The percentage of last 6 months of life spent at home or in a community setting
| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Age | |
| Measure Type | |
| Palliative And End Of Life Care Indicator | |
| Reference Period | |
| Sex | |
| Simd Quintiles | |
| Urban Rural Classification | |
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Reference Area
(showing types of area available in these data) |
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Entire dataset
Note: These may be large files. |
CSVN-Triples |
The percentage of last 6 months of life spent at home or in a community setting.
Includes all ages, sex, SIMD quintile and urban rural classification. Deaths resulting from external causes are excluded.
End of life care (palliative care) is an important, integral aspect of the health care provided to those living with and dying from any advanced or progressive and life-threatening condition. It is now possible to predict the progress of many of these conditions, enabling a planned approach to end of life care in ways which reflect, as far as possible, the needs and wishes of patients, carers and their families.
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This slice of multidimensional data is not a Linked Data resource in the database: it's a virtual resource (i.e. you can't query it by SPARQL). But does have a permanent unique URL which can be bookmarked.
A linked data-orientated view of dimensions and values
| Dimension | Locked Value |
|---|---|
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Reference Period
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refPeriod
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2016/2017
http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/government-year/2016-2017
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Simd Quintiles
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/simdQuintiles
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3
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/concept/simd-quintiles/3
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Age
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/age
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(not locked to a value) |
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Palliative And End Of Life Care Indicator
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/palliativeAndEndOfLifeCareIndicator
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(not locked to a value) |
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Reference Area
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refArea
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(not locked to a value) |
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Sex
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/sex
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(not locked to a value) |
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Urban Rural Classification
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/urbanRuralClassification
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(not locked to a value) |
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Measure Type
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#measureType
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(not locked to a value) |