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Healthy life expectancy by national area deprivation, England and Wales: between 2013 to 2015 and 2020 to 2022
What's in the bulletin?
- Compared with the pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic period (2017 to 2019), life expectancy at birth in England in 2020 to 2022 decreased in the most deprived areas by 1.4 years for males, to 72.6 years, and by 1.1 years for females, to 77.7 years.
- In England, from 2020 to 2022, the inequality in life expectancy at birth was 10.7 years for males and 8.5 years for females (as measured by the slope index of inequality, which continues a general trend of increasing inequality; for healthy life expectancy, these figures were 19.1 and 20.2 years, respectively.
- From 2020 to 2022, at birth, males in the most deprived areas of England were expected to spend 70.4% of life in "good" health, compared with 84.5% in the least deprived areas; during the same time span, for females, these figures were the lowest since our time series began (2013 to 2015), at 65.1% and 81.5%, respectively.
Inequalities in mortality involving common physical health conditions, England: 21 March 2021 to 31 January 2023
What's in the bulletin?
- Age-standardised mortality rates (ASMRs) were higher among males than females for all-cause mortality and most individual conditions; however, females had higher rates of mortality involving asthma and dementia.
- ASMRs for all-cause mortality and most individual conditions were generally highest in the most deprived areas and among people who were long-term unemployed or had never worked; the largest differences by deprivation were observed for mortality involving chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, followed by lung cancer and asthma.
- The ASMR for all-cause mortality was higher for the White British population than for other ethnic groups; the White British group also had higher mortality rates than most ethnic minority groups for several types of cancers, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and dementia.
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Inequalities in mortality involving common physical health conditions, England
Rates of mortality involving cancers, cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease, dementia, diabetes, and respiratory diseases, by Census 2021 variables. Experimental Statistics.
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Sociodemographic differences in the risk of testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), England
Sociodemographic differences in the risk of testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) using the COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS) and routinely collected data from national testing programmes.
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Health state life expectancies by Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD 2015 and IMD 2019): England, all ages
Life expectancy (LE), healthy life expectancy (HLE), disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) by national deprivation deciles (IMD 2015 and IMD 2019), England: 2011 to 2019.
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Health state life expectancies by Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD 2015 and IMD 2019), England, at birth and age 65 years
Life expectancy (LE), healthy life expectancy (HLE), disability-free life expectancy (DFLE), Slope Index of Inequality (SII) and range at birth and age 65 by national deprivation deciles (IMD 2015 and IMD 2019), England, 2011 to 2019.
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Health state life expectancies by Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD 2014 and WIMD 2019), Wales, at birth and age 65 years
Life expectancy (LE), healthy life expectancy (HLE), disability-free life expectancy (DFLE), Slope Index of Inequality (SII) and range at birth and age 65 years by national deprivation deciles (WIMD 2014 and WIMD 2019), Wales, 2011 to 2019.
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Life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, disability-free life expectancy by Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD 2015)
Life expectancy (LE), healthy life expectancy (HLE), disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) by national deprivation deciles (IMD 2015), England: 2016 to 2018.
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Statistical bulletins
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Sociodemographic differences in the risk of testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), England: 12 September 2020 to 13 December 2021
Comparison of sociodemographic differences in the risk of testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) using the COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS) and routinely collected data from national testing programmes.
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Quality of ethnicity data in health-related administrative data sources by sociodemographic characteristics, England
Comparing the quality of ethnicity data recorded in health-related administrative data sources with Census 2021.
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Most common age at death, by socio-economic position in England and Wales
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An overview of lifestyles and wider characteristics linked to Healthy Life Expectancy in England
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