Links to more health related profiles

Profiles and maps for particular health related issues

There are several profiles and mapping tools that give more detail about particular health issues. Many of these present information at local authority level, but some can only present information on the former Primary Care Trusts. These may still be useful for people planning local services.

• Adult Obesity Maps for England
• Breastfeeding Profiles
• Cancer Mortality Profiles
• Cancer Service Profiles
• Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Profiles for England
• Community Health Profiles (CMHP)
• Diabetes Community Health Profiles
• Diabetes Footcare Activity Profiles
• End of Life Care Profiles
• Excess Winter Deaths (EWD) Atlas for England
• General Practice Profiles
• Gynaecological Cancer Profiles
• Healthy Schools Profiles
• Infant Mortality Profiles
• Injury Profiles for England
• Kidney Disease Clinical Commissioning Group Profiles
• Kidney Disease PCT Profiles
• Learning Disabilities Profiles
• Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE)
• Local Tobacco Control Profiles for England
• Mortality Among Inpatients with Diabetes
• Quality Profiles for NHS Mental Health Trusts in England
• Sexual Health Balanced Scorecard
• Skin Cancer Profiles
• Urological Cancer Profiles
• Violence Indicator Profiles for England (VIPER) 

Profiles for particular groups of people

• ChiMat, the Child and Maternal Health Observatory, produce information and profiles on issues that particularly affect health for children, young people and mothers. 
• Older People Atlas show indicators relating to older people's health for all local authorities in England. 

Profiles for areas outside England

Scotland and Wales Public Health Observatories produce health profiles for their areas. These use different content and presentation formats to the profiles for England. No profiles are currently produced for Ireland.

• Community Health and Wellbeing Profiles are produced by the Scottish Public Health Observatory.
• Pictures of Health for local authorities in Wales are produced by the Public Health Wales Observatory.
• Ireland and Northern Ireland PHO offers some local information for its population, however not in the form of profiles at the moment.

On a wider scale, the European project I2SARE (Health Inequalities Indicators in the Regions of Europe) produces a health profile for each region of the European Union. Visit the I2SARE website for more information.

 Other relevant resources

• Local Government Improvement and Development have produced a ’20 must-knows’ guide about health and wellbeing boards.  This provides a clear and up to date overview of the role of local authorities in health. 
• The Local Government Association has produced a Councillors' Guide - it's intended for newly elected councillors but may also be of interest to others, as it gives a good general overview of how local government works.
• The Good Indicators Guide: Understanding how to use and choose indicators
• Technical Briefings 1-9

Tools

• Health Impact of Physical Inactivity Tool (HIPI)
• Health Inequalities Gap Measurement Tool
• Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit
• Health Poverty Index
• Hospital Episode Statistics Maps
• Local Basket of Inequalities Indicators
• Marmot Indicators for Local Authorities in England 2012
• Slope Index of Inequalities
• Spend and Outcome Factsheets and Tool (SPOT)

Please be aware that these tools are designed for use within public health services, so they may contain a lot of technical information.