Here we provide the latest information about the Scottish Health Survey.
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Scottish Health Survey Newsletter
'SHeS News' is our Scottish Health Survey email newsletter which provides the latest news about the survey, including any recent publications and relevant links.
To view the latest/previous newsletter(s) click on the relevant links.
You can subscribe to SHeS News by contacting us and clicking on the link found under 'Mailing List'.
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Training and Events
Currently there are no training or events running. If you have any suggestions for future events and/or training, please contact us.
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Scottish Health Survey 2008
The first national results from the Scottish Health Survey will be released on 29 September 2009. Thereafter national level results from the survey will be published annually. Results at NHS Board level will not be available for most Boards until 2012. For more information see results below national level.
We have developed a reporting matrix for the Scottish Health Survey 2008 giving you a summary of how results for the different topic areas will be reported. We regard this as a dynamic document which is not set in stone. If you have any views on it - please let us know.
We intend to produce similar summaries in 2009-2011.
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Communication and Marketing Strategy
A short on-line survey was undertaken in autumn/winter 2008/09 to establish the audience for the Scottish Health Survey outputs and their differing requirements. Results of this were taken into account while drafting the communication and marketing strategy for the Scottish Health Survey. The strategy highlights how we plan to:
- raise awareness of the Scottish Health Survey;
- ensure results are accessible to users;
- provide appropriate technical information and suppport; and
- encourage and support analysis of the data.
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Review of the Scottish Health Survey
A comprehensive review of the Scottish Health Survey was carried out during 2005 and 2006 and made a number of recommendations, including:
- the survey should adopt a core and modular structure
- the survey should become a continuous survey
- robust results at Scotland level should be available every year
- robust results at Health Board level should be availale by amalgamating a number of years of data together
- the sample design should be unclustered (if costs allow)
- options should be available to boost the sample either for geographical areas of for specific topics
All of the recommendations were adopted.
Interested parties were consulted on content of new 2008 questionnaire during summer/autumn 2007. Please see our questionnaire consultation page for the results of this consultation.