Public Health Outcomes Framework. From the Introduction to the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) 2013 to 2016 produced in January 2012, “The responsibility to improve and protect our health lies with us all – government, local communities and with ourselves as individuals. There are many factors that influence public health over the course of a lifetime. They all need to be understood and acted upon. Integrating public health into local government will allow that to happen – services will be planned and delivered in the context of the broader social determinants of health, like poverty, education, housing, employment, crime and pollution. The NHS, social care, the voluntary sector and communities will all work together to make this happen.
The vision for the PHOF is “to improve and protect the nation’s health and wellbeing, and improve the health of the poorest fastest”. There are two overarching outcomes to “increase healthy life expectancy and to reduce differences in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy between communities.” There are also four overarching set of indicators: (1) Improving the wider determinants of health (improvements against wider factors that affect health and wellbeing, and health inequalities); (2) Health improvement (people are helped to life healthier lifestyles, make healthy choices and reduce health inequalities); (3) Health protection (the population’s health is protected from major incidents and other threats, while reducing health inequalities); and (4) Healthcare public health and preventing premature mortality (reduced numbers of people living with preventable ill health and people dying prematurely, while reducing the gap between communities).
The indicators relating to PHOF are available on the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities’ Fingertips at https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/ or more specifically at https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/public-health-outcomes-framework. The indicators within PHOF have changed over time, although there are a number of indicators that have been included from its introduction in 2012.
Department of Health, Introduction to the Public Health Outcomes Framework 2013 to 2016. Department of Health,: London, 2012.
Our Hull JSNA website uses a plugin to take the values for these indicators from both PHOF and other Health Profiles directly from Fingertips and displays them ‘live’ on our website, so that the figures are as up-to-date as those on Fingertips.
Also see Office for Health Improvement & Disparities.