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To monitor care for the elderly.
To help reduce levels of sickness and ill health and promote healthy lifestyles.
To reduce prevalence of smoking.
To help reduce the prevalence of obesity.
To reduce deaths from circulatory diseases.
These mortality indicators provide information to help the NHS monitor success in preventing potentially avoidable deaths following hospital treatment.
According to the Government’s Saving Lives, Our Healthier Nation mental health problems “are a major cause of ill-health, disability and mortality”. People with mental health problems, and particularly schizophrenia, are at increased risk of premature death due to physical heath problems. Someone with...