Measuring health inequalities and health equity
Course objectives
This course will provide NHS and local authority analysts with knowledge of health inequalities and health equity, and the knowledge and skills to undertake robust analysis on person-level datasets to understand where there are disparities in population health outcomes and local service delivery.
There will be a specific focus on using data to look at ethnic and socio-economic disparities, and how to present data so it becomes information for action.
Programme
1. Setting the scene
- What are health inequalities, what’s health equity and what’s the difference?
- Wider determinants of health, proportionate universalism and intersectionality
- Broader policy context of reducing health inequalities and levelling up in the UK
- Legal and ethical considerations (substantively drawing upon the Strategy Unit’s work)
2. Analysis and methods to understand disparities and inequity
- Types of analysis and their purposes, strengths and limitations: e.g. population health needs, equity audits, relative likelihoods (can showcase the Strategy Unit’s planned care analysis)
- Using statistics to identify real effects and notable disparities
- Algorithms and bias
3. Equalities data in NHS and local authority datasets and denominators
- Understanding population denominators and their importance
- Specific focus on deprivation and ethnicity within NHS and local authority datasets, including how they are measured, strengths and limitations and intersectionality
- Inclusion health groups – challenges in identifying these populations and importance of using qualitative methods
4. Opportunities to bring together local authority and NHS data to measure inequalities
- Data held by local authorities/others on social determinants of health
- How NHS and local authority data could be joined up to support shift to population health
5. Bringing it all together and turning it into information for action
- Role of analysts in helping reduce health inequalities and inequities
- Opportunities to embed this type of analysis into existing work and to work across boundaries
- Translating analysis into information for action
Trainer
Your Trainer for this course will be:
Dr Sarah Dougan, Independent Consultant in Population Health & Inequalities
Sarah is an independent Consultant in Public Health who specialises in population health and inequalities. She has had various contract roles over the past year for a local authority and NHS bodies. Prior to this she was the Director of Population Health Intelligence for North Central London ICB and a Deputy Director of Public Health in Camden & Islington Public Health. She has a PhD on HIV epidemiology from the City University, London, an MSc in the Control of Infectious Diseases from LSHTM and an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.
Audience
This course is free and available to all those working in the Midlands Public Health and Social Care sector , e.g. NHS, Public Health, Local Authority, ICBs
Dates available:
- 09/11/23
Duration
One- day workshop (09.30 to 16.00)
Location
Online
Registration now closed
For more information about this course, please contact:
Training & Development Operational Lead, Rachel Caswell