INFORMATION RESOURCES ON MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
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Indicators of Mental Health and Well-being
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Indications of Public Health in the English Regions No. 7: Mental Health
This report was produced by North East Public Health Observatory (NEPHO) on behalf of the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO). It is one in a series of reports intended to take major areas of health policy and present information on the relative position of the English Regions. It therefore provides a useful reference document for the wide range of agencies and individuals involved in public mental health and well being including commissioners, local specialist providers, GPs, and service users and carers.
The report brings together for the first time a variety of sources of data, the range and nature of the indicators used reflecting the complexity of the subject and the wide range of determinants of good mental health. The report includes over 70 indicators within the following categories:
- Risk and protective factors and determinants;
- Population health status;
- Interventions;
- Effectiveness of partnerships;
- Service user experience; and
- Workforce capacity.
A brief East Midlands summary is available, outlining the main findings and comparing the East Midlands’ position to that of England.
Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory: Indicator Search Tool
The Indicator Search Tool (IST) brings together a range of national indicator sets relating to key policy areas relevant to public health.
The tool allows users to:
- list indicators within a specific set e.g. Programme for Action
- produce a list of indicators, combining data from different sets, grouped by theme area e.g. mental health
- link directly to relevant web-sites
- support local partnership work by identifying indicators included within multiple sets – relevant to both health and local authority sectors
- link indicators with key related national targets
IST can help answer the following types of questions:
- what indicators exist around mental health?
- what indicators are actually included within the Quality and Outcomes Framework?
- which indicators should be used locally in order to engage with LSP partners?
Indicator sets relevant to mental health included in the IST are:
- Audit Commission - Quality of Life Indicators
- Best Value Performance Indicators
- Better Metrics
- European Community Health Indicators
- Health Poverty Index
- Indices of Multiple Deprivation
- Local Basket of Health Inequalities Indicators
- Local Delivery Plans
- Opportunity for All
- Personal and Social Services Performance Assessment Framework
- Programme for Action - Health Inequalities
- Quality and Outcomes Framework
Further details of some of these, and other indicator sets, are given below.
Health Poverty Index Visualisation Tool
The Health Poverty Index (HPI) visualization tool is sponsored by the Department of Health and is a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the South East Public Health Observatory and the University of St Andrews. The tool allows groups, differentiated by geography, social or economic position and cultural identity, to be contrasted in terms of their 'health poverty'. A group's 'health poverty' is a combination of both its present state of health and its future health potential or lack of it.
The indicators used in the current visualisation tool come from a variety of sources. A number of indicators and sub-indicators (individual components) relevant to mental health are described, using prescribing data, secondary care data, mortality data where the cause of death is recorded as suicide, and health related benefit administrative data.
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