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Home  Keeping healthy, staying fit Facts and figures Health inequalities
Health inequalities
The Department of Health has published 'Health inequalities: progress and next steps'. This document outlines the Government’s approach to hit the 2010 health inequalities Public Service Agreement targets, assessing what has and has not worked, and setting the direction of travel beyond 2010. The partial equality impact assessment sets out some of the current health inequalities and potential interventions to reduce and eliminate these inequalities.
Health inequalities tool
The health inequalities tool is a new online technique designed for specifically for all local social and health care agencies throughout England. It provides hard-edged evidence for local authorities to target the causes behind gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor. The tool, designed by the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO), can be used by frontline council staff to help them to tackle health deprivation in local communities and build healthy neighbourhoods.
The health inequalities tool will provide:
current life expectancy in local authority areas
current gap in life expectancy between the most deprived population in the local authority and the local authority as a whole
breakdown of the causes of the life expectancy gap by disease type and age.
It allows councils to estimate the effect on life expectancy if particular interventions are increased.
For example:
interventions to reduce infant mortality (in local authorities where there are more than 35 deaths in 5 years)
smoking cessation
antihypertensive prescribing in people without diagnosed cardiovascular disease
prescribing statins for people without diagnosed cardiovascular disease.
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