Data Producer Course
This part of the course was aimed primarily at analytical staff. It gave an overview of various analytical techniques relevant to public health and useful data sources. Use the links below to download the presentations / course material from each of the sessions in this part of the course.
Please note: Some of the files may take several minutes to download over a fast internet connection due to large file sizes.
Public Health Overview
- What is Public Health (2.2Mb) - Colin Fischbacher (ScotPHO)
- Measuring Public Health (1.2Mb) - Rory Mitchell (ScotPHO)
- Current Challenges to Public Health in Scotland (10.3Mb) - Gerry McCartney (ScotPHO)
- Development and Implementation of Public Health Policy (138Kb) - Lesley Graham (ISD Scotland)
- Inequalities in Health (1.5Mb) - Rory Mitchell (ScotPHO)
Overviews of Analytical Techniques
- Survival Analysis (561Kb) - Diane Stockton (ScotPHO)
- Trend Analysis (778Kb) - Diane Stockton (ScotPHO)
- Statistical Process Control (1.5Mb) - John Connor (ISD Scotland)
- Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (751Kb) - Gavin MacColl and Richard Dobbie (ISD Scotland)
- Methods of Starndardisation (455Kb) - Anthea Springbett (ISD Scotland)
- Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy (13Mb) - Alison Burlison (ScotPHO)
- Disclosure Control and Dealing With Small Numbers (1.1Mb) - Philip Johnson (ISD Scotland)
Public Health Data Sources
- Scottish Household Survey (2.4Mb) - Nic Krzyzanowski (Scottish Government)
- Scottish Household Survey (Handout) (86Kb)
- Scottish Health Survey (207Kb) - Julie Ramsay (Scottish Government)
- Routine Data Sources (6.3Mb) - James Reid (ScotPHO)
- ScotPHO Profiles and Other Data Visualisation Tools (4.5Mb) - Andrew Gasiorowski (ScotPHO)
- Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (2.9Mb) - Andrew White (Scottish Government)
