ScotPHO Annual section updates

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ScotPHO Annual section updates

Statistical Publication Notice

30 March 2010

ScotPHO Website Annual Section Updates.

INTRODUCTION

The ScotPHO website contains comprehensive information on a wide range of topics including behaviour, health, well being and disease and clinical risk factors. Along with summary data and statistics, the website provides background information, interpretation, policy notes, commentaries on data sources, references and links to further information.
 
Annual updates of the following sections of the ScotPHO website will be completed by the end of March: diet and nutrition, physical activity, disability, tobacco use, community wellbeing, deprivation, income and economy, physical environment, drugs, injuries, education, ethnic minorities, immunisations, and infections.   These sections bring together previously available information and present summary data and statistics derived from published sources. 
 
A further three annual section updates will include the addition of data for more recent time periods which has not be previously published: COPD, epilepsy, and deaths. 

KEY POINTS

COPD
  • COPD is a chronic lung disease that causes cough and breathlessness.
  • Updated figures on the number of hospital admissions for COPD show a continuing rise in the number of women admitted with the condition.
  • The continuing rise in cases in women may be because smoking rates have taken longer to fall among women than men.
Epilepsy
  • Updated figures show a continuing downward trend in the number of hospital admissions for epilepsy.
Deaths
  • In Scotland in 2008 the all-cause age/sex standardised mortality rate was 713.8 per 100,000 population. The mortality rate has fallen consistently over the period 1980-2008.
  • The highest mortality rates are generally found in the west of the country (e.g. Greater Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire & Arran NHS Boards). The lowest rate (for residents of Borders NHS Board) is almost 25% lower than the figure recorded for those living within the Greater Glasgow NHS Board. The mortality rate for persons living in the least deprived 10% of areas was less than half the rate of those in the most deprived 10% of areas.
  • The most common single cause of death was acute myocardial infarction (accounting for an average of almost 5,300 deaths per year - 9% of the total), followed by malignant neoplasm of the bronchus and lung (7% of the total) and chronic ischaemic heart disease (7% of the total).  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, stroke, pneumonia, unspecified dementia, breast cancer and alcoholic liver disease all also feature in the list of the10 most common causes of death.
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MAIN CONTACTS:

Diane Stockton
ScotPHO co-lead
0131 275 6817
diane.stockton@nhs.net

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PRE-RELEASE ACCESS:

Under terms of the "Pre-Release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008", ISD are obliged to publish information on those receiving Pre-Release Access ("Pre-Release Access" refers to statistics in their final form prior to publication). The standard maximum Pre-Release Access is five working days. Shown below are details of those receiving standard Pre-Release Access and, separately, those receiving extended Pre-Release Access.
 
Standard (five day) Pre-Release Access:
Scottish Government Health Department (Analytical Services Division)
NHS Board Chief Executives
NHS Board Communication leads
 
Extended Pre-Release Access:
Scottish Government Health Department (Analytical Services Division)
This extended Pre-Release Access is given to a small number of named individuals in the Scottish Government Health Department (Analytical Services Division). This Pre-Release Access is for the sole purpose of enabling that department to gain an understanding of the statistics prior to briefing others in Scottish Government (during the period of standard Pre-Release Access).
 
 
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HISTORY OF THIS PUBLICATION:

Last Published: Various dates depending on publication
Next Due: Various dates depending on publication
Data Available Since: Some data included as a time trend back to 1981

 


Main contact: Email Diane Stockton