Investigating the impact of the English health inequalities strategy: time trend analysis.

ABSTRACT: Objective To investigate whether the English health inequalities strategy was associated with a decline in geographical health inequalities, compared with trends before and after the strategy.Design Time trend analysis.Setting Two groups of lower tier local authorities in England. The most deprived, bottom fifth and the rest of England.Intervention The English health inequalities strategy-a cross government strategy implemented between 1997 and 2010 to reduce health inequalities in England. Trends in geographical health inequalities were assessed before (1983-2003), during (2004-12), and after (2013-15) the strategy using segmented linear regression.Main outcome measure Geographical health inequalities measured as the relative and absolute differences in

SUBMITTER: Barr B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5527348 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature