One method applicable to the examination of spatial point patterns of disease, the calculation of K-functions, is presented. The technique is used to determine the degree of clustering exhibited by the residuals from a spatially referenced logit model constructed to ascertain the factors...

Family Expenditure Survey data show a widening gap between the incomes of households in different tenures during the period 1953 to 1983. In particular, a major gap has opened up between the two major tenures as the median income of owner occupied households (relative to the national average)...

Age and sex adjusted inpatient episode ratios were calculated from hospital records over a two year period for 555 census wards in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, UK. Hospital episodes were divided into acute, psychiatric and geriatric specialties, and elective and emergency acute...

Many studies have examined associations between the geographical patterns of disease and possible causal factors. Underlying such studies is the assumption that residence in an area can be equated with exposure to conditions that pertain there. Migration upsets this assumption. Using data on...

Access to the family doctor at his or her surgery is a problem for many people living in rural Britain. The service provided by a caravan used as a general practice mobile branch surgery in a rural part of Norfolk was evaluated using a survey of residents and examination of practice records. In...

A geographic information system was used to integrate information on the uptake of cervical cytology screening for general medical practices in Norfolk with other data on the characteristics of the practices and the population they served. Regression analysis was employed to explore the extent...

Policy in England and Wales has encouraged the concentration of hospital accident and emergency facilities into large units with substantial catchment areas. This means that many rural areas are considerable distances from the nearest hospital providing such services. Analysis of data on...

Malignant melanoma is the cancer that has shown the fastest increase in incidence in most white populations in recent decades. This paper studies the diffusion of the disease for males and females, geographical areas and socio-economic groups. Incidence data from the Norwegian Cancer Registry...

Previous studies have concluded that radioactive fallout from Chernobyl may have caused an increase in perinatal mortality in West Germany and the U.S.A. The existence of marked geographical variations in contamination from Chernobyl in England and Wales provides an opportunity to investigate...