Health Education Monitoring Survey (HEMS) Follow-up, 1997

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The 1997 Health Education Monitoring Survey (HEMS) was a follow-up survey, conducted only with respondents from the 1996 survey who were willing to be re-interviewed - no new respondents were added to the sample.<br>
The aims were to compare findings from this survey and the 1996 survey on health-related behaviour, to examine the relationship between intentions expressed in 1996 and changes in behaviour in 1997, and to look at the relationship between life events and changed behaviour.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>Household characteristics, socio-demographic characteristics of respondents, general health, life events in previous year, smoking, and drinking (self-completion for those aged 16 and 17), physical activity and nutrition, behaviour in the sun, drug use, sexual health (self-completion).