In the UK, the prevalence of substance misuse is around 9 per 1,000 of the population aged 15–64 years, and around 3 per 1,000 inject drugs, in most cases opioids (NICE 2007). In 2005/6, around 181,000 people were using drug treatment services in England and Wales (Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection 2006). Also, research in England in 2005 estimated that 7.1 million people, or 23% o...

In the twentieth century, the Irish-born population in England has typically been in worse health than both the native population and the Irish population in Ireland, a reversal of the commonly observed healthy migrant effect. Recent birth cohorts living in England and born in Ireland, however, are healthier than the English population. The substantial Irish migrant health penalty arises princi...

Invasive species may precipitate evolutionary change in invaded communities. In southern New England (USA) the invasive Asian shore crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus, preys on mussels (Mytlius edulis), but the crab has not yet invaded northern New England. We show that southern New England mussels express inducible shell thickening when exposed to waterborne cues from Hemigrapsus, whereas naïve nort...

The OzFoodNet Working Group is (in alphabetical order): Jenny Barralet (Qld), Robert Bell (Qld), Andrew Black (ACT), Barry Combs (SA), Craig Dalton (Hunter New England), Gerard Fitzsimmons (DoHA), Joy Gregory (Vic), Gillian Hall (NCEPH), Brigid Hardy (DAFF), Geoff Hogg (MDU), Melissa Irwin (NSW), Martyn Kirk (DoHA), Karin Lalor (Vic), Deon Mahoney (FSANZ), Tony Merritt (Hunter New England), Ros...

This article describes the new synthetic England and Wales Longitudinal Study 'spine' dataset designed for teaching and experimentation purposes. In the United Kingdom, there exist three Census-based longitudinal micro-datasets, known collectively as the Longitudinal Studies. The England and Wales Longitudinal Study (LS) is a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales (around 500,000 indi...

The adoption of administrative boundaries as approximations of housing markets has long restricted the scope for housing market analysis and planning policy development to be undertaken within a functional housing market framework in England. This has prompted consideration of the value of deriving Housing Market Areas (HMAs) to underpin the development of housing market intelligence for planni...

D uring the early 1990s bank examiners were frequently accused of being too strict with banks in New England, thereby contributing to a credit crunch in the region.1 If supervisors of New England banks were being unusually strict, they may have been reacting to public complaints of lax supervision of the savings and loan industry in the 1980s. Such complaints were rife as New England banks’ loa...

Despite this success, England and Wales still have some of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the developed world. There is also significant disparity in teenage conception rates between areas within these regions, with some areas experiencing rates as high as 40 pregnancies per 1000 girls under the age of 18, while others have rates as low as five per 1000. This briefing examines teenage c...

Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (S.J.H.), Medical School, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, England; Department of Chemistry (C.R.G.), University College London, Christopher Ingold Laboratories, London, England; Department of Pharmacochemistry (H.T.), Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Unité de Neurobiologie (J.C.S.), Paris, Fr...

The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 and 1996. We find that due to the endogenous nature of alcohol consumption, OLS estimates may provide a biased picture of the im...