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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access Admission to hospital following head injury in England: Incidence and socio-economic associations Alan Tennant* Address: Professor of Rehabilitation Studies, Academic Unit of Musculoskeletal and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Leeds, UK Email: Alan Tennant* - alantennant@ * Corresponding author Published: 04 March 2005 Received: 30 November 2004 Accepted: 04 March 2005 BMC Public Health 2005, 5:21 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-5-21 This article is available from: /1471-2458/5/21 © 2005 Tennant; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Head injury in England is common. Evidence suggests that socio-economic factors may cause variation in incidence, and this variation may affect planning for services to meet the needs of those who have sustained a head injury. Methods: Socio-economic data were obtained from the UK Office for National Statistics and merged with Hospital Episodes Statistics obtained from the Department of Health. All patients admitted for head injury with ICD-10 codes S00.0–S09.9 during 2001–2 and 2002–3 were included and collated at the level of the extant Health Authorities (HA) for 2002, and Primary Care Trust (PCT) for 200