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What are community health profiles?

Leia Doyle

What are community health profiles?

Health Profiles aim to help local authorities produce their local community plans. Health Profiles can be used to enable Health and Wellbeing Boards to identify their priorities for action.

What do local health authority profiles do?

The Local Authority Health Profiles provide an overview of health for each local authority in England. They pull together existing information in one place and contain data on a range of indicators for local populations, highlighting issues that can affect health in each locality.

What is Phe data?

Public Health England ( PHE ) provides many high quality data and analysis tools and resources for public health professionals. The PHE data and knowledge gateway provides direct access to these resources.

What is health profile?

The health profile is intended to be a set of indicators of basic demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, health status, health risk factors, and health resource use, which are relevant to most communities. Health profile data can help motivate communities to address health issues.

What are the types of health indicators?

Health Indicators

  • Crude death rate.
  • Life expectancy.
  • Infant mortality rate.
  • Maternal mortality rate.
  • Proportional mortality rate.

What is the local health authority?

Local health authority services provide maternity and child welfare, posthospital care, home nursing, immunization, ambulance service, and various other preventive and educational services. They may also operate family-planning clinics, as well as day nurseries for children.

Is the local health department considered a government agency?

Government departments responsible for health issues and health services in the United States exist at federal, state and local levels. The first, at city level, were founded in the late 18th century; now many operate at city or county level.

Who are Phe accountable to?

Secretary of State for Health
In addition to the reporting structure through the Permanent Secretary, the Chief Executive will be accountable to the Secretary of State for Health and they will meet at least annually to discuss the performance and strategic development of Public Health England.

How does Phe collect data?

How does the data collection phase work? PHOF indicators capture a number of events of interest – whether these are births, people responding to a survey, people being admitted to hospital or deaths – and relate these to the population of a local authority,. These events are formally recorded in lots of different ways.

What is a health profile blood test?

This common test evaluates the 3 types of cells in your blood—red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets—to check for a variety of health conditions.

What are the 2 types of indicators?

Types of Indicators Artificial and Natural indicators are the two types of Chemical indicators.

Who are the owners of regional health properties?

Founded 1991, Regional Health Properties, Inc. (the successor to AdCare Health Systems, Inc.) went public in 2006 and currently trades on the NYSE American (RHE) In July 2014, the company announced its plan to transition from an owner and operator of skilled nursing facilities to a healthcare property holding and leasing company

How does the local authority Health Profile work?

Local Authority Health Profiles are part of a series of outputs produced by Public Health England summarising the health of the population. The Health Profile for England focuses on national health trends. Local Health provides health information for small areas within local authorities, enabling users to explore differences at a more local level.

How often are public health outcomes framework profiles updated?

The Public Health Outcomes Framework) prior to, or at the same time as, it is updated in the profiles. The downloadable profiles will also be updated on a regular basis (previously these were updated once a year). Therefore, the profiles will no longer be badged as “Official Statistics”.

Is there an issue with my Health Profile?

The affected Health Profile 2016 reports have now been updated, profiles downloaded prior to this date will be incorrect.