Publications - Year - 2012

Deaths from liver disease: Implications for end of life care in England

This report presents the latest data on place of death for those with liver disease and shows how this varies with sex, age, region, socioeconomic deprivation and place. It is aimed at commissioners and providers of end of life care, clinicians caring for patients with liver disease, and others concerned with providing quality end of life care for this patient group, including patients themselves and their carers.

Community Mental Health Profiles

The Community Mental Health Profiles (CMHP) present a range of mental health information for local authorities in England. The CMHP are designed to give an overview of mental health risks, prevalence and services at a local, regional and national level using an interactive mapping tool. The data may inform commissioners of health and social care services in their decision making, leading to the improvement of mental health, and mental health services.

European Health Profile Tool

The European Health Profile tool presents the I2SARE project data through interactive maps and charts. The purpose of the tool is to aid the comparison of health and socio-economic indicators across regions of Europe.

The European I2SARE project was established to produce a health profile for each region of the European Union and to raise the profile of sub national institutions working on Health Information, to encourage exchanges and to develop networking activities between them.

The European Health Comparator tool enables the selection of similar regions based on demographics, health risk factors, morbidity and mortality, through a regional comparator tool. The chosen regions can then be identified within the atlas with information being presented in the form of map, spine chart and bar chart. Information is also available on: how to use the tool, health care systems and health care financing of the countries included in the tool, population pyramids and a link to the I2SARE website.

The Prevalence of Smoking in the North East

The report describes the sources of data to use for the monitoring and description of smoking prevalence at regional, local authority and small area neighbourhood geographies in the North East. The report also presents and comments on the data from each source to give advice on its use and robustness.

The advised data sources for smoking prevalence are:

• General Lifestyle Survey (GLF) for national and regional level reporting
• Integrated Household Survey for local authority and regional level data
• Synthetic estimates of smoking prevalence for local areas