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Tag Archives: Austerity
The Marmot Review 10 Years On: Health Equity in England (BBC News / Institute of Health Equity / King’s Fund)
Summary The Marmot Review has been updated (commissioned by the Health Foundation), to reflect developments since the Marmot Review of 2010. Austerity appears to have had an adverse impact on levels of social wellbeing. Life expectancy of women in the … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, King's Fund, Local Interest, Mental Health, National, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Active and Healthy Ageing, Amenable Mortality, Austerity, Avoidable Mortality, Best Start in Life, Choice and Control Over Decisions, Fair Employment Opportunities, Fair Society, Fair Society Healthy Lives, Health Equity, Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On, Health Inequalities, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Communities, Impact of Austerity, Institute of Health Equity, Institute of Health Equity (UCL), Life Expectancy, Life Expectancy Gaps, Life Expectancy of Poorest Women, Marmot Principles, Marmot Review, Measures of Inequality, Mortality Statistics, Mortality Trends, Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Social Deprivation, Social Determinants of Health, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Determinants of Mental Health, Social Determinants of Mental Health and Mental Health Inequalities, Social Epidemiology, Social Inequality, Social Patterning of Health over the Lifecourse, Social Well-Being, Social Wellbeing, UCL Institute of Health Equity, University College London Institute of Health Equity, Wellbeing, Wellbeing and Longevity, Wellbeing in Later Life
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Low Socio-Economic Status: a Possible Dementia Risk Factor? (JAMA Psychiatry / The Mental Elf)
Summary Data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing was used to analyse potential associations between markers of socioeconomic status (wealth quintiles and the index of multiple deprivation) and the incidence of dementia. It appears that dementia incidence is associated with low levels of … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Mental Health, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Austerity, Dementia Risk Factors, Department of Behavioural Science and Health: University College London, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (University College London), ELSA: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Environmental Risk Factors, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities and Socio-Economic Inequalities in Health, JAMA Psychiatry, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Low Socio-Economic Status: Likely Dementia Risk Factor, Medical School: University of Exeter, Mental Health: Epidemiology and Statistics, Modifiable Risk Factors, Overlapping Risk Factors, Risk Factors, School of Health Sciences: University of Surrey, Social Epidemiology, Socio-Economic Deprivation, Socio-Economic Patterning, Socio-Economic Status, Socio-Environmental Risk Factors, Socio-Environmental Risk Factors for Dementia, The Mental Elf, University College London, University of Exeter, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Surrey
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More on International Comparisons in Life Expectancy: The Impact of Austerity? (BBC News / ONS / BMJ / NHS Choices / King’s Fund)
Summary Increases in life expectancy in the UK may be slowing down; possibly at the fastest rate among the top twenty leading world economies. This slowdown effect was most apparent in women, where the rate of rising life expectancy fell … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, King's Fund, National, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), Statistics, Universal Interest
Tagged Ageing Population, Ageing Research, Ageing Society, Austerity, Australia, Austria, Bazian, BBC Health News, BBC's Life Expectancy Calculator, Behind the Headlines, Belgium, Canada, Changing Trends in Mortality in England and Wales: 1990 to 2017, Changing Trends in Mortality: Cross-UK Comparison - 1981 to 2016 (ONS), Changing Trends in Mortality: International Comparisons, Critical Appraisals, Declines in Life Expectancy, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Human Mortality Database, Human Mortality Database (HMD), Increasing Life Expectancy: Trends and Comparisons, International Comparisons, Italy, Japan, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and Department of Sociology: University of Southern California, Life Expectancy, Life Expectancy by Neighbourhood, Life Expectancy Gaps, Life Expectancy of Poorest Women, Life Expectancy: Inequalities, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Marmot Review (2020): Ten Years On, Mortality Data from the Office for National Statistics, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institutes of Health (US), Netherlands, Norway, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Office of Population Research and Department of Sociology: Princeton University, PHE Review of Recent Trends in Mortality in England, Poorest Women’s Life Expectancy, Portugal, Princeton University, Professor Martin McKee: European Public Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Public Health England (PHE), Robert Cuffe: BBC News Head of Statistics, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Sir Steve Webb: Former Liberal Democrat Pensions Minister, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trends in Life Expectancy: International Comparisons, Trends in Longevity in England, Trends in Mortality in England, United Kingdom, United States, University of Southern California, US National Institutes of Health, USA
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Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2013 (Dr Foster)
Summary The 2013 Dr Foster Hospital Guide has four special themes: Whether financial austerity is changing how money is spent on hospital treatments. The impact of drug and alcohol problems on patients and hospitals. The quality of care at weekends … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Austerity, Avoidable Mortality, Care in General Hospitals, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Dr Foster, Dr Foster Hospital Guide, Dr Foster Intelligence, Dr Foster Posters, Dr Foster Unit: Imperial College London, Drug and Alcohol Problems, Elective Procedures, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Hospital Treatment, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Incentives, Financial Performance, Financial Pressures, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, General Hospitals, Get Help for Your 44 Year Old Drink and Drug Issue, Health and Social Care Integration, Hip Operations; Cataract Operations, Hospital Beds, Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Ineffective Operations, Integration, Knee Operations, Measuring Mortality, Mortality, Mortality at the Weekend, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, My Hospital Guide: Efficiency & Mortality, NHS Financial Leadership, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Put Care into Spending and Spending into Care, Quality of Care, Quality of Care at Weekends, Rationing Care, Service Integration, Total Bed-Days in Hospital, Variations in Quality of Care, Weekend Effect, Your Mortality Rate is Your Pulse
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Projected Expenditure to 2022 on England’s Older Population (Nuffield Trust)
Summary Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies / London School of Economics, commissioned by the Nuffield Trust, projects expenditure for health and social care for older people in England from 2010 to 2022. The NHS might suffer a £44-£54 billion funding shortfall in … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), National, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Austerity, Care Funding, Commission on Funding of Care and Support, Dilnot Commission Report on Funding of Care and Support, Elderly Care, Finance, Financial Context, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Funding Reform, Future Funding Models, Health and Social Care, Health: Financing, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London School of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Nicholson Challenge, Office for Budget Responsibility, Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), PSSRU: Personal Social Services Research Unit (LSE), Social Care, Social Care Funding
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