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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Executive Summary
- Historical
- Definitions
- Recent developments in the NHS
- Influences on health
- The Black Report
- Other explanations for observed inequalities in health
- Area-based measures
- Area-based analysis
- The Carstairs & Morris index of deprivation
- Problems in the use of area classifications
- Deprivation at health board level
- General aspects of the analyses
- Advantages and disadvantages of the routine data
- Inequality and inequity
- Strategic priorities of the NHSiS
- Schizophrenic psychosis
- Suicide, depressive illness, and anxiety
- Summary
- Smoking in pregnancy
- Mortality from coronary heart disease
- Hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction (AMI)
- Angiography, angioplasty, and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures procedures after first hospitalised AMI
- Summary
- Mortality from stroke
- First hospital admission for stroke
- Outcome after first hospitalised stroke
- Summary
- Breast cancer
- Lung cancer
- Cancer of the large bowel
- Cancer of the cervix uteri
- Place of death of cancer patients
- Summary
- Measuring deprivation
- Routine data
- Action on inequalities