NILS-RSU Update

See the Publications and Presentations and NILS Research Briefs sections to access the latest NILS and NIMS outputs.

A recent BBC Newsline programme (05.12.11) on 'Dental health costs' was based on Dr Claire Telford's NILS research and subsequent publication on "An analysis examining socio-economic variations in the provision of NHS general dental practitioner care under a fee for service contract among adolescents: Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study".  To access the full transcript of the report please click here.  The publication is available at http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/NILSResearchSupportUnit/Publications/

Latest Edition of 'NILS News' (November 2011) available here.

Recent projects approved by the Research Approvals Group 

• Project 055: Long-term illness, poor health and housing(im)mobility. Further Details
• Project 054:  Current religious status and impacts on overall self-reported health, mortality risk and variations in cause-specific mortality: a comparison study between individuals with an existing affiliation to a religious denomination and those without.  Further Details
• Project 053:  Vital Events Standard Outputs: Using the NILS and the NIMS to Produce Annual Standard Outputs of Births & Deaths by Demographic, Socio-Economic and Area Characteristics  Further Details
• Project 052:  Exploring the relationship between deprivation measured at individual, household and area level and cancer incidence and survival in Northern Ireland: An exemplar linkage study using the NILS and NICR databases?  Further Details
• Project 051: How accurate and timely are health registrations address data? An assessment using the NILS Further Details
• Project 050:Forecasting Fertility in Northern Ireland using a Time Varying Coefficients Model Further Details
• Project 048:  Systematic variation in prescribing and use of anti-obesity medication: an observational study Further Details
• Project 047:  A pharmaco-epidemiological study of diabetes in Northern Ireland: An exemplar study using the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS) and the Northern Ireland Enhanced Prescribing Database (EPD) Further details 
• Project 046:  A Pharmaco-epidemiological study of Anxiolytic and Antidepressant Drug uptake in Northern Ireland Further Details

The NILS Research Forum, established to increase understanding of the potential of the NILS and NIMS resources and to facilitate increased understanding of their composition and functions, has published their Outline Programme for 2011-2012 which can be accessed here.

The next planned events are as follows:

Research Seminar

Friday 9 March 2012 @ 1pm

Boardroom, NISRA, Castle Street, Belfast

Dr Sheelah Connolly tba

Dr Mark McCann

Variation in Care Home Admissions

Conference

Wednesday 9 May 2012 @ 10am – 4.30pm

Boardroom, NISRA, Castle Street, Belfast

Life after the Census: Using Administrative Data to Analyse Society

To register to attend these programmes, please contact Pat McGregor: ppl.mcgregor@ulster.ac.uk