Summary

The ONS’ Health Index provides a systematic, independent view of health in England. It enables users to compare health over time and across geographies.

It provides a picture of health in its broadest sense recognising the importance of health outcomes, risk factors and the social, economic and environmental drivers to support health to improve now and for the longer term.

The Health Index provides a framework to understand health pre-pandemic, including whether health issues were persistent, improving or deteriorating and to explore how the pandemic impacted on health in 2020, and consider whether these changes are temporary or enduring.

Publications

• Health in England: 2015 to 2020

  Insights into England’s health in the earlier stages of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at national, regional and local authority level, using the Health Index.

Data

• Health Index scores, England

  Health Index scores at national, regional, and upper- and lower-tier local authority level for England, including indicator details to construct the Index.

• Health Index underlying data, England

  Underlying data used to construct the Health Index for England including indicator details.

• Health Index scores, integrated care systems, England

  Health Index scores for integrated care systems in England, including indicator details to construct the Index.

Methodology

• Health Index methods and development: 2015 to 2021

  The Health Index measures health outcomes and risk factors over time, for different geographic areas. This methodology explains how we have constructed this tool.

• Health Index contents and definitions

  The Health Index for England, which measures the health of the nation; definitions of the indicators used.

Contact details

Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   4 October 2022 9:30am

   Reason for change

   Additional time will be used to further quality assure our results, and ensure messaging for data collected during 2020 - and therefore impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, among other factors - is clear and complete.

2. Previous date

   17 October 2022 9:30am

   Reason for change

   Additional time will be used to improve our data processing, quality assure our results further, and ensure messaging for data collected during 2020 - and therefore impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, among other factors - is clear and complete.

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