Excess Under-75 Mortality Rate for Adults with Serious Mental Illness (NHSOF 1.5.i)

A UK public health indicator measuring premature mortality in adults diagnosed with serious mental illness. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service under the Open Government Licence and was last updated in November 2016. Its purpose is to quantify the extent to which this population dies younger than the general adult population.

Use Cases

• Quantify health disparities based on mortality rates for a specific clinical population.
• Monitor trends in premature mortality for adults with serious mental illness.
• Evaluate the impact of public health interventions on mortality outcomes for vulnerable groups.

Strengths

• Data is provided under the Open Government Licence, which permits broad reuse.
• Files are available in both Excel and CSV formats, offering flexibility for analysis.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last update date is from 2016; data freshness is unverified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national health statistics and registries.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated in November 2016; next update is to be confirmed.

Geography

Likely United Kingdom, inferred from the NHSOF indicator code and government source.