What is the health index?

ons.gov.uk - Health Index contents and definitions - Office for National Statistics

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1. The Health Index and what it covers

The Health Index for England is a new measure of the health of the nation. It uses a broad definition of health, including:

health outcomes

health-related behaviours and personal circumstances

wider drivers of health that relate to the places where people live

The Health Index provides a single value for health that can show how health changes over time. It can also be broken down to focus on specific topics to show the factors that influence these changes. The Health Index measures health at local authority, regional and national levels. It also enables comparison between geographic areas, health topics and combinations of the two over time. At present the Health Index covers England, but in future the aim is to extend this to the rest of the UK, if possible. The overall Health Index score can be broken down into three areas of health, known as domains, which are:

Healthy People

Healthy Lives

Healthy Places

Each domain contains several subdomains, as shown in the Table of contents. These in turn contain a number of indicators. Each indicator provides a measure of a particular aspect of health. Where we are repurposing existing data for use in the Health Index, those data do not always measure health concepts in the ideal way for our purposes. Because of this we have selected the best available measures. This is an accepted method when constructing an index but may mean the data chosen may not cover the whole of that aspect of health. For example, the indicator for alcohol misuse consists of alcohol-related hospital admissions. We know that this does not measure all alcohol misuse, but it still indicates the patterns and trends expected to be present in alcohol misuse as a whole. The indicator descriptions in this article focus on defining each indicator and how it is measured, rather than detailing the underlying data. All data used in the Health Index come from publicly available sources, usually the Office for National Statistics (ONS) or other government departments. An overview of the data selection process and the methods used to construct the Health Index is provided in Section 19, How we created the Health Index. More detail on the methods used is available in our Health Index methods and development article, and on the data sources in our Health Index datasets.

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