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Health Poverty Index: 2008 release [18 Dec 2008]
The Health Poverty Index (HPI) is a web based tool that allows geographical areas and different ethnic groups to be compared in terms of their 'health poverty'. A group's 'health poverty' is a summary measure of both their present state of health and future health potential or lack of it. The HPI draws on more than 60 indicators of health and wider determinants and presents these in a spider chart. This gives a strong visual overview of health poverty allowing broad trends, distinctive patterns and important associations to be identified. Data is also available to view in bar chart format, in data tables or to download in Excel.

Deprivation Doubles Cervical Cancer Risk [02 Dec 2008]
WOMEN living in the most deprived areas of England are nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with cervical cancer than their affluent counterparts – according to a report presented by national cancer director Professor Mike Richards at the Britain Against Cancer conference today (Tuesday).

NHS staff help develop measures of quality care [01 Dec 2008]
Doctors, nurses and other NHS staff in England are helping to develop new standards to measure and improve the quality of care in the NHS.

ONS Publication of mid-2007 LSOA & MSOA Population Estimates [20 Nov 2008]
Mid-2007 Lower Layer and Middle Layer Super Output Area Population Estimates were published today on the National Statistics website as experimental statistics. The estimates will shortly also be available on the Neighbourhood Statistics website.

£30m Healthy towns kick start Change4life [11 Nov 2008]
Nine towns have won the opportunity to lead the way in helping their residents live healthier lives as part of the new Change4Life movement, Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced today. The "Healthy Towns" - Dudley, Halifax (Calderdale), Sheffield, Tower Hamlets, Thetford, Middlesbrough, Manchester, Tewkesbury and Portsmouth - are part of a new coalition called Change4Life which is backed by Government, food retailers, charities and community groups.

FPH Launch of 'Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: A toolkit for developing local strategies' [10 Nov 2008]
The new toolkit for developing local strategies to tackle overweight and obesity, 'Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives', has now been launched.

NIHR Public Health Research programme - Call for proposals [10 Nov 2008]
The Public Health Research (PHR) programme has been set up by the National Institute for Health Research to evaluate public health interventions. The programme will provide new knowledge on the benefits, cost-effectiveness, acceptability and wider impacts of non-NHS interventions intended to improve the health of the public and reduce inequalities in health.

HPA 'Sexually transmitted infections in black African and black Caribbean communities in the UK: 2008 report' [10 Nov 2008]
Presents combined data, analysis and interpretation of sexually transmissible infections including HIV among black African and black Caribbean people in the United Kingdom.

The Grim Reaper's road map, University researchers map 24 years of British death in new atlas [04 Nov 2008]
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sheffield have created an ‘atlas of death’ which charts the geographical pattern of mortality in Great Britain. The full colour atlas shows the wide variation in death rates from a variety of different causes, from heart attacks and cancer to suicide and murder, for over 1,000 neighbourhoods.

Raising the Standard, Celebrating NHS success in the Healthcare Commission's annual health check 2007/08 [30 Oct 2008]
This publication follows the launch of the Healthcare Commission's annual health check performance ratings earlier this month, which showed a significant improvement in the performance of the NHS.

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