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Public Health Observatories mark 10th anniversary
The organisation designed to help make the smartest use of health data across the NHS will celebrate its 10th anniversary this week. ...
[more]Posted: Thursday, 11 March 2010
The South West Public Health Observatory (SWPHO) has launched a new web tool to support sexual health strategies in England.
The Sexual Health Balanced Scorecard, www.sexualhealthscorecard.org.uk, was commissioned by the Department of...
[more]Posted: Wednesday, 3 March 2010
The 2009 Regional Health Profiles were released on Friday, 29th January 2010 and available from www.apho.org.uk/default.aspx?QN=HP_REGIONS_2009.
The format for the 2009 profiles has been changed to provide more information on...
[more]Posted: Thursday, 4 February 2010
The UKPHR plans to launch a register for Public Health Practitioners in 2010 and work is underway to identify the most appropriate way for potential registrants to apply. Work on the range of competences to be evidenced has been completed and this...
[more]Posted: Friday, 29 January 2010
Press release by the Central Office of Information (COI) dated 20th January 2010, giving details od this year's Public Health Awards.
The awards, now in their second year, were established by Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer, to...
[more]Posted: Thursday, 21 January 2010
This course aims to help meet the public health skills and knowledge needs of analysts in PCTs, the SHA or local authorities. Although it is aimed at analysts relatively new to public health, some of the sessions may also be of benefit to other...
[more]Posted: Wednesday, 6 January 2010
As a country we are living through an enormous demographic change. This has now reached a tipping point with pensioners outnumbering children for the first time. A quarter of all children born today are expected to live to reach 100 years old. This...
[more]Posted: Monday, 13 July 2009
This is an Excel 2007 tool WMPHO have produced to create spine charts as used in the APHO Health Profiles. These charts are used to present area-based data, either as profiles of an area or comparatively across areas, to clearly show statistical...
[more]Posted: Friday, 10 July 2009
This map produced by the West Midlands Public Health Observatory is made up using data from the 2009 Health Profiles highlighting the West Midlands best/worst areas for each selected indicator.
Posted: Thursday, 9 July 2009
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