Background: In response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, health care workers (HCWs) were offered immunization with H1N1 vaccine in addition to seasonal flu vaccine. Previously, low rates of influenza vaccine uptake in HCWs have been attributed to concerns about vaccine clinical effectiveness, side effects and access difficulties.
Aims: To explore H1N1 influenza vaccination of HCWs in London during 2009-10 and examine reasons for vaccine refusal.
Background: Young children and older people are particularly vulnerable to tap water scalding. For children, there are also socio-economic inequalities in risk. Evidence suggests that reducing tap water temperatures in social (public) housing through 'passive' means is effective in reducing risk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To quantify the effects of a thermostatic control system in social (public) housing on the prevalence of dangerous (>60°C) water temperatures and on fuel consumption.
Design: Pair-matched double-blind cluster randomised controlled trial.
Setting: Social housing in a deprived inner-London borough.
Objective: To examine socioeconomic inequalities in rates of death from injury in children in England and Wales.
Design: Analysis of rates of death from injury in children by the eight class version of the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) and by the registrar general's social classification.
Setting: England and Wales during periods of four years around the 1981, 1991, and 2001 censuses.