Health Inequalities and COVID-19 in NI

The Department of Health (DoH) in Northern Ireland have published a document, Coronavirus related health inequalities in Northern Ireland.   
What is the report about?
The report analysed infection rates and hospital admission rates for COVID-19. A number of factors were explored:

• socio-economic deprivation;
• age;
• gender; and
• whether people lived in rural, urban or mixed rural/urban areas.

The report did not explore variations in infection or admission rates of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds. It also did not include information about co-morbidities (people who had one or more conditions as well as COVID-19).
It discusses ’standardised’ rates – infection, admission and mortality – throughout. Standardisation makes adjustments to compensate for differences in population structure (such as age), so valid comparisons can be made between geographical areas.  Data was collected up to 9am on 26 May 2020. 

Read rest of article here https://www.cdhn.org/health-inequalities-and-covid-19-ni?fbclid=IwAR2gIHKfyI2qIeuGUKSlXirfvAHuiu7VMJC2H4Ri_G3tBLFR_UixhCTCszk