Chronic morbidity, deprivation and primary medical care spending in England in 2015-16: a cross-sectional spatial analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary care provides the foundation for most modern health-care systems, and in the interests of equity, it should be resourced according to local need. We aimed to describe spatially the burden of chronic conditions and primary medical care funding in England at a low geographical level, and to measure how much variation in funding is explained by chronic condition prevalence and other patient and regional factors.

Methods

We used multiple administrative data sets including chronic condition prevalence and management data (2014/15), funding for primary-care practices (2015-16), and geographical and area deprivation data (2015). Data were assigned to a low geographical level (average 1500 residents). We investigated the overall morbidity burden across 19 chronic

SUBMITTER: Kontopantelis E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5812046 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature