Levelling Up Health: A Review of UK Datasets on Place-based Measures of Health Inequality

The UK government has committed to reducing health disparities between places in the UK by 2030 as part of its Levelling Up agenda. Spatial data can be used to better understand a place’s health, social-economic outcomes, and the relationship between them. Knowledge of what data is out there is key to track the government’s progress, as well as to inform the policy decisions that will enable that progress to happen. This paper forms the beginnings of a comprehensive resource of UK spatial datasets that can be combined, classified, and analysed in the effort to reduce geographic health inequalities.