URHIS 50 Workshop

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• URHIS 50 Workshop

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Workshop Groups

• Group 1
• Mr Constantinos Astreos, Manchester, UK
• Tina Blain, Brussells, Belgium
• Dr Neville Calleja, Malta
• Dr Guilia Cesaroni, Italy
• Norbert Kiss, Budapest, Hungary
• Dr Ifeoma Onyia, Liverpool, UK
• Ms Lesley Patterson, Manchester, UK
• Dr Jude Robinson, Liverpool, UK
• Dr Islay Gemmell, Manchester, UK
• Group 2
• Professor Michal Bedlicki, Krakow, Poland
• Professor Ioan Bocsan, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Dr Pais, Clemente, Lisboa, Portugal
• Professor Jurate Klumbiene, Kaunas, Lithuania
• Dr Andre Ochoa, Paris, France
• Ms Angela Pilkington Merseyside, UK
• Jolanta Skrule Riga, Latvia

• Group 3
• Mr Kaspar Bams, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Ms Jana Brozova, Prague, Czech Republic
• Dr Nesrin Cilingiroglu, Ankara, Turkey
• Dr Wolfgang Hellmeier, Bielefeld, Germany
• Dr Igor Krampac, Maribor, Slovenia
• Dr Alexis Macherianakis, Manchester, UK
• Dr Arpana Verma, Manchester, UK
• Dr Yannis Skalkidis, Athens, Greece
• Chris White, Brussells, Belgium
• Group 4
• Dr Christopher Birt, Liverpool, UK
• Dr Maria Irina Brumboiu, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Professor Alain Deccache, Brussels, Belgium
• Dominique Doumont, Brussels, Belgium
• Professor Dick Heller, Manchester, UK
• Ms Heidi Lyshol, Oslo, Norway
• Dr Iveta Rajnicova-Nagyova, Kosice, Slovakia

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Questions for Discussion

• Start at different indicator sections
• Have we captured urban health issues?
• Are the definitions written clearly?
• Are there too many?
• Suggestions for improvements?
• If you could remove 10 indicators, which ones
  would they be?

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Feedback Group 1

• Problems
• Q3 Population by ethnicity
• Definition may vary between countries
• Countries may refuse
• Q5 Mothers age
• Also below 15
• Q6
• Projections longer than 10 years ? Value
• Q7
• Not available in most countries but of relevance
• Q9
• Sources vary between countries most have
  register but some has survey
• Q10
• Definition?
• Q11
• Definition of city, conurbation?
• Q12
• Value of items
• Look at migration in and out of city

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Feedback Group 2

• Section 3
• Tackled urban population well
• Q35
• Drinks daily what is a drink
• Q36
• Friut consumption in grams-daily consumption?
• Q39
• Appendix 2 qs relevance
• Does it relate to social isolation
• Is it validated across different populations
• Q42
• Relates to where live/work
• subjective?
• Adding
• No of patients/GP
• Age groupings to be uniform thru questionnaire
• Other section
• Change Chlamydia to STD

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Feedback Group 3

• Add
• No. of gt65 living alone (institutions)
• Welfare recipients
• Problems
• If making international comparisons need
  countries to collect same types of data
• Ethnicity
• Not the same in every country ?exclude
• Perinatal mortality
• Change to x 100,000
• Exclude Breast Cancer
• Low birth rate - ?exclude
• Road Traffic Injuries
• Define source
• Should be deaths or define injuries
• Occupational
• Definition clearer
• Change bringing about to resulting in
• Distress
• How to define exclude

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Feedback Group 4

• Negative Indicators propose positive indicators
  so health rather than illness indicators
• Breast cancer exclude
• Cervical screening remain
• Q48 exclude
• Q49 reformulate
• How many people hospitalised are uninsured?
• Reflect homeless other populations
• Q50 more elaboration, more age groups and
  details
• Q34-36 frequency of data collection and when
  was last collection, how measurements made
• Q36 gender differences
• Q37 more clarification on ht/wt and more detail
  for age groups
• Add
• q on saturated fat consumption
• Physical activity

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General Feedback

• Remove colloquial terms
• Mortality rates
• Use standard rates
• Elderly alone
• May not be an accurate indicator as they may have
  external support
• Use unmet need
• Prevalence for diabetes
• Proxy for access?
• Cervical cancer
• HPV vaccination programme may make it redundant
• Prevalence with Hypertension
• If the urban prevalence of a disease mirrors the
  national prevalence, should it be included?
• Should focus on whether an indicator is an
  important urban issue
• Standardised groups
• Deadline 25th April 2007