Establishing data linkage between welfare and health data in the UK: Overcoming barriers to linking government datasets

ABSTRACT Objectives Employment and welfare policy have major impacts on population health and health inequalities. We sought to develop a novel data linkage between administrative welfare data (held by the UK Government’s Department for Work and Pensions, DWP) and health records (from the Nationa...

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Main Authors: S Vittal Katikireddi, Alastair Leyland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2017-04-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/190

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