WP22/10: How many families are impacted by chronic conditions?
Designation
Working Paper 22/10
Proposed authors
Lisa Underwood
Ofa Dewes
Andrew Sporle
Hamish Jamieson
Martin O’Flaherty
Nick Bowden
Barry Milne
Concept
Chronic diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental health and obesity have a direct effect mainly on the middle and later life-course, but with impacts seen increasingly at younger ages. The indirect effect of chronic diseases on the wider family and whānau has been less well-studied, and is likely to have impacts across the entire life-course. This paper will present descriptive data on the families of individuals experiencing one of ten chronic conditions:
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Gout
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Stroke
- Acute Myocardial Infarction
- Dementia
- Mental Health Disorder.
Four questions will be answered:
- How many families include a family member with a chronic condition (in total and by chronic condition type)?
- How many families include a family member with multi-morbid chronic conditions?
- How many families include more than one family member with a chronic condition?
- What is the socio-demographic profile of families and family members impacted by chronic conditions in the family?
Data sources
We will use the following tables from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI):
- Person overseas spell
- Publicly funded hospital discharges
- National Non-Admitted Patient Collection (NNAPAC)
- Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data (PRIMHD)
- interRAI
- Pharmaceutical data
- Laboratory claims data
- Cancer registrations
- Mortality data
- 2018 Census
- 2013 Census
- Tax data