APHO News articles
Cancer e-Atlas has been launched
Posted July 22nd, 2008 by ulrike.klein21 Jul 2008
A new public website ‘Cancer e-Atlas’ has been launched by the newly established National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) to improve public access to basic cancer statistics at Local Authority and Cancer Network level across England. It presents data on the incidence of, and mortality / survival from the main types of cancers in men and women.
New Health and Wellbeing Profiles for Community Health Partnership (CHP) areas in Scotland
Posted July 4th, 2008 by ulrike.klein4 Jul 2008
The Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) has published new Health and Wellbeing Profiles for Community Health Partnership (CHP) areas in Scotland.
A profile of the nation's health - Wake-up call on health inequalities
Posted June 30th, 2008 by ulrike.klein23 Jun 2008
Health Profiles for every local authority and region across England were published today by the Department of Health and the Association of Public Health Observatories.
Second issue of Injury Prevention News has been issued
Posted June 13th, 2008 by ulrike.klein13 Jun 2008
Injury Prevention News (IPN) is a joint newsletter of the Injury Observatory for Britain (IOBI) and the Collaboration for Accident Prevention and Injury Control (CAPIC).
APHO Technical Briefing 3: Commonly Used Public Health Statistics and their Confidence Intervals
Posted June 17th, 2008 by ulrike.klein1 Mar 2008
The third in the series of APHO Technical Briefings describes the calculation of common types of statistics used within public health intelligence, specifically: rates, proportions, means and age-standardised rates and ratios. We also describe the use of confidence intervals i.e. what they are and when they are used, and present the APHO preferred methods for calculating the intervals for the type of statistics described.
The Good Indicators Guide: Understanding how to use and choose indicators
Posted June 17th, 2008 by ulrike.klein29 Jan 2008
This guide is intended to be a short, practical resource for anyone in any health system who is responsible for using indicators to monitor and improve performance, systems or outcomes.
Indications of Public Health in the English Regions 9: Older People
Posted June 17th, 2008 by ulrike.klein25 Jan 2008
This Indications of Public Health in the English Regions report on older people aims to describe the health and quality of life of older people living in Britain. By looking at their demography, mortality and morbidity, physical and mental functionality, quality of life, lifestyle, and services used it seeks to identify areas of concern which can be rectified and to lay down a baseline against which future progress may be judged.
Technical Briefing 2: Statistical Process Control methods in public health intelligence
Posted June 17th, 2008 by ulrike.klein1 Jan 2008
Second in the series of technical briefings, designed to support public health practitioners and analysts and to promote the use of public health intelligence in decision making.



