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Inequalities in healthy life expectancy by social class and area type
— England, 2001-03 | | Author(s) | Chris White, Grace Edgar |
| Journal title | Health Statistics Quarterly, no 45, Spring 2010 |
| Pages | pp 28-56 |
| Source | http://www.statistics.gov.uk doi:10.1057/hsq.2010.3 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Good Health ; Poverty ; Economic status [elderly] ; Local Authority ; Life expectancy tables ; England. |
| Annotation | Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is an important indicator which combines longevity with health status. This article examines inequalities in HLE by socio-economic position in England, and between Local Authorities (LAs) in the deprived 'Spearhead group' and other LAs. (Department of Health's Spearhead Group of local authorities consists of those identified as the most deprived in England). Census and vital event data available from the ONS Longitudinal Study were used to calculate estimates of HLE based on general health status for each Registrar General's Social Class (RGSC) in 2001-03, in England as a whole and within the 'Spearhead group' and non-Spearhead LAs. The differences observed in HLE at birth and at age 65 between people assigned to the professional and unskilled manual social classes were statistically significant and substantial, demonstrating a clear social inequality in the amount of life, the quality of those years lived, the absolute number of healthy life years, and thus the relative proportion of life spent in 'Good' or 'Fairly Good' health. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100517205 A |
| Classmark | CC: CD: W6: F:W: PE: S7: 82 |
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