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English indices of deprivation - Health Deprivation and Disability
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Source:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-indices-of-deprivation
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Each of the health scores represent important aspects of overall health deprivation and disability.

Higher scores are worse: the most health deprived neighbourhoods have the highest scores and the least the lowest for each measure.

Navigation: click on the blue coloured links below or the tabs at the bottom of the page to go to the spreadsheet for each aspect.
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Health indicators:
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1. Health Deprivation and Disability
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The Health Deprivation and Disability domain measures the risk of premature death and
the impairment of quality of life through poor physical or mental health. The domain
measures morbidity, disability and premature mortality but not aspects of behaviour or
environment that may be predictive of future health deprivation.

This domain is weighted by a combination of the following indicators:

• Years of potential life lost: An age and sex standardised measure of premature death.
• Comparative illness and disability ratio: An age and sex standardised morbidity/disability ratio.
• Acute morbidity: An age and sex standardised rate of emergency admission to hospital.
• Mood and anxiety disorders: A composite based on the rate of adults suffering from mood and anxiety disorders.
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1.1 Years of potential life lost
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The years of potential life lost indicator measures ‘premature death’, defined as death
before the age of 75 from any cause (the commonly used measure of premature death).
This includes death due to disease as well as external causes such as accidents, unlawful
killing and deaths in combat.
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1.2 Comparative illness and disability ratio
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The comparative illness and disability ratio is an indicator of work limiting morbidity and
disability, based on those receiving benefits due to inability to work through ill health.
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1.3 Acute morbidity
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The acute morbidity indicator measures the level of emergency admissions to hospital,
based on administrative records of in-patient admissions.

Emergency admissions are defined as cases where ‘admission is unpredictable and at
short notice because of clinical need’. This includes admission via the Accident and
Emergency department, admission directly onto a ward or into theatre and the emergency
transfer of patients between hospitals. All emergency admissions greater than one day in
length (where discharge is not on the same date as admission) are included as an
indication of acute health problems. Only admissions to NHS hospitals are included in the
data.
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1.4. Mood and anxiety disorders
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The mood and anxiety disorders indicator is a broad measure of levels of mental ill health
in the local population. The definition used for this indicator includes mood (affective),
neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders.

The indicator is a weighted estimate based on three separate sources:

- prescribing
- hospital episodes
- suicide mortality

Although none of the three sources on their own provide a comprehensive measure of mood and anxiety
disorders, used in combination they represent a large proportion of all those suffering mental ill health.
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2. Health Rank
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The overall rank of the above five health scores for each neighbourhood out of the 32,844
neighbourhoods in England, where a rank of 1 represents the most health deprived.
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