Summary

This report outlines findings from the new composite health index, measuring the nation’s health, behaviours and characteristics which impact health, and environments which impact health.

This is a beta version to accompany a public consultation into the index’s development: its content, methods for combining and aggregating variables, and the results presented.

Publications

• Developing the Health Index for England: 2015 to 2018

  Introducing a new experimental Health Index for England, providing a single value to measure the health of the nation. Includes detail on how the Health Index has been created and what it can be used for. This Beta release is provisional and covers the period 2015 to 2018.

Data

• Health Index: England

  The Health Index is an Experimental Statistic to measure a broad definition of health, in a way that can be tracked over time and compared between different areas. These data are the provisional results of the Health Index for upper-tier local authorities in England, 2015 to 2018, to illustrate the type of analysis the Health Index can enable.

Methodology

• Methods used to develop the Health Index for England: 2015 to 2018

  The Health Index is a new tool to measure a broad variety of health outcomes and risk factors over time, and for different geographic areas. This methodology article explains how the Health Index has been constructed.

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