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Professor Andrew Learmonth of The Open University puts forward two hypotheses related to regional patterns of health in England and Wales: (1) that mortality and morbidity rates are higher in the N...orth and West than in the South and East and (2) that in the provision of health services the North and West are similarly disadvantaged. He finds evidence to support the first hypothesis, but not the second. Professor Learmonth then discusses his conclusions with three authorities whose maps he has used in the exposition. They are Professor G M Howe, University of Strathclyde, Eric Rawstron, Queen Mary College, University of London and Bryan Coates, University of Sheffield.
Professor Andrew Learmonth of The Open University puts forward two hypotheses related to regional patterns of health in England and Wales: (1) that mortality and morbidity rates are higher in the N...orth and West than in the South and East and (2) that in the provision of health services the North and West are similarly disadvantaged. He finds evidence to support the first hypothesis, but not the second. Professor Learmonth then discusses his conclusions with three authorities whose maps he has used in the exposition. They are Professor G M Howe, University of Strathclyde, Eric Rawstron, Queen Mary College, University of London and Bryan Coates, University of Sheffield.
| Module code and title: | D203, Decision making in Britain |
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| Item code: | D203; 11 |
| First transmission date: | 11-06-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:22 |
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| Producer: | Michael Philps |
| Contributors: | Brian Coates; Andrew Learmonth; Eric Rawstron |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Mortality and morbidity rates; Regional patterns of health |
| Footage description: | Andrew Learmonth discusses stereotypical images of the North and West of Britain and of the South and East over film of parts of these areas held to be characteristic. He questions the stereotypes. Andrew Learmonth states the hypothesis that the North and West are disadvantaged in health conditions and provision. The programme sets out to test the hypothesis. Andrew Learmonth shows the following maps which he explains and describes: 1. General health patterns of the 19th century and early twentieth (period shown 1911-1914). 2. Cholera map of nineteenth century epidemics. 3. Male mortality from all causes in the period 1959-1963. 4. Male mortality from bronchitis over England and Wales as a whole. Detail map of London male death rates from bronchitis. 5. Map showing incidence of cancer of the breast. 6. Map showing the incidence of pernicious anaemia throughout England and Wales. Learmonth draws conclusions from the evidence shown which support the first hypothesis that the North and West are in worse health or endure less healthy environments. He now turns to the second hypothesis that health provision, despite the greater need of the North and West, are better for the South and East. He shows and explains the following maps: 1. Map showing England and Wales in terms of hospital regions. 2. Map showing use of hospital beds in these areas. 3. Map showing provision of beds for mental illnesses in hospital areas. 4. As above except that provision for women is shown. 5. Cost per case map is shown. 6. Availability of general practitioners in hospital areas. 7. Numbers of school medical officers in hospital areas. 8. Provision of school dentists in these same hospital areas. 9. Provision of dentists throughout England and Wales. 10. Using Birmingham dental school as an example, map shows that dental schools are generally surrounded by the practices of its graduates. Durham is also shown. Learmonth draws conclusions from the second sequence of maps to disprove the second hypothesis. Learmonth now goes into discussion with Howe, Rawstron and Coates. They discuss the general findings and the methodology. The sources of the data are also mentioned, as are future developments in this technique. The difficulty of resource distribution, social as well as financial, is also touched upon. Credits. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/70335 |
| Production number: | 00521_2210 |
| Videofinder number: | 3410 |
| Available to public: | no |
