Table 2

Differences between least and most deprived income deciles for QOF prevalence rates for practice

England: Prevalence rates based on
practice postcode
 Scotland: Prevalence rates based on
practice postcode
 Scotland: Prevalence rates based on
practice population

Least
deprived
decile
 Most
deprived
decile
 Difference
 Least
deprived
decile
 Most
deprived
decile
 Difference
 Least
deprived
decile
 Most
deprived
decile
 Difference
CHD
 3.1
 3.7
 0.6 [<0.001]
 4.0
 4.8
 0.8 [<0.001]
 3.7
 5.0
 1.3 [<0.001]
Diabetes
 2.9
 4.0
 1.1 [<0.001]
 3.0
 3.6
 0.6 [<0.001]
 2.7
 3.6
 0.9 [<0.001]
Stroke
 1.5
 1.5
 0.0 [0.79]
 1.8
 2.0
 0.2 [0.07]
 1.7
 2.1
 0.4 [<0.001]
Hypertension
 11.5
 11.3
 -0.2 [0.39]
 11.4
 11.8
 0.4 [0.50]
 11.4
 11.9
 0.5 [0.24]
COPD
 1.3
 1.4
 0.1 [0.04]
 1.4
 2.5
 1.1 [<0.001]
 0.9
 3.1
 2.2 [<0.001]
Asthma
 5.8
 5.7
 -0.1 [0.73]
 5.3
 5.4
 0.1 [0.19]
 5.0
 5.5
 0.5 [0.01]
Cancer
 0.7
 0.6
 -0.1 [<0.001]
 0.8
 0.7
 -0.1 [0.03]
 0.8
 0.6
 -0.2 [<0.001]
MH
 0.6
 0.7
 0.1 [<0.001]
 0.6
 0.7
 0.1 [0.10]
 0.5
 0.7
 0.2 [<0.001]
Thyroid
 2.4
 2.2
 -0.2 [<0.001]
 2.9
 2.6
 -0.3 [<0.001]
 3.1
 2.4
 -0.7 [<0.001]
Epilepsy
 0.6
 0.6
 0.0 [0.96]
 0.6
 0.8
 0.2 [<0.001]
 0.5
 0.9
 0.4 [<0.001]

and population assigned data

McLean et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 2008 7:37   doi:10.1186/1476-072X-7-37