Health Equity Indicators for the English NHS: a longitudinal whole-population study at the small-area level

Cookson R, Asaria M, Ali S, Ferguson B, Fleetcroft R, Goddard M, Goldblatt P, Laudicella M, Raine R
Record ID 32016001015
English
Authors' objectives: Inequalities in health-care access and outcomes raise concerns about quality of care and justice, and the NHS has a statutory duty to consider reducing them. The objectives were to (1) develop indicators of socioeconomic inequality in health-care access and outcomes at different stages of the patient pathway; (2) develop methods for monitoring local NHS equity performance in tackling socioeconomic health-care inequalities; (3) track the evolution of socioeconomic health-care inequalities in the 2000s; and (4) develop 'equity dashboards' for communicating equity findings to decision-makers in a clear and concise format.
Authors' recommendations: NHS actions can have a measurable impact on socioeconomic inequality in both health-care access and outcomes. Reducing inequality in health-care outcomes is more challenging than reducing inequality of access to health care. Local health-care equity monitoring against a national benchmark can be performed using any administrative geography comprising ≥ 100,000 people.
Details
Project Status: Completed
Year Published: 2016
URL for published report: http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/hsdr04260/#/abstract
English language abstract: An English language summary is available
Publication Type: Not Assigned
Country: England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
  • Ethnicity
  • Health Equity
  • Humans
  • Language
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • State Medicine
Contact
Organisation Name: NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research programme
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