Next steps
Developing a housing & health profile – create a housing and health profile for your local authority area (or the neighbourhoods contained within it) to inform your decisions on policy and targeted interventions.
References – The evidence underpinning the content in ‘key issues’ sections is provided here.
Joint and integrated commissioning – joint commissioning will enable integration in both the policy response and delivery of services and interventions.
Data sources
Census statistics and socio-demographic data – This page provides links to static and interactive data profiles and atlases which bring together data from the 2011 Census and other sources of socio-demographic data at the local level.
Deprivation and wellbeing data and maps – This page provides links to static and interactive data profiles and atlases which bring together a series of indicators relating to deprivation and wellbeing at the local level.
Housing provision and issues – data sources -This page provides links to static and interactive data profiles and data sources which bring together a series of indicators relating to a wide range of aspects of housing provision and issues at the local level.
Health outcomes and inequalities – data sources – links to various data resources.
National bodies
Health – government departments and agencies – links to various governmental resources.
Housing – government departments and housing organisations – links to various national and governmental resources.
Useful resources to further understand housing and health
Housing for health – This website, developed by the NHS Alliance, is for strategic leads in general practice, primary care and clinical commissioning. It is intended to provide easily digestible information about housing and some insights into ways in which new health-housing partnerships, might achieve the necessary transformation in health.
Safe and secure – This easy to use tool will help you to identify what hazards to look for in your property to ensure that you are renting a safe, legal and secure home to your tenant.
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