Simple tools to help you achieve your goals
Whatever your background is, we’ve got resources tailormade to help maximise your impact – from raising awareness to changing outcomes.
Commercial Determinants of Health (CDOH) Essentials
CDOH Essentials is a set of materials designed for public health professionals to use to plan and run an introductory workshop or briefing session on the commercial determinants of health for public health teams and key internal partners within local authorities. The materials have been developed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Commercial Determinants Research Group and endorsed by the Association of Directors of Public Health.
Map of Cheshire and Merseyside showing risk factors for digital exclusion
An interactive map of Cheshire and Merseyside showing various risk factors for digital exclusion (age, rurality, deprivation, type of internet use), current digital inclusion initiatives already happening, and community assets that could be mobilised for further digital inclusion work.
Women’s work: How gender equality can deliver stronger local economies (2024)
Despite decades of campaigning and significant legislative progress, structural and systemic barriers to gender equality in local and national economies persist. Local, combined and devolved authorities can, however, have a transformational impact on supporting gender equality in their local economies. This research provides a deep understanding of the gender inequality challenges and barriers that women face in Leeds and outlines an agenda for change for gender.
Marmot Places: the areas taking a proactive local approach to health inequalities
Read about the Marmot Places across England and Wales who are taking a proactive local approach to health inequalities, with a spotlight on Knowsley’s joined up way of working on inequalities.
Data into Action
Data into Action is the population health management platform for Cheshire and Merseyside. The programme brings together the activities and projects that access and use the Cheshire and Merseyside data asset – the CM Secure Data Environment (SDE), that was previously called CIPHA – with the aim of delivering data into action through a unified programme.
Learn more about the population health management products available including the enhanced case finding tool and the population health dashboard (including the All Together Fairer indicators).
Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT)
The Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) is a framework that allows professionals to systematically review their programme of work or service to ensure that it is as inclusive as possible and actively promotes the reduction of health inequalities.
Framework for Drivers of Health and Wellbeing among Children and Young People (2024)
The Framework for Drivers of Health and Wellbeing among Children and Young People has been created by the Children and Young People’s Health Equity Collaborative with direct input from children and young people.
The framework’s main purpose is to underpin action for achieving greater equity in children and young people’s health and wellbeing and will be used to support the development of pilot interventions in the three partner ICS areas, of which Cheshire and Merseyside is one.
Left out in the cold: the hidden health costs of cold homes (2024)
This report highlights the impacts of cold homes on health and wellbeing, the inequalities associated with cold homes and the economics of action on cold homes. It lays out a set of recommendations that aim to address the main drivers of cold homes.
HealthKnowledge
A learning resource from the UK Facility of Public Health for anyone working in health, social care and well-being. The resource allows you to access a broad range of learning materials for personal use or for teaching purposes in order to help everyone expand their public health knowledge.
The Health Foundation’s local authority dashboard
The Health Foundation’s local authority dashboard brings together data and insights on the state of health and health inequalities across all local authorities in England. Explore how health is shaped by factors such as housing, employment and income, and explore differences between neighbourhoods in each local authority.
Reducing health inequalities: A guide for NHS trust board members (2024)
This is a practical guide to support NHS trust board members to address health inequalities as part of their core business. It outlines why trusts should act on health inequalities, includes a vision for what good looks like, includes a self-assessment tool for trusts to use to determine where they are in their journey, and has a list of suggested objectives for board members. It covers a wide range of trust work, from operational and clinical delivery of services to the trust’s role as an anchor institution and as an employer of NHS staff.
Local Inequalities Explorer Tool
This tool from the Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) provides a resource to support decision making by demonstrating some local, within area inequalities. The main expected uses of the tool are to consider local health inequalities, choose whatever priorities matter locally, measure local inequalities, enable local action to tackle inequalities and to use the visual in local documents.