Overview
- Purpose: To introduce the variety of data sources used to assess health needs in Bromley.
- To ensure efficient use of resources and quicker access to information, please explore the listed data sources to address your queries.
- These platforms provide a wide range of open and detailed information relevant to Bromley.
- If further clarification or more specific analysis is required, the Health Intelligence Team is available for additional support.
Key factors to consider
- Finding the most suitable data source for a specific area of public health can require some effort and exploration.
- Fingertips and SHAPE Atlas are essential tools for public health data analysis- LKIS offers a comprehensive training module dedicated to these resources.
- Fingertips provides multiple methods to visualise and explore crucial information on health, wellbeing, and broader determinants.
- SHAPE Atlas, which requires free registration, allows for easy, codefree creation of maps displaying public health data and access to health assets.
- The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) provides modelled estimates on the impact of various diseases, enabling comparisons on a global scale.
- Nomis offers free access to the most detailed and current UK labour market statistics from official sources. It also allows users to create custom queries using census data.
Overall data sources
- Fingertips - Fingertips provides access to a wide range of health and wellbeing indicators. With Fingertips, you can; browse indicators at different geographical levels, benchmark against regional or national averages, export data, tables, and images. The platform is refreshed monthly, with a focus on expanding functionality and content. It uses a common template with customisable features to suit different data and geographies. Fingertips offer a user guide and you can find out more about the platform on the Department of Health and social care website.
- General Practice data hub
- Global Burden of disease
- Health and care statistics for England
- Local health
- Nomis
- Office for National Statistics
- Census data on the ONS
- Schools, pupils and their characteristics
- SHAPE Atlas (requires free account)
- Indices of deprivation
- Public health dashboard
Demographic data
- GLA’s 2020-based housing-led population projections
- Census area profile
- ONS local statistics
- ONS population estimates
- Projecting Older People Population Information (requires free account)
- Life expectancy, health inequalities and deprivation: Public Health Outcomes Framework
Adults public health
- Quality and outcomes framework
- Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework
- Local Authority Health Profile
- National General Practice profiles for PCN level data
- Mortality profile: Mortality Profile
- Dementia profile
- Cardiovascular disease profile
Children and young people
- Child and maternal health profiles
- Schools, pupils and their characteristics
- Children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing
- Local Authority Interactive Tool
Drugs and alcohol
Sexual health
- Sexual and reproductive health profiles
- National chlamydia screening programme (NCSP)
- Teenage pregnancy statistics
Health protection and infection prevention and control
- Health Protection profile
- Public Health Outcomes Framework
- Vaccination coverage data (UKHSA)
- Air Quality (DfEFRA)
- Notifications of infectious diseases (UKHSA)