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Which cancer patients die at home, including district data
— Fact sheet no 31: London region | | Author(s) | Irene Higginson |
| Corporate Author | Hospice Information Service, St Christopher's Hospice |
| Publisher | Hospice Information Service at St Christopher's, London, 1999 |
| Pages | various pagings |
| Source | Hospice Information Service, St Christopher's Hospice, 51-59 Lawrie Road, London SE26 6DZ. |
| Keywords | Cancer ; Death ; Living in the community ; Death rate [statistics] ; London. |
| Annotation | Many more cancer patients wish to die at home than actually achieve this. Home care is also an important priority for many health, local and voluntary services. Region-wide, district and electoral ward data is presented for London, based on data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on all cancer deaths in the UK for the last ten years. Information is also presented as maps and scatter graphs. The relationship between deprivation and home deaths is also plotted. Two periodical articles provide background literature and information on the methods and analysis of the total national data set: "Do social factors affect where patients die: an analysis of 10 years of cancer deaths in England" (Higginson et al, Journal of Public Health Medicine, 1999); and "Where do cancer patients die? Ten year trends in the place of death of cancer patients in England" (Higginson et al, Palliative Medicine, 1998). Both articles demonstrate the negative association between home death from cancer and deprivation and age. The research into the national data set was funded by the NHS National Research and Development Centre on Cancer. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010105016 B |
| Classmark | CK: CW: K4: S5: 82L |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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