Health of England for Times iPad app
Hot on the heels of our World Cup and Wall of Debt graphics for The Times iPad app, this ‘Health Profile of England’ infographic features in today’s issue. Displaying public health information divided into regions, the graphic illustrates the distinct North/South health divide in England using data collected by the Department of Health.
32 ‘health wheels’ distil different health indicators across nine regions. The wheels act as barometers for the health of each region, and provide users with an intuitive way of scanning through all the indicators. A map of England communicates the national perspective in response to the wheel, with a ‘traffic light’ colour code identifying which regions score ‘better than’, ‘worse than’ or ‘average’ compared to the national mean. For the regional view, segments on the wheel are colour coded according to the performance of each indicator.
The above graphic displays the performance of each region of England for Tooth Decay at age 5 against the national average of 1.5. The best scoring region is the West Midlands with an average of 1 decayed/lost tooth.
Tooth decay in London is worse than average (1.7 lost/decayed teeth compared with 1.5 national average). The wheel also shows how London has the most mixed picture of all the regions, scoring well in indicators of life expectancy and causes of death, but poorly in community indicators such as deprivation and violent crime.
The North East is worse than average (2 lost/decayed teeth compared with 1.5 national average – the lowest score of all regions). The wheel illustrates the comparatively poor performance of the region across all indicators, with only 5 scoring better than average.
The figure for South East is better than average (1.1 lost/decayed teeth compared with 1.5 national average), with a comparatively good performance of the region across all indicators, with only 1 scoring worse than average.
If you have access to an iPad and The Times app, the graphic lives with a story called “Major Shift planned for NHS treatment” in the News section (accessible from the front page). The graphic will also run tomorrow and in future editions to accompany any relevant stories.
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Please note: in Friday 2nd July’s iPad edtion the story accompanies an article called “Rise in gap between rich and poor ‘killed 30,000’”, also accessible from the front page.
Joe Sharpe · 2nd July 2010 · 9:56 am