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 1.NWPHO |
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 | | Health Profiler has recently been updated, including a range of interface changes, increased data availability at download and updated Hospital Episodes and Mortality data. A further release is scheduled for early summer 2010.
Health Profiler is one tool used for measuring health need within local areas. It provides indicators across a range of topics and from a variety of sources, allowing users to both download data at a variety of geographies from SOA to GOR and to build bespoke health profiles for specific local purposes. Indicators are presented in a consistent format and measured against the same national or regional benchmark, which allows inequalities analyses over a number of area based classifications - such as index of multiple deprivation (IMD2007), geodemographics, urban-rural, and ethnicity.
This tool provides powerful local intelligence to support the development of Local Area Agreements and Joint Strategic Needs Assessments or for planning, monitoring and evaluation. | |
 | | This interactive tool that charts life expectancy by cause data for all North West local authorities is updated annually. This latest update includes measure for 2006-2008. | |
 | | This summary report and associated tables present the results of standardised dental examinations of five-year-old children from across England during the 2007/08 school year. The tables provide details of total five year old population, sample size, number of children examined, along with weighted values for a number of dental and oral health indicators. Confidence intervals are also presented. | |
 | | Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE) updated October 2009 - comprising 23 updated indicators, including new data for the National Indicator 39 hospital admissions for alcohol-related harm. Profiles are now available for the April 2009 revised Local Authority boundaries. | |
 | | This online tool brings together data on key themes such as food and diet, physical activity, breastfeeding and other related topics that have, or are considered to have, an established relationship to weight.
The profiles display each local authority's indicator values, as well as the North West and England averages and interquartile range of North West local authority values for comparison purposes. Indicators that are significantly better or worse (at the 95% confidence limit) are also highlighted. Additional bar charts illustrate the local authority's position in the North West for each indicator
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 | | Violence Indicator Profiles for the English Regions (VIPER): released November 2008 - comprising eight different indicators, including hospital admissions for violence and unintentional and deliberate injuries (under 18s; National Indicator 70), police recorded violent crime and mortality data. | |
 | | A retrospective study aimed at all males and females aged between 16-45 years, completely anonymous. Comprising a short questionnaire that should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. These data will help to inform prevention interventions for young people as they will provide clearer information on the age at which young people should be provided with sex and relationship education in schools and relevant health messages as they reach adolescence. It will also highlight any key pubertal triggers that will add to the body of public health knowledge about puberty and its impact on risk-taking behaviour. | |
 | | Profiles for each North West local authority displaying 50 indicators of children and young people’s health. | |
 | | This tool illustrates the dramatic change in Health & Lifestyles indicators across England over the last nine years. Plotted on the same scale, the maps show how lifestyle measure have either increased (e.g. obesity, alcohol consumption) or decreased (smoking, self assessed good health). | |
 | | Understanding patterns of illness and death that vary throughout the year can help prevent issues ranging from excess deaths in winter to elevated injuries from violence in summer. To allow instant access to such intelligence the North West Public Health Observatory has calculated and compiled seasonal patterns of various health conditions into this electronic calendar and produced a Health Wall Planner for 2007. | |
 | | View a local authority profile of Sexual and Reproductive Health Indicators for all areas of the North West region. These profiles show the position of each area for 28 different indicators displayed as a chart, with a data table providing the actual measures and changes over time (if available).
