Reported cancer spending in relation to population characteristics, disease burden and service activity for primary care trusts in South East England | Zendy

Catherine Okello | Zendy; Henrik Møller | Zendy; Elizabeth Davies | Zendy

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Reported cancer spending in relation to population characteristics, disease burden and service activity for primary care trusts in South East England

Author(s) -

Catherine Okello,

Henrik Møller,

Elizabeth Davies

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdq084

Subject(s) - medicine , per capita , population , cancer , demography , disease burden , disease , psychological intervention , environmental health , gerontology , nursing , sociology

Since 2000 English cancer policy has directed extra funding towards improving cancer outcomes and quality of care. Few evaluations have related programme budget data on cancer spending to population differences, disease burden, outcome or service activity for cancer. We used existing routine data to explore these associations for 39 primary care trusts (PCTs) in South East England in 2005-2007.

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