Tools

APHO supports joint working across the PHOs to produce information, data and intelligence on people's health and health care for practitioners, policy makers and the wider community. Our high quality public health intelligence is central to both local and central government health policy and decision-making.

With specialist knowledge and a wealth of information and analytical skills across our network, APHO is able to provide access to a range of national and international public health data, methodological and audit tools.

Examples of some of these are listed below; others can be directly accessed through our PHO websites.

• Basket of Indicators

  External Link: Basket of Indicators

• Commissioning Toolkit for Diabetes

  External Link: Commissioning Toolkit for Diabetes

• Data Tools: Alcohol Profiles (England)

  External Link: Data Tools: Alcohol Profiles (England)

• Health Inequalities Toolkit

  External Link: Health Inequalities Toolkit

• Health Poverty Index

  External Link: Health Poverty Index

• Lifestyle Survey Toolkit

  External Link: Lifestyle Survey Toolkit

• Analytical Tools for Public Health: Funnel plot for count data

  Analytical Tools for Public Health: Funnel plot for count data

  This spreadsheet gives a template for producing funnel plots for count data - observed counts relative to expected counts. These could be counts of incidence or prevalence.

• Analytical Tools for Public Health: Funnel plot for rates (including directly standardised rates)

  Analytical Tools for Public Health: Funnel plot for rates (including directly standardised rates)

  This spreadsheet gives a template for producing funnel plots for rates, including directly standardised rates (DSRs).

• Analytical Tools for Public Health: Funnel plot for proportions and percentages

  Analytical Tools for Public Health: Funnel plot for proportions and percentages

  This spreadsheet gives a template for producing funnel plots for proportions and percentages.

• Analytical Tools for Public Health: Funnel plot for indirectly standardised ratios (SMRs)

  Analytical Tools for Public Health: Funnel plot for indirectly standardised ratios (SMRs)

  This spreadsheet gives a template for producing funnel plots for indirectly standardised ratios (e.g. SMRs)

• Disease prevalence models

  Disease prevalence models

  The health needs of a population derive from the prevalence of diseases, i.e. the numbers of people suffering from different types of illness. A robust and well-researched Disease Prevalence Model (DPM), can help comm ...

• Analytical Tools for Public Health: Commonly used public health statistics and their confidence intervals

  Analytical Tools for Public Health: Commonly used public health statistics and their confidence intervals

  A spreadsheet tool designed to accompany the Technical Briefing on Commonly used public health statistics and their confidence intervals, give examples of calculating the statistics and confidence intervals in Excel.