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Health Studies User Conference 2020

30 Jun 2020 12:00 am - 3:30 pm
Online
Conferences
Health
The annual Health Studies User Conference is a one-day conference on 30 June and is free to attend. It is organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with UCL and NatCen Social Research.
Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the 2020 Health Studies User Conference will be held online, replacing the usual in-person conference.
Attendees will hear updates from the data producers of key UK social surveys (cross-sectional and longitudinal studies) with health-related content, such as:
  • Health Survey for England
  • Opinions and Lifestyle Survey
  • Birth Cohort Studies
  • Understanding Society
  • English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
  • and more…..
The presentations from data producers will include updates on the collection of COVID-19 data, among other things.
NHS-Digital will give a presentation with the latest news on access to the health surveys they commission.
There will also be presentations from researchers based on analyses of these data.
This year the conference includes parallel break-out sessions on:
  • COVID-19 - opportunities and challenges for the health surveys
  • Data linkage - opportunities and challenges for the health surveys
  • Longitudinal studies
Each group will involve a verbal discussion among attendees. The discussion will be led by a facilitator. A series of questions will be provided to structure the discussion.
Follow the event on Twitter: #UKDSHealth20

Event resources

Programme| Presentation: Update on health surveys at NatCen, Chloe Robinson| Presentation: Understanding Society: Health and COVID-19 data, Meena Kumari| Presentation: Birth Cohort Studies – Health Measures, David Bann| Presentation: The Opinions and Lifestyle survey (OPN), Becky Samuel and Tim Vizard| Presentation: Update on data access for health surveys, Stuart Blake| Presentation: Health Surveys and Data Linkage, Cher Cartwright and Stuart Blake| Presentation: Temporal trends in mental health in the UK population, 2000-2020, Sally McManus| Presentation: Has working-age morbidity been declining? Changes over time in general health, chronic diseases, symptoms and biomarkers in England 1994-2014, Ben Baumberg Geiger| Presentation: Loneliness, social isolation and hospital admissions: A feasibility study linking the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing with Hospital Episode Statistics, Anysia Nguyen| Presentation: Is loneliness influenced by the area- and/ or individual-based characteristics? Jitka Pikhartova| Presentation: Gestational age at birth and childs special educational needs: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, Neora Alterman| Breakout sessions: Key points