nhs-r-community/health-inequalities-notebook

Health Inequalities book

Source code for NHS-R Community website

Following the values and commitment of the NHS-R Community to open source this website has been built in Quarto to be open in its code and further contribution.

Many of the blogs, which go back to the start of NHS-R Community in 2018, were first posted through a WordPress site and so we don't have a record in GitHub for their contributions, however, the author and the date they wrote the blog are in the source code.

New contributions and corrections can be made directly to this repository through a pull request. Details on how to contribute to an NHS-R Community GitHub repository can be found in the Statement on Tools technical appendix.

This website is not yet live!

Whilst this site is being built the current url www.nhsrcommunity.com is directed to the WordPress site. All the blog posts are being saved under the original titles so that when this site is redirected to the www.nhsrcommunity.com url they will be same as the WordPress.

health-inequalities-notebook's Issues

Understanding and generating Directly Standardised Rates

Consider the importance of standardised rates in reporting and assessing health inequalities, differences between crude rates, direct and indirect standardisation. Technical approach to generating standardised rates.

Write a page covering ethnicity categorisations and best-practice

Cover high-level categories, and detail.
Cover differences between NHS and ONS categorisations (if they exist) - keeping to primary sources eg. NHS data dictionary.

Issue with CNAME being wiped by gh-action

Manually added CNAME as this gets wiped out with the use of gh pages (original) but is retained when using GitHub Actions (beta). However, quarto doesn't publish to gh-pages with GitHub Actions (beta).

Related to similar issues in other NHS-R Community books nhs-r-community/NHSR-way#48

JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action#354

Remove renv files

Add some initial content to the book

A welcome page, include the README, etc

Add in section about IMD - centroids

Add README

It would be great to add a README when time allows, I was just thinking about showing somebody but there isn't anything to link to yet

Publish to github pages

This book should be published to github pages. I'm happy to arrange that but don't currently have permissions. Might be worth dealing with issue #1 first.

Nomis

https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/pestsyoaoa - then click on the green "Query data" button (I can try to find the right URL for the dataset you are querying)

{nomisr} https://github.com/ropensci/nomisr

Pages are not publishing in the right format

Dependency introduced to {myrmidon} package

Using renv::status() {myrmidon} is not shown as not being used so this may be from some dependency code from another package like {NHSRpostcodetools}?

List out health inequality expected analyses

Assign to @Trendy once accepted

• Ethnicity - grouped for power (explain requirements for power)
• Gender
• Co-morbidities (by number or specific like Asthma, heart disease?)
• Long term conditions
• Deprivation - when quintiles are used instead of deciles
• Places like PCN/PBB
• Age profile - using population pyramid
• Other?

Some things are flagged in the local system GPRCC/Ehealthscope (a Nottingham based system like a TRE which is available for GPs to access for patient level care and now hosts public health data like cause of death for public health analysis only).

Public Health resources

https://rdrr.io/github/PublicHealthEngland/fingertipsR/man/nearest_neighbours.html - nearest neighbour information is more useful for comparisons to areas that are more alike rather than geographically neighbouring.

Readme link typo remains

Remove tidyverse loading message

Possibly best in the _quarto.yml add message: true as well as echo and eval

health-inequalities-notebook/content/imd.qmd

Line 91 in e1f5ca7

library(tidyverse)

Rename repository

It might be worth dropping the "QuartoBook" from the name as this describes how it's been built rather than what it contains. Perhaps then expanding on HIQ to health-inqualities-notebook or something similar?

Start a page linking out to important reference material and background reading

For example:

• The Marmot Review
• The Marmot Review 10 years on

Write a page giving an overview of Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

Possible sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_deprivation_index
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2019

Mapping:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/english-indices-of-deprivation-2019-mapping-resources

Live map:
http://dclgapps.communities.gov.uk/imd/iod_index.html

A page outlining main Population characteristics used in Health Inequalities

#15 This broadens scope to Age, Gender and Ethnicity to start. Can further broaden to include characteristics such as first language, homeless and migrant statuses of populations. An issue #13 has been raised for a Page on IMD.

Source of Trust codes to names

DSR (directly standardised rates) code and when to use it

Sample code required as well as when to use it. Assign to @Trendy once accepted invitation.