Publications relating to health inequalities

Keeping children and young people in mind: the Government's full response to the independent review of CAMHS

Published in 2010 by Department of Health

The full Government response to the final report of the independent CAMHS review, setting out progress to date and plans for the future of children and young people's mental...

Devolution’s impact on low-income people and places

Published in 2010 by The Joesph Rowntree Foundation

What is the impact of devolution for people and places in poverty?

For the tenth anniversary of devolution, this Round-up and a series of reports explored trends in social...

Registry of Deliberate Self Harm

Published in 2010 by Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and CAWT

The Health Minister has welcomed the publication of the two year report from the Northern Ireland Registry of Deliberate Self-Harm.

This report presents data from January 2007 until...

An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK

Published in 2010 by National Equality Panel

Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrial countries and more so than a generation ago. This is manifest in many ways – most obviously in the gap between those who are...

Equality Impact Assessment

Published in 2010 by Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

A consultation has begun on the provision of supported housing in the greater Shankill area which will allow older people in the area to make choices about the way they live. It means the closure...

Cycles of poverty, unemployment and low pay

Published in 2010 by Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s recurrent poverty research programme examined the extent and causes of cycles of poverty. These causes stem from the circumstances of the...

How can parents escape from recurrent poverty?

Published in 2010 by The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

This study explores the reasons behind the low-pay/no-pay cycle and recurrent poverty among parents, drawing mainly on qualitative interviews with disadvantaged parents across Scotland and focus...

Health expectancy at birth and at age 65 in the United Kingdom, 2005 – 2007

Published in 2010 by Office For National Statistics

In 2005–07 healthy life expectancy (HLE) for males at birth, based on the definition of general health used in previous releases, was highest in England (68.7 years) and lowest in Wales and...

You, Your Child and Alcohol

Published in 2010 by Public Health Agency

Talk to your child about alcohol before someone else does

That’s the message going out to parents via a multi-agency campaign highlighting the importance of talking to your children...

Births in Northern Ireland (2009)

Published in 2010 by Northern Ireland Statistic and Research Agency

In total 24,900 live births were registered in Northern Ireland in 2009, marginally less (3%) than the number of births registered in 2008. This fall in birth registrations halts a...