Webinar on Inequalities and Health

Organised by RSS Official Statistics Section and Health Statistics User Group

The Health Statistics Users Group and the RSS Official Statistics Section are organising a webinar to discuss statistics on Inequalities and Health. The aim of the webinar is to present recent publications and developments in inequalities and health statistics, and to provide the opportunity for discussing these, along with future developments.

Please note that the webinar is free to RSS Fellows and e-student members. There are also a limited number of free places available to the HSUG community. If you would like to apply to HSUG for one of these free places, please email info@hsug.org.uk. There is a registration fee of £10 for other participants.

Programme

· Cara Evans (Analysis Unit, National Statistician’s Office) Overview of some analyses that have recently been published using linked data to investigate geographical and sociodemographic inequalities in premature mortality in England.

· Catriona Haddow and Sandra Robb, PHS (Public Health Scotland) Presentation on the work they have done to date on working with race and ethnicity data

· Grace Igiamoh-Livingwater (Research Specialist, University of Hertfordshire, currently works at Centre for Mental Health) Quantifying the Burden and Determinants of Anxiety and Depression among Minoritised Ethnic Young People in Northern England: A Cross Sectional Study.

The presentations, a meeting report and a recording of the webinar will be posted on the Health and Care group on StatsUserNetwork, and also on the HSUG Community on AnalystX within the Future NHS platform.

People who are not able to attend on the day will be able to view, and comment on, this material presented at the webinar. If you have difficulty accessing either website please contact webmaster@hsug.org.uk