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The causes of poor health can be unexpected, long or short term, as well as local or global. We don’t always have the right data to know what effect a behaviour or intervention might have on public health.
In many cases the data we need already exists in GP surgeries and hospitals; the challenge is to create the infrastructure to link it all together.
To develop the capability to identify the things that cause ill-health in people, as well as the factors that result in improved health – no matter where they live or what their socioeconomic background – across the whole population of the UK.
We will enable data science to transform public health research Through linking to data beyond health care, for example, to other government sectors, organisations, and data on environments that influence health. The people that work in these areas may not usually regard the data they produce as having a major bearing on public health, but in fact decisions made in education, housing, technology, engineering, law, fiscal policy, environmental science, planning, history and behavioural sciences all impact our health.
By linking beyond the individual we will better evaluate risk factors, outcomes and potential for interventions that target related individuals or groups, for example, parents and children, households, neighbourhoods, and even whole countries. By enabling whole country comparisons, we will inform national policy development for the UK, improving health of all.
Overview With some ethnic minority groups and areas of deprivation suffering higher levels of severe outcomes from COVID-19, it is all the more important to ensure equitable access to, and uptake...
Overview An estimated 1.2 million people in the UK live with diagnosed COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) – making it one of the country’s biggest health challenges. The first...
Jane Lyons and colleagues have created a platform using population level cohorts, and other linked data sources, to provide up-to-date insights to the Welsh government.
This project will work with researchers across the UK bringing together 6 different datasets which hold anonymised information on over 10 million people to explore multimorbidity in the UK at a...
Overview Severe Asthma does not respond effectively to treatments available in Primary Care. New biologic drugs are available from specialist asthma centres for a subgroup of these patients....
This project aims to better understand and ultimately prevent potentially life-threatening asthma attacks by moving towards a learning healthcare system, where data gathering is embedded in daily...
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