Data Resource Profile: the Scottish Social Care Survey (SCS) and the Scottish Care Home Census (SCHC).

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Linked health care datasets have been used effectively in Scotland for some time. Use of social care data has been much more limited, partly because responsibility for these services is distributed across multiple local authorities. However, there are substantial interactions between health and social care (also known internationally as long-term care) services, and keen policy interest in better understanding these. We introduce two social care resources that can now be linked to health datasets at a population level across Scotland to study these interdependencies. These data emerge from the Scottish Government's centralised collation of data from mandatory returns provided by local authorities and care homes.

Methods

Deterministic and Probabilistic methods we

SUBMITTER: Henderson D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8142955 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature