The Digital Exclusion and Physical Access to Healthcare Risk Index (DEPAHRI) is a dataset that indicates the overall difficulty of physically and digitally accessing healthcare services in England, Wales and Scotland. It builds on the DERI Index, adding a physical component to it.
Higher DEPAHRI scores indicate higher risk of exclusion to healthcare services.
You can install the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("humaniverse/DEPAHRI")DEPAHRI is made up of four equally weighted components. Each component is based on a set of indicators:
- Demography
- Population aged 65+
- Population aged 75+
- Residents whose daily acitivites are limited
- Population in social grade DE
- Deprivation
- Residents on guaranteed Pension Credit
- Population 16+ without qualifications
- Alternative unemployment rate
- Index of Multiple Deprivation score
- Digital connectivity
- Homes unable to receive 30MBit/s connection
- Connections receiving less than 10MBit/s
- Download speed
- Physical access to healthcare
- Road distance to GP surgery
- Road distance to nearest three hospitals
Each indicator is scaled from 0 to 10 and based on the national minumum and maximum values.
Deprivation, demography and digital connectivity make up the DERI Index. DEPAHRI is the addition of a physical access component.