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Long-term monitoring of health inequalities: December 2017
Update of long-term indicators of health inequalities, such as healthy birth weight and alcohol-related hospital admissions.
Indicators
The indicators monitored by this report series are:
Headline indicators of health inequalities
- Healthy Life Expectancy
- Premature Mortality from all causes (aged under 75 years)
- Mental Wellbeing of adults (aged 16+)
Indicators of inequalities in morbidity and mortality
- Coronary Heart Disease: first ever hospital admission for heart attack (aged under 75 years)
- Coronary Heart Disease: deaths (aged 45-74 years)
- Cancer: incidence (aged under 75 years)
- Cancer: deaths (aged 45-74 years)
- Alcohol: first hospital admissions (aged under 75 years)
- Alcohol-related deaths (aged 45-74 years)
- All-cause mortality (aged 15-44 years)
- Low birthweight
- Healthy birthweight
- Self-assessed health of adults (aged 16+)
- Limiting long-term conditions amongst adults (aged 16+)
This year's report does not include results for the mental wellbeing indicator, the self-assessed health indicator, or the limiting long-term conditions indicators. These are produced every second year and were included in the previous report.
Tables showing the most up-to-date trends in relative and absolute inequalities for all indicators are published on the Scottish Government website.
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