Linking education and health data together to study relationships between various health factors and children's educational and health outcomes.

苏格兰拥有一些世界上最好的医疗服务数据，能够通过基于患者的分析将全国收集的高质量健康数据联系起来，从而进行研究。然而，卫生的决定因素和结果不仅仅限于卫生部门，因此，将不同部门的数据联系起来为流行病学研究提供了宝贵的资源。许多因素可对儿童的教育结果发挥重要作用，包括产科做法和妊娠并发症、分娩结果、产妇先天因素、社会经济和父母因素、新生儿发病率、早期生活事件、儿童慢性病以及母亲在童年或怀孕期间使用的药物。为了调查这些因素中的一些因素，我创建了一个与学龄儿童有关的教育和健康记录的全国链接数据库。这是通过将国家持有的ScotXed(苏格兰教育数据交换)学校普查数据和SQA(苏格兰资格管理局)考试数据链接到以下国家收集的行政健康数据集而创建的：-PIS处方记录-急性(SMR01)和精神科(SMR04)住院和癌症(SMR06)登记-苏格兰国家记录(NRS)出生和死亡登记-产妇记录(SMR02)-新生儿记录(SMR11和苏格兰出生登记)-儿童健康监测数据(CHSP)-糖尿病登记

Scotland has some of the best health service data in the world with the ability to link nationally collected high quality health data enabling research via patient based analyses. The determinants and outcomes of health however extend beyond just the health sector and therefore linking data across different sectors provides an invaluable resource for epidemiological research. Many factors can play a significant role on children's educational outcomes including obstetric practice and pregnancy complications, birth outcomes, maternal antecedents, socioeconomic and parental factors, neonatal morbidity, early life events, childhood chronic disease and medication used either through childhood or by mothers during pregnancy. To investigate some of these factors I have created a national linked database of education and health records pertaining to school aged children. This was created by linking nationally held ScotXed (Scottish Exchange of Educational Data) school census data and SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority) examination data to the following nationally collected administrative health datasets: - PIS prescribing records- Acute (SMR01) and psychiatric (SMR04) hospital admissions and cancer (SMR06) register- National Records of Scotland (NRS) birth and death registrations- Maternity records (SMR02)- Neonatal records (SMR11 and Scottish Birth Register)- Child Health Surveillance Data (CHSP)- Diabetes register