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Useful statistics books

Introduction to statistics for nurses by John Maltby, Liz Day, Glenn Williams
ISBN: 0131967533
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 05 Feb 2007
Simple statistics by Frances Clegg
Shelved at: : 519.5024301 CLE
ISBN: 0521288029
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Statistics for Dummies by Deborah J. Rumsey
Shelved at: : E-BOOK and 519.5 RUM
ISBN: 9780470911082
2nd ed.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2011.
Statistics for Nursing: a Practical Approach by Elizabeth Heavey
Shelved at: : 610.730727 HEA
ISBN: 9781284048346
Second edition.
Burlington, Massachusetts : Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2015
Statistics for health care professionals: an introduction by Ian Scott and Deborah Mazhindu
Shelved at: : E-BOOK and 519.502461 SCO
ISBN: 9781848600652
London : SAGE, 2005.
Statistics II for Dummies by Deborah Rumsey
Shelved at: : E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780470543863
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, 2009.
Successful statistics for nursing and healthcare by Roger Watson, Ian Atkinson & Patricia Egerton
Shelved at: : 519.502461 WAT
ISBN: 1403916527
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Reports and documents

Useful guides to health statistics

Office of Health Economics - Guide to UK Health and Health Care Statistics
A useful guide to finding and using health statistics from the UK and beyond.
2nd edition published October 2013. Requires free registration to download the guide.
Office for National Statistics - Health and Social Care
Overview, summaries, statistics publications and data from the UK Office for National Statistics.

UK Health Statistics

UK Office for National Statistics
NICE Evidence
Search for a condition or topic, then narrow down by 'types of information' using the option on the left.
Data.gov.uk
Contains datasets from all central government departments and a number of other public sector bodies and local authorities.
Department of Health (DOH) - Statistics and surveys Links to Hospital Episode Statistics, Health and Personal Social Services Statistics, and statistics on public health, health care, social care, health expenditure and workforce.
Health Survey for England
A series of annual surveys designed to measure health and health-related behaviours in adults and children.
Health Survey for England - data from 2004-2013
DOH - Public Health Statistics
NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care The HSCIC is a special health authority that provides statistics and other information to help the NHS and social services run effectively. It collects and analyses data including population health analysis and surveys and health screening.
Office of Health Economics - Health Statistics & Data Analyses
Public Health England data and analysis tools
A single point of access to data and analysis tools from across Public Health England (previously known as the 'Data and knowledge gateway'). Good for finding data about different areas of England.
British Heart Foundation Statistics Regularly updated statistics on heart disease in the UK. Statistical publications and spreadsheets are produced in collaboration with the Health Promotion Research Group at the University of Oxford.

UK Data Service This link opens in a new window Description: UK Data Service is a comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC which provides a unified point of access to the extensive range of high quality economic and social data, including valuable census data.

Comparative Health Statistics

European Commission: Public Health Information and Data
European Health for All database
Eurostat
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
WHO Global Health Observatory
Statistics from the World Health Organisation- incorporates the WHO Statistical Information System.