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Health inequalities: UK trends

Please note: these figures are being updated in an upcoming journal article. We will provide the updated charts as soon as the paper is published.

Charts 1 (males) and 2 (females) present trends in the Relative Index of Inequality for Scotland compared with England & Wales between 1981 and 2011. These show that relative inequalities in mortality have been increasing in Scotland over many decades. This is also the case in England & Wales. However, inequalities among males have been wider in Scotland since about 1991, and for females this has been the case for the whole period shown.

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