Hospital Admissions for Alcohol-Specific Conditions in Under 18s per 100,000 Population

Hospital admission rates for alcohol-specific conditions among individuals under 18 years old, standardized per 100,000 population. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and is available in CSV format via the eu_open_data platform.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in youth alcohol-related harm based on hospital admission rates.
• Compare regional disparities in under-18 alcohol-specific hospitalizations.
• Model the impact of public health interventions on youth alcohol admission rates.
• Benchmark local healthcare performance against national admission rate figures.

Strengths

• Data is provided by a government source (Government Digital Service), suggesting official collection.
• Standardized metric (per 100,000 population) allows for direct comparisons across regions.
• License (OGL-UK-3.0) is specified, clarifying permissible use.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count, temporal coverage, and last update date are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data granularity and quality require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national hospital admission records.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

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