a Hardnig Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany. Correspondence to Gerd Gigerenzer (e-mail: [email protected]). Many physicians, patients, health journalists and politicians do not understand health statistics. Yet we make little effort to educate our children in statistical thinking or our medical students in und...

There is a broad spectrum of data that can be used to describe the health of young people in the UK. These data are of varying quality, reflecting in part the methods used to collect them. However, it is often frustrating trying to locate information relevant to young people: so many of the apparently obvious sources of data, such as routine surveillance data, are either not collated centrally,...