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Public Health

Volume 126, Issue 3, March 2012, Pages 245-247
Public Health

Symposium
Linkage of data in the study of ethnic inequalities and inequities in health outcomes in Scotland, New Zealand and the Netherlands: Insights for global study of ethnicity and health

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Summary

Reducing inequalities in health is a global priority. An essential tool in achieving this reduction is the ability to provide valid measurements of inequalities, which are comparable over time and ultimately across countries and continents. With valid data a true understanding of inequalities can be ascertained, which can begin to inform effective legislation and policy. In this workshop, the speakers described in three different countries, Scotland, New Zealand and the Netherlands, how record linkage has been used to link ethnic status to health and health care measures and so to determine ethnic inequalities in health with the ultimate aim of reducing these inequalities.

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    Data linkage studies proved a popular and convincing approach to the exploration of important health inequalities by ethnicity in both Scotland (N. Bansal, Abstract 03-2.1), New Zealand (T. Blakely, Abstract 03-2.2) and The Netherlands (I. Vaartzes, Abstract 03-2.3). These are described in the symposium report in this issue.5 Conditions that usually receive limited attention in the developed world had due attention in this stream, with Dengue fever (S.R.L. Passos, Abstract 04-3.3) and Chagas disease (A.D. Passos, Abstract 04-3.5) in Brazil and neurocysticercosis in India (R.N. Prasad, Abstract 04-3.4) all being discussed.

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