Health Education Population Survey, 2004

NHS Health Scotland is the national agency for health education in Scotland, providing leadership for health promotion in Scotland. Its remit includes:<ul><li>educational action to strengthen individuals' knowledge, skills and capabilities</li><li>building the capacities of systems which shape the social, environmental and economic conditions which create and sustain health</li></ul>NHS Health Scotland is also committed to measuring the effectiveness of its activities and commissions research to provide reliable evaluation evidence and to inform the development of programmes. As part of this research programme, BMRB Social Research were commissioned to conduct the first <i>Health Education Population Survey</i> (HEPS) every March and September from March 1996 until March 1999 (seven waves in total). The resulting data, covering all three years, are held at the UK Data Archive as a single study under SN 4949. The second and following HEPS surveys were then conducted every March and September until September 2005 (ten waves in total), with two waves comprising each yearly dataset (see SNs 4950-4952, 5202 and 5470). Fieldwork was then commissioned for a further four waves, with waves eleven and twelve (conducted January-April and August-December 2006) comprising the 2006 dataset, held under SN 5713. These were followed by waves thirteen and fourteen (conducted January-April and August-November 2007) and are held under SN 6023.<br>
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The main objectives of HEPS are as follows:<ul><li>to monitor trends in health-related attitudes, knowledge, beliefs and behaviours, and to assess the impacts of specific activities</li><li>contribute to planning and development of health promotion initiatives through the inclusion of more detailed modules on topical issues</li></ul>In the longer term, HEPS aims to develop a strategic view of how and where health promotion activity may be most effective. This can be achieved in the following ways:<ul><li>identifying levels of knowledge regarding the main causes of ill-health</li><li>identifying salient attitudes with respect to health and means of improving health</li><li>identifying levels of motivation with respect to behaviour change to improve health</li><li>developing an understanding of how such indicators may be expected to vary between different population groups</li><li>developing an understanding of individual patterns of health-related attitudes and behaviour and their relationship to the broader socio-cultural environment</li><li>developing an understanding of specific areas of interest</li></ul><br>
Further information and links to publications based on HEPS may be found by search on the <a href="http://www.healthscotland.com/index.aspx" title="healthscotland.com">healthscotland.com</a> web site.<br>
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苏格兰国民保健署健康局（NHS Health Scotland）是苏格兰全国性健康教育主管机构，牵头推动当地健康促进工作。其职责范畴包括：
• 开展教育行动，强化个体的健康知识、技能与综合能力；
• 建设能够塑造社会、环境与经济条件的系统能力，而这些条件正是健康得以形成并持续维持的基础。

苏格兰国民保健署健康局同时致力于评估自身各项活动的实施成效，并委托开展研究以获取可靠的评估证据，为项目开发提供决策支撑。作为该研究计划的组成部分，BMRB社会研究部（BMRB Social Research）受委托开展首次《健康教育人口调查》（Health Education Population Survey，HEPS），调查于1996年3月至1999年3月期间，每半年（3月与9月）开展一轮，总计完成7轮调查。本次调查所得的三年期数据集以单一研究项目的形式存档于英国数据档案馆，编号为SN 4949。

后续第二轮及其余HEPS调查仍遵循每半年一次的周期开展，直至2005年9月，总计完成10轮调查，每年度数据集包含2轮调查成果（详见存档编号SN 4950-4952、5202及5470）。此后项目组又委托开展了额外4轮调查：其中第11、12轮调查分别于2006年1-4月与8-12月开展，组成2006年度数据集，存档编号为SN 5713；紧随其后的第13、14轮调查分别于2007年1-4月与8-11月开展，相关数据存档编号为SN 6023。

HEPS的核心目标如下：
• 监测与健康相关的态度、知识、信念及行为的变化趋势，并评估特定健康促进活动的实施影响；
• 通过纳入针对热点议题的详细调研模块，为健康促进举措的规划与开发提供支撑。

从长远来看，HEPS旨在构建健康促进活动的开展路径与最优场景的战略视角，可通过以下途径实现该目标：
• 明确民众对主要致病因素的认知水平；
• 厘清民众关于健康及健康改善手段的突出态度；
• 掌握民众为改善健康而进行行为改变的动机程度；
• 理解上述健康相关指标在不同人口群体间的差异规律；
• 深化对健康相关态度与行为的个体模式及其与更广泛社会文化环境之间关系的认知；
• 拓展对特定关注领域的研究理解。

如需获取更多信息以及基于HEPS的研究出版物链接，可登录<a href="http://www.healthscotland.com/index.aspx" title="healthscotland.com">healthscotland.com</a>官网进行检索。