Welcome to the Health Poverty Index (HPI) 2008 visualisation tool
Welcome to the HPI visualisation tool, a collaboration between the Department of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews, the South East Public Health Observatory (SEPHO), and Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI), which is sponsored by The Information Centre for health and social care and previously by the Department of Health.
Use the links above to navigate round the site. Please look at the Demo page for information on how to use the site, the Indicators page for information on the datasets, and the Background page for information on the project. Go to the HPI Tool page to begin using the tool by choosing areas for which you wish to view information. Once you have selected your areas you can view the data in a variety of formats. A good starting point will be the HPI work book, it will take you, step-by-step, through some example analyses.
We have currently finished Stages 1-3 of the HPI development. Recently, we updated all the indicators to add total population data for 2005. We would welcome feedback on the content and functionality from potential users.
Please note: with the additional data added, absolute positions of an LA in the scaled or ranked data may have changed. Relative positions, within year groups, have not changed. Many of the indicators for the 2001 ethnic groups are constructed using estimation techniques, and may be reviewed. Therefore, caution should be exercised.
Each indicator in the HPI 2008 is scaled with reference to scores across all the groups being compared. If two LAs are being compared, they are scaled with reference to all LAs across all time points. This is different from the HPI 2005, where this data would have been scaled to all LAs and all ethnic groups in LAs across all time points. This method of scaling is retained for ethnic group comparisons where if two ethnic groups are being compared then the indicators are scaled across all ethnic groups in all LAs at all time points.