Local action on health inequalities Understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in health

Local action on health inequalities Local action on health inequalities Understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in health Local action on health inequalities: Understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in health About Public Health England Public Health England exists to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities. [...] The APMS (using combined 2007 15 Local action on health inequalities: Understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in health and 2014 data) reported that the prevalence of psychotic disorder in the past year was higher among Black men (3.2%) than men from other ethnic groups (0.3% of White men, 1.3% in the Asian group, and no cases in the ‘mixed/other’ ethnic group), a pattern reported in earlie. [...] Detailed explorations of ethnic inequalities in social and economic conditions are regularly produced by the Equality and 22 Local action on health inequalities: Understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in health Human Rights Commission (see for example How Fair is Britain?).44 The Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester is also a source of detailed analyses in th. [...] In general, minority ethnic populations are younger than the White British population (6.7% were aged 65 and over in 2011 compared to 18.8%).86 The 2011 Census found significant ethnic differences in the proportion of people aged 16 and over in England and Wales who lived alone, and a rising proportion with increasing age.87 This figure was 3.7%, 4.2% and 6.3% in the Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and In. [...] Detailed evidence 55 Local action on health inequalities: Understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in health reviews of explanations for these observed ethnic health inequalities undertaken for the Marmot Review and the Equality and Human Rights Commission Triennial Review conclude that it is the social and economic inequalities associated with ethnicity that are the major drivers of the lar.