LG03, New Academic Building, London School of Economics

14th  May 2009

Programme

10.30 Registration and Coffee

11.00 Introduction by the Chair

11.10 Marital history and mortality using ONS Longitudinal Study data, Emily Grundy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

 3.50 Final questions and comments

4.00 End of meeting

3.10 Associations between self reported health and mortality in the UK: analysis of the Longitudinal Studies of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Harriet Young, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

2.30 Reinvigorating your data with some contextual colour: examples from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study. Dermot O’Reilly, Queens University Belfast

12.50 Lunch (not provided) Optional demonstration of the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support (CeLSIUS) web resources.

1.50 Using the Scottish Longitudinal Study to consider the effects of widowhood on mortality,   Paul Boyle, University of St. Andrews

 12.20 Paid employment, permanent sickness and mortality risk: England and Wales 1971-2001, David Blane, Imperial College London

11.50 Examining the influence of health selection on male mortality by socio-economic position, England and Wales, 2001-04,  Chris White, Office for National Statistics

This day meeting is open to all, and is free of charge. However, - please email pic@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 7666 to pre-register   pre-registration is essential

Date: 13 May 2009
Location: Royal Statistical Society, London

This one-day conference showcases the work of nine research projects funded during 2008-09 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). These have focused on developments in 2011 census data products, innovations in census data linkage through time and emerging web-based technologies for census data dissemination. The day is intended to inform debate concerning future research priorities surrounding the delivery of data from the 2011 UK censuses and the requirements of contemporary census research users.

09.30 Registration
Chair of meeting – Prof Mike Batty, University College London

10.00 Welcome and overview – Prof David Martin, University of  Southampton

2011 data developments

10.10 Towards 2011 output geographies: adapting and evaluating automated zone design methods for maintaining the 2001 output geographies – Samantha Cockings, University of Southampton

10.35 Microdata, research facilities and work practice in the UK Social Science Community Census data linkage – Dr Jo Wathan, University of Manchester

11.00 Developing Analyses of the England & Wales, Scottish and Northern Ireland Census Longitudinal Studies: health and mortality as a case study – Harriet Young, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
11.25 Coffee

Data linkage

11.45 Testing the feasibility of extending the Scottish Longitudinal Study back through time – Prof Paul Boyle, University of St Andrews

12.10 Web-based Spatio-temporal Interpolator for Census Area Statistics – Prof Nigel Walford and Dr Shaozhong Shi, Kingston University

12.35 Questions to presenters
12.50 Lunch

Emerging technologies for data dissemination

13.45 A Census data feed research network – Dr Oliver Duke-Williams, University of Leeds

14.10 Creating a Census (Meta)Data Feed – Justin Hayes, University of Manchester

14.35 DiaD – Data Integration and Dissemination – James Reid, University of Edinburgh

15.00 Census Geographic Information Visualisation (Censusgiv) – Dr Pablo Mateos, University College London

15.25 Discussion led by panel

16.00 Close

The meeting will take place at the Royal Statistical Society headquarters, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX

The following registration charges apply:
£20 RSS Retired or Student Fellows
£22 RSS CStat/GradStat
£25 RSS Fellows
£30 RSS Linked Associates
£40 None of the above
email conference@rss.org.uk   for a booking form

Map and directions

International Conference, 17-19 September 2009

Training Workshop, 12-16 September 2009    

University of St Andrews – Organised by the Scottish Health Informatics Programme (SHIP)

International Conference

In 2007 SHIP hosted the first ‘Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research’ conference at the University of St Andrews.  Designed  for researchers and practitioners interested in record linkage and the use of routine health data in their research, this three-day conference attracted over 70 papers and 120 participants from across the world including New Zealand, Australia, the  United States, Canada, and many countries in Europe.  Following funding from the Wellcome Trust, through the Scottish Health  Informatics Programme (SHIP), we are pleased that this will become a biennial event.

This 3-day inter-disciplinary conference  will gather together an international group of researchers who have expertise in the linkage and use of administrative or routine  data for health research or health care improvement.  Among others it will appeal to health researchers, including public health  professionals, policy analysts, health planners, and those working in health technology assessment, as well as those working in  health-related disciplines, such as health economics, population scientists and demographers.�
More information: http://www.lscs.ac.uk/SHIP_2009-1.pdf

We invite abstracts to be submitted by Monday 1st June 2009 on one of five themes:
1.   The value of record linkage in health research
The use of linked data is commonplace in health research. This theme will include papers based on one-off and general-purpose studies which demonstrate the range of research benefits that result from record linkage.

2.   Record linkage for health care improvement

Linked datasets are also vital to the improvement of health care services.  This theme will include papers covering a range  of themes including linkage to support health surveillance, health needs assessment, patient safety and quality improvement  activities, performance assessment and accountability.
 

3.   Longitudinal record linkage

Of particular research value are longitudinal studies which track information about individuals or organisations through time,  providing the opportunity to examine how different characteristics influence one another sequentially.  This session will  include papers that address the particular strengths of longitudinal data collection.
 

4.   The methodological challenges of record linkage

This theme will include papers on state-of-the-art techniques for record linkage.  Techniques might include methods for  record linkage, disclosure control, data management and analysis of linked data.  �
 

5.   Confidentiality, disclosure and ethical issues

The linkage of potentially sensitive data for health research and health care improvement raises various ethical issues.  This  theme will include papers that evaluate, for example, the public perception of record linkage, or advance the debate about  balancing people’s right to privacy and the public benefits of linked data for health research.

Training Workshop

Prior to the conference, we will be hosting a five-day training session on analysing linked health data (12-16 September 2009).  This  course will be led by Professor D’Arcy Holman who is based at the School of Population Health, University of  Western Australia.  He  is a leading figure in the field of linked health data and he will be presenting one of the keynote lectures at the conference which follows  immediately after this workshop.  Topics will include: 

 ‧  Using linkable registry data in health services research 

‧  Measuring health services utilisation

‧  Characterising clinical populations using linkable registry data                                  

‧  Evaluating health services outcome

‧  Theory and practice of risk adjustment in health services research