Indications of Public Health in the English Regions - No. 4: Ethnicity and Health

Introduction
The drive for race equality, the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, gives public authorities a new statutory duty to promote race equality. To demonstrate compliance with these duties, ethnicity monitoring data needs to be collected and analysed across the workforce and service delivery areas. This report provides a comprehensive regional analysis of inequalities in health and health care between ethnic groups in England, and also examines workforce data by ethnic group. It is the fourth in the series 'Indications of public health in the English Regions' produced by the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO). This report follows the structure of previous reports and looks at indicators of:

1. The determinants of health (or causes of ill health)
2. Health status
3. Public health interventions
4. Effectiveness of partnership
5. Patient experience and workforce

There is a longer report to accompany this report that is available from the LHO website at www.lho.org.uk . This longer report contains all the technical detail behind the indicators, further references and further background information. This report provides a summary of each indicator selected. The data for each indicator is also available from the LHO website at www.lho.org.uk.