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Who reports address changes through the healthcare system?
— the characteristics of laggers and non-reporters using the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study | | Author(s) | Ian Shuttleworth |
| Journal title | Population Trends, no 144, Summer 2011 |
| Pages | pp 45-51 |
| Source | http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pt/index.html |
| Keywords | Health services ; Population ; Evaluation ; Longitudinal surveys ; Northern Ireland. |
| Annotation | Address information from health service professionals is important for the delivery of health care and population monitoring and screening. It is also important for statistical purposes such as the estimation of migration and small area populations. This article considers the characteristics of `laggers' - those who delay in reporting address change - and `non-reporters' - those who on occasion fail to report their addresses. As might be expected, laggers and non-reporters tend to be male and resident in urban and deprived areas. However, less expectedly, older people tend to be laggers, as are owner occupiers, those who are not ill, those who have some educational qualifications, and those who are self-employed. Some non-reporters are also more likely to be employed in professional jobs and to be unmarried, or divorced and remarried. This suggests that poor address information is not just a problem associated with the socially deprived and the young but also with some more affluent groups such as those not experiencing limiting long-term illness. The article concludes by arguing that the checking of patients' address information should be collected under the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) as a performance indicator. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110905001 A |
| Classmark | L: S3: 4C: 3J: 9Y |
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