The Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO)

1. The Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) Update for Grampian 16 April 2008 Colin Fischbacher, NSS Information Services David Gordon, NHS Health Scotland

2. Overview • Background • Outputs • Networks • Future • Discussion

3. Background • Purpose & aims • Who are we?

4. Purpose and aims • Bring together the observatory (descriptive epidemiology) functions of national public health organisations in Scotland • Collaborate to improve public health information provision • Make routine information more accessible • Provide a focus for new routine information development  • Provide interpretation to enable appropriate and effective information use to support decision making Reduce duplication – add value – maximise benefit

5. Who are we? Association of Public Health Observatories of UK and Ireland Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics Scottish Public health Network Future Scottish Networks? PHINS & website users ScotPHO Collaboration General Register Office for Scotland NHS 24 Health Scotland Information Services (ISD Scotland) Health Protection Scotland Glasgow Centre for Population Health Scottish Government

6. Outputs • Web : overview / structure / content • Reports • Other outputs • Developmental • Profiles

7. Website (www.scotpho.org.uk) • Launched December 2005 • 2m hits per year • 2,500 successful ‘real’ page requests/day • Initial range of public health topics • New topics to be added this year: • injuries, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, liver disease, prison health, children & adolescents, healthy life expectancy • Scotland and European Health for All database • + all reports • + profiles

9. Website structure • Behaviour • Clinical risk factors • Life circumstances • Population groups • Comparative health • Population dynamics • Health, wellbeing & disease • Resources • Publications

10. Website topic contents Tobacco Use • Key points • Introduction • Policy context • Data • Key data sources • Key references • Useful links

11. Website popular topic areas • Community profiles 18% of 140k page hits • Health for All database 8% • Suicide 4% • Tobacco use 4% • Diet and nutrition 4% • Coronary heart disease 3% • Reports and papers 3% • Mental health 3% • Alcohol 3% • Overview of key data sources 3% Period: July to September 2007

12. Smoking prevalence

19. Reports • Tobacco atlas (published July 2007) • Obesity in Scotland (published September 2007) • Measuring Inequalities report (published September 2007) • Tobacco epidemiology briefing (published March 2008) • Alcohol survey trends and validity (Spring 2008) • Mental health & wellbeing indicators for Scotland (Spring 2008) • Sexual health epidemiology briefing (Summer 2008) • Physical activity survey trends and validity (Summer 2008) • Rural health report (Autumn 2008)

20. Other outputs • Weekly news alerts • Bi-annual newsletter

21. Developmental • Housing regeneration (GCPH, ISD, HS, University of Glasgow) • Healthy life expectancy (ISD, GROS) • Measuring inequalities (ISD, GROS, SG) • Scottish Health Survey redesign & knowledge, attitudes, motivation module (HS, ISD) • Links to effectiveness evidence sources

22. Health and Wellbeing Profiles for Community Health Partnerships

23. Aims • Provide organisations and communities with up-to-date and locally-relevant public health intelligence • Highlight health and social inequalities • Show trends in key indicators • Provide local level information for targeting resources and priority-setting • Develop knowledge of the complex nature of health and its determinants

24. Background (1) • ISD – Scotland wide profiles [to be published end of June 2008] • Glasgow Centre for Population Health - Glasgow and Clyde (10 CHPs) detailed profiles [published] • NHS Health Scotland – Spotlight on children and young people reports [2009] • Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics – data repository

25. Background (2) • Scope: health and wellbeing of the population NOT performance management • Consultation completed • CHP level and sub-CHP level (including IZ) • Statistically robust • Variety of presentation methods

27. Outputs • On ScotPHO website as: • Web-based PDFs: graphs and interpretation (Scotland overview and individual CHP reports) • Spine graphs, time trends, rank charts, maps and commentaries • Online tool to produce spine graphs, time trends and rank charts from the underlying data in an interactive way for small areas • All the data and geographies on SNS with a “ScotPHO profiles data download” facility • Possibly add the data to the interactive profiler on ScotPHO • PDFs mailed out • Local presentations

28. Networks • Registered users • PHINS

29. Future : Workplan Website improvements (new sections, accessibility, better graphing) CHP health and wellbeing profiles Health inequalities tracking tool A focus on alcohol-related research 5-country analysis of injuries 12 years of Health Education Population Survey Population diversity in Scotland Mental health and wellbeing indicators for children & young people Scoping potential review of children and young people’s health in surveys

30. Future: direction • Website: capacity, timeliness, quality • Networks: - how to develop and support PH intelligence community? - how to link efficiently & productively with national & regional networks? - developing deeper links with UK and European networks? • Outputs: what will be needed in 2010/11?

31. Discussion • What do you think of our progress thus far? • What should our future direction(s) be?