Yours Faithfully, Situational Awareness in Public Health
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errors (SEs), from which one can calculate confidence intervals to reach the conclusions we made – that the social gradient in non-fatal accidents appears not to be increasing and the total rates are falling in men. The data published in the Health Survey for England (HSE) 2001 refer to social class of the head of the household, as is now customary in the HSE, while the rates presented in our paper were based on the respondent’s social class, which was used in the 1995–1996 survey. The sample sizes are provided in the Table for readers’ interest. Yours faithfully,
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