These indicators are launched alongside a North West report (www.nwph.net/nwpho/Publications/NW_sarhi.pdf) and a national APHO/HPA report (www.swpho.nhs.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=28952). | |
 | | The North West HIV & AIDS Monitoring Unit at the Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University collect, collate and disseminate data on the diagnosis, treatment and care of HIV positive individuals in the North West. Accurate and comprehensive data on all HIV positive individuals accessing services from statutory treatment centres in the North West are presented twice yearly in the HIV & AIDS in the North West of England reports | |
 | | The aim of the physical activity audit and mapping exercise was to produce a database of the types of sport, exercise and/or physical activity programmes, projects, schemes and initiatives currently in existence across the North West region. | |
 | | Methodological tools to assist analysts in the production of standardised public health indicators and measures. Including, information and Model files from the North West Life Expectancy Trajectory technical group. | |
 | | The Trauma and Injury Intelligence Group (TIIG) provides access to quality and reliable injury information from Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments, along with Ambulance, Fire and Police services for Cheshire and Merseyside. | |
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| 2.Other North West |
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 | | This tool is designed to highlight the role that alcohol can play in delivering Public Service Agreements (PSAs); the key mechanisms through which the Government are able to set objectives and performance targets for public services. | |
 | | InstantAtlas is a simple to use mapping system presenting comparative trends in data in North West England by Local Authority or PCT. Data can be filtered by year, county or Strategic Health Authority. | |
 | | Contains details of the various databases and toolkits held by the Regional Intelligence Unit and other applications which the RIU utilises. | |
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| 3.National (PHOs) |
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 | | ‘Cancer e-Atlas’ builds on data available in the national CIS, displaying it using maps & graphs, to provide comparative views of the data held by cancer registries in England. Individual areas can be highlighted for the common cancer sites, then compared to regional*, cancer network* and other LA peer areas. Trends in rates can also be seen over the last ten years. Data can be filtered, for example when the viewer wants only to look at and compare LA spearhead areas. | |
 | | Local Health Profiles were first published in June 2006, updated in June 2007, and have now been updated again and released on 24 June 2008. These third annual profiles contain new indicators as well as filling some of the indicator gaps that have previously existed. All indicators are compared to the England average and inequalities within areas are also shown.
The Health Profiles are intended to be of use to public service professionals and officials working at national, regional and local levels. They should assist people working within the local community – such as local councillors and primary care trust (PCT) Directors of Public Health – who are in a position to exert influence over the planning, commissioning, procurement and delivery of programmes which will support health improvement. But the Health Profiles will also be of interest to a much wider audience – anyone with an interest in the profile of health and health determinants in this country at any level.
All national health profiles are available for download at www.healthprofiles.info, a newly launched website which also lets users create comparisons with other areas as well as maps and charts. Local profiles for the North West region can be found at www.apho.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=50215®ION=50151 | |
 | | The Health Inequalities Tool is a new online technique designed for specifically for all local social and health care agencies throughout England. It provides hard-edged evidence for local authorities to target the causes behind gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor.
The tool, designed by the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO), can be used by frontline council staff to help them to tackle health deprivation in local communities and build healthy neighbourhoods.
The health inequalities tool will provide:
- current life expectancy in local authority areas
- current gap in life expectancy between the most deprived population in the local authority and the local authority as a whole
- breakdown of the causes of the life expectancy gap by disease type and age.
The tool allows councils to estimate the effect on life expectancy if particular interventions are increased. For example:
- interventions to reduce infant mortality (in local authorities where there are more than 35 deaths in 5 years)
- smoking cessation
- antihypertensive prescribing in people without diagnosed cardiovascular disease
- prescribing statins for people without diagnosed cardiovascular disease. | |
 | | As lead PHO on Teenage Pregnancy, the East Midlands Public Health Observatory has agreed to provide signposting to other data sources, methods and expertise. To fulfil this role they are developing an inventory of data sources, methods, expertise and key contacts to link to.
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 | | The Health Poverty Index (HPI) is a web-based tool, originally commissioned by the Department of Health and now funded by The Information Centre for health and social care. It helps tackle inequalities by illustrating measures of health poverty for areas in England. By looking at geographical, social, health and economic factors as well as cultural factors, the HPI tool can be used to support and guide local action aimed at addressing health inequalities and their causes. An updated version, including data for 2003 and by ethnicity, was launched on the 22nd March 2007. | |
 | | The purpose of these profiles is to present health and wellbeing indicators in a user-friendly graphical format, combining 'spine graphs', maps, tables and charts in a way that allows the user to select, filter, sort and generally explore the data.
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 | | Allows the user to visualise mortality data for local authority areas across England either as a map or as a funnel plot which shows how mortality rates vary and the extent to which the variation in mortality rates between areas is due to chance. | |
 | | The main purpose of the local basket of indicators is to help support local action to achieve the Government's national inequalities targets for life expectancy and infant mortality, by highlighting information relevant to addressing the targets and assisting local areas with monitoring progress towards reducing health inequalities. | |
| 4.National (other) |
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 | | Additionally see the following link for a review from the Healthcare Commission.
http://www.healthcarecommission.org.uk/healthcareproviders/serviceproviderinformation.cfm | |
 | | Project to create a single information resource mapping all NHS expenditure on to end benefits. The project aims to identify ways to get better value out of NHS funds. The Programme Budgeting data is of considerable value for supporting commissioning and Public Health practice. It is also available on the NCHOD web site, (http://www.nchod.nhs.uk/) which now includes a set of atlases linking the programme budget data to the Health outcomes indicators although a NHSnet password is required to access this data. | |
 | | A one-stop source of all information on health outcomes generated by the National Centre for Health Outcomes Development (NCHOD). It includes comparative data for 700 health and local government organisations in England plus advice on how to measure health and the impact of health care. | |
 | | The Alcohol Needs Assessment Research Project (ANARP) is the first alcohol needs assessment in England conducted on a national scale. Its main focus was to measure the gap between the demand for and provision of specialist alcohol treatment services in England at a national and regional level. | |
 | | Provides access to statistics on work-related ill-health, injuries, dangerous occurrences, enforcement and gas safety produced by HSE's Statistics Branch. | |
 | | Each year the council submit details of their performance against a set of best value performance indicators set by the Government. | |
 | | Area Profiles provide a wide ranging picture of the quality of life and public services in a local area. They bring together data, information and assessments for every local authority area in England. This website provides access to a wide range of data and assessments. It allows you to find out about your area and how it compares to others. | |
 | | Data are available for all 68 indicators of sustainable development which support the UK strategy. | |
 | | The Healthcare Commission is committed to making a real difference to the delivery of healthcare and to promote continuous improvement for the benefit of patients and the public. In England, one of the ways we do this is by assessing and reporting on the performance of healthcare organisations on an annual basis. For NHS trusts, this involves issuing an annual performance rating. | |
 | | A Census is a survey of all people and households in the country. It provides essential information from national to neighbourhood level for government, business, and the community. The most recent Census was on 29 April 2001. This site takes you to its findings which are available free to everyone. Plans are being made to hold the next one in 2011. | |
 | | HES contains over 200 million records relating to NHS inpatient and outpatient healthcare in England. Within the confines of confidentiality protocols, we make this valuable data available through a variety of services. | |
 | | The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) became part of general practice contracts on 1 April 2004; therefore, 2004/05 represents the first year for which QOF information is available. The publication of QOF information by the Health and Social Care Information Centre is based on data for the period April 2004 to March 2005. It is extracted from the national Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS) at the end of June 2005, following adjustments agreed between practices and PCTs. | |
 | | The new Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 (IMD 2004) is a Super Output Area (SOA) level measure of multiple deprivation and is made up of seven SOA level Domain Indices. | |
 | | This report contains and explains the background behind the 45 indicators that measure the quality of life in individual localities and the effectiveness of local sustainable community strategies, which are also closely linked to national sustainable development indicators. | |
 | | The Abstract of Statistics is an annual publication produced by Information Directorate, of the Department for Work and Pensions. The purpose of the publication is to provide a reference source for people interested in the main aspects of Benefits, Contributions and Indices of Prices and Earnings. | |
 | | The library aims to address the range of local authority responsibilities, and in particular some of the cross cutting issues being addressed often in partnership with others. | |
 | | The new National Library for Public Heath is a constantly developing resource and information will be updated frequently. | |
| 5.International |
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 | | The WHO Global InfoBase Online is a data warehouse that collects, stores and displays information on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO member states.
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 | | Regional health statistics for the European Union drawn up by Eurostat to help to fix objectives in the field of health are based on standardised definitions and methods which aim to make comparisons possible. If they are to yield high-quality comparable information on the general health of the population, the data will have to be comparable from one region to another and reflect changes over time. In addition, the main non-medical factors governing the health of the population at regional level must be taken into account. | |
 | | United Nations Staistics Division - data sources and links | |
 | | Each year the Human Development Report (HDR) of the United Nations presents a wealth of statistical information on different aspects of human development. | |
 | | Interactive maps and global information about development | |
 | | The European “health for all” database (HFA-DB) provides easy and rapid access to a wide range of basic health statistics for the 52 Member States of the WHO European Region. It was developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) in the mid-1980s to support the monitoring of health trends in the Region. The database is a helpful tool for international comparison and for assessing the health situation and trends in any European country in an international context. | |
 | | The ECHI (European Community Health Indicators) project was carried out in the framework of the Health Monitoring Programme and the Community Public Health Programme 2003-2008. The result is a list of ‘indicators’ for the public health field arranged according to a conceptual view on health and health determinants. | |
 | | The database includes key indicators covering health status, health ressources and utilisation: Life expectancy, Maternal and infant mortality, Congenital anomalies, Health employment, In-patient beds, Medical technology, Immunisation, Average length of stay, Discharges, Surgical procedures, and Transplants and dialyses. | |