score of 4 or more is an indication of potential mental illness. See SHeS Report (2005: 199-200) for a full explanation of this measure.
31. Analysis of GHQ showed virtually no differences between those with non-limiting long-standing conditions and those without any long-standing health problems.
32. See SHeS Report (2005: 202) for explanation of this measure and details of the physical and mental sub-scales.
33. The standard deviation is included as a measure of dispersion of the mean scores within each group. A smaller standard deviation indicates a narrower spread; while a larger standard deviation indicates a wider spread of scores.
34. Excluding contraception
35. Based on health board boundaries in 2003.
36. There is substantial overlap between prevalence of long-standing conditions (especially limiting conditions) across health board and the prevalence of long-term conditions among adults and by households identified from analysis of SHS data.
37. Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation - The Scottish Executive's official measure of area-based multiple deprivation. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD/Overview
38. See Kelly et al (2003) for effects of diet on respiratory health.
39. According to Let's Make Scotland Active: A strategy for physical activity (2003), the minimum level of physical activity is at least 30 minutes of moderate activity on most days of the week. The target is for 50% of all adults in Scotland to undertake this minimum level by 2022. See http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/02/16324/17895 for details.
40. 'Long-standing' is used in relation to the SHeS measures in the report. It is equivalent to 'long-term'.
41. See http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/23090359/8 for full details.
42. This research concurs with the concerns expressed in the Spring 2007 Census Consultation (Section 4.5.4) about conflating 'long-term illness' with 'disabled'.
43. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/08125028/2 There are significant overlapping areas of interest between this strategy and Delivering for Health. These are explicitly recognised in the summary documents.
44. The research, which was based in the south west of England, found higher rates of premature limiting long-term illness in urban areas and in remoter areas, and lower rates in semi-rural areas.
45. Evaluation of the Operation and Impact of Free Personal Care (2007). Chapter 6 contains a full discussion of the shifting balance of care. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/02/27143831/0
46. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/23090359/8 (Section One, Table 1)
47. For example, http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/02/28094157/0

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