Health inequalities


The South East is one of the most affluent parts of England, but in common with elsewhere in the country, marked economic, social, ethnic and geographic inequalities in health are apparent across the region.

Below are resources relating to health inequalities which have been organised at both a regional and national level and European level.

Key resources


Indices of Deprivation
Date Title Format View
7 Sep 2010 Dataset: Index of Material Deprivation 2007 (IMD 2007) - General Practice Scores (July 2010 update) download resource
30 Mar 2011 English Indices of Deprivation 2010 open resource url
18 May 2011 Indices of Deprivation 2010 - South East England maps download resource
7 Sep 2010 Documentation: Method used to calculate IMD 2007 - General Practice Scores (July 2010 update)    
  IMD Maps - comparison of the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) for 2004 and 2007    
7 Dec 2007 LA and County Council IMD summaries 2007 download resource
3 Dec 2008 Dataset: Ward level IMD 2007 - Meic Goodyear download resource


Health inequalities - Health inequalities - Regional key resources
Date Title Format View
13 May 2011 South East England Health Inequalities Gap Measurement Tool download resource
  Primary Care Inequalities    
  Assault Prevention Data Sharing Toolkit open resource url
  Slope Index of Inequality for Life Expectancy at Birth - briefings for the South East    
21 Apr 2008 South East Coast Health Inequality Strategy 2008-2011 download resource
23 Mar 2007 South Central Strategic Health Authority: cancer inequalities download resource
22 Feb 2006 Health Poverty Index: an atlas for the South East download resource


Health inequalities - Health inequalities - National key resources
Date Title Format View
  Marmot indicators for local authorities in England    
17 Jan 2011 APHO Health Inequality Indicators for Local Authorities open resource url
2009 APHO Recommendations on WCC Inequalities Indicator open resource url
  Health Inequalities Gap Measurement Tool    
  The Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit 2010    
2009 World Class Commissioning Assurance Framwork - Health Inequalities Indicator open resource url
2009 Slope index of inequalities data open resource url
2009 Life expectancy data for PCT deprivation deciles open resource url
2009 Guide to interpretation of the slope index of inequalities in life expectancy open resource url
24 Jun 2008 Health Inequalities Intervention Tool 2008 open resource url
1 Feb 2004 Tools and techniques for measuring health inequalities download resource
15 Nov 2003 Health Poverty Index Toolkit open resource url
12 Nov 2003 Local basket of inequalities indicators open resource url


European Comparisons Series
Date Title Format View
18 Jan 2012 European Regional Comparisons – Cancer open resource url
30 Mar 2010 European Comparisons Series – Mortality Rates in Europe: How does the South East compare? download resource
30 Aug 2011 European Comparisons Series – Cancer Rates in Europe: How does the South East compare? download resource

Last review Oct 2009.