Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2000

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The content of this year’s report is built around five themes; firstly inequalities, as illustrated by Social Security claimant counts. These are under-utilised measures of inequality and important markers of areas of special needs, especially for disabilities and mobility. The second theme tracks the variation in ‘Our Healthier Nation’ indices across the West Midlands over time and place (including Primary Care Group areas). Third is Community Health and Safety - an area of growing importance as health and local authorities enact the requirements of the Crime Act 1998; and as they respond to the growing evidence of the effect environmental nuisance has on individual and community health. The report provides examples of the uses of Police crime data, local authority nuisance reports and drugs misuse. The fourth theme is communicable disease including emerging and re-emerging diseases; the fifth theme examines variations in service provision and need through the use of Disability Adjusted Life Years.

Key Health Data is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, the West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit and the Regional Drugs Misuse Database. It also depends on active collaboration with local authorities, police and emergency services.

We thank those who have helped its content and production, and trust that it provides valuable information for those concerned with health and health care in the West Midlands.

Andrew Stevens
Professor of Public Health
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology
University of Birmingham

June 2001