The ONS’ Health Index provides a systematic, independent view of health in England. It enables users to compare health over time and across geographies.
It provides a picture of health in its broadest sense recognising the importance of health outcomes, risk factors and the social, economic and environmental drivers to support health to improve now and for the longer term.
The Health Index provides a framework to understand health pre-pandemic, including whether health issues were persistent, improving or deteriorating and to explore how the pandemic impacted on health in 2020, and consider whether these changes are temporary or enduring.
Publications
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Health in England: 2015 to 2020
Insights into England’s health in the earlier stages of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at national, regional and local authority level, using the Health Index.
Data
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Health Index scores, England
Health Index scores at national, regional, and upper- and lower-tier local authority level for England, including indicator details to construct the Index.
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Health Index underlying data, England
Underlying data used to construct the Health Index for England including indicator details.
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Health Index scores, integrated care systems, England
Health Index scores for integrated care systems in England, including indicator details to construct the Index.
Methodology
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Health Index methods and development: 2015 to 2021
The Health Index measures health outcomes and risk factors over time, for different geographic areas. This methodology explains how we have constructed this tool.
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Health Index contents and definitions
The Health Index for England, which measures the health of the nation; definitions of the indicators used.