Cancer e-Atlas launched.
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.
Health Profiles 2008.
The third annual set of health profiles for local authorities in England has been published. The design and layout has been improved and new indicators have been added. Regional profiles have also been produced for the first time. The profiles are available via a new interactive website.
Health Inequalities intervention tool.
The Health Inequalities Intervention Tool is designed to support Primary Care Trusts with their Local Delivery Planning and commissioning. It builds on the previous tool which provided information for Spearhead areas only, and now includes all local authorities, spearhead and non-spearhead, and provides information on inequalities both within as well as between areas. It also models the impact of four evidence based interventions on life expectancy in local areas.
Teenage pregnancy interactive maps.
EMPHO has produced interactive maps of under 18 conception data, for all Local Authorities in England, using InstantAtlas from Geowise. Maps are now available with the latest 2006 (provisional) data, along with comparators including deprivation and education data. The interactive mapping tool has also been improved, allowing the user to view the data in a number of different ways, including Significance mapping, Funnel Plots and Area Profiles.
APHO Technical Briefing 3: Public health statistics and their confidence intervals.
The Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) has published a technical briefing paper entitled 'Commonly used public health statistics and their confidence intervals'. The paper describes the calculation of common types of statistics used within public health intelligence, specifically: rates, proportions, means and age-standardised rates and ratios. It also describes the use of confidence intervals, i.e. what they are and when they are used, and presents the APHO preferred methods for calculating the intervals for the type of statistics described.