23 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.

1 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.

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25 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.

29 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.

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1 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.

13 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).