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Reports and statistics

Annual reports of the Director of public health for Brighton & Hove provide local data and analysis of topics listed below. Copies available to loan are on the library shelves at WA 900.
Check the library catalogue for availability

BHLIS online (Brighton and Hove Local Information Service) provides partnership members access to a wide range of national and local statistics and indicators relating to Brighton & Hove at many different geographic levels. Includes Joint Strategic Needs Assessments.

National Data

National Library for Public Health
Provides access to the public health evidence base with guidelines, strategies, policies, systematic reviews  and news around all topics listed below.

Public health websites

Active for Life Brighton & Hove
The site includes a directory of activity and sports groups, tips on getting started and keeping going, and resources for activity organisers and health professionals

The British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health (BHFNC)
The aim of this site is to help keep professionals up-to-date with all the latest developments in the field of physical activity and health.

Change 4 Life National website offering lots of practical advice on eating well, moving more and living longer.

HENRY Health Exercise Nutrition for the Really Young
HENRY aims to tackle childhood obesity by helping community and health practitioners enhance their knowledge, skills and confidence when working in the key lifestyle areas.

South East Public Health Observatory
The lead public health observatory for work related to physical activity. Provides access to national and regional key resources.

North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO)
Local alcohol profiles for England and research publications relating to alcohol

NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care 
Statistics and data collections  relating to alcohol

South East Public Health Observatory (SEPHO)
Regional key resources relating to alcohol

Hub of Commissioned Alcohol Projects and Policies 
Local alcohol initiatives throughout England and Wales

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Research publications relating to alcohol

Alcohol concern
Factsheets, booklets, policy reports and other publications

Drug Misuse

Drugscope
The UK's leading independent centre of expertise on drugs providing access to reports, surveys and drug information.

Liverpool John Moores University Centre for Public Health coordinates and produces a range of publications relating to substance use.

National Statistics
Drug statistics and reports.

National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA)
Facts and figures and publications around drug and alcohol treatment and harm reduction.

NHS Information Centre
Statistics on drug misuse

Cancer

Cancer e-Atlas
The aim of the e-Atlas is to provide the public, health care professionals, commissioners and health service managers with basic information on incidence, mortality and survival for the main types of cancers in males and females. Includes incidence and mortality data by Cancer Network, Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Local Authority for different age groups.

Cancer Research UK
Cancer Incidence UK Statistics

NHS Cancer Screening Programmes
Information and reports about the NHS bowel, breast and cervical screening programmes and the prostate cancer risk management programme.

National Cancer Intelligence Network
Provides cancer data, information tools and publications.

National Statistics
Cancer statistics for the UK

West Midlands Public Health Observatory
The lead Public Health Observatory for Cancer

Eye Health

Eye care services statistics
UK National Statistics topic guide includes information on NHS sight tests; optical vouchers; repair/replacement vouchers and workforce.

Health Inequalities Decennial Supplement
A comprehensive volume of analysis and commentary which presents a picture of current patterns and recent trends in ill health and death in England and Wales by measures of socio-economic status.


Learning Disabilities

Foundation for People with Learning Disabilties
Statistics about people with learning disabilities

Improving Health and Lives Learning Disabilities Observatory Statistics and reports on the healthcare of people with learning disabilities

Understanding Intellectual Disability and Health, a site run by St George's, University of London, providing up-to-date briefings, mainly intended for professionals, on a wide range of aspects of intellectual disability

 

Nutrition


East Midlands Public Health Observatory
Lead public health observatory providing information resources for food and health.

National Statistics
Diet and nutrition statistics

NHS Information Centre
Statistics on Obesity Physical Activity and Diet

Obesity

National Obesity Observatory (NOO)
Information on data, evaluation and evidence related to weight status and its determinants

NHS Information Centre
Obesity statistics

South East Public Health Observatory
Key regional and national reources including a childhood obesity section

Older People

West Midlands Public Health Observatory (WMPHO)
Links to data and publications

National Statistics
Focus on older people

Oral Health

NHS Dental Epidemiology Programme (NHS DEP) for England
This programme has been commissioned to support the collection, analysis and dissemination of reliable and robust information on the oral health needs of local populations.

Topic Guide to Denistry Services
UK National Statistics topic guide includes dental publications that cover NHS activity, patient access, patient charges; treatment patterns before and after the new dental contract; workforce; workload; earnings and expenses.

British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH)
Guidelines around prevention and management of STIs

Health Protection Agency
HIV and STI data and reports

National Statistics
Contraception and sexual health statistics

Sigma Research
Social research group specialising in the social, behavioural and policy aspects of HIV and sexual health. Publishes LGBT health promotion data and reports including Gay Men's sex survey.

Sex Education Forum
Statistics and evidence briefings relating to sex and relationships education and sexual health

Sexual Health Balanced Score Card
Provides a snapshot of sexual health for each Primary Care Trust in England

The South West Public Health Observatory (SWPHO)
Key regional and national sexual health data and reports

 

Smoking

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Facts, statistics and research around smoking

Cancer Research UK
Smoking statistics

London Public Health Observatory (LPHO)
UK smoking data and resources including Local Tobacco Control Profiles for England

National Statistics
Smoking habits in England