COVID-19 and flu: inequalities in emergency hospital admission rates
Technical report on inequalities in emergency hospital admission rates for influenza and COVID-19 in England, from September 2022 to February 2023.
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This report looks at inequalities in emergency hospital admission rates for influenza and COVID-19 in England, between September 2022 and February 2023. The report forms part of the UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) strategy to achieve more equitable health outcomes by identifying and monitoring existing inequalities in key winter-associated infectious diseases that are potentially able to be prevented. Inequalities are considered in the contexts of deprivation level (Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) quintiles) and ethnic group, adjusting for age differences between groups.
This report is based on surveillance work from winter 2022 to 2023. This analysis does not control for other underlying factors that may drive differences between groups, such as vaccination, the prevalence of pre-existing health conditions, or other contributing factors.