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Variations in place of death in England
— inequalities or appropriate consequences of age, gender and cause of death? | | Author(s) | Kate Ruth, Andrew Pring, Julia Verne |
| Corporate Author | National End of Life Care Intelligence Network - NEoLCIN, NHS End of Life Programme, Department of Health - DH; South West Public Health Observatory - SWPHO |
| Publisher | NHS End of Life Programme, Department of Health - DH, London, August 2010 |
| Pages | 88 pp |
| Source | Download from: http://www.endoflifecare-intelligence.org.uk/resou... (Author contact: South West Public Health Observatory, Grosvenor House, 149 Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2RA.) |
| Keywords | Terminal care ; Death rate [statistics] ; Local ; Regional ; England. |
| Annotation | This report, the first in a series commissioned by the National End-of-Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) and written by the South West Public Health Observatory, follows on from the launch of the Network's website (www.endoflifecare-intelligence.org.uk). It highlights variations in where people die and challenges current thinking about the appropriateness of different end of life care settings for different groups, depending on their age, sex and socioeconomic status. The report summarises the key features from the first tranche of national End of Life Care Profiles to provide the first comprehensive overview for England of variations in place of death by geography, demography and main cause of death. The report also includes some additional data not included in the profiles, for example analyses by deprivation quintile. Among key findings in an Executive Summary are that in 2007, there were 471,092 deaths in England, of which 52% (246,412) were females compared with 48% (224,680) males. This equates to about 1,300 deaths per day in England and about one death per minute. In comparison, there were 672,809 live births in 2008 in England which equates to about 1,843 births per day and about 1.3 births per minute. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100826201 E |
| Classmark | LV: S5: 5CT: 5CP: 82 |
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