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HPI: Quality of preventative healthcare

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Reliability issues

Title

HPI: Quality of preventative healthcare

Description

Health Poverty Index - Intervening Factors: Quality of preventative healthcare: Ratio of individuals being prescribed statins to individuals suffering high blood cholesterol levels

Source

Department of Health (DoH)

Where to find the data

Publisher

Health Poverty Index

URL

Coverage

Geographic coverage

England

Geographic units

Local Authority District (LAD), National

Time coverage (most recent)

2001

Time coverage

2001

Update frequency

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Data quality

Type of data

Administrative data

Reliability

At present, statin prescribing data is only available at the Primary Care Trust level (PCT). The ratio was therefore constructed at the PCT level and then a weighted average calculated for each Local Authority District (LAD).

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