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Journal of Public Health Advance Access published online on November 7, 2007
Journal of Public Health, doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdm074
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© The Author 2007, Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. All rights reserved

Establishing the potential for using routine data on Incapacity Benefit to assess the local impact of policy initiatives


Judith Brown, Research Fellow of Healthy Working Lives Research Group1,
Phil Hanlon, Professor of Public Health1
Ivan Turok, Professor of Urban Economic Development2
David Webster, Housing Strategy Manager3
James Arnott, Senior Policy Development Officer3
Ewan B. Macdonald, Head of Healthy Working Lives Research Group1

1 Public Health and Health Policy Section, University of Glasgow, G12 8RZ Glasgow, UK
2 Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, G12 8RS Glasgow, UK
3 Development and Regeneration Services, Glasgow City Council, G1 1QU Glasgow, UK


Address correspondence to Judith Brown, E-mail: j.brown{at}clinmed.gla.ac.uk


  Abstract

Background Incapacity Benefit (IB) is the key contributory benefit for people who are incapable of work because of illness or disability.

Methods The aims were to establish the utility of routinely collected data for local evaluation and to provide a descriptive epidemiology of the IB population in Glasgow and Scotland for the period 2000–05 using data supplied by the Department for Work and Pensions.

Results Glasgow's IB population is large in absolute and relative terms but is now falling, mainly due to a decrease in on flow. Claimants, tend to be older, have a poor work history and suffer from mental health problems. The rate of decline has been greater in Glasgow than Scotland, although the rate of on flow is still higher.

Conclusions Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data can be used locally to provide important insights into the dynamics of the IB population. However, to be truly useful, more work needs to be undertaken to combine the DWP data with other information.

Keywords: chronic ill health and deprivation, Incapacity Benefit


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