Long Term Monitoring of Health Inequalities: Headline Indicators – October 2014

Footnotes

1. For further information on the recommendations of the technical group, see: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Health/TrendHealthOutcome

2. The first Long-Term Monitoring of Health Inequalities report, including Technical Advisory Group Membership, is available here: http://scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/09/25154901/0

3. NHS Health Scotland Policy Review, March 2014: http://www.healthscotland.com/documents/23047.aspx

4. Equally Well, 2008: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/06/25104032/0

5. Report of the Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities, March 2014: http://www.scotland.gov.uk7dd58da7-70ca-4fbe-a90b-f8d445276787

6. Further information on the change to the European Standard Population is available on the Office for National Statistics website: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/user-guidance/health-and-life-events/revised-european-standard-population-2013--2013-esp-/index.html

7. https://isdscotland.scot.nhs.uk/Health-Topics/Maternity-and-Births/Publications/2014-08-26/2014-08-26-Births-Report.pdf

8. See http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/types/prostate/incidence/uk-prostate-cancer-incidence-statistics for more information.

9. See http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/types/breast/incidence/uk-breast-cancer-incidence-statistics for more information.

10. See Annex 2 for full details on the way suicides were coded. Data in this report are defined consistently over time to aid interpretation of long-term trends.

11. See Sergeant JC, Firth D. Relative index of inequality: definition, estimation, and inference. Biostatistics 2006;7:213-24 for further details

12. http://www.isdscotland.org/Products-and-Services/Hospital-Records-Data-Monitoring/
http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Scottish-Cancer-Registry/Quality-Assurance/

13. http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/deaths/deaths-background-information/quality-of-nrs-data-on-deaths

14. See for further information: Centile charts for birthweight for gestational age for Scottish singleton births, Sandra Bonellie