Data is a powerful tool in tackling health inequalities and shaping interventions that improve people’s lives. Despite challenges with the quality of ethnicity data, it remains essential for understanding and addressing disparities in health. This event focuses on how we can use ethnicity data more effectively to create targeted solutions and drive better health outcomes for Black, Asian, and minoritised ethnic Londoners.
Who is this event for?
This event is for those in the health and social care sector, and working on health and wellbeing issues: including integrated care systems, public health, and especially middle management and leaders.
Key Contributors
- Race Equality Foundation: Ethnicity data quality and consistency
- City University: Understanding data to improve outcomes for ethnic health inequalities
- Royal Free London NHS Hospital Trust & North Middlesex University Hospital: Data-led approaches to reducing health race inequalities.
- NHS England: Exploring the Inequalities Dashboard
The London Anti-Racism Collaboration for Health (LARCH)
This event is an activity of the LARCH programme. LARCH aims to empower health and care organisations to embed antiracist approaches and tackle health inequalities faced by Black, Asian, and minoritised ethnic Londoners. Supported by the Greater London Authority and partners, the programme runs from April 2024 to March 2025, led by the Race Equality Foundation and Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London.
Watch an overview of ethnicity data in health from the session here:
Audience Questions & Answers
Are the findings from community participants applicable to social care as well as health services?
Whilst our recent Wellcome funded study did not include care workers, there is little evidence that social care records the is information better. Some work I did in the 1990s painted a similar picture, that there was a variability in recording, with frontline staff being unclear why this information was needed and what was going to be done with it (Jabeer Butt, CEO Race Equality Foundation).
What type of conditions are included in Multiple long-term conditions (MLTC)?
- Alzheimer’s disease or dementia
- Arthritis or long-term joint problems
- Asthma or long-term chest problems
- Blindness or severe visual impairment
- Cancer in the last five years
- Diabetes
- Deafness or severe hearing impairment
- Epilepsy
- High Blood Pressure
- Kidney or liver disease
- Long-term back problem
- Long-term mental health problem
- Long-term neurological problem
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