HPI: Quality of Preventative Healthcare in England, 2001

Health Poverty Index data on the quality of preventative healthcare measures the ratio of individuals prescribed statins to those suffering from high blood cholesterol levels. The dataset is sourced from the UK Department of Health and covers Local Authority Districts and national geographies in England for the year 2001. It is classified as administrative data and published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Assessing regional disparities in preventative statin treatment based on the described ratio metric.
• Modeling correlations between healthcare quality and socioeconomic factors suggested by the Health Poverty Index framework.
• Benchmarking local authority performance in managing high cholesterol levels using the 2001 administrative data.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative UK Department of Health and Social Care.
• Provides geographic granularity at the Local Authority District level for England.
• Has a specific temporal focus on the year 2001.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Data is from 2001 and may not reflect current healthcare practices; freshness should be verified.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Department of Health and Social Care (UK)

Collection Method

Administrative data

Time Range

2001

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:22.524973; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England (Local Authority District, National)