Impact on health inequalities of rising prosperity in England 1998-2007, and implications for performance incentives: longitudinal ecological study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether the uneven rise in prosperity between 1999 and 2008 accounted for differential increases in life expectancy in English local authorities.

Design

Longitudinal ecological study.

Setting

324 local authorities in England, classified by their baseline level of deprivation. M: ain outcome measures Multivariable regression was used to investigate the association between trends in prosperity between 1998 and 2007 and trends in life expectancy. Trends in health inequalities were assessed by comparing the experience of Spearhead local authorities (the 70 most deprived in 1998) with the average for all English local authorities.

Results

Those local authorities that experienced the greatest improvement in prosperity experienced greater incr

SUBMITTER: Barr B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3514473 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature