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Exploring local variation in the use of out-of-home care in England using linked administrative data

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2017
Objectives In England, approximately one in thirty children spend time in out-of-home care (OHC) by age 18.Use of OHC is known to vary across the country, which may be explained in part by ethnic group differences in the risk of being placed in OHC. This
Louise Mc Grath-Lone, Katie Harron, Lorraine Dearden, Bilal Nasim, Ruth Gilbert   +4 more
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An overview of the Northern Ireland Education Outcomes Linkage (EOL) (2018/2019) database

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objectives The Education Outcomes Linkage (EOL) is a database of post-primary schools’ data for pupils aged 14 and over in Northern Ireland (NI). This study provides a broad description of this new dataset at its first wave (2018/2019).
Rachel McCarter, Jos IJpelaar, Jamie Murphy, Ronald McDowell   +3 more
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Childhood contact with social services, self-harm and suicidal or self-harm ideation in young adulthood: a population-wide record-linkage study

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
Background Childhood contact with social services is associated with a range of adverse mental health outcomes across the life course, yet there is limited evidence in relation to self-harm and suicidal or self-harm ideation.
S. McKenna, D. O’Reilly, E. Ross, A. Maguire   +3 more
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How do you interpret a billion primary care records?

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2017
Background Research into General Practitioner (GP) records is relatively straightforward when it comes to establishing the prescribing of a particular drug or a specific disease group, but what if you want to use it to make more general inferences about ...
Martin Heaven, Laura McGinn, Sarah Lowe, Kerry Bailey, Ronan Anthony Lyons   +4 more
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Development of a territory-wide household-based composite index for measuring relative distribution of households by economic status in individual small areas throughout Hong Kong

BMC Public Health
Background Many countries have developed their country/nation-wide multidimensional area-based index on deprivation or socioeconomic status for resource allocation, service planning and research.
Eva L.H. Tsui, Philip L.H. Yu, K. F. Lam, Kelvin K.Y. Poon, Adam C.M. Ng, K. Y. Cheung, Winnie Li, Michael L.H. Leung, David H.Y. Lam, James L.Y. Cheng, Sharon P.W. Ng   +10 more
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Intellectual and physical disability, household living arrangements and COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland: protocol for a retrospective cohort study

BMJ Open
Introduction While evidence consistently demonstrates elevated COVID-19 risks among people with intellectual and physical disabilities, less is known about how household living arrangements shape these inequalities. Residential setting and household size
Chris Dibben, Angela Henderson, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi, Serena Pattaro, Nick Bailey   +4 more
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Persisting social disadvantage and intercensal social mobility in Northern Ireland: an examination of morbidity and all-cause mortality using three waves of the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS).

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objective and Approach Using census returns from three waves of NILS (1991, 2001, 2011) linked with mortality data, we examined morbidity/mortality outcomes by socio-economic disadvantage over time (using an individual-level deprivation index derived ...
Rachel McCarter, Michael Rosato, Gerard Leavey   +2 more
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A novel linked dataset to improve understanding about the health of people in Northern Ireland’s prisons

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objective and Approach We describe a collaboration between the Queen’s University Belfast, Administrative Data Research Centre (ADRC) in Northern Ireland (NI) and the NI Healthcare in Prisons Service (HIPS) to develop a novel linked database to assess ...
Janine Cooper, Dermot O’Reilly, Trish Kelly, Richard Kirk, Stephen McGarrigle, Ruth Gray, Michael Donnelly   +6 more
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The relationship between social care receipt and home death in Scotland during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objectives To assess the completeness of social care data regarding people in the final year of life in the five years leading up to and first year of the pandemic in Scotland, and to ascertain the extent to which provision responded to increased home ...
Jan Savinc, Iain Atherton
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The Occupations of Nurses & Midwives: Initial findings from the NMC-census data linkage project

International Journal of Population Data Science
Background The nursing and midwifery workforce faces persistent shortages and increasing reliance on international recruitment. Retention and return to practice are therefore major policy priorities.
Michelle Jamieson, Iain Atherton
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