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Community Statistics

Community statistics might include information on:

Population-level – for example total growth, migration, birth, gender, age, ethnicity
Social and place – for example housing quality, environment, employment, educational attainment, benefit uptake, vulnerable groups, crime and disorder and community cohesion
Lifestyle determinants of health – for example exercise, smoking, diet, alcohol, drug abuse
Epidemiology – for example morbidity, mortality, life expectancy, long-term conditions, disease prevalence, immunisation and screening uptake rates

Some useful sources of information are:

Middlesbrough Borough Council Public Health
Joint strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for Tees Valley Website for Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) in the Tees area. The website contains a JSNA for each of the four Tees areas: Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees, Content for each of the JSNAs is arranged into five themes : People, Vulnerable Groups, Wider Determinants, Behaviour and Lifestyle and Illness and Death.
Joint strategic needs assessments (JSNA) for Redcar and Cleveland
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) Sunderland Local statistics, issues and service provision for health needs in the Sunderland area
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for Gateshead
PHE data and analysis tools Public Health England collects and publishes statistics on public health topics including health protection and health improvement
Tees Valley Combined Authority Provides information on education, employment , housing and more in the partnership of five authorities; Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton-On-Tees.
Child Health Profiles Child Health Profiles provide a snapshot of child health and wellbeing for each local authority in England using key health indicators, which enables comparison locally, regionally and nationally. Provided by the National Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network
Public Health Profiles These profiles are a rich source of indicators across a range of health and wellbeing themes that has been designed to support JSNA and commissioning to improve health and wellbeing, and reduce inequalities. With these profiles you can: •Browse indicators at different geographical levels •Benchmark against the regional or England average •Export data to use locally These profiles have been developed by Public Health England.
Public Health Dashboard
Public Health Outcomes Framework
NOMIS - Official Labour Market Statistics Includes data on population, employment and qualifications for local authority areas.
ONS - Local statistics offers free access to a summary of your neighbourhood and small area data. This covers the census, deprivation, health, local economy, education, housing and crime. It allows you to: - analyse and compare selected areas using maps and charts - pick and mix data from different datasets to compare different areas - view or download whole datasets
NHS Digital
NHS Digital Supplementary Information Statistics produced by request which are related to NHS Digital publications or data are made available to the public on these pages.

Good sources of information for health improvement issues include:

Department of Health and Social Care Statistics
Joint strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for Tees Valley Website for Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) in the Tees area. The website contains a JSNA for each of the four Tees areas: Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees, Content for each of the JSNAs is arranged into five themes : People, Vulnerable Groups, Wider Determinants, Behaviour and Lifestyle and Illness and Death.
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) Sunderland Local statistics, issues and service provision for health needs in the Sunderland area
Joint strategic needs assessments (JSNA) for Redcar and Cleveland
NHS Digital
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Public Health Dashboard
Public Health Profiles These profiles are a rich source of indicators across a range of health and wellbeing themes that has been designed to support JSNA and commissioning to improve health and wellbeing, and reduce inequalities. With these profiles you can: •Browse indicators at different geographical levels •Benchmark against the regional or England average •Export data to use locally These profiles have been developed by Public Health England.

Websites of official associations, such as these listed below, may provide definitions, epidemiology of the disease / issue and treatment / care options.

Age UK
Alzheimer's society
Asthma UK
British Heart Foundation
Cancer Research
Diabetes UK Diabetes UK is the leading UK charity that cares for, connects with and campaigns on behalf of all people affected by diabetes
MIND
Prostate Cancer UK

It is important with all information, but especially that from the Internet, to think critically about the quality of the information. See the Critical Thinking guide for more support with this: https://libguides.tees.ac.uk/critical_thinking

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