Health data and inequalities

The Public Health Expert blog has recently released two articles that closely relate to Healthier Lives areas of research interest:

• The impact, risk, and opportunity with ‘big data’ in regard to health (including a study for Healthier Lives about cardiovascular disease impacts from earthquakes)
• Concerning trends and responses to inequalities in rates of mortality

Read the articles in the Public Health Expert blog:

• Open data, transparency and power—role of the Virtual Health Information Network
• Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further