15 Mar 2010

The seventh in the series of APHO Technical Briefings is called "Measuring smoking prevalence in local populations”.

Local smoking data at a population level is necessary for planning, targeting and evaluating local services and initiatives aimed at improving health and reducing health inequalities through lifestyle change.

2 Feb 2010

Scotland's Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) has released a report on undiagnosed cases of diabetes across Scotland. The report uses the PBS model that INIsPHO has adapted for use on the island of Ireland and data from the Scottish Diabetes Survey 2008.

To read more about this report click here.

2 Jul 2010

The National Library for Public Health is part of NHS Evidence and is managed by the North Eastern Public Health Observatory (NEPHO) in the United Kingdom http://www.nepho.org.uk/.
 
Each month the Library publishes an e-newsletter that includes news items and resources added to the Library in the previous month on all aspects of public health.
 

25 Sep 2009

The sixth in the series of APHO Technical Briefings assesses the types of small area data available to analysts and local policy makers across the UK and Ireland, reflecting, as much as possible, the differences between the constituent nations.

18 Aug 2009

Three Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) PhD studentships are available to start this autumn in the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, a UKCRC public health research centre of excellence.

The studentships are funded by ESRC under the jointly funded e-health infrastructure initiative, which is led by the NIHR capacity building programme, and aims to build capacity for future research using personalised electronic health records.

29 Jul 2009

This report gives examples of the work of the Association, Public Health and Themed Observatories to support commissioning and looks at the way forward.

APHO Marketing Report

1 Apr 2009

The National Obesity Observatory has developed a Standard Evaluation Framework (SEF) to assist practitioners in the evaluation of weight management interventions.

1 Mar 2008

The third in the series of APHO Technical Briefings describes the calculation of common types of statistics used within public health intelligence, specifically: rates, proportions, means and age-standardised rates and ratios. We also describe the use of confidence intervals i.e. what they are and when they are used, and present the APHO preferred methods for calculating the intervals for the type of statistics described.