[EQ] Health Inequalities Intervention Tool

The Health Inequalities Intervention Tool -  updated 2009

Department of Health/Association of Public Health Observatories – 2009

URL: http://www.lho.org.uk/LHO_Topics/Analytic_Tools/HealthInequalitiesSpearhead2007.aspx

UK Department of health: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/Healthinequalities/Bestpractice/index.htm

This Tool is a new interactive online resource which draws together key data and modelling to help areas with the worst health and deprivation (the Spearhead Group) improve life expectancy quickly.

It presents both a national and local picture, showing:

·         Life expectancy in each Spearhead local authority

·         The gap in life expectancy between each Spearhead local authority and England

·         A breakdown of the causes of the life expectancy gap by disease type and age

The Tool also contains a ready reckoner, which allows Spearhead Areas to estimate the potential effect on their life expectancy gap if certain interventions are increased, specifically:

·         support for people to give up smoking

·         control blood pressure through prescribing antihypertensives in people without diagnosed cardiovascular disease.

·         control cholesterol through prescribing statins in people without diagnosed cardiovascular disease.

·         actions to reduce infant mortality

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