NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider NHS DigitalTabulations only Geography United Kingdom (GBR) England Coverage type Subnational Time period covered 01/2012 - 03/2013 Series or system United Kingdom Health Survey for England (HSE) Data type Survey: HouseholdIndividualInterview Summary The Health Survey for England (HSE) 2012 was the twenty-second in the series of annual surveys conducted in private households since 1994. The primary focus of the 2012 survey was physical activity for both children and adults. The questionnaire included modules on general health, alcohol consumption, smoking, and disability. The HSE 2012 included new modules covering average weekly alcohol consumption, gambling, wellbeing, and sexual health. The survey also provided the following objective measures of health: blood pressure, anthropometric measurements, and analysis of saliva, urine, and blood samples. A total of 8,291 adults and 2,043 children were successfully interviewed, while nurse visits were conducted among 5,470 adults and 1,203 children. Keywords Age at first sex, Aged adults, Alcohol use, Alcohol use disorders, Anogenital herpes, Anthropometry, Antihypertensive drugs, Assets, Birth weight, Blood pressure, Blood tests, Body mass index, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Child anthropometry, Chlamydia, Cholesterol, Condoms, Diabetes, Disability, Drug consumption, Education, Emergency care, Employment, Employment benefits, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fatigue, Folic acid supplements, Fruits, Gonococcal infections, Health behaviors, Health care access, Health care use, Health education, Health facilities, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Hearing loss, Height, Hemoglobin, Hepatitis B, Home care, Hospitals, Housing conditions, Hypertension, Income, Incontinence, Influenza vaccines, Insulin, Legumes, Leisure activities, Limited mobility, Living conditions, Marital status, Mass media, Maternal conditions, Medicines, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mental health symptoms, Micronutrient supplements, Outpatient facilities, Personal caregivers, Pharmacies, Physical activity, Pregnancy, Prescriptions, Preterm birth, Private social assistance, Public social assistance, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Respiratory infections, STDs, School enrollment, Secondhand smoke, Sexual behavior, Stroke, Symptoms, Syphilis, Tobacco smoking, Transportation, Trichomoniasis, Unemployment, Urine tests, Varicella, Vegetables, Vision loss, Weight Citation Contributors National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Funders Information Centre for Health and Social Care, NHS Suggested citation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). United Kingdom Health Survey for England 2012-2013 - HSCIC. GHDx Entry last modified on: Dec 24, 2024