Health inequalities in health protection report
The state of health inequalities in the UK, and how UKHSA aims to make health protection fair.
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This report shares the latest data on health inequalities in the UK.
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Amended the sentence on respiratory admissions attributable to inequalities associated with deprivation to include both comparisons, 1) between the most and least deprived deprivation quintiles only, and 2) calculated as if all deprivation quintiles had the same admissions as the least deprived quintile.
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Infectious diseases section, deprivation, second paragraph, changed 260,000 to 128,000, that is “Respiratory infections had the greatest inequality, with an estimated additional 128,000 admissions due to inequalities associated with deprivation (Figure 1).” This was a change in methodology not updated and is aligned with previously published estimates. Under ethnicity, inserted link: “guidance from the Race Disparity Unit”.
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First published.