Informing Investment to Reduce Inequalities: A Modelling Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reducing health inequalities is an important policy objective but there is limited quantitative information about the impact of specific interventions.

Objectives

To provide estimates of the impact of a range of interventions on health and health inequalities.

Materials and methods

Literature reviews were conducted to identify the best evidence linking interventions to mortality and hospital admissions. We examined interventions across the determinants of health: a 'living wage'; changes to benefits, taxation and employment; active travel; tobacco taxation; smoking cessation, alcohol brief interventions, and weight management services. A model was developed to estimate mortality and years of life lost (YLL) in intervention and comparison populations over a

SUBMITTER: McAuley A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4972318 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature