Public Health England has an excellent open data tool in its Health Profiles which hold a huge amount of health and socioeconomic statistics available at different levels in England. You can use the tool to create interactive maps, charts and tables, compare or benchmark areas against each other, generate pdf document[…]
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This guardian article on calls for a ‘sugar tax’ cites statistics on child obesity prevalence by deprivation: As it happens these Public Health England (PHE) obesity statistics have been mentioned before on this site. But the association with deprivation made us curious about whether sugar consumption has a similar relationship. This[…]
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SHAPE (Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation) is: “a web enabled, evidence based application which informs and supports the strategic planning of services and physical assets across a whole health economy.” or in other words, an online mapping tool freely provided by Public Health England for Local Authorities and health[…]
Read More »Public Health England analysed child poverty by deprivation by comparing the Indices of Multiple Deprivation with data from the (slightly ominous sounding) ‘National Child Measurement Programme’. They argued there was a strong, “almost linear relationship” between child obesity and the decile of deprivation for the area they live in. This finding was[…]
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Here’s some ONS data on differences between smoking rates in more and less deprived areas. They combined a 2012 household survey with IMD2010 to get a picture of how rates vary by deprivation: A clear correlation with deprivation appears, with both men and women in the most deprived 20% being[…]
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