This 3 year study is funded by the Department of Health Policy Research programme and began in January 2010.
Although health and life expectancy have been increasing for many years, socially disadvantaged groups and communities continue to have poorer health than advantaged ones.
The government funded New Deal for Communities (NDC) programme was launched in 1998 and aimed to improve the physical environment (including housing), education and health as well as reduce crime and unemployment in 39 disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Each neighbourhood was funded for 10 years and received on average £50 million from government. New Deal for Communities had the potential to reduce health inequalities because it focused on key determinants of inequalities such as unemployment, crime, education and the physical environment.
In 2005 we completed a scoping study, commissioned by the Department of Health, to assess the feasibility of evaluating the impact on health inequalities of the NDC initiative. This included an assessment of the availability and coverage of relevant data sources and a preliminary data analysis. Based on this, we concluded that a full evaluation of the impact of the NDC initiative on health inequalities was both feasible and desirable and this research builds on that work.
The aims are to investigate the medium term impacts of the NDC initiative on health inequalities and to establish a data legacy to allow longer term follow up. The main research questions are:
The evaluation involves three linked strands of work:
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