Health Poverty Index - Situation of Health: Physical morbidity: Proportion of the working age population claiming Incapacity Benefit for various groups of conditions

England

Local Authority District (LAD), Office for National Statistics (ONS) Subgroup, ONS Group Areas, ONS Supergroup Areas, National

1998

1998

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Department of Health (DoH), Department of Work and Pensions (Incapacity Benefit Statistics), ONS Mid Year Estimates

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Health Poverty Index

http://www.hpi.org.uk/index.php

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Incapacity Benefit is a non means-tested benefit paid to people who are incapable of work due to ill health and who have paid sufficient National Insurance contributions. The benefit dataset is coded for medical conditions, to which the Department for Work and Pensions matched International Classification of Diseases Version 10 (ICD-10) codes.

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• Benefits for diseases of the circulatory system
• Benefits for injury, poisoning and other consequences of external causes
• Benefits for mental and behavioural disorders
• Benefits for diseases of the musculoskeletal system
• Benefits for diseases of the nervous system
• Benefits for other conditions