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Subject: [EQ] Health Inequalities
Intervention Toolkit
Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit
Available
online at: http://bit.ly/b8b5TY
- View trends in infant death rates and find information on factors
which may influence infant mortality.
- Assess the impact of modifying the factors which contribute to higher infant
death rates in the routine and manual group compared to all births within
marriage/joint registrations.
- Find latest data on gaps in life expectancy between Spearhead areas and
- Access tables and charts which show the causes of death, and age groups,
which are driving these health inequalities.
- Assess the impact that evidence-based interventions can have on reducing the
inequality in life expectancy between Spearhead areas and
(Includes new intervention on blood sugar control.)
- Find information on within, as well as between, area inequalities.
- Access data on gaps in life expectancy between the most deprived quintile of
each local authority in
- Estimate the effect on life expectancy if certain evidence-based
interventions are increased.
Context for the Toolkit
To support
Primary Care Trusts and local authorities, the Association of Public Health
Observatories and Department of Health have developed the Health Inequalities
Intervention Toolkit.
This is designed to assist evidence-based local service planning and
commissioning, including Joint Strategic Needs Assessments.
The Tools
The toolkit
contains tools to support planning to achieve both objectives within the
national health inequalities target.
Life Expectancy Tools
There are
currently separate tools for Spearhead areas only, and one for all local
authorities in
Latest data Spearhead Tool – Life Expectancy
Gaps
The tool for
Spearhead areas has been updated and is available for the first time as a
web-based application within the intervention toolkit. The tool presents gaps
in life expectancy between each Spearhead area and
New Spearhead Tool – Commissioning
interventions
This part of
the Spearhead tool has been fully revised. To support commissioning decisions,
it allows users to model the impact that systematically implementing
evidence-based interventions at scale can have on reducing inequalities in life
expectancy and All Age All Cause Mortality between each Spearhead area and
New Infant Mortality Tool
The Infant Mortality tool contains data for Strategic Health
Authorities in
•Presents trends in infant death rates for the R&M group,
births within marriage and joint registrations, and sole registrations.
•Shows the factors which are contributing to the gap in
infant mortality between the R&M group and births within marriage and joint
registrations (such as such as smoking in pregnancy, poverty, maternal obesity
and failure to initiate breastfeeding) and allows users to assess the impact of
modifying these factors.
•Brings together background data on factors which may
influence infant mortality, such as deprivation, low birthweight and ethnicity.
Background
data and charts of trends in infant mortality are also presented for those
local authorities included within the tool. A link to further resources which
may help address inequalities in infant mortality is also available.
Health Inequalities Intervention Tool for All
Areas
The tool provides data on gaps in life expectancy between the most
deprived quintile of each local authority and a range of comparator areas,
including an analysis of the causes of death which contribute most to these
gaps.
The tool also
allows local authorities to estimate the effect on their life expectancy if
certain evidence based interventions are increased.
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