Release

Health Index for England: 2015 to 2020

Release date: 9 November 2022 9:30am

Summary

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

  • 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

Methodology

Contact details

Name

Dr Sam Cockle, Greg Ceely

Email

Health.Data@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 2075 928692

Changes to this release date

  1. Previous date

    4 October 2022 9:30am

    Reason for change

    Additional time will be used to further quality assure our results, and ensure messaging for data collected during 2020 - and therefore impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, among other factors - is clear and complete.

  2. Previous date

    17 October 2022 9:30am

    Reason for change

    Additional time will be used to improve our data processing, quality assure our results further, and ensure messaging for data collected during 2020 - and therefore impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, among other factors - is clear and complete.