Health Inequality Profiles       Lead person:  Julian Flowers

Click on a listed name or the map to download a copy of the health inequalities profile:

2007 Profiles:	PCTs:	Counties/UAs:
Bedfordshire PCT / County Cambridgeshire PCT / County East and North Hertfordshire PCT Essex County Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT Hertfordshire County Luton tPCT / UA Mid Essex PCT Norfolk County Norfolk PCT North East Essex PCT Peterborough PCT / UA South East Essex PCT Southend-on-Sea UA South West Essex PCT Suffolk County Suffolk PCT Thurrock UA West Essex PCT West Hertfordshire PCT

Data sources

Office for National Statistics PHO mortality dataset 2001–2006 (described at http://www.erpho.org.uk/viewResource.aspx?id=16960)
Office for National Statistics (experimental) SOA mid-year population estimates 2001–2004.
Department of Communities and Local Government Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004.

The profile data are provided in Nesstar format (dynamic datasets), each indicator by sex; four time periods; deaths, DSRs, confidence intervals, and years (for life expectancy):
>; by PCT and PCT deprivation quintiles
>; by PCT and MSOAs
>; by County/UA and County/UA deprivation quintiles
>; by County/UA and MSOAs

Summaries of inequalities within the areas are available for
>; Counties/UAs
>; PCTs

Updated data will also be provided in a spreadsheet and mapped in an interactive atlas.

Methods

erpho’s Briefing No.17� (Quick Link 16969) summarises guidance on how to calculate inequalities, and describes the�methodology used�in the data analysis for this year’s profiles.