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Small Area Health Statistics Unit

Assessing the risk to the health of the population from environmental factors by using routinely collected health and population data

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Staff, Research, Rapid Inquiry Facility

Research

SAHSU maintains a wide range of routinely collected health and environmental data at small area level. A key focus of its work is the development of methods in spatial statistical analysis to investigate potential associations between environmental factors and health.

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People

SAHSU brings together the work of epidemiologists, statisticians, database managers, computer programmers, application developers and experts in exposure assessment.

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Rapid Inquiry Facility

The Rapid Inquiry Facility (RIF) is an application that supports two types of environmental health activities: disease mapping studies and risk analysis studies. It was designed to help epidemiologists and public health researchers to rapidly investigate potential environmental hazards.

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