Further Information

The HPI tool is in the third phase of development. We would welcome your feedback.

Please remember to reference the project if you use the data or charts from this site.

Dibben, C, Watson, J., Smith, T., Cox, M., Manley, D., Perry, I., Rolfe, L., Barnes, H., Wilkinson, K., Linn, J., Liu, L., Sims, A., and Hill, A. (2008) The Health Poverty Index. The NHS Information Centre. Leeds, UK.

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Welcome to the Health Poverty Index (HPI) visualisation tool

The HPI site has been updated! Further changes may still be made - please contact us if you have any feedback.

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.

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.

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