AIMS The impact of alcohol on those other than the drinker is an under-researched area with important policy implications. This study is a first step in investigating relationships between exposure to heavy drinkers in respondent's lives with measures of health status and wellbeing. DESIGN SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A cross-sectional general population survey was carried out among 3068 New Zeal...

Methods: Cross sectional survey was undertaken in Domarpali Village, of the Kanker district, of Chhattisgarh state in May 2013. The survey covered 1359 (85%) individuals, including 824 males and 769 females. The prevalence of dental and skeletal fluorosis was assessed by clinical examination of individuals undertaken by house to house visits. Water fluoride levels of drinking water sources were...

BACKGROUND The Finnish chiropractic profession is young and not fully accepted by Finnish healthcare authorities. The demographic profile and style of practice has not been described to date. However, as the profession seems to be under rapid development, it would be of interest to stakeholders, both chiropractic and political, to obtain a baseline description of this profession with a view to ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop and implement a survey of Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) members focused on their current practices and needs in relation to providing psychosocial care. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional. SETTING Web-based survey of ONS members. SAMPLE An invitation was e-mailed to 11,171 ONS members. Of those, 623 followed the link to the electronic survey and 64% of thos...

To monitor the health of the public in England, UK, the Central Health Monitoring Unit within the UK Department of Health commissioned an annual health examination survey, which became known as the Health Survey for England (HSE). The first survey was completed in 1991. The HSE covers all of England and is a nationally representative sample of those residing at private residential addresses. Ea...

Aims To identify a typology of heavier drinking styles in Great Britain and to identify socio-demographic trends in the typology over the period 1978-2010. Methods We applied multiple correspondence analysis and agglomerative hierarchical clustering to beverage-specific quantity-frequency measures of alcohol consumption in the repeated cross-sectional General Lifestyle Survey of Great Britain...

To monitor the health of the public in England, UK, the Central Health Monitoring Unit within the UK Department of Health commissioned an annual health examination survey, which became known as the Health Survey for England (HSE). The first survey was completed in 1991. The HSE covers all of England and is a nationally representative sample of those residing at private residential addresses. Ea